If you thought the Buhtto assassination story was settled, think again. Far, far from being settled.
Two new reports on the assassination last month of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto suggest that the killing may have been an ambitious plot rather than an isolated act of violence and that the government of President Pervez Musharraf knows far more than it’s admitted about the murder. A police officer who witnessed the assassination said [...]
Tags: Bhutto
Categories: Pakistan
Seems folks (media and political) are spending a lot of time trying to extricate a foot (or, even, two of them) from their mouths. Chris Matthews has been doing it and, now, it’s Bill Clinton’s turn:
Bill Clinton: Obama’s candidacy isn’t the “fairy tale”; his Iraq war opposition is [....]
Tags: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
I usually try to save these economic posts for late at night. Wouldn’t want to scare the kids. It’s bad enough for those of us who are adults…
Yes, we have an economy so robust under President Bush that it has created the largest Federal deficits in history, the largest total government debt, real estate bubbles, hedge fund failures, and, perhaps his greatest accomplishment a [...]
Tags: Bush Administration, Economy
Categories: Bush Administration · Economy
Ah, the Huckster’s campaign is going all high-tech on us! Nothing like an automated phone call to warm things up!
Who knew that Mike Huckabee has a state-of-the-art, multi-million call push-polling operation fueling his presidential bid? It is, technically, an independent operation. But one of the premier push-polling operations, Common Sense Issues, who we reported on last year when they [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Huckabee
Categories: 2008 Election · Huckabee
You’ve likely heard part of this story before. But, bear with me, as I allow Mahablog to aim a couple of tough punches at Mike Huckabee.
Frankie Parker (A Tale of Two Prisoners)
Last month Murray Waas reported that as governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee went out of his way to parole a convicted rapist who then raped and murdered at least one other woman. While on the campaign trail, Huckabee has claimed that he supported the 1999 release of Wayne Dumond because, at the time, he had no [...]
Tags: Huckabee, Wayne Dumond, Frankie Parker, Executions
Categories: Huckabee
Here come the Michigan primaries!
CQ Poltics answers eight questions about the confusing Michigan primary scheduled for January 15 [...]
Tags: Michigan Primaries
Categories: 2008 Election
It’s been a really slow Friday evening around the blogosphere. At least I’m home, with my feet up, not stuck in an airport somewhere. Folks, I give you one “slightly upset” Anderson Cooper of CNN:
Anderson’s View: Friday Flight-mare
I’m flying down to Atlanta today, but as I write this I’m sitting on the floor at LaGuardia Airport waiting for an update on my flight. The weather is bad and it seems like all the flights are delayed. For some reason [...]
Categories: Consumer
Why should you care that gold futures are in unknown territory? Hutch does as good a job as I’ve seen explaining it.
Gold Futures Rise To $900 Ounce Price, Record
Today, for the first time in history – the price of Gold rose to $900 an ounce in futures trading. That record price is bad news for an already hurting U.S. economy and spells bad news for optimistic economic watchers that hoped the United States would avoid a recession in 2008. The price of Gold is tied directly into[...]
Tags: Economy
Categories: Economy
You can just about stick a fork in Rudy and his campaign.
It’s bad enough that Rudy’s had to ask his top staff to go without pay so that his campaign can conserve money for the do-or-die (for Rudy) Florida primary on January 29th. Now comes word that Rudy has fallen into [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Rudy Giuliani
Crossposted at http://www.ivoter08.com and The Krile Files
Categories: 2008 Election · Giuliani
You remember that little showdown between Iranian boats and our ships in the Gulf last weekend…the one the Pentagon quickly came up with video to support their contentions? Well, guess what?
As the Righties get their knickers all twisted because some of us don’t - gasp - immediately take the US military and the Bush administration at their word over what happened in the Gulf on Sunday…Iran releases its own video of the events. Reuters: “Iran released a video on Thursday which it said showed its boats did not threaten U.S. navy vessels in the Gulf, countering [...]
Um, even the Pentagon is backing down. That’s striking.
The Lede: Less Confidence on U.S.-Iran Incident
Pentagon says audio could have been from elsewhere, Iran releases a competing video [...]
Glenn Greenwald, writing at Salon, sums things up this way:
The U.S. military inflicts more damage on its own credibility
It seems increasingly clear that the U.S. military’s initial claims about its interaction with those five Iranian speed boats in the Strait of Hormuz was exaggerated in significant ways, approaching Jessica Lynch/Pat Tillman/Iraq-is-going-great territory. It’s impossible to resolve all of the conflicting details of each side’s self-serving version, but the most inflammatory facts which the Navy originally asserted, and which the American news media uncritically regurgitated, are quite dubious, if not demonstrably false. Here, for instance, was [...]
UPDATE: I’m bumping this back to the top, thanks to this new information:
It just gets more and more bizarre. From The Navy Times: “The threatening radio transmission heard at the end of a video showing harassing maneuvers by Iranian patrol boats in the Strait of Hormuz may have come from a locally famous heckler known among ship drivers as the “Filipino Monkey.”[...]
Tags: Bush Administration, Iran
Categories: Bush Administration · Iran
Well, now. McCain and Clinton. You buyin’ that?
And, in Florida, guess who?
FL Poll: Giuliani Has Fallen Behind
Tags: 2008 Elections
Categories: 2008 Election
Did you hear? It snowed today. In Baghdad!
Iraqis gratefully received a belated holiday gift today when the first snowfall in memory descended on their country. “‘When I was young, I heard from my father that such rain had fallen in the early ’40s on the outskirts of northern Baghdad,” 63-year-old Mohammed Abdul-Hussein told AP. “But snow falling in Baghdad in such a magnificent scene was [...]
Tags: Iraq, Baghdad Snow
Categories: Iraq War
Topic: Evolution.
…He simply has no idea why being knowledgeable about a subject and grounded in reality might be useful in a president. Sadly, neither do a lot of Republicans who have catapulted him to serious consideration as their nominee for president. And, in some ways even worse, neither do the denizens of the sober, serious national press, who have colluded with Huckabee to give him national stature. Folks, this is [...]
Yup. It was bound to happen. Even the big-time Conservative bloggers are piling on. Not in a good way!
Charm and evasion — the Huckabee way
Mike Huckabee’s emergence as a first-tier candidate had much to do with the charm he displayed during early debates and, presumably, on the campaign trail. But now that he’s under fire, something that goes with first-tier territory, Huckabee is also proving himself to be a master of evasion. The coupling of these two skills [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Huckabee, Evolution
Categories: 2008 Election · Huckabee
I continue to marvel at the ongoing debate over Electronic Voting Machines and the ability to change the outcome of elections. I’ve not done a lot with the early allegations of something being fishy in New Hampshire, but now we have a candidate asking for a recount and some numbers that really do raise some issues.
PEEK: Kucinich Requests Recount of New Hampshire Ballots
…Only 20% of New Hampshire’s primary ballots were counted by hand. The other 80% were counted exclusively by Diebold machines. Obama secured his predicted lead on the hand-counted ballots, but Diebold-counted ballots ended up giving the lead to Hillary. Stalin once said, [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Electronic Voting Machines, New Hampshire
Crossposted at http://www.ivoter08.com and The Krile Files
Categories: 2008 Election · Electronic Voting Machines
The topic of “racism” is coming up more and more frequently. Have we become desensitized to comments that would have been considered racist a few years ago? I honestly thought we’d move way beyond all lof this. Apparently, we have not.
The Creeping Creepiness of Racism
Today, I entered a conversation about whether a white news commentator might not have known that suggesting that other golfers “lynch him (Tiger Woods) in a back alley” was a racist comment worthy of public sanction. Among the various arguments I read was this one: Given the commentator’s age, she might not really understand the charged context of the word “lynch” in reference to a person-of-color. And somehow, vaguely, in the back of my mind, I remembered a time when I could not imagine [...]
Then, there are the concerns that Barack Obama could be targeted by Southern Racists who don’t want to see a black elected President.
Media Rooting for an Obama ‘Tragedy’?
In the wake of Barack Obama’s strong showings at the polls, the media are fantasizing about racist hicks who would rather shoot a black man than see him become president. According to Bob Owens, this meme tells us little about how America views race — but much about how the media view America [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Obama
Whew! It’s been a long (and busy) week. I’m thrilled to see it come to an end. Really. Life just never seems to slow. Not even for a moment. I took a break last evening. Joined our son and his wife in taking our daughter and her fiance out for her birthday dinner. Great evening! So, that meant I didn’t catch the Republican Debate. Looks like Fred Thompson finally pulled his act together. He went after Huckabee and, apparently, Ron Paul pretty much sealed his fate. Even Conservative bloggers said he was pitiful. But Paul’s fans hit the comments pretty hard. Make sure you read ‘em.
The Republican debate in Myrtle Beach was a clear win for Fred Thompson, and that seems to be the building prevailing sentiment. Everyone else seemed content to play defense and just attempt to hold ground. They failed. As for Ron [...]
Oh, if you want to watch, here’s some video of Thomson and Huckabee going at it, via Real Clear Politics. They seem to think both men held their own. See what you think.
Tags: 2008 Election, Fred Thompson, Huckabee
Categories: 2008 Election · Huckabee · Thompson
Richardson called it quits today. He’s headed home. He could have/should have done better. I’m baffled.
Richardson to New Mexicans: I’m back
…He may have been in the race but he was never really in the hunt, getting five percent of the primary vote in New Hampsire and a measly two percent of the Iowa caucus vote. Richardson had sought to become the first Hispanic president and he probably had the strongest all-around resume in [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Richardson
Categories: 2008 Election
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