Angelina Jolie In The Washington Post

8:16 pm EST February 28th, 2008 | News | 1 Comment

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Did you know that Angelina Jolie has an editorial in today’s Washington Post? That’s excuse enough to run a picture of her.

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John Hagee, The Anti-Catholic Right Wing Nutjob Who Endorsed John McCain — With McCain’s Blessing

8:05 pm EST February 28th, 2008 | News | 6 Comments

Barack Obama denounced Farrakhan. John Mccain embraced John Hagee.

John Hagee and John McCain

John Hagee and John McCain

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Hagee has denounced replacement theology, believing that Romans 9, 10 and 11 teaches that the Jewish people continue to have favor with God by the election of grace and as a people of the covenant their salvation is not dependent on belief in Jesus Christ. Hagee believes that the Bible commands Christians to support Israel and the Jewish people.

He alleges the land of Israel never belonged to the Arabs because sovereignty went from the Ottoman Turks who controlled the land prior to World War I, to the British, to the United Nations which authorized its partition and creation of the State of Israel. He claims the land was named Palestine after the ancient Philistines to punish the Jews for their revolt against the Romans, that there is no unique Palestinian language and most of those who claim to be Palestinians immigrated from other Arab nations prior to 1948.

Hagee has said Iran is a threat to Western civilization and that they will never respond favorably to diplomacy[citation needed]. He supports an American-Israeli attack on Iran to eliminate its alleged nuclear programme and supports the Neo-Conservative movement in the United States.

Hagee, like many other right-wing preachers, also is accused of using his church as a cash cow for him and his family.

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In Which, God Help Me, I Praise George W. Bush For Something

7:34 pm EST February 28th, 2008 | News | 5 Comments

Just for a nanosecond. A moment from the start of today’s presidential press conference:

Q Mr. President, bad economic news continues to pile up, the latest today with the GDP barely growing. Are you concerned that a sagging economy and hard times will help defeat John McCain, like it did your father in 1992? And how far are you willing to go to prevent that?

THE PRESIDENT: I’m concerned about the economy because I’m concerned about working Americans, concerned about people who want to put money on the table and save for their kids’ education. That’s why I’m concerned about the economy. I want Americans working.

Reporters are obsessed with framing everything as a campaign issue. For them, the years between elections are just filler between campaign seasons. But for the rest of us, in reality, it isn’t. Bush answers this question in the right way, knocking out the reporter’s stupid framing of it as a campaign issues. The economy matters because it affects the life of Americans. Not because it may or may not hurt John McCain in the fall. Leave that kind of stupid question to fellow journalists and pundits.

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Obama, Canada, NAFTA And Egg On The Face

4:43 pm EST February 28th, 2008 | News | 3 Comments

Both John McCain and effectively pro-McCain Taylor Marsh are pushing the hell out of this non-story, yet the Canadian government and the Obama campaign have both denied it.

Desperate.

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Clinton Neither Rejects Nor Denounces

9:54 am EST February 28th, 2008 | News | 4 Comments

What’s good for the goose…

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton demanded that Sen. Barack Obama reject support from the Rev. Louis Farrakahn during a debate on Tuesday night. But what, a Dallas television interviewer asked Clinton on Wednesday, about Adelfa Callejo, an 84-year-old Latina backer of Clinton’s in Texas?

Callejo was reported as saying that black politicians hadn’t done anything to help Latinos. Did Clinton, the interviewer asked, reject and denounce Callejo for saying such a thing?

Clinton was equivocal. “People have every reason to express their opinions,” she said.

“You know, this is a free country,” Clinton said, laughing, when asked whether she still wanted Callejo’s support. She went on to say that she did not know the facts of the situation.

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Republican Recession Watch: Economic Slowdown

9:33 am EST February 28th, 2008 | News | 1 Comment

When it comes to Republicans and the conomy, we see time and time again: No, they can’t.

The economy skidded to a near halt in the final quarter of last year, clobbered by dual slumps in housing and credit that caused people and businesses to spend and invest more sparingly.

The Commerce Department reported Thursday that the gross domestic product increased at a scant 0.6 percent pace in the October-to-December quarter. The reading — unchanged from an initial estimate a month ago — underscored just how much momentum the economy has lost. In the prior quarter, the economy clocked in at a brisk 4.9 percent pace.

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links for 2008-02-28

7:20 am EST February 28th, 2008 | News | Comments Off

 

Taylor Marsh, The Right’s New Pet

3:46 am EST February 28th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

They tell her to jump and she asks “how high?”

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I Gotta Say Something

9:28 pm EST February 27th, 2008 | News | 27 Comments

Dying does not automatically make someone a good person.

That’s all I have to say about that.

 

John McCain: The Worst Senator For Children

9:22 pm EST February 27th, 2008 | News | 20 Comments

Dear Republicans,
We’ll stop saying you hate children and the elderly when that stops being true.
Love, Oliver

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