He’s just doing more and more for the McCain campaign. As we used to say in radio: “The hits just keep on coming!”
McCain Backer Hagee Said Hitler Was Fulfilling God’s Will (AUDIO)
John Hagee, the controversial evangelical leader and endorser of Sen. John McCain, argued in a late 1990s sermon that the Nazis had operated on God’s behalf to chase the Jews from Europe and shepherd them to Palestine. According to the Reverend, Adolph Hitler was a “hunter,” sent by God, who was tasked with expediting God’s will of having the Jews re-establish a state of Israel. Going in and out of biblical verse, Hagee preached: [...]
Categories: McCain · Religion
Talk Left runs the numbers and says Hillary must stay in the race. Think you understand the numbers and the numbers tell her to get out? Read on:
Popular Vote Totals: Hillary’s Still Ahead
…Regardless of what the DNC does on May 31 with FL and MI delegates, the popular votes were certified by the states. Their numbers are real and they must be added to her popular vote total. Obama removed himself from the ballot by choice, not requirement. This is a consequence of that decision. He needs to accept it. [...]
And, over at AMERICAblog, John Aravosis takes the argument a step further:
Hillary is taking this to the convention
…Hillary’s latest greatest strategy is to convince her followers that they were robbed of their nomination because “elites” in Washington, including the Democratic elites (read: Superdelegates), hate women (I guess that’s news to Nancy Pelosi). Now, what possible reason is there for Hillary to latch on to this new strategy? Because she’s planning on [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
The way they ought to be!
Tim Russert: Can you imagine an election based on actual issues?!
Back in 1963, Barry Goldwater and John F. Kennedy were seriously mulling the idea of chartering a campaign plane and traveling around the country together, debating actual issues and letting the electorate decide who would be the better candidate based on actual policy differences. Tonight on MSNBC, in light of the news that McCain [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Politics
We’re first-time grandparents! Our son and his wife brought a beautiful baby girl into the world at 6:25 tonight! Adleigh Grace weighed in at 8 pounds, 9 ounces and 20 3/4 inches long. Everybody is doing just fine and the little darling managed to make it through the first several hours with no major crying times! Even while being passed from grandmas to grandpas and from aunts to uncles. I’m impressed! She’s a trooper! Just like her mom and dad. I’ll let you see her once I get the pics out of the camera.
Categories: Uncategorized
Bloggers on the right are wearing their political hearts on their sleeves tonight. All because of a new poll.
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Broder’s boy bounces all the way to 23% in latest Zogby poll. “Bush’s approval rating fell 4 percentage points to 23 percent, a record low for [...]
Categories: George W. Bush
Now, THIS is pretty smart thinking! Explaining to voters why the FISA issue is important to them and getting them to prod their congressional representatives to vote the right way. It’s often done that way, but this is the first I can recall that I’ve seen the technique used on FISA.
Standing Up Strong Against the Phone Companies on FISA
There is one significant pieces of news hitting today about FISA and immunity for telecom companies. The fight is being taken directly to the voters through two complementary strategies. In the House, Steny Hoyer has been relentlessly focused on pulling [...]
Categories: Congress · FISA · National Security
Here’s a great lesson in analyzing the exit polls from yesterday’s primary elections. It certainly does go counter to what I was hearing on the early morning news shows.
In Oregon, Obama Lost Working Class Voters
Here is a lesson in reading an exit poll. Even in Oregon, Barack Obama lost working class voters to Hillary Clinton. You will read otherwise at Obama sites, but they will be disingenuous when they do so. There are two basic characteristics that are used to [...]
Categories: Clinton · Obama · Politics
Read closely. American Airlines is starting to charge $15 for your FIRST piece of checked baggage. And, yes, they’re charging even more for each extra piece of baggage you check. I think it’s safe to say the airline industry is in a bit of a mess.
American, Cutting Back, Plans $15 Bag Fee
The nation’s largest carrier said it would eliminate free checked baggage and take up to 85 aircraft out of its fleet [...]
Categories: Consumer · Economy
Oh, I’m sure you saw this coming! I heard one of the ads on the way in this morning. I’m guessing I won’t be hearing them much longer!
Now wipe that smug smile off your face
You’ve probably seen these ads running for some time now. The CEO of Lifelock, an identity theft prevention service is so sure of his company’s capability to protect personal data that he prints his own Social Security number in [...]
Categories: Crime
More ugly stuff from Guantanamo.
Report: U.S. Soldiers Did ‘Dirty Work’ for Chinese Interrogators
U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay allegedly softened up detainees at the request of Chinese intelligence officials who had come to the island facility to interrogate the men — or they allowed the Chinese to dole out the treatment themselves, according to claims in a new government report [...]
Categories: Torture
Toxins, it seems, are everywhere. Sure, a lot of them have been around for decades, but we seem to be forcing them on people more than ever.
Piling it High
Nancy Holt, a retired nurse from Mebane, N.C., is beset by mysterious neurological problems. She blames the cause of her illness on the multiple unknown toxicities of the sewage sludge that has been spread since 1991 on the fields across from her house as “fertilizer.” And Holt says she isn’t alone. People in her neighborhood have a high incidence of cancer and thyroid problems. Local creeks are [...]
Categories: Environment
The Democratic party is beginning to fracture. It’s not a pretty sight. The convention this summer could be very interesting.
Can’t Get No Satisfaction
Despite of the fact that he was defeated soundly by large margins in West Virginia and again tonight in Kentucky, Barack Obama is touting that the nomination is within reach (with the help of the Obama-media). But… For many Democrats voting today, there’s a sense of dis-satisfaction that is troubling. Marc Ambinder notes: In Kentucky, 8 in [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Democrats · Obama
Yup. It has been. All day. Much of the blog chatter today was focused on the economy. No surprise there. Oil prices set an all-time record high today. You know what that means for gas prices! So, let’s mix the economy with politics and see what we get.
Of course, it’s the economy, stupid
There is no getting around it. Look at where the unemployment rates are climbing. Look at where housing has imploded. Look at the runaway inflation that the GOP says is not a problem. None of this just happened by accident. This is the end result of [...]
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