I’m sure I’m not the only one who is annoyed by the phrase, “playing the race card.” Today, the McCain campaign is accusing Barack Obama of using — what conventional wisdom calls — one of the most vile cards in the politics deck.
The idea of playing the race card is just a silly catch-all phrase [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 26, 2008
McCain Far from Straight Talk on Iraq
The good folks over at TPM Election Central have put together what they are calling “The Definitive McCain Iraq Timeline.” The timeline finds many inconsistencies in Senator McCain’s public statements on Iraq.
No matter how many times I watch old video of TV interviews with political figures (largely culled from cable news channels and C-SPAN, edited [...]
July 26, 2008
A Picture Worth One-Thousand Words
The U.S. and the World after almost 8 years of the Bush Presidency?
July 26, 2008
The Sanitized War Disconnect
The New York Times has a front-page article today by Michael Kamber and Tim Arango about the increasing difficulty photojournalists are having with an American military that is attempting to control graphic images from the war in Iraq. One of the photojournalists featured in the Times’ article is Zoriah Miller, who was recently interviewed on [...]
July 18, 2008
Setting Sail
Greetings to outer space and to the virtual world. Today, I am setting sail, so to speak, out towards the vast open sea of the Web, what some may call the wild west of the future. Others call it the future of citizen journalism. Many just call it blogging.
To be honest, I’ve been quite afraid [...]
