After the meeting…
Hillary Clinton to be offered dignified exit
Hillary Clinton will be offered a dignified exit from the presidential race and the prospect of a place in Barack Obama’s cabinet under plans for a “negotiated surrender” of her White House ambitions being drawn up by Senator Obama’s aides. The former First Lady would [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
Big stuff. Really.
Obama resigns from Trinity Church
CNN: Barack Obama resigned Saturday from his Chicago church — where controversial sermons by his former pastor and other ministers had created repeated political headaches for the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination — his campaign confirmed… Obama has said he was not present for the controversial sermons by Wright or Pfleger and had condemned both [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Obama
Tagged: Obama, Trinity Church
Apparently, they didn’t go so well for Hillary.
The Clinton era is over. They no longer control the Democratic party. Here is what Chuck Todd just said on MSNBC: [...]
Or, did they?
No matter what you think of the delegate rulings today, one thing is clear. By seating the delegates in any fashion, the RBC legitimized the popular vote tallies from FL and MI. This means Hillary can legitimately claim a net of over 600,000 votes today. No news source should report total popular vote numbers that [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
Following up on our earlier report, Denver reporters got a look at that new “alien video”. And, MSNBC picked up on it. This is the first picture I’ve seen from the video.
Categories: UFO
Fireworks on the way, doncha think?
Hillary’s Excellent Arguments for Fighting for Florida and Michigan
Hillary is not conceding seating Florida and Michigan by any stretch of the imagination. She is fighting as hard as ever. Here is the letter her campaign sent out today [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
Tagged: Clinton, Delegates, Florida, Michigan
I’m astonished. Just glance at the headline and follow the link. It took a court order, but the report is out.
White House Report: Human Activity Is ‘Most Likely Responsible For Global Warming’
Yesterday, the Bush administration issued “the strongest endorsement yet of a global scientific consensus on the causes of climate change.” The administration buckled to a court order and released “a fresh summary of federal and independent research” which echoes the findings of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and predicts: An increased [...]
Categories: Global Warming/Climate Change
It’s really not that tough, adding and subtracting numbers. School kids do it all the time. Shouldn’t the man who wants to be president be able to?
It’s kind of scary that John McCain, who keeps talking about how many trips he’s made to Iraq, doesn’t even know how many troops we have there. Yesterday, McCain told an audience in Wisconsin that we are back to pre-surge troop levels in Iraq…..Actually, Mr. Magoo, two-thirds of the surge troops are still in Iraq.
Let me walk you through this [...]
Response from the McCain camp? Condescension:
McCain Campaign Responds To Senator’s Inaccurate Iraq Statements: ‘So What?’
Yesterday at a townhall meeting in Wisconsin, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) claimed that troops in Iraq are already down to “pre-surge levels”: So I can tell you that it is succeeding. I can look you in the eye and tell you it’s succeeding. We have drawn down to pre-surge levels. Basra, Mosul and now Sadr city [...]
Maybe the voters ARE paying attention:
Poll: McCain’s Advantage Over Obama On Iraq Evaporating
With Barack Obama and John McCain battling again today over foreign policy, the question is worth asking: Which candidate is actually winning the argument over Iraq right now? The new Pew poll we posted on yesterday has some fascinating numbers [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Iraq War · McCain
We’re really not feeling very good about the economy. Not good at all. In fact…
Consumers’ mood hits at 28-year low
Consumer confidence fell to a 28-year low in May as inflation expectations soared, according to a survey released on Friday that presents a dilemma for the Federal Reserve. The Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers said the final reading in May for [...]
Categories: Economy
I think McClellan is being upfront and honest in his new book, but there are some fascinating theories being tossed around the blogosphere.
Scott McClellan: What If It’s All a Ruse?
Could Scott McClellan ’s book, and the apparent outrage from his former colleagues, be an elaborate GOP ruse, staged in order to bolster McCain’s (and the GOP’s) message of bipartisanship? The repetition of some curious phrases from McClellan makes one wonder. McClellan was a true believer. True believers don’t turn on the cult. Think about it [...]
Categories: Bush Administration
Hillary picks up another endorsement. You might be surprised by it!
In a praising editorial South Dakota’s Argus Leader endorses Hillary today. The editorial is notable because it was to the Argus Leader that Hillary made her RFK assassination comments. The paper [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
Sometimes, it’s all just too obvious, too transparent, and too ugly.
Pentagon Pushing 9/11 Trial For 10 Days After McCain Receives GOP Nomination
Despite the fact that defense attorneys for five suspected al Qaeda members being held at Guantanamo Bay have not yet received security clearances from the Pentagon that would allow them to participate in hearings, the Bush administration is aggressively pushing ahead with the prosecutions. The lawyers also claim that so far, they have had [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Torture
They’re predicting wide impact from the Nevada governor’s messy divorce. VERY wide…
Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons’ still has two years left in office. But the practicing Mormon’s divorce is getting nastier by the day, and many GOP operatives are getting more concerned about saving their party than his marriage. The Las Vegas [...]
Categories: Republicans
I guess we know now how Bob Dole feels about Scott McClellan!!
Bob Dole Tells McClellan: You’re A “Miserable Creature…Spurred On By Greed”
Bob Dole yesterday sent a scalding email to Scott McClellan, excoriating the former White House spokesman as a “miserable creature” who greedily betrayed his former patron for a fast buck. In an extraordinary message obtained and authenticated by Politico, Dole uses his trademark biting wit [...]
Categories: Bush Administration
He got darn near the full hour last night with Olbermann. He comes across, to me, as 100% believable. Also, Keith proved that he can do a pretty darn good interview.
McClellan On Countdown: “Where Did Things Go Wrong?”
I suspect the right will characterize Scott McClellan’s extended Countdown interview last night as proof that he has joined the far left, but that the charge will ring hollow. They’ll have to do much more to discredit McClellan, because he’s killing them with sincerity and candor, while their attacks are just proving his main [...]
Categories: Bush Administration
Ah, yes, yet another example of a campaign spiraling out of control.
The U.S. military ‘must remain apolitical at all times’ — but McCain didn’t get the memo
In the coming issue of Joint Force Quarterly, an official military journal widely distributed among officers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff writes a welcome but unusual open letter to everyone who wears an Armed Forces uniform: stay out of the political arena during the election season. “The U.S. military must remain apolitical at [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · McCain · Military
Ah, Friday. What more could you ask for. We’re on the cusp of the weekend and the day was filled with sunshine and warm temperatures. It just doesn’t get much better than that!
News-wise, there were some tantalizing things floating around the internet today. We’ll round up as many as possible over the course of this evening, starting with this revelation:
Former prosecutors challenge White House immunity claim
Twenty former U.S. attorneys, both Republicans and Democrats, urged a federal judge Thursday to intervene in a constitutional battle over whether two White House officials should be forced to testify before Congress about the firings of nine U.S. attorneys. The former top prosecutors, including two who served under President Bush, argue [...]
Categories: Bush Administration
We’re talking about the environment. McCain’s trying to do some silly little tap dance around one part of the issue.
Earlier this month, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) sought to distance himself from President Bush by calling for a mandatory limit on U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. “I will not shirk the mantle of leadership that the United States bears,” McCain said in a speech at a wind power company. On his campaign website, McCain (R-AZ) calls himself [...]
Categories: Environment · Global Warming/Climate Change
They’ll be selling soon, for a premium, on Ebay. Wonder if I have any of them tucked away in a drawer, memories of trips in the past.
Paper Airline Tickets Finished: Airlines To Go All Electronic June 1st
Major U.S. airlines recently announced that they were raising their prices. Now the the whole industry is throwing a curveball at travelers: as of June 1st, all airline tickets will be electronic. The era of the paper airline ticket has come to an end: [...]
Categories: Consumer
This is complicated and detailed, but it’s a great exercise to help you understand the American political system and the electoral college concept. Dig in.
What’s Obama’s Route To The White House?
So what’s Obama’s route to the White House in a general election? How can he make the electoral map work for him? How dramatically does he have to remake that map to gain the Oval Office? Here’s a first stab [...]
McClellan has at least one supporter. One man willing to go on the record as standing with him. One man who was also on the inside of the Bush White House.
Former Bush Aide: McLellan Is Getting Ripped For Telling The Truth
…”After watching McClellan on Today this morning, I think the reception his book received exemplifies the point he was making,” Turk told The Huffington Post in an email. “People had high hopes for President Bush to bring America together after his election and after the attacks on 9/11. They felt disillusioned by the Administration’s adoption of the ‘win at all costs’ partisan mentality in this town. I think the bigger point of [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War
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