Filed at 4:47 pm, Friday September 28th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
The NYT’s Patrick Healy has more on Clinton’s incessant laughter:
The reality is, Mrs. Clinton is the leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination right now, and the commensurate political attacks and criticism are coming at her from all sides. She needs ways to respond without appearing defensive or brittle, her advisers say.
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Last Sunday, meanwhile, she […]
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Filed at 2:54 pm, Friday September 28th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino on Rush Limbaugh’s recent defamation of American soldiers who oppose the Iraq war:
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Filed at 12:48 pm, Friday September 28th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
From a Fox News poll:
When a presidential candidate is in the middle of giving a campaign speech, do you think he or she should interrupt the speech to take a cell phone call from their spouse, or should the call be ignored until after the speech?
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:
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Filed at 11:55 am, Friday September 28th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
A little while ago, everybody watched a video of Dick Cheney in 1994 saying that taking out Saddam Hussein wasn’t worth it. Now we learn more about Cheney’s prior views, in this video from 1992 when Cheney was the Secretary of Defense:
In this Q&A session when he was Secretary of Defense, Cheney said that a […]
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Filed at 9:28 am, Friday September 28th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Today’s quote of the day goes to Sam Brownback, who said, noting the absense of the GOP frontrunners at last night’s African-American-centered Republican debate hosted by Tavis Smiley:
“I think this is a disgrace that they are not here. I think it’s a disgrace to our country. I think it’s bad for our party, and I […]
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Filed at 10:39 pm, Thursday September 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Big props to Tavis Smiley for having the guts to line up empty podiums at the GOP debate tonight to represent where Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson would have stood if they cared about the concerns of African Americans. Also, yes. That’s Alan Keyes on the far right (pun intended).
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Filed at 10:28 pm, Thursday September 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
What a surprise:
The American security contractor Blackwater USA has been involved in a far higher rate of shootings while guarding American diplomats in Iraq than other security firms providing similar services to the State Department, according to Bush administration officials and industry officials.
Blackwater is now the focus of investigations in both Baghdad and Washington […]
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Filed at 6:54 pm, Thursday September 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Me on Monday:
You know what I find really, really obnoxious? When Hillary Clinton laughs at something that’s not in the least bit funny. It’s a politician’s trick, to laugh at criticism in a way that suggests they’re not concerned about it or that it’s shallow criticism, but one thing I’ve noticed recently is that she […]
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Filed at 6:15 pm, Thursday September 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Today’s quote of the day goes to Rush Limbaugh, in the following on-air discussion about troop withdrawal:
CALLER: No, it’s not, and what’s really funny is, they never talk to real soldiers. They like to pull these soldiers that come up out of the blue and talk to the media.
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Filed at 5:21 pm, Thursday September 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
It’s been almost a decade after Matthew Sheperd was brutally beaten to death simply because he was gay. His killers served only a short time in prison because of loopholes in existing laws and the glaring lack of hate crimes legislation to protect gays and lesbians, just as hate crimes legislation exists to protect others […]
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Filed at 12:31 pm, Thursday September 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Good news! No sooner did the NYT report on it, Verizon has reversed their earlier decision to bar NARAL Pro-Choice America from using their network for text messaging:
“The decision to not allow text messaging on an important, though sensitive, public policy issue was incorrect, and we have fixed the process that led to this isolated […]
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Filed at 10:45 am, Thursday September 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Mayor Bloomberg wades into dangerous water:
In his most detailed comments on the Iraq war, Mayor Bloomberg last night suggested the United States was in the same difficult position as the British in the Revolutionary War - facing a determined band of insurgents.
Bloomberg said the comparison occurred to him when he visited his mother recently and […]
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Filed at 11:59 pm, Wednesday September 26th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Apparently women’s rights are far too “controversial or unsavory” for Verizon to be associated with.
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Filed at 9:48 pm, Wednesday September 26th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Obama missed the vote on Kyl-Lieberman today- an amendment that would have formally designated part of Iran’s military a “terrorist organization” and essentially provide rationale and the semblance of Senate endorsement for war against Iran. Jim Webb (D-VA) called it “Dick Cheney’s fondest pipe-dream.”
It passed by a large margin, but Obama says he would have […]
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Filed at 9:42 pm, Wednesday September 26th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
I didn’t have a chance to watch the debate live (I had a class), and I’m working on homework right now, but did anybody watch it? Who stood out? Was there a clear winner? What will we be reading in the headlines tomorrow? Were there any YouTube moments?
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