Obama‘s problem is he doesn‘t seem like a guy who can go into an Applebee‘s salad bar and people think he fits in naturally there. He has to change to be more like that Applebee‘s guy and as he‘s done that he‘s become much more transactional. Much more, I‘m going to deliver this and this […]
This week, McCain claimed that troop levels in Iraq had been “drawn down to pre-surge levels”. He also claimed that Mosul was “quiet”. Unfortunately, neither of these is true. Before the surge, there were 128,569 troops in Iraq, and there are currently around 155,000, and news reports are calling Mosul the “last urban bastion of […]
Since they don’t seem to be able to dispute any of the facts in (former Bush press secretary) Scott McClellan’s book “What Happened“, the Republicans are employing their standard tricks and attempting to smear McClellan himself. Unwilling to even identify themselves, unnamed sources in the White House called McClellan a “traitor” and “Benedict”. In the […]
Hillary Clinton keeps claiming that her husband’s primary race lasted until June. However, in his memoir, Bill Clinton says the race was over in April: “On April 7, we also won in Kansas, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. On April 9, Paul Tsongas announced that he would not reenter the race. The fight for the nomination was […]
Remember the group that swiftboated John Kerry in the last election? Now there is the “Vets for Freedom” that is trying to do the same thing to Obama. And some of the main people behind “Vets for Freedom” are also on McCain’s campaign. UPDATE: Daily Kos points out that coordination between a 527 group and […]
I’m not sure if this is ironic, or if everything else coming from the Mainstream Media is what is truly ironic. John Harris, in Politico — masters of media hype — has published a story about … media hype. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10604.html What makes the situation even more ironic is that it feeds the problem where the […]
Republican Senator Liddy Dole’s campaign is asking both the national Democratic and Republican parties to not run ads in her upcoming NC senate race, in the name of civility. Republican Senator Susan Collins has asked for the same thing in Maine. This sounds great, until you realize that Dole herself was the chair of the […]
Once upon a time, John McCain was the co-sponsor of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (also known as the “McCain-Feingold” bill), but he seems to be spending more time now getting around the provisions of his own law. First he took out a loan for his own campaign, using the promise of public […]
Part three of the ongoing comedy. Senator Joe Biden reveals that the Bush administration has engaged in unconditional direct talks with some of the worst terrorists around, which kind of makes Bush a hypocrite for slamming Obama for wanting to talk with countries like Iran. In fact, Bush sent Biden himself to negotiate with Gaddafi. […]
The same kinds of people (and even some the very same people, including Don Rumsfeld, Newt Gingrich and Pat Robertson) who are accusing Obama of being an appeaser because he is willing to talk to our enemies said the same thing about Ronald Reagan in the 80’s when Reagan was willing to negotiate with the […]
The next time the Republican party accuses someone of not supporting the troops, remember this: http://www.theseminal.com/2008/05/15/morning-topic-why-dont-republicans-support-our-troops/ John McCain (and most other republicans) are refusing to support a bill to restore veteran’s benefits to the levels they were at after WWII. Their reason? They claim that it will hurt “troop retention” and encourage soldiers to leave the […]
Once again it seems like the only thing that saves us from the Bush administration is their sheer incompetence. And the only thing that saves us from knowing about their incompetence is the mainstream media. The Bush Administration has been beating the war drums against Iran. On May 3, the US military under General Patraeus […]
A post here earlier today pointed out the hypocrisy of Bush comparing Obama to Nazi appeasers because Obama is in favor of negotiating with (some of) our enemies. But it just keeps getting more bizarre. Today McCain (who is largely running on his foreign policy experience) defended Bush’s remarks and further claimed that the reason […]
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