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 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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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 Pamela Leavey
I’m speechless… Watching Palin and Biden answer the same questions, there was a clear contrast and it’s quite clear who is not cut out to be VP. The transcript is here.
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Posted on October 1st, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Take a look at this comparison video of Palin’s Katie Couric interview, to “Lauren Caitlin Upton, the Miss Teen USA contestant who set off an Internet sensation with her bizarre, rambling question to a geography question” - Battle of the Beauty Contestants!
Oh my!
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Posted on September 30th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Planned Parent is cashing in on Sarah Palin as the VP nominee for the Republican Party. John McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin has been a “vocal opponent of abortion,” so pro-choice folks are ponying up to make a statement about Palin’s nomination by donating to Planned Parenthood in her name:
“Make a donation to Planned Parenthood,” [...]
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Posted on September 30th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
John Kerry had at it with Bill O’Reilly on The Factor last night (h/t News Hounds) on the issue of the economic crisis. Watch it here:
This afternoon, Kerry held a press conference to outline the urgency of passing comprehensive economic legislation to avoid the collapse of Wall Street from hitting families and business across the [...]
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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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Posted on September 22nd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I spent the weekend preparing for my move cross country, which I have been alluding to here for a while. I will finally be posting about it later this week. What I can tell readers now, is that the planned move has arisen out of the financial crisis our country is in.
As I noted here [...]
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Posted on September 16th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
We’ve been so distracted in recent weeks by the nonsensical chatter in this election cycle that has been about everything but the issues. You know, it’s the constant stream of debating the lipstick, who’s a celebrity politician and the chant to “Drill, baby, drill” because the right wing has some wild fantasy that off shore [...]
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Posted on September 8th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
From the NY Times:
MSNBC tried a bold experiment this year by putting two politically incendiary hosts, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, in the anchor chair to lead the cable news channel’s coverage of the election debates.That experiment appears to be over.
After months of accusations of political bias and simmering animosity between MSNBC and its parent [...]
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