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2008-10-22 08:50:59 InterOpNurse
I was interested in learning more about the Presidential candidates and their position on various topics in healthcare. Especially after reading the endorsement of Senator Barack Obama by the American Nurses Association, it prompted me to do my own research. Here are the results of m...
2008-10-22 07:41:25 PFSConsultant.com
As I examine the probability and historic aspects of this Presidential election, it is evident it is Obama's race to lose. John McCain continues to alienate himself from the Conservative base and sounds more like a Reagan Democrat than a Republican. The fact McCain will let the Bush ...
Obama Picks Biden as VP Running Mate. Barack Obama named Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware as his vice presidential running mate early Saturday, balancing his ticket with a seasoned congressional veteran well-versed in foreign policy and defense issues. Presidential candidate Barack Obama sa...
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2008-10-15 11:55:29 Life at the Bar LLC Blog
There's an interesting story in yesterday's Chicago Sun-Times, excerpting a new book that describes Michelle Obama's dissatisfaction with the work she was doing as a second-year associate at Sidley Austin.  A sample: Too monotonous for Michelle, who, White [the partner in charge of th...
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2008-10-13  All True
If you get a vote in the upcoming US election, please use it wisely - the world can't afford for Sarah Palin to become Vice President (or worse, President).She thinks being able to see Russia from Alaska counts as "foreign policy experience" and she thinks dinosaurs co-existed with hum...
, usa , obama , president , mccain , election , sarah , politics , america
I'm slowly recovering from a tragic last few days, in which the Chicago Cubs, the best team in the National League this season, failed to show up for their three playoff games. I was among the more than 42,000--a number that surely had to violate some section of the fire code--jammed i...
, RHIO , open , HIMSS , John , Barack , 2008 , professional , Legislation , Health , certification
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2008-10-06 12:16:43 A Healthy Blog
Obama continues to pound away on health. Saturday, he gave a in-depth speech (text; video) in VA contrasting his plan with McCain’s. In addition to his points attacking the taxing of employer-provided benefits, Obama broadened his focus to insurer practices that would be permitte...
2008-10-06 12:05:14 togaac.com
Every Americans asked who won the vp debate, as you may know, after US presidential debate between Obama and McCain, now it's time to Vice Presidential Debate. i found information Jackbook.com the VP debate held Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 9 P.M. Eastern Time, 8 P.M. Central Time. ...
Good article - one of the main points is Palin's coldness or detachment from emotion. You can see an example of this in her answer here - when she was asked on abortion and what if her teenage daughter was raped and become pregnant - it is interesting to see the difference between her ...
2008-10-06  Jesus' General
My new group, "Swiftboaters for McCain," just released this video taking Obama to task for the people he knows.
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2008-10-06  USAmérica Vota'08
Desempolven sus cascos y sus espadas, señores, porque los próximos 29 días van a ser duros. La campaña de John McCain ha decidido que ya va siendo hora de dejar de hablar de economía, que es un tema que no les beneficia nada, y trasladar el debate a otra materia más suculenta: el...
, Juego , John , Candidatos , Barack , Republicanos , Demócratas
2008-10-06  FOXNews.com
Palin defends charge Obama is 'palling around with terrorists;' Obama fires back that GOP ticket is 'erratic and dishonest'• McCain Brother Calls N. Virginia 'Communist Country'• 'SNL' Slices and Dices Palin, Biden in Debate Send-Up• Biden Puts Campaign on Hold After ...
2008-10-06  Expressio Unius
One of my least favorite slogans this political season has been to contrast Obama with Palin, in saying that "Jesus Christ was a community organizer, and Pontius Pilate was a Governor."It started right around the time Palin made fun of Obama in her convention speech, and caught on like...
Over the weekend, Sen. John McCain’s brother referred to the Northern Virginia suburbs of Arlington and Alexandria as “communist country,” presumably for their traditional Democratic-leaning ways. I don’t cover politics at TWI, so I’m not going to comment ...
, Blog , Obama , Politics , Economy , oboma , Presidential , Presidential , race
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2008-10-06  Gateway Pundit
Not only does Barack Obama's church of 20 years support Hamas and Hezbollah but Barack Obama also has a long close friendship and financial association with suspected former PLO operative and Israel hater Rashid Khalidi.Last night Sean Hannity dared to report Barack and Michelle Obama'...
2008-10-06  The Trail
By Ed O'Keefe New ads released over the weekend by Barack Obama continued a focus on health care, while John McCain's criticized Obama's record on taxes in perhaps the last gasp of the policy-related ad war that has dominated the airwaves in recent weeks. The McCain campaign has signal...
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2008-10-06  Economist's View
The McCain health care plan has a reverse Robin Hood effect in that it takes health care insurance away from those who need it the most and gives it to those who are healthiest and most able to afford coverage: Health Care Destruction, by Paul Krugman, Commentary, NY Times: ...Cons...
, Economics , Health , Politics
2008-10-06  NO QUARTER
I call it the Reverse Negative Twist.  The guy is starting to use the trick he used so well against Hillary Clinton in the primary.  It is the same trick that causes the media to say he’s staying above the fray while in reality he is the fray. (CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama on...
, Current , deceit , Lies , name , Obama
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A Washington Post report begins: As the deadline for voter registration arrives today in many states, Sen. Barack Obama's campaign is poised to benefit from a wave of newcomers to the rolls in key states in numbers that far outweigh any gains made by Republicans. In the past year, t...
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Obama and McCain offered conflicting visions of how to shrink the American military presence in Iraq, the best way to encourage further political progress there and what it would mean to succeed after more than five years of war.
TB’s Quote of the day: ”Who am I?...why am I hear?”…Admiral  James Stockdale when he was a running mate with Ross Perot. The statement was met  by laughter but TB worried that he might have Alzheimer’s. But it was just a statement to introduce himself that fell flat. TB alw...
2008-10-06  kottke.org
The New Yorker devotes the entire Talk of the Town section in their latest issue to their endorsement for President. As you might guess, Obama gets the endorsement and John McCain receives no quarter from the editors. The key part of the article concerns the candidates' possible appoin...
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2008-10-06  City Desk
Leonard Downie Jr. said he’d still be a busy fellow once he stepped down as Washington Post executive editor in early September. And here he is, just weeks later, in the prime spot in the Sunday Outlook section. Not reminiscing about his years atop the Post; not talking journo-et...
, Bloggers , Media , New , Washington , Washington
Not much lower, I would have thought. Sure, some pretty ugly things were said here in Oz during our 2007 election, but nothing up to, or down to, the standard of Palin's smear about Obama's "terrorist mate". Obama himself has given this the answer it merits. However, if you are curious...
AP - The McCain and Obama presidential campaigns traded accusations of mudslinging Monday in the wake of new ads dredging up infamous events from 20, 30, even 40 years ago.
AP - The McCain and Obama presidential campaigns traded accusations of mudslinging Monday in the wake of new ads dredging up infamous events from 20, 30, even 40 years ago.
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2008-10-06  The Morning News
If we’re going to play the guilt by association game, let’s not forget that Palin has birthed five children from the seeds of a secessionist. A few more kids and we’re looking at a full-blown militia. The benefit of having a vice presidential candidate that doesn&#...
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2008-10-06  Tuvotoestufuturo
Filed under: Estados Unidos, Tras el voto latino, DemócratasLa cantante colombiana Shakira no puede votar en Estados Unidos, sin embargo esto no le impide dar su opinin acerca de la elecciones presidenciales del pas, y para ella, Barack Obama debe ser presidente. Shakira hizo pblic...
, elecciones , obama , shakira , voto
Their advisers have also represented widely differing positions. Randy Sheunemann, McCain’s campaign foreign policy coordinator, seems to be mainly concerned with the threat from Iran and the security of Israel. In 2002, he was the founder of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq,...
2008-10-06  Marc Ambinder
It has been true all that year that the McCain campaign is operating in the worst political environment for an incumbent party, indeed, one that has all but erased the advantages of incumbency. Before the economic collapse, the wrong-track number in the country averaged about 76, acco...
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2008-10-06  Blogging by Tina
Note: I hope I don't offend anyone here who is supporting Obama for President. There are people who have reasons for wanting to vote for him, and since we live in a free country, that's perfectly OK. These are my personal concerns.)1. I am afraid that the Fairness Doctrine will be ...
, John , Barack , fear , presidential
If you or someone you know has been meaning to register to vote in Virginia to participate in our crucial swing state's role in this historic election, tomorrow is the deadline! Today is the last day that anyone can register. Deadline to Register: The last day to register to vote t...
2008-10-06  Maggie's Farm
Front Page enjoyed American CarolHow the NYT handled the Ayers storyBlue State Blues. DriscollGermany to EU: Drop deadStaying out of poverty is simpleWinking updateVote fraud expected to be rampant this yearOil prices heading downThis may explain why the Arctic ice was melting, but not...
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2008-10-06  Stop The ACLU
-By Warner Todd Huston So, instead of merely reporting the news, now reporters are the news? Apparently Charlie Gibson thinks he is, anyway. He gave an interview to the Toledo Blade on October 5 as if his opinions of the race for the White House are somehow more important than the news...
, Elections , Liberal , News , Sarah
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2008-10-06  Laurie Kendrick
We are constantly reminded that we need to relax; that stress is a killer. Yes it is and yes, we ought to try our best to eliminate as much fear, worry and panic from our lives as we can.   Easy to say; not always that easy to do.  In these times of fiscal insolvency; global uncerta...
, 2008 , Democrats , Humor , Obama , comedy , entertainment , fear , news , panic , politics , psychology
2008-10-06  Right From Left
Whether you believe the hype or not, whether or not you believe the polls, McCain-Palin begin October behind.I'm skeptical about the polls, but Obama did get a bit of a bounce from debate #1 and the electoral map has shifted. It will continue to shift around. With a good debate perfor...
Although Professor Obama is usually seen as the intellectual in the presidential race, John McCain is no slouch in the study of history. However, unfortunately, through his reading, he has come to see himself as the second coming of Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders. Is it any wond...
, Rough , neoconservatives , Barack , collectivism , constitution , John , liberatrian , statism , Theodore , welfare , gay , liberty , Republicans , freedom
2008-10-06  Language Log
Earlier this year, we had some fun with a quirk of web-trained statistical MT that sometimes causes odd mistranslations of country names. This happens because information in parallel web pages is often localized rather than translated; some of the posts are "Made in USA == Made in Aust...
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2008-10-06  CDR Salamander
Not totally unrelated to my previous post. There are patterns at work here.
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AP - The McCain and Obama presidential campaigns traded accusations of mudslinging Monday in the wake of new ads dredging up infamous events from 20, 30, even 40 years ago.
As I've said earlier, the Obama-Ayers connection fails to excite me. But if Obama is to be pilloried for his relationship with Ayers, I'm not sure why the John McCain-G. Gordon Liddy connection isn't equally worrisome (via Yglesias). Here's a taste of Liddy's checkered past: Which prin...
2008-10-06  Asthma Mom
Cold-Induced Wheezing = High Asthma Risk in Kids Almost 90% of young children who wheezed with a cold before they turned three developed asthma by age six, according to a new study. Why is that significant? Here’s why: [m]uch attention has been focused on another common infectiou...
, Asthma , Asthma , Asthma , Children's , Children's , FDA , Friday , Holidays , House , aids , aids , caramel , carved , colds , fda , halloween , kids , mccain-palin , obesity , pumpkin , rhinovirus , rsv , steroids , strimple , turn , u.s. , usda
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2008-10-06  Soccer Dad
In his column yesterday, the NYT's public editor, Clark Hoyt asserted: By my count, The Times has published more tough articles on Obama, 20, than on McCain, 13, since the beginning of last year. I have posted links to the stories on my blog, The Public Editor's Journal, and you can de...
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Source: [b]BBC News[/b] In a new internet video being e-mailed to supporters, the Obama campaign launched its own attack on Mr McCain over his connections to tycoon Charles Keating, who was convicted of securities fraud after his savings and loan scheme collapsed. Mr McCain was one...
2008-10-06  The Back Forty
By Sean Reagan Colorado has been a fascinating swing state during this cycle. In the past forty years, its electoral votes have gone to a Democratic presidential candidate only once – to Bill Clinton, in 1992. But 2008 appears to be Colorado’s year to go blue in a big way. O...
, 2008 , Betsy , Marilyn
There's not much news in the new NY Times article on the Obama-Ayers relationship. The piece debunks the notion that Ayers got Obama appointed to be the head of Annenberg Challenge board. It notes that Obama listed an Ayers book...
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Chicago Tribune Students and professors at the University of Illinois rallied for Barack Obama on the Urbana-Champaign campus Thursday - holding signs, passing out fliers and registering people to vote - to probe an increasingly controversial question as the November elections approach...
2008-10-06  TRAIL BLAZERS
Sarah Palin has accused Barack Obama over the weekend of "palling around" with terrorists. Mr. Obama has had an association over the years with former radical William Ayers. In February, Obama strategist David Axelrod told the Politico Web site: "Bill Ayers lives in his neighborhood. T...
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Health wonks who worried that the global financial crisis would eclipse health care talk in the presidential campaign got some good news this weekend. Barack Obama brought the subject back, attacking John McCain’s health plan in stump speeches and new advertisements, the Los Ange...
, Health , Presidential , Medicaid , Medicare , Insurance
2008-10-06  Politics
With a month to go and the poll numbers down, the McCain campaign is playing the guilt by association card, and that’s leaving some conservatives uneasy. On Saturday, the recently unsequestered and newly empowered Sarah Palin went on the offensive, toting the “gloves are of...
, Politics
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Michigan Republicans are also calling McCain’s melodramatic abandonment of Michigan a “stunt.” [Politico] Poor U.S. “consumers” finally got the memo (or the credit-card cancellation letter) and have stopped spending. [New York Times] Today’s the las...
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You know Jim Cramer. He's the host of CNBC's "Mad Money". Basically he screams at you about the stock markets and investment. Big guru. I'm not good with screamers, so I can't watch him for more than a minute without having to change the channel. Besides, I don't have any money anyway....
By Matthew Holt One of the few virtues of getting on a plane and leaving California is that you get to see Presidential political ads on actual TV. Obama has a new ad about health care which explicitly attacks “government...
, Policy , Policy/Politics
2008-10-06  Gawker: Top
The New Yorker published its profile of Arianna Huffington. Though disappointingly far from the juicy takedown we hoped for, it does contain a few interesting nuggets. We learn, for example, that the Republican-divorcée-turned-internet-pub lisher bizarrely "hides" all three of her ...
, moguls , arianna , barack , election , huffington , journalismism , maureen , media , michael , new , politics , the , tim , top
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  Legendary rock musician Bruce Springsteen performs for a crowd of over ten thousand during a rally in support of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, Oct. 5, 2008, at the Oval on the campus of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. The rally was held to encourage Obama ...
The American Spectator: Five weeks and one vice-presidential debate after joining the Republican ticket, Sarah Palin is not going away. As she proved Thursday night in St. Louis, for those who hoped to make her Dan Quayle, she is not obliging. Already she is rewriting the conventional ...
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Here’s a summary of the smartest new political analysis on the Web: by Gerald F. Seib and Sara Murray It’s been a bad stretch for Sen. John McCain, but few have been willing to go this far: Former Hillary Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson, now writing for The New Republic, declares ...
, Political
2008-10-06  The Buzz Bin
Yes, we all hate these ethical transgressions. Social media is supposed to be a game changer, a creator of forthright relational discussions between two parties, not another communications tool set to manipulate people with.. Yet, unethical communicators from all sides of the ais...
, Geoff , Internet , Allison , astrourf , communications , grassroots , PR , unethical
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Even though he has a 100 percent pro-choice Senate voting record, a new website is alleging that Barack Obama is the most pro-life candidate in the race for president. The Pro-Life, Pro-Obama site, started by a group of Christians with the pro-Obama Matthew 25 network, argues that...
, Campaign , WorldMagBlog , abortion , barack-obama , John-McCain , Matthew , pro-choice , pro-life
2008-10-06  The Swamp
by Frank James Sen. John McCain has a new anti-Obama ad out called "Dangerous" which tries to work on at least two perceived voter concerns -- the X factor which Sen. Barack Obama still represents for many voters and the thought of Democrats controlling two branches of government. ...
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2008-10-06  Knowledge is Power
The partial story of the Ayers/Obama relationship told by the New York Times today is collapsing of its own weight but has likely added to the confusion. Since I am one of the “bloggers” referred to without an explanation in the Times’ story I thought I would summar...
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2008-10-06  LT Nixon Rants
Moran Naomi Wolf Continues To Not Heed AdviceFeminist moran, Naomi Wolf, has advocated some very silly ideas in the past. Presumably because she can't get any, Ms. Wolf has argued for abolishing our beloved pornography because it kills men's libidos, while simultaneously advocating fo...
, media , hippies , morans , Fun
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2008-10-06  Google News
Seattle Post IntelligencerMcCain, Obama campaigns trade barbsThe Associated Press- 38 minutes agoWASHINGTON (AP) - Officials with the presidential campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama are trading fresh accusations of mudslinging a month before voters choose George Bush's succ...
2008-10-06  Iowa Independent
Photo: Carroll Daily Times Herald My husband thought it was more than a little strange when I bought an airplane ticket to visit Carroll, Iowa — half way across the country from our home in Washington, D.C. — just to volunteer for the Barack Obama campaign for President. ...
, Campaigns , Commentary , Slot , Slot , Barack , Carroll , Elizbeth , Iowa
OK, I'm starting to get it! If you want meanness, violence, aggression, hatred, racism, and protracted war you can vote for a really angry man and a pretty mean side kick. If you are interested in the end to war, more diplomacy, and a respectful, kinder, more inclusive world then vote...
2008-10-06  Obsidian Wings
by hilzoy Politico: "Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Monday will launch a multimedia campaign to draw attention to the involvement of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in the “Keating Five” savings-and-loan scandal of 1989-91, which blemished McCain’s public image and set him on his cour...
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2008-10-06  Political Radar
ABC News' Rick Klein reports in Monday's Note: Four weeks out, what does it say that . . . Team McCain is hoping that Bill Ayers has one last bomb in him -- just enough to blow up the presidential...
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Er is maar een oplossing op al het gezeur in de wereld:
2008-10-06  FOXNews.com
A new global poll of 17 countries finds a huge preference for Barack Obama over John McCain in the presidential election in 16 of those countries. In the 17th country -- the U.S. -- McCain was edging out Obama.
“They’d rather try to tear our campaign down than lift this country up,” he told several thousand supporters at a rally here Sunday. “That’s what you do when you’re out of touch, out of ideas and running out of time.”
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2008-10-06  Stop The ACLU
This ad hits Obama hard. He tried to dodge the issue through Joe Biden at the VP debate, and tried to come across as a hawk during his debate against John McCain, but would a hawk who supports our troops say and do these things? As Ed says, Obama is the Code Pink candidate. Jodie Ev...
, Barack , Elections , John , News , military
2008-10-06  Dr. Sanity
Thomas Sowell wonders if facts matter anymore:The current financial bailout crisis has propelled Barack Obama back into a substantial lead over John McCain-- which is astonishing in view of which man and which party has had the most to do with bringing on this crisis.It raises the ques...
Just sayin'. So, does anyone have a theory why the media is shoving Obama down our throats this year? Is it that they want to teach us values? The first African-American president? If that is true, why couldn't we have the first female president? Wouldn't that have been just as val...
Whoever is behind the Obama campaign is a master of psychological/emotional manipulation.   The emotionally charged words and slogans, "hope", "change", "believe", coupled with Barack's kind and compassionate demeanor  (see the end of this video of Obama with a needy college stude...
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2008-10-06  Althouse
This chart illustrates the proposition that the more substantial -- physically substantially -- man wins. Think about it:(View that clip in its 4 minute context here.)Say what you want about weight -- and give Barack some cheeseburgers if he needs to bulk up -- I think the chart mainl...
, psychology , Obama , height , James , fat , political
2008-10-06  TransGriot
One of the things that I have been frustrated as hell to watch over the last two decades is the GOP attack on intelligence for political reasons.As someone who is a proud TK (teacher's kid), graduated from a gifted and talented high school and went on to college, I'm cognizant of and p...
, education , GOP
2008-10-05  Queer Conservative
Another friend of Obama has a hit video:Lovely. B. Hussein Obama has got such a super duper high class circle of friends.
, President , Leftists , Barack , Democats , 2008 , Liberals
2008-10-05  Political Punch
On Monday the Obama campaign will start hitting Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on his role in the late 80s/early 90s Keating 5 scandal, despite previous indications by Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill, made months ago, that the scandal was not "germane"...
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Politico - Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Monday is launching a multimedia campaign to draw attention to the involvement of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in the “Keating Five” savings-and-loan scandal of 1989-91, which blemished McCain’s public image and set him on his co...
"U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama has promised not to cut foreign aid to Israel if he is elected in November, a spokeswoman for Obama has said."
2008-10-05  Gordon's Notes
The timing of McCain/Peron'sPalin's "Ayers attack" is good news ...Palin, on Offensive, Attacks Obama’s Ties to ’60s Radical - NYTimes.com.... The article to which she referred, in The New York Times on Saturday, traced Mr. Obama’s sporadic interactions with Bill Ayers, a founder...
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2008-10-05  Mom-101
"Mommy, can you put on a Thalia show?" "No sweetie, this is the news. They're talking about the election. Remember how I told you that we're going into a voting booth together soon and we're going to vote for Obama?" "What's a voting booth?" "Well you've been in one with me every ye...
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2008-10-05  Health Care BS
Arguably, the most consistently successful stratagem ever devised by the Democrats is their perennial campaign to frighten the elderly into voting for them by claiming that Republicans want to do away with Social Security. Every election, with the grim inevitability of Greek tragedy, ...
, McCain , Obama , Political , Reform
One does have to wonder if the Obama campaign wasn't just waiting for McCain to bring the nasty, so that they could unveil this new website, which is called "Keating Economics: John McCain and the Making of a Financial Crisis." Rope-a-dope, I believe the strategy is called. So far, t...
Apparently feeling there’s no other way to win, the McCain campaign is now trying to “go negative” in an effort to make Obama unelectable. Obama has tried to stay above that sort of thing...and while Obama may be a better human being than that...I’m not. We will divert away fro...
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Below: Isn't it time the McCain campaign stuffed a sock in that fat mouth, before someone gets really angry? Photo: Nati Harnik/APLipsticked pitbull Palin is on the loose again. Hope Animal Control gets here soon, before she hurts herself, or another animal.During her stop in Californi...
, The , Existential , WH08 , Denial , Down , Free , The , White , Hatin' , Republicans
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2008-10-05  d r i f t g l a s s
In which the Mouse Circus takes another step down that long, shiny hellroad to full-on Hollywood SquaredomBecause if two heads good, well then, by golly,four heads better!On Fox News Sunday Chris Wallace excitingly repeats the phrase “Master Strategist, Karl Rove” 100 times. I ass...
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2008-10-05  Anglachel's Journal
Yes, I'm a few days late with this and haven't had time to read it in full until today. I've added Hillary's news page as a live feed to the sidebar to keep up with what's coming out of her Senate office, which is an amazing amount. I'd link my own Congress critters' news feeds, too, e...
, Housing , Roubini , Economics , Clinton , Class , Hillary , Democratic , Class , Political
My first ever review of LDS conference and I am excited. Now before you get your hopes up, I didn’t watch Mormon conference. I just go to mom and dad’s house from noon until 2pm between the morning and afternoon sessions because they serve free sandwiches. And it is one of...
, Mormon , Family
In reply to Why political debates aren’t very helpful: I realize I am being simplistic in bringing up a 3rd party, but I do believe our country is far too vast to be represented by a 2 party system that is less like a counter-balance & more like enemies... Politics has become a mora...
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2008-10-05  Anglachel's Journal
Yes, I'm a few days late with this and haven't had time to read it in full until today. I've added Hillary's news page as a live feed to the sidebar to keep up with what's coming out of her Senate office, which is an amazing amount. I'd link my own Congress critters' news feeds, too, e...
, Housing , Roubini , Economics , Clinton , Class , Hillary , Democratic , Class , Political
2008-10-05  Beyond the Rhetoric
Life’s lessons are all around you and they can sometimes come from the most unexpected of sources. There may not be an obvious connection between the business of freelance writing and trying to become the next United States President, but there is a lot that freelancers can...
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2008-10-05  Smiles & Trials
My husband and I are following the election very closely. Despite our busy life with our awesome kids, we manage to keep our lines of communication open and flowing freely. Politics is often a source of discussion with us outside of an election so you better believe with a new pres...
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2008-10-05  Terry Cowgill
Who says Palin is smearing Obama? This is a smear.
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2008-10-05  Ad Savvy
Obama’s new political ad, “The American Promise” is the single most frightening political advertisement I have ever seen in my life. It’s absolutely chilling. The rabid cultist gleam in the eyes of the supporters nearly weeping as Obama repeats his meaningl...
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2008-10-05  Roger's Rules
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”–George Santayana What would Santayana (1863-1952) say were he with us today? Although born in Madrid, Santayana lived and taught in the United States for decades, an amused, slightly detached observer of...
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As many of you know I am not the biggest Obama fan... but I guess I will vote (I have to admit I am still thinking about that one for the first time in my so called adult life). Assuming I vote and as I could never vote for McCain, Obama will get my vote. So there you have it. That bei...
We just got back from the Bruce Springsteen/Obama rally and there was zero information on what the ticket would do. There was some bashing of republicans and a whole lot of recruiting and angling to take people to vote early. Disappointing, there was a good chance to push the views and...
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2008-10-05  neo-neocon
Fifty-nine percent of those polled want to turn in their Congressional tiles and pick some new ones. Of course, when you do that, sometimes you get an even worse hand. But if the tiles you’re holding are bad enough—all vowels, for example—you’re willing to ...
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At first, I was amused by John McCain’s bitter-sounding “life isn’t fair” remark. Asked why Obama has been rising as the Wall Street crisis has dominated attention, McCain said with a chuckle on Fox News Channel: “Because life isn’t fair.” But on second though...
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2008-10-05  BeldarBlog
My latest guest-post at HughHewitt.com ponders how Tom Brokaw can revere the Greatest Generation's heroism in the 1940s, yet dismiss Bill Ayers' terrorism in the 1960s and 1970s, and call him a mere "school reformer" despite his present radical plans to turn our educational system on i...
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2008-10-05  Marc Ambinder
This blog will turn into a 501 (c) 6 before you know it.Responding to reports that Sen. McCain's associations are considered fair game by Democrats, Republican strategists affiliated with the McCain campaign say they plan to highlight Obama's alleged contacts with individuals who they...
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I have officially set this week apart as "Political Rant" week so here is one more link for you to read concerning that BILL congress passed on Friday.A Canadian lectures Americans on U.S Constitutional niceties in this article aptly called "Ignoring the People". You'll see that even p...
Being in the Philadelphia television market, I see most of the TV ads that are meant for the targeted state of Pennsylvania. I can't tell you how many times I've seen this Obama ad. I just saw it again during the Sunday night football game on NBC and changed the channel to see it les...
2008-10-05  Too Dark To Read
Watching the above video sent a chill down my spine. The energy of the crowd and the fanatical waving of the signs as Gov. Sarah Palin linked Sen. Barack Obama to terrorism felt like something out of a bad movie - the wicked demagouge gaining widespread support by preying on the collec...
2008-10-05  BAGnewsNotes
Liddy has acknowledged preparing to kill someone during the Ellsberg break-in "if necessary"; plotting to murder journalist Jack Anderson; plotting with a "gangland figure" to murder Howard Hunt to stop him from cooperating with investigators; plotting to firebomb the Brookings I...
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2008-10-05  The Gimp Parade
Provided by the Ohio Legal Rights Service. (Link leads to a chart showing the positions of both McCain and Obama on a wide variety of disability issues, both professed positions and voting records as of this September.)An update for that chart: Tucked into the financial bailout bill th...
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2008-10-05  Barack Oblogger
Well, McCain has no more gimmicks up his sleeve and has now resorted to the kitchen sink strategy in a flailing attempt to invigorate his flagging poll numbers. And he's letting his adorable... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and mo...
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There was a very long and mildly amusing exchange on the mailing list about Sarah Palin's performance in my inbox today. Amusing until someone took it seriously and began regurgitating the usual rumors about Obama to the entire mailing list. Some things, like politics for example, prob...
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Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, David Bernstein is upset with the AP for its biased reporting of Sarah Palin charge that Obama was palling around with terrorists. His evidence:Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Saturday accused Democrat Barack Obama of "palling aroun...
2008-10-05  scanners
I can't get enough of Tina Fey's Sarah Palin. I feel about her the way I felt about Dr. Evil in the first "Austin Powers" movie. My eyes light up whenever she's on camera. And then, of course, there are those little starbursts she sends through the screen that go ricocheting around...
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... and the MSM (and Mike Matthews) are quick to the rescue....
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While transgender workplace diversity issues are not inherently tied to any political ideology, it is clear that Barack Obama is supportive of transgender workplace rights and that John McCain is not supportive of transgender workplace rights. The transgender community and its allies ...
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2008-10-05  HoosierAccess
Click here to view the embedded video. Surprised? You shouldn’t be. They also think that Obama is their “personal Jesus” (hat tip to Power Line): (Read more, including a personal testimony, after the leap) Yes, I just said it. Obama is my Jesus. … As with many s...
, Elections , Presidential , barack
2008-10-05  Let Us Talk
“Our financial system in turmoil and John McCain? Erratic in a crisis. Out of touch on the economy.” The ad, slated to start running Monday on national cable, seeks to capitalize on John McCain’s response to the nation’s financial crisis while rebutting Republic...
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For weeks, many of you have been asking me, why haven't the Democrats been bringing up McCain's history as a member of the Keating Five? Especially since it ties so clearly into today's financial crisis, his wife's company's ties to Keating and his history of supporting lax banking an...
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2008-10-05  Cold Fury
HALF-ALIVE FROM THE BOOM-BOOM ROOM! From Wikipedia: Bill Ayers: “Terrorists terrorize, they kill innocent civilians, while we organized and agitated. Terrorists destroy randomly, while our actions bore, we hoped, the precise stamp of a cut diamond. Terrorists intimidate, while we...
, Obama , Second
2008-10-05  /dev/random
Here’s a story that gives some good insight into Barack Obama’s personality. I couldn’t imagine John McCain doing anything like that. Mary Menth Andersen was then 31 years old and had just married Norwegian Dag Andersen. She looked forward to start a new life in Åsg...
, News , obama
2008-10-05  Daily Pundit
That GWB was planning on establishing under-the-table diplo-relations with the Mad Mullahs of Iran. Gosh, do you think he might do as fine a job there as he did with North Korea? Press TV - US shelves plan to send diplomats to Iran The US has reportedly cancelled a plan to establish a...
, Iran , Islamofascism , Bush
Mark Steyn is easily my favorite writer alive today, and has been on hiatus since June working on his forth-coming, soon-to-be-a-bestseller book. Here is the master's take on how Gov. Sarah Palin performed at last Thursday's debate. As always he is honest in his appraisal and insightfu...
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I am starting to feel better about life these days. I am still in a funk, but from what I hear and read it seems as though everyone is. Thanks for that Mr. Bush!I haven't really felt much like blogging and that seems to be going around as well, some of my favorites haven't been posti...
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OK, so I was trying to get the story on Linda Darling-Hammond, who is, with Jeanne Century, the Obama advisor I'm most leary of, and I found this answer to the question of whether teaching is or is not a profession:In this country, teaching is not yet a profession. A profession really ...
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2008-10-05  
Barack Obama didn’t meet Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during his recent U.S. visit, but has written him a letter reports Rediff.com. See more Obama News……. Post from: Barack Obama News direct on www.Barack-Obama-News.Drewryonline.net B arack Obama Writes to ...
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This evening, it's safe to conclude that Barack Obama (D) isn't going to let John McCain (R) -- or his unqualified sidekick, Sarah Palin (R) -- get away with their desperate and scummy efforts to dishonestly smear him. There will be no swift boating this year. This isn't 2004. Followi...
I spent the Eid Al Fitr holiday pretty much locked up in my house so I could write. I left a couple of times to get food at the market in the old city, but I barely left my house. This, of course, was my choice. When I went back to school today and I asked a colleague about his Eid bre...
From Paul Krugman: Greg Sargent: TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | McCain Adviser Admits That Campaign Doesn't Want To Talk About Economic Crisis: Buried at the end of this Washington Post piece on the aggressive attacks McCain intends to wage in the campaign's...
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2008-10-05  The Plank
Jonah Goldberg:Stephanopolous said that one of the ways the polls may be "undercounting" is that they aren't counting all of the people who won't vote for Obama because he's black. Nonsense. The people who aren't voting for Obama "because he's black" have undoubtedl...
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Democrats for the most part are simply better politicians than Republicans.  Democrats seem to be first in front of a microphone, first to lob a grenade, and can without flinching be Teflon deflecting an issue to Republicans, greedy Wall Street types, Big Oil, or to Mother Theresa.  ...
2008-10-05  Graphictruth
clipped from www.pamshouseblend.comMy sister said she told him she was canvassing for Barack Obama and then asked him if he'd decided if he was going to vote, and if so, who he planned on voting for. His response, she said, about knocked her off the porch."Well," he said. "I'm gonna ha...
One thing both candidates agree on is that the education system — particularly "No Child Left Behind" — is broken. The question is: How would they fix it? E-Mail This Add to Del.icio.us
En ny helg har passerat. En kyligare helg än förra. Eller? Denna helg regnade det inte iaf.. Familjen har under helgen varit uppe i Michigan. Åkte redan vid lunchtid i fredags. Am hämtade barnen från skolan och sen bar det av. Efter torsdagskvällens fejd med Jake var jag i stort ...
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2008-10-05  Not Totally Rad
I'm probably as tired as anyone of the flood of red-state / blue-state maps that are currently rising in the pre-election news crescendo. Even so, the fascinating set of interactive maps at 270t0Win.com grabbed my brain for about an hour today.The site designers have linked a consider...
, mapping , history , politics
2008-10-05  The Swamp
by John McCormick, updated ASHEVILLE, N.C. - In the days before and after Tuesday's presidential debate, Barack Obama will spend all of his time in states where Democratic presidential candidates rarely go, especially this close to an election. This weekend and through the middle o...
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The Commission on Presidential Debates is sponsoring the next debate between Senator McCain and Senator Obama in Nashville, TN. Tom Brokaw is the moderator. This is your chance to see how the candidates respond to questions in a townhall meeting format. Candidates will be questioned b...
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2008-10-05  The Right Coast
Interesting essay here. Musical accompaniment below:
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2008-10-05  Hak Pak Sak
Like half of the population United States (i.e. the half that opposes the Republicans) I had intended to write about Republican vice-presidential candidate Palin’s misuse of language and deformation of facts and logic during the televised debate with Democrat Joe Biden last Thurs...
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Over the past few weeks we have seen the McCain campaign flailing, as the economic crisis has forced its way into the political dialogue, forcing McCain and the Republicans to talk about an issue with which they have absolutely no credibility. We've seen the outcomes expressed in a few...
, 2008 , Barack , John , millennials , negative , Nixonland , presidential , sarah
BOTH BARRELS BLAZING: Obama launches multi-media counteroffensive against McCain's slander campaign - Including a 13 minute 'Keating Five' documenary Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Monday will launch a multimedia campaign to draw attention to the involvement of Sen. John ...
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2008-10-05  First Read
From NBC/NJ's Athena JonesASHEVILLE, N.C. -- With just 30 days to go until Election Day, Obama told a crowd of some 28,000 people at a high school football stadium here that his rival was attacking him with smears because he had no ideas and was “running out of time.” The senator ...
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Much as I detest internet bloviation, I think it makes sense for us to look into the corruption endemic to Washington. Unlike most, I don't think this is because our politicians are bad people; I think it's because of unrealistic expectations of voters, coupled with total oblivion to h...
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A few days ago I stopped by the Knox County Democrats' office in Rockland (on Maverick Steet across from Hannaford's) to pick up a couple of lawn Obama lawn signs for our house. "They're seven dollars each," I was told, and then, almost apologetically, "I don't set the policy." Seven b...
2008-10-05  Muddy Thoughts
The Straight Talk Express, as much as a misnomer that can ever be in what is shaping up to be the worst Presidential election since, well, 2004, ran off the road and into the election ditch over this Ripoff and Rape America Bill.(UPDATE: It appears that Hairball Reid & Co. are going to...
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2008-10-05  Most Recent Posts
Author: Mike Edison Posted to Jewcy: October 05, 2008 7:24 pm===== It's not like my mother and I are ever going to see eye to eye on anything. For instance, she read about one paragraph of my book and it nearly put her in the hospital.There are a lot of drugs in my book, although it i...
, Featured , jewish , Mike , Obama , palin , Politics
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The History of Radicalism OBAMA & ACORN This clip is from tonight's Hannity special, The History of Radicalism " Specifically, Brock Obama's participation therein. This is the last segment - Obama and ACORN. It aired just 30 minutes ago. Fast, eh w...
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2008-10-05  LENIN'S TOMB
So, the stock markets turned up their noses at $700bn. Too little too late, apparently - all the stress and the bullying and arm-twisting and bribing and threats of 'martial law' were to no avail, at least if the idea was to avert catastrophe. According to Nouriel Roubini, the bail-o...
, new , financial , american , US , martial , coup , economy , america
2008-10-05  Third Mom
I have been going on and on about this election, haven't I! I normally don’t get this wound up about politics, but this one feels to me like a battle for our country’s soul, and it’s been hard to contain myself. I do recognize that not everyone who normally reads here shares my p...
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We gathered with fellow Las Crucens and students to see, hear, and ogle Eva Longoria of Desperate Housewives fame and Adam Rodriguez of CSI: Miami as they expressed their support for Barack Obama outside New Mexico State University's Corbett Center. Braving a rare New Mexico rain, we l...
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About a year from now, half of you will either say "I did not vote for McCain!" or "I did not vote for Obama!" ... thereby blaming the other half of the population who did. In the meantime, the voters who didn't participate in the donkey versus the elephant fight get to sit back and ...
2008-10-05  BlueOregon
A week or so ago, I wrote a post entitled The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One that urged Sen. Smith to listen to people like William K. Black who fought for the public interest as Director of Litigation for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board during the S & L crisis and Keating Five...
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2008-10-05  Scholars and Rogues
Link of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link): From American Raj, a new book by Eric Margolis: Abdullah Azzam “ran a dingy little rooming house next to his office for Muslim mujahedin headed for Afghanistan that came to be known as ‘the base’ or ‘the centre,...
, Congress , House , Republicans , health , national , sports , Add , bailout , Barack , Democrats , financial , Iraq , John , NFL , Sarah , Terrell
2008-10-05  RookieMoms Blog
For some reason, when I had a new baby (Holden 3 years ago), all my old church camp songs came flooding back into my head. When he was fussy, I would go to “this little light of mine” out of some long-suppressed instinct. When Milo was fussy, I turned it up a notch and bust...
, Link , Momoirs
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2008-10-05  chron.com National
Sarah Palin defended her claim that Barack Obama "pals around with terrorists," continuing to question the Democratic presidential nominee's association with a 1960s radical.
2008-10-05  The Blog
About a year ago, I had a memorable chat with a high-ranking Republican operative. The presidential primaries were revving up, and he asked me which Republican candidate I feared the most. Without hesitating, I answered McCain. My rationale was simple. While he was increasingly o...
2008-10-05  Decision '08
…it really is looking more and more like Obama is going to win this thing handily.  He is up by a statistically significant margin in every poll, and much more troubling for McCain, he has... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, ...
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Thursday night's debate may have made little difference to voters preferences. But for some others the pompoms to cheer were visible. And there were many on hand for Sarah.Yet, now that the dust has settled and polls are in clearly, its evident that Sarah was fun to watch.... like able...
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2008-10-05  Freaking Marketing
What if, on the eve of the presidential election, supporters of Barack Obama stage the biggest integrated rally in history? I could just hear Anderson Cooper saying, "With less than 24 hours before Americans begin voting, we're seeing massive rallies...
, Politics , Anderson , Barack , campaign , Joe , Josee , Matt , Obama , Obama , Obama , Twelve
2008-10-05  The Sundries Shack
An Unnamed MSM Reporter in Its Natural Habitat Are the media completely in the tank for Barack Obama at this point? I feel pretty silly for even asking this question given the complete lack of curiosity shown toward the Obamessiah’s long association with people who not only show ...
, Oh, , The , ACORN , Associated , Barack , Happy , Jeff , Jeremiah , Media , Progressives , Racism , Sarah , William
If the election were held today:"With Sarah Palin's attack yesterday on Barack Obama's patriotism and his ties to former Weather Underground ringleader William Ayers, the McCain campaign has left little doubt about in which direction it intends to head over the final month of the campa...
Cross-posted with Raising Kaine and DKos.  This is one post in my series, 33 Days of Healthcare & The Election.  Until the America votes, I'm going to be blogging at least once a day on why healthcare should matter in this election. The Obama campaign, thankfully, has for the past co...
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(updated below) There are few things that make political coverage more unbearable -- and more distorting -- than The David Brooks Syndrome: the extremely patronizing and ill-informed pretense, shared by media and right-wing elites alike, that they can study the Little Common People lik...
2008-10-04  JoeTrippi.com
First of all I want to say that there is another book out there that I urge people to read. Markos Moulitsas Zuniga’s Taking On The System. Markos and Jerome Armstrong along with so many others were there at the beginning, and Markos’ book is a must read if you want to un...
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2008-10-04  Listen and Hear
I watched the VP debates and I wanted to write about it before I forgot my favorite parts.... but that didn't happen. Between not sleeping, nursing, and oh, not sleeping my brain is functioning at about 25%. I should leave all of my typos as proof, but my OCD nature prohibits that.I li...
When we stopped into Barack Obama’s field office in Nebraska ten days ago, Obama’s State Director John Berge sat down with us for a fascinating conversation about the innards of Democratic efforts in the state, the most overt goal being the attempt to win one single, solitary Elect...
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Listening to Rush Limbaugh's show yesterday I almost gagged, feeling betrayed. Rush had nothing to do with it, Obama and his crew had nothing to do with it either, even that pork laden Wall Street bailout bill was not the culprit. John McCain was the culprit. The GOP presidential ca...
Sen. Barack Obama and Gov. Sarah Palin are both winners when it comes to spam. Does her name inspire you to download spyware? (Credit: State of Alaska) The amount of spam that mentioned Obama beat out that of his rival, Sen. John McCain, by a ratio of 6 to 1 ...
2008-10-04  The XX Factor
Dahlia , you've put your finger on the reason my initial enthusiasm for Sarah Palin evaporated the minute she opened her mouth; it isn't her conservatism that rankles, but her bile. (Today, for example, she accused Obama of "palling around with terrorists...(read more)
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2008-10-04  zena musings
How to handle the fury brought on by this election? Register voters, hit the streets, pray. Stop talking about her. Talk about Obama.By Anne Lamott | September 16, 2008 I had to leave church Sunday morning when it turned out...
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2008-10-04  Gay Kansas
(Originally published in the Liberty Press in October 2008)Actions speak louder than words. That’s the old adage. A presidential candidate can promise no new taxes or an open government, but why should we believe them? The only way to believe they’ll do what they say is to see w...
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2008-10-04  GamePolitics News
Second Life users can now follow what Twitter users are saying about the presidential tickets.Steve Nelson of SL's Capitol Hill area writes:I've installed a new display at Capitol Hill in Second Life that streams Twitter tweets about candidates. The tweets float above columns, and are...
, Barack , Game , Joe , John , Online , Sarah , Second , Technology
2008-10-04  Top of the Ticket
[UPDATE BELOW] With exactly one month until election day, will Bill Ayers, the anti-Vietnam war radical who helped found a bomb-planting protest group, morph into what some observers earllier had predicted -- the Willie Horton of the 2008 presidential campaign? Horton, for those to...
, Campaign , Campaigning , Democratic , Economy , Presidential , Republican , Vice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUEQz5dlt mI Another disgusting example of the the fascism of the Obama movement.
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2008-10-04  Wizbang
I saw this at Jake Tapper's piece about how the McCain camp will be hitting Obama hard on his relationships with some pretty nasty guys. This ad by Judicial Confirmation...
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2008-10-04  Belmont Club
The New York Times looks at the relationship between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers. It concludes that Obama may have downplayed his relationship with Ayers, but believes the relationship between the two was not close. A review of records of the schools project and interviews with a dozen...
, 2008 , Governance , Iraq , alQaeda
2008-10-04  Wizbang
I saw this at Jake Tapper's piece about how the McCain camp will be hitting Obama hard on his relationships with some pretty nasty guys. This ad by Judicial Confirmation Network best explains why examining who Obama chooses to associate with is so important in this presidential electio...
, 2008
2008-10-04  Salon: War Room
"This is not a man who sees America as you see it and how I see America. We see America as the greatest force for good in this world....Our opponent though, is someone who sees America it seems as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target t...
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While I found this video to be more than a bit condescending as well as overly long, I'm not the target audience-- I'm neither unregistered nor 18-- so I won't quibble over aesthetics. You see, what really bothered me about this video is the dishonesty.It's clearly a liberal Democratic...
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This is one view of what a coalescing landslide election looks like. It's from the Princeton Election Consortium, and it's a distribution map of all possible election outcomes in the Electoral College. On the left is the distribution bssed on polling through Septbember 30. There is ...
2008-10-04  The Blog Herald
It’s been about four weeks since we first covered U.S. Republican vice-presidential nominee  Sarah Palin, the Alaska governor who vaulted from relative obscurity into international prominence overnight when her nomination took America by surprise a little more than two months be...
, News , Blogosphere , Buzz , links , Sarah
2008-10-04  SpunkyHomeSchool
Because of Obama we will have the the largest civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded." (You Tube here) Because of Obama every middle and high school student will "perform 50 hours of service a year, and for all college students to...
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I am a woman, I am Brahmin,I am Maharashtrian, I am Hindu, I am Indian, I am human. It doesn't matter who I am or who you are. All that matters is if you are a human being sensitive to the world, to the good or bad, to the right or wrong. If your blood doesn't boil when you see injust...
2008-10-04  Mama says...
***UPDATE AGAIN***Popping this to the top again.Mama Says:How can Obama lead a people, if he won't recognize a person?Wow, my poster has spread across the blogosphere! Well, not across, but it's popping up all over in our little corner of the World Wide Web!***UPDATE*** I'm moving thi...
, Prolife , Mama , politics , Linky
2008-10-04  ScrappleFace
(2008-10-04) — William Ayers, founder of the radical Weather Underground group which carried out a bombing campaign against U.S. targets in the 1960s, today attempted to distance himself from both Barack Obama and The New York Times. Mr. Ayers distributed a news release in respon...
, Law , Politics , Ayers , New , Obama
2008-10-04  TommyWonk
With one month to go, Obama is looking stronger by the day, and pundits are no longer asking why he can't close the deal. Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer contrasts McCain's erratic campaigning with Obama's steady cool:You can't blame McCain. In an election in which all the f...
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2008-10-04  eric135
I thought it was a clear win for Biden, and so far the polls would agree. I must admit, we watched the debate (24 hours later on Tivo) with the same anticipation some folks watch those "When Animals Attack" video's, wondering if I'd have to turn my head when the bloody part c...
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2008-10-04  Mister Snitch!
It's as if we had written this post ourselves.The creator of Ender's Game was rooting for Obama when he first emerged. Then he got a better look at him, and was horrified.Once you scratch the surface, Obama's as cynical and dangerous a demagogue as you'll find. Beyond that, though, is ...
, culture+of+corruption , blogosphere , Barack+Obama
2008-10-04  Mama's Bloggin
There has been a horrifying, terrible, tragic accident and my Daddy died. I don’t know when I’ll be back…. Commentary:October 4, 2008, Treemama writes: Oh honey, I am so sorry, cannot imagine your grief. Multitudes of hugs and blessing coming your way. We'll be ...
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2008-10-04  Violent Acres
I’ve listened to the political pundits talk and I’ve watched the news casts. I’ve read your blogs and I’ve looked at your bar graphs. I watched the debates and I researched the issues. But I still haven’t heard a single reputable source state the obvious: Sarah Palin is an ev...
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On the October 4 edition of MSNBC Live, Republican National Committee press secretary Alex Conant claimed that "The New York Times today has a 2,000-word story about Barack Obama's friendship with an unrepentant terrorist," referring to a front-page article about Obama's association ...
2008-10-04  Popehat
In the past 24 hours, since news emerged that Obama is leading in a couple of polls in normally Republican North Carolina, I’ve gotten six calls from what are probably 527 proxies for one or another of Obama or McCain. I guess I’ll have to vote for Bob Barr to show them.
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2008-10-04  Riehl World View
Via The Washington Post - new ads being made, McCain said to be getting ready to turn up the heat on Obama. It certainly isn't too late given the way information flows today. There are still plenty of undecideds, suggesting Obama has not been able to close the deal. A strong, consis...
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The fact that the R ticket has adopted the populist attitutde is the heart of the problem. Obama has taken McCain prisoner with blaming the financial crisis 'on the last 8 years of the Bush administtration which John McCain would continue.' In fact as is well discussed in comments in a...
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Struggling in polls, McCain regroups in Arizona. With poll numbers slipping, Republican John McCain on Saturday struggled to inject fresh energy into his White House campaign a little over four weeks before the US presidential elections. ...And with more bad news on the economic front,...
2008-10-04  Evil HR Lady
18 year old Chuck E. Cheese employee to fellow employees: "I'm voting Obama and don't argue with me because no one beats me on politics. I study the stuff. And Joe Biden is hot."
2008-10-04  Wizbang
I saw this at Jake Tapper's piece about how the McCain camp will be hitting Obama hard on his relationships with some pretty nasty guys. This ad by Judicial Confirmation Network best explains why examining who Obama chooses to associate with is so important in this presidential electio...
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2008-10-04  Matthew Yglesias
I’ve seen focus group data indicating that the — entirely accurate — charge that John McCain is proposing a gigantic tax increase on employer-provided health care benefits is extremely effective. Consequently, it’s no surprise that the McCain campaign is furious...
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2008-10-04  Whiskey Fire
In these difficult financial times, I am often asked, Thers, the stock market and all the money markets and even the goddamn supermarkets, they are all Going to Shit -- where should I put my money so as to protect my retirement? And I say, simple. As long as Sarah Palin is a Republi...
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Hazlett and Smith should explain why licensed, franchised broadband landline providers are treating their service as much like a public good than a private good, using non-price rationing tools like capping, metering and throttling to force allocation of use into a one-size-fits-all mo...
2008-10-04  Think Youth
[cross posted at Michigan Youth Political Alliance] Just several hours before the vice presidential debate, McCain withdraws his campaign troops from Michigan to redeploy them in other battleground states such as Ohio, Florida, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Clever decision? This campaign ...
, Economy , Election , battleground , Biden-Palin , Joe , John , McCain , McCain , McCain , McCain , McCain , michigan , Michigan , Michigan , Michigan , Michigan , Reagan , swing , Tim
Articles of Faith (Boston Globe): Another Anti-Abortion Scholar for Obama, by Michael Paulson: A second prominent anti-abortion Catholic legal scholar has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president. Nicholas P. Cafardi, a law professor and the former dean of the Duquesne...
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2008-10-03  The Big Picture
From last night's debate:...when asked if I wanted a portfolio, my response was, no. But Barack Obama indicated to me he wanted me with him to help him govern. So every major decision he'll be making, I'll be sitting in the room to give my best advice. Obama said he wanted Biden "in t...
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2008-10-03  Total Drek
Like many of you I spent some time last night watching the debate between Joe Biden and Gwen Ifill Sarah Palin. Also like many of you, I have been seeing a variety of punditry on it this morning, most of which remarks on how Palin managed to exceed expectations while Biden still did a ...
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2008-10-03  The Web Laureate
Calling my friends, politically inclined, Hasn’t been so constructive an Activity before this, each opened mind, New app on my iPhone began GPS mapped, people and all intertwined, Events, involvement, for each fan.
, internet , poetry , app , apple , change , iphone , Obama
Let me preface this political post by saying that, at heart, I dislike both presidential candidates and their campaigns. They may both be better choices than we had four years ago, but better than bad is not good (despite what the Ren & Stimpy cartoon may claim). I think our political...
, Politics , Rant
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Okay, I suppose its about time I weigh in on the big election race, since that is one of the biggest stories around the nation and around the world.  I am sure there is considerable buzz and excitement within the disability/special education community concerning Sarah Palin’s ca...
, Ed , NCLB , Special , political , community , education , financial , interview , Palin
We are the strongest and richest country in the world, and I have no desire to see us become a nation of cringing, self-loathing apologists.Yet it is also true that one can show grace in the exercise of power, rather than taunting those in a weaker position.The real model for this is G...
, policy , america
2008-10-03  Raising WEG
The background: Wilder is home sick from school today; Calder left on a business trip yesterday; I refused to lie down with the children last night as they fell asleep in my bedroom because I wanted to watch the debate; Wilder did not at first accept this decision peacefully.The scene:...
, Current , Religion
2008-10-03  Stayin' Alive
We know that he will take office with some very big problems. Even though he hasn't been willing to specify what he's going to give up because of the economic and fiscal catastrophe he will inherit, we all know that there will be no choice but to scale back the ambitious policy agenda...
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2008-10-03  Sandwalk
 Same-sex marriage is the law of the land in Canada and in many (most?) other Western industrialized nations. It's against the law in most states in the USA. I was aware of the fact that John McCain and Sarah Palin were opposed to legalization of same-sex marriage. Last night I was s...
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2008-10-03  DarrenBarefoot.com
I’m no economist. In fact, I don’t deserve to live in the same town as the guy who hands out the ‘economist’ name tags. With that in mind, I have two ill-informed reactions to today’s signing of the US $700 million billion (whoops, wishing thinking) bailou...
, Canada , Politics , bailout , biden , bill , bush , congress , mccain , obama , palin , whitehouse
2008-10-03  Political Lunch
Last night Sarah Palin exceeded expectations, according to today's pundits. But is that really a compliment? It all depends on how low the bar's been set. ALSO: What do the candidates say about today's job market woes?
, Politics , politics , political_lunch , obama , mccain , palin , biden , economy , debate , gay_marriage , energy , global_warming
We have two competing world views and political philosophies from which to choose in this presidential election.  My preference would be that both sides concentrate on defending their governing premise with facts and statistics rather than using sound bites and partisanship to dupe th...
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Gov. Sarah Palin, VP Debate, 10/2/08: "Say it ain't so, Joe, there you go again pointing backward,'' Palin said at one point. "Now, doggone it, let's look ahead and tell Americans what we have to plan to do for them in the future.'' Let's do that - what a great idea. And novel, too, ...
Music Playlist at MixPod.comI know that most of you feel the same way I do about November 4th. For those of you who don't, please read this letter written by Silanchi's dad. Silanchi is the little pistol in the middle. Lori is her super cool mom. This is what Lori said about her husb...
, Lori , Steve , Obama , Silanchi
2008-10-03  Cartago Delenda Est
Some predictions:McCain/Palin is going to lose, and lose big. This will be for the simple reason that voters have simply not yet had the education in reality that they're going to receive during the term(s) of the next administration. The mere fact that the Democrats are a viable party...
2008-10-03  duncanriley.com
On September 8 I wrote a post observing a noticeable difference in Australian politics of late: that voters were sick and tired of negative politics, are were looking for positives, and this showed in recent election results. I put the question to the American test, noting that Obama w...
, General , biden , election , mccain , obama , palin
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2008-10-03  In Your Face
Photos: Sen. Joe Biden at vice presidential debate. (AP photos) FIGHTING HAIR LOSS AND WRINKLES Cosmetic doctors helped mold Sen. Joe Biden’s appearance in last night’s vice presidential debate. Botox injections apparently both eased the 65-year-old’s wrinkles and constr...
, Botox , Celebrities , Joe , OC
2008-10-03  Dorf on Law
According to the NY Times,:A coded French diplomatic cable leaked to a French newspaper quotes the British ambassador in Afghanistan as predicting that the NATO-led military campaign against the Taliban will fail. That was not all. The best solution for the country, the ambassador said...
2008-10-03  Pharmababble
Me: Swami, thanks for taking my call.  With the credit markets in turmoil and this election business seeping into daily conversation, you must be mighty busy.  Anyway, might you be able to find the time to predict the outcome of the ImClone / BMS / Lilly acquisition? Mind you, I have...
, Featured , M&A , BMS , Bristol-Myers , Cetuximab , Eli , ImClone , ImClone , Lilly , merger , pfizer , Takeover
2008-10-03  Silicon Florist
Yesterday, it dawned on me that I keep an eye on a bunch of people who work on mobile apps. I’ve covered them from time to time—most recently with the Obama for iPhone app—but I thought it might be helpful to give you a glimpse of some of the folks who are making t...
, Avatron , CloudFour , Consultants , Developers , Development , GoLife , Mobile , Oregon , Portland , cloud , consultant , Developer , don , free , mobile , mobile , obama , raven , silicon
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2008-10-03  Capital Eye
House members voting for the bailout Friday have collected 41 percent more than opponents from the industries most eager for emergency aid. Senate vote was similarly divided. WASHINGTON (Oct. 3, 2008) -- Members of the House of Representatives who voted Friday afternoon in favor of...
, About , Commercial , Congress , Congressional , Hedge , Influence , Insurance , Issues , Lobbying , Politicians , Press , Real , Securities , commercialbanks , insurance , mortgagebankingindustry , realestate , securitiesandinvestmentindustry , wallstreet
2008-10-03  CNET News - Apple
The Obama iPhone call tally as of 4:33 p.m. Oct. 3.(Credit: CNET News) It looks like either somebody drinks a lot of coffee and talks really fast, or somebody diddled with the results of the phone recruitment feature in the Barack Obama campaign's iPhone application. When ...
The American Nurses Association has endorsed the Obama Biden ticket for President and VP in the 2008 election.To find out more about why the ANA believes Obama and Biden will be a better choice to help nurses, see the new website they have created to help voters make an informed choice...
, politics , health , ANA , politics , political , presidential
This U.S. presidential election season continues to draw massive interest from both the American voting public and others around the world. One of the most fascinating aspects to me, as a writer focusing on media and tech, is how Web innovations and platforms are increasing...
, Community , Huffington , Media , Off , Politics , Social , Television , Trends , Twitter , Web/Tech
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I wish I'd had this flowchart last night. It would have made things make a lot more sense (From DailyKos.com).Click to enlarge. It's now time for Political Rantings by Woman with a Hatchet!Don't get me wrong, I am vested in this election and yes to all of the folks that are spamming m...
, rantings , politics
So what the hell happened this week? We sure don't know! No one cared about gambly John McCain, Hamilton became embroiled in a Raymond Chandler book by way of a Coen Brothers comedy, your money continued burning, The New York Sun finally shut down and we weren't too broken up about it,...
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Last week I did a post, The Chance for Major Health Care Reform in Either 2009 or 2010 Is Now Zero. I made the point that the bailout the Congress is now voting on is on top of a 2009 projected federal budget deficit that the White House has already estimated to be $500 billion. Add t...
, Obama , McCain , Health
This is not an anti- or pro-Obama article, so get over yourself. Not widely (anywhere?-- seriously, am I the only one?) discussed is the effect of an Obama Presidency on the relationship of blacks with other blacks. Because Obama has almost all black voters, there's the feeling...
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2008-10-03  IBR Biz Blog
 By any traditional metric Joseph Biden and John McCain have the experience necessary to be President. Warren Buffet, Steve Jobs, and Meg Whitman do not. Now enter Barack Obama and Sarah Palin. Obama the Democrats’ starting quarterback, and Palin the Republicans’ backup. ...
2008-10-03  Pet Cobra
Let's talk, you and me, about the election. Wait! Hold on! I don't care about Palin, or Biden, or McCain, or Obama. My mind's made up. I'm betting yours is too. And I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that no matter who wins, we'll all survive. Maybe our next president will solv...
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DON’T EAT ANYTHING. YET. Yeah, melamine milk sucks. But so does a lot of other crap we ingest, as Rich Brubaker points out in his recent post: “Even my iPhone may have melamine.“ Earlier this week, Nazia Vasi of 2point6billion.com points out the countless other chemic...
, Responsible , China , crisis , green , melamine , milk , organic , pesticides , responsiblechina , sustainability , u.s. , wokai
Chicago Tribune Students and professors at the University of Illinois decided to rally for Barack Obama on the Urbana-Champaign campus Thursday to make clear their stand on an increasingly controversial question as the November elections approach: Is it legal for employees and students...
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2008-10-03  Gay Tax Protest
from last night's debate:~JOE BIDEN"Do I support granting same-sex benefits? Absolutely positively. Look, in an Obama-Biden administration, there will be absolutely no distinction from a constitutional standpoint or a legal standpoint between a same-sex and a heterosexual [couple]. ~ ...
, Equality , Democrats
In random orderRegarding Palin - If you can cram enough into 6 weeks to pull off an acceptable job at a debate, either the interview process is flawed or the job simply isn't that hard. The fact that McCain and Obama can not show up for work for two year periods would suggest the latt...
, debates , Biden , Sarah , Politics
John McCain's campaign on Thursday night lost no time in using the web to shape perceptions of how the highly-anticipated vice presidential debate went. It launched a fusillade of updates to frame the evening's events on its web site, as well as on YouTube.Liesandsighs1_5 Liesan...
2008-10-03  NEI Nuclear Notes
If you watched last night's VP candidate debate hoping to hear a discussion about nuclear energy in the U.S., you were a little disappointed. Indeed, the only mention of the issue came during this exchange between Sen. Joe Biden and Gov. Sarah Palin over climate change.Biden: Well, I t...
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Sarah Palin is, like, so annoyed that Katie Couric, like, insisted on asking questions and talking about what she wanted to talk about instead of just letting Sarah bash Obama. Because that's how an "interview" works. To be fair, though, Palin had been on Fox News with Hannity first. [...
, news , bailout , brazilian , california , economic , fannie , foreign , george , john , michigan , peggy , pennsylvania , russia , sarah , steelworkers , union
2008-10-03  Vegas Mommy
With so much going on in the news with the upcoming election and recent pass of the "bailout", I have seen more and more posts on blogs about politics and personal opinions and less about infertility. I am all about the freedom of speech and considering we are battling mostly unexplain...
2008-10-03  Charging RINO
One of Palin's answers that actually came close to impressing me last night was her comment on Darfur (I say 'came close to' because I think we need to do much more than this, as Biden and Obama do). Anyway, here's Palin: "America is in a position to help. What I've done in my position...
Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 5 most popular viral videos, commercials or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread. This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to Google: 5 Friends. Roughly 1 in 4 A...
, Viral , adriaan , allesoversex , bassie , battle , chart , engine , Forrest , friday , google , homer , insurance , knights , Leonardo , mccain , msn , obama , ohra , pantless , rap , search , sensoa , simpson , Tobey , video , viral , vote , will.i.am , yahoo , commercials , popularity , user , viral , viral
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2008-10-03  Frankly Speaking
Last night's vice-presidential debate featured no knock downs or train wrecks. And much like the first debate between John McCain and Barack Obama, the opponents in this one didn't seem to have won or lost.As might be expected, Sarah Palin appeared to be more than a little nervous, esp...
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2008-10-03  Cracked Columnists
Editor’s Note: The VP debate didn’t really go as anyone planned. Sarah Palin didn’t fall flat on her face, and Joe Biden didn’t appear to open his eyes over the course of the entire evening. Last night didn’t go as planned for our columnists either. They still got blin...
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2008-10-03  Alex Geana
Brooklyn Royalty is throwing a party. Help fund raise for Obama! [Link via Going.com]
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2008-10-03  Ian Bicking: a blog
We had a debate party tonight for the Biden-Palin debate. It’s nice to watch it in a group of like-minded people. Taking the Democrat/Republican debate seriously is a bullshit game and I don’t have any desire to bring this farce into my normal life. After the debate was ...
, Non-technical , Politics
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2008-10-03  Network Sentry
Obama wins. But so does Palin. The election, of course, is a month away. And, just as certainly, both Barack and Palin can’t win. Where they both come out on top is in a Secure Computing study, reported upon at a Globe and Mail blog, that showed Obama was the subject of 84.4 percent ...
, Security , Security , Security , Sensitive
2008-10-03  JoshSpear.com
According to some, the streets are at a crossroads. Not long ago, the art covering the bricks and blank spaces of the city was more likely to get you in trouble than in Christie’s, but today’s take leans more towards halos than handcuffs. This shift can partially be attributed to ...
, Art , grafitti , interview , San , urban
Bob Ehrlich, Chairman of DTC Perspectives, admitted today in his e-mail OpEd piece that "It looks increasingly likely we will have a Democratic victory in November." (You may find the totality of Ehrlich's comments here.)The results to date of my McCain v. Obama survey seem to confirm ...
, Survey , Obama , McCain
Quite a bit of pressure for Obama. With the polls strongly in his favor and only a few short weeks left, in all likelihood we will have a Democratic Congress and a Liberal President (don't fool yourself, he is further left than every other Democrat on every issue). When was the last ...
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2008-10-02  wisequeen.com
There has never been a VP debate like this one, probably never will be again. I cannot remember any  VP pick at all (other than Al Gore who went on to be a environmental hero). Why? Because normally no  one really cares about the VP pick. In this case they do because she’s a wo...
, business , politics , Biden , debate , Sarah , VP
Gwen Ifill, moderator of Thursday’s debate, is the author of a coming book, “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama.”
, Ifill, , Debating , Books , Presidential , Blacks , News , Commission
2008-10-02  Media 2.0 Workgroup
When my kids were young and one of those things happened that no one could exactly remember doing… a bike was left in the driveway, a baseball went through a window, there was a large grape juice colored spot on the carpet…their nanny would smile and say, “the bluebi...
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I’ve received several requests to write something about the apparent financial crisis in the USA, not to mention the upcoming election. Erin has received similar requests. At first I declined because so much is being written about this already, but people said they just wanted to...
, Business , Career , Consciousness , Problem , Wealth
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2008-10-02  Ramble Redhead
On this episode of Ramble Redhead I start the show telling you all how sorry I am for the delay in getting a show posted. Life sometimes get in the way. I talked about the stuff that Joe and I have been up, talk about movies and television and of course the fun of this election and h...
, Uncategorized , election , movies , obama , ramble , television
2008-10-02  Texas Startup Blog
I decided to ‘twitter‘ the Vice Presidential debate this evening and I was very surprised how prevalent the anti-Palin sentiment was - specifically the HATE leveled at her.  If Twitter is any measure, our political system is broken - we have lost the ability to respectfull...
, Blog , Politics
Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt discusses the Shakespearean parallels of Obama, McCain and Palin.
Congrats to our friend Raven Zachary for leading the team that built the ‘Obama ‘08 for iPhone‘ application.  Despite the fact that I am supporting McCain, I wanted to give kudos to Raven and his team.  They did a great job.  It has been my feeling that ’stat...
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When a young family used to purchase a home, 10% down payment was a must. A young adult with little credit would struggle to get a credit card. Buying a car with no money down was unheard of.Times have certainly changed. Today, we expect all of these things with no strings attached. We...
2008-10-02  i obsess.
I'm not even middle class. I'm working class. Tonight when I watched the debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin, I sat in a working-class bar, amongst (the very few) working class people who turned out to see it, I recognized it; I am them. I am one of those people. They are my p...
Oh, so many things going on in what after last weekend’s conference I like to think of as the O’Sphere: Super agent to the stars Michael Bourret (you heard he was promoted to VP, right?) gives us a great example of how to post about “bad” publishing news witho...
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In 2005, Azerbaijan, an oil-rich country in the Caucuses that regained its independence when the Soviet Union collapsed, hired the Livingston Group, a well-connected Washington firm, to lobby on various issues ranging from human rights to trade and procuring funding. Over the last thr...
, FARA , Lobbying , Uncategorized
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2008-10-02  Cheeky's Hideaway
If you're a thoughtful, rational liberal you can be excused for being a little emotional and confused right now. You're used to having your candidate lose to people with different beliefs or questionable values. Things that seem logical and obvious to you are dismissed by a huge chu...
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Presidential candidate John McCain currently has one of his 7 or so houses up for sale on Realtor.com. I learned about this from Peter Rost's Blog where you can find the link to the listing of this $12,000,000, 9 Bed, 8 Bath, 14,000 Sq. Ft. house that would cost you $65,619 per month i...
, Survey , Obama , McCain
2008-10-02  iowahawk
By Gwen Ifill PBS Chief Political Correspondentand Gwen IfillPresident, Ifill Center for Media Ethicsand Gwen IfillEditor, BarackBeat FanzineWASHINGTON - As expected, a blue ribbon panel from the Ifill Center for Media Ethics cleared award-winning political journalist Gwen Ifill of all...
, Campaign , Election , Mediots
2008-10-02  The Key Monk
Missed opening statementKey points:Palin: "Darn right it was the predatory lender." Populist ugh. But popular.Biden: McCain championed deregulation...Joey Danko can't fill up his tank. Effective +1Biden: Good riposte on Palin's charge that Obama voted to raise taxes on families making...
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Sarah Palin really showed a tremendous contrast to the subdued ho hum Joe Biden in the debate tonight. She was very relaxed, showed her command of the issues, and connected to the people of America. I loved the way she spoke about how main street America viewed the going ons in Washing...
2008-10-02  Rabid Sanity
Having watched the debate while I am stuffing envelopes for the absentee voters, I was not particularly impressed by either of the vice presidential candidates. But I was amused by my wife, The Good Democrat, who was giddy in anticipation of the debate that it would show Sarah Palin t...
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2008-10-02  Winning Startups
I feel so priveleged to live in a country where we can elect our leader and have the opportunity to rid itself of ineffective leaders every four years. At the risk of getting too political (Obama/Biden 08), in honor of tonight's VP debate I thought I would highlight a bakery selling ca...
Congrats to our friend Raven Zachary for leading the team that built the ‘Obama ‘08 for iPhone‘ application.  Despite the fact that I am supporting McCain, I wanted to give kudos to Raven and his team.  They did a great job.  It has been my feeling that ’stat...
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2008-10-02  Principled Profit
These two items from the Center for Media and Democracy may leave a real strong “eeeewww!” taste in your mouth. At least they did for me: 1. The US Food and Drug Administration let an industry front group do its new consumer-information website–and the front group cal...
, Politics , Ethics
Have you heard the news? Everybody's out to get poor Sarah Palin.While the Left is watching Sarah waiting for something they can put on YouTube, the Right will be watching Gwen Ifill, the moderator. She’s writing a book, “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama” s...
, Presidential , Jim
2008-10-01  Dog Snot Diaries
I’m voting for Obama because….er….ah… Oh, I don’t know, some guy picked me up at the bus stop and said he’d give me a ride anywhere if I voted.
, Politics , moonbats , Obama , ohio , voters
2008-10-01  El Gaffney
We decided to bring people into the process (mid-process) to show you how we’re going about setting up Obama Baton. We’re documenting pretty much the entire setup and roll-out to help us learn for future projects. Hopefully you’ll learn something as well by seeing wha...
, Good , Life , Politics , Useful , facebook , flickr , movement , obama , obamabaton , twitter
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While browsing through Joanne's site today, I came across this article about teachers who were wearing "Educators for Obama" buttons to school. How dumb can you get?It would be bad enough if it was just one teacher who was foolish and unprofessional enough to push his political belie...
The Fairness Doctrine, or at least talk of a reimposed Fairness Doctrine, just won’t go away. It was finally killed off in 1987 but the current Democratic Congress has been making periodic noises about bringing it back. The big question now seems to be what would happen under ...
, Barack , Broadcasting , Fairness , George , John , Media , Radio
2008-10-01  caprice's glob
The Transgender and Allies group has moved up to seventh on ActBlue's ranking of donors to the Obama campaign! We're up to 259 donors when I write this. In two and a half days we've added over 150 donors (who gave about $8,000). So please join in, if you haven't already. Help make t...
, transgender , politics
2008-10-01  The Knapp Family
Obama? McCain? Chicken? Frog? So many decisions this year.Well, the Presidential one was quite easy for me, but I need a little bit of help with what Jak should be for Halloween.Do you like the Funky Chicken?Or do you like the Froggy Legs?Vote now and may the best man, er, animal win!D...
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Welcome back to The Fabakis Blog! Here are today's best most interesting articles and stories from around the internet. -Check out new buzz band woodpigeon! Remember that you heard about them here...  They describe their sound as: Water falling on hot rocks, snow falling on dead ...
HEY WORLD!  In case you haven’t figured it out yet, fairness is being redefined in our society.  It’s part of that “hope and change” we are all so desperate to achieve. Tomorrow, Gwen Ifill will be moderating the VP debate. According to Fox news, Ms. Ifill ha...
, Current , Democrats , Economy , Government , Humor , Life , News , Obama , Politics , Sarah , Satire , Socialism , Thoughts , election , funny , recession
It wasn't the most peaceful of outings.Sure, there was the gurgling creek off to the side, the occasional rustle of leaves, the sound of birds, the whir of bugs. There was a brilliant blue sky, the layers of green surrounding me, the sound of feet on dirt. There was a hint of that lo...
In a heightened state of Political Polarization amongst McCain vs. Obama, Republicans vs. Democrats, Liberals vs. Conservatives and even Limbaugh vs. Olberman, The political process is getting more and more negative and campaigns are migrating to Paid search to help deliver their att...
, Politics , cbs3 , cnn , google , kyw1060 , mcain , mccain , mediapost , npr.org , obama , politico , politics , ppc , search , search , seo , wpvi , yahoo
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We've made a great Debate Bingo card for you and yours to print & play while watching the debates. Who scores better for moms on the issues: Obama or McCain? Palin or Biden? Play bingo, then compare candidate scores with us online!
2008-09-30  Bleeding edge blog
Obama, the Republicans and the armchair Democrats have taken the movement of people’s dissatisfaction out of the streets and into the offices of the status quo. The infamous suites. The suits in the suites know how to negotiate and backstab and backtrack and control the game, but...
, Uncategorized , Pano
2008-09-30  Company Press
The Next Frontier: FTEU By Monica Alleven WirelessWeek - September 01, 2008 Granted, it’s another acronym. But some industry leaders believe FTEU could dramatically change the industry. Supporters and people interested in Sen. Barack Obama can sign up to receive text messages with...
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After the bailout failed, McCain accused Obama and the Democrats of failing to support the plan. "Senator Obama and his allies in Congress infused unnecessary partisanship into the process," McCain said in a statement to the media during a stop in Iowa. Excuse me? Unless my math has ...
, Business , Legal , Politics
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My family is building a home using shipping containers as structure. When I started this project, I thought I'd just throw up a picture from time to time, interspersed with whatever rant I was currently on, to demonstrate "what a nut-case that idiot "Ronin" is." But... Over the past f...
Thanks John Your efforts have saved our country of economic … Wait, What was that? It Failed? John, I thought it was a done deal, well John let’d go to your back up… What no back up? Oh! John what now ‘blame the dem’s’ ‘blame Obama’ ̵...
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2008-09-30  bobdc.blog
Easier than Jon Udell had thought. In an August 19th interview with Jon Udell, David Huynh of Freebase (and formerly of MIT's Project Simile) introduced his Freebase demo by describing a hypothetical query to a database asking for presidents' ages when they are...
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2008-09-29  The Woodwork
Apparently, there is an e-mail circulating speculating that Barack Obama may be the Anti-Christ. Thank you, Oh Lord. After years of suffering their sanctimony, I finally agree with the Spiritually Correct on one thing… We’re both going to vote Obama! Barack Obama will hasten your ...
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The always excellent ClickZ news blog has raided the FEC to get Barack Obama’s online ad spend breakdown (up to August) which I think makes interesting reading. In a campaign where results, actually one result, are everything, the Senator for Illinois has divided up his hard rais...
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2008-09-29  Commoner Sense
The House of Representatives just stopped the financial-crisis bailout in its tracks, despite the enthusiastic support it had received from Bush and the rather less enthusiastic support it got from Obama and McCain. Chalk up another win for democracy, but at what cost?It seems to me th...