2008: The Unbroken Glass Ceiling

by Diego Del Campo
Women in positions of power in the public sphere is still a relatively new, if slowly progressing sight. It’s become now conventional wisdom that 2008 was a year when women broke barriers in politics. Hillary Clinton was a serious contender to win her party’s nomination, and Sarah Palin became the first woman [...]

I Told You So

By Stephen Noriega

I posted the blog on September 15th, 2008. It was right after the GOP convention, when everyone loved her. I said this was the worst pick for the John McCain campaign. Now I get to say, “I told you so” with pride, annoying volume and belligerent indignation.

Photo by The National Inquirer, distributed 2008

It [...]

Humor and the Election 2008

Humor is a huge part of life, and now it has become a large part of the 2008 election.  From the many television shows Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and the Late Show with David Letterman have been weighing in on the election through their [...]

“That one”… (you know, the black one)

A Polemical Essay by: That Girl
I’ll say this: I don’t think John McCain is racist. But he sure knows how to hang with the worst of them.
With a Bear Market currently mauling a little china shop known as the Global Financial System and McCain’s less than spectacular performance in demonstrating the urgency of [...]

I wish I could vote for her…

By Diego Del Campo

I’m proud of Sarah Palin. I wasn’t around in 1984 to see New York Rep. Geraldine Ferraro’s historic run for the vice presidency, and here we are 24 years later, and another woman is running for vice president. There’s no denying that McCain picking Palin as his veep was a game-changer: she [...]

The Last Month of Dirt, aka What Will Stick?

By: Jet Peterson

Now that we have reached the last month of the campaign season, the mud-slinging is increased.  The old claims and the old relations are being dug up to create a guilt by association. Barack Obama has been in associations with the domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. John McCain has associations with Keating. Both are [...]

Don’t Blink, Wink!

In Palin’s interview with Charlie Gibson, she said we must not blink when it comes to foreign affairs and issues of domestic security.

However, it appears that winking is just fine. 

Ok, Sarah. I understand that you have no idea what you are talking about and you are trying [...]

Playin’ the Palin Game

By Heather Ellerbrock
She is like Hurricane Katrina; loud, confident and will come into your house without even blinking an eye. She is Sarah Palin and for the last six weeks, we have all been caught up in Palin Maina. Her “popularity” is so intense that instead of hearing ‘Sarah Who?’ we are making jokes that [...]

GOP hoping Palin their version of Hilary?

Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin is defiantly no Hilliary Clinton right? As much as the Grand Old Party zeros in on the differences that exist between their Vice-Presidential hopeful and Clinton.  Still after all the “operation chaos” type tactics that the republicans engaged in and all the hoping that Hilary would become [...]

You can put lipstick on John McCain but…

An Appeal to Patience by: That Girl
I tell you, after watching and (at times) participating in the What-The-Eff-Are-We-Gonna-Do-Now freak-out session that defined the liberal base for the last two weeks, I’m completely exhausted. Lipstick on mammals and bridges to nowhere aside, the Palin pick had me and the whole world thinking, “Huh?” and wondering [...]