Archive for January, 2008

Liveblogging SOTU

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Because it can keep us awake while he talks…

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Setting the Feb 5th Goal Post

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It’s all about the delegates baby! TO: Interested Parties FROM: David Plouffe DATE: January 28, 2008   RE: State of the Race Post South Carolina After four contests, Barack Obama has earned the most delegates – a fifteen pledged delegate lead over Senator Clinton – and a clear lead in total vote casts from the […]

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FMK

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For the Dudes Hillary Boxer Fienstein For the Duddettes Ted Kennedy Joe Biden Russ Feingold

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I just got off a conference call with Barack Obama’s Campaign Manager

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I got on a few minutes late but here is the gist: The block quote his not verbatim, but the sense of what was being said as best as I could get it down. David Plouffe: (The campaign in Delaware) is the kind of grassroots movement that is happening in the rest of the country […]

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Change

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEaS-K3j3M8[/youtube]

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McCain’s War

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I was just on the radio and Al Mascitti was telling me that the war is not a big campaign issue. Well, not for these five grunts anayway. BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Five U.S. soldiers were killed when their patrol was hit by a roadside bomb and then came under small arms fire in the northern […]

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Bush Presidency in a nutshell

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Tonight’s State of the Union address by President Bush had its origins in a conversation between the president and his small crew of speechwriters in late spring or early summer last year  Planning for this year’s speech began in earnest in December, and by Christmas the speechwriting shop had an outline ready for Bush. While […]

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this may be a dumb question

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As I was lying awake last night staring at the full moon that shined on my full moon I thought to myself when Chimply McFlightsuit wants to cut taxes how is that helping me.  So I thought for a while and realized it fucking doesn’t?  So please tell me the last time a tax cut […]

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Will you be watching?

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The Mrs Viti, Pop-Pop Viti and I will be enjoying some steak at Ruth Chris’ tonight and I don’t plan on rushing home to watch the Ahole in Chief.  Will anyone else be able to stomach watching him lie about the progess in Iraq and the economy?

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The GOP in a nutshell

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Did anyone hear the Mitch MConnell’s clip on WDEL this morning? Responding to Harry Reid’s statement that President Bush is very good at creating fear McConnell said somethign like, “This is not about creating fear. The American public is right to be in fear.” Classic.

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Oh the ungodly shitmess…

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…that the next President will inherit from George Bush (a man people like Mike Caste and Dave Burris continue to support and would vote for EVEN TODAY.) The banner was Tehrik-e- Taliban Pakistan, or the Taliban Movement of Pakistan, with a fighting force estimated at up to 40,000. And the leader was Baitullah Mehsud, the […]

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Thank You Bill and Hillary !

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The awesome and ruthlessly efficient machine that is the Clinton organization put Obama to a serious test in Nevada and South Carolina. He needed it and he is now better prepared to go up against the bloodthirsty attack machine that is the modern GOP. Here is Liberal Oasis on the subject: Sen. Barack Obama lost […]

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Michelle Obama to Visit KENT COUNTY Delaware on Thursday

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This is not some jump off I-95 and kiss a baby on the way to Philly stop. Obama is out to win Delaware. WILMINGTON, DE –The Obama for America campaign today announced that Senator Barack Obama’s wife, Michelle, will visit Delaware for events in Wilmington and Dover on Thursday, January 31, 2008. WHAT: Dover Rally […]

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