Articles Posted by Terry Canaan

  • No John, ‘The Surge’ Didn’t Work

    No John, ‘The Surge’ Didn’t Work

    By Terry Canaan September 24, 2008 Last week wasn’t John McCain’s best week. A market meltdown exposed the shortcomings of McCain’s ideology of deregulation and set him back on his heels. With 83 Wall Street…

  • The Hater

    The Hater

    By Terry Canaan September 12, 2008 “Charles Babington — find new work!” -MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann, after Barack Obama’s speech accepting the Democratic nomination. If you know the name Charles Babington at all, that’s probably…

  • Vote McCain, Re-Elect Lobbyists

    Vote McCain, Re-Elect Lobbyists

    By Terry Canaan September 10, 2008 Sometimes I think I need to work on my headlines. I pretty much wait until I’ve finished the post, then wonder what the hell I’m going to call it.…

  • Marketing Sarah Palin

    Marketing Sarah Palin

    By Terry Canaan September 8, 2008 New polling shows that John McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin, is pretty popular. With a favorable rating of 58%, she beats both of the frontrunners. On the one hand,…

  • The Man Everyone Loves to Hate

    The Man Everyone Loves to Hate

    By Terry Canaan August 28, 2008 OK, so now we’ve got an official Democratic nominee. As the roll call vote unfolded, the State of New York stopped the voting and Sen. Hillary Clinton moved that…

  • Choose Your Adversaries Wisely

    Choose Your Adversaries Wisely

    By Terry Canaan July 12, 2008 Earlier this week, the Senate passed a really lousy law. I mean a real dog. The sort of law that you usually only see in a police state. It’s…

  • The Stain

    The Stain

    By Terry Canaan July 7, 2008 Over the extended holiday weekend, we learned that former North Carolina Senator Jess Helms had died. The nation was in mourning. Well, not the entire nation, just right wingers.…