So my two-year-old prediction about Jim Webb being chosen as the Vice Presidential nominee is apparently not happening, and with the official announcement due any day now, I figured I’d better make another pick. The only futures market bet I made on the Democratic side was to go massively short on Chuck Hagel, as […]
Obama Camp Puts Forward More Modest Tax Changes - New York Times (8/16/08):
Senator Barack Obama appears to be altering his proposals for extending Social Security payroll taxes and raising the capital gains tax, by delaying the increases or scaling them back.
Mr. Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, has not abandoned either his support for […]
Allies Ask Obama to Make ‘Hope’ More Specific - New York Times (8/17/08):
As Senator Barack Obama prepares to accept the Democratic presidential nomination next week, party leaders in battleground states say the fight ahead against Senator John McCain looks tougher than they imagined, with Mr. Obama vulnerable on multiple fronts despite weeks of cross-country and […]
Joe Lieberman’s deep immersion in the McCain campaign has led to repeated exposure to the lobbyist culture that permeates McCain’s campaign (since St. John is so staunchly The One True Foe of Lobbyists, as we all know since we follow mainstream media narratives so diligently). And repeated exposure seems to have resulted in some […]
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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 […]
From the normally dependable Reuters:
This all has to end soon, right?
Report: Edwards admits to extramarital affair - CNN (8/8/08):
Former U.S. senator and Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards admitted Friday to an extramarital affair. He denied being the father of the woman’s child, as had been alleged in tabloid reports.
“In 2006, I made a serious error in judgment and conducted myself in a way that was […]
On Monday, I criticized Barack Obama for reversing his stand on offshore drilling. Obama had indicated that he was willing to support a bipartisan compromise crafted by the “Gang of 10″ (a group of five Democratic and five Republican senators), even though it includes limited offshore drilling.
Now that I’m one week older and wiser, […]
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. […]
After firmly opposing offshore drilling as a policy of pointless pandering, and getting a lot of heat for it from the McCain campaign, last Friday Barack Obama abruptly announced that he would reverse his position.
That’s change you can believe in, right there. He changed his policy before our very eyes:
Democratic presidential […]
