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Bye Bye Barry (Guest Voice)
The Moderate Voice | 19 hours ago
This is another Guest Voice by Joel S. Hirschhorn, who is highly critical of both major political parties and who advocates a constitutional convention. Should we save this post for use on election day? Guest Voice posts do not necessarily reflect th read more
Will McCain’s “Game Changing” Vice Presidential Pick Be Lie…
The Moderate Voice | 22 hours ago
Will Republican presumptive Presidential nominee Sen. John McCain’s Vice Presidential pick be independent Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman? Several reports have suggested over the past few weeks that it could be — including this latest read more
(UPDATED) O’s VP Pick: Hold the Presses
The Moderate Voice | August 19th 2008
WHAT’S NEW Biden blows off media speculation about him being the pick. Meanwhile, for every TMV colleague who warned me that my earlier link to an unvetted source (see below) could make me the subject of an elaborate hoax, I can only say, R read more
‘McCain and Obama - Sucking Up at the Mega-Church’: From Nach…
The Moderate Voice | August 19th 2008
So what does a secular European think of Saturday’s Presidential election event with evangelicals at Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church? Writing for Switzerland’s Nachrichten newspaper, Patrik Etschmayer writes in part: “The abs read more
Biden
The Moderate Voice | August 19th 2008
If Barack Obama was not already inclined toward him as a running mate, John McCain and Vladimir Putin in the past week should have helped make up his mind to choose Joe Biden. His trip to Georgia as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee read more
Personal Pain - National Gain
The Moderate Voice | August 19th 2008
Last Thursday, I had the pleasure to appear on “The Brian Wilson Show” on a local FM talk radio station in Baltimore, MD. We were discussing my post from Wednesday discussing whether the use of the “Race Card” is applicable regarding Barack read more
Contrast and Compare: NASA
The Moderate Voice | August 19th 2008
Since we haven’t done one of these for a while and both of the major party candidates have popped up on the subject recently, let’s take a look at how the candidates stack up on the future of NASA. One of the more recent entries is a bit read more
John Edwards: Shameless Sonofabitch
The Moderate Voice | August 19th 2008
I promised myself that I would not blog on the Jennifer Aniston-John Mayer smash-up, and it’s been like only 72 hours since I last wrote anything about the John & Rielle Show, which actually had more to do with electrocuting horses than s read more
John McCain and Ben Stein’s Money
The Moderate Voice | August 17th 2008
Ben Stein, droll Renaissance man, said in a recent piece in the New York Times that he doesn’t like paying taxes. But the lawyer, actor, and one-time speech writer for two presidents (Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford) is unimpressed with the suppl read more
Saddlegate?
The Moderate Voice | August 17th 2008
I mostly agree with Joe Gandelman’s take on the Saddleback Forum. Both candidates did well, though McCain beat the lower expectations set for him. I’d only add that the event took place on hardcore GOP home turf, so McCain’s policy read more
Election 2008: Scoreboard
The Moderate Voice | August 17th 2008
With 45 of the 50 states completed, we now have some outright majorities to report and they are unlikely to give the Republicans much comfort. President: Not only does Senator Obama retain his lead, he has now reached a majority for election. The num read more
Did McCain Best Obama At The Faith Forum?
The Moderate Voice | August 17th 2008
So how did presumptive party nominees Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain fare at Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church faith forum? The answer is in the eye — and active political agenda — of the beholder but th read more
John Edwards And The “Too” Americas (Guest Voice)
The Moderate Voice | August 17th 2008
This Guest Voice is by “Raging Moderate” Will Durst — a take on the John Edwards affair. “Too” Americas by Will Durst Not content to be viewed as your ordinary run-of-the-mill hypocritical oaf, former vice-presidential read more
In Colorado, it’s like oil and water
The Moderate Voice | August 17th 2008
As regular readers know, I’ve been watching the COPM states (Colorado, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan) to get a feel for who will be moving into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. next January. Whichever candidate can carry at least three of those four wi read more
McCain And Obama: Today’s Big Showdown Over Faith
The Moderate Voice | August 16th 2008
Keep your eye on a perhaps politically-pivotal, highly-publicized event tonight that could potentially make a tight Presidential race a bit less-tight: presumptive party nominees Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Senator Barack Obama will be read more
A President From Nowhere
The Moderate Voice | August 16th 2008
After Barack Obama or John McCain leaves the White House, where will future generations go to tour the boyhood home that shaped a president? Hawaii? Indonesia? The Panama Canal Zone? For a long time, I lived near Hyde Park, where FDR was born and sp read more
Zogby: People Want to Hear from Bob Barr too
The Moderate Voice | August 16th 2008
Even in the midst of the media feeding frenzy over Obamamania and the Republicans’ efforts to force some shoulder room on the stage for John McCain, it seems that Americans would still prefer to have more options. According to a recent poll fr read more
The Edwards-Hunter Scandal: Where Some People Go, Trouble Seems T…
The Moderate Voice | August 16th 2008
Rielle Hunter, the one-time apple of John Edwards’ eye, is emerging as quite a piece of work — and whose turbulent past intersects with a gruesome series of crimes. Hunter’s bona fides as a party girl are well established. She had read more
They’re Back — And The Clintons Are Here To Stay?
The Moderate Voice | August 15th 2008
A growing theory now making the round on the right, center and in some parts of the left is that Senator Hillary Clinton and her husband former President Bill Clinton have now effectively-hijacked a good part of the Democratic attention away from Dem read more
Insults, Irony and Energy - Populism American Style: From El Tiem…
The Moderate Voice | August 15th 2008
Americans aren’t the only ones exasperated with the quality of the electoral debate in the United States. For El Tiempo of Colombia, Sergio Munoz Bata writes in part: “Between insulting statements and condemnations that border on slander read more
McCain: Georgia conflict is the ‘first serious crisis interna…
The Moderate Voice | August 15th 2008
I am becoming quite worried about McCain. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLEZ5AZL5BE RockRichard at VetVoice says bluntly: Forget about Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden and REAL Al-Qaeda. That isn’t a major conflict. Let’s not dwell too m read more
Bill Kristol on Victory in Iraq and Impotence In Georgia
The Moderate Voice | August 15th 2008
I usually comment on Bill Kristol’s much-awaited Monday morning columns in the New York Times. Because of travel, I did not get the opportunity to do so this week. But not to worry, the Times’ letters-to-the-editor writers came through, read more
Oops! He Did It Again
The Moderate Voice | August 15th 2008
Anyone who believed that John McCain’s campaign wasn’t (once again) lying through its teeth when it swore that Phil Gramm had been shown the door is hereby invited to change their medication. Gramm never really went away and will once a read more
How Partisan Should a Partisan Be?
The Moderate Voice | August 14th 2008
Two Cuyahoga County mayors have been suspended from the Democratic Party executive committee there because they’ve joined other mayors in endorsing a Republican candidate for county commissioner. Is that right? The first two US presidents– read more
McCain Reportedly Considers One Term Presidency Pledge
The Moderate Voice | August 14th 2008
Republican presumptive nominee Sen. John McCain is reportedly pondering whether to pledge to only serve for one term as President, Times Online reports: John McCain is considering making a pledge that he would serve only one term in the White House w read more
What Obama Doesn’t Need…
The Moderate Voice | August 14th 2008
…and probably doesn’t want either! Superdelegate Kwame Kilpatrick! The New York Times: Judge Permits Detroit Mayor to Attend Party Convention Just when it seemed that the scandal involving Detroit’s embattled mayor, Kwame M. Kilpatrick read more
Clinton-Obama Compromise: Clinton’s Name To Be Placed In Nomina…
The Moderate Voice | August 14th 2008
Marc Ambinder reports that not only is it now likely that Senator Hillary Clinton’s name will be placed in nomination at the Democratic convention but some of the conventional wisdom floating around the Internet and media has proven to be flat- read more
‘John McCain Repeatedly Misquotes Chairman Mao’: From China…
The Moderate Voice | August 14th 2008
Now John McCain has gone and done it! The Chinese have picked up on the fact that the Republican candidate for president has been misquoting the Great Helmsman Himself, Mao Zedong - and they are not pleased. According to this op-ed article by Wang Q read more
‘Some Reasons for Obama’s Popularity - McCain’s Only Chance…
The Moderate Voice | August 12th 2008
Hot on the heels of his staunch defense of the legacy of President George W. Bush, Alexandre Adler, historian and France’s foremost neocon, examines the underlying causes of Obama’s wild popularity and what Adler sees as McCain’s o read more
Lieberman Jumps Shark: Says Obama Doesn’t Put Country First
The Moderate Voice | August 12th 2008
As a former Connecticut resident, it’s truly sad to see the utter transformation of Senator Joe Lieberman — and not in terms of party loyalty. It’s hard to imagine the 2000 Joe Lieberman accusing a political opponent of not putti read more
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