Filed at 10:42 pm, Monday November 26th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Facebook, which has just partnered with ABC News for some political ventures, has added a newly revamped US Politics application to their offerings. One of the interesting things that they’ve added are side-by-side-comparisons of ABC News polling, and polling on Facebook, in terms of which candidates people have indicated that they support through the US […]
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Filed at 4:13 pm, Monday November 26th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
An awkward moment at the White House. More here.
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Filed at 2:10 pm, Monday November 26th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Is somebody in the Bush Administration trying to stop certain high level administration officials from using email and the internet? Check out this odd exchange from July:
REPORTER: So do you not take your blackberry when you go to China?
SECRETARY RICE: The truth of the matter is I […]
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Filed at 11:58 am, Monday November 26th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
The thing that surprises me most about this video produced by the Dodd campaign and uploaded o their official YouTube account is that it looks… like a YouTube video. It lacks the production values of political ads; it’s all done in one take, it’s got poor framing, the audio is terrible and it looks like […]
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Filed at 10:31 am, Monday November 26th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Trent Lott’s resignation may be imminent.
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Filed at 12:54 am, Monday November 26th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
NN says it’ll be Obama vs Huckabee in the general election. Would that be the politest campaign in history?
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Filed at 12:48 am, Monday November 26th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
From the new CBS news poll:
“Which comes closest to your view about movies being made about the current Iraq War? Do you think it is appropriate for movies to be made about the Iraq war at this time, or is it too soon?”
Appropriate
Too soon
Depends
Unsure
33%
61%
2%
4%
With all due respect to 61% of Americans, you’ve got to be […]
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Filed at 12:16 am, Monday November 26th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Whew, traveling takes a lot out of me.
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Filed at 2:46 pm, Sunday November 25th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Before there was the Clinton campaign’s outright question planting, there was Scott McCellen’s questions to sympathetic reporters Jeff Gannon and that Pakistani reporter who always asks questions about Pakistan-US relations. Looks like Giuliani is going about things the original Republican way:
It is not exactly a plant, but Giuliani seems to have at least an overzealous […]
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Filed at 11:09 am, Sunday November 25th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
He simple cannot admit he was wrong. Richard Perle:
“I don’t believe I was wrong [about Iraq], let me be very clear about that.”
Exactly which part was Perle not wrong about?
The part about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction?
The part about Iraq cooperating with terrorists and giving them said WMD?
The part about Iraq reconstituting its nuclear […]
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Filed at 10:49 am, Sunday November 25th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
This is rich. Fred Thompson picks a fight with Fox News:
During an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, former Sen. Fred Thompson, R- Tenn., grew testy when shown clips of conservatives Fred Barnes and Charles Krauthammer saying that the former Law and Order actor could not win.
Thompson said such doom and gloom […]
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Filed at 11:57 pm, Saturday November 24th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Moving the goal posts:
With American military successes outpacing political gains in Iraq, the Bush administration has lowered its expectation of quickly achieving major steps toward unifying the country, including passage of a long-stymied plan to share oil revenues and holding regional elections.
Instead, administration officials say they are focusing their immediate efforts on several more limited […]
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Filed at 6:12 pm, Saturday November 24th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Bush had “the Google.” Thompson has “the YouTube.”
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Filed at 5:42 pm, Saturday November 24th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
At the end of this video from the spin room at the Democratic debate in Nevada recently comes this exchange:
BLOGGER: Do you believe that your husband would ever give consideration to possibly running as a running-mate to say a candidate like Ron Paul? Obviously you can’t say anything now…
ELIZABETH KUCINICH: I think he’d take it […]
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Filed at 4:14 pm, Saturday November 24th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
I guess being surrounded by deadly weapons is, for some, a day in paradise. How odd:
White House hopeful Fred Thompson called his trip down aisle of rifles, shotguns and pistols at a gun show “a day in paradise,” and said he wished he could come back to spend more time and money.
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