Spinning off the work of Tupperware, Pampered Chef, and Cookie Lee the Obama transition team is encouraging Americans to come together to hold health care house parties this holiday season.
The President-Elect and his health care transition point person, Tom Daschle, are asking supporters to invite their neighbors and friends into their homes to discuss what they [...]
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Barack Obama is seizing upon a gaffe by McCain adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, about the Republican candidates’ health care plan. When the adviser was asked on CNN Money about young workers abdoning employment based health care. ”Why would they leave?” he said. “What they are getting from their employer is way better than what they could get with the credit.”
The [...]
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Filed under: General Election, Healthcare, The Country Doc
Watching Stephanopoulos interview McCain this morning on ABC, it struck me that he’s so easy to dislike that I can sometimes do it without even really thinking.
McCain: “If we start counting time sixteen months ago, it would prove that Obama would be happy to have Osama Bin Laden take over this country, or even Saddam [...]
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Filed under: ABC News, Conservatives, Darrell Prows, Election '08, Healthcare, In The News, Iraq, John McCain '08, Politics, Presidential Election, Republicans
What the F*** is wrong with Congressional Dems? We’ve got 2 candidates out there campaigning on healthcare reform and these fools try to lower public expectations:
Congressional Democrats are backing away from healthcare reform promises made by their two presidential candidates, saying that even if their party controls the White House and Congress, sweeping change will be [...]
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Filed under: Democrats, Election '08, Healthcare, In The News, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Presidential Primaries
In May 2005, Vanity Fair published a brilliant article about the ‘04 election and the Republican Noise Machine, by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – The Disinformation Society.
I was thinking about what Obama said on Face The Nation today that “he didn’t expect immunity from Republican attacks, but could diffuse them with his message of unity and capacity to [...]
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It took a small item in my January 28, 2008 issue of Business Week magazine to do it but I finally really get where John Edwards was coming from in his approach to economic issues affecting the middle class. There is nothing automatically shocking, I suppose, about the British being more affluent now than we [...]
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The Clinton campaign has two ads running with Robert F. Kennedy Jr, speaking up for Hillary and drawing a comparison of her to his father. They are similar, one is just Bobby, Jr, and the other has Chesar, L. Chavez. Great ads… take a look:
Bobby:
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Paul Krugman on why John Edwards mattered:
Mr. Edwards, far more than is usual in modern politics, ran a campaign based on ideas. And even as his personal quest for the White House faltered, his ideas triumphed: both candidates left standing are, to a large extent, running on the platform Mr. Edwards built.[...]
If 2008 is different, [...]
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Cleveland, Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich anounced today that he is “dropping out of the Democratic race for president.”
Kucinich will make the announcement Friday at a news conference in Cleveland. [...]
“I want to continue to serve in Congress,” he said.
Kucinich said he will not endorse another Democrat in the primary.
The bottom-line for Dennis is he’s “facing four challengers [...]
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“The American people should not have to work so hard to get leaders who will actually help them…” — Hillary Clinton
Stepping aside from the clash during last night’s debate, I’ve been thinking about the statement above from Hillary Clinton in her closing argument in the debate. American’s are struggling in this ever tumbling economy just to get by. [...]
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