Robert's Virtual SoapboxSpewing forth Godless slander and treason since 2002!(Untitled)- June 26, 2008 Introducing the Obama campaign's new mascot: The pandering panda! Obama's presidential pandering increasing OK, I think it's official now: I no longer can support Barack Obama without holding my nose. Or at least without holding one nostril shut. I don't expect a "perfect" presidential candidate, one whose every public utterance is in line with my own belief system, but when in the fuck is enough enough I received an e-mail a while back that the local Obama campaign wanted folks.http://blogs.salon.com/0001517/2008/06/25.html#a1055 (Untitled)- June 10, 2008 Leftist editorialist and editorial cartoonist Ted Rall just won't let us forget that Barack Obama isn't ideologically pure. (Maybe Rall is rooting for Cynthia McKinney for president...) Still, I do like this 'toon of Rall's because it's fucking funny, even though comparing Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and Jesus Christ is a bit hyper-hyperbolic even for an editorial 'toonist, and I think that it's way premature to suggest that Obama just might be in league...http://blogs.salon.com/0001517/2008/06/09.html#a1054 (Untitled)- June 5, 2008 Above: This is Muriel Strand, for whom I voted for mayor of Sacramento yesterday. (The whiskers are not a PhotoShop job.) "Why am I running for mayor" Strand asks on her blog. "Because I want Sacramento's sustainable future at the top of the public agenda. After peak oil and climate change, I want a livable future city. Am I qualified Yes. I have been reading, studying and thinking about sustainability for three decades. Why should you hire me to be mayor So I can facilitate our.http://blogs.salon.com/0001517/2008/06/04.html#a1053 |