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Get Well Soon, Sen. McCain

Filed in Uncategorized by on April 4, 2008 26 Comments

There is an interesting story over at The Carpetbagger Report. McCain’s campaign has been promising to release his medical records for months, but the date keeps getting pushed back. First it was March, then they pushed it to April, now it’s May. Running as the Oldest President in History© it would seem like his health […]

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Iraqi Troops Still Not Up To The Task

Filed in Uncategorized by on April 4, 2008 4 Comments

The New York Times is reporting that during the recent Basra offensive, over 1,000 of the Iraqi soldiers deserted during the fight.  This is good news for the Bush admin, since they don’t need to stand down until Iraq stands up.  I wonder if that will ever happen.

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How to NOT Win Delegates and Influence People

Filed in Uncategorized by on April 4, 2008 5 Comments
How to NOT Win Delegates and Influence People

Huffington Post has an article that perfectly covers a S.F. Chronicle story on the backstage antics of Bill Clinton during a meeting with California superdelegates. When a superdelegate mentioned that she was disappointed that James Carville had called Bill Richardson “Judas,” Clinton went off. My favorite part of the article is actually the picture of […]

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How Does That Work?

Filed in Uncategorized by on April 3, 2008 25 Comments

The Electronic Freedom Foundation has noticed that a footnote in a John Yoo memo that stated that the Justice Department had recently decided that the 4th amendment didn’t apply to military operations within the United States with regard to terrorism. For those of you that forget what the 4th amendment says: The right of the […]

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A Fitting Tribute To Our pResident

Filed in Uncategorized by on April 3, 2008 1 Comment

One of our readers, Fred, just forwarded me a website that aims to pay a fitting tribute to George W Bush.   His Dad has an Airport named after him, as does Reagan.  In San Francisco, there is a movement afoot to name the Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Facility the George W Bush Sewage Plant.  It is […]

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Bloggers Continue to Get Choice Political Posts

Filed in Uncategorized by on April 1, 2008 18 Comments

Last week we were all elated by the appointment of Mat Marshall to the post of Communications Director. If these things come in threes, there is only one to go. Mike Protack has named activist/poet/blogger Dana Garrett as his campaign manager. “My first foe in this battle to become Governor will be the Republican party […]

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Housing Crisis Claims First Political Victim

Filed in Uncategorized by on March 31, 2008 1 Comment

HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson is expected to resign today.  Apparently, his poor relationship with Democrats was standing in the way of progress.  He had also been involved in some shady politics involving a developer friend of his in Philly. He is expected to announce his resignation at a press conference later today.

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How Will You Be Stimulated?

Filed in Uncategorized by on March 28, 2008 18 Comments

In the next several months most of us will be receiving economic stimulus checks.  The intent is to try to pull this economy out of its recession death-spiral.  So how will you spend your money? Unfortunately for the economy, I plan to spend mine on a cottage rental in Nova Scotia in August.

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Superdelegates Starting to Break

Filed in Uncategorized by on March 27, 2008 3 Comments

You may have noticed the Superdelegate widget on the left hand side of the site in the past few weeks.  Big thanks to Steve Newton for pointing it out to me. Well in the last two days I have started to notice the numbers changing slightly.  Yesterday an Illinois SD committed to Obama.  Today, CT […]

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MTV Windpower Video

Filed in National by on March 27, 2008 14 Comments

Stephanie Woods of Hockessin has made this video for MTV’s Street Team. As a fan of video on the net, I think this is a pretty nice overview. Guest appearances from Gerald Hocker, John Kowalko and Jeremy Firestone.

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A Plan For Electoral Victory

Filed in Uncategorized by on March 26, 2008 19 Comments

I heard an interview with Ed Rendell on Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me about the need for Democrat unity.  Here is what he told a group of people in Florida:  Whatever happens with the Democratic nomination, roughly half of the Democrats will be disappointed.  After the nominee is determine (whenever that is) the other supporters […]

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Comment Rescue: My Dad and Dr. Wright

Filed in Uncategorized by on March 26, 2008 1 Comment

Thank you Von Cracker, for pointing me to this Daily Kos diary entry.  The story is one that I think is well worth a read.

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Drinking Liberally This Thursday

Filed in Uncategorized by on March 25, 2008 19 Comments

Drinking Liberally has been a great time to meet the people in our little community in the past 6 months. I have met most of our regular commenters at one of them or another (even TPN). Hopefully, this month will be no exception. The location this time is The Deer Park Tavern in Newark. Since […]

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