BY TAYLOR MARSH Terrific layout of the race from Charlie Cook. If you’ve got links to back it up, share them. Three days and counting, folks. I’ll be around all weekend, with Scott jumping in on Sunday, too. It will be fun.
Archive | October, 2008
Halloween Free For All
BY TAYLOR MARSH Chill the beer. Shake the martinis. Get the candy ready. …and beware the knock at your door.
Read full story · Comments are closed
Kitty Fake Out Suckers El Rushbo
Lady Lynn Speaks Oh, I just cannot stop laughing. Rush has been had. He’s still believing the kitties can save McCain. Now, another thing, the last caller is a fed-up old Democrat, wants to go with McCain. McCain’s worked with Democrats, doesn’t like Obama, thinks Obama is a socialist, thinks Obama is an extremist. Talking [...]
Read full story · Comments are closed
Petraeus Sworn in as CENTCOM Commander
via ABC News General Petraeus becomes responsible not only for overseeing military operations in Iraq, where he still views recent gains as extremely fragile, but for a strategic crescent that includes Afghanistan, where violence has increased markedly since last year. The area of responsibility also includes Pakistan, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and the former [...]
Read full story · Comments are closed
Lawrence Eagleberger on Palin: ‘Of Course’ She’s Not Ready
BY TAYLOR MARSH I took untold amounts of grief when I went after Palin when she was picked. “Sexism” was the charge I received in hate emails. But it’s not sexism to reject a woman who is offered an opportunity when she’s not remotely qualified for the job. Former Secrectary of State Lawrence Eagleburger has [...]
Read full story · Comments are closed
Liddy Dole’s ‘Godless’ Ad Hands Kay Hagan a Lead
BY TAYLOR MARSH From McClatchy: “When you’re making ads that say, ‘There is no God,’ it usually means your campaign doesn’t have a prayer,” said Alex Castellanos, a GOP consultant speaking Thursday on CNN. He’s familiar with controversial ads — he created former Sen. Jesse Helms’ infamous “white hands” ad suggesting opponent Harvey Gantt supported [...]
Read full story · Comments are closed
The Finale in Florida
BY TAYLOR MARSH Al Gore is a hero to me and I’m sure I’m not alone. He meets up with Barack Obama in Florida later today, campaigning with him this weekend. It’s a fitting finale to what has been quite a few days for Obama. “Nobody knows better that every single vote counties — especially [...]
Read full story · Comments are closed
The Rashid Khalidi, Iran, Anti Israel Bogeymen
updated Let’s start with Juan Cole‘s “McCain Racism, Hypocrisy on Khalidi Issue.” He gives an explanation that is continually ignored no matter how many people point it out. The rightwing American way of speaking about these issues is bizarre from a Middle Eastern point of view. Lots of real living Israelis have close ties to [...]
Read full story · Comments are closed
Barack Gives the Big Dawg His Due (much to Fox’s irritation)
continued from last night in Florida… “Couldn’t be better. Thank you,” said Barack as he stood and embraced Bill. But Fox News is still trying to push the rift, as did Sean Hannity today on his radio show. They just can’t handle the truth. “In case you all forgot, this is what it’s like to [...]
Read full story · Comments are closed
The Letter
BY TAYLOR MARSH There are a lot of polls out there. I don’t do poll analysis, but I found this letter highly amusing. The information isn’t bad, especially considering what Fox Opinion Dynamics hoisted today. It might help you a bit, too. Using your last four days of tracking polls in your battleground states and [...]
Read full story · Comments are closed
Liddy Dole is a Liar and She’s Just Been Sued
BY TAYLOR MARSH Kay Hagan responds to Liddy Dole’s “godless” ad. Just learned that Hagan has filed a defamation suit against Elizabeth Dole.
Read full story · Comments are closed
Al Qaeda Wants Bush ‘Humiliated’
BY TAYLOR MARSH –updated– I think this has already been done. An al Qaeda leader has called for President George W. Bush and the Republicans to be “humiliated,” without endorsing any party in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, according to a video posted on the Internet. Bush did it to himself. Look at Iraq. Look [...]
Read full story · Comments are closed
Delusions
BY TAYLOR MARSH Poor wingnuts. The compass. Palin’s not prepared, but the McCain camp’s cowardice is worse. The tape fixation continues. Fox, keeping hope alive. The senator with whom I once shared a float remains in fantasy land. The antidote? Two words: Francis Fukuyama. Poison pill: Contract for America, Take Two. And I’m not quite [...]
Read full story · Comments are closed
Daughter of Slave Votes for Obama
BY TAYLOR MARSH via American-Statesmanphoto by Larry Kolvoord At long last it’s come to pass. Amanda Jones, 109, the daughter of a man born into slavery, has lived a life long enough to touch three centuries. And after voting consistently as a Democrat for 70 years, she has voted early for the country’s first black [...]
Read full story · Comments are closed
TM Must Reads
THE 21st century world offers ways to tweak your appearance, or alter it altogether, with women finally able to combat directly the comparison that’s always been around. Men look distinguished as they age, while women look old, unattractive, or to use Rush Limbaugh’s favorite comment, who wants to look at a woman with wrinkles? The 2012 plastic surgery statistics are out and the American Society of Plastic Surgery tells the story.
The real question about Hillary is this: When people take a new look at her in the coming years, will they see the past or the future — Mrs. Clinton or Madam President? – Maureen Dowd IT’S A classic front page from Huffington Post, coupled with a post by Jason Linkins, which details what’s been going on.
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “Here’s what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate. Yes, I went there.
“Norma Rae is a survivor and for the first time in her life she’s got a chance to become something more… a winner.” – Promo for “Norma Rae” CRITICS like Anne-Marie Slaughter, but especially Maureen I-Love-My-Pearls Dowd, and others [most of whom didn't read the book or do their homework] who are blaming Sheryl Sandberg for being a billionaire Ivy League graduate, while accusing her of letting corporations and government off the hook, are missing a major point.
Great sex doesn’t always just happen. Sometimes, it takes a little planning, especially if — like many Americans — you’ve been in a bit of a sex rut. Do some prep work by turning your bedroom into a love nest: Make the bed (with new, or at least clean, sheets), tidy up, light a candle or two, and queue up a sexy playlist on your iPod.
“You Don’t Own Me” PSA -Official from You Don't Own Me on Vimeo. WHO DOESN’T know the song “You Don’t Own Me,” sung by Leslie Gore? The movie First Wives Club helped to reignite the relevancy of the song.
“Last night I interviewed Jill Stein the presidential candidate for the Green Party on this show. And I confess right now, I should have asked her to just get out of the race.” – Jennifer Granholm, “The War Room” [Current TV] THE ARGUMENT Jennifer Granholm makes above is a tactic that no longer fits the times.
“With that drum magazine, he could have gotten off 50, 60 rounds, even if it was semiautomatic, within one minute,” Chief Oates said. [New York Times] IN THE GAPING MAW of our leadership vacuum stands Aurora Police Chief Daniel Oates, whose resolve, vulnerability and humility inside the vortex of a man made hell revealed what nobody in Congress or either political party has shown in decades. Leadership without regard to anything but his own duty to the people, which included the cops in the eye of volcanic carnage.
“Rick Doblin has done a lot for the field, but he is more of a populist,” Grob says. “We need careful and controlled scientific studies showing the efficacy of these drugs so funding can continue.” Broader awareness of these sorts of end-of-life psychedelic studies could be good for everyone, the researchers say.
*updated below* So much for keep calm and carry on, what Joe Scarborough proclaims to be his motto. It was the weirdest one-on-one back and forth with a high profile talking head imaginable. It makes high school look mature.
**UPDATED** Would we be any worse off with Stephen Colbert as president? I doubt it. Politifact has watched the video “(repeatedly!
Despite rising public concern about the federal budget deficit, Americans favor keeping Social Security and Medicare benefits as they are rather than taking steps to reduce the budget deficit (by 60% vs. 32%). – Public Wants Changes in Entitlements, Not Changes in Benefits This is starting early, so it’s time to revisit the facts.
“If we can prove that a biological attack originated in a country that attacked us, then all bets are off.” – Sect. Hillary Clinton Women can do it, too.
The interview with Obama by George Stephanopoulos wasn’t nearly as contentious as the interview with the Edwardses. No Republican talking points from Stephanopoulos yesterday, like when he accused Edwards of abandoning the troops with this beauty: “Do you think the Democrats should be saddled with the idea of completely cutting off funding for the troops?” Or this one: “You know, a lot of Democrats still in the Senate think that your position here is cynical political theater.
Recent Comments