We’re hear­ing a lot about Sarah Palin’s new $150k wardrobe, com­pli­ments of the Repub­li­can National Com­mit­tee. There are cer­tainly valid ques­tions. Is the McCain / Palin ticket (gasp) elit­ist? Does Palin owe $50k in taxes for the items purchased?[2][3] And what does Joe Six­pack think about all this? What­ever. It’s not a big deal except for […]

Posted on October 23rd, 2008 by Sky
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Today, in an attempt to jump start his flag­ging pres­i­den­tial bid, John McCain unveiled another new cam­paign theme to a recep­tive, armed forces friendly audi­ence in Vir­ginia Beach[1]: What Amer­ica needs in this hour is a fighter… There are other ways to love this coun­try, but I’ve never been the kind to do it from […]

Posted on October 14th, 2008 by Sky
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[1] In the midst of smears and pol­i­tics this cam­paign sea­son, I’ve nonethe­less formed my own opin­ion of Barack and Michelle Obama and their two chil­dren. What a won­der­ful fam­ily, and a gift for Amer­ica that’s ours if we just make the right choice on Novem­ber 4. Per­haps this recent com­ment by Kath­lyn and Gay Hendricks […]

Posted on October 9th, 2008 by Sky
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Both Joe Biden and Sarah Palin did as well as I expected in tonight’s debate. Palin com­mu­ni­cated enough knowl­edge of the issues to be cred­i­ble, while Biden demon­strated the self con­trol wor­thy of a vice pres­i­den­tial can­di­date. This was a remark­able VP debate in its respect­ful inten­sity and over­all rel­e­vancy, and I’m thank­ful for that. Going […]

Posted on October 3rd, 2008 by Sky
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