AZ BlueMeanie

The Blue Meanie is an Arizona citizen who wishes, for professional reasons, to remain anonymous when blogging about politics. Armed with a deep knowledge of the law, politics and public policy, as well as pen filled with all the colors stolen from Pepperland, the Blue Meanie’s mission is to pursue and prosecute the hypocrites, liars, and fools of politics and the media – which, in practical terms, is nearly all of them. Don’t even try to unmask him or he’ll seal you in a music-proof bubble and rendition you to Pepperland for a good face-stomping.

McCain and the Race Card – The Corporate Media’s Role

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: In my last post, I discussed how Republicans since Lee Atwater and Ronald Reagan have fore-sworn the overt form of racism which lasted well into the 1970s in favor of a more subtle form of racism which speaks in coded language.  (This has its roots in the "Southern Strategy" first adopted by … Read more

McCain and the Race Card

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Geez!  I go out of town on business for a few days and the McCain campaign decides to go bat sh*t crazy.  How about a heads-up next time, boys? When last I examined the McCain campaign’s in-house swiftboat attacks on Barack Obama, I briefly touched upon the Paris Hilton and Britney Spears … Read more

McCain adviser’s horrifying Iraq track record

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Neoconservative Randy Scheunemann serves as John McCain’s chief foreign policy aide and spokesman. "Not only does he have McCain’s ear, he also has a track record of being consistently wrong on the major foreign policy question of the day – Iraq. Of all the hawkish Washington foreign-policy types pushing both before and … Read more

McCain does not speak for his own campaign

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: On This Week with George Stephanopoulos this past Sunday, John McCain was asked about his plans to fix Social Security – a program McCain has called "an absolute disgrace" even though he continues to cash his monthly Social Security checks (C’mon John, Social Security may be an entitlement program, but you have … Read more

Daily Kos ♥’s Blog for Arizona! We ♥ you back!

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Earlier this week Michael Bryan and others at this blog were contacted by Daily Kos editor Smintheus for assistance with background information for a post about John McCain in Arizona.  We were happy to oblige. The analysis by Smintheus is excellent Daily Kos: John McCain’s Arizona problem (with links to Blog for … Read more