smear campaign

This article is about how the smear tactics of the Republican Party are losing their impact. They mainly focus on the rumor that presidential candidate Barak Obama is a Muslim, and that republicamsism is pro- American and those that don’t agree are anti-American.
The author of this article is obviously writing for the democratic viewpoint of their readers. There is no named author but the editorial board is named which says that more than one person’s opinion is being stated. The evidence they have used is the recent comments from vice presidential candidate Sarah Palines comment about “how glad she was to be in "pro-America areas of this great nation."”. Also the recent comment by U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, a Republican from Minnesota. In answering a question about Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama on a national cable show on Oct. 17, Bachmann said: "Absolutely — I'm very concerned that he may have anti-American views." They had no quotes about calling obama a Muslim.
While I agree with what this article is saying i.e. just because you don’t agree with GOP’s doesn’t mean you are anti-American and even if Obama is a Muslim (which he isn’t) should that change the fact that he is a good candidate. However the article is about smear tactics and they mention nothing of what the democrats have done, or the fact that obama just spent millions on a 30 min infomercial. Sarah Palin doesn’t need the democrats help making herself look under qualified or obtuse. You can’t scold one party and not the other. America loves smear campaigns, why do we do them? Because they work, if they didn’t no one would waste the money or time on them.

no more Cornyn

This author thinks that Texas should re-elect Sen. John Cornyn. He says that he is the better candidate because he can work next to democrats without yelling “spawns of Satan I command thee demons out”, or whatever right wing conservatives do when alone in a room with a democrat “a skill he may have to use often if the next Congress is as Democratic as polls suggest it will be and if he wants to accomplish anything for the nation and for Texas.”Texas Thanks you john for your ability to talk with democrats since you know it’s not like it’s your job or anything and it’s not like the major requirement to be in the senate is the ability to get what your state wants regardless of what political ideals are in the Whitehouse…or anything.

This author also stipulates that because Cornyn helped “ co-sponsored an effort with Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., for the federal government to regulate tobacco, and he worked with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., on legislation to prosecute people in this country who committed genocide elsewhere.” This makes him the better candidate.

My favorite part of this article is when the author writes “And the public should especially appreciate Cornyn's work with Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., to pass legislation that significantly strengthened the Freedom of Information Act.” OHHH be impressed monkeys for the great senator fought to allow you the right to see public documents ( of course only after they have been lost or changed or sealed for “classified” reasons).

You know what I especially appreciate, that fact that Cornyn is on sooo many impressive committees like on armed services, on the budget on Judiciary, and is the vice chairman on committee on ethics. As the vice chairman for the ethics committee its his responsibility to make sure the people in congress aren’t doing anything unethical Like, steeling funds, taking bribes sleeping with hookers on the tax payers dime, suppressing documents or lying under oath. Wouldn’t you know it Coryn hasn’t deemed ANYONE unethical since he has been on the committee, good job John.

But I’ve gotten off my main point, the author likes Coryn because he feels he will do what Texas wants and on this one main point I must disagree. Why because 70% of us didn’t want a bailout, we wanted to eat ramen for a year until the market righted itself. Coryn voted for the bailout anyway. We now will never be out of debt because some of our biggest companies made horrible mistakes don’t let our congresspeople make more of their own mistakes. We said no, they did it anyway. Washington needs to be fired and if Coryn isn’t going to do what we want then we let him go and find people who will.

Vote Waller County......unless you aren't white

• This is an article everyone should read because it shows us just how far we are from actual equality. This conserns every color and both genders,The fact that in 2008, not just a person but an entire freaking county, racially profiles and messes with others right to vote is insane. This article is about how Waller County voter registration practices violate Federal voting laws a lawsuit was issued on the grounds that the county violated a provision of the Civil Rights Act by rejecting certain registration applications on immaterial grounds. This is not the first time this County has been accused of racist practices.In 2006 over 300 students said they had to wait three to four hours to vote and ended up casting provisional ballots because their names were missing from election rosters. At the end of the day regardless of what color we are god we belive in or politician we like we are ALL Americans and if we can't band together there is no hope in a better future.