The Era Of Irresponsibility

The Really: Was America's version of free markets just a clever ponzi scheme?

President-elect Barack Obama in a speech at George Mason University this morning laid the blame for the current economic disaster firmly at the feet of the unregulated markets touted by the Reagan, Greenspan, Bush doctrinaires.

In a crisp, clean speech outlining the huge problem facing Americans Obama outlined what will be necessary to come back from the hole the Gordon Gekkos have wrought.

Then in a speech writing blunder (somebody has to watch that kid) Obama said the Administration would even work weekends if necessary. Huh?

Franken Camp Claims Less Than 100 Votes Seperate in Minnesota Recount

The Really: Could Franken actually when this election after all?

With 51% of the recount in, the Franken camp claims less than 100 votes seperate Franken from Coleman in the Minnesota Senate race. Whew. Will this end up being decided by a court? Or by one vote?

Fraken Trails By Only 174 Votes With 80% Yet To Recount

The Really: Could this be number 59?

Franken camp sees day one of recount going better than expected.

Stevens Loses Senate Seat To Begich

The Really: Another Alaskan loses a major election.

We will always have the polar bears (and the oil). MSNBC and AP report Stevens loses re-election bid. No need for special elections after he is tossed from the Senate -- or for Governors to think about maybe trying their hand in Washington right now, you betcha.

Ted Stevens Falls Further Behind In Voting

The Really: A poll watcher in Anchorage?

The beacon of truth from the frosty north Mudflats blog is reporting early results of the next round of vote counting is increasing Mayor Mark Begich's lead over felon-not-felon Ted Stevens. If Ted was seat holding for Sarah Palin, they might want to look into Plan B.

Generation O: The Nowhere Generation Changes The World

The Really: The Millennials know about computers and stuff and also how to change the world.

The hipster world of veganism, alt music and with more curiosity about their Facebook pages than about work schedule has been pretty much maligned as naive and self-important.

Well a really good attitude about political possibilities and a lack of cynicism helped them make the difference in the historic election which voted Barack Obama into office.

The New York Times having watched too much Current TV, has decided to name them. I would be mad if I was them. Generation O: For Oprah or Obama or Zero?

Reading, Writing And Arithmetic Alaska Style

The Really: The voting numbers in Alaska's elections make no sense?

Nate Silver of the of fivethirtyeight.com says they don't make any sense and he nailed the national election results with precision. At Mudflats there is an excellent recap of what is so funny. The funny is: fewer Alaskan's voted in the presidential and senatorial elections than voted in the primaries and the poll numbers are 15-22 points off where as they were darn close in the lower 48. With your Governor on the ticket 14% fewer people voted? Really? I mean REALLY??!!

Obama Wins... In Dixville Notch N.H.

The Really: What does this really mean?

Absolutely nothing and possibly everything... In a land slide victory, Barack Obama crushed his opponent John McCain by a tally of 15 to 6 in Dixville Notch, N.H. and 17 to 10 in Hart's Location, N.H.. For more on these results click here. Will this small victory sow the seeds for a much larger one today? Stay tuned to the only place for pundit free coverage of the 2008 Election, BlogReally.com!

The Ghost Of William Henry Harrison

The Really: John McCain would be the oldest President in history should he be elected. Even older than Ronald Reagan.

But John McCain is not the only cranky old man to want to be president and 68-year-old William Henry Harrison is a ghostly object lesson for us all. The punchline however is not Tyler: it's Palin.

On March 26, Harrison became ill with a cold. The presumptive story, which has become common knowledge despite its falsity, is that the inauguration day exposure was the cause of his illness. In fact, it was more than three weeks after the inauguration before Harrison showed the first signs of ill health. The cold worsened, rapidly turning to pneumonia and pleurisy. According to the prevailing medical misconception of that time, microorganisms being then unknown, it was believed that his illness was directly caused by the bad weather, when, in fact, he was likely a victim of the common cold virus, exacerbated by the drastic pressures of his changed circumstances. He sought to rest in the White House, but could not find a quiet room because of the steady crowd of office seekers; in addition, his extremely busy social schedule made any rest time scarce.

Harrison's doctors tried cures, applying opium, castor oil, Virginia snakeweed, and even actual snakes. But the treatments only made Harrison worse, and he became delirious. He died nine days after becoming ill, at 12:30 a.m., on April 4, 1841, of right lower lobe pneumonia, jaundice, and overwhelming septicemia, becoming the first American president to die in office. His last words were to his doctor, but assumed to be to John Tyler, "Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of the government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more." Harrison served the shortest term of any American president: only 30 days, 12 hours and 30 minutes

And So The Shit Storm Begins

The Really: Don't ever take a pig up on his offer to wrestle in the mud. You will get dirty and the pig likes it.

War hero John McCain trades in his last claim to political honor by unleashing a relentless torrent of half-truths, vile innuendo and gutter politics in a last ditch effort to gain enough votes from low-information voters to win the election.

Despite evidence that the American public is sick of the negative campaign of the Republican party, a litany of attack commenced today.

Rather than return the numerous opportunities to attack McCain for his own many indiscretions, the Obama campaign has simply pointed out the smears and mud-slinging without getting any blowback on themselves.

The election, which in itself is a referendum on the state of the nation, is also a test of character for its voters. An acceptance or rejection of the politics of fear of Karl Rove. An afirmation of the principles of fair play and equality written into many of our earliest documents. But even more importantly, a vote to determine what kind of nation we wish to become.

The sin's of the father may be visited upon the son or daughter or in great moments of history can be transformed into a greatness. The McCain campaign could not be a steward of that kind of greatness.

Virginia Trying to Suppress Student Votes

The Really: A new twist on voter suppression techniques?

Trying to keep track of the voter purges, suppression and casual attempts (flyers in Virginia using the old "Democrats vote on Nov. 5th" ruse) to hold down the vote are going to be coming in fast and furious. Some early voting places in Indiana are under attack by Republicans; Colorado was forced to reinstate thousands who had been purged on a technicality.

Students who used their dorm address as their residence have been booted from Virginia rolls. I will bet their thinking is also that cellphones are not "real" phones because they are NOT ATTACHED TO ANYTHING. And the internet is made out of tubes.

The Republican Political Cloud

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Obama Hung In Effigy In Redondo Beach

The Really: Someone decided to counter the Palin/West Hollywood display with something even more tasteful?

Dear America,

Have you gone insane? The stress of the economic collapse has clearly unhinged many.

Sincerely,

BlogReally.com

At Texas A&M University the Young Republicans club encouraged people to throw eggs at an Obama campaign poster. Now that's what you call an election.

Numerous reports of other "effigies" across America.

McCain Befuddled By Joe The Country Music Star

The Really: McCain campaign is back on track!

Apparently Joe the Plumber is busy signing his new country music contract while shivering, forgetting John McCain enters advanced state of befuddlement in depression bound Defiance, Ohio.

Voter Meltdown? States Not Prepared For Voter Turnout

The Really: Long lines and lack of preparation for massive turnout will decide the election?

Are the battleground states ready for the massive voter turnout? If the lines are already long for early voting what will happen will 70%-90% of registered voters show up to cast a ballot? What will happen when thousands of voters find they have been purged by state laws requiring this or that?

So what do long lines mean for the election? Will it be easier for voter supression or voter fraud to take place? Will the young be more likely to wait in line for four hours than the old? Will donuts only be distributed to people citing the "correct" preference? Will there be a Constitutional crisis regarding how long the polls can be kept open? Will states in close elections try to have a "two-day" election?

What is most amazing for a country that cared so deeply about the Y2K threat, is that there is very little reporting or commentary about what happens if you throw an election and everybody shows up!

McCain Funded "Terrorist" He Accuses Obama Of Knowing

The Really: McCain campaign desperate and more desperate.

Actually the man is not a terrorist at all. He is a scholar. But in the lookinglass world McCain-Palin present to their low-information followers the fact is that most of their attacks on Obama turn out to be prima facie absurdities.

The newest whack-job attack is that the Los Angeles Times has some video of Obama at some event with some guy named Khalidi. Turns out this guy's organization was funded by John McCain.

Gramps is either forgetful or Vanna turned the wrong letter. The lying and hyposcrisy is becoming galling though and may hurt the Republican party as a whole. Nice, clean campaign you promised Gramps.

Here is the McCain-Khalidi connection from Harper's:

Of course, Khalidi has been involved in Palestinian causes. McCarthy ought to ask John McCain about that, because McCain and Khalidi appear to have some joint interests, and that fact speaks very well of both of them. Indeed, the McCain–Khalidi connections are more substantial than the phony Obama–Khalidi connections McCarthy gussies up for his article. The Republican party’s congressionally funded international-networking organization, the International Republican Institute–long and ably chaired by John McCain and headed by McCain’s close friend, the capable Lorne Craner–has taken an interest in West Bank matters. IRI funded an ambitious project, called the Palestine Center, that Khalidi helped to support. Khalidi served on the Center’s board of directors. The goal of that project, shared by Khalidi and McCain, was the promotion of civic consciousness and engagement and the development of democratic values in the West Bank. Of course, McCarthy is not interested in looking too closely into the facts, because they would not serve his shrill partisan objectives.

Obama Admits He Was A Marxist In Kindergarten

The Really: Obama is a Marxist.

At a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina today, Barack Obama directly addressed McCain and Palin accusations that he is a Marxist or a socialist. Yes, Obama intoned, "I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich at school."

BlogReally has been perplexed why crowds of struggling 40K a year people at McCain-Palin rallies boo at a sharing of the wealth. The wealth would be shared with them!!! And if they don't need it, send it our way!!!!!

US Choppers Attack Syria

The Really: A coincidence?

Nothing takes your mind off a domestic disturbance like some international disturbance.

Ashley Todd: Poster Girl Of McCain Campaign Desperation

The Really: A McCain campaign worker in Pittsburgh made up a racially based robbery story when saying her mugger was an Obama supporter.

Now admits it isn't true.

Any of it.

Levels of desperation are seen all over the McCain campaign. Campaign heads are warring, workers are making up incredible stories (and getting arrested for it); all that seems to be left is voter supression. The Obama campaign and the DNC seem very, very ready to deal with Republican dirty tricks. You want to know why? Because people want a change.

GOP Says Obama Has Already Won Election

The Really: Has the GOP really proclaimed that the 2008 Presidential Election winner is Barack Obama?

In a recent television ad launched by the Republican Party there seems to be an admission of loss to the Democrats in the Presidential Election. The ad goes on to say that the GOP and its constituents need to concentrate on election races they can win so that the Democrats don't have a full House of Representatives, Senate, and White House.

Is this the beginning of the end for the GOP? Will the Democrats turn the U.S. into an evil Socialist country? Tune in tomorrow for the next episode of "As The Election Turns..."