Posted on July 13th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
There’s two weekend must reads on Jane Mayer’s new book, The Dark Side, The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals.
First check out the review by Andrew J. Bacevich, in the WaPo: Collateral Damage:
In The Dark Side, Jane Mayer, a staff writer for the New Yorker, documents [...]
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Posted on May 9th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
On The Road Again…. Barack Obama’s been on the road for so damn long now he can’t remember how many states there are in America:
Obviously Obama’s “tired” — who wouldn’t be after months of campaigning. Marc Ambinder thinks if John McCain had said it, the “media would be all up in his grill, accusing him [...]
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Posted on January 28th, 2008 by Darrell Prows
The most intriguing part of the State of the Union Address for me was watching the Kansas Governor audition for the second spot on the Obama ticket. The main lesson I took from the entire experience, however, is that Obama is playing a dangerous game by creating expectations that he almost certainly cannot deliver on.
Sebelius [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
AFP ran a very amusing story today about Al Gore and Bono at the World Economic Forum in Davos, discussing Global Warming.
Apparently, Bono has confessed that “having climate campaigner Al Gore round to your house is to open yourself to a self-flagellating guilt trip.”
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Posted on January 15th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
They’re back and going after John McCain again… Swiftboaters Slinging Lies:
Arizona Sen. John McCain’s campaign responded forcefully today to a group called Vietnam Veterans Against McCain that has sent out mailers blasting the senator in South Carolina. On its web site, the group says the former prisoner of war and onetime Navy pilot did not [...]
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Posted on December 28th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
There’s a lot been said on the candidate’s reactions in the wake of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination on Thursday. There was the huge gaffe from Mike Huckabee that critics have picked apart and then there was Ron Paul blaming America, which went over like a lead balloon with the wingnuts. But the discussion of the day [...]
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Posted on December 12th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
The WaPo has an in depth piece on the Bali Climate Change talks and John Kerry’s role representing Congressional Democrats at the talks. Kerry, was the “sole standard-bearer for Congress” at the talks, although “about a dozen senators and House members had planned to attend. The WaPo noted that “most are stuck in Washington dealing with [...]
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Posted on December 6th, 2007 by Darrell Prows
As I see it, the big Romney “I got religion, who could ask for anything more” speech is a clear sign that he has entered the phase of the campaign where he can now be ranked with the bottom dwellers. He has a weakness and he accentuated that. He has no clear and compelling strength [...]
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Posted on December 3rd, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
The Bush administration has just lost their number one excuse to bomb Iran. All the posturing and blustering from Cheney and crew has been proven to be based on lies and propaganda:
A new assessment by American intelligence agencies concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains on hold, [...]
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Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
The hostage situation at the Clinton campaign office in Rochester, N.H. came to a safe end shortly after 6 p.m. this evening “when a man later identified as Leeland Eisenberg was taken into police custody after holding at least four people hostage.”
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