Posted on December 16th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Caroline Kennedy has made it official that she’s interested in Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat. The NY Post has outlined why Kennedy is a good candidate for the seat:
While she hasn’t been especially involved in New York’s political wars, she’s hardly unaware of the issues.
A city resident since shortly after her father’s assassination, she played a [...]
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Filed under: Barack Obama, Boston Globe, Democrats, In The Blogosphere, In The News, New York, Opinions, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Senate, State Politics
Posted on December 4th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Is greater relief at the gas pumps finally in sight? If Gulf Oil CEO Joe Petrowski is correct it could go down to $1.00 a gallon or lower by next year. I for one am hoping he’s right. I just filled my tank up here in rural Maine yesterday paying $1.99 a gallon. A further [...]
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Posted on December 4th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Living next to the Canadian border I should be paying more attention to the “political crisis“ going on there right now, but Dem Daily Contibutor Michael J.W. Stickings has a full explanation on his blog, The Reaction and in The Guardian’s Comment is Free section. I highly recommend reading both.
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Posted on November 10th, 2008 by Michael Stickings
If you missed it, be sure to check out Frank Rich’s Sunday column at the NYT. It’s an excellent summation of the election that was. Here are a few key passages:
Our nation was still in the same ditch it had been the day before, but the atmosphere was giddy. We felt good not only because [...]
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Posted on October 22nd, 2008 by Michael Stickings
On Monday, in Colorado, during an interview with NBC affiliate KUSA, Palin was asked a question submitted by a third grader: “What does the vice president do?”
In response, Palin said it was a question her daughter Piper, a second grader, would ask her. And then proceeded to get it wrong: “They’re in charge of the [...]
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Filed under: Constitution, Election '08, Gov. Sarah Palin, Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, Michael Stickings, Opinions
Posted on October 18th, 2008 by Michael Stickings
Most of Peggy Noonan’s column in yesterday’s WSJ was predictably awful:
– McCain won the debate on Wednesday? Really?
– McCain succeeded in ridiculing Obama’s “eloquence”? Seriously, what debate was she watching, and from the confines of what alternate un-reality?
– The election is “infantilizing”? Why, because the guy she doesn’t like is winning?
– Palin could have been [...]
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Filed under: Conservatives, Election '08, Gov. Sarah Palin, Michael Stickings, Opinions, WSJ
Posted on October 10th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Christopher Buckley, son of William F. Buckley, announced today on his blog, The Daily Beast that he is voting for Barack Obama. Buckley said:
Let me be the latest conservative/libertarian/whatever to leap onto the Barack Obama bandwagon. It’s a good thing my dear old mum and pup are no longer alive. They’d cut off my allowance.
Buckley [...]
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Posted on October 9th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
In his recent column in the NY Times, Thomas Friedman asked these very valid question about Sarah Palin and the conservative commentators boasting of her appeal:
How in the world can conservative commentators write with a straight face that this woman should be vice president of the United States? Do these people understand what serious trouble [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2008 by Dizzy Dezzi
Tonight is Palin’s big night! The gawker in me is tempted to watch and play our typical speechification drinking games. But, if I’m going to spend an evening listening to incoherent people, I’d have much more fun at a neighborhood bar.
Still keeping the Ten Post Round-Up simple, today.
Before you check out the debate, tonight, you [...]
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Posted on October 1st, 2008 by Dizzy Dezzi
I’m not going to get to wordy in the Ten Post Round-Up for the next few days. I’ve got so much going on now, that my brain is on overdrive.
Before we get to the meat, I offer you up the potatoes; proof that politics has gone to the dogs…
On with today’s round-up:
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Posted on September 29th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
As of this writing DOW is up 305 points. Now 299 points. Now 286 points. It could bounce another 100 points one way or another. This information comes from Yahoo Finance.
A good portion of the up tick are people, like myself if I had any funds in the market, taking advantage of stocks that dropped [...]
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Posted on September 22nd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I’ve just finished reading the key points to Senator Chris Dodd’s alternative to the bail out plan and I have to say I agree with the folks like Paul Krugman who are saying this is more like it — it’s a “step in the right direction.” The thing is, as Krugman points out:
Paulson displayed a [...]
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