Tag: independent
group name: progresspolitics
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October 21, 2009 12:55 PM EDT --
I am an Independent. And I am voting for Creigh Deeds to be the next Governor of Virginia.
I have been watching intently both Mr. Deeds, the Democratic candidate, and Mr. McDonnell, the Republican . . .
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October 04, 2007 09:42 PM EDT --
I write this article as someone who is a politically independent person. I have no ties to the Democrat Party at all. However, I was quite amazed to find out today, that Nancy Pelosi took a proposal that . . .
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November 03, 2009 04:07 PM EST --
"We all know, we have no time to lose."
These are the words of German Chancellor Angela Merkel today in an address to a joint session of the US Congress.
And she didn't stop there. . . .
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June 20, 2009 05:39 AM EDT --
Lately I've seen several posts and multitudes of comments suggesting that the Republicans will take over the presidency in 2012. Or the Democrats will keep the presidency in 2012. Or certain . . .
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July 14, 2007 11:39 PM EDT --
155 years ago, the Whig Party was strong and vibrant. Enter Abe Lincoln. A former Whig, he helped form the Republican Party, giving the American electorate an outlet to channel its voting power to . . .
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September 19, 2009 07:50 AM EDT --
Based on my personal friends, family and colleagues, most conservatives are honest and sincere. And also based on my personal friends, family and colleagues, most liberals are honest and sincere.
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August 16, 2007 03:29 PM EDT --
Over ten years ago, I thought I'd take a shot at joining a party, and helping move some issues forward. I succeeded in helping LEADERS move forward, yet the issues? They're no further along than . . .
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February 15, 2009 09:14 AM EST --
I wrote a version of the following as a response to a comment on yesterday's political post: The Real True Reason the Republicans Voted Against the Stimulus - Shhhh, It's Supposed to be a Secret . . .
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January 07, 2008 03:42 PM EST --
Good - Monday - Everyone!!
Tomorrow the New Hampshire Primaries will take place; and many eyes are turned toward the Granite State in wonderment over what might unfold.
Whereas Hillary Clinton . . .
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January 07, 2008 05:50 PM EST --
There's a video airing on my cable channels.
Hillary Clinton getting emotional at a luncheon.
Apparently it's personal, not just political to her.
Maybe this will win her points . . .
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June 25, 2009 01:10 PM EDT --
In The Assault on Reason , Al Gore writes a scathing rebuke to the policies of the Bush Administration. He unabashedly accuses Bush, Cheney, and their “cronies” of lying, deception, power-mongering, . . .
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November 26, 2007 06:13 PM EST --
The aliens abducted me again last night. I'd taken my tin-hat off for my nightly shower; and zap, they beam-rayed me up.
As I lay strapped in the chair for study, I distracted my mind by thinking . . .
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March 14, 2008 10:33 AM EDT --
Hillary isn't playing the race card. She (or should I say, some of her people) are just pointing to the obvious fact that Barack Obama's ethnicity is part of his sweeping appeal.
She should . . .
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October 29, 2008 02:19 PM EDT --
I admit, that title doesn't seem to make sense, but hear me out. Like many Americans, I am displeased with both alternatives in the presidential election (and in my local congressional race . . .
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July 19, 2008 10:53 PM EDT --
A vote for Nader in 2000 was not a vote for Bush. A vote for McKinney (The Green Party Nominee for President in 2008) is not a vote for McCain. A vote for a third party or independent party candidate . . .
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October 31, 2007 04:02 PM EDT --
Did you watch the Democratic debate?
I did.
I thought it started off kind of interestingly, in that there were no formal introductions of the candidates at the opening.
After the MSNBC graphics . . .
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January 10, 2008 05:05 PM EST --
There's buzz around that Hillary should not be voted for because she is actually a big friend of big business.
I find this hard to believe.
This accusation seems to be based on the fact that . . .
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March 28, 2007 12:02 AM EDT --
I started 2007 on a interesting note. I got laid off from my job, becoming part of the Bush Administration's growing unemployment numbers, but my underemployment was short-lived. I need that 9 to 5 . . .
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May 07, 2009 09:22 AM EDT --
The right wing of the GOP continues to ridicule members of the Republican Party who don't espouse extremist views, digging itself into a deeper hole politically and reinforcing its image as the party . . .
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February 14, 2009 08:12 AM EST --
The irony is that the Republicans will claim political posturing on the part of the Democrats. But the truth is that the Republican party cynically and complicitly ensured that the economic . . .
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