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Paid the (Opportunity) Cost to be the Boss Posted 11 Aug 2008 under 2008 Presidential, Bad Dems, Barack Obama
Download james_brown-the_boss.mp3 (James Brown - “The Boss”) Like many other Democrats, I became aware of Barack Obama during the 2004 DNC convention. I remember reading an advance copy of his speech along with the accompanying hype from various Chicago writers who were obviously big fans. I was aghast that the keynote speech, both the “coming [...]
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Exposing McCain’s Shortcomings Posted 06 Aug 2008 under 2008 Presidential, Barack Obama, St. John McCain
How’s this for totally taking McCain’s pants off (and, in the immortal ad-libbed words of David Niven, exposing his shortcomings)? Barack Obama, speaking in Elkhart, IN today: Now, yesterday, Senator McCain started running a TV ad saying that Washington is broken. No kidding. It only took Senator McCain those 26 years in Washington to figure that out. [...]
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Who’s Running John McCain? Posted 29 Jul 2008 under 2008 Presidential, St. John McCain
There are any number of people out there who are firmly convinced that by the time you become a serious presidential candidate you are already deeply in thrall to dark and shadowy king-makers who firmly control your puppet-strings. They tell you what to do, and you obediently keep on doing it. (That, for [...]
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We Did Not Have Relations With That Man, Mr. Payne Posted 15 Jul 2008 under Bush Man Date, Corruption, Podium Spin
(1) Over the weekend, The Sunday Times brought us the delightful story of how Stephen Payne, a “lobbyist with close ties to the White House is offering access to key figures in George W Bush’s administration in return for six-figure donations to the private library being set up to commemorate Bush’s presidency.” Yesterday, someone at the White [...]
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Feingold: Vote For Obama Because Of The FISA Bill Posted 11 Jul 2008 under 2008 Presidential, Barack Obama, War on Terror
Russ Feingold has often come across as a reasonably sensible guy, but something seems to happen to politicians when they are working to see the nominee of their party elected as president. In thrall to this inexorable political force, Republicans have recently been seen to exhibit a blind and lemming-like obedience to he-whom-they-regard-as-Dear-Leader. Dear Leader [...]
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Is It So Hard For The McCain Campaign To Defend McCain? Posted 30 Jun 2008 under 2008 Presidential, St. John McCain
General Wesley Clark criticized John McCain on CBS’s “Face the Nation” yesterday for lacking executive experience. Clark said that “in the matters of national security policy making, it’s a matter of understanding risk, it’s a matter of gauging your opponents and it’s a matter of being held accountable. John McCain’s never done any of that in [...]
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In Praise of David Frakt Posted 25 Jun 2008 under Bush Man Date, Corruption, War on Terror
Maj. David Frakt is a military lawyer assigned to defend Mohammad Jawad, “a minor when he was captured in Afghanistan after allegedly throwing a hand grenade that wounded two U.S. soldiers and their Afghan interpreter”. These are excerpts from the powerful and eloquent closing argument Frakt presented at a pretrial hearing before a military commission at [...]
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Human Guninea Pigs? Oh, No! Never! Posted 20 Jun 2008 under Bush Man Date, Corruption, Iraq War, Podium Spin
On June 17, the Washington Times reported on a joint investigation with ABC News: The government is testing drugs with severe side effects like psychosis and suicidal behavior on hundreds of military veterans, using small cash payments to attract patients into medical experiments that often target distressed soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, a Washington [...]
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Condi Speaks the Truth! Posted 18 Jun 2008 under Rice
Yes, I thought she was incapable, but how can you argue with this? Remarks After Meeting With Lebanese President Michel Suleiman - State.gov (6/16/08): Secretary Rice: And so, obviously, in any compromise there are compromises… Good lord. This is supposed to be a brilliant woman? Someone get Section 9 on the blower. But wait, this [...]
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The Truth About John McCain Posted 16 Jun 2008 under 2008 Presidential, St. John McCain
(1) John McCain’s campaign continues to lurch from embarrassment to embarrassment. Just in the last five days, we have witnessed: — McCain declaring that “it’s tough, it’s tough in some respects” to be proud of our country. — McCain claiming to hard-core Clintonites that he will not be appointing Scalito and Robertss and Bork wannabees [...]