Bob McCarty Writes

A crowd estimated at 17,000 welcomed John McCain and Sarah Palin to Missouri. An estimated 17,000 supporters turned out this afternoon at T.R. Hughes Ballpark, home of the River City Rascals minor league baseball team in O’Fallon, Mo., to welcome Republican presidential nominee-to-be John McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, to the Show-Me State.  [...]

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Assuming the text of Republican John McCain’s speech would be available at his campaign web site soon after it was delivered in Columbus, Ohio, this morning, I opted to put my pen down and listen as the presidential candidate spelled out his vision for the first four years of his presidency. Unfortunately, I was wrong. [...]

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Properly motivated, I might go so far as to take time to identify six degrees of separation between John McCain and the rear ends of cows identified by by a British newspaper article 18 months ago as the main source of greenhouse gas pollutants. Not in the mooood to get behind such an effort (multiple [...]

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This post will be short, primarily because it deals with an item written by Robert Reich, the diminutive fellow — only 4′ 10″ to be exact — who served as Bill Clinton’s secretary of labor. In a post on his blog 15 months ago, Reich predicted The Five Most Powerful Americans Over the Next 18 [...]

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As the sports world awaits the kickoff of Super Bowl XLII at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., count me among the long list of political pundits unable to avoid drawing parallels between the 2008 presidential race and the biggest professional football game of the year. Don’t worry too much, though, because my comparisons [...]

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