Cornyn's "Positive" Campaign

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Friday October 24, 2008 · 10:41 AM PDT

2008/10/24 · 10:41

For weeks now John Cornyn has been running nauseating ads about how partisanship in Washington is counter-productive. Admid scenes of beautiful Texas scenery, which the Senator apparently hopes will hide his grotesque record of blind loyalty to the Bush administration and the Republican agenda, Cornyn talks about his determination to be a problem solver in Washington.

You'd think from the ads he hadn't been in Washington, front and center as part of the problem for the past SIX years. [Fun Fact: John Cornyn also voted against CHIP SIX times, one time for each year in the Senate]

Despite all this talk of the noble campaign and Senator he'd be, Cornyn is back to where we knew he would be, cheap and stupid attacks on establishment democrats to try to scare up Republican turnout here in Texas. Check out this video: http://blip.tv/...

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Sunday October 19, 2008 · 8:27 PM PDT

2008/10/19 · 20:27

Did you hear its a center right country? Newsweek just told me.

I don't know if we're a center-right country, but it sure seems that way when we look at the make-up of the panels on two of our most revered Sunday talkshows: Meet the Press and This Week.

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Wednesday July 30, 2008 · 7:18 PM PDT

2008/07/30 · 19:18

Observing Senator Barack Obama during his recent international trip was generally refreshing. Here is a potential commander-in-chief who seems to understand the broader strategic challenges that the country faces politically and militarily. His insistence that we focus on "finishing the fight" in Afghanistan and western Pakistan is head-smackingly obvious. Afghanistan served as the staging area for the attacks on 9/11 and an attack on those who planned that attack was just and a commonsense response.

The all-encompassing "War on Terror" became the pithy slogan the Adminstration repeatedly deployed to conflate the just conflict in Afghanistan with that destructive and ill-concieved military adventure in Iraq. Indeed, surveys still find disturbing numbers of Americans that believe Saddam Hussien was the 9-11 mastermind or that Al Qaeda had ties with the Iraqi government. Too many Americans reconciled their cognitive dissonance as to the decision to attack Iraq, a country that had nothing to do with 9-11, and with no ties to terrorism, by repeating these three little words. What if we never had those three little words?

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