For the first time in decades, the Advocate is endorsing someone for President: Never has the substantial progress in equal rights and treatment of LGBT people been more at risk than in this presidential contest. This election presents a choice between starkly opposing futures. Barack Obama is a leader of undeniable accomplishment, vision, and integrity …
Election 2012
June Jobs Report
Not the kind of numbers we need to see: The U.S. economy created just 80,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate held steady at 8.2 percent, reflecting continued slow growth in the economy with the presidential election just four months away. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said private payrolls increased 84,000, while the government …
Our Mitt Has A Natural Talent
(Doonesbury via GoComics.com) __ … not the kind of ‘talent’ that your average politician would covet, and yet Romney’s been practising for half a century: … Romney brings his entire family to New Hampshire these summers, but he hasn’t always spent his Independence Days in the Granite State, or even the U.S. Growing up, Romney …
I have SO got to get the poster of this–Now with extra teabagging!
Behold! What may be the single greatest piece of 21st Century art. Buy one for all your conservative friends! UPDATE: It can be found here. When I get home from work, I have to begin packing for vacation, which starts on Saturday morning. Only one more day of being pretty much useless at work …
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Ted Strickland says what everyone is thinking
I was invited to this event, “invited” the same way every Democrat in a 5 county area gets invited (I got an email). I didn’t go because I’m in Michigan, but I’m sorry I missed this: At the kick-off rally for President Obama’ first campaign bus tour of the election season, former Ohio Governor Ted …
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Sankaty lied
More on some of Romney’s financial holdings, with some context: For nearly 15 years, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s financial portfolio has included an offshore company that remained invisible to voters as his political star rose. Based in Bermuda, Sankaty High Yield Asset Investors Ltd. was not listed on any of Romney’s state or federal …
Islands in the C.R.E.A.M.
The hits just keep on coming: A person who worked for Mitt Romney at the consulting firm Bain and Co. in 1977 remembers him with mixed feelings. “Mitt was … a really wonderful boss,” the former employee says. “He was nice, he was fair, he was logical, he said what he wanted … he was …