Puffin’s Place

Let’s deal with the exotic animal in the orange lounge chair over in the corner and be done with it.
Some people will not vote for Barack Obama because he is Black.
I have a friend, otherwise a stellar woman, who will not vote for Obama because he is Black.
To those like this who loathe George Bush [...]

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I just want to add a brief comment about the political emails that flood in these days. For example, I got one with several pictures of Sarah Palin that I am certain have been faked.
If you get similar emails or some that tell you Barack Obama is a Muslim or John McCain is not a [...]

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If you believe John McCain’s boast that Sarah Palin stopped the $400m bridge to nowhere between Katchikan and Gravina Island, you have not yet listened to those who were there then and are there now.
According to columnist Dermot Cole today in the Fairbanks News-Miner:

In her introductory speech Friday as McCain’s running mate, Gov. Sarah [...]

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The media is awash with declarations that McCain’s choice of Palin fulfills his maverick’s promise and that Palin herself is a maverick.
Great boots. Since when is McCain’s toadying to the religious right, the women electorate, and the military/industrial complex a sign of maverickism?
What makes Palin’s return to the early 20th century maverickism? She wants creationism [...]

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Those Alaskans with whom I talk and who presume to believe they are delivering the truth about Sarah Palin tell me that she is hot to drill in ANWR and is suing the feds to dismantle protections for the polar bear.
I need hear no more.
But there is more. She is, they tell me, protective of [...]

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Is anyone but me dying to see a headline about Obama that does not have the word black or the words African-American in it? If we are frantic to spotlight the uniqueness of this candidate, why not notice that he is the first supremely eloquent candidate in decades? Why not note that he is the [...]

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I wonder why only the bloggers are reporting HRC’s real feelings about the blue collars that are keeping her nominally alive these days.
Remember a few years ago when “screw ‘em” was her observation on southern working people?
“Screw ‘em,” she told her husband. “You don’t owe them a thing, Bill. They’re doing nothing for you; you [...]

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If you are not checking out the Ann Telnaes cartoons in the Washington Post, you are missing something terrific.
Today’s involves Hillary.

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According to some commentators, once we have heard the Rev. Wright twist in one of his diatribes we also know all we need to know about Barack Obama.
I do not think so.
If you want to know what Obama says about his faith and hear the pastor who is taking Wright’s place, go here.
If you don’t [...]

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