A life at the end of history
Posted in Politics on 18 May 2010
This isn’t ordinary oppositional politics. It’s madness, verging on treason. - Philip Adams
With the election of Barack Obama in the United States and Kevin Rudd in Australia we thought the Conservative Right Wing would crawl back under the rocks from whence they came. At least for a while. Instead they are frothing like unleashed Pit [...]
Posted in Politics on 15 June 2009
A couple of Saturdays ago I drove over to the Barren Valley Shopping Centre for brekkie. There’s a cubby in the food court that serves breakfast for $7.90. It’s cheap, it’s nearby, and best of all, I don’t have to cook it.
It was too early for the weekend rush so I had a chat with [...]
Posted in Politics on 23 January 2009
Obama is “that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds [...]
Posted in Politics on 5 November 2008
It’s safe to say that millions of Americans are saying tonight: “At last, I’m no longer ashamed to be American.”
An historic election, indeed, has seen an African-American elected president. It simply blows the mind. Even better, Barack Obama is the genuine article. The calm and judicious words he chose for his acceptance speech held no [...]
Posted in Politics on 3 November 2008
Race and slavery are America’s original sin. The election of Obama would be, beyond question, one of the noblest gestures of historical redemption that Americans have ever been called upon to make. — Martin Kettle
America is standing yet again at the crossroads. The nation did so at its beginning, during the Civil War, and during [...]
Posted in Politics on 29 October 2008
Last night’s Daily Show (4:10 in) featured a montage of Sarah Palin’s recent rallies, in which she refers to the friends of Joe the Plumber.
Speaking to supporters as if they were five-year-olds, Sarah the Paleo sounded like the twee host of a kiddie show. And the supporters cheered as if they were delighted toddlers. [...]
Posted in Politics on 27 October 2008
How else is McCain going to win? Threatened with the biggest wipe-out since that other Arizona Repuglycan, Barry Goldwater, lost damn near every state, McCain has had to throw every fear ‘n’ smear tactic in the books at Barrack Obama. So far they haven’t worked. But wait, didn’t he just guarantee an election victory?
Was that [...]
Posted in Politics on 16 October 2008
Well, folks, October 29 is the 79th anniversary of the crash of ‘29. Today there are similarities galore, with the months-long roller coaster ups and downs of greed followed by fear preceding the deadly date.
Surely, it can’t happen again?
Then, it took a Democrat to get the country out of the financial profligacy of previous Repuglycan [...]
Posted in Politics on 30 August 2008
“[An upside down flag is] an international distress signal. It means ‘we’re in a whole lot of trouble, so come save our ass b’cause we don’t have a prayer in hell of saving ourselves.’” - Sgt Hank Deerfield, In the Valley of Elah.
Now that Barack Obama has been anointed as the leader to take America [...]