This might be taken slightly out of context, but it still makes me groan:
[Biden] stumbled through a discourse on race and education, leaving the impression that he believes one reason that so many District of Columbia schools fail is the city’s high minority population. His campaign quickly issued a statement saying he meant to indicate […]
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Mitt Romney has once again conflated Democratic rival Barack Obama with terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden while on the campaign trail. Romney’s “mistake” came on Tuesday while he was speaking before Republican primary voters in South Carolina. A video of his comments can be found above, and the following […]
The latest music video from Barely Political, staring Leah Kauffman (the voice of Obama Girl), takes aim at Ann Coulter. Pretty great stuff.
Part of me still can’t believe we’re at the point where we have exchanges like this:
REPORTER: Thank you, sir. A simple question.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes. It may require a simple answer.
REPORTER What’s your definition of the word “torture�
THE PRESIDENT: Of what?
REPORTER: The word “torture.†What’s your definition?
THE PRESIDENT: That’s defined in U.S. law, and we don’t […]
After his veto of the SCHIP children’s health care bill, President Bush has been described by some conservatives (skeptically) as a “recent convert to fiscal discipline.” And there’s plenty of reason for skepticism, as McClatchy points out:
George W. Bush, despite all his recent bravado about being an apostle of small government and budget-slashing, is the […]
Today’s quote of the day goes to Rudy Giuliani, who said, reminiscing on his time as Mayor of New York:
“I took a city that was full of pornography and licked it to a large extent.”
CNN is reporting that some 500,000 Americans have now fled the wildfires in Southern California, in what is being called the biggest peace-time movement of Americans since the civil war. Thousands of Americans have lost everything they had and thousands more are at risk of the same.
I cannot understand a word of what FEMA claims […]
ExxonMobil’s latest target, according to House Science and Technology Committee Chairman Brad Miller (D-NC)? Polar bears. That’s right, polar bears:
A key Democratic congressman accused ExxonMobil last week of pushing junk science intended to fool the public into believing Alaskan polar bears are not in danger.
The U.S. Geological Survey recently concluded that climate change and other […]
Mike Huckabee on the founders at Sunday’s GOP/Fox News debate:
“When our founding fathers put their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, those 56 brave people, most of whom, by the way, were clergymen, they said that we have certain inalienable rights given to us by our creator.â€
Really, Mike? Not so much (see link above):
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After Republicans tried to introduce a resolution to censure Democratic Congressman Pete Stark (CA) for his comments last week, which Republicans said “hurt the troops,” Stark apologized:
I think Stark probably came under a lot of pressure from Democratic leadership to apologize, since he was in danger of becoming more of a story than the real […]
Poll: Colbert leads Gravel, Kucinich and Richardson in South Carolina
In March, I wrote a report for Truthout called “The Unlikely Republican Frontrunner: Giuliani” in which I discussed the mayor’s moderate record on social issues and his rather sorted past, which conservatives in the GOP are not likely to embrace.
One thing that came up a couple of times throughout the piece was the fact that […]
Despite pressure, the Obama campaign won’t remove an anti-gay gospel singer from an African-American centered campaign-sponsored concert event.
Today’s quote of the day goes to Glenn Beck, who said:
“I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today.”
Update: More over at Brave New Films.
The above video was posted to Obama’s YouTube account today, as a message to Caucus for Priorities, a group that started in Iowa (and spread to New Hampshire) affiliated with Ben of Ben & Jerry’s True Majority group dedicated to lowering the amount of tax dollars spent on weapons systems and the Pentagon and increasing […]
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