October 9, 2008
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Wow. Look at how high Obama's dial poll numbers go during his Iraq answer from last night.
October 6, 2008
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I'm fighting for Pam Fleck.
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I know I'm doing everything I can.
October 3, 2008
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One of the highlights.
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Best campaign ad this cycle.
October 2, 2008
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FInally, a tick-tock of the financial crisis. To some extent it seems like the market tanked because people irrationally thought investment bank stocks would tank, becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Jack Bauer saves Darfur. Basically.
October 1, 2008
September 29, 2008
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Powerful and thought-provoking.
September 27, 2008
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"There's been nothing about the Washington reaction to this that has inspired confidence."
September 26, 2008
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Quote of the Day
September 25, 2008
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Hats off to a great Tiger.
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Why do we need Wall Street Welfare? Why not give the $700 billion directly to individuals struggling to pay the mortgage?
September 23, 2008
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"We went to war against the wrong country, Osama bin Laden just celebrated his seventh anniversary of not being caught either dead or alive, my family’s less safe than it was eight years ago, we’ve lost trillions of dollars, millions of jobs, thousands of lives and we lost an entire city due to bad weather. So, you know … I’m a little angry."
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John McCain: 13 cars. Barack Obama 1 car. Who's elitist now?
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Vote for Andrew Rice, then Digg this story!
September 20, 2008
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This should scare the hell out of you. It did me.
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Mishearing a question? No biggie. Refusing to acknowledge mishearing the question to the degree that you start making threats against NATO members? Bizarre and terrifying.
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Obama's economic plan.
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Obama, taking the economic crisis seriously. Offers a real plan with more info on his website.
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Andrew Rice in his element. This guys gonna be the next senator from Oklahoma.
September 19, 2008
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State of the race. Kos is making every effort to keep his poll objective. Still, this one can be easy to dismiss. The same trends showing up in every major tracking poll make it a little harder.
September 15, 2008
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I'm really digging this record tonight.
September 12, 2008
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Want lower taxes? Vote Obama.
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More and more state-by-state polls show the race hardening along red-blue divide, but that Obama is still in very strong position.
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Obama's got this.
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McCain's best week ever and the best he can do is tie this race. And the state-by-state polls still give us the edge. This is is high water mark.
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"John McCain is a serious man who promised to wage a serious campaign. Win or lose, will he be able to look back on this one with pride? Right now, it's hard to see how."
September 11, 2008
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Lying Liars and the Lies they Lie about. Somebody needs to call them out on this BS.
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John McCain: Fake outrage. Barack Obama: Impassioned defense of fundamental constitutional liberties. So, of course, McSame is surging in the polls.
September 10, 2008
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Basically everything you like about America was brought to by liberal Democrats. Let's not forget that.
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Great tool for speccing out my Feral DPS Druid.
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You don't call that maverick. You call it more of the same.
September 9, 2008
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This is a good discussion of some of the themes that have me really depressed today.
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This is terrific.
September 6, 2008
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Shorter John McCain: We have to throw out all those dirty Republicans, so us Republicans can clean up their mess. Wha!?
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Independent voters in the Free Press focus groups hates the vicious, classless, and outrageous attacks in Sarah Palin's speech. Bad news for Republicans thinking this will finally be the year they take Michigan.
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Hats off to Darren McCarty for battling his demons, making right by his family, and coming all the way back.
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Why editing matters, and not just in photos.
September 2, 2008
To review:
Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom…of the press. - First Amendment
And here’s a great example of that press freely exercising its rights:
Campbell Brown asks McCain spokesperson Tyler Bounds about Sarah Palin’s foreign affairs experience three times. The first time, Tyler talks about how McCain has loads of experience. The second time he talks about Barack Obama’s relative lack of experience.
After the third time, Brown finally gets him to say that Palin has foreign affairs experience because she commanded the Alaska National Guard. So Brown asks him to name once command decision Palin made. Just one. Bounds can’t do it!
John McCain was so enraged by a member of the press exercising her fundamental right to ask tough questions that he cancelled a scheduled interview with Larry “Softball Questions R Us” King.
Punishing media outlets that don’t kowtow to the Dear Leader? This is the kind of thing a two-bit dictator would do.
Of course, what should we expect from a ticket that wants to ban books, Ray Bradbury style?
John McCain hates freedom. It’s the only conclusion you can draw.
September 1, 2008
Make no mistake. There is no honor in being ready for the second hurricane.
Every pre-positioned FEMA supply caravan is one that should have been there three years ago before Katrina. Every bus full of evacuees is a bus that should have left New Orleans three years ago before Katrina. Every ounce of tough talk from a failed president is a speech that should have been given three years ago before Katrina.
Every shored-up levee this time is a levee that never should have broken in the first place.
The failures of Katrina were just another example of George Bush’s failed Republican philosophy. Krugman nails it today:
FEMA’s degradation, from one of the government’s most admired agencies to a laughingstock, wasn’t an isolated event; it was the result of the G.O.P.’s underlying philosophy. Simply put, when the government is run by a political party committed to the belief that government is always the problem, never the solution, that belief tends to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Key priorities are neglected; key functions are privatized; and key people, the competent public servants who make government work, either leave or are driven out.
New Orleans does not deserve to further suffer the wrath of George Bush’s failures. Luckily the storm has weakened considerably in the last 24 hours, so most are cautiously optimistic that the levees will hold and a great American city will live to fight another day.
But we are not out of the woods yet. Whatever it is you do to appeal to the fates, do it now to try to sway those levees to withstanding the storm surge.
Whatever you do, don’t watch the news today with pride. Watch the news today with profound sadness that we’re three years late.
