Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Bloggers made the rounds on MSNBC today talking about the growing rift between progressive bloggers over the primary battle this year.
Skippy weighs in on the “dKos Writer’s Strike” with some commentary on the MSNBC segment with Jeralyn Merrit of Talk Left and Cliff Schecter of Cliff Schecter today. Watch Jeralyn and Cliff here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFN6QliOExg
Taylor Marsh and Matthew [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The Iraq war is back in the news and back in focus as an issue on the campaign trail. In a speech this morning outlining her goals to bring the troops home from Iraq, Hillary Clinton said that the Iraq surge has “not accomplished its goals.”
“By the middle of this summer, when the additional surge [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
In the wake of the firestorm over Obama and his pastor Jeremiah Wright, Obama has dropped on the Daily Gallup and Hillary has regained the lead by a slim margin.
Obama is now seeking to do damage control on the statements from Wright that Obama told PBS’ Gwen Ifill today, “have been a distraction.” He will [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! This is too funny (h/t TM):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2AN7kBQOsw
The L.A. Times has an awesome photo gallery of St. Patrick’s Day celebrations around the world and News.com.au reports that Russell Crowe was crooning in D.C. at Shamrock Fest ‘08.
Incase the dancing monkey’s didn’t suit your fancy, here’s a video of the Irish Traditional group Téada performing [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Dizzy Dezzi
A late edition of the Ten Post Round-Up…life has a curious way of keeping you from your scheduled plans (know what I mean?).
With the five year anniversary of the Iraq invasion, I am spending more time than usual thinking about the enormous changes that have happened in my life due to the three Iraq deployments [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Gilbert Martinez
I’m getting a little tired of the big boys of the blogs (I’ll call them the 3B Club for now) hammering the Obama talking point that Hillary is staying in the race for a mere power grab even if it means tearing down the Democratic Party and that she needs to just get out of [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Gilbert Martinez
A high school teacher of mine used to say she was like a bottle of fine wine: she gets better with age.
Not all would agree with that. Take Rush Limbaugh:
We know that the presidency ages the occupants of that office rapidly…. But men aging makes them look more authoritative, accomplished, distinguished. Sadly, it’s not that [...]
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