"Not Political", My Butt!

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Saturday August 28, 2010 · 10:03 PM PDT

2010/08/28 · 22:03

Ah - but Glenn Beck has been stating that his get together was not political thang (sic). FOX.com really made it a dead giveaway. (shock...)

seattlealex

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Friday August 27, 2010 · 12:47 AM PDT

2010/08/27 · 00:47

During the presidential primaries, my full backing was behind Edwards. (This was before all his personal shit hit the fan.) But everybody was enthralled with Clinton and Obama. But I kept telling myself, naively, that all this would just flush itself out and people would open their ears.

seattlealex

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Wednesday April 07, 2010 · 5:58 PM PDT

2010/04/07 · 17:58

I like to run around reading, and watching, different news organizations and blogs. Usually I read the Left-Wing stuff, mostly because it preaches to the choir in me and makes me feel angry at those SOBs out there screwing us over - and strangely feel better in the process. You know, HufPo, DKos, MSNBC (well, Countdown and TRMS) among others. And I still hang on to watching the regular MSM that I grew up with (though I yell at the TV while watching them). But as of late...

seattlealex

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Wednesday March 10, 2010 · 4:03 PM PST

2010/03/10 · 16:03

Oh, this feels good and looks so right.
Stupak has a challenger for the primary - one Connie Saltonstall. And I hope he's in for the ride of his political life.

seattlealex

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Saturday February 06, 2010 · 5:35 PM PST

2010/02/06 · 17:35

Spoiler alert! It's an "I told ya so!" hit piece!

Our mayor has finally shown himself to be a politician. And I don't mean that in a good way. I mean it in the way where when you say the word "politician" you curl your lip, your eye twitches, and the word seeps out through clenched teeth.

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21 votes Show Results

Is McGinn a one timer?

21 votes Vote Now!

Is McGinn a one timer?

Yes

11 votes

6 votes

I don't know

1 vote

I don't care

1 vote

I prefer to think about that last episode of Seinfeld

2 votes

Obama: Push It Off Onto the Next Guy

seattlealex

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Friday February 05, 2010 · 3:32 PM PST

2010/02/05 · 15:32

I was reading an article in The Huffington Post. They said something that I've been thinking for a long time regarding the President's fight for health care. "No. Maybe he can't."

seattlealex

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Wednesday February 03, 2010 · 10:58 PM PST

2010/02/03 · 22:58

Our Seattle mayor has nose-dived. Only in office for just over a month and his popularity has fallen to 40%. Wow... You must be really incompetent to pull this off. And Mayor McGinn has done it.

Poll

36 votes Show Results

The best name out there for the mayor is...? (Yes, these are all bandied about)

36 votes Vote Now!

The best name out there for the mayor is...? (Yes, these are all bandied about)

Mayor McGinn

7 votes

Mayor Magoo

4 votes

Mayor McDo-Over

2 votes

Mayor McDingbat

1 vote

Mayor McDumb-ass

9 votes

Mayor McWhat-in-the-hell-are-you-doing

13 votes

Seattle: Too Liberal For Our Own Good? UPDATED

seattlealex

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Wednesday January 27, 2010 · 10:59 AM PST

2010/01/27 · 10:59

Okay, so we had our election for mayor last November and we elected the guy who rides his bike to work, is against building the bus tunnel to replace the crumbling Alaskan Way Viaduct, and like all politicians, is going to fix the budget shortfall - Mayor Mike McGinn.

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41 votes Show Results

Mayor McGinn

41 votes Vote Now!

Mayor McGinn

is a great mayor

2 votes

is a good mayor

1 vote

is a mediocre mayor

1 vote

is a bad mayor

6 votes

still needs more time

15 votes

is truly living up to his new monicker, Mayor Magoo

16 votes

WaPo: Anger Over Firm Depletes Obama's Political Capital

seattlealex

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Tuesday March 17, 2009 · 11:04 AM PDT

2009/03/17 · 11:04

Political capital lost? Now, that's not exactly how I'd put it.
Capital lost? No.
Knocked off message? Yes.

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118 votes Show Results

Has he lost political capital?

118 votes Vote Now!

Has he lost political capital?

yes

18 votes

68 votes

a bit

18 votes

chocolate cake

14 votes

I'm Tired Of the National Ups and Downs

seattlealex

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Friday October 24, 2008 · 2:45 PM PDT

2008/10/24 · 14:45

Every day I keep hearing - and keep an eye out - for the national polls. Now I'm just tired of it.

"WaPo has Obama up by 12."
"NYT has Obama up by 3."
"ABC has Obama up by 8."
(I'm just pulling these numbers out of the air.)

I can't hack it any longer. It means nothing to me, and should mean nothing to you, either.

seattlealex

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Wednesday October 15, 2008 · 8:40 AM PDT

2008/10/15 · 08:40

Though we shouldn't count our chickens before they hatch, there are encouraging signs coming out of five of the key battleground states.

seattlealex

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Tuesday October 07, 2008 · 1:01 PM PDT

2008/10/07 · 13:01

The second of Seattle's major newspapers, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer endorsed Sen. Obama today in no uncertain terms.

If the country ever needed new direction under a fresh, steady, calm president, this is the time. Sen. Barack Obama is the country's hope, the kind of promising, intelligent leader who comes along perhaps once in a generation.

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