Michigan Debates Decision 2008 Co-hosted by Grand Valley State University’s Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies and the Seidman College of Business, the debate featured a showdown between Rusty Hills (supporting Senator John mccain) and Buzz Thomas (supporting Senator Barack Obama). Rusty Hills, a veteran Republican politico and educator is communications director for Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox. Hills has spent the better part of two decades in public service and politics. He was twice elected unanimously as chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, and he served ten years as one of Governor John Engler’s chief lieutenants. Hills teaches at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Buzz Thomas, a Democratic State Senator from Detroit, has served for more than a decade in the Michigan legislature, and has held leadership positions in both houses. Thomas, in his second term in the Senate, was recently elected Democratic Floor Leader by his colleagues. A ranking member on important committees, Thomas has established himself as a leader in the fields of energy, technology, health policy, and urban development.
Americans seem to have a very short memory for politics but I implore you to not forget the face of Republicanism today–not to forget the Bush/Cheney years. Some of us have known since the coupe of the 2000 election by anti American Republican party operatives, what many are just now beginning to realize. Republican fiscal, social and foreign policies are failures and the Republican base is an embarrassment to America… and to humanity. For Republicans to win in the public sphere they must propagandize, cheat, steal and promote fear and racism. The mccain campaign of 2008 has been a dismal failure. They will soon begin their full court press to commit election fraud. They must, they are an unmitigated failure. Get ready for the long fight ahead.
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Your Daily Politics Video Blog: One of John mccain’s repeated promises once he won the Republican nomination was that he would wage an honorable and dignified campaign against the Democratic nominee. It seems a significant development therefore that mccain has abandoned this pledge in his constant impugnment of Barack Obama’s commitment to the troops and to victory in Iraq.