Archive for February, 2007

Feb 26 2007

Iraq Osama?!?

Posted by: Not The Only One in 2008 Presidential Race, Politics, Race & Ethnicity

I know this is very shallow, and that a person shouldn’t be judged solely by their name but…

If there is one thing that will be a liability to Barack Obama in his run for the White House in 2008, it has to be his name, which sounds a lot like “Iraq Osama”. And then his middle name is Hussein? Hoo boy.

The U.S. presidency has had a 200+ year track record of being exclusive to WASP men (This country has only had one president who was neither Protestant or Anglo, and they shot him!). The transition from a President with a WASPY name to one named Barack Hussein Obama is a drastic one.

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Feb 12 2007

Union Rant

Posted by: Not The Only One in Labor, Economics, Politics

If labor unions are so concerned about their members earning a “living wage”, why don’t they just decrease the union dues for their members whose earnings place them in the membership’s lowest-earning 10 percent and increase union dues for members whose earnings place them in the membership’s highest-earning 10 percent?

Yeah, that’ll never happen.

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