Posted on August 30th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Well… If John McCain was angling for the women’s vote with his choice of Sarah Palin as his VP, he may not get it after all. The first two national polls out since McCain’s pick was announced show “contrary to what the GOP probably hoped, she scored less well with women than men.”
Here’s a finding [...]
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Posted on August 30th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
Quote of the Day
“As for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day? I’m used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration.”
– Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), quoted just [...]
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Posted on August 30th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
[...] State Senate President Lyda Green said she thought it was a joke when someone called her at 6 a.m. to give her the news.
“She’s not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president?” said Green, a Republican from Palin’s hometown of Wasilla. “Look at what she’s done to [...]
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Posted on August 30th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
The Rude One, at The Rude Pundit writes posts that are, by definition, street language and generally rude to the Right. He always backs up his rants with facts and says them in ways that bring home the crisis America faces in ways I can only envy. It’s like having Bill Maher moderate a debate. [...]
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Posted on August 30th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Must read of the day: McCain’s Palin pick is the epitome of tokenism. Joe Conason asks:
Suddenly all anyone needs to qualify as a potential commander in chief is to be a religious ideologue with female gender characteristics?
Read it all here. Ironically, as Conason points out, “Even Rush Limbaugh is a feminazi now (at least until [...]
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Posted on August 30th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
John McCain’s strange VP pick, Sarah Palin may have dominated the news on Friday, but Barack Obama’s speech Thursday night accepting the Democratic nomination for president, set a record for political “convention viewership that exceeded even the expectations of his aides.”
The historic speech by the first African-American presidential nominee of a major political party reached [...]
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