It simply amazes me that a major network like CNN carries such a juvenile such as Glenn Beck.  In his most recent article on the CNN website, titled "Thank you Big Oil" he spent the firdst three small paragraphs on an into to big oil being made out to be a villain and the rest of the article bashing Al Gore.  If you can stomach it, I urge you to click on the link and read the article but for those who don't dare to go there I understand.  I provided a couple of lowlights for you.  

Congress has picked "Big Oil" as their enemy of the week. These companies inexplicably put profits above people, ravaging the environment and financially assaulting the poor to put another couple of dollars on their balance sheet. That's the storyline we've all been taught.

OK so far. He is making his point. As you read this remebering the title, you come to understand that the above paragraph is Beck's thesis, but hold on a second. More below the jump...

Is anyone watching Dan Abrams on MSNBC.  Pat Buchanan is defending Geraldine Ferrarro and said that her statements were factually correct.  he becme heated and told the African American Commentator (Kelli Goff) to "Shut Up." Rachel Maddow put him in its place and told him that she has never heard somone tell a colleague comentator to shut up and it was unacceptable.  Pat Buchananan is sometimes a principled conservative but he goes off the deep end sometimes and tonight he certainly did.  He so obviously is racist and I thought he was more biased for Clinton because he feared an Obama nomination against McCain.  I am starting to feel he is Clinton biased only becuse he simply is a racist.  

Any thoughts?

The 1980 election which ushered Ronald Reagan into the White House had a considerable coattail effect.

Reagan's coattails refers to the influence of Ronald Reagan's popularity in elections other than his own, after the American political expression to "ride in on another's coattails." Chiefly, it refers to the "Reagan Revolution" accompanying his 1980 election to the U.S. Presidency. This victory was accompanied by the change of 12 seats in the U.S. Senate from Democratic to Republican hands, producing a Republican majority in the Senate for the first time since 1954.

In light of yesterdays IL-14 special election, where Bill Foster defeated Jim Oberweis handily for Dennis Hastert's old seat, we should take note that a democratic candidate should bring about similar victories in the general election. Now IL-14 is heavy republican district that Bush won 55% to 44%.

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