T Heaney's Blog

T Heaney Commented on Tell Us Your Voting Stories, Part Two by Greg Sargent

2008-11-04T21:53:40Z

Drove to the fairgrounds where our whole town votes (pop 5,000). A perfect fall day -- blue sky, big fluffy clouds, snow on all the mountains around our valley from the storm last night. Met my wife at the polls which had no major lines, although they quite busy. We stood side by side and filled out our ballots (SAT-style). Turned them in (numbers 219 and 220), waved to all our neighbors lining up, Democrats, Republicans, and others -- all with smiles on their faces! We stepped outside into the cool autumn sunlight, and said, "Wow. I feel really good." I turned to my wife who had a smile so big that it made her eyes crinkle up a bit. "Yea. Me too." Drove back to work listening to U2's "Beautiful Day."

T Heaney Commented on Those Prop 8 Ads by Josh Marshall

2008-11-04T06:35:51Z

For me, these same ads, appearing on the LA Times' site, created the moment of greatest ironic moment of the campaign. I was trying to read the Times' well-reasoned editorial AGAINST Prop. 8, but I was having difficulty because the "Yes on 8" adds kept randomly expanding over the editorial's text and obscuring it. Talk about mixed messages.

T Heaney Commented on GOP Mailer In Pennsylvania Suggests Electing Obama Could Lead To Second Holocaust by Greg Sargent

2008-11-01T16:58:49Z

Strangely enough, the "history" in the mailer is way off. The mailer seems to argue that FDR's foreign policy was "naive and weak" while in reality America was fighting a two-front war when the Holocaust was happening, and FDR had made a commitment to defeating Nazi Germany first.

And who was opposed to American resistance to the Nazis? Let's see, hum, oh yeh, the Republicans and their naive and weak isolationism! The flyer isn't only offensive, it is the reverse of historical reality! If this is the GOP's idea of historical reasoning, I think everyone should be very, very frightened.