Test Your Obama IQ

Courtesy of The Chicago Tribune.
I got 70%: “Maybe, We Can.”
There’s also a John McCain quiz.
I’m embarrassed to admit I know more about McCain than I do Obama.  I got 80%: “No surrender.”
Must be because I thought Obama talked more about basketball than abandonment in high school.  And I listened to Dreams of My Father and [...]

Cynthia McKinney & Rosa Clemente to head Green Party Presidential Ticket

What About Our Daughters has more, including past third party tickets that have run women.  They put the two major parties to shame.

I must be a liberal…

…or a socialist, because according to this NYT analysis,  we’re the only satisfied customers of the Fed bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Before [...WHAT??? THE DAWN OF TIME? THE NEOLIBERAL ERA?  THE BUSH OLIGARCHY?], [the government's] more modest mission was to make more loans available at lower rates. Now it is to make sure [...]

Obama is a Progressive like Lieberman is a Democrat

Go read Eriposte.

A Little Political Theatre in Support of Medicare

Despite undergoing chemo for his malignant brain tumor, Sen. Kennedy turns up yesterday in DC to cast a decisive vote to protect medicare payments to doctors.
That Obama was at his side to vicariously bask in his glory, no shocker there. But for the second time today, I’m temporarily suspending my ire at my Obama-supporting [...]

Failing to Deliver

A couple weeks back, the Boston Globe ran a pretty salacious piece about derelict private management of affordable housing in Obama’s Senatorial district in Chicago - management put in place by deals made between Obama the politician and his developer donors.  I’d been meaning to write about it - to point out that a) the [...]

McCain Wants to Abolish Social Security

Calls the system “a disgrace.”
Social security is the closest thing the United States has to a universal, equitable entitlement program.  It’s solvent, successful, and has worked extremely well - especially compared to other social policy programs - for 75 YEARS.
I guess McCain forgets that we can’t all be married to heiress millionaires, run up hundreds [...]

Democratic Platform Planning Meetings

So, given the consolidation of our Party under Obama, apparently the place to find info about the Party is now on my.barackobama.com.  Tricky bastards - for those of us not riding along on a unity pony, we might miss these little round-ups between now and Denver.  Huh.  So much for outreach.
Anyhoo, h/t to What About [...]

On-going Economic Insecurity for Working Women

From a survey of 12,000 working women by Working America and the AFL-CIO, 50% of respondents said that if they had more free time they’d take on a second job.  42% spend more time talking to co-workers than their kids or families; 53% would take a 10% raise over affordable healthcare or childcare.
Two-thirds expected to [...]

The GOP Continues to Starve Cities

This article is chock full of infuriating bullsh*t about GOP machinations to stall a much overdue housing relief bill. Congress expected to have it on Bush’s desk by now, but now the GOP wants to investigate Dodd’s mortgage from Countrywide and the White House has threatened a veto based on $4M in grants to [...]