Bird’s-Eye View

Anything, anything, about the economy beyond the simple message about lower taxes. The Bush tax cuts have been in place since 2001 and 2003, and yet here the economy is with higher than 6 percent unemployment, a weak U.S. dollar and a housing crisis. Why would continuing the Bush tax cuts and giving middle- and […]

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Quite a discussion grew out of the “Obama as Messiah” post, so I wanted to make visitors to the Nest aware of an article by Time.com’s Amy Sullivan on the same topic, and she also sees the McCain ad as a play toward the evangelical vote.

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John McCain’s latest stab at Barack Obama as messiah:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mopkn0lPzM8

This is not only an attack on Obama’s image as the saving grace for America, but McCain’s also after the evangelical Christian vote. Remember, recently Obama met with Christian leaders and has declared his intention to rally the Christian vote to his side. McCain needs these voters […]

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I can’t quite decide if this presidential race is trying to rise above the racial arguments of the past or merely exposing the ongoing mistrust among many in our country toward people of different races and creeds, which has festered long before “We the People” ever appeared on a governing document. 
This is from a Democratic voter in […]

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HARRISBURG - If anyone embodies the anger and intellect of those who oppose passage of Senate Bill 1250, the one that would essentially define marriage in Pennsylvania’s Constitution as only a heterosexual relationship, it’s retiring state Sen. Vincent Fumo, a Philadelphia Democrat. The best show at the Capitol today was inside the Senate Appropriations Hearing on […]

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You know, the Associated Press with this man-on-the-street article sums it up about right. Regardless of who was right and whether Obama messed up with his characterization of “bitter” small towners “clinging” to guns and religion, the slapfest that’s followed appears to be worse.
And this fracas may finally prompt Democratic Party leaders to say enough is […]

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From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Gov. Ed Rendell, in Pittsburgh yesterday to rally volunteers for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, said the latest controversy over what a presidential candidate said — Sen. Barack Obama’s comment that small-town Pennsylvanians cling to guns and religion out of frustration and bitterness over job losses — “shows a pretty significant lack of […]

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GRANTHAM - Tonight’s Compassion Forum with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is about the most curious political event in at least the Pennsylvania primary if not the entire contest since voting started in January. Clinton and Obama aren’t here to necessarily talk about the stumbling economy, propose solutions to the slumping housing market, rail against […]

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