Rhetoric Matters

Trevor Parry-Giles’ Blog on Things Rhetorical & Political

Entries from June 2009

Sustainability and Politics

June 16th, 2009 · No Comments

Someone from Environment Maryland came by today to deliver the Legislative Scorecard for the 2009 MD legislative session. Happily, the scorecard revealed that all of our legislators from the Takoma Park area score quite well on environmental matters. But that’s not really surprising.
As I’ve noted, I participated in a two-day workshop on integrating sustainability in [...]

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Tags: Courses, Teaching, & Advising · Political Matters

Obama as “Flip-Flopper”

June 14th, 2009 · No Comments

A couple of weeks ago, I was a guest on Dan Rodricks Midday show on WYPR from Baltimore–the NPR affiliate. The subject was President Obama’s flip-flopping on several important issues, including withholding the release of prisoner abuse photographs, holding back on aggressively pursuing gay and lesbian rights, etc. It was an interesting discussion, that also [...]

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Tags: Media Commentary

VA Dems Gubernatorial Ads

June 10th, 2009 · No Comments

Interesting result from yesterday’s VA Democratic gubernatorial primary–Clintonista Terry McAuliffe lost to R. Creigh Deeds, a downstater from Bath County who was a long-time state legislator and failed candidate for Attorney General in 2005.

Not a lot of advertising in the DC area in this election. McAuliffe was up with some fairly standard ads about his [...]

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Tags: Political Matters