April 16, 2008 – 12:15 pm
From TPM comes the latest Reuters/Zogby Poll, showing McCain within reach of the brass ring:
Republican presidential candidate John McCain runs even with Democratic rival Barack Obama and narrowly leads Hillary Clinton in potential match-ups in November, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released Wednesday.
McCain was seen as a better steward of the economy than either Democrat [...]
First, from The Conservative Nanny State author Dean Baker:
According to the oil industry, they have their refineries running flat out, producing all the gas they can. This means that the price is determined on the demand side.
We have a fixed amount of gas entering the market, the question is simply what price clears the market. [...]
Evidently, torture plans being scripted in the Oval Office are not sufficient campaign fodder for this Democratic presidential candidate. No, no, no: a verbal misstep by her opponent is so important that it needs to be the centerpiece of a last-minute ad:
TITLE: “Pennsylvania”
LENGTH: 30 seconds.
AIRING: Pennsylvania.
SCRIPT: Clinton: “I’m Hillary Clinton and I approve this [...]
April 15, 2008 – 11:35 am
will racism be dead and buried in the U.S.:
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Republican Rep. Geoff Davis apologizing to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Monday after referring to him as “that boy.”
Addressing a Republican gathering Saturday night, the Kentucky lawmaker said, “That boy’s finger does not need to be on the button.” Davis was talking [...]
April 15, 2008 – 12:07 am
“That was in no way a demeaning of a faith that I myself embrace,” Mr. Obama said. “When economic hardship hits, they have faith, they have family, they have traditions that have been passed on from generation to generation. Those are not bad things. Those are the things that are left.”
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From the Guardian:
The verbal battle between the Democratic presidential hopefuls intensified yesterday, with Hillary Clinton accusing Barack Obama of being “elitist and out of touch”.
Clinton was trying to keep Obama’s bungled comments on small town America in the news, while Obama struck back at her over her stance on gun laws.
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At the first opportunity, Clinton [...]
April 12, 2008 – 11:45 am
My advice to Obama is to take a vow of silence until after the 2008 Democratic Convention. That way McCain, Hillary and the utterly biased, Republican brown nosing media will have no way to gang up on him to swing the nomination to Hillary. Speaking the truth about working Pennsylvanians and criticizing big [...]
April 11, 2008 – 10:45 am
Our son L. knows how I cherish my few weekly hours with Sam Seder on Sunday afternoons by the way he has to beg to get me out of the house or car. Losing Morning Sedition and the Majority Report was bad, but when AAR put Sam into Al Franken’s morning slot it was [...]
April 10, 2008 – 10:51 am
We went through the marked-up document slowly, pausing at each blue mark. Detainee 063’s reactions were recorded with regularity. I’ll string some of them together to convey the impression:
Detainee began to cry. Visibly shaken. Very emotional. Detainee cried. Disturbed. Detainee began to cry. Detainee bit the IV tube completely in two. Started moaning. Uncomfortable. Moaning. [...]
