http://rationalleft.com To promote a political public discourse through a rational and intellectual debate Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:11:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Obama 338, 52%; McCain 200, 47%! http://rationalleft.com/2008/11/04/my-election-2008-prediction/ "What is the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull", Sarah Palin asked at the Republican National Convention. To which she provided an answer - lipstick. And to which the GOP crowd went nuts. The knee-jerk reaction by the GOP pundits to the claim of many, including regular Joe's, that ... http://rationalleft.com/2008/10/24/what-is-the-difference-between-sarah-palin-and-barack-obama/ It only took two paragraphs for the contributor and columnist, Lisa Schiffren, of the National Review Online to insert the word "Marxism" and attach it to Obama and anyone that supports his ideas on the economy, in her article. As Carl Sagan used to say, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". ... http://rationalleft.com/2008/10/17/national-review-a-bastion-of-non-sensism/ There we have it folks, Obama is down across all polls, including the very ones where he had leads up to 10 points. All across the board, the school girl, no-nothing, state-college-educated creationist moron from Alaska is winning the popularity contest, a de facto term for US presidential election, for ... http://rationalleft.com/2008/09/11/the-stupid-liberal-base/ I cannot brag to be a passionate reader of the Jerusalem Post newspaper; after all, it's a preference of Dick Cheney and is therefore a right-wing newspaper - which it factually is. In fact, one can know that from a very simple and casual observation: there is a section (tab) ... http://rationalleft.com/2008/07/24/israeli-discourse-on-iran/ After reading Benny Morris's article in the Op-Ed section of the New York Times of July 18th, 2008, I immediately had 2 questions: is this the same Benny Morris, a prominent Israeli historian and a scholar who produced groundbreaking work on Israeli-Arab conflicts and who is credited as being the ... http://rationalleft.com/2008/07/21/benny-morris-a-mad-man-or-a-tactical-tool/ Here is George W. Bush, the 43rd president (allegedly) of the US, addressing Israeli parliament (Knesset) earlier this year: And then this headline from International Herald Tribune (global version of NY Times): " U.S. envoy to join meeting with Iranian" Many charged that George W. Bush was referring to Barack Obama via ... http://rationalleft.com/2008/07/16/a-bush-flip-flop/ On Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 Iran fired off 9 medium and long range missiles, signaling retaliatory response if attacked by US or Israel. Predictably, Iran immediately drew an international rebuke, as New York Times headline reads. The White House rhetorical response was swift and harsh and filled with the same ... http://rationalleft.com/2008/07/09/iran-responds-to-us-israel-threats-us-reaction-typical/ The Washington chatter of the possibility of war with Iran has been going on for several years now, but is has not come to fruition just yet. However, the last few months the Bush administration began to move somewhat aggressively towards this mission. It began with the resignation of Admiral Fallon, ... http://rationalleft.com/2008/06/26/mass-destablization-in-the-middle-east/ "We're not seeking permanent bases in Iraq. That's been a clear matter of policy for some time", said Tom Casey, a State Department spokesperson on January 24th, 2008, as reported in Asia Times Online. But clearly he wasn't referring to the legal language that is being crafted right now into ... http://rationalleft.com/2008/06/25/bush-seeks-permanent-military-presence-in-iraq/