John Kerry was on This Week with George Stephanopoulos today talking about McCain picking Sarah Palin as his VP. Kerry responded to a question from Stephanopoulos about whether he thought the Palin pick would help McCain garner support from women who supported Clinton. As always, Kerry was on the money… calling the pick “insulting to Clinton supporters.” Watch it here: (h/t Osterly Times for the video). TIME Magazine‘s blog The Page also has this from Stephanopoulos: “Stephanopoulos: “The Big...

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As if the bombs dropping every day here and elsewhere aren’t enough, pundits Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan, who are generally conservative, are talking on their TV show about the possibility of Sarah Palin being named as a VP running mate. They simply said it wouldn’t work and that she was not, in any sense, qualified to be heartbeats away from being Commander-in-Chief. Of course a few hours later she in fact was named the Republican VP candidate. I’m...

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – It garnered big applause in her first speech as Republican John McCain‘s vice presidential pick, but Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s assertion that she rejected Congressional funds for the so-called “bridge to nowhere” has upset many Alaskans. When she was running for governor in 2006, Palin said she was insulted by the term “bridge to nowhere,” according to Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein, a Democrat, and Mike Elerding, a Republican who was Palin’s campaign coordinator in the...

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Once a year, I and a few dozen other reporters and columnists write a Labor Day story. And, like most Americans we don’t remember our history. We don’t remember that the Knights of Labor created the first Labor Day in 1882 and that Congress made it a national holiday in 1894. Almost none of us will write about the personalities of the labor movement. About Mother Jones (1830-1930), the militant “angel of the coal fields” for more than six...

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