U.S. presidential election

'Round the traps this week

North Coast Voices - June 25, 2008 - 1:05am

Losin' my religion....

In this ultra-conservative, religion-raddled world we now seem to live in, it's beaut to see that the secular jibe is alive and well at The Quotations Page. Read more »

Yes we can! Barack Obama asks an Australian cat for campaign donations

North Coast Voices - June 9, 2008 - 4:34am

It seems that politics and pets make strange bedfellows.
Regular readers will be aware that clarencegirl receives Obama for America campaign emails from time to time.
They would also be aware that Boy the Wonder Cat blogs in the North Coast Voices sidebar and lists his own email address there.
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US 08 and the media: change we can believe in?

North Coast Voices - June 5, 2008 - 1:15am

It seems that some American online media and I suspect the Obama for America campaign team have a desire to manipulate impressions of the obvious crowd-drawing strength of the Democratic candidate for the 2008 US presidential election.
It is all image, image, image.
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You vs George W. Bush

North Coast Voices - May 31, 2008 - 1:15am

Yesterday Barack Obama tried to make his e-mail money drive personal with this subject title:
You vs George W. Bush.
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Hubris on the US08 presidential campaign trail

North Coast Voices - June 24, 2008 - 10:58am

It takes a healthy ego and full measure of arrogance to stay the course in any U.S. presidential election and, Barack Obama obviously has both. Read more »

US08: strange landscape for foreign visitors

North Coast Voices - June 11, 2008 - 1:20am

Americans may view their presidential choices differently; but to a foreign visitor to US websites like myself, it really appears as if the choice between candidates is one of an old, white man who will bomb into the ground any sovereign nation he feels might stand in the way of American interests and a younger, black man who will publicly fall on his knees to pray before bombing into the ground any sovereign nation he feels might stand in the way of American interests.
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Synchronous views of Obama

North Coast Voices - June 7, 2008 - 1:05am

With the US Republicans now busy searching for that cache of Kryptonite, this flight of fancy tickled my rather juvenile sense of humour this week. Read more »

Best blog pic found this week

North Coast Voices - May 31, 2008 - 8:47am

A truly frightening pictorial comment on John McCain as a future US president. Read more »