Since Dan Onorato decided not to seek a third term (in what may arguably be his wisest political move ever), I've actually become interested in the race for Allegheny County chief executive. The lone teabagger has dropped out of the Republican side of the race, leaving the crook and the Mt. Lebanon councillor/businessman. If registered Republicans ( Read more... )

Fellow Pennsylvania Democrats, it is time to go forth and VOTE!


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Madamab at The Confluence paints an ugly picture of just what may have gone on behind the scenes:

The unholy matrimony between Bush’s Brain and the Democratic Party was cemented by Brazile’s desire to recreate the Democratic Party in the image of the Republican Party - but with African-Americans as the powerbrokers instead of rich white men. ( Read more... )

"We must elect Barack Obama our next president."

Hillary Clinton said this sentence with great frequency in her speech today where she suspended her campaign and endorsed Senator Barack Obama. She spoke eloquently, frequently touching upon traditional Democratic principles and how it is remarkably unremarkable that both a woman and an African- ( Read more... )

Something interesting happens when you take away Barack Obama's 59 ill-gotten Michigan delegates, giving back the four to Hillary that she rightfully earned. First, Hillary gets 73 delegates, bringing her total pledged delegate count to 1,643.5. Obama loses 59 delegates, making his total pledged delegate count 1707.5. Adjusted for justice, which ( Read more... )

I just unsubscribed from Barack Obama's mailing list. In doing so, there was an optional field asking why one was choosing to unsubscribe. I kept it to the point: "I no longer support your campaign."

In all honesty, I stopped supporting Obama's campaign quite a while ago. His tactics for gaining support and winning became anathema to my personal ( Read more... )

The mainstream media is all but ignoring the returns from South Dakota and Montana's primaries tonight, opting instead to crow about how Obama has "clinched" the nomination. The propaganda machine formerly known as the Associated Press is even going so far as to state that Hillary is vying for the Vice Presidential spot. What Orwellian nightmare ( Read more... )

We all knew the system was fucked up. This is how fucked up it really is. From Taylor Marsh's website:

Right now, we have one candidate who leads in elected delegates and another who leads in the popular vote. It's almost unprecedented, and no one could have guessed we'd be in this position a year ago. Next to Florida in 2000, this has been the ( Read more... )

The Associated Press, once a reliable and - dare I say - trustworthy news organisation, has been spewing propaganda all day long. I refuse to link to any of it. You can look it up yourselves, if you really want to...if you enjoy being lied to and manipulated. I, for one, have had enough.

Instead, allow me to direct you to this article from ( Read more... )

It must be nice to be a media mogul. I would love to be able to manipulate people's perceptions and pull their strings like the proverbial puppet master. I place a heavy dose of blame on the mainstream media for the state of the nation today. It was the hacks at ABC, NBC, Fox, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, and so on and so on and so on who gave us such smash ( Read more... )