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I’m starting to think that the entire election is riding on tonight’s debate. I know how that reads, but if John McCain turns in a mediocre performance, doesn’t substantially address the mortgage crisis and explain just who was in the middle of the whole mess, and doesn’t knock Obama off his game, this thing could [...]
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Man, the squirming is almost painful to watch in this video. ABC’s Mark Halperin spends almost five minutes trying to get the answer to just one question from Barack Obama’s Spokesman, Robert Gibbs: Does Barack Obama think it was okay to continue to work with Bill Ayers even after he found out that Ayers is [...]
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Well, thanks to Barack Obama’s essential scaredy-cat nature, this is the only town hall-style debate we’ll see before the election. Here’s what I, a non-professional interim member of the pundit class, think each candidate needs to do to win.
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If you’re a Democrat, and CNN runs a detailed report telling viewers how you lied, you know you’re in trouble. If you’re Barack Obama and this happens, it means you told a lie so immense that you’d need two Navigators from the Spacing Guild to fold space around it to hide it away. There is [...]
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Are the media completely in the tank for Barack Obama at this point? I feel pretty silly for even asking this question given the complete lack of curiosity shown toward the Obamessiah’s long association with people who not only show naked contempt for America (Jeremiah Wright, Father Pfleger, et. al. ) but who have actively [...]
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The campaign rhetoric has certainly heated up this weekend. Sarah Palin came out and scolded Barack Obama for “palling around with terrorists”, a charge the Obama campaign tried to rebut with a petulant whine. For his part, Obama has done Karate Kid on the McCain campaign with some “political jujitsu”. He’s accusing John McCain of [...]
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It’s a good night when The Anchoress uses the word “chump” and links to the O’Jays in the same blog post. And she’s right, Mr. President. Don’t be a chump.
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The now-famous “Burning Down the House” video has been pulled from YouTube after a copyright complaint from the Warner Music Group. Warner Music, which is owned by the same company that owns YouTube, complained that the four songs in the video were used without its consent. They did have a point and the original maker [...]
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