by Art Smith
When James Madison and friends put together the Constitution, one of the key things they endeavoured to do was ensure that the Chief Administrator (President) did not have the power of a king. After all, we had just fought our tails off for the right to not have to be subjugated by King George, and as such provide sovereignty to the people and not the President.
I say this in preparation for something that Valerie Jarrett, co-chair of Obama's transition team, said on Meet The Press yesterday:
"Given the daunting challenges that we face, it is important that President-elect Obama's prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one."
DavidL at BitsBlog takes this at face value, which is not in the least unfair. He characterizes this [...]
by Art Smith
It's not exactly been a big mystery where the former Secretary of State was going with his own vote this year. And NBC was was certainly fairly confident that they knew what Power was going to say today when he gave his endorsement to Obama.
I would tend to agree with Michelle Malkin when she states that this doesn't look like a mater of race, despite[...]
by Art Smith
An anonymous writer at The Real Sporer Tuesday night made an interesting observation that I think we should not only understand but build an action plan upon.
At the end of the second Presidential Debate there were a few trailing comments at Ted's site (including one from yours truly), and the final one at about 12:20 AM stated:
I feel like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. Instead of repeating "there's no place like home, there's no place like home"
I find myself repeating "Maybe democrats aren't so bad, maybe[...]
by Art Smith
Here's the video from C-SPAN of tonight's Presidential Town Hall Debate.
Thanks to Sister Toldjah.
by Art Smith
We'll be live blogging here tonight beginning at 9:00 PM Eastern Time. If we have difficulties with the CoverItLive.com tool again, we will revert to using comments instead. We look forward to your input!
Update: Once again, CoverItLive has failed us. Please click to the comments page for this post to follow the live blogging, and feel free to participate!
The debate is complete, we're done blogging for the evening! Read the comments if you're interested in our thoughts!
