Obama raised triple the amount of monday that Clinton did in January. So, she helped make up the difference. Personally.
Clinton loaned her campaign $5 million
Spokesman Howard Wolfson emails: “Late last month Senator Clinton loaned her campaign $5 million.The loan illustrates Sen. Clinton [...]
UPDATE: It’s not just the loan..
***Page Exclusive: Some Clinton Senior Staff Working Without Pay***
SOURCE: THEY HAVE “VOLUNTARILY CHOSEN TO WORK WITHOUT PAY THIS MONTH” AS PART OF CLINTON CASH CRUNCH AGAINST OBAMA MOOLA FACTORY. Includes [...]
Didn’t some of the McCain people do the same a while back? He seems to have bounced back pretty well…And, Wednesday night, the Obama camp capitalized..
Schadenfreude
Barack Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe sent this fundraising email out tonight. In it, he works to raise a little dough off of yesterday’s Super Tuesday “win,” BUT, more critically, off of today’s news that Hillary Clinton has given $5M to her campaign. “Dear XYZ, [...]
Tags: Hillary Clinton
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
The Iran NIE story gets more complicated, with another layer of confusion being applied today..
Was the NIE Cooked to Thwart Bush’s Iran Policy?
Interesting report over at NRO’s The Corner: Eli Lake reports that top spy Michael McConnell has had second thoughts about the National Intelligence Estimate concluding that Iran had stopped its nuclear weapons program. If the goal of the NIE was to tie Bush’s hands, it succeeded marvelously. Eli writes: “The director of national intelligence is backing [...]
Tags: Iran NIE
Categories: Bush Administration · Iran · National Security
He’s got a bit of a problem, so he plays “daddy”…
McCain’s message to far-right critics: ‘Calm down’
John McCain is not oblivious to his predicament: he’s the first presumptive Republican nominee in the modern era to ascend despite opposition from the party’s far-right base. Indeed, after a month of contests, McCain has done quite well without the support of conservatives and traditional GOP voters, much to the party’s consternation. Going forward, the Arizona [...]
Tags: 2008 Elections, McCain
Categories: 2008 Election · McCain
First we are. Then we aren’t. The plans keep changing. It’s no wonder nobody can figure out exactly what’s going on in Iraq.
Security Guarantees in Iraq
Apparently President Bush has abandoned his effort to unilaterally conclude a security treaty with Iraq by calling it a “Declaration of Principles for a Long-Term Relationship” instead of a treaty:”It’s not going to have a security guarantee,” [...]
Tags: Bush Administration, Iraq War
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War
Helen Thomas is at it, again.
Helen Thomas rips Bush.
Yesterday at a speech in North Carolina, long-time UPI correspondent Helen Thomas sharply criticized President Bush and his administration, calling it “one of the most secretive in history.” “This man has forgotten the poor and the sick,” Thomas said. “We are hated around [...]
Tags: George W. Bush, Helen Thomas
Categories: Bush Administration · George W. Bush
Mark Hutcherson pens what he thinks is the future of the GOP party, and Huckabee has a spot.
McCain Huckabee Win, Romney Appears Doomed
There is talk today that Mitt Romney may be close to pulling out of the race for the GOP nomination in 2008. Last night, Mike Huckabee and front runner John McCain received the biggest headlines after all the vote were counted on Super Tuesday. While the conservative Republican establishment has [...]
Juan Cole doesn’t think it would work..
A McCain/ Huckabee Ticket? Would Huckabee Sink McCain?
…Although on the surface, this move might seem logical, since McCain can’t get the evangelical vote out by himself, I think it is very likely that Huckabee could sink McCain’s candidacy. There are 12 years of wacko sermons by Huckabee somewhere, which could well leak, and most ordinary Americans will be [...]
Tags: 2008 Elections, McCain, Mike Huckabee
Categories: 2008 Election · Republicans
What else could the White House do? Wouldn’t it have been refreshing to have them say they’ve decided not to waterboard in the future? To say that there are better, more humane, ways to get information from prisoners?
White House Defends Use Of Waterboarding
The White House on Wednesday defended the use of the interrogation technique known as waterboarding, saying it is legal _ not torture as critics argue _ and has saved American lives. President Bush could authorize waterboarding for future terrorism suspects if certain criteria are met, a spokesman said. A day earlier, [...]
Tags: Waterboarding
Categories: Torture · Waterboarding
Yeah, the good old American dollar really isn’t what it used to be. And, you don’t have to travel overseas to see the impact.
“Euros Accepted” signs pop up in New York City
In the latest example that the U.S. dollar just ain’t what it used to be, some shops in New York City have begun accepting euros and other foreign currency as payment for merchandise. “We had decided that money is money and we’ll take it and just do [...]
Tags: Economy
Categories: Economy
If Super Tuesday did nothing, it galvanized the leftists who really, REALLY, don’t like Mike Huckabee…
Our worst nightmare: Hucka-VP
I’m not the only one out there thinking about the McCain/Huckabee lovefest, which translated yesterday into a bloodbath for Mitt Romney. The Super Tuesday team-up only confirms for me that the likely choice for VP will be the rapist/murderer-releasing, Christian Reconstructionist-supported, Man-On-Dog wannabe, former Arkansas governor, and Baptist minister-without-a-theology-degree Mike Huckabee. Sarah Posner at Tapped: “It [...]
Another, slightly less aggressive.
30 Things John McCain Needs to Know About Mike Huckabee
One of the more fascinating story lines in the wake of the Super Tuesday primaries involves rumors that GOP frontrunner John McCain is considering Mike Huckabee as his VP choice. The two didn’t merely combine in Tuesday’s nationwide vote to [...]
Tags: 2008 Elections, McCain, Mike Huckabee, Romney
Categories: 2008 Election · Huckabee · McCain · Romney
Watch the clip in the post below and check out the look Mika gives Joe at the end of her newscast. She is going to punch him, one of these days. Really. You can see it in her eyes…
Why Does Joe Scarborough Hate Polar Bears?
Joe Scarborough likes his news with a little less reality, thank you very much. On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough openly scoffed through Mika Brzezinski’s news cast that included the news that the polar ice may be melting faster than previously thought, resulting in the endangering of polar bears, among other species. [...]
Tags: Environment, MSNBC, Morning Joe
Categories: Global Warming/Climate Change
The fraternity just got a new member…
AP Confirms Secret Camp Inside Gitmo
Somewhere amid the cactus-studded hills on this sprawling Navy base, separate from the cells where hundreds of men suspected of
links to al-Qaida and the Taliban have been locked up for years, is a place even more closely guarded – a jailhouse so protected that its very location is top secret. For the first time, [...]
Tags: Guantanamo
Categories: Bush Administration · Torture
Super Tuesday is now, officially, history. It’s done. It’s over.
Forget Super Tuesday; what happens next?
After waiting with baited breath for the massive, historic, 22-state Super Tuesday, it seems a little silly to turn around, 12 hours later, and ask, “OK, forget all of that; what’s next?” But it’s actually the natural response to what turned out to be largely a tie. Super Tuesday was supposed to show us who the [...]
Tags: 2008 Elections, Super Tuesday
Categories: 2008 Election
We need a “Mr. Fixit” for the U.S. military. The thought of being unprepared is simply unacceptable.
Meanwhile, US Military Still Broken
From to lips of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to your ears: “The pace of ongoing operations has prevented our forces from fully training for the full spectrum of operations and impacts our ability to be ready to counter future threats,” Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in testimony prepared for delivery Wednesday. Mullen’s stern warnings are likely to become [...]
Tags: U.S. Military
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War · Military
Some post-primary discussion from the morning news shows..
Buchanan: John McCain ‘Will Make Cheney Look Like Gandhi’
On the NBC Today Show, liberal radio host Rachel Maddow, conservative pundit Pat Buchanan, and Democratic strategist Paul Begala discussed the importance of “change” in the upcoming election. Voters want a “clean break from Bush,” argued Maddow. Begala added that McCain does not represent that type of change: BEGALA: If McCain wins, he’s running for [...]
Tags: 2008 Elections
Categories: 2008 Election
Okay, I’m still fighting some strange bug, but I’m vowing to be back on my feet tomorrow. I’ve not been down for three days since I was a child. For the record, we were right on the edge of those huge storms that rolled through Arkansas last night. If you’re so inclined, take a look at some of the local TV coverage via KTHV, KARK, KATV and KLRT.
Also, in sifting through Bloglines this morning, an article linked by Arkansas Business caught my eye. This doesn’t sound like a good change, to me…
How the USDA Wants to Change Meat Inspections
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is looking to change how it conducts poultry inspections, and that has food safety advocates worried: “The Agriculture Dept. wants to reduce the [...]
Tags: Weather, USDA, Meat Inspections
Categories: Food Safety · Tornado
