It’s pretty clear where Obama stands, and the people who are going to keep saying things “raise questions” are just McCain/Clinton types who are trying to whip up noise.
“I’m outraged by the comments that were made and saddened by the spectacle. The person that I saw yesterday was not the person I met 20 years [...]
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links for 2008-04-29
April 29th, 2008
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New mama Halle Berry at her buxom best
Just when you thought Halle Berry couldn’t be any better
The Redskins Drafted A Punter
Vinny Cerrato, you are a moron
Wiener dog races, 04.27.08
HOLY CUTE. (via Jerry in comments)
The Onion: NHL Star Called Up To Big Leagues To Play For NFL Team
April 29th, 2008
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[Nelson]Ha! Ha! We’re laughing at the NHL![/Nelson]
Freema Agyeman Goes Beyond Zen
April 29th, 2008
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Doctor Martha Jones, I presume? I wanted to visit the UK as it is, now I really feel the need to make it across the pond. Doctor Who is just so much better when she’s on than when she isn’t.
Freema Agyeman in “The Sontaran Stratagem” which is about as British sci-fi a title as [...]
Another Blow To The “Fat Acceptance” Nonsense
April 29th, 2008
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I’m taking note of this as an expert fat guy. The idea that being overweight is healthy or some kind of ideal disconnected from health is just nutty.
New research challenges the notion that you can be fat and fit, finding that being active can lower but not eliminate heart risks faced by heavy women. “It [...]
I For One Am Glad The Media Is Focusing On Important Things Like What Jeremiah Wright Says
April 29th, 2008
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We can always count on them to be on the ball.
A New York soldier thought he had done his duty battling America’s enemies overseas after losing the hearing in his left ear and injuring a knee.
But Uncle Sam isn’t finished with James Raymond, yet.
Now he’s headed to Iraq.
“I thought it was a joke,” said Raymond, [...]
$2.38 Billion In Earmarks For Clinton?
April 29th, 2008
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Now, I don’t buy the conservative yammering about earmarks. I think one of the integral parts of congress is requesting money to bring back home and that’s never changing. But, em, you think Sen. Clinton would be a little less grabby.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has requested nearly $2.3 billion in federal earmarks for 2009, [...]
Do Not Want
April 28th, 2008
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Why do Republicans like Karl Rove insist on offering advice to Democrats? It was bad enough when they were in power and in control of everything, but the “architect” of the least popular president in modern history and the man behind the Republican loss of the House and Senate dispensing wisdom is way past the [...]
Bubba America: Call The Cops On Gay Men Kissing
April 28th, 2008
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When I see nonsense like Newsweek’s cover about the so-called “Bubba Gap” for Sen. Obama and other members of the punditocracy saying that the path to the presidency can only be achieved by pandering to these (mostly southern) conservatives I always have to roll my eyes (I also roll my eyes at so called independent [...]
links for 2008-04-28
April 28th, 2008
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On cameras and flies
I just got a DSLR too and its true
In Defense Of John McCain
April 28th, 2008
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Reed Hundt is unable to find detailed tech and telecom policy positions or analysis from John McCain. Of course, the thing is, Sen. McCain is still the Ranking Member On The Subcommittee To Investigate Horseless Carriages And Other Ungodly Implements Of Satan Propelled By Witchcraft.
Seriously, look at it. It’s clearly wizardry.
Goldwater Begats Ron Paul
April 28th, 2008
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If you’ve read Rick Perlstein’s Before The Storm, this increasingly regular infiltration of the Republican party at the state party level as well as getting involved in arcane ways with the national platform is right out of the same strategy the Goldwater faithful used to take over the Republican party. They didn’t have the power [...]
DNC Hits McCain on 100 Years In Iraq
April 27th, 2008
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Every time they get hit on this 100 years in Iraq pledge, the GOP and McCain camps go nutso – yet it’s hard to push back on something the candidate actually said.
Howard Dean on out of touch John McCain and 100 years in Iraq:
“Look, John McCain is a weak candidate. He’s wrong on Iraq as [...]
links for 2008-04-27
April 27th, 2008
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Rifts Mend, Unless Identity Politics Is a Different Stripe
“I think it doesn’t take any work at all for images of 2000 to become visible again in black discourse” if Mrs. Clinton “takes the nomination away from Obama.”
Clinton-Backer McAuliffe Threatened To Strip Rogue Delegates In 2004 Cycle
Politics Of Personal Destruction, Bill Clinton Edition
April 27th, 2008
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Something something personal impulses something something impulse control issues something something psychological demons something something self destructive behavior something something.
Mr. Clinton has placed several of his own aides at headquarters, including his former lawyer and a bevy of strategists. Known as a bad loser, Mr. Clinton privately buttresses his wife’s drive to push on, telling [...]
John McCain Flies Air Cindy To Bypass Campaign Finance Laws
April 27th, 2008
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Out of touch John McCain believes that the laws he champions in front of the cameras shouldn’t apply to him in his own mind.
Given Senator John McCain’s signature stance on campaign finance reform, it was not surprising that he backed legislation last year requiring presidential candidates to pay the actual cost of flying on corporate [...]
