Posts Tagged ‘Rick Davis’

Sen. John McCain has woven a tangled web of erratic behavior, grandstanding and BS in recent days, the better to deceive. In his latest New York Times column, Frank Rich unravels the why and wherefore.

While putting Oh!pinion back together, we came across our July 6, 2005, post, Imagine if negative approach spread beyond politics. With the ‘08 presidential campaign entering the dog days of summer, we find this post as timely and appropriate now as it was then. . .

If you’ve visited Oh!pinion in the past two or three days you’ve seen that something has gone terribly wrong — because of hacking, file corruption or maybe our karma is just out of whack. We discovered this after returning from the latest of two multi-day trips out of town in the past three weeks on urgent family business. Hence, the new look . . .

Bad enough Air Force brass insist on wasting millions on luxury airborne isolation pods for themselves, but the capper is blowing $68,000 to change leather seats from brown to blue and add little pockets. . . . OK, the Air Force is top-down oriented and rank has its privileges. Still, this country-club cocooning aloft stinks to high heaven. Especially in light of how uniformed lesser beings travel. . .

New York Times columnist Tom Friedman finds redemption for America’s tattered image and strained international relations in a U.S. effort to impose harsher sanctions on Zimbabwe’s despicable regime. This begs a question: How few fish in a barrel does Friedman suppose we must shoot so we can wear white hats and hear choruses of attaboys from the world community?

Via The Huffington Post we learn, “The illustration, by Barry Blitt, is called ‘The Politics of Fear’ and, according to the NYer press release, ’satirizes the use of scare tactics and misinformation in the Presidential election to derail Barack Obama’s campaign.’” Here’s the problem: many Americans know little more about the New Yorker than that it’s a magazine, and a whole lot more often don’t “get” raw satire. . .

McCain sees himself as a president heavily involved in hobnobbing with foreign leaders and dealing in defense-related matters such as getting us into a war with Iran and buying new missile systems. Then there’s the increasingly obvious fact McCain is at best a bumbling duffer when it comes to economic policy, all too willing to pile on more of what has only made matters worse under President Bush’s misleadership.

Evidently, Jackson thought Obama’s recent criticism of AWOL and irresponsible fathers was “talking down” to black folks. Way to go, Jackson. Join Pastor Jeremiah Wright in the corner, with your back to the room.

Republicans in high office — and those seeking high office — are pathologically incapable of being open, honest and above board, as yet more evidence makes clear. Scanning today’s news, we see Vice President Dick Cheney edited health officials’ testimony before Congress last fall, removing anything that revealed dangers to public health from global warming. Cheney deleted nearly half the draft testimony, according to a former EPA official . . .

Results of a nationwide Zogby poll just out show Sen. Barack Obama not only winning in the popular-vote horserace, but way ahead in crucial Electoral College results. . . . Do the math and you’ll see that if the election were held now and McCain somehow managed to sweep the undecideds, Obama would still win.