By Wink
What do ruthless dictators and theocrats fear the most? Guns?
Nope. They fear an educated citizenry, and they fear the ballot box.
A few decades back Iran was overthrown by religious zealots, and they still run it today. They are not good at paperwork, or dealing with foreign dignitaries, so they installed a puppet ‘leader,’ [...]
I would like to give a message to all voters in the country.
Many are upset over the outcome of the election, which is certainly
understandable. It was an upset to about 47% of all voters. I
sympathize with you on that regard.
However, I hold no sympathy for anybody who does not stand by the
president-elect now merely because [...]
Last Tuesday before the elections I predicted the outcomes. I am happy to report that my predictions were pretty spot on. Logically, this makes me the Nostradamus of predicting elections. I truly believe I have the same prediction power as the man who started rocking this world 450 years ago (and will again in another 450). [...]
When writers for a television show begin to run out of plot lines, they sometimes become desperate for ideas that will hold the attention of viewers. This happens to almost every show eventually. When the writers use some of these weird or contrived ideas, the show is said to have ‘jumped the shark’.
The phrase ‘jumping [...]
11:23 CST: Kasson: Wow what a great speech by Obama.
10:56 CST: Kasson: Even better if it was Tancredo
10:32 CST: Cessna: McCain’s speech was definitely a great one. It is truly a shame that he had to be the Republican candidate in this election. I would have felt better had it been Huckabee or Romney.
10:12 CST: [...]
These are my predictions for the outcome of tonights election:
Obama – 354
McCain – 184
We’ll se how I did tomorrow.
My prediction for the Senate is this:
Democrats – 56
Republicans – 42
Independents – 2 (siding with Democrats)
And for the house:
Democrats – 261
Republicans – 174
The American political spectrum is an endless pendulum, steadily swinging back and forth from left to right, and back again. The swings usually follow a few election cycles. Why ‘only’ a few election cycles?
Hubris.
You get in office, your party takes control. You get re-elected a few times and you begin to think YOU are bigger [...]
We have photographic proof that FDR met with Stalin and Nixon met with Mao. Two murderous communists! Good thing that both FDR & Nixon are dead, or we would feel obligated to destroy their reputations.
J Edgar Hoover called Martin Luther King a “terrorist”.
All other details being identical, how close would this presidential race be if [...]
So last night Barack Obama aired his 30 minute “infomercial” making one last case to vote for him. Personally I was worried that this might draw criticism. The most attackable thing I saw was Obama sitting in a ‘rustic’ Oval Office.
But I think Obama and his campaign were trying to make lots of subtle hints [...]
When John McCain won the Republican nomination, and Barack Obama won the Democratic side, we at WinkestLink were delighted. We thought the two best candidates had emerged from the muck, and America would be treated to a higher level of political discourse than we had been during the previous two elections.
Obama essentially came from nowhere [...]
