http://quagblog.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:44:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is not about celebrity, it is about substantive change. Not the "real change" you speak of, but an idea. It is an idea that citizens like you and me that have never held office can make a change in our country for the better. It is the idea that ... http://quagblog.com/2008/10/09/an-open-letter-to-mccain-supporters/ I have been watching the political news this last week with a bit of disbelief. Not that politics have turned this rotten, as I came to political awareness in the Rove Era, but rather that the “Religious Right” has strayed so far from the message of Christ. I write specifically ... http://quagblog.com/2008/10/09/what-role-for-christianity/ I know. This blog seems to have turned into the "Make Fun of Palin" site. But really, she's newsworthy, and the people should see just what an idiot this woman is. Now, having said that, take a look at the contrasting answers given by each VP candidate to Katie Couric this ... http://quagblog.com/2008/10/01/vp-roe-v-wade-responses/ Watching the Sarah Palin and Katie Couric interviews is like watching John McCain literally shoot himself in the foot. I've never seen a Vice Presidential candidate looks THIS bad. Hell, Sarah Palin even makes Dan Quayle look like a literary genius. Even conservatives are calling for Palin to step down.  ... http://quagblog.com/2008/10/01/palincouric-interview-embarrassing/ What are YOU doing to change this country? It’s difficult not to get dejected. There have been a lot of political let-downs for this country in the last 8 years, a lot of terror, a lot of pain. Even the Democrats who were, by all accounts, elected in 2006 ... http://quagblog.com/2008/09/20/43-days/ This article was written by Wick Allison, Editor in Chief of D Magazine. THE MORE I LISTEN TO AND READ ABOUT “the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate,” the more I like him. Barack Obama strikes a chord with me like no political figure since Ronald Reagan. To explain why, I ... http://quagblog.com/2008/09/19/a-conservative-for-obama/ Sarah Palin has picked out an All-American set of names for her children. There's Track, Trig, Bristol, Willow, and Piper. Find out what your kids names would be had you been Sarah Palin. http://quagblog.com/2008/09/19/the-palin-kid-name-generator/ Clip from September 17, 2008, NBC news broadcast exposing Palin misinformation campaign. http://quagblog.com/2008/09/18/nbc-proves-palin-lied/ Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel said his party’s vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, lacks foreign policy experience and called it a “stretch” to say she’s qualified to be president. “She doesn’t have any foreign policy credentials,” Hagel said in an interview published Thursday by the Omaha World-Herald. “You get a passport ... http://quagblog.com/2008/09/18/hagel-palin-does-not-have-foreign-policy-credentials/ Official election day is only 47 days away. But, you may be able to cast your vote in the form of a written absentee ballot as early as next week where you live. Where I live absentee ballots will be accepted starting on September 22nd. Consider voting ... http://quagblog.com/2008/09/18/47-days-or-less-and-counting/