Take Back Politics

Recently it was announced that McDonald’s is considering the removal of the double cheeseburger from the Dollar Menu citing the rising cost of cheese.  Meanwhile other franchises have been offering only one slice of cheese or raising the price of the burger.

This leaves one wondering — is it really the cheese?  What does that say about the quality of the beef that McDonald’s uses in their burger.  With all meats and dairy products seeing an increase in price, shouldn’t beef be the cause of the decision to remove the burger from the Dollar Menu?  Between July 2007 and Jul7 2008, beef prices have gone up 38 percent.

This makes one wonder about the quality of the beef that McDonald’s uses…

A new report by by the Cochrane Collaboration says that there is no evidence that self-exams actually reduce breast cancer deaths.

…this has left millions of men wondering what they will do with their F.B.I., or Female Breast Inspector, t-shirts.

“I didn’t mind $4 gas, I just thought I would be getting better gas..”

– Stephen Colbert

While many restaurants continue to figure out what to do about the tomato “crisis“, one model fast food establishment did the right thing.  While Chick-fil-a has resumed selling tomatoes on their chicken sandwiches, they did not charge customers while they were off the menu.  In fact, when you ordered a sandwich they took 15 cents off the price.  Other fast food restaurants continue to make 100% profit on the items that they are charging you for but do not give you.  Maybe other restaurants should take note of the better way to do business.

Thank you Chick-fil-a!!

Below are the current popular vote counts for each candidate. If American politics counted the votes that actually mattered, yours, the race would be almost a dead heat. If Clinton does have a couple of blow out wins on Tuesday, she could be even with Obama. Isn’t it about time the media focuses on your vote?

The current standings in the popular vote tally are:

1. Obama - 15,721,312 votes (including the “uncommitted” votes from Michigan
2. Clinton - 15,609,152 votes

Does America really care that Jenna Bush is getting married? A Bush daughter getting married is about as important as Tom Cruise on Oprah…

The news could be taking the time to look in-depth at Myanmar or Lebanon or Iraq or any other important world event that the American public should know more about.

As the debate rages on about Michigan and Florida’s votes, Take Back Politics has been plugging for weeks that we should just be having a popular vote for the Presidential nominee.  While Obama leads Clinton by just under 100 pledged delegates, Clinton has virtually closed the gap when it comes to the popular vote.  As always, we include Michigan and Florida in our count, because they should count without having to revote. The two candidates are only separated by 0.000681822%.

The current standings in the popular vote tally are:

1. Obama - 12,913,201 votes (including the “uncommitted” votes from Michigan
2. Clinton - 12,895,604 votes

This evening after the polls closed, and it was apparent that John McCain had secured the Republican nomination for President, Mike Huckabee announced that he would be stepping aside and offering his support to McCain. While Huckabee deserves credit for the race he has run, and coming from almost no where to be the second to last one standing on the Republican side, it is great to see him recognize that it is time to step aside.

Mike — congratulations on your success in this Presidential race. While so many people turn negative when they are down, you stayed strong and committed to your principles and ran a great campaign. Hopefully good things will come your way down the line.

Obama’s campaign would like to see Clinton bow out after today’s elections if she does not win.  The question is, should she?  While she may be one hundred delegates behind there is still the issue of Florida and Michigan.  Also, you have issues like Nevada giving certain caucuses more weight than others.

As long as the Democratic race is so close, and there are outstanding issues like those above, Clinton really should stay in the race.  After all, she is in a much better position than Huckabee and he is still in the race.

Michael Bloomberg has announced that he won’t seek the Presidential nomination this time around, and that is probably the right choice for him to make.  While he may want to be President some day, he really had about as much of a chance as Giuliani.

Thank you for making the right choice.  Now can you please call Nader and help him figure things out?