politics

Event: Kicking You When You’re Down – Foreclosure is a Forfeited Vote, According to the Michigan GOP.

Start from the beginning and move down:

Michigan Messenger: Lose Your House, Lose Your Vote.

Michigan Messenger: GOP has a history of voter ‘caging,’ according to Democrats’ lawsuit.

Michigan Messenger: Messenger rejects GOP plea for retraction.

Gemma discussed this here, with several insightful comments by herself and tyromaven.

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Event: Obama’s Speech in Flint, and Other Good News.

The Washington Independent: Obama Laces into McCain’s “No Change Express”

The Flint Journal: Presidential candidate Barack Obama promises at Flint appearance to help auto industry refashion itself.

I wish I could have been at this. I would’ve waited for hours and hours…

It’s icing on the cake that the Journal actually avoided making one of the innumerable puns that presented themselves.

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Event: The Executive Branch is a Committee, with an Economic Example of Why it Matters.

Thesis: Stop thinking about whether they are likeable or not… there will be time enough for that later.
As much as the presidency is a person, it is also an institution, and we would more accurately make responsible decisions in presidential elections by thinking of the office as a very powerful and ideally coordinated committee, with the ballot in the chairmanship.

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Event: Why I am giving Obama my hard earned cash; because I want you to as well.

To kick this off, I won’t recap the last year-and-a-half of election drama except to say that this, I believe, is more important than any other election I’ve experienced except perhaps 2000. Which may be a tie. I have many reasons for believing this, and I’m sure you have many thoughts on the subject too, but the most eloquent and trenchant observation I’ve heard on this comes from outside of the United States, in an article my mom sent me yesterday.

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Event: Sarah Palin Episode II

I wasn’t going to blog at all this week, but the conversation has been too great. It’s wonderful; fresh air and water. Here’s Gemma’s most recent post: Palin(g) in Comparison, Part the Second

Here are my thoughts:

Okay, I think that I understand what you’re saying a bit better now, and I’m behind now… I’m going to watch these speeches, but I’m going to spend my first vacation since last Christmas watching them!

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