AltWeeklies Wire
Five Minutes With Howard Deannew
The Democratic National Committee Chairman and former presidential candidate is tearing through Pennsylvania to talk about health care with SEIU workers. We got a chance for a five-minute phone interview (we forgot to ask about the scream!). Here are some excerpts.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Tom Namako |
09-23-2008 |
Politics
Sarah Palin Shows that Political Standards Are at an All-Time Lownew
We live in a barbaric epoch that produces the most riveting advances in technology while simultaneously cultivating the lowest expectations of our so-called leaders. We've had our Dan Quayles and Spiro Agnews in the past, but these were aberrations from the norm. Now the aberrations are the norm.
Boulder Weekly |
Ben Corbett |
09-22-2008 |
Commentary
Idiots, Idioms, and Presidential Elections in the Age of Republicansnew
The election is not about John McCain and Sarah Palin or Barack Obama and Joe Biden. It's just about Republican strategists trying to hold the ball and run the clock out, buying two more days of distraction from the real campaign issues with manufactured controversy.
Artvoice |
Michael I. Niman |
09-22-2008 |
Commentary
Economic Meltdown Helps Set the Presidential Campaign on the Right Coursenew
Our bet (and certainly our hope) is that the ever-worsening economic crisis will force American voters, afflicted directly in the pocketbook, to look away from the Disney-like scenarios which have dominated political coverage since the two national political conventions and dare to look the abyss in the face.
The Memphis Flyer |
Editorial |
09-19-2008 |
Commentary
Lehman Brothers Calls McCain's Bluffnew
Lehman goes bust. Merrill Lynch sells out. Freddie and Fannie had to be nationalized. WaMu teeters. Wall Street plummets down a black hole. And the entire global economy braces for a prolonged plunge. Somehow I just don't think that the national conversation is going to turn back to the merits or demerits of porcine makeup.
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
09-19-2008 |
Commentary
Happytown: Palin, Same-Sex Marriage, and Morenew
The latest Quinnipiac University poll of Florida voters indicates that only 55 percent of the 1,427 voters questioned support the superfluous Amendment 2, the so-called marriage amendment.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman, Billy Manes and Deanna Morey |
09-18-2008 |
Commentary
Election '08: The Role of Racenew
The whole "lipstick on a pig" controversy is the end result of the GOP's brilliant efforts to play the race card.
Tucson Weekly |
Catherine O'Sullivan |
09-18-2008 |
Commentary
Dawn of the American Fascistsnew
Republicans, as hopefully a majority of Americans have finally figured out, are for the most part a collection of hypocrites, thugs and pious thieves. That is why they verge on being not old-fashioned conservatives, but American fascists.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
09-18-2008 |
Commentary
What We Missed While Obsessing Over Palinnew
What is interesting about America's fascination with Sarah Palin is that, while the world was watching her, few were watching the world.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Nsenga Burton |
09-17-2008 |
Commentary
Sarah Palin's Scary Recordnew
I've become genuinely horrified by the prospect of a Palin vice presidency. Behind her LensCrafters-model looks, I detect a backward-thinking, theocratic extremist with a serious oil addiction.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
John Grooms |
09-17-2008 |
Commentary
Community Organizing is Real Worknew
With the exception of trial lawyers and drug dealers, it's not often that politicians directly insult a profession. But community organizers found themselves in the spotlight recently when speakers at the RNC took potshots at their vocation. A few Charlotte organizers weigh in.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Karen Shugart |
09-17-2008 |
Commentary
Sarah Palin Can Run on Her Record, Proudlynew
There is no evidence her family has ever stood in the way of her work -- or vice versa. If she were a man, isn't that what we'd be talking about?
Phoenix New Times |
Sarah Fenske |
09-16-2008 |
Commentary
We Get the Skinny on Wasilla from Someone Who Knowsnew
In South Florida's very midst lives a transplant who hails from the celebrated town of Wasilla, Alaska. He was kind enough to tell us everything we ever wanted to know about Wasilla.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Deirdra Funcheon |
09-16-2008 |
Commentary
Is it Time for Liberals to McPanic?new
John McCain barreled into this week brandishing that creepy smile and an expanding lead in some national tracking polls, while nervous Democrats have already started their quadrennial flirtation with Canada.
Philadelphia City Paper |
David Faris |
09-16-2008 |
Commentary
As a Working Mother of a Child with Down Syndrome, Sarah Palin Makes Me Sicknew
Palin is shamelessly using her personal life to sell her candidacy in a way that's reminiscent of just one other politician I can think of -- and that's John McCain. But at least in McCain's case, he's his own pawn, vis-a-vis his POW story. Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper, and Trig are their mother's pawns.
Phoenix New Times |
Amy Silverman |
09-16-2008 |
Commentary
