This is just weird. Close your eyes and it’s George W. Bush speaking…
“We have people who are plotting against us right now, getting ready to repeat the atrocity of Sept 11. We know it, I see the intelligence reports.” –Hillary Clinton, sounding very desperate in a [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Hillary Clinton
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
Battleground: New Hampshire. For your late night/early morning reading enjoyment. Via Huffington Post:
New Hampshire Will Be Key Battle In GOP Civil War
As the pared-down field of presidential candidates returns to battle today in preparation for next Tuesday’s primary, the GOP faces the prospect of two struggles: one, an intra-party conflict to determine who is going to be the Wall Street/national defense establishment candidate; and, two, a civil war in which the winner of the first conflict takes on Mike Huckabee, the Iowa victor who is leading a right-populist/evangelical insurgency. The initial GOP contest is to determine [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Democrats, Republicans
Categories: 2008 Election · Democrats · Republicans
New Hampshire. Just around the corner. The race is on.
The Iowa Bounce Begins: ARG NH Poll
ARG, which actually has a pretty good track record in New Hampshire, shows Obama AND Clinton up strongly from their previous poll: [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, New Hampshire
Crossposted at http://www.ivoter08.com and The Krile Files
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
How can the White House PR writers sleep at night, being forced to turn out this absolute drivel?
Bush goes beyond talking points on economic woes
Economists may be fairly united in believing that today’s jobs report, with the increase of the unemployment rate to five percent from 4.7 percent, and the anemic 18,000 jobs added in December making last month a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad time for the employment part of the economy. Some are even using the R word, saying that the economy may be in or nearing recession. But you’d never know any of that from the press release issued this morning by [...]
Tags: Economy, Unemployment Rate
Categories: Bush Administration · Economy
Yes, that’s it. That’s the excuse. Jet lag. Campaign exhaustion. Why else would Romney say something this, well… stupid. The one saving grace may be that almost nobody watches the CBS Early Show.
Romney: People don’t want change ‘in the White House.
On the CBS Early Show this morning, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney inexplicably claimed that Americans only want change “in Washington,” but not “in the White House”: Well, you know, I think the race in Iowa was really a very clear call that people want change in Washington, not in the White House, in Washington. Watch [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Romney
Categories: 2008 Election · Romney
Our economic snowball is rolling downhill, picking up victims right and left and the economy seems to crumble around us.
…”The Star-Ledger’s traditional advertising revenue has been falling rapidly because of several difficulties hitting us at once. Our real estate and automotive customers have been suffering, and they have slashed their advertising this year with us by $11.5 million through November,” the letter continues, adding later, “Mergers in banking and retail have also cost millions, while the increased competition from Internet companies has [...]
Tags: Economy
Categories: Economy
It really was just good, old-fashioned, politics. Kos says, in fact, it wasn’t all that distant from the way the progressive movement has succeeded..
One thing that’s fascinating about the Huckabee victory in Iowa is that the movement that propelled him to victory — his Evangelical base — is truly a cousin to our very own people-powered movement. Think about it — these are people that have been taken for granted by the Republican establishment, exploited and overworked, only to receive crumbs and empty rhetoric in return. Sick of being marginalized except [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Huckabee, Iowa Caucuses
Categories: 2008 Election · Huckabee
Bill says Hill can win. But….
Wishing for Ten Instead of Five
When the truth comes out of the mouth of Bill Clinton, it’s worth noting. ABC News’ Kate Snow Reports: “Bill Clinton says his wife can be a “comeback kid” just like he was. “Absolutely,” President Clinton said in a brief [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Hillary Clinton
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
Ummm, unless you live on the West Coast. Life is not good. Here’s a hint: Sell what own out there and live for the rest of your life in our part of the country. Really. And it ain’t a bad place. Not at all.
Over A Million Lose Power As Storm Pounds California
Howling winds, pelting rain and heavy snow pummeled California on Friday, toppling trees, flipping big rigs, cutting power to more than a million people and threatening mudslides in fire-scarred areas. Flights were grounded in [...]
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He was also a blogger. You really must read what he wrote. And, be prepared to shed a tear. Or two. Or three.
Major Andrew Olmsted, a veteran Army officer and blogger, was killed yesterday in Iraq. He left a moving, hilarious, heartbreaking posthumous essay that you absolutely must read. When you’re done, leave a comment in his memory at Obsidian Wings — [...]
Tags: Iraq War
Categories: Iraq War
Now, it appears, the gloves will come off on the Democratic side. It’ll be interesting to see how Obama handles any of these expected attacks from Clinton..
Time’s Karen Tumulty reports that the Clinton campaign plans to respond to their loss in Iowa with much sharper attacks on Barack Obama:”We’ve got to start holding him to the standard people hold her to,” Clinton’s chief strategist Mark Penn [...]
Am I alone in questioning Mark Penn’s usefullness as “chief strategist”?
Tags: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
John Edwards finished 2nd in Iowa. But all the attention is on Hillary Clinton’s 3rd place finish. Huh? Elizabeth Edwards stood up for her husband on Hardball today, doing an excellent job of schooling Chris Matthews!
Categories: 2008 Election · Edwards
I was pointed to a fascinating blog this evening, authored by a veteran of the Iraq War. It’s filled with photos and stories of life on the ground. It’s real. It’s gritty. And his readers frequently fill the comments with tales of their own.
Step 1: Surge. Step 2: ?? Step 3: Pullout!
…This has been on my mind all new year. It was left anonymously in a comment section of an earlier entry: “Sometime this year, an eighteen year old soldier will die in a war that started when he was thirteen.” Hold onto that. Let it linger [...]
Tags: Iraq
Categories: Afghanistan · Bush Administration · Iraq War
One of our quotes of the day has to come from John McCain, the man many now think could end up near the top of the GOP field!
McCain Flip Flops Again: 100 Years In Iraq ‘Would Be Fine With Me,’ Even ‘A Million Years’
During a town hall meeting in Derry, New Hampshire last night, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) told a crowd of roughly two hundred people that it “would be fine with” him if the U.S. military stayed in Iraq for “a hundred years“: Q: President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for 50 years — (cut [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Iraq, John McCain
Categories: 2008 Election · Iraq War · McCain
Not the news the market wanted on this Friday.
Jobless Rate Hits 5 Percent, 2-Year High
Hiring practically stalled in December, driving the nation’s unemployment rate up to a two-year high of 5 percent and fanning fears of a recession. Employers last month added the fewest new jobs to their payrolls in more than four years, according [...]
Tags: Economy, Unemployment Rate
Categories: Bush Administration · Economy
It’s over. Iowa’s big night turned into a huge night for Obama and Huckabee. Much was written today about what the outcomes mean. Consider this a “sampler” of what I stumbled on.
PEEK: GOP Down to McCain or Huckabee Amid Field of Kooks
Huckabee’s a force. And all they have to stop him with is McCain. Because a Huckabee nomination? Well, you ain’t seen Kooky yet [...]
34-25-13-13 (And More Hucksterism)
The Huckster might crash and burn after New Hampshire, but he’s got one of the shrewdest PR instincts I’ve seen in awhile [...]
He sounds more presidential than all the others combined. An amazing speech. Count me as a new supporter. (Sorry John Edwards.) [...]
More after the jump…
Categories: 2008 Election · Huckabee · Obama
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