Not My Mother’s Blog

This morning, I’m live-blogging the live chat with Jack Welch over at MSNBC . Last time I tried this was when they had author John Grisham on – for three minutes before the station’s firewall made it impossible for him to connect. Let’s hope that they do better with it this morning. Right now, I’m [...]

This morning as Mike Barnicle and Joe Scarborough marveled at how “color disappeared as an issue” as the election grew nearer, guest John Ridley sat shaking his head and intoned a phrase that should be the title of a book about this election. Race did not take a vacation. There’s this meme out there that [...]

@caralisapowers You rock! 4 days in a row! Getting ready to post about media and Palin at http://notmymothersblog.com again # 15 counterpunches to RNC bull http://tinyurl.com/5gtgry # commenting at Organizers Fight Back http://tinyurl.com/5kgbzo # Joining the Mothers of Five for Obama club… # Must read for anyone supporting McCain http://tinyurl.com/6onxok # If you haven’t seen [...]

Here’s another from yesterday’s craigslist.. Date: 2008-12-20, 1:23PM EST Saw a wonderful ad on “Free” where a family welcomed people with no power into their homes and I would like to offer the same. I live in Westboro. Have a small place but certainly plenty of heat and food to help. Please contact me if [...]

I just ran across this posting on craigslist.org and had to share – this is what love is all about. Offer: Kitchen & doors still open. Help is here ( Douglas) Reply to: Date: 2008-12-21, 10:28AM EST 5th Day—Help is still here!!!My kitchen & doors are still open to anyone still without power.Warm house,hot food,laundry [...]

No, I’m not talking about the Republican party for a change. I’m talking about an interesting little phenomenon that I’m noticing on my favorite little discussion site, mylot.com, where it concerns talking ideologically vs. doing practically. It’s hit me before, but it hit me even more forcefully in this discussion about a second economic stimulus [...]

Brad Blakely seriously? The Question: Well then what did Sarah Palin mean when she said that Barack Obama did not see America and you and I see America? Brad Blakely: She meant that Obama wants big government to run the people’s lives. McCain thinks that people should run the president’s lives. She was talking about [...]

Please do not give my share of the $7 billion to those banks that already have proved that they are shysters and crooks and con men. I know that right now it’s popular to be all self-righteous if you weren’t one of those people who fell for the line your cronies and pals were selling [...]

…but he can’t bring himself to convincingly call a prevarication a lie. Right now we are losing momentum because Obama can not for the life of him express an idea in less than ten paragraphs. It’s time for him to put his speechwriters on hiatus for the rest of the campaign and bring some copywriters [...]

On one “social commenting” site that I frequent, the question of the $20 million Wasilla debt was was raised by one of the commenters. He linked to the official web site of Wasilla where they’ve posted recently requested documents related to Palin’s terms as mayor, including the financial reports from 1994 through 2004. Those reports [...]

In the words of Bill Engvall, “Here’s your sign.” Clinton had the intelligence and the wit to hang it on the wall of his campaign headquarters, and we could use a little bit of ‘Here’s your sign’ in the Obama campaign right about now. With the economy tanking, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac being bailed [...]