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The sliming begins

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

The attacks on Barack Obama have begun. The Republicans are questioning his patriotism, and CNN immediately runs a poll asking if he’s patriotic enough to be president (sign a protest letter here). No word so far on whether they’ll poll on whether McCain is too dishonest to be president. Then again, even McCain can’t hope […]

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Nader redux

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Ralph Nader is going to run for president again. The man is pitiful. He will be remembered, not as the great consumer advocate, but as the man who gave this country George Bush. This time around the old man will find that no one is listening.

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Burying the story

Saturday, February 23, 2008

The McCain loving New London Day prints a Washington Post story that establishes beyond doubt that the McCain campaign lied when it said that McCain had not personally met with Lowell “Bud” Paxson before he wrote a letter to the FCC on Paxson’s behalf. Where? On the obituary page, of course. The story is not […]

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Protesting too much

Friday, February 22, 2008

The Hartford Courant (A Poorly Sourced Story) joins the journalistic crowd eager to prove that the “Clinton Rules” definitely don’t apply to Republicans. According to the Courant, the Times has “some explaining to do about its story Thursday suggesting that Sen. John McCain of Arizona had a romantic relationship several years ago with a lobbyist […]

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A bit of history about Cindy McCain, who says she’s better than Michelle Obama

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Since Cindy McCain has interjected herself into the campaign by hyping her moral superiority to Michelle Obama she has, as the Republicans would say, made herself “fair game”. When Democrats use that term it means telling people the truth about their opponents, because with Republicans you don’t normally have to make anything up. Turns out […]

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Bill says Hillary can’t win without Texas and Ohio

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

There appears to be only one way the Democrats can lose the White House in November: by forming a circular firing squad. The chances of that happening have appeared to be good, particularly with rumours that Hillary is planning to try to have delegates seated from Michigan and Florida. Those states, which Obama did not […]

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Letterman on McCain

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

I suppose as a person on the brink of geezerdom I should take umbrage at this, but I think this is just the message that will win the election for Obama: McCain is an artifact of the past. via The Huffington Post

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Have they no shame?

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

We learn today that people who allegedly have brains are seriously suggesting that Jodi Rell would make a fine vice-president. Recall, if you will, that the Constitution provides that, should the president die, the vice-president becomes president. Connecting the dots, that means that in the likely event McCain dies in office (and someone notices) Rell […]

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A foretaste of what’s to come

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

This is the sort of thing that is rapidly turning me off to the Clinton campaign: “William Ayers, in the age of terrorism, will be Barack Obama’s Willie Horton.” –Former counterterrorism official Larry C. Johnson, The Huffington Post, Feb. 16, 2008. Who is William Ayers? He is a former weatherman who is now a professor […]

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Nicholas Kristof hearts McCain

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Looks like Krugman is taking some indirect pot shots at fellow Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. I was amazed myself when I read Kristof’s column. Hypocrisy is alright, abandoning your “principles” is alright, so long as you’re not totally comfortable about it and so long as your name is John McCain.

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