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Surprise: Yet Another Obama Nominee Played Fast and Loose with the Law

Jimmie | February 25, 2009 | Comments (0)

I guess that the third time is the charm for President Obama. He’s nominated former Washington Governor Gary Locke to be his Commerce Secretary. Locke has gained a name for himself as an expert on China due to his work in a law firm that’s done quite a lot of work there. I don’t know [...]

Forget the Birth Certificate, Get the Campaign Donor Records

Jimmie | December 8, 2008 | Comments (2)

Can we finally put the Obama Birth Certificate thing to rest now? The Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a New Jersey man who says President-elect Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth. The court did not comment on its order Monday rejecting the [...]

Will We Finally See A Barack Obama Donor List?

Jimmie | December 1, 2008 | Comments (0)

Now that he’s been elected, P-E Obama is finally going to let us know the names of his donors. Well, not his campaign donors. Don’t be silly. There was so much fraud potential built into campaign donation system that he likely doesn’t know the names of his campaign donors. No, it’s the donors to his [...]

Meet the New Special Interests, Same As the Old Special Interests

Jimmie | November 5, 2008 | Comments (1)

You’ll ever guess who are licking their chops waiting for January to get here. The Hill reports that lobbying firms and other special interest groups are scrambling around looking for any Democrat they can get their hands on to help them cash in when the new administration takes office. And it’s not just the special [...]

Obama’s Half-Hour Infomercial Doesn’t Exactly Hit Ratings Paydirt

Jimmie | October 30, 2008 | Comments (0)

The early Nielsen ratings are in on the Obama Half Hour Informercial and Hootenanny and it’s not looking good for Team Obama. The combined overall household rating for Senator Barack Obama’s Wednesday night infomercial, in the top 56 local television markets where Nielsen maintains electronic TV meters, was 21.7. Obama’s simulcast is the first to [...]

Tonight, I Became A McCainiac

Jimmie | October 17, 2008 | Comments (14)

It’s no secret that I don’t like John McCain as a candidate for President. The closest I’ve ever come to really endorsing him was when he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate, but the way he and his team muzzled her swung me right back to the “nope” column. Up until today, I fully [...]

McCain to Obama: Oh, Now It’s On Rookie!

Jimmie | August 21, 2008 | Comments (12)

One of the big knocks on John McCain is that he has not gone after Barack Obama nearly enough this campaign. McCain has maintained that he doesn’t like to campaign that way but we know that he can because he has in the past, as conservatives who supported the Bush tax cuts and opposed his [...]

Do Conservatives Really “Plot”?

Jimmie | August 13, 2008 | Comments (1)

I found the headline to this article interesting: “Conservatives plot on campaign finance” I don’t know about you all, but I don’t find “plot” to be a particularly neutral word. It smacks of a bunch of guys sitting around cooking up nefarious schemes and, in this context, those nefarious schemes are aimed toward getting over [...]