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September 17, 2008

Obama Short-priced Favorite Down Under

Aggregated from: Labor View from Bayside

There has been a lot of political interest in animals lately, so an equine example seems appropriate. Australians are keenly looking forward to the race that stops a nation on the first Tuesday in November.It’s not the US elections! So what is it?It’s the Melbourne Cup , Australia’s richest ho...

September 16, 2008

Tina Palin/Sarah Fey on Saturday Night Live

Aggregated from: Labor View from Bayside

I think Tina would make a better VP. Any Tina.For comments on this video and other US election issues, please visit Voices without Votes.VwV international bloggers are being cross posted on Huffington Post this week. First Off The Bus is John Liebhardt. Global Round Up: International Bloggers Voice ...

September 13, 2008

American Polls: seeing red

Aggregated from: Labor View from Bayside

Logged onto some of the poll websites to check the recent damage to the Democrats. It was a case of seeing red.FiveThirtyEight has the Electoral College Vote at 277/261 in McCain's favour, with the popular vote at 50.1%/48.6%.RealClearPolitics has a 47.5% to 45.0% lead to McCain based on an average ...

September 10, 2008

Democrats Abroad in Australia

Aggregated from: Labor View from Bayside

Australian expats from the USA have asked to have this video posted about registering and voting from outside the States. It features Gweneth Paltrow among others. It's pro-Democrat and Obama but the advice is generic. The link on this blog for VotefromAbraod.org is also a Democrat site.There is a F...

Karl Rove dissembling on Presidential Experience

Aggregated from: Labor View from Bayside

This segment from Jon Stewart's Daily Show speaks for itself. Karl Rove is condemned by his own words. kwoff_id = 24839; ...

McCain getting web savvy

Aggregated from: Labor View from Bayside

Who said you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Especially now that he has his own pit bull.John McCain’s official website as Republican candidate is a vast improvement on his old one from the primaries. Obviously the self-styled maverick is getting a lot of professional insider help to improve ...

September 1, 2008

Bush says it won't happen again, again

Aggregated from: Labor View from Bayside

George W.Bush has vowed that the Hurricane Katrina debacle won't happen again. The powers of hindsight! Of course he has indicated often enough that Iraq would happen again even without the W.'s Mass Deceptions.A short list of things we wish hadn't happened on Bush's watch:* 9/11* the Iraq invasion ...

August 30, 2008

A heartbeat away from President?

Aggregated from: Labor View from Bayside

Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska, is no Hillary Clinton. John McCain's newly announced running mate, is apparently both inexperienced and quite conservative compared with McCain himself. Given the age factor in this election, Sarah may well be just a heartbeat away from being the most powerful p...

August 28, 2008

Presidential Dogfight: Convention Clouds

Aggregated from: Labor View from Bayside

Wonder if George W. Bush will be able to give John McCain as rousing an endorsement as the Clintons gave Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Mind you McCain won't want to be too close to George W. As Hillary suggested it would be seen as Republican twins in the Twin cities ...

August 27, 2008

Presidential Dogfight: Convention Clouds

Aggregated from: Labor View from Bayside

Wonder if George W. Bush will be able to give John McCain as rousing an endorsement as Hillary Clinton gave Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Or will it be a case of Republican twins at the Twin cities, as Hillary suggested. This is an animated version of the image in...