Acting Stupidly
By: Mark Impomeni (Diary) | July 30th at 09:00 PM |
If you want to figure out what a politician is up to, pay attention to what he accuses his opponents of doing. Chances are, the accuser is probably doing it himself. It is with that thought in mind that we take a look at President Barack Obama’s now infamous determination from afar that the police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, “acted stupidly,” in arresting Harvard Professor, and | Read More »
Not So Wise
By: Mark Impomeni (Diary) | June 9th at 07:30 PM |
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has come under fire for the following controversial comment that she made in prepared remarks at the University of California-Berkeley. “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” Both the Obama Administration and the nominee herself | Read More »
Sotomayor, Obama, and the Felon Vote
By: Mark Impomeni (Diary) | June 1st at 06:00 PM |
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is an advocate of allowing felons to vote. “Advocate” is a loaded word when referring to a judge, and with good reason. Judges are not supposed to allow their personal preferences influence their interpretation of the law and the facts at issue in a given case. But their really is no other way to describe Sotomayor’s dissenting opinion in Hayden | Read More »
Axelrod: Obama Campaign Based on Race [UPDATED]
By: Mark Impomeni (Diary) | August 1st at 09:37 AM |
Barack Obama’s chief campaign strategist David Axelrod went on Good Morning America this morning to address McCain campaign manager Rick Davis’ asertion that Obama is playing the race card. Interviewer Chris Cuomo played Obama’s comments from yesterday in reaction to McCain’s brilliant “Celeb” ad in which Obama’s readiness to lead the country is brought into question. Obama said, “What they’re [Bush and McCain] going to | Read More »