Who’s On First? Tonight’s the Night! This blog (and my other blog at www.ericksonblog.com/blog) have discussed many times the disconnect between the media and the public, especially as it comes to the election of the next president. Polls conducted by various media outlets have McCain in the press more than Obama (et tu brute?); and even the first presidential campaign, except for Bob Read the rest of this entry »

This is post from the Huffington Post Blogs I had to lift and add here. So what do you think?

Robert Kennedy Jr  from the Huffington Post
Posted September 15, 2008 | 11:27 AM (EST)
Governor Palin’s Reading List
Fascist writer Westbrook Pegler, an avowed racist who Sarah Palin approvingly quoted in her acceptance speech for the moral superiority of small town values, expressed his fervent hope about my father, Robert F. Kennedy, as he contemplated his own run for the presidency in 1965, that “some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow flies.”
It might be worth asking Governor Palin for a tally of the other favorites from her reading list”

I think this demonstrates either foot in mouth disease or a sensitivity chip missing. But that’s only my opinion.

From time to time, this blog will update and combine new statistics on this very important election 2008. Not since the depression has this country seen the demise of banks and investment companies. Now we steady ourselves for the stock market with the demise of Lehman Bros. It is very important that each of us research and determine who is the candidate to take us out of economic hell. Read the rest of this entry »

CNN this weekend released a fact sheet on Sarah Palin based on her speech at the Republican Convention. It, along with other publications fact checking, are published on the Jed Report.  There are always fact sheets on all of what the political candidates say. To be an informed voter, you should check these sites, CNN.com, Jed Report, FactCheck.org and others. Here are some of the highlights of Palin’s mistruths: Read the rest of this entry »

With all the extremist posts and comments on political blogs, I thought I would take a break from that and post an amusing (true?) video from youtube.com. Here’s one: Read the rest of this entry »