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Democrats win Seat held by Rep. Dennis Hastert 2008-03-09 11:48:26 Read about it here. There is quite a bit that could be said about this. Many other Bloggers have already written much of it. The writing is simply on the wall. I do not place the blame squarely on Bush himself. Because I am keenly aware of how things operate in Washington D.C., I know that the blame does not all go to him. I blame the advisers who went to him, the ones who were the dye-in-the-wool Neo-Conservatives, who went to him and said, "We can change the shape of the middle east, by invading Iraq." He, of course, bought into that foolish mindset and the scramble for intelligence began and when they found a piece of questionable intelligence, they proceeded to cherry pick it, to suit their needs. What followed was the quagmire that we are involved with now. This will e Read more:Democrats
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Snort Worthy Story of the day.... 2008-03-08 16:52:28 D'oh! The Story: Local girl makes unexpected appearance in Hillary ad (Via KING5.com) The Video: Quote: The political ad that sparked nationwide controversy turns out to have a surprising local connection. One of the actors in the Hillary Clinton ad was shocked to see herself, especially because she's a fierce supporter of Barack Obama. The so-called "red-phone ad" was played all over the country and helped turn the tide for Hillary Clinton leading up to her big win in Ohio. The commercial suggested Barack Obama was too inexperienced to handle a national crisis. But the young girl starring in the ad will actually be voting age next month and says she's no fan of Hillary Clinton I'd be willing to bet that someone in the Hillary camp is feeling about " Read more:Worthy
NAFTA-Gate Continues..... 2008-03-08 01:47:26 It's worse than the energizer bunny. It just keeps going and going and going..... Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton never gave Canada any secret assurances about the future of NAFTA such as those allegedly offered by Barack Obama's campaign, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office said Friday. With the NAFTA affair swirling over the U.S. election and Canadian officials skittish about saying anything else that might influence the race, it took the PMO two days to deliver the information. After being asked whether Canadian officials asked for — or received — any briefings from a Clinton campaign representative outlining her plans on NAFTA, a spokeswoman for the prime minister offered a response Friday. "The answer is no, they did not," said H
Not everyone in the Obama camp agrees with him on FISA and Telecoms 2008-03-08 01:41:30 Interesting... Check it out Quote: In a new interview with National Journal magazine, an intelligence adviser to Barack Obama
's presidential campaign broke with his candidate’s position opposing retroactive legal protection for telecommunications companies being sued for cooperating with a dubious U.S. government domestic surveillance program. "I do believe strongly that [telecoms] should be granted that immunity," former CIA official John Brennan told National Journal reporter Shane Harris in the interview. "They were told to [cooperate] by the appropriate authorities that were operating in a legal context." "I know people are concerned about that, but I do believe that's the right thing to do," added Brennan, who is an intellige Read more:everyone
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The stupidity of the Obama/Clinton flap. 2008-03-08 01:33:10 You know, I've always said this idiotic crap between Obama
and Clinton
was quite stupid. Josh Marshall agrees: Let me stipulate to one thing: if this were two Republicans squabbling, I'd be laughing my head off at the moment. And I can assure you a lot of them are. The Clinton campaign has gotten so deep inside the Obama campaign's collective head it just ain't funny -- or, depending on your political persuasion, it's very funny. Late Tuesday night I wrote that the upshot of the March 4th contests was that Clinton had beaten Obama up a bit and he hadn't responded. She'd not only bloodied up his poll numbers a bit by throwing all sorts of stuff at him. She also showed that it wasn't at all clear that Obama was enough of a fighter to stand up to this stuff or get back in her face Read more:stupidity
Temper Temper.... 2008-03-08 01:23:19 Seems old McBush lost his cool today. Eh, He's 71 years old, He's got permission to be cranky. A will say this, the press can be such jerks at times. Especially the "Liberal" press towards the Republicans. Hopefully, This will blow over and they won't keep harping on it. Others: Riehl World View, Salon, The Gun Toting Liberal™, Macsmind, Sister Toldjah, Jonathan Martin's Blogs, The Swamp and No More Mister Nice Blog (via Memeorandum)
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The Clinton/Obama Feud continues 2008-03-07 16:05:58 Read all about it here. One of Obama
's Staffers has resigned for calling her "A Monster". That's all? I mean, I've called her worse! However, it's perfectly fine for one of Hillary's surrogates to call Obama a "Magic Negro"? I just wonder, what has Hillary's camp called Obama? It is to wonder. Related Song: (H/T Memeorandum)
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Will someone please tell Hart Coulter to shut up? 2008-03-07 12:53:48 Um.... Didn't Karl Rove say NOT to do this? The Video: Transcript: From the 3 p.m. ET hour of the March 6 edition of MSNBC Live: COULTER: I don't think -- I must say, I tend not to think that the Democrats are gonna need my help. I mean, it looks to me as if it's going to be Bob Dole redux. I mean, terrorism does throw things off this year, but if you assume, as I tend to, that this is going to be a Democrat year, the choice is between B. Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton. And I do think Hillary Clinton would be tougher with the terrorists. I think she'd probably be worse on domestic policy, but right now, the war on terrorism has me more concerned. ROBACH: And you say, "B. Hussein Obama." COULTER: Yes. ROBACH: Why don't you like to say "Barack Obama&qu Read more:Coulter
Employment Situation 2008-03-07 10:53:05 This is a interesting report. Nonfarm payroll employment edged down in February (-63,000), and theunemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 4.8 percent, the Bureau ofLabor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Employmentfell in manufacturing, construction, and retail trade. Job growth continuedin health care and in food services. Average hourly earnings rose by 5 cents,or 0.3 percent, over the month.Unemployment (Household Survey Data) The number of unemployed persons (7.4 million) and the unemployment rate(4.8 percent) were essentially unchanged in February. Over the month, theunemployment rates for adult men (4.3 percent), adult women (4.2 percent),teenagers (16.6 percent), whites (4.3 percent), and Hispanics (6.2 percent)showed little or no change.
Ron Paul calls it quits. 2008-03-07 01:19:33 Read about it Here Of course there are some that are still living in denial. To be honest, I kind of liked the old guy. I didn't agree with everything that he said, But he was an interesting person. His old school Conservatism appealed to me. Unlike the Neo-Con crap we've got now. Anyhow, I feel for the many who gave to his campaign and didn't get anything out of it. I wish Rep. Ron Paul
all the best in any future endeavors. Others on this: Hot Air, Political Machine, The News Buckit, Liberal Values and Salon (via Memeorandum)
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More on the Armed Forces Recruitment Center Bombing 2008-03-07 01:08:21 Here's the latest on this story.... LINK: House Members receive letters, photo of NY recruiting station sent before bombing (via The Crypt's Blog @ Politico.com A number of House members were mailed a letter and photo of a Times Square recruiting station in Manhattan before it was bombed on Thursday morning, according to House insiders and law-enforcement officials. Initial information from Capitol Hill sources suggested the letters were sent only to eight House Democrats from the New York City area, but a senior House aide said many more members than that total could have received the missives. One source described the letter as a "20-page rambling rant," and the AP reported the envelopes included a "holiday greeting card" with the message "Hap Read more:Armed
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Bombing Attempt at a Military recruitment center in New York. 2008-03-06 12:43:25 The only reason I'm most likely the first Blogger writing about this, is because I just happen to be up this early, or up this late! CNN is calling it a "bang" MSNBC is calling it a "small explosion" and Fox News is calling it an TERRORIST ACT OF EPIC PERPORTIONS! "Explosion" It happened at a Military
Recruitment Center, go figure. I can hear the Right Wingers HOWLING now. "Them liberals are pure evil!" There are unconfirmed reports that George W. Bush was spotting happy dancing in his underwear. Something tells me, this is going to be the biggest story on the right wing and maybe no so right wing, Blogosphere by later today. For now, I'm going to bed, Night Ya'll! Don't let nothing exciting happen, till I wake up! Update: Looks like I Read more:Bombing
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Bush endorses John McCain 2008-03-05 13:37:32 On one hand this endorsement will be a good thing, amongst hardcore Republicans. However, amongst the Independent voters and those who are not pleased with the Bush Administration, this is basically a death sentence. The Story: Bush endorses McCain
.htm">John McCain
for president (via MSNBC.COM) President Bush endorsed Republican nominee-in-waiting John McCain on Wednesday, two bitter rivals from the 2000 presidential race joining together now in hopes of preventing Democrats from winning the White House this fall. "John showed incredible courage, strength of character and perseverance in order to get to this moment and that's exactly what we need in a president — somebody who can handle the tough decisions, somebody who won't flinch in the face of danger," Bush said, appearin
Updated: So far.... 2008-03-05 00:50:07 On the Republicans side: Ohio: McCain is the Projected winner Vermont: McCain is the Projected Winner Texas and R.I. are not reporting yet -- Update: McCain takes Ohio, Vermont, Texas and Rhode Island and is the G.O.P Nominee On the Democrat Side: Ohio: Clinton in the lead, no winner Projected Vermont: Obama in the lead no winner projected yet. Texas and R.I not reporting... Update: Obama Takes Vermont, Clinton takes Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island Update: This is going to be one interesting fight for Democrats. I will be Blogging about it. I look for this fight to go all the way to the convention. I also look for there to be redo for the Michigan Primary. Either way, it's going to a wild ride. Technorati Tags: election 2008 ,election '08 ,hillary clinton ,Barack Obama ,Democrats ,po
Radio News Anchor quits job after News Director pulls her story. 2008-03-04 23:15:58 Via f-brilliant: KKOB Radio
afternoon drive time news anchor Laura MacCallum quit her job last Thursday after the station’s news director pulled her stories about alleged vote-buying efforts at the recent Bernalillo County Republican Party delegate nominating conventions. MacCallum, a 32-year radio and TV news veteran who has worked in Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles, said the station caved to complaints from Congresswoman Heather Wilson’s Senate campaign about the stories. Wilson campaign spokeswoman Whitney Cheshire called the station to argue the unfairness of stories alleging that many delegates to the ward conventions were paid by Wilson’s and other campaigns to show up and cast their votes for certain delegates. - Read the Rest Hmmmmm... Interesting story Read more:Director
Exclusive Video: Current Weather Conditions here 2008-03-04 20:09:53 I am posting this from the Blogger interface. Which I hate doing. But this video shows the Weather conditions here in my area.So, I can see why the votes were held over in Ohio, because if that's what's happening in Ohio. It's a mess.Enjoy my rather lame Amateur Video.
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I have fixed feelings about this 2008-03-04 15:25:25 Is this a genuine desire to help a family, or is it a effort to capitalize on the death of a U.S. Solider? Didn't he have insurance? Did his family get a nice settlement when he was killed? Are they just trying to prey on the emotions on those who support our Military? As Michelle Malkin well put it, "SUCK.IT.UP!" I mean, I have a disability as well, I was born with Attention Deficit Disorder with hyperactivity. But you don't see me setting up a "Feel sorry for me page", do you? No. I admit, I'm the eternal pessimist and a proud cynic. I make no apologies.
The Polls say.... 2008-03-04 12:14:10 That Hillary might take a state tonight. Although, I tend to believe that Obama will very fare much better. McCain might sew it up tonight as well. Should be interesting... (H/T Memeorandum)
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Right Wing Bloggers for Jesus! WOO HOO! 2008-03-04 11:49:17 Yeah, I know it's a gay title, but I thought it was funny. The Story: Blogging While Female (Via Right
Wing News (Conservative News and Views)) Every so often in the blogosphere, on the Left and the Right, hostile debates over gender seem to rise up to the surface like a leviathan from the depths. Some male bloggers tend to think women get more links because they're women, some female bloggers think there's some sort of a "good ol’ boys" club that keeps them from getting big, and more than a few people seem to get huffy about the whole debate. However, the fact is that the issue is much more complex than it appears on the surface. The blogging experience ISN'T THE SAME for men and women. There are different advantages, disadvantages, and challenges t Read more:Jesus
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The 22 Year old, who brought down New York's Governor 2008-03-13 06:11:27 Wild.... Ashley Alexandra Dupre Ashley Alexandra Dupre - Woman at the Center of Eliot Spitzer's Downfall (via New York Times) She left a broken home on the Jersey Shore at 17 and came to New York City to work the nightclubs as a rhythm and blues singer. Now, at 22, she is the unwitting, and as yet unseen, star of the seamy drama that is the downfall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York. I partly feel sorry for this young lady. I saw this story this morning on the wires and blogs, I started to just ignore it. But it's news, I thought I'd say a few words. I thought about making a snarky comment, But that's just too easy, she's most likely going to be drug through the mud, by the MSM and some of the less forgiving Bloggers out there. I guess I'm a sucker for a pretty face. I can' Read more:Governor
Keith Olbermann's Special Comment on Hillary Clinton's Presidential Campaign 2008-03-13 04:09:50 Here is KeithOlbermann
's Special Comment
on the controversy surrounding HillaryClinton
's PresidentialCampaign
. The Video: Full Transcript: (Via MSNBC's Site) By way of necessary preface, President and Sen. Clinton, and the senator’s mother, and the senator’s brother, were of immeasurable support to me at the moments when these very commentaries were the focus of the most surprise, the most uncertainty, and the most anger. My gratitude to them is abiding. Also, I am not here endorsing Sen. Obama’s nomination, nor suggesting it is inevitable. Thus I have fought with myself over whether or not to say anything. Senator, as it has reached its apex in their tone-deaf, arrogant and insensitive reaction to the remarks of Geraldine Ferraro, your own advisers are slowl Read more:Hillary Clinton
Editorial: Mr. Mayor, You are wrong! 2008-03-12 16:57:01 While the national media today is focusing on the moral failure of the Governor of the State of New York. We here in the State of Michigan and those in the city of Detroit and the many suburbs of this great city are watching in utter horror as a Mayor
is attempting to turn a failure, of his own making, into a race war. Mr. Mayor, You sir, created this mess. You were the one, who had the extra-marital affair, you sir, were the one, who used a device, bought by your own governmental organization, to provide accountability to your office. You sir, were the one, who foolishly used this device to commit criminal offenses and were the one, who was caught. This whole mess was created by you and you alone. It was not created by the local media. The local media did
Obama snags Mississippi 2008-03-12 02:39:21 He's gaining by the minute. Obama
Wins Mississippi
(via MSNBC) NBC News declared Barack Obama as the projected winner in the Mississippi primary on Tuesday, the latest in a string of racially polarized contests across the Deep South and a final tune-up before April's high-stakes race with Hillary Rodham Clinton in Pennsylvania. Obama was winning roughly 90 percent of the black vote but only about one-third of the white vote, extending a pattern that carried him to victory in earlier primaries in South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana. I think, considering what Hillary Clinton's surrogate said about Barack Obama, This is just payback. I mean, Hillary, I believe is trying to cause division in the Democrat Party. I think it's immature and shows much about her. Senator Ob Read more:snags
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