Category Archives: presidential politics

So 24 years ago, I was the youngest member of a delegation to the GOP Convention that selected Ronald Reagan as its candidate. I had gone to the convention a Bush supporter. I left a Reagan supporter. Within 5 years, I was a supporter of neither.
But it’s great to feel a revival of Reagan support. Check out this straight-talking Ron Reagan on Crooks and Liars. Bravo, Ron. Continue reading →

Remember his statement on Good Morning America (3-18-03) (at least according to Warren Zevon):

I said on my program, if, if the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it’s clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.”

So any endorsement yet? Continue reading →

In a huge signal of conservative scepticism, the Economist, after endorsing Bush in 2000, and Dole in 1996, has endorsed Kerry.
And the videos are getting quite mean. Just saw this on p2p-politics. (Warning, if you’re from Bush’s base, you will be offended by this). Continue reading →

George Bush has apparently endorsed John Kerry for President, advising America that we don’t want as commander in chief “a political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts.” True enough, Mr. President. How much better off we would have been had you not jumped to conclusions (re WMD) without knowing the facts.
Much better, no doubt, is a commander in chief who bases conclusions upon the facts, or, even better, acts when he learns of the facts (as this Administration did not do when it learned, in January, of the mistreatment of prisoners in Iraq and Cuba). Continue reading →

Declan‘s got a nice piece about a crack in the IP extremism that seems to define both candidates in this campaign. As he explains, Kerry has signaled a willingness to rethink the extremism in the DMCA. This, combined with the great news from the Sixth Circuit in the Lexmark case must make the IP extremists very sad. Poor IP extremists — at least if Kerry pulls this off. Continue reading →

Congressman Tim Ryan (D-OH) on trust. Recently added to p2p-politics. Continue reading →

To balance the silence from the Bush administration, p2p-politics.org now enables you to ad links, without uploading content. Add a link here. Continue reading →

A campaign to oppose the draft. Continue reading →

Laura Bush: “No need to apologize.” Continue reading →

So lots of great reaction to p2p-politics.org today, and we’ve modified in response. In particular:
(1) We’ve changed “Nader” to “Other” so as to encourage other (actually more prominent) candidates to be included without adding too many tabs;
(2) Adding a comment link to each ad, so if you have a view about an ad you’d like to express, there’s a wiki page to do it;
(3) Adding the option to upload audio as well as video;
(4) Adding RSS/Atom feeds, so you can subscribe to new content.
Still no response from the Bush campaign. And of course, throughout, “we” here means the tech sorts, and today, that meant Aaron. Continue reading →