Leaning Left but Thinking Right

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2732871637178129182011-07-07T13:00:03.359-06:00Leaning Left but Thinking Right“When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” Sinclair LewisGlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.comBlogger271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-51407873799078111552008-02-06T20:45:00.000-06:002008-02-07T14:01:47.940-06:00I Pick Obama

I said that I was going to wait and see what happened on Super Tuesday. Even though there is no clear winner, I have made up my mind. Ever since John Edwards dropped out of the campaign, I have been trying to decide who to support. There are things I like and don't like about Obama and Clinton. I have been leaning toward Obama but now I have decided to support him in his run for the White House.

GlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-52737590243242470322008-02-06T09:27:00.000-06:002008-02-06T09:44:55.431-06:00Day After Super Tuesday

So it's a new day and the candidates look at their prospects to become the next president. For Obama and Clinton it is pretty much just another day. Obama won more states but Clinton won the big states like New York and California. Most of the talking heads said it was a draw meaning they will continue to campaign. John McCain is probably fairly perky this morning. He netted some big wins and may

GlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-19378204814896092222008-02-04T23:09:00.000-06:002008-02-04T23:10:17.858-06:00What to do With Edwards Gone

I have been trying to what to do since John Edwards has left the race. I had already voted for him in the Tennessee Primary and still do not regret the vote. The only question I have now is who do I support moving forward. On one hand you have the experience of Hillary Clinton but you get the high negatives and her ability to unite the right wing and on the other hand you have Barak Obama with

GlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-19024692337260752702008-02-04T21:22:00.000-06:002008-02-04T23:17:53.133-06:00What's the Deal With Lieberman and McCain

The BFF John and Joe tour is hitting the trial hot and heavy. It is obvious that Lieberman doesn't care what the Democratic leadership or voters think about him. He got the Republicans in Connecticut to help get re-elected in 2006, and now he is embracing John McCain who is seen by some as being a black sheep in the Republican Party like Joe is with the Democrats. If you listen Rush Limbaugh and

GlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-48270721158732748462008-02-01T10:13:00.000-06:002008-02-01T10:39:21.430-06:00The Right Wing Hate Against McCain

I was skimming through Townhall to see what the right wing had on its mind today, and came across this little gem from the less famous brother of Rush Limbaugh, David.McCain, the Anti-ConservativeMost of it was the many ways the McCain is big government liberal and not a true conservtive. You see the usual complaints against tax cuts, imigration, campaign finance, and so forth. It is only when he

GlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-38181738961474698632008-01-29T05:13:00.000-06:002008-01-30T05:44:59.884-06:00Fred and Rudy

I think when all is said and done with these 2008 presidential elections, that Fred Thompson and Rudy Giuliani may go down as two of the worst run campaigns ever. Other men have come and gone but most of the people who have dropped out did not have a legitimate shot to win. Giuliani was the national front runner until recently, but is now a distant third possibly fourth in Florida. Fred Thompson

GlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-75555574821746735672008-01-11T20:31:00.001-06:002008-01-11T21:31:58.868-06:00Where is the John McCain You Tube moment

In this age of the internet with web sites like You Tube, TMZ, and The Smoking Gun it is hard for a celebrity to keep a secret or behave badly in public. Some ill chosen words and questionable reaction finished George Allen's re-election and possible presidential hopes. Some recycled video of Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani that have statements from the past contradict current positions and

GlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-51040522307554487962008-01-10T00:52:00.000-06:002008-01-11T14:50:46.063-06:00If we dated a candidate

They say dating is like a job interview. I think running for political office is a bit like that as well. As the various Republican and Democrats travel back and forth across the country selling themselves we get a peak at to what kind of person they would be on a date. I am basing this more on the image they present themselves on the campaign trail and not so much about their own personal lives.

GlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-5805691139558209712008-01-07T21:44:00.000-06:002008-01-09T17:27:06.206-06:00The Ghost of Ronnie

The ghost of Ronald Reagan looms over this year’s group of Republican candidates. It started with the first debate in the Reagan library and the comparisons continued by candidates themselves, the press, and the public. With Romney’s coifed hair and sunny disposition he is the most obvious person trying to take that Reagan mantle but pretty much all the Republicans have been trying to be the one

GlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-64952300951920287092007-09-04T11:47:00.000-06:002007-09-04T12:24:13.883-06:00Progressive 680 is No More

It is official Progressive Talk 680 is gone. It started this summer when WSMB started carrying St Louis Cardinals games. In other words they were going to cut into Air America for 162 baseball games. There were other signs that future of progressive radio was in trouble here like the fact the WSMB site had not been updated in some time, and still had a picture of Al Franken on the home page even

GlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-10276719120127500302007-08-22T10:33:00.000-06:002007-08-22T10:34:34.279-06:00Using That 9-11 Prop Again

Just when you thought the Bush administration could not get any lower, they once again prove they have no shame and at best a shaky grip of what right and wrong is. The report on the troop surge may be on September 11. Which means General Petraeus will come before Congress to give a report on how the surge has gone with the symbolic day of September 11th hanging over the background. Instead of

GlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-5323100278703417582007-07-18T13:10:00.000-06:002007-07-18T13:11:07.332-06:00MSM is full of it

The following blurb was on First Read, which is MSNBC political blog.Stealing The Spotlight: Edwards’ poverty tour comes to an end today, with stops in Virginia and Kentucky and a major speech. Per the campaign, Edwards will use this speech to sum his three-day tour and talk about the faces of poverty he met. Yet partly overshadowing Day Two of the tour was wife Elizabeth’s comments to Salon

GlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-69162715967687431102007-07-17T10:50:00.001-06:002007-07-17T14:33:48.874-06:00John Edwards in Memphis

The John Edwards event at MIFA, Memphis Inter Faith Association, last night was a great success. A crowd of about 300 people gave a great speech about poverty in America and how we approach these issues as a people and a government.The choir from the First Baptist Church performed first and did an excellent job. After the choir there were three people that MIFA is helping through their various

GlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-7632671049468694392007-07-14T19:36:00.000-06:002007-07-14T19:39:05.021-06:00Helping John Edwards in Memphis

Today I went out for a few hours and gave out flyers to promote the upcoming event that John Edwards in Memphis. It was the first of many chances where I get to help the campaign. I got a lot of different responses to Edwards and the event. Very little negative but I did get a little. One snooty Republican type told me “We do not need a Democrat in the White House”, and another lady was nice but

GlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-70873571072341841902007-07-11T09:36:00.000-06:002007-07-11T09:37:00.060-06:00To Impeach or Not To Impeach

Impeachment seems to be on a lot of people’s minds these days. Cable news, blogs, columns, and just about anybody with an interest in politics has an opinion on the subject. There are some who think that Bush and Cheney have committed multiple crimes against the American people and the Constitution and should be brought up on charges. Some who think the any kinds of charges are unfounded and that

GlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-31071213701797205842007-07-10T11:02:00.001-06:002007-07-10T11:02:43.601-06:00McCain in Freefall

I am not sure who the Republican nominee for 08 is going to be, but it is becoming clear that it will not be John McCain. For a long time I thought McCain was going to win almost by default, because the conservatives would not buy Mitt Romney or Rudy Giuliani. However after a couple of really bad months for him the McCain 08 campaign appears to be in complete freefall mode. His campaign manager

GlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-52244853542236598282007-05-25T10:30:00.000-06:002007-05-25T23:03:30.863-06:00Fighting the Talking Points

I cruise by the right wing blog Townhall from time to time to see what is on the right's mind. It usually some form of whining about mean or clueless liberals or how the right is not tough enough. Today Lorie Byrd wrote a column about the Rosie vs Hasllebeck silliness on The View a couple of days ago. Anyway I could care less about Rosie or Elisabeth said but Lorie Byrd made her points with all

GlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-48329328328599657222007-05-22T11:00:00.001-06:002007-05-22T11:00:28.351-06:00Al Gore in 08

The more time passes and the more times Al Gore says he is not running, the more I believe he is not running. I think there are several reasons to think that he is not running. Number one on that list is that he simply does not want to run. Also the Democrats are much happier with their choices for president. The main reason Fred Thompson and Newt Gingrich are seriously thinking about running is

GlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-75656101146500028802007-05-21T10:51:00.000-06:002007-05-22T22:05:32.549-06:00Jerry Falwell

I have been thinking about the best way to express myself about the way I feel about the death of Jerry Falwell. It seems to me the right is too quick gloss over the bad parts of the man and all the left wants to do is focus on them. While I am probably more apt to lean to the negative when somebody like Christopher Hitchens comes out with a double barreled shotgun blast of what awful person

GlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-91541823473998107622007-05-20T10:30:00.000-06:002007-05-22T22:04:09.812-06:00Ron Paul on the Sunday Shows

Of the Sundays shows I watched this week I noticed Ron Paul came up in a sense because CNN had an interview with him and Fox News Sunday talked about the debate but the exchange with Rudy Giuliani was not even brought up.On Fox News Sunday they talked about the debate they hosted on the All Star Panel segment. Most of the talk was about the exchange between Mitt Romney and John McCain. Ron Paul

GlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-55302689002333948982007-05-18T08:37:00.000-06:002007-05-22T21:56:49.745-06:00Pat Buchanan on Ron Paul

You could fill volumes of things I disagree with Pat Buchanan about, but when it comes to foreign policy I tend to agree with him. In general Pat thinks it is not our job to police the world. Not only will that policy not work but will be very expensive. The fiasco seems to support this theory, because we are stuck in somebody else's civil war that is costing a fortune.But Who Was Right Rudy or

GlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-7279017276895909772007-05-17T13:46:00.000-06:002007-05-22T21:55:12.754-06:00Tony Blair

Like just everybody else that has been involved in some way with support of the Iraq War, Tony Blair is latest victim of being tied to closely with W's inept war. Blair and W had a press conference today as part Blair's last visit to Washington as Prime Minister. There is a clip where Bush is saying how Blair is very well respected and a stand up guy. I could not help thinking too bad he had to

GlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-28549310511120060402007-05-17T11:01:00.000-06:002007-05-22T21:53:49.683-06:00Ron Paul

All of the chatter that has been created over the Ron Paul and Rudy Giuliani exchange at the Republican debate further shows how out of touch the party is, especially on the topics of terrorism and Iraq. Basically Ron Paul was saying that one of the main reasons 9-11 happened is that our bad foreign policy decisions in the Middle East over the past 50 years has consequences and has made people

GlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-89923712175189721952007-05-17T10:34:00.000-06:002007-05-22T21:49:03.222-06:00Republicans and the Ticking Clock

One of the more unique exchanges that came out of Tuesday's Republican debate was when Brett Hume put forward the hypothetical situation of the country had been attacked and we have the attackers in custody and they know about when another attack will happen. So we take a script out of the show 24 and plop in front of the Republicans and ask them is it ok to justify torture under such

GlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-41986250334768102952007-05-09T11:31:00.000-06:002007-05-22T21:46:41.751-06:00W and the photo op

I have to give credit where credit is due. W and his gang of misfits may not be able to do much right but gosh darn it they can do some photo op. From the standing on the pile rubble after 9-11 to the now infamous mission accomplished fiasco, W seems to always have that right look for a photo op. There are multiple times he appears with troops as props trying to look presidential. Once again like

GlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-51638247234197877152007-05-05T21:03:00.000-06:002007-05-22T21:44:09.927-06:00Hard Out There For A Republican

After the two monster debates in the past couple weeks where 8 Democrats and 10 Republicans squared off to decide who will replace George W Bush. The current president's presence was felt at both debates. The Democrats attacked Bush more than the attacked each other. The Republicans talked about Reagan more but Bush's Iraq war and the war on terror in general were big topics of conversation. In

GlenRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07835320920175845669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-273287163717812918.post-32521766764767135352007-05-05T10:30:00.000-06:002007-05-05T13:12:35.898-06:00How I got here

Well here we are at my first posting on this blog. I want to make my feeble little observations about life, politics, and stuff in general.I guess the question is how did I get to where I am about my feelings and thoughts about politics and the nature of politics. I guess my earliest memory of politics was probably the Watergate scandal. As I recall I did not know what going on or what it was

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