But the news of the hour is that McCain is pulling out of Michigan. John McCain is pulling out of Michigan, according to two Republicans, a stunning move a month away from Election Day that indicates the difficulty Republicans are having in finding blue states to put in play. Biden could be helping Obama in [...]
Archive | October, 2008
DEPRESSING
Sarah Palin isn’t stupid. Her performance at the Republican convention was masterful. Evidently, after George W. Bush, Republicans think the American voter will buy anything. As for me, I simply find Palin’s position on the veep ticket depressing. The first woman involved since Geraldine Ferraro, going back almost 25 years, and all we’re hearing from [...]
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New York Times Hit Piece Swings and Misses at Biden
–updated– They say timing is everything. This piece on Biden sure is: An Everyman on the Trail, With Perks at Home. We all know what the use of the word “perks” is supposed to imply. They wait until the day of the vice presidential debate to run a very thin hit piece on Joe Biden. [...]
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Planned Parenthood Makes a Killing on Palin
The above video is from Couric’s interview tonight with both Biden and Palin, which touched on the issue of abortion, among other things. Now, I don’t get emails from PP because I’m not a member, but I was emailed the article below recently and laughed out loud when I saw it. I was traveling when [...]
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Remembering the Good Times Amidst the Bailout
Embedded video from CNN Video WJC delivered today. We’ll see if the Senate delivers a bailout bill tonight. But let’s remember where we are today compared to when WJC was president. That’s one thing WJC brings to the campaign trail. He’s the biggest gun in the “Hillary Sent Me” campaign. It’s great to have him [...]
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Biden Sees his Son Off to Iraq
Beau, a Captain in the Delaware National Guard, deploys to Iraq on Friday. In case you’ve lost track of reality during the economic crisis, the DoD just announced its 2009 Iraq deployments, “additional major units scheduled to deploy in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.” The fight to get out of Iraq isn’t over. I’ve made [...]
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Gwen Ifill ‘for Obama’ v. Tom Brokaw ‘for McCain’
BY TAYLOR MARSH –updated– **UPDATE: Ifill’s book was no secret. Hear conservatives whine. If you want to know how much the right-wing is lapping up the latest traditional media controversy, all you had to do was listen to the first part of Rush’s show this morning. El Rushbo gleefully cited Gwen Ifill as being in [...]
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Prepare for the Palin Word Blizzard
–updated– via Huffington Post A former challenger lays it out: Palin is a master of the nonanswer. She can turn a 60-second response to a query about her specific solutions to healthcare challenges into a folksy story about how she’s met people on the campaign trail who face healthcare challenges. All without uttering a word [...]
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