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| Could you be any more blunt?
Filed at 10:59 am, Tuesday July 22nd 2008
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Howard Fineman on The Chris Matthews Show.
I probably wasn’t the only one
Filed at 9:55 pm, Monday July 21st 2008
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
This is a little embarrassing, but when I glanced at this headline from Politico, I immediately read it as “McCain is old man out on ‘time horizon’” and did a double take. Whoops.
If you take into account recent polls on the subject (see the below AP video report), I probably wasn’t the only one to […]
Audio: Bill O’Reilly compares bloggers to Nazis and the KKK
Filed at 4:42 pm, Monday July 21st 2008
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Audio from Bill O’Reilly’s radio show today, criticizing Al Gore’s surprise appearance at the Netroots Nation progressive blogger conference this weekend. Boy, O’Reilly really hates bloggers.
New McCain ad blames Obama for high gas prices
Filed at 10:59 am, Monday July 21st 2008
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Really? This ad is just ridiculous.
Iraqi PM backs Obama’s plan over McCain
Filed at 9:59 am, Sunday July 20th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Even though al-Maliki is now trying to deny that he meant this, there’s really no putting the cat back in the box when you make statements like this one:
“U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months,” Mr. Maliki said, according to the magazine’s online English edition. “That, we think, would be the right timeframe […]
McCain goes on the attack– hard, vintage RNC style
Filed at 3:20 pm, Friday July 18th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Here’s the McCain campaign’s new negative ad which claims that Obama voted to deprive funding to “the troops” in the field:
(By the way, when it comes to hearings mentioned in the ad–which Obama hasn’t been holding since he’s been running for president– McCain’s record is even worse.) His campaign has issued an accompanying document mischievously […]
Flash: Obama raised $52M in June; McCain raised $22M
Filed at 7:28 am, Thursday July 17th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
The details:
In an e-mail to supporters, campaign manager David Plouffe said the Obama campaign raised the funds with an average donation of $68. The Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee have a combined total of $72 million in the bank, Plouffe said.
“But more impressive than the number is how you did it,” Plouffe wrote. […]
George Bush doesn’t care about Black people
Filed at 9:38 pm, Wednesday July 16th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Will Kanye reprise his famous post-Katrina comments when he performs in front of thousands of people at the Democratic National Convention in Denver this year?
This year’s Democratic National Convention Committee revealed that a trio of hip-hop artists — Kanye West, Wyclef Jean and N.E.R.D. — will perform when the party gets together in Denver. A […]
More of this please
Filed at 11:34 pm, Tuesday July 15th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Obama dismisses the New Yorker cover distraction on Larry King Live.
Partial transcript:
KING: Considering that, though, there’s a lot of e-mails going around. It gets rather terrible. A “Newsweek” poll shows that 12 percent of America believes that you’re a Muslim, and 26 believe — 26 percent believe you were raised […]
Bush won’t ask the American people to conserve
Filed at 2:22 pm, Tuesday July 15th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
As if we needed even more evidence of the complete lack of leadership from the White House these days….
Bush won’t demand conservation
President Bush said Tuesday that he will not call on Americans to conserve gasoline despite the rising price of oil, saying consumers are “smart enough” to figure out for themselves that they should drive […]
Democratic caucus to finally kick out Lieberman?
Filed at 10:53 pm, Sunday July 13th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
I’m tempted to say better late than never, but this really should have happened ages ago:
Despite assurances to the contrary from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Democratic insiders are certain that Sen. Joseph Lieberman will be kicked out of the party’s caucus next year and lose his Senate chairmanship if he addresses the Republican National […]
One nation, divided
Filed at 10:18 pm, Sunday July 13th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
This question caught my eye from the latest Gallup Poll:
“Some people think of American society as divided into two groups — the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ — while others think it’s incorrect to think of America that way. Do you, yourself, think of America as divided into haves and have-nots, or don’t you think of America […]
“A good number” of the 300 economists who signed onto McCain’s economic plans… well, didn’t.
Filed at 5:31 pm, Friday July 11th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
Whoops:
It’s now clear that a good number of the 300 economists who “endorsed” John McCain’s economic policies did no such thing. Many see a conflict between the costs of an extended war and McCain’s promises back home; others didn’t bother to read the specifics of what they were asked to sign.
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