2008 US Election

Hand over the money or the financial system gets it

An Onymous Lefty - September 25, 2008 - 1:24am

Do you know what I think is most depressing about the reaction to the Republican Administration's plan to give $US 700 billion with no strings attached to one guy who can then give it to the rich guys who've dragged the US into a financial black hole in the hopes that it'll somehow save the system (which otherwise WORKS REALLY WELL) from imploding? It's how downright mean everyone's being about it. Read more »

Doesn't affect us in the slightest

An Onymous Lefty - September 13, 2008 - 5:52pm

The other night on the GrodsCast, The Editor could be heard wondering sadly about the attention that the US "election" is being paid in Australia. Australians seem to care more about American politics than our own. Punters who've been watching the West Wing think they're experts on Washington politics. We're the 51st state, said someone.

Well, there are a couple of reasons why I think the occasional American attempt at "democracy" is worthy of comment. Read more »

How dare you catch me out

An Onymous Lefty - September 19, 2008 - 10:04am

The facts about PalinusesyahootogetaroundFOIlawsgate: Read more »

Sarah Palin and her staff in the governor's office in Alaska choose to try to avoid public scrutiny of their activities by using private email addresses at work, because freedom of information laws enable the public release of the contents of official email accounts as an important check on abuses of power - and they are REPUBLICANS after all, for whom such legal limitations on the privileges of office are merely temporary inconveniences.
Official emails are found that confirm that this was a deliberate policy.

You probably haven't heard about it, but there's a US election campaign underway

An Onymous Lefty - September 12, 2008 - 4:51pm

It's even reached those of us currently in France, despite the surrounding cocoon of "cheese-eating surrender monkeys". Read more »