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Obama vs. The Clinton/McCain Party on the Gas Tax
2008-05-01 07:56:00 John McCain has admitted he doesn’t know much about economics. That might explain his views on the gas tax, but what’s Hillary Clinton ’s excuse? It must come down to the fact that she continues to attract the votes of the less educated, low-information voters who would see saving money as reason to vote for her. ... More About: Economy , Party , Barack Obama , Obama
Kerry Takes On MSNBC Over Wright Questions
2008-05-01 07:06:00 John Kerry really gave it MSNBC’s Alex Witt when she asked about Reverend Wright: WITT: Okay. He said it. A 20-year relationship. Reverend Wright married him. He is the one who baptized a god parent. How personally painful is this for him? KERRY: Can I say something to you? Obviously it is painful and he said it. ... More About: Politics , Questions , Barack Obama , John Kerry
McCain?s Medical Plans Make Matters Worse For the Insured and Medicare Pati
2008-04-30 22:03:00 There’s already been a lot of criticism of John McCain ’s health care plan around the liberal blogosphere, including these posts from Steve Benen and Ezra Klein. One peculiar thing about McCain’s plans is that he manages to both ignore addressing the real problems of those who have lack affordable coverage and makes things worse for ... More About: Medical , Health Care , Blogosphere , Plans
Creationist Claims Science Kills People
2008-04-30 20:46:00 The Anti-Defamation League has issued a statement condemning the creationist movie Expelled: New York, NY, April 29, 2008 ? The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today issued the following statement regarding the controversial film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. The film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed misappropriates the Holocaust and its imagery as a part of its political effort to discredit ... More About: Science , Religion , People , Iraq , Evolution
Obama Takes Lead in New Jersey Poll
2008-04-30 20:06:00 Barack Obama lost to Hillary Clinton by ten points in the New Jersey primary, but since then support has shifted towards Obama. A Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey poll shows Obama now leading by seven points. This doesn’t change the results of the primary but it does counter the idea that momentum has shifted towards Clinton. This ... More About: Politics , Barack Obama
Why Obama Joined Trinity
2008-04-30 19:56:00 Obama’s decision to join Wright’s church has turned into a political problem. Norm Scheiber looks at why Obama probably did join this church as opposed to other, more conservative churches in the area. He quotes from David Mendell’s biography of Barack Obama : Wright remains a maverick among Chicago’s vast assortment of black preachers. He will question ... More About: Politics , Blogosphere , Obama , Trinity
Indiana Independents and Republicans May Decide Primary
2008-04-30 06:28:00 The Howey-Gauge Poll suggests that the Indiana Democratic primary will be decided by independents and Republicans as Democrats are evenly split, with independents favoring Obama and Republicans backing Clinton: There appears to be two kinds of Republicans: the “Obamacans” as the Illinois senator likes to call them - earnest Republicans deeply disappointed in their own party?s ... More About: Politics , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton
Clinton Appearing On The O?Reilly Factor
2008-04-30 01:35:00 Hillary Clinton will be appearing on The O’Reilly Factor show tomorrow night. Just as Obama handled his appearance on Fox News Sunday as a regular interview, Clinton does not intend to “take on” Bill O’Reilly. Of course if she did, O’Reilly wouldn’t stand a chance. Remember what Terry Gross did to him when O’Reilly was ... More About: Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton
Obama Repudiates Wright
2008-04-29 22:08:00 It probably didn’t come as a surprise to anyone that Obama acted to further distance himself from Wright today (video above) following Wright’s recent public statements. Ben Smith has posted the following quotes from Obama’s press conference: “I have spent my entire adult life trying to bridge the gap between different kinds of people. That?s ... More About: Barack Obama
Disney Risks New Scandal From Revealing Pictures
2008-04-29 20:29:00 Disney is once again facing a potential scandal over one of their starlets posing in a revealing picture. Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana) posed with a sheet covering her topless chest for Vanity Fair (above). The picture, taken by Annie Leibovitz, was not seen as a problem when taken but is now raising concern due to ... More About: Television , Pictures , Entertainment , Disney , Scandal
Creationists vs. Western Civilization
2008-04-29 08:25:00 John Derbyshire of National Review wrote this column on Expelled which is highly critical of the creationist/intelligent design movement. For example, he wrote: When talking about the creationists to people who don?t follow these controversies closely, I have found that the hardest thing to get across is the shifty, low-cunning aspect of the whole modern creationist ... More About: Science , Religion , Civilization , Evolution , Blogosphere
Obama Wins Superdelegate and Takes Lead in Senate Endorsements
2008-04-29 00:45:00 Earlier in the race it was about delegates. Currently the Clinton campaign stresses the popular vote. At one time Hillary even jokingly suggested gong by bowling scores. Although the Clinton campaign changes the metric by which they claim Clinton should get the nomination there’s one measure which they won’t be using for now–endorsements from their ... More About: Politics , Congress , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Obama
Hillary Strangelove?Keep Her Away From That Red Phone
2008-04-29 00:31:00 Earlier in the race the Clinton campaign tried to portray Obama as being reckless on foreign policy, even when making proposals which were the same as Clinton has made or which, like pursuing known terrorists into Pakistan, are consistent with current U.S. policy. The Boston Globe discusses how Clinton is really the dangerous one: AMERICANS have ... More About: Phone , National Security , Hillary Clinton , Hillary
The Loony Left
2008-04-28 07:33:00 Just in case anyone doubts that segments of the liberal blogosphere are every bit as loony as the right wing blogosphere just check Open Left here and here. Matt Stoller considers Obama’s appearance on Fox News Sunday to be a betrayal of the liberal blogosphere and a case of promoting right wing institutions. This is normally ... More About: Barack Obama , Blogosphere
Why Hillary Makes A Lot Of Us Scream
2008-04-28 03:22:00 I learn from Tom Hayden’s article in The Nation that we have one thing in common. Neither of our wifes think very much of Hillary Clinton . Hayden explains Why Hillary Makes My Wife Scream : Going negative doesn’t begin to describe what has happened. Hillary is going over the edge. Even worse are the flacks she sends ... More About: Politics , Barack Obama
Terry McCauliffe?Hypocritical and Ignored
2008-04-28 01:59:00 Yesterday I noted how an excerpt from Terry McCauliffe’s book, What A Party!, exposes his hypocrisy. This story is now being widely reported in the blogosphere. Besides revealing how hypocritical McCauliff and the Clinton campaign are being over seating the Michigan and Florida delegations it also reveals how irrelevant Terry McCauliffe has become. This story began ... More About: Democrats , Hillary Clinton , Blogosphere
Dallas and the Cold War
2008-04-28 00:18:00 Dallas premiered thirty years ago today. The show definitely had an impact on the development of the prime time soap opera. The Washington Post writes that it also helped win the cold war: “Dallas” wasn’t simply a television show. It was an atmosphere-altering cultural force. Lasting nearly as long as recovering alcoholic Larry Hagman’s second liver, ... More About: Television , International , Dallas , George Bush , Cold War
Voting Behavior and The Losing Candidate
2008-04-27 22:42:00 Megan McArdle and Arnold Kling consider voting behavior by Democrats should their candidate lose the nomination. Megan writes: Arnold thinks that as soon as the dust has settled, the party will unite behind the nominee. I would guess that this will be less true of a Hillary Clinton nomination than of a Barack Obama ... More About: Politics , Behavior
Obama More Electable As Appeals to Independents
2008-04-27 22:14:00 John Avlon, author of Independent Nation: How Centrism Can Change American Politics has an op-ed in The New York Post explaining why Obama is more electable that Clinton. (Hat tip to Joe Gandelman). It’s electability, stupid.That’s what Hillary Clinton and her surrogates have been spinning to super-delegates and anyone else who will listen since she lost ... More About: Barack Obama , Cain
Obama Reaches Out To Clinton Conservatives on Fox News Sunday
2008-04-27 21:49:00 Barack Obama did a good job in his interview on Fox News Sunday (video above). With all my criticism here of Fox I should also say that Chris Wallace also did a good job. Sure I could nitpick (and I was annoyed by him repeatedly calling Clinton’s nine point victory in Pennsylvania a big ... More About: Politics , Economy , Education , Barack Obama
Julia Sweeney Is Officially Anti-Hillary
2008-04-27 21:22:00 This is a week old but I didn’t find out about Julia Sweeney’s post on Hillary Clinton until now. She begins: Okay, as of today, I am officially anti-Hillary. I have held out. Most people I know really can?t stand her. I was always quick to add that if she were the nominee I would support ... More About: Entertainment , Barack Obama , Blogosphere
SciFi Friday (Sunday Editin): Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, and a
2008-04-27 08:36:00 Lost had another terrific episode, this week concentrating on Ben. On the island Ben faced the murder of Alex by Widmore’s men. We also learned that he hadn’t been totally honest about the smoke monster in the past as it turns out he has the ability to summon it when in danger. Ben wasn’t the ... More About: Television , Lost , Battlestar Galactica , Doctor Who , Science Fiction
Clinton Donors Switching to Obama
2008-04-27 06:28:00 Many Democrats feel that the negative campaign being waged by Hillary Clinton is damaging to the party, and risks costing the party the support of African Americans and affluent liberals. Some of those who disapprove of Clinton, including former Clinton supporters, are expressing their displeasure with contributions to Obama . The Washington Post reports: There are signs ... More About: Politics , Barack Obama
McCain?s Plans Would Most Greatly Increase Deficit
2008-04-27 05:19:00 Yesterday I noted an editorial from The Washington Post which showed that, while none of the three remaining candidates are particularly fiscally responsible, John McCain was the worst. The New York Times looks at the same issue today and reports the same result: Mr. McCain?s plan would appear to result in the biggest jump in the ... More About: Politics , Economy , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton
The Hypocrisy of the Clinton Campaign
2008-04-26 23:44:00 Mark Nicholas has demonstrated the hypocrisy of the Clinton campaign in a couple of recent posts. Yesterday he showed how Terry McCauliff took the opposite position he now takes with regards to Michigan and Florida. In 2004 Michigan Senator Carl Levin threatened to do what Michigan did this year in moving up the primary. An ... More About: Politics , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Blogosphere , Hypocrisy
Government Has No Business in Prayer?Especially When Not Inclusive
2008-04-26 19:56:00 Morbo, who frequently writes on matters of church and state at The Carpetbagger Report on Saturdays, describes how the National Day of Prayer has been hijacked by the religious right: The National Day of Prayer is Thursday, May 1. I oppose it. I believe religious leaders should call people to prayer, not government officials. I believe ... More About: Business , Religion , Government , Blogosphere
The Clinton Blood Bath
2008-04-26 18:53:00 Early in the race Hillary Clinton had a huge lead in superdelegates as many party insiders backed her early. The word was that people were being told that either they backed Clinton or they would be on the outside once Clinton won (which at the time was considered inevitable by many). Many gave in to ... More About: Politics , Democrats , Bath , John Kerry
Sexist Bitch
2008-04-26 05:44:00 Regardless of whether one agrees with Melissa McEwan that criticism of Clinton’s laugh is sexist, or one agrees with Ann Althouse that making fun of politicians is part of the debate we have in this country, I hope that they can at last find the humor in Eric’s take on the whole debate at Classical ... More About: Hillary Clinton , Blogosphere , Bitch
Hillary Clinton vs. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
2008-04-26 04:46:00 I suspect that most of the readers here don’t read Hot Air or QandO and therefore missed this post from Ed Morrissey: Jon Henke at QandO wonders why this particular Hillary Clinton quote from last September hasn?t received much attention: ?We can talk all we want about freedom and opportunity, about life, liberty, and the pursuit of ... More About: Life , Republicans , Health Care , Liberty
Quote of the Day: John McCain on North Carolina Republicans Being out of To
More articles from this author:2008-04-26 04:10:00 “They’re not listening to me because they’re out of touch with reality and the Republican Party. We are the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan and this kind of campaigning is unacceptable. I’ve done everything that I can to repudiate and to see that this kind of campaigning does not continue.” –John McCain ... More About: Politics , Republicans , Barack Obama , North Carolina , Quote Of The Day 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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