A blog by Nicholas Solter about politics and everything else
Posted in Barack Obama, Election 2008, Politics on Oct 24th, 2008
As the polls are now open in Colorado, we had a fun early-voting rally for Barack Obama yesterday here in Northern Colorado Springs. About 60 of us first gathered near Starbucks on Academy:
We then walked over to the Chapel Hills Mall, site of the polling place:
We assembled in the mall parking lot (safely outside the […]
Posted in Barack Obama on Oct 17th, 2008
I did some data entry at my local Barack Obama campaign office earlier this week and was pleased to note that the computers were running the Ubuntu operating system. The web browser, of course, was Mozilla Firefox. Both Ubuntu (a Linux-based operating system) and Firefox are open source software, developed in a collaborative, community model. […]
Posted in Barack Obama, Election 2008, Health Care, John McCain, Politics on Oct 9th, 2008
My mother had a great letter published today in the Santa Barbara News Press. Viewing it online requires a login, so here’s the full text:
John McCain’s tax credit of $5000 for health insurance is a drop in the bucket. My husband and I pay $1200 a month for self-employed health insurance premiums. That amounts to […]
Posted in Economy on Oct 8th, 2008
The latest Republican talking point, as parroted by my local paper and Thomas Sowell, seems to be that the current economic crisis is not actually due to the deregulation of the investment banks and insurance companies. Instead, it’s because of the Community Reinvestment Act that encouraged housing loans to poor minorities.
In his excellent rebuttal in […]
Posted in Barack Obama, Choice, Election 2008, John McCain, Politics on Oct 7th, 2008
Since my last post about Joining the Obama Campaign I’ve gone into the local Obama campaign office about once a week to volunteer. Although I tried at first to convince the volunteer coordinators that I should do data entry, they’ve mostly had me making phone calls. The way it works is that I get a […]
Posted in Barack Obama, Election 2008, Politics on Oct 3rd, 2008
As a Barack Obama supporter, I don’t like to criticize his campaign. However, I feel compelled to point out their failure in one area: yard signs. It took me over a month to get an Obama yard sign. I first tried the local campaign office, which has been out of them for weeks (actually, they […]
Posted in Election 2008, Joe Biden, John McCain, Politics, Sarah Palin on Oct 3rd, 2008
My reaction to the vice-presidential debate last night: Incessantly claiming that you’re a maverick does not make you a maverick. As my high school English teachers would say, “Show us, don’t tell us.” And Sarah Palin did little to show us any evidence last night that the Republican ticket would be anything more than Bush’s […]
Posted in Economy, John McCain on Oct 2nd, 2008
From CNN’s Political Ticker comes this gem from the McCain campaign:
John McCain said Thursday that Barack Obama’s poll numbers are rising as the economy seems to sink “because life isn’t fair.”
“He certainly did nothing for the first few days,” McCain told Fox News Thursday. “I suspended my campaign, took our ads down, came back to […]
Posted in Economy, John McCain on Oct 1st, 2008
It’s amusing to watch Republican presidential candidate John McCain claim to support government regulations and oversight in light of the current financial crisis when he’s been fighting against just that for his entire political career.
This video from BraveNewFilms illustrates this disconnect quite well.