http://www.markcaseyonline.com Politics for the Young and the Restless Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:34:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sarah Palin warned us during her interview with Katie Couric, and now we're seeing the concern spread: http://www.markcaseyonline.com/2008/09/28/when-putin-rears-his-head/ Should we cross the border from Afghanistan and run anti-terror missions in Pakistan, where Bin Laden lives? It's a fair question, and a delicate foreign policy area.  Barack Obama said he would in a debate many months ago, and McCain called him out on it during Friday night's debate.  So a ... http://www.markcaseyonline.com/2008/09/28/palin-accidentally-agrees-with-obama-mccain-plugs-ears/ Both national tracking polls and those taken in battleground states show Obama climbing over the past week against his Republican rival John McCain. They've mostly been brushed off as indicative that Americans blame Republicans for the bad economy, and the monumentally bad economic news this week is showing up ... http://www.markcaseyonline.com/2008/09/27/forget-the-debate-look-at-those-polls/ You can turn to any corner of the internet -- and I mean any corner -- and read pages upon pages of post-debate reaction. Who won, who lost, who looked more presidential -- these are all important things to consider. But my reaction? YAAAWWN! I never would've thought I'd be ... http://www.markcaseyonline.com/2008/09/27/obama-vs-mccain-debate-reaction/ Okay, so I was wrong when I said that congress would sign a deal yesterday.  But by all accounts, it appeared as though they would.  Then John McCain and Barack Obama showed up, and all hell, it broketh loose. I think the idea was, for McCain anyway, to appear in the ... http://www.markcaseyonline.com/2008/09/26/bailout-whose-bailout/ Anyone who follows politics now knows about John McCain's 12-hour political stunt, where yesterday evening he announced that he was "suspending his campaign" because the economy was in such crisis. He called for the postponement of the first debate, which really was a ploy to cancel Sarah Palin's ... http://www.markcaseyonline.com/2008/09/25/mccain-suspends-campaign-but-doesnt-really/ Namely, that they didn't say anything at all about the issues, or even acknowledge that they recognize there are things to do that would improve our nation's situation. If you don't watch this video, you're an un-American: http://www.markcaseyonline.com/2008/09/07/biden-discusses-gop-conventions-finer-points/ For quite some time, pollsters have been suggesting that the 3-5% lead Barack Obama has been holding above John McCain in the Gallup and Rasmussen daily polls is tenuous, because neither candidate has polled above 50%, and thus neither have acheived a simple majority among voters polled. Until today: Any kind of ... http://www.markcaseyonline.com/2008/09/02/high-water-mark-obama-breaches-50-mark-in-tracking-polls/ As the sexist media narrative already takes shape that neither reporters nor Ms. Palin's political opponents are allowed to attack her because she's a woman, and attacking her will make them look "mean," I'm more inclined to believe that she can take care of herself just fine. She was elected mayor ... http://www.markcaseyonline.com/2008/09/02/sarah-palin-edits-her-own-wikipedia-page/ Joe Scarborough is the host of the relatively popular show "Morning Joe" on MSNBC mornings. I like Joe, and I like his show. I really do -- that's not a joke, I swear. But this morning, Joe got into an absurd tiff with David Schuster, who is an MSNBC ... http://www.markcaseyonline.com/2008/08/26/joe-scarborough-under-fire-at-msnbc/