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2008-10-22 08:50:59 InterOpNurse
I was interested in learning more about the Presidential candidates and their position on various topics in healthcare. Especially after reading the endorsement of Senator Barack Obama by the American Nurses Association, it prompted me to do my own research. Here are the results of m...
2008-10-22 07:41:25 PFSConsultant.com
As I examine the probability and historic aspects of this Presidential election, it is evident it is Obama's race to lose. John McCain continues to alienate himself from the Conservative base and sounds more like a Reagan Democrat than a Republican. The fact McCain will let the Bush ...
Obama Picks Biden as VP Running Mate. Barack Obama named Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware as his vice presidential running mate early Saturday, balancing his ticket with a seasoned congressional veteran well-versed in foreign policy and defense issues. Presidential candidate Barack Obama sa...
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2008-10-15 11:55:29 Life at the Bar LLC Blog
There's an interesting story in yesterday's Chicago Sun-Times, excerpting a new book that describes Michelle Obama's dissatisfaction with the work she was doing as a second-year associate at Sidley Austin.  A sample: Too monotonous for Michelle, who, White [the partner in charge of th...
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2008-10-13  All True
If you get a vote in the upcoming US election, please use it wisely - the world can't afford for Sarah Palin to become Vice President (or worse, President).She thinks being able to see Russia from Alaska counts as "foreign policy experience" and she thinks dinosaurs co-existed with hum...
, usa , obama , president , mccain , election , sarah , politics , america
I'm slowly recovering from a tragic last few days, in which the Chicago Cubs, the best team in the National League this season, failed to show up for their three playoff games. I was among the more than 42,000--a number that surely had to violate some section of the fire code--jammed i...
, RHIO , open , HIMSS , John , Barack , 2008 , professional , Legislation , Health , certification
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2008-10-06 12:16:43 A Healthy Blog
Obama continues to pound away on health. Saturday, he gave a in-depth speech (text; video) in VA contrasting his plan with McCain’s. In addition to his points attacking the taxing of employer-provided benefits, Obama broadened his focus to insurer practices that would be permitte...
2008-10-06 12:05:14 togaac.com
Every Americans asked who won the vp debate, as you may know, after US presidential debate between Obama and McCain, now it's time to Vice Presidential Debate. i found information Jackbook.com the VP debate held Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 9 P.M. Eastern Time, 8 P.M. Central Time. ...
Good article - one of the main points is Palin's coldness or detachment from emotion. You can see an example of this in her answer here - when she was asked on abortion and what if her teenage daughter was raped and become pregnant - it is interesting to see the difference between her ...
2008-10-06  Jesus' General
My new group, "Swiftboaters for McCain," just released this video taking Obama to task for the people he knows.
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2008-10-06  USAmérica Vota'08
Desempolven sus cascos y sus espadas, señores, porque los próximos 29 días van a ser duros. La campaña de John McCain ha decidido que ya va siendo hora de dejar de hablar de economía, que es un tema que no les beneficia nada, y trasladar el debate a otra materia más suculenta: el...
, Juego , John , Candidatos , Barack , Republicanos , Demócratas
2008-10-06  FOXNews.com
Palin defends charge Obama is 'palling around with terrorists;' Obama fires back that GOP ticket is 'erratic and dishonest'• McCain Brother Calls N. Virginia 'Communist Country'• 'SNL' Slices and Dices Palin, Biden in Debate Send-Up• Biden Puts Campaign on Hold After ...
2008-10-06  Expressio Unius
One of my least favorite slogans this political season has been to contrast Obama with Palin, in saying that "Jesus Christ was a community organizer, and Pontius Pilate was a Governor."It started right around the time Palin made fun of Obama in her convention speech, and caught on like...
Over the weekend, Sen. John McCain’s brother referred to the Northern Virginia suburbs of Arlington and Alexandria as “communist country,” presumably for their traditional Democratic-leaning ways. I don’t cover politics at TWI, so I’m not going to comment ...
, Blog , Obama , Politics , Economy , oboma , Presidential , Presidential , race
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2008-10-06  Gateway Pundit
Not only does Barack Obama's church of 20 years support Hamas and Hezbollah but Barack Obama also has a long close friendship and financial association with suspected former PLO operative and Israel hater Rashid Khalidi.Last night Sean Hannity dared to report Barack and Michelle Obama'...
2008-10-06  The Trail
By Ed O'Keefe New ads released over the weekend by Barack Obama continued a focus on health care, while John McCain's criticized Obama's record on taxes in perhaps the last gasp of the policy-related ad war that has dominated the airwaves in recent weeks. The McCain campaign has signal...
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2008-10-06  Economist's View
The McCain health care plan has a reverse Robin Hood effect in that it takes health care insurance away from those who need it the most and gives it to those who are healthiest and most able to afford coverage: Health Care Destruction, by Paul Krugman, Commentary, NY Times: ...Cons...
, Economics , Health , Politics
2008-10-06  NO QUARTER
I call it the Reverse Negative Twist.  The guy is starting to use the trick he used so well against Hillary Clinton in the primary.  It is the same trick that causes the media to say he’s staying above the fray while in reality he is the fray. (CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama on...
, Current , deceit , Lies , name , Obama
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A Washington Post report begins: As the deadline for voter registration arrives today in many states, Sen. Barack Obama's campaign is poised to benefit from a wave of newcomers to the rolls in key states in numbers that far outweigh any gains made by Republicans. In the past year, t...
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Obama and McCain offered conflicting visions of how to shrink the American military presence in Iraq, the best way to encourage further political progress there and what it would mean to succeed after more than five years of war.
TB’s Quote of the day: ”Who am I?...why am I hear?”…Admiral  James Stockdale when he was a running mate with Ross Perot. The statement was met  by laughter but TB worried that he might have Alzheimer’s. But it was just a statement to introduce himself that fell flat. TB alw...
2008-10-06  kottke.org
The New Yorker devotes the entire Talk of the Town section in their latest issue to their endorsement for President. As you might guess, Obama gets the endorsement and John McCain receives no quarter from the editors. The key part of the article concerns the candidates' possible appoin...
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2008-10-06  City Desk
Leonard Downie Jr. said he’d still be a busy fellow once he stepped down as Washington Post executive editor in early September. And here he is, just weeks later, in the prime spot in the Sunday Outlook section. Not reminiscing about his years atop the Post; not talking journo-et...
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Not much lower, I would have thought. Sure, some pretty ugly things were said here in Oz during our 2007 election, but nothing up to, or down to, the standard of Palin's smear about Obama's "terrorist mate". Obama himself has given this the answer it merits. However, if you are curious...
AP - The McCain and Obama presidential campaigns traded accusations of mudslinging Monday in the wake of new ads dredging up infamous events from 20, 30, even 40 years ago.
AP - The McCain and Obama presidential campaigns traded accusations of mudslinging Monday in the wake of new ads dredging up infamous events from 20, 30, even 40 years ago.
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2008-10-06  The Morning News
If we’re going to play the guilt by association game, let’s not forget that Palin has birthed five children from the seeds of a secessionist. A few more kids and we’re looking at a full-blown militia. The benefit of having a vice presidential candidate that doesn&#...
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2008-10-06  Tuvotoestufuturo
Filed under: Estados Unidos, Tras el voto latino, DemócratasLa cantante colombiana Shakira no puede votar en Estados Unidos, sin embargo esto no le impide dar su opinin acerca de la elecciones presidenciales del pas, y para ella, Barack Obama debe ser presidente. Shakira hizo pblic...
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Their advisers have also represented widely differing positions. Randy Sheunemann, McCain’s campaign foreign policy coordinator, seems to be mainly concerned with the threat from Iran and the security of Israel. In 2002, he was the founder of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq,...
2008-10-06  Marc Ambinder
It has been true all that year that the McCain campaign is operating in the worst political environment for an incumbent party, indeed, one that has all but erased the advantages of incumbency. Before the economic collapse, the wrong-track number in the country averaged about 76, acco...
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2008-10-06  Blogging by Tina
Note: I hope I don't offend anyone here who is supporting Obama for President. There are people who have reasons for wanting to vote for him, and since we live in a free country, that's perfectly OK. These are my personal concerns.)1. I am afraid that the Fairness Doctrine will be ...
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If you or someone you know has been meaning to register to vote in Virginia to participate in our crucial swing state's role in this historic election, tomorrow is the deadline! Today is the last day that anyone can register. Deadline to Register: The last day to register to vote t...
2008-10-06  Maggie's Farm
Front Page enjoyed American CarolHow the NYT handled the Ayers storyBlue State Blues. DriscollGermany to EU: Drop deadStaying out of poverty is simpleWinking updateVote fraud expected to be rampant this yearOil prices heading downThis may explain why the Arctic ice was melting, but not...
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2008-10-06  Stop The ACLU
-By Warner Todd Huston So, instead of merely reporting the news, now reporters are the news? Apparently Charlie Gibson thinks he is, anyway. He gave an interview to the Toledo Blade on October 5 as if his opinions of the race for the White House are somehow more important than the news...
, Elections , Liberal , News , Sarah
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2008-10-06  Laurie Kendrick
We are constantly reminded that we need to relax; that stress is a killer. Yes it is and yes, we ought to try our best to eliminate as much fear, worry and panic from our lives as we can.   Easy to say; not always that easy to do.  In these times of fiscal insolvency; global uncerta...
, 2008 , Democrats , Humor , Obama , comedy , entertainment , fear , news , panic , politics , psychology
2008-10-06  Right From Left
Whether you believe the hype or not, whether or not you believe the polls, McCain-Palin begin October behind.I'm skeptical about the polls, but Obama did get a bit of a bounce from debate #1 and the electoral map has shifted. It will continue to shift around. With a good debate perfor...
Although Professor Obama is usually seen as the intellectual in the presidential race, John McCain is no slouch in the study of history. However, unfortunately, through his reading, he has come to see himself as the second coming of Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders. Is it any wond...
, Rough , neoconservatives , Barack , collectivism , constitution , John , liberatrian , statism , Theodore , welfare , gay , liberty , Republicans , freedom
2008-10-06  Language Log
Earlier this year, we had some fun with a quirk of web-trained statistical MT that sometimes causes odd mistranslations of country names. This happens because information in parallel web pages is often localized rather than translated; some of the posts are "Made in USA == Made in Aust...
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2008-10-06  CDR Salamander
Not totally unrelated to my previous post. There are patterns at work here.
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AP - The McCain and Obama presidential campaigns traded accusations of mudslinging Monday in the wake of new ads dredging up infamous events from 20, 30, even 40 years ago.
As I've said earlier, the Obama-Ayers connection fails to excite me. But if Obama is to be pilloried for his relationship with Ayers, I'm not sure why the John McCain-G. Gordon Liddy connection isn't equally worrisome (via Yglesias). Here's a taste of Liddy's checkered past: Which prin...
2008-10-06  Asthma Mom
Cold-Induced Wheezing = High Asthma Risk in Kids Almost 90% of young children who wheezed with a cold before they turned three developed asthma by age six, according to a new study. Why is that significant? Here’s why: [m]uch attention has been focused on another common infectiou...
, Asthma , Asthma , Asthma , Children's , Children's , FDA , Friday , Holidays , House , aids , aids , caramel , carved , colds , fda , halloween , kids , mccain-palin , obesity , pumpkin , rhinovirus , rsv , steroids , strimple , turn , u.s. , usda
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2008-10-06  Soccer Dad
In his column yesterday, the NYT's public editor, Clark Hoyt asserted: By my count, The Times has published more tough articles on Obama, 20, than on McCain, 13, since the beginning of last year. I have posted links to the stories on my blog, The Public Editor's Journal, and you can de...
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Source: [b]BBC News[/b] In a new internet video being e-mailed to supporters, the Obama campaign launched its own attack on Mr McCain over his connections to tycoon Charles Keating, who was convicted of securities fraud after his savings and loan scheme collapsed. Mr McCain was one...
2008-10-06  The Back Forty
By Sean Reagan Colorado has been a fascinating swing state during this cycle. In the past forty years, its electoral votes have gone to a Democratic presidential candidate only once – to Bill Clinton, in 1992. But 2008 appears to be Colorado’s year to go blue in a big way. O...
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There's not much news in the new NY Times article on the Obama-Ayers relationship. The piece debunks the notion that Ayers got Obama appointed to be the head of Annenberg Challenge board. It notes that Obama listed an Ayers book...
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Chicago Tribune Students and professors at the University of Illinois rallied for Barack Obama on the Urbana-Champaign campus Thursday - holding signs, passing out fliers and registering people to vote - to probe an increasingly controversial question as the November elections approach...
2008-10-06  TRAIL BLAZERS
Sarah Palin has accused Barack Obama over the weekend of "palling around" with terrorists. Mr. Obama has had an association over the years with former radical William Ayers. In February, Obama strategist David Axelrod told the Politico Web site: "Bill Ayers lives in his neighborhood. T...
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Health wonks who worried that the global financial crisis would eclipse health care talk in the presidential campaign got some good news this weekend. Barack Obama brought the subject back, attacking John McCain’s health plan in stump speeches and new advertisements, the Los Ange...
, Health , Presidential , Medicaid , Medicare , Insurance
2008-10-06  Politics
With a month to go and the poll numbers down, the McCain campaign is playing the guilt by association card, and that’s leaving some conservatives uneasy. On Saturday, the recently unsequestered and newly empowered Sarah Palin went on the offensive, toting the “gloves are of...
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Michigan Republicans are also calling McCain’s melodramatic abandonment of Michigan a “stunt.” [Politico] Poor U.S. “consumers” finally got the memo (or the credit-card cancellation letter) and have stopped spending. [New York Times] Today’s the las...
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You know Jim Cramer. He's the host of CNBC's "Mad Money". Basically he screams at you about the stock markets and investment. Big guru. I'm not good with screamers, so I can't watch him for more than a minute without having to change the channel. Besides, I don't have any money anyway....
By Matthew Holt One of the few virtues of getting on a plane and leaving California is that you get to see Presidential political ads on actual TV. Obama has a new ad about health care which explicitly attacks “government...
, Policy , Policy/Politics
2008-10-06  Gawker: Top
The New Yorker published its profile of Arianna Huffington. Though disappointingly far from the juicy takedown we hoped for, it does contain a few interesting nuggets. We learn, for example, that the Republican-divorcée-turned-internet-pub lisher bizarrely "hides" all three of her ...
, moguls , arianna , barack , election , huffington , journalismism , maureen , media , michael , new , politics , the , tim , top
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  Legendary rock musician Bruce Springsteen performs for a crowd of over ten thousand during a rally in support of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, Oct. 5, 2008, at the Oval on the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. The rally was held to encourage Obama ...
The American Spectator: Five weeks and one vice-presidential debate after joining the Republican ticket, Sarah Palin is not going away. As she proved Thursday night in St. Louis, for those who hoped to make her Dan Quayle, she is not obliging. Already she is rewriting the conventional ...
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Here’s a summary of the smartest new political analysis on the Web: by Gerald F. Seib and Sara Murray It’s been a bad stretch for Sen. John McCain, but few have been willing to go this far: Former Hillary Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson, now writing for The New Republic, declares ...
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2008-10-06  The Buzz Bin
Yes, we all hate these ethical transgressions. Social media is supposed to be a game changer, a creator of forthright relational discussions between two parties, not another communications tool set to manipulate people with.. Yet, unethical communicators from all sides of the ais...
, Geoff , Internet , Allison , astrourf , communications , grassroots , PR , unethical
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Even though he has a 100 percent pro-choice Senate voting record, a new website is alleging that Barack Obama is the most pro-life candidate in the race for president. The Pro-Life, Pro-Obama site, started by a group of Christians with the pro-Obama Matthew 25 network, argues that...
, Campaign , WorldMagBlog , abortion , barack-obama , John-McCain , Matthew , pro-choice , pro-life
2008-10-06  The Swamp
by Frank James Sen. John McCain has a new anti-Obama ad out called "Dangerous" which tries to work on at least two perceived voter concerns -- the X factor which Sen. Barack Obama still represents for many voters and the thought of Democrats controlling two branches of government. ...
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2008-10-06  Knowledge is Power
The partial story of the Ayers/Obama relationship told by the New York Times today is collapsing of its own weight but has likely added to the confusion. Since I am one of the “bloggers” referred to without an explanation in the Times’ story I thought I would summar...
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2008-10-06  LT Nixon Rants
Moran Naomi Wolf Continues To Not Heed AdviceFeminist moran, Naomi Wolf, has advocated some very silly ideas in the past. Presumably because she can't get any, Ms. Wolf has argued for abolishing our beloved pornography because it kills men's libidos, while simultaneously advocating fo...
, media , hippies , morans , Fun
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2008-10-06  Google News
Seattle Post IntelligencerMcCain, Obama campaigns trade barbsThe Associated Press- 38 minutes agoWASHINGTON (AP) - Officials with the presidential campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama are trading fresh accusations of mudslinging a month before voters choose George Bush's succ...
2008-10-06  Iowa Independent
Photo: Carroll Daily Times Herald My husband thought it was more than a little strange when I bought an airplane ticket to visit Carroll, Iowa — half way across the country from our home in Washington, D.C. — just to volunteer for the Barack Obama campaign for President. ...
, Campaigns , Commentary , Slot , Slot , Barack , Carroll , Elizbeth , Iowa
OK, I'm starting to get it! If you want meanness, violence, aggression, hatred, racism, and protracted war you can vote for a really angry man and a pretty mean side kick. If you are interested in the end to war, more diplomacy, and a respectful, kinder, more inclusive world then vote...
2008-10-06  Obsidian Wings
by hilzoy Politico: "Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Monday will launch a multimedia campaign to draw attention to the involvement of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in the “Keating Five” savings-and-loan scandal of 1989-91, which blemished McCain’s public image and set him on his cour...
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2008-10-06  Political Radar
ABC News' Rick Klein reports in Monday's Note: Four weeks out, what does it say that . . . Team McCain is hoping that Bill Ayers has one last bomb in him -- just enough to blow up the presidential...
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Er is maar een oplossing op al het gezeur in de wereld:
2008-10-06  FOXNews.com
A new global poll of 17 countries finds a huge preference for Barack Obama over John McCain in the presidential election in 16 of those countries. In the 17th country -- the U.S. -- McCain was edging out Obama.
“They’d rather try to tear our campaign down than lift this country up,” he told several thousand supporters at a rally here Sunday. “That’s what you do when you’re out of touch, out of ideas and running out of time.”
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2008-10-06  Stop The ACLU
This ad hits Obama hard. He tried to dodge the issue through Joe Biden at the VP debate, and tried to come across as a hawk during his debate against John McCain, but would a hawk who supports our troops say and do these things? As Ed says, Obama is the Code Pink candidate. Jodie Ev...
, Barack , Elections , John , News , military
2008-10-06  Dr. Sanity
Thomas Sowell wonders if facts matter anymore:The current financial bailout crisis has propelled Barack Obama back into a substantial lead over John McCain-- which is astonishing in view of which man and which party has had the most to do with bringing on this crisis.It raises the ques...
Just sayin'. So, does anyone have a theory why the media is shoving Obama down our throats this year? Is it that they want to teach us values? The first African-American president? If that is true, why couldn't we have the first female president? Wouldn't that have been just as val...
Whoever is behind the Obama campaign is a master of psychological/emotional manipulation.   The emotionally charged words and slogans, "hope", "change", "believe", coupled with Barack's kind and compassionate demeanor  (see the end of this video of Obama with a needy college stude...
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2008-10-06  Althouse
This chart illustrates the proposition that the more substantial -- physically substantially -- man wins. Think about it:(View that clip in its 4 minute context here.)Say what you want about weight -- and give Barack some cheeseburgers if he needs to bulk up -- I think the chart mainl...
, psychology , Obama , height , James , fat , political
2008-10-06  TransGriot
One of the things that I have been frustrated as hell to watch over the last two decades is the GOP attack on intelligence for political reasons.As someone who is a proud TK (teacher's kid), graduated from a gifted and talented high school and went on to college, I'm cognizant of and p...
, education , GOP
2008-10-05  Queer Conservative
Another friend of Obama has a hit video:Lovely. B. Hussein Obama has got such a super duper high class circle of friends.
, President , Leftists , Barack , Democats , 2008 , Liberals
2008-10-05  Political Punch
On Monday the Obama campaign will start hitting Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on his role in the late 80s/early 90s Keating 5 scandal, despite previous indications by Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill, made months ago, that the scandal was not "germane"...
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Politico - Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Monday is launching a multimedia campaign to draw attention to the involvement of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in the “Keating Five” savings-and-loan scandal of 1989-91, which blemished McCain’s public image and set him on his co...
"U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama has promised not to cut foreign aid to Israel if he is elected in November, a spokeswoman for Obama has said."
2008-10-05  Gordon's Notes
The timing of McCain/Peron'sPalin's "Ayers attack" is good news ...Palin, on Offensive, Attacks Obama’s Ties to ’60s Radical - NYTimes.com.... The article to which she referred, in The New York Times on Saturday, traced Mr. Obama’s sporadic interactions with Bill Ayers, a founder...
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2008-10-05  Mom-101
"Mommy, can you put on a Thalia show?" "No sweetie, this is the news. They're talking about the election. Remember how I told you that we're going into a voting booth together soon and we're going to vote for Obama?" "What's a voting booth?" "Well you've been in one with me every ye...
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2008-10-05  Health Care BS
Arguably, the most consistently successful stratagem ever devised by the Democrats is their perennial campaign to frighten the elderly into voting for them by claiming that Republicans want to do away with Social Security. Every election, with the grim inevitability of Greek tragedy, ...
, McCain , Obama , Political , Reform
One does have to wonder if the Obama campaign wasn't just waiting for McCain to bring the nasty, so that they could unveil this new website, which is called "Keating Economics: John McCain and the Making of a Financial Crisis." Rope-a-dope, I believe the strategy is called. So far, t...
Apparently feeling there’s no other way to win, the McCain campaign is now trying to “go negative” in an effort to make Obama unelectable. Obama has tried to stay above that sort of thing...and while Obama may be a better human being than that...I’m not. We will divert away fro...
, National , Campaign , McCain , Negative , Obama , Scandal , US
Below: Isn't it time the McCain campaign stuffed a sock in that fat mouth, before someone gets really angry? Photo: Nati Harnik/APLipsticked pitbull Palin is on the loose again. Hope Animal Control gets here soon, before she hurts herself, or another animal.During her stop in Californi...
, The , Existential , WH08 , Denial , Down , Free , The , White , Hatin' , Republicans
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2008-10-05  d r i f t g l a s s
In which the Mouse Circus takes another step down that long, shiny hellroad to full-on Hollywood SquaredomBecause if two heads good, well then, by golly,four heads better!On Fox News Sunday Chris Wallace excitingly repeats the phrase “Master Strategist, Karl Rove” 100 times. I ass...
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2008-10-05  Anglachel's Journal
Yes, I'm a few days late with this and haven't had time to read it in full until today. I've added Hillary's news page as a live feed to the sidebar to keep up with what's coming out of her Senate office, which is an amazing amount. I'd link my own Congress critters' news feeds, too, e...
, Housing , Roubini , Economics , Clinton , Class , Hillary , Democratic , Class , Political
My first ever review of LDS conference and I am excited. Now before you get your hopes up, I didn’t watch Mormon conference. I just go to mom and dad’s house from noon until 2pm between the morning and afternoon sessions because they serve free sandwiches. And it is one of...
, Mormon , Family
In reply to Why political debates aren’t very helpful: I realize I am being simplistic in bringing up a 3rd party, but I do believe our country is far too vast to be represented by a 2 party system that is less like a counter-balance & more like enemies... Politics has become a mora...
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2008-10-05  Anglachel's Journal
Yes, I'm a few days late with this and haven't had time to read it in full until today. I've added Hillary's news page as a live feed to the sidebar to keep up with what's coming out of her Senate office, which is an amazing amount. I'd link my own Congress critters' news feeds, too, e...
, Housing , Roubini , Economics , Clinton , Class , Hillary , Democratic , Class , Political
2008-10-05  Beyond the Rhetoric
Life’s lessons are all around you and they can sometimes come from the most unexpected of sources. There may not be an obvious connection between the business of freelance writing and trying to become the next United States President, but there is a lot that freelancers can...
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2008-10-05  Smiles & Trials
My husband and I are following the election very closely. Despite our busy life with our awesome kids, we manage to keep our lines of communication open and flowing freely. Politics is often a source of discussion with us outside of an election so you better believe with a new pres...
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2008-10-05  Terry Cowgill
Who says Palin is smearing Obama? This is a smear.
, Oddball , Race
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2008-10-05  Ad Savvy
Obama’s new political ad, “The American Promise” is the single most frightening political advertisement I have ever seen in my life. It’s absolutely chilling. The rabid cultist gleam in the eyes of the supporters nearly weeping as Obama repeats his meaningl...
, Bad , Branding , Crowd , Cult , Election , Marketing , Political , Political , Politics
2008-10-05  Roger's Rules
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”–George Santayana What would Santayana (1863-1952) say were he with us today? Although born in Madrid, Santayana lived and taught in the United States for decades, an amused, slightly detached observer of...
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As many of you know I am not the biggest Obama fan... but I guess I will vote (I have to admit I am still thinking about that one for the first time in my so called adult life). Assuming I vote and as I could never vote for McCain, Obama will get my vote. So there you have it. That bei...
We just got back from the Bruce Springsteen/Obama rally and there was zero information on what the ticket would do. There was some bashing of republicans and a whole lot of recruiting and angling to take people to vote early. Disappointing, there was a good chance to push the views and...
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2008-10-05  neo-neocon
Fifty-nine percent of those polled want to turn in their Congressional tiles and pick some new ones. Of course, when you do that, sometimes you get an even worse hand. But if the tiles you’re holding are bad enough—all vowels, for example—you’re willing to ...
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At first, I was amused by John McCain’s bitter-sounding “life isn’t fair” remark. Asked why Obama has been rising as the Wall Street crisis has dominated attention, McCain said with a chuckle on Fox News Channel: “Because life isn’t fair.” But on second though...
, Law , Politics , Political , Political , George , Republicans , Supreme , GOP , Election , John , Campaign , Barack
2008-10-05  BeldarBlog
My latest guest-post at HughHewitt.com ponders how Tom Brokaw can revere the Greatest Generation's heroism in the 1940s, yet dismiss Bill Ayers' terrorism in the 1960s and 1970s, and call him a mere "school reformer" despite his present radical plans to turn our educational system on i...
, 2008 , Books , Current , McCain , Obama , Politics
2008-10-05  Marc Ambinder
This blog will turn into a 501 (c) 6 before you know it.Responding to reports that Sen. McCain's associations are considered fair game by Democrats, Republican strategists affiliated with the McCain campaign say they plan to highlight Obama's alleged contacts with individuals who they...
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I have officially set this week apart as "Political Rant" week so here is one more link for you to read concerning that BILL congress passed on Friday.A Canadian lectures Americans on U.S Constitutional niceties in this article aptly called "Ignoring the People". You'll see that even p...
Being in the Philadelphia television market, I see most of the TV ads that are meant for the targeted state of Pennsylvania. I can't tell you how many times I've seen this Obama ad. I just saw it again during the Sunday night football game on NBC and changed the channel to see it les...
2008-10-05  Too Dark To Read
Watching the above video sent a chill down my spine. The energy of the crowd and the fanatical waving of the signs as Gov. Sarah Palin linked Sen. Barack Obama to terrorism felt like something out of a bad movie - the wicked demagouge gaining widespread support by preying on the collec...
2008-10-05  BAGnewsNotes
Liddy has acknowledged preparing to kill someone during the Ellsberg break-in "if necessary"; plotting to murder journalist Jack Anderson; plotting with a "gangland figure" to murder Howard Hunt to stop him from cooperating with investigators; plotting to firebomb the Brookings I...
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In reply to Why political debates aren’t very helpful: I realize I am being simplistic in bringing up a 3rd party, but I do believe our country is far too vast to be represented by a 2 party system that is less like a counter-balance & more like enemies... Politics has become a mora...
2008-10-05  The Gimp Parade
Provided by the Ohio Legal Rights Service. (Link leads to a chart showing the positions of both McCain and Obama on a wide variety of disability issues, both professed positions and voting records as of this September.)An update for that chart: Tucked into the financial bailout bill th...
, Minnesota , politics , mental
2008-10-05  Barack Oblogger
Well, McCain has no more gimmicks up his sleeve and has now resorted to the kitchen sink strategy in a flailing attempt to invigorate his flagging poll numbers. And he's letting his adorable... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and mo...
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There was a very long and mildly amusing exchange on the mailing list about Sarah Palin's performance in my inbox today. Amusing until someone took it seriously and began regurgitating the usual rumors about Obama to the entire mailing list. Some things, like politics for example, prob...
, 1L , Advice , Advice
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Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, David Bernstein is upset with the AP for its biased reporting of Sarah Palin charge that Obama was palling around with terrorists. His evidence:Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Saturday accused Democrat Barack Obama of "palling aroun...
2008-10-05  scanners
I can't get enough of Tina Fey's Sarah Palin. I feel about her the way I felt about Dr. Evil in the first "Austin Powers" movie. My eyes light up whenever she's on camera. And then, of course, there are those little starbursts she sends through the screen that go ricocheting around...
, Comedy , Politics , TV
... and the MSM (and Mike Matthews) are quick to the rescue....
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While transgender workplace diversity issues are not inherently tied to any political ideology, it is clear that Barack Obama is supportive of transgender workplace rights and that John McCain is not supportive of transgender workplace rights. The transgender community and its allies ...
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