http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a litttle salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, "All politics is applesauce." Sat, 17 May 2008 14:27:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   I borrowed the question from an online poll on DailyKos, but I'm not much interested in a tally of votes on one side or the other. Of greater interest to me is your explanation of why you would or wouldn't take the cash offer. So, what say you? http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/05/17/would-you-permanently-forfeit-your-right-to-vote-for-1-million/   Any notions Mike Huckabee might have had about running for vice president on the Republican ticket probably died with the stupid joke he told today about somebody pointing a gun at Barack Obama. As I said here the other day, I don't figure John McCain would have picked Huckabee for the ... http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/05/16/well-i-guess-this-means-mike-huckabee-wont-be-john-mccains-running-mate/   Republicans who think the current dust-up over foreign policy somehow damages Barack Obama's presidential candidacy are whistling past the graveyard. Just the opposite is the case. Charges that Obama is some kind of Neville Chamberlain soon will go the way of the fiction that he's a Muslim, too, or that he ... http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/05/16/how-the-foreign-policy-flap-helps-obama/ You political junkies likely will take interest in THIS PEEK inside the hapless Hillary Clinton campaign organization. http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/05/16/what-went-wrong/ Mr. Straight Talk should change his nickname to Mr. Zig-Zag Talk. John McCain's been peddling baloney of late about how Barack Obama is somehow inclined to be too chummy with Hamas, the terrorist organization that controls the Palestinian government. Actually, Obama's been saying that Hamas should renounce its violent ways before diplomatic relations with ... http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/05/16/it-was-john-mccain-not-barack-obama-who-wanted-to-play-patty-cake-with-hamas/ I'm no fan of Chris Matthews, but the job he did tonight on a raving right-wing radio blabber was one for the books. Matthews was almost too cruel and too relentless in humiliating Kevin James, who likes to spout off about historical analogies -- specifically in attempts to denigrate Barack Obama -- ... http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/05/15/this-is-almost-painful-to-watch/   Get the young 'uns inside, Ma.  That Biden feller's CUSSIN'  out the prezdent agin. 'Course, this time he's got a dang good reason. http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/05/15/joe-lets-loose-bout-george-dubya-bush/   I'm sorry.  It's impossible for me to write about this matter without losing my composure. You can't help but get misty-eyed about this. I'd better leave it to Dan Froomkin to EXPLAIN. http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/05/15/the-mans-personal-sacrifice-to-show-solidarity-with-the-troops-truly-is-soul-stirring/ THIS LIST from Robert Creamer is no silly Letterman-like exercise. It's a concise and insightful look at a remarkable campaign. POSTSCRIPT: The conventional wisdom is that Obama has experienced a lot of ups and downs over the past few months, but that's not true in perhaps the most important sense. As this ... http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/05/15/top-10-reasons-obama-won-the-nomination/   Former Democratic presidential aspirant John Edwards ENDORSED Barack Obama in Grand Rapids, Mich., late this afternoon in a news event that was beautifully orchestrated from a standpoint of tactical politics. The endorsement speech by Edwards came just as the Eastern and Central feeds of the network newscasts took to the air and ... http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2008/05/14/coup-de-grace/