Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The rumor mill is buzzing tonight that Barack Obama will name Evan Bayh as his VP choice on Wednesday in Indiana. First up with the buzz is Bil Browning of The Bilerico Project who said today:
I’m going to put my neck out on the line by making a prediction. Barack Obama will announce his vice-presidential [...]
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Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
It’s been a really busy day for me, but I want to make sure that readers have seen Obama’s speech today introducing his new energy plan. The full text of Obama’s speech is available here: Barack in Lansing, MI: “We must end the age of oil in our time.” Go read… I did. It’s a great [...]
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Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Tonight, the biggest names in Democratic politics in Boston who were “once divided into two camps during the presidential primary,” turned out to “throw Barack Obama a 47th birthday fund-raiser bash.”
Harry Connick Jr. and his daughter crooned “Happy Birthday.” About 850 people attended the reception, and about 250 paid $15,000 each — $28,500 for a couple — [...]
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Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The Chicago Sun Times reported today that “Robert Novak has announced his immediate retirement following the diagnosis of a brain tumor, a prognosis the Sun-Times’ political columnist describes as “dire.””
“The details are being worked out with the doctors this week, but the tentative plan is for radiation and chemotherapy,” Novak said.
Novak had announced on July [...]
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Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
House Republicans are looking rather absurd today after the White House rejected their call for a special session of Congress on energy:
Republican Study Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) and Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) asked President Bush to convene the special session in an Aug. 1 letter. The same day, House Republicans launched an unusual protest [...]
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Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
I’ve only got a few moments to write this post. My laptop went to laptop heaven yesterday, So I’m at the library.
I’m highly concerned with type of responses being made by the Obama campaign to the continued barrage of negative ads. While they are responding those are very polite ads saying McCain is practicing the old [...]
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Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The NY Times reports today that although the “first wave of Americans to default on their home mortgages appears to be cresting,” a second, far larger group of potential loan defaults is looming, because now, even “homeowners with good credit are falling behind on their payments in growing numbers.”
The percentage of mortgages in arrears in the category of loans one [...]
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