The Dishonest Broker

Approaching two billion dollars and still climbing, that what the estimated spending will be for television political ads for this mid term.  With that outlay, we must have the best informed electorate in our history, one would think.  Not! The commercials that are aired have little to do with truth and nothing at all to [...]

Under Water

Again today I heard a pundit talk about voter dissatisfaction, and what caught my attention was the reference to those voters who were “underwater”.  The reference was to those who bought homes in the run up to the housing bubble, and now found themselves with mortgages larger than what they think they can sell their [...]

The Real Tough Choice

I am in California today and have been blanketed with Meg and Jerry ads.  Which one should deserve a Californians’ vote? Meg claims to be the business person who is untied to any private interest group.  She’s for reducing taxes, creating new jobs, and bringing back the good old days. Jerry counters with his decades [...]

How Did We Get Here?

The question that serious people should be asking themselves now is, how did the US get to a situation where our elected officials cannot agree on what problems face America?  Republicans are stuck on the theme of cutting taxes (with a clear view that there are massive budget deficits as far as one can see) [...]

Face Time

With the midterm elections a week away, there is no let up in campaign ads.  This has traditionally been the time when each opponent puts forth their most outlandish claims in hopes their opponent cannot counter in time. In Pennsylvania, there is a group who call themselves the “Republican-Jewish” committee who introduced an ad that [...]

Too Much?

The constant barrage of campaign ads, particularly those from unnamed but well financed sources, has made an intellectual common sense desert out of the television and radio media.  Whether from progressive, or more commonly from conservative, the intended message is to damn the opposition without offering any substantive solution to the problem addressed.  Have we [...]

Stealing The Election

If you have been living in the US for the past few months, especially the past few weeks, you have been witnessing a theft in broad daylight.  The airwaves have been filled (interestingly not the newsprint) with advertisements that can only be describe as mean spirited, dishonest, and fear based.  But what else is new? [...]

Is The Tide Turning?

There are some faint signs (positive poll results) that suggest some Democratic candidates may fare better than earlier polls predicted. Could it be that voters are seeing through the deluge of negative and misleading political ads that have swamped the airwaves? Could it be that voters now realize that unemployment today is the result of [...]

Did I See the Future?

I returned yesterday from a week in France. This social democracy is often held up as what is in store for the US if we elect Democrats. Great food, good wine, clean subways, and a simply pleasant experience, not a bad future. France along with Germany developed Airbus which makes planes that compete favorably with [...]

The Narrative

As we approach the November elections, what only 18 months ago seemed impossible, is very probable. Republicans, lead by right wing elements will sweep again into power, What has gone so wrong to produce results that failed miserable from 2000 to 2008, and are sure to fail again? Last evening Tom Friedman laid the blame [...]