Posted on August 25th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I could not resist commenting on this photo from the NY Times Blog The Caucus. The Caucus reports: “Rednecks love Barack Obama. Or at least two of them do.”
“We hunt, fish, drink beer and support Barrack Obama,” said Tony Viessman, a 74-year old former Hillary Clinton supporter from Rolla, Mo. He and his buddy Les [...]
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Posted on August 24th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Political bloggers are heading to Denver on the eve of the Convention. The NY Times has a piece in Fashion & Style that surely belongs in the political section of the Times: “The Year of the Political Blogger Has Arrived.”
Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake is there. She says, ”Let the Madness Begin.”
Although I am not among the [...]
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Posted on August 22nd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
This just in from the NY Times via my email: News Alert: Obama Chooses Biden as Running Mate
Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Saturday, August 23, 2008 — 1:03 AM ET
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Obama Chooses Biden as Running Mate
Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware will become Senator
Barack Obama’s running mate, The New York Times has learned.
Mr. Biden made [...]
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Posted on August 8th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
What a mess. The truth has finally come out… “John Edwards admitted to ABC News in an interview with Bob Woodruff Friday that he repeatedly lied about an extramarital affair with a 42-year old campaign employee,” Rielle Hunter. Everybody’s talking about it, because this type of messy stuff is the stuff that the media thrives [...]
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Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The NY Times reports today that although the “first wave of Americans to default on their home mortgages appears to be cresting,” a second, far larger group of potential loan defaults is looming, because now, even “homeowners with good credit are falling behind on their payments in growing numbers.”
The percentage of mortgages in arrears in the category of loans one [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
George W. Bush has screwed our nation in more ways than most of us can keep track of. The news today on the projected deficit that Bush will leave behind is a jaw dropper:
Bush would leave a record $482 billion deficit to his successor, a sobering turnabout in the nation’s fiscal condition from 2001, when [...]
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Posted on July 27th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Frank Rich’s column today in the NY Times, about Barack Obama’s trip abroad, is a must read.
Rich says, “to dismiss Barack Obama’s magical mystery tour through old Europe and two war zones as a media-made fairy tale would be to underestimate the ingenious politics of the moment.”
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Posted on July 26th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The NY Times has a piece today on the annual BlogHer conference which was held last week. Sadly the Times relegates the piece to the “Style” section while claiming women bloggers are breaking “Blogging’s Glass Ceiling.” The BlogHer conference “began in 2005 to help female bloggers gain exposure,” clearly we still have a long way to [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Many Americans have dug a hole so deep thanks to corporate bankers and our government’s propensity to bail them out before helping the little people that are losing their homes, that it could be a long while before we’ve seen the end of our collective economic nightmare. It doesn’t take a degree in rocket science [...]
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Posted on July 19th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Katharine Q. Seelye of the NY Times is at Netroots Nation and she reports that members of the netroots are swearing off their “use of profanity” in the blogosphere… or at least some say they “have scaled back” on it.
Digby Parton, who writes on Hullabaloo.com, said she initially thought of her blog as an ephemeral [...]
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Posted on June 18th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
George W. Bush is doing an about face on a longstanding position on offshore drilling, and is calling on Congress today “to end a federal ban on offshore oil drilling, according to White House officials who say Mr. Bush now wants to work with states to determine where drilling should occur.”
The NY Times reports that the “move underscores how $4-a-gallon [...]
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Posted on June 17th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Tony Horowitz explains in an OP/ED in the NY Times that to woo rural voters, Barack Obama should “Lose the Nicorette. Light up instead.” Why? Because — “Rural Americans smoke more than city-dwellers.”
Horowitz explains:
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