Archive for the 'History' Category

Sarah Palin’s 1,100+ Secret Emails

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Ethics, History, Palin, Republicans

The more you dig, the goofier it gets…
Some background…
In June, Andrée McLeod, a self-described independent government watchdog in Alaska, sent an open records act request to the office of Governor Sarah Palin. She requested copies of all the emails that had been sent and received by Ivy Frye and Frank Bailey, two top aides [...]

September 8th, 2008 | Permalink| 16 Comments »

C-SPAN Interview With Sarah Palin From February 2008

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Alaska, History, Media, Palin, Veep, Video

In particular, play Part Three and note at the 1:10 mark how a lifelong Democrat and a Hillary supporters praises Palin as a “breath of fresh air” and suggests that she could be a problem for the Dems if she’s on McCain’s ticket.
Part One

Part Two

Part Three

More as it develops…

September 8th, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

Video: Sarah Palin In 2006 Alaska Gubernatorial Debate

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Alaska, Debates, History, Palin, Veep, Video

C-SPAN has it.
I’m only about 20 minutes into the 1.5 hr debate, but she seems like a very normal politician so far. However, the questions haven’t really been hard hitting, so we’ll see if anything challenging pops up.
Anybody want to place bets now that she’ll probably do a decent job in her debate with [...]

September 7th, 2008 | Permalink| 9 Comments »

History Approves

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Cartoons, History

Yes, either way it’ll be history.
But what will history write in its book?

September 6th, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

ABC Reveals More On Palin’s TrooperGate

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, History, Palin, Video

There seems to be a lot of “there” there. No wonder she hired a lawyer.

Tell me what you think.
UPDATE:
Looks like the subpoenas are being issued now and the investigation is expected to conclude by early October instead of October 31st.
Stay tuned…

September 5th, 2008 | Permalink| 13 Comments »

Video: Obama’s Full Speech

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Conventions, Democrats, History

Video provided by MSNBC.

What impressed me so much about this speech is Obama essentially reframed the American Dream tonight as something we can all share if we believe in the liberal traditions of fairness and equality.
So call him a fake and a phony all you want. But tonight he called upon the middle class to [...]

August 28th, 2008 | Permalink| 4 Comments »

Obama’s Full Speech

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Conventions, Democrats, History

This is it folks…
+++++
To Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick Durbin; and to all my fellow citizens of this great nation;
With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States.
Let me express my thanks to the historic slate of candidates who accompanied me on this journey, and [...]

August 28th, 2008 | Permalink| 23 Comments »

He Had A Dream

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in History, Race, Video

45 years ago…

How’s the dream holding up today?

August 28th, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »

SCOOP: Obama’s acceptance speech revealed.

By mw | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, History

I have obtained a partial transcript of the Barack Obama acceptance speech to be delivered at Invesco Field on Thursday and I can report tht it is truly great.

August 28th, 2008 | Permalink| 9 Comments »

Quote Of The Convention

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Billary, Conventions, Democrats, History

“People around the world have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.”
- Bill Clinton in an incredibly well received speech.
I was impressed as well. This is a man I’ve lost a lot of respect for over the past 8 months, but last night’s speech was [...]

August 28th, 2008 | Permalink| 8 Comments »

Ladies And Gentleman, The Democratic Nominee

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, Hillary, History

It’s official!
And Hillary did the honors…
DENVER - Barack Obama, a 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, became the first African-American ever nominated for president by a major political party after delegates to the Democratic National Convention chose him as their standard-bearer Wednesday.
The nomination process, a subject of debate and speculation right up until the voting [...]

August 27th, 2008 | Permalink| 4 Comments »

Now We’re Debating If Columns = God? Really?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, History, McCain, Partisan Nonsense, Republicans

REALLY?????
Okay, so apparently the media characterized Obama’s stage setting at Invesco field as a “greek temple”, so this gives McCain a chance to continue to push his pathetic “Obama as God” meme.
Here’s the stage…

That’s right. Now multiple columns equals a “Greek temple” and that means Obama is suggesting he’s God.
Well, does God live in this [...]

August 27th, 2008 | Permalink| 14 Comments »

Relentless: How Barack Obama Outsmarted Hillary Clinton

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, Disasters, Hillary, History

As I’ve said frequently in the past year, Clinton and her team was not up to the task of running the country. Disagree with me if you like, but as numerous behind-the-scenes exposes come out that show just how dysfunctional the campaign was, Democrats everywhere should breathe a sigh of relief that they secured Obama [...]

August 25th, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

Yes John, We All Know You Were A POW

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, History, McCain, Video, War

Listen to McCain’s answer to Couric’s question about forgetting how many homes he owns…

Frankly, I don’t think McCain does himself any favors by continuing this POW talk. Because it makes it sounds like it was one of his life’s greatest achievements and that he hasn’t moved on since then.
And he is right when he says [...]

August 24th, 2008 | Permalink| 11 Comments »

Who Is Joe Biden?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Biden, Democrats, History, Veep, Video

MSNBC provides the Cliff Notes version of the Senator’s life and times…

Mark my words…as much as McCain and his campaign talk about his time as a POW, Biden and the Obama campa will talk about him riding that train home every night.

August 24th, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »

Video Of Barack Obama Circa 1995

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, History, Video

He’s been talking about unity since WAY back…
Part One

Part Two

Part Three

If you still think Obama is a phony after listening to him here, I don’t know what else to tell you.
(h/t: Old Man McCain)

August 20th, 2008 | Permalink| 4 Comments »

An Electoral Tie?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, Electoral College, History, Independents, McCain, Republicans

Doug Mataconis runs the numbers and comes up with an extremely plausible map…

Colorado is incredibly tight, as is Ohio, Florida and Virginia. If McCain is able to keep all of those in the Republican column, then it’s 1824 all over again.
Thoughts?

August 18th, 2008 | Permalink| 14 Comments »

Welcome to Donklephant’s 6,002nd Post

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Blogging, History

As we continue to grow I like to mark these occasions so I can thank everybody who reads day in and day out. And while we may not agree all of the time, do know I appreciate your thoughts and I hope you appreciate mine too. My worldview is richer because of the content that [...]

August 18th, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

Question About McCain’s Supreme Court Confirmation History

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, History, McCain, Supreme Court

After watching the Saddleback Forum this weekend, did you find it a bit disingenuous that McCain said he wouldn’t vote to confirm Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, David Souter or John Paul Stevens to the court?
Because as many of us are already know, he voted to confirm Ginsburg, Breyer and Souter. He wasn’t able [...]

August 18th, 2008 | Permalink| 4 Comments »

Get Rid Of The VP Slot?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in History, Veep

That’s what Matthew Yglesias proposes, but I think it’s a bad idea.
I’ll explain why I’m against it after he explains why he’s for it…
At the end of the day, after all, the Vice President’s core job function is simply to take over the government in case the President dies. But it would be easy [...]

August 18th, 2008 | Permalink| 7 Comments »