Ken Is Speaking Blog

The Lesson of 2008 – Think Big!

This is a theme that’s been developing in various circles, and not just with the impressive display of political know-how that lead Obama to up-end the selfishly guarded Clinton dynasty-as-legacy. We’re also seeing it...

Memorial Day Weekend

What has been going on around here for the last week or so? 1) UF’s Student Government did an honorable thing in sponoring a Veterans Memorial on campus, that would honor all the students...

Symbols Matter, But Not That Much

Roland Martin has an excellent column out on CNN.com today, commenting on the need to make the 28th amendment to the Constitution a requirement to wear a lapel pin of the American flag. He...

A LieberDem Tied to War Profiteer

In today’s Washington Post, Amy Gardner has called Fairfax County official Gerald Connolly an opponent of the Iraq War and “war profiteers”, even though his employer SAIC could be considered a profiteer. And as...

Radio Host Gets “Hardballed”

Chris Matthews totally kicked the ass of a brain-dead frat boy on national television last night: Of course, when I mean “frat boy”, I mean the over-hyped stereotype of an intellectually lazy, gregarious, loud,...

Ken is Speaking… on Daily Kos, Too!

I have, on my own initiative, started to cross-post a number of my observations about the 2008 campaign on the liberal community’s mega-blog, Daily Kos. By becoming a Kossack, I’m hoping to get a...

“Straight-Talking” McCain Flip-Flops (Again)

I’ll admit that I donated money to John McCain’s 2000 campaign, but as a registered Democrat could not vote in the closed GOP primary in Florida that year. But I’ll also admit that was...

Stu Rothenberg Doesn’t Know Jack About Polling

Alright, so one of my pet peeves about modern campaigns – and especially modern media coverage of those campaigns – is the relentless obsession over the horserace numbers in polling. Rarely do individual numbers...