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Daily Archives: August 27th, 2008

Divided?

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

The press has been playing up “divisions” in a Democratic Party that has, perhaps, never been more united. The idea that there is a vast reservoir of former Clinton supporters that will support McCain has always been somewhat ludicrous. The number of Clintonites who vote for McCain will likely be swamped by the number of […]

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The Times notices Suskind

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

It is only fair that I note after two posts on the subject (here and here) that the New York Times has finally covered Ron Suskind’s book, The Way of the World. Not on the news page, but in the form of a book review. If the Times news department had doubts about the book’s […]

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Kucinich rocks the house

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

He always made more sense than any of them. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLRYAzBJdb0[/youtube]

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Video Press Releases

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

More from your liberal media. I don’t watch much television, and of course we’re not in a swing state, so I haven’t seen this in action, but this post at The Washington Monthly is entirely and depressingly believable. John McCain doesn’t actually have to pay to run his ads on television. The networks take care […]

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Hillary Done Good

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

From my vantage point, bleary as I was late last night, I thought Hillary did a good job. Whether she meant it or not (and I’m not buying into the body language crap, yet another new low in journalism), is almost beside the point. As a man I presume was wise once said, “The secret […]

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