Back in February, Clinton supporter Tom Buffenbarger famously said: I’ve got news for all the latte-drinking, Prius-driving, Birkenstock-wearing, trust fund babies crowding in to hear him speak! This guy won’t last a round against the Republican attack machine. He’s a poet, not a fighter. The image at right notwithstanding, is there some connection between latte […]
“The Dow went up 410 points today on Wall Street. You may already know, the government has bailed two huge financial companies out, and today, they strongly hinted that they would bail the rest of them out, at taxpayers’ expense. It’s all part of a new approach our leaders in the White House and Congress […]
You can’t make up stuff like this. In the Sept./Oct. issue of Contingencies (the magazine of the American Academy of Actuaries — the people who figure out how much life and health insurance should cost) there is an article from John McCain. Here’s what McCain says about market-based health reform: Opening up the health insurance […]
Or at the very least, a member of the Brady Bunch. From 23/6 Not to mention that independent fact checking organizations all say that her story about the bridge to nowhere is false: FactCheck, PolitiFact, CNN, and the LA Times on the Road to Nowhere.
“The big news story today is Sarah Palin. Every day, Sarah Palin. And it is not exactly hard-hitting stuff. I haven’t seen the media fawn over a celebrity this much since — Barack Obama.” -Craig Ferguson “But the dirt is beginning to come out. Apparently, one of Sarah’s first acts as Governor of Alaska was […]
McCain declared Thursday that the Securities and Exchange Commission had turned “our markets into a casino”. This begs the question — since McCain has long been a proponent of “privatizing” Social Security by investing its funds in the financial markets, doesn’t that mean that he wanted to bet your retirement on a casino? If McCain […]
23/6 has a very funny article about how presidents throughout history could have run campaigns as sleazy as the current McCain campaign. Here are just a few of them; go to their site to see more and read their article:
From All Hat No Cattle UPDATE: James Moore gives one of the best explanations of the current financial crisis, how it happened, and what we should do about it.
“The presidential election now down to the choice of Barack Obama and what’s his name, versus Sarah Palin and what’s his name.” -Jay Leno “Joe Biden gave a speech in Michigan yesterday, where he said that John McCain is the sequel to President Bush, and he said the sequel is always worse than the original. […]
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