codyg1985’s Think Tank

The more and more I read about Barack Obama, the more I liked about him. He champions net neutrality. He supports funding education and health care. He wants to bring our troops home, and he says it without being a hypocrite. I attended a Barack Obama rally in Birmingham, AL in January right before the […]

I am in the thinking mood tonight.
The candidates for President are on the campaign trail talking about the usual talking points. For the Republicans it is all about national security, family values, immigration, and lowering taxes while for the Democrats it is about health care, the economy, the war in Iraq, education, and tax breaks […]

This is going to be one of the most contested elections for President since the election of Dwight D Eisenhower in 1952. The 2008 Presidential Election could also be a historic one, since it will be the first change in president since September 11th. There are many hot-button issues these days, and there are a […]

A friend and I were talking about how politicians were in general just annoying and extremely skillful about dodging questions.  So in an effort to make the election process more entertaining and perhaps more revealing, I propose a new reality show that would showcase the candidates:
[14:50] Me: i just can’t stand most politicians….they have it […]

Apparently the U.S. government can now invoke provisions to keep secret programs from being dubbed illegal. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against AT&T for its role in domestic spying on innocent Americans, but the government claimed it could use a provision knows as the “state secrets prilvage” that basically states […]

A recent poll conducted by Quinnipiac University has shown that overall, 34 percent of voters rank President George W. Bush as the worst U.S. President of the modern era (after World War II). Following Bush is Richard Nixon with 17 percent and Bill Clinton with 16 percent. Is it really […]

On the May 23rd episode of the Fox News Channel primetime juggernaut The O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly made the assertion that Americans 18 to 24 years old have no clue about what’s going on in the world. He attributed this to this age group watching Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon […]

Well, ain’t this a pretty picture? A Louisiana congressman under investigation for bribery was caught on tape accepting a $100,000 bribe from an FBI informant. The cash was stashed inside Represenative William Jefferson’s freezer.
This is a picture of what is wrong with our goverment. Corruption transcends through jurisdictions and party lines. […]

I have never been a huge fan of President Bush.  Some decisions he has made have been worthy ones, but most of them have been shortsighted, far-reaching decisions that we are reaping the worst of now.  This isn’t a Republican issue, and this isn’t a Democratic issue.  It ain’t a conservative issue, and it ain’t a liberal […]

Presdient Bush stands behind his decision to invade Iraq, and he backed up this decision on Thursday by reaffirming his first-strike policy against terrorists and rogue nations. Bush believes that threats should be met before they evolve into terrorist acts against Americans. Bush also believes that “we may face no greater challenge from […]