About Obama’s friend?
20-Year Associate of Obama Arrested
Time Magazine: Tony Rezko Arrested Chicago Tribune: Tony Rezko arrested, sources say No Quarter post by SusanUnPC: “BREAKING: ABC News Reports $100,000 From Rezko That Obama Hasn’t Returned/Given Away,” January 25, 2008 By the way, on ABC’s This Week yesterday, Barack Obama said that he has had a “20-year” relationship with Tony Rezko, not the [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Rezko
Categories: 2008 Election · Obama
Good old Chuck Grassley, he from conservative and religious Iowa, has a fight on his hands. With men of the cloth. Preachers. Of the TV type.
Pentecostal preacher pledges holy war against GOP senator
It hasn’t generated a lot of headlines, but in the world of religion and politics, it’s a pretty big deal. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, recently asked six high-profile, hyper-wealthy Pentecostal televangelists for their financial records, under the suspicion that they’re using their ministries for personal gain. (Imagine [...]
Categories: Religion
It’s coming up quickly and you might find the following news truly surprising, given most of the media coverage of the Obama and Clinton campaigns. All weekend long, the feeling I got from most of the mainstream media was that Obama was riding high and Bill Clinton had pretty much tanked Hillary’s campaign.
Not so fast, my little friend!
Early Polls Show Rough Super Tuesday For Obama
Barack Obama’s overwhelming weekend victory in South Carolina’s Democratic primary gives him new momentum in the run-up to the near-national nominating contest a week from tomorrow, known as Super Tuesday. But Mr. Obama heads into the 22-state showdown as the underdog. The Illinois senator trails Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York by large margins in polls in most of the big states voting Feb. 5. And he lacks [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
This time, it’s the McCain camp. Somebody didn’t do enough fact-checking before turning the candidate loose with this attack fact. It’s simply too easy to disprove. That’s exactly what we’ll let Kevin Drum do…
Here in the leftosphere we’re so consumed with the Democratic primary that occasionally we forget to look in on our good friends who are running for the Republican nomination. But tempers are definitely fraying over there. It [...]
Tags: John McCain, Romney
Categories: 2008 Election · McCain · Romney
The economic records are falling everywhere.
Today’s Housing Bubble Post – New Home Sales Fall by Record Amount
Yahoo: New Home Sales Fall by Record Amount:,Sales of new homes plunged by a record amount in 2007 while prices posted the weakest showing in 16 years, demonstrating the troubles builders are facing [...]
Tags: Home Sales
Categories: Housing Market
See if you can get your head around this concept. Pretty intriguing stuff.
Could there be proof to the theory that we’re ALL psychic?
Dr Chris Roe places a pair of enormous fluffy earphones over the head of a blonde 20-year-old woman. He carefully slices a ping-pong ball in half and tapes each piece over her eyes. Then he switches on a red light that bathes the woman in an eerie glow, and leaves the room. After a few moments, a low hum begins to fill the laboratory and the woman begins smiling sweetly to herself as images of distant locations start to pass through her mind. She says she can sense a group of trees and [...]
Tags: Psychic
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This certainly isn’t going to help matters much over in Iraq.
Thus Ends The “Success” Of The Surge
Huh-oh. Influential members of Muqtada al-Sadr’s movement have urged the anti-U.S. Shiite cleric not to extend a cease-fire when it expires next month, officials said Monday, a move that could jeopardize recent security gains. [snip] Al-Sadr’s August order for his [...]
Tags: Iraq
Categories: Iraq War
Indeed. And, we’re not even subjecting ourselves to the SOTU speech. Looking at the online counterpoints at Think Progress is telling enough.
Go. Read. Understand.
Categories: Uncategorized
Okay, conspiracy buffs. Settle in for a fun ride. It’s about the antrax attacks, true. But, you’ll also find some additional 9/11 Pentagon thoughts.
History Channel: The Anthrax Attacks Were an Inside Job
The US investigation of the anthrax attacks was a “sham” and the attacks were an obvious inside job. Now, the History Channel openly characterizes them as the work of the US government. Not long after the televised attacks on New York City, US citizens were [...]
Tags: Anthrax, 9/11 Conspiracy
Categories: Uncategorized
Well, it looks like big economic stimulus package isn’t on a greased track through Congress.
Senate Democrats Adding to Economic Stimulus Package: Defiance of Bush administration admonitions
Senate Democrats will move to add to a $150 billion economic stimulus package rebates for senior citizens living off Social Security and an extension of unemployment benefits, setting up a clash with [...]
Ya’ know, if they’re going to challenge Bill Clinton over stupid statements, maybe they should note what the current President said:
Bush: ‘Life’s pretty comfortable inside the bubble.’
During a recent interview with Fox News’s Brett Baier, President Bush admitted that he lives inside a “bubble,” but that “life’s pretty comfortable”: BAIER: Is being president confining? BUSH: Yeah I guess so, I knew what I was getting in to and so I’m not frustrated in that sense. I can remember telling people that [...]
Something about that offends even me. And, I’m not easily offended.
Tags: George W. Bush
Categories: George W. Bush
Just make sure you scroll through multiple posts tonight. You’ll notice a pattern. Candidates on both sides are getting beaten up quite badly.
McCain’s ’secret plan’ on bin Laden
I realize that Republicans and campaign reporters continue to perceive John McCain as a credible person when it comes to matters of national security and military affairs — but that doesn’t make it sensible. John McCain says in almost every stump speech that he knows how to capture Osama bin Laden and that he’d follow the [...]
Tags: Iraq, John McCain
Bill’s mouth isn’t helping Hillary’s campaign.
Advisers Say Bill Clinton Hurt Campaign
We noted it over the weekend and now Democratic sources “supportive of and regularly in touch with the Clinton campaign” tell CNN that there is “a huge wave” of sentiment that Bill Clinton “needs to stop” interfering with his wife’s presidential campaign. “The sources — [...]
Tags: Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
Comments made over the weekend by both the Clinton and Obama camps aren’t doing much to unite the liberal left. It’s not that either camp is winning. In fact, both would appear to be losing…
THIS is why John Edwards needs to stay in the campaign
Jane Hamsher reports that the Clinton and Obama campaigns has said that both candidates will return to Washington to vote “no” on cloture on the Intel version of the FISA bill. Does anyone honestly believe that without [...]
Edwards charts a new “path” to Dem nomination
…It didn’t pan out like he’d hoped. Edwards followed a second-place finish in Iowa with three straight thirds behind Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, most recently in his native South Carolina. Strategy scuttled, Edwards faced two choices: drop out, or get a new plan. He picked the new plan. The Edwards campaign laid out the former North Carolina senator’s “path to the nomination” in a memo released to [...]
Tags: FISA
Categories: FISA
THIS is a campaign issue? I really don’t think so!
Actual CNN Headline: “Huckabee Challenges Romney Over Fried Chicken”
It gets harder and harder to tell the difference between The Most Trusted Name In News and The Onion every day. “Mitt Romney’s failure to eat fried chicken with the skin on is nothing short of blasphemy here in the South, according to GOP rival Mike Huckabee. Romney, of Massachusetts, dug into a piece fried chicken at KFC while campaigning in Lutz, Florida on Saturday, but not before [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Huckabee, Romney, Fried Chicken
Categories: 2008 Election · Huckabee · Romney
Booman Tribune says it’s a must-read. It is.
TomDispatch.com has a new report by Dahr Jamail, the famous independent journalist who covered the Iraq war, and in particular the bloody Battle of Fallujah, outside the confines of the US military’s “embedding process” and outside the safety of the Green Zone from 2003 until 2005. In this report, Jamail provides us with the responses of real Iraqis to the propaganda of the Bush administration and the Pentagon that the surge has been a success. Here are a few excepts: “On October 6, 2004, George W. Bush proclaimed: “Iraq is [...]
Tags: Iraq
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War
And prognostications. At least this one has a reputation!
Rarely-wrong mock convention picks Clinton
The students of Washington & Lee University have only picked the wrong candidate one time in 60 years [...]
Tags: Health Care, Hillary Clinton
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
I really can. Times certainly have changed. And not always for the better. Progress is good, but it sometimes comes at the expense of the family.
What’s it like to live in Geezerville?
“Hey Dad,” one of my kids asked the other day, ” What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?” “We didn’t have fast food when I was growing up,” I informed him. “All the food was slow.” “C’mon, seriously. Where did you eat?” “It was a place called at home,” I explained. “Grandma cooked every day and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, [...]
And, from the same blog, a most creative followup:
This appeared on my screen last night. It’s from my great-great granddaughter. It was delivered by HoloTyme, a service she started in 2076. After researching (quaint notion, this reading thing, she says) through some remaining historical works on the early days of the Internets, (most literature was destroyed in the Religious Wars of the early 21st Century) she found Peter’s post on [...]
Tags: Aging
Categories: Uncategorized
He’s almost in uncharted waters now.
Poll: Bush’s Rating On The Economy Tanks Before SOTU
As President Bush prepares to deliver the final State of the Union address of his presidency, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll [PDF] shows that not only does his job approval rating continue to hover in the low 30s, but [...]
Tags: Economy
Categories: Economy · George W. Bush
The weekend flew by. Little was accomplished. How old-fogie are we? Watch “Titanic” last night. Had never seen it – not in the theatres, not on DVD. Harumph. Monday rolled around too soon. I have a cantankerous keyboard. And politics are beginning to wear on me. Don’t get me wrong, I love following the game as much as anyone, but there’s a point where the amount of information is simply mind-numbing. Case in point…
Mitt on McCain: “He’s lying” — or not.
A new record for Mitt backing away from something he said. Seconds. Just a couple seconds. He said McCain was lying, which McCain was, then backed off. Took Mitt a little longer to change positions on [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, John McCain, Romney
Categories: 2008 Election · McCain · Romney
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