I’ve been watching too many of those office-supply commercials—the one where the woman tells her colleague just to hit the “easy” button. I caught myself watching the debates, wishing for a fact-checker button every time the candidates disputed each other about their past statements, positions, or promises. (At one point as I flipped through the channels after [...]
With less than a nine percent approval rating, Congress might attract your ire for doing or not doing just about anything regarding the current economic mess: There’s enough blame to go around to the various federal agencies established, those appointed to run the agencies, those who profited from little or no regulation of those agencies, [...]
If the 2000 Gore-Bush campaign was all about the “fuzzy math,” the 2008 campaign is shaping up to be about the grammar gremlins. So far, they show no party loyalty. The problem dangler has appeared in several major speeches since the conventions opened on August 25 and they continue just about every time the candidates [...]
Another flip-flop. No, not McCain’s or Obama’s. Mine. Because I was going to be vacationing during the Republican convention, I had decided not to blog about either the Democratic or Republican convention. It’s not that I didn’t plan to be watching all the major speeches of both parties, but it’s that I didn’t plan to spend [...]
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