My Twitter feed has a lot of links worth checking out from President Obama’s speech to Congress on Health Care Reform. The text of Obama’s speech is here.
The President made it clear tonight: ‘If you misrepresent what’s in the plan, we will call you out’. Good for him. He said what needed to be said and [...]
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Rolling Stone has published a cover story on John McCain that has the most damning, well documented biography of his life I’ve seen. I thought I knew the deceptions of John McCain. I didn’t know one-tenth of the real story. I won’t try to summarize this lengthy article. There is simply too much data, too [...]
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Filed under: Congress, Constitution, Election '08, House of Reps, In The News, John McCain '08, Obama-Biden 08, Senate, Stuart O'Neill
Yesterday, I posted here about a NY Times editorial on John McCain taking the “low-road,” in his attacks on Barack Obama. The Times isn’t the only editorial board noticing:
The Straight Talk Express has taken a nasty turn into the gutter. Sen. John McCain has resorted to lies and distortions in what sounds like an increasingly desperate [...]
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Filed under: Campaign Ad, Conservatives, Democrats, Election '08, General Election, In The News, John McCain '08, Karl Rove, N.Y. Times, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Presidential Election, Republicans
For those who read blogs, the screaming red flag has been raised by the casual dismissal by Monica Goodling of the term “caging list” as just “a direct mail term,” last week during her congressional testimony.
Caging is a felony, and Goodling essentially admitted that said felony was engaged in by officials of the Justice Department.
(Perhaps [...]
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Filed under: Karl Rove, Republicans
“Please understand that I hold Catholics and Catholicism in high regard, and I would go so far as to venture that some of my best friends are Catholics. So, I do not understand your sudden antipathy to myself and to others on the internet ….”
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Filed under: Church & State, Politics, Religion, Spirituality, Supreme Court
The New York Times reports Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told several thousand veterans at the American Legion’s national convention in Salt Lake City that critics of the administration are afflicted with “moral or intellectual confusion” about the real threats to our national security. Falling back on the usual distortions of the criticisms and inaccurate historical comparisons, Rumsfeld also presented the absurd idea that the press spent disproportionately more time on Abu Ghraib than a Medal of Honor given to Sgt. 1st Class Paul Ray Smith.
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Filed under: Bush, Homeland Security, Iraq, National Security, Politics, Republicans, Terrorism
Recently, the Dem Daily posted on the New York Times report of John Kerry’s continuing fight against the repugnant smear merchants we know as the Swift Liars. One of the smear merchants, Colonel “Bud” Day, responded to the NY Times article in a press release, claiming – falsely, but why should Day begin now to care about truth – that Kerry’s “Vietnam service and medals” were “roundly disputed by virtually all of his former commanding officers and shipmates who were part of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign.” But as Snopes reported back in 2004, here’s the truth about Kerry’s shipmates and commanding officers opinions:
Although the men quoted above are often identified as “John Kerry’s shipmates,” only one of them, Steven Gardner, actually served under Lt. Kerry’s command on a Swift boat. The other men who served under Kerry’s command continue to speak positively of him:
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Many of Kerry’s Vietnam commanders and fellow officers also continue to speak positively of him:…
Day’s press release is rife with similar distortions upon falsehoods upon blatant lies. I would not even bring it up here except as a reeference to report that yet another former POW – a former “Hanoi Hilton” cellmate of some of the Swift Liars, has had enough of these politically motivated smears against a “Vietnam brother” and is going on record with his feelings on the matter.
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Filed under: In The Blogosphere, John Kerry, Politics, Republicans
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