Cour­tesy of MoveOn.Org [1], I just watched the fol­low­ing video: Sen­a­tor Kennedy had the courage to stand up for health­care as a right for all Amer­i­cans, and cry foul at his peers in the Sen­ate who would deny uni­ver­sal cov­er­age to oth­ers while enjoy­ing excep­tional cov­er­age funded by all our tax dol­lars. So once again, the […]

Posted on August 26th, 2009 by Sky
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On days when I’ve heard enough com­plaints from all sides about Pres­i­dent Obama’s actions ver­sus his cam­paign promises, I go objec­tive and refer to The Obame­ter. This web­site spon­sored by the Annen­berg fam­ily lists Obama’s cur­rent progress on more than 500 promises he made dur­ing the 2008 cam­paign. Here are two points worth not­ing. The […]

Posted on August 8th, 2009 by Sky
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This viral email arrived in my inbox today: Sub­ject: Fw: Shock­ing Fred Thomp­son Inter­view on Senior Health Care You will NOT believe your ears!!!! Send this to all of your friends and rel­a­tives!!!! If you are over 65 and sick with a seri­ous life threat­en­ing ill­ness, your life is worth very lit­tle under this new health […]

Posted on July 30th, 2009 by Sky
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“We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scrip­ture, the time has come to set aside child­ish things… And to those nations like ours that enjoy rel­a­tive plenty, we say we can no longer afford indif­fer­ence to suf­fer­ing out­side our bor­ders; nor can we con­sume the world’s resources with­out regard to effect. For […]

Posted on January 20th, 2009 by Sky
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The lead story in this morning’s Seat­tle Post-Intellignecer opens with this obser­va­tion: Barack Obama’s pres­i­den­tial win held a poignant sig­nif­i­cance for lib­eral Seat­tleites: This is their Amer­ica, too. The feel­ing was evi­dent in jubi­lant par­ty­ing in the streets, in quiet moments of reflec­tion and in blos­soms of red, white and blue. With new­found patri­o­tism, Seattleites […]

Posted on November 7th, 2008 by Sky
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Early this morn­ing, Elec­tion Day 2008, Sen. Barack Obama shared this story with an inti­mate crowd of 90,000 in Man­as­sas, Vir­ginia. It’s about the power of one voice to change a town, a city, a state, the nation, the world. It all starts with one voice. Amer­ica will sin­cerely appre­ci­ate your vote today.

Posted on November 4th, 2008 by Sky
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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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