All Posts Tagged With: "election"

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Is A Partisan America About to Lose The Future?

Petty squabbling is consuming The United States Government.  There is gridlock on Capital Hill.  It appears that most people in Congress are running for reelection in 2010 and their message is to blame the other party.  Is this leadership?  Is this the solution to the mounting problems of America?  We need only to look back [...]

29Jan2010 | Ohg Rea Tone | 2 comments | Continued
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The Rat In The Corner – Iran, Health Care, etc.

To paraphrase Henry Kissinger:  Never back a rat in to a corner – he will come out fighting.  Always leave your opponent an escape route – a means by which they can save face.  President Obama recently used a phrase much as this when referring to Iran.  He said something like, “We are trying to [...]

10Jul2009 | Ohg Rea Tone | 3 comments | Continued
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Obama – Focal Point of Mature Stability

This election was tough.  Hard hitting, loud, boisterous, negative, slanderous, and sometimes mean spirited.  All of us have enjoyed and distressed over the emotional roller coaster.  This was better than any Hitchcock thriller – if tense excitement is what you like.  But the election is over and we are seeing the emotional aftermath.  We can [...]

19Nov2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 0 comments | Continued
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The G.O.P.’s Five Stages of Grief (Video)

Grief is an emotional response to loss. Our original curiosity was around the five stages of grief after the election – but the folks who produced this video recognized the grief began before the cancerous terminal patient died. Curiosity drove us to enter “Election Grief” in the youtube search engine.  This one video stood out [...]

13Nov2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 0 comments | Continued
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Obama election spurs gun sales

by Frank James
When President-elect Obama was campaigning and talking about change, he probably wasn’t thinking of this kind of change: people going on a gun-buying spree in reaction to his election.
Here’s an excerpt from our colleague Howard Witt’s report today:
HOUSTON — A week after the election of Barack Obama, gun buyers across the country are [...]

12Nov2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 0 comments | Continued
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Obama’s Election Night Speech

“. . . But, in a larger sense, we can not improve, we can not consecrate – we can not hallow – this ground. This brave man, who struggled here, has consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. . . . It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated [...]

10Nov2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 0 comments | Continued
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CNN’s Hologram – Cool Techonology

Well, this about takes the cake.  Technology is advancing rapidy – but look at this – you still have to read these words.  That is about as old as Abraham.  The differencs is that we have people from Hobart, Australia, reading this commentary.  They might be rednecks but they are able to use the internet.
CNN [...]

6Nov2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 0 comments | Continued
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The Early Word: McCain-Palin Post-Mortem

By Michael Falcone
As all eyes turn to President-elect Barack Obama, his transition to the White House and the changing political landscape in Washington and across the country, epilogues to the 2008 presidential race abound.
Today The Times’s Elisabeth Bumiller goes inside the McCain campaign to find out what went wrong in the closing days [...]

6Nov2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 0 comments | Continued
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This Election Was Personal – And Angry

This election was exhausting.  The campaigns were passionate in a time when deep fears griped each of us.  Even George Bush supporters believe he was treated unfairly by world events beyond his control – but those events happened to all of us.  All of us, Americans and our fellow earthly citizens, have been deeply impacted [...]

5Nov2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 0 comments | Continued
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2008 Election: Winners and Losers

By Chris Cillizza
Barack Obama will be the 44th president of the United States. John McCain will not, likely capping a long and well-decorated political career with a loss.
Democrats will expand their majorities in the House and the Senate. Republicans will be relegated to minority status in both chambers, forced to re-calculate what their party stands [...]

5Nov2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 0 comments | Continued
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Redneck Gazette – Obama Gonna Win

Redneck Gazette
Election Prediction

Obama Gonna Be President

McCain Goes Home

It looks like this here election is a done deal. That fella from Illinois attracted most of the people. And we can tell you why. Because he did a better job – that is why.
Some folks [...]

3Nov2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 0 comments | Continued
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The Final Fix Electoral Map

The Final Fix Electoral Map

After two years of following every jot and tittle of a presidential race that has had more twists and turns than this political junkie could have even imagined, we’ve reached the end.
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3Nov2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 0 comments | Continued
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Barack Obama – The Color of Water

These are troubling times of war and of economic despair. Yet there is a sense of hope. 50 million people in this country lack health care. Yet there is a sense of hope. We speak of immigration as if we are talking about cattle. Yet there is a sense of hope. Hope transcends troubles. Hope [...]

30Oct2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 5 comments | Continued
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Election Anxiety

Only the fools are not nervous about this election.  Too much is at stake.  By every measurement this country is worse off than it was eight years ago – and the decline continues.  Every news cycle brings new anxiety – new fears for our future.  And there remains uncertainty in the election outcome.
The Bush Presidency [...]

23Oct2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 6 comments | Continued
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BBC – Mock the Week (Targeting Obama and McCain)

This is filmed for the BBC – British Broadcasting Company. The Program is Mock The Week – and nothing is off limits. These guys are awful – awful in the sense that nothing is sacred. In these videos they mock Barack Obama, John McCain, and the US Elections. We found this to [...]

19Oct2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 0 comments | Continued
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Gender and Ages and Race, OH MY!

Here at The Fireside Post, we intend to drive home our suggested connection between the elements of this election cycle and the the kooky world of Frank Oz.  Allow me, if you will, to expand on it a bit.
There are some great messages of hope and tolerance in the Wizard of Oz.  The movie is [...]

15Oct2008 | bryan | 0 comments | Continued
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Obama Wins – Thanks to ACORN

Obama will win this election, no doubt about it.  He speaks about hope, change and civil liberties.  When he speaks everyone listens, from the elite to the redneck.  His Leftist support group ACORN has helped to spread his message, but they don’t stop there.  They have helped bring voters to the booths in record numbers [...]

13Oct2008 | Cole James | 2 comments | Continued