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Johnnie B. Byrd: Can McCain-Palin Fend Off the Welfare State?

The Democrats can taste it. They believe they are just weeks away from an economic coup d’état that will allow them to restructure America’s economy in ways that would make FDR blush over the relative anemia of his New Deal proposals. Democrats know ...

From JOHNNIE B. BYRD, Town Hall,  15 Oct 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama

Johnnie B. Byrd: Better Late Than Never

Senator John McCain finally acknowledged during the second presidential debate that some American home owners might just be victims of something more than “biting off more than they could chew” in a home mortgage. Take the example of a typical Florida ...

From JOHNNIE B. BYRD, Town Hall,  10 Oct 2008
Related Topics: John McCain,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party

Johnnie B. Byrd: No Bailouts: Let the Hammer Fall

Listening to the many voices offering “solutions” to the current economic crisis reminds me of some sage advice from an old friend who was diagnosed with prostrate cancer. Looking for help, he bounced from doctor to doctor, each of whom assured him ...

From JOHNNIE B. BYRD, Town Hall,  26 Sep 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Richard Shelby,  Barack Obama,  George W. Bush

Johnnie B. Byrd: Who Will Harvest the Grapes of Wrath?

If a bank or a finance company owned the land, the owner man said, The Bank—or the Company—needs—wants—insists—must have—as though the Bank or the Company were a monster, with thought and feeling, which had ensnared them. These last would take no ...

From JOHNNIE B. BYRD, Town Hall,  15 Sep 2008
Related Topics: John Steinbeck,  Steve Forbes,  Fannie Mae,  Sarah Palin,  Barack Obama

Johnnie B. Byrd: God Working Through the Unlikely

After having awakened with a political hangover the morning after Obama’s spectacle acceptance, rank-and-file Republicans were rejuvenated by the Maverick’s selection of Governor Sarah Palin to be his second in command. And, the Democrats are now ...

From JOHNNIE B. BYRD, Town Hall,  3 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Johnnie Byrd,  Sarah Palin,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama

Johnnie B. Byrd: Obama: Let's Move to Bedrock

Does Obama really believe what he said—that China’s infrastructure is “vastly superior” to the United States? Was this a gaff of someone who was off the teleprompter? Obviously, but perhaps he is suffering from a deeper malady. The presidential ...

From JOHNNIE B. BYRD, Town Hall,  29 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama

Johnnie B. Byrd: I'm a (Race) Hustler Baby

I’m a hustler baby, I’m a hustler I just want you to know, wanna let you know It ain’t where I been, it ain’t where I been But where I’m ’bout to go, top of the world! The race hustlers can almost taste it now—Obama at the top of the world. And now ...

From JOHNNIE B. BYRD, Town Hall,  23 Aug 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Howard Dean,  Edward Brooke,  J.C. Watts,  Barack Obama

Johnnie B. Byrd: Understanding Post-Identity Politics

Rushing through the Seattle airport after a relaxing holiday in Anacortes, Washington, I decided to grab a couple of titles from the airport bookstore for the redeye flight back home to Tampa. Natan Sharansky’s latest, “Defending Identity” jumped off ...

From JOHNNIE B. BYRD, Town Hall,  13 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Natan Sharansky,  Barack Obama,  Vanity Fair,  Rush Limbaugh

Johnnie B. Byrd: No Time for an International Lightweight

“WASHINGTON—American intelligence agencies have concluded that members of Pakistan’s powerful spy service helped plan the deadly July 7 bombing of India’s embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, according to United States government officials.” As the situation ...

From JOHNNIE B. BYRD, Town Hall,  5 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  John McCain,  NATO,  Senate Foreign Relations Committee,  U.S. Democratic Party

Johnnie B. Byrd: A Long Wait for the Debates

If September 26th were tomorrow it wouldn’t be soon enough for John McCain. Unfortunately, he’ll endure eight more weeks in his earned media “dead zone” before the first of three presidential debates scheduled for September 26, October 7th and October 1 ...

From JOHNNIE B. BYRD, Town Hall,  1 Aug 2008
Related Topics: John McCain,  Barack Obama,  Britney Spears,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party

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