Via The Caucus earlier today… Robert Gibbs classic performance mocking Salin Palin:
After President Obama left the White House briefing room today, his press secretary, Robert Gibbs, held up a surprise of his own, literally: a scribbled list of items on his hand, in an obvious mocking of Sarah Palin’s weekend crib sheet at the Tea Party [...]
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An absolute must read: “My solemn meeting on Veterans Day with President Obama at my friend’s resting place in Arlingtonспални.”
And a must watch that corresponds with the piece linked above:
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In an interview that aired this morning on CNN, Senator John Kerry cautioned President Obama “against raising troop levels in Afghanistan, saying it would be “entirely irresponsible” to do so while the Afghan government remains in turmoil following national elections.”
Speaking from Afghanistan, Kerry, who is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the [...]
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I was getting ready for work this morning when I heard church bells ringing around the corner. It was in rememberance of 9/11.
Bruce Springsteen’s The Rising eptitomizes the memories of that horrific day for me:
The City Room live-blogged the ceremony “near the pit where the twin towers once stood” in NYC.
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This is a must match if you haven’t seen it:
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TIME columnist Joe Klein was on CNN Momday night discussing the gun rights activists showing up at Obama events in areas where it is legal to carry to weapon. Klein said: “I’ve been doing this [covering political rallies] for almost 40 years now and I’ve never seen anything like this.”
Klein argued that, just as there are [...]
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There was a very sweet and classy moment during the White House press conference today… Barack Obama, who shares his birthday with veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas, came in to wish her Happy Birthday and brought cake!
Watch:
A nice touch from President Obama. I hope both he and Helen Thomas had wonderful birthdays!
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As a result of Eric ‘Mancow’ Muller’s willingness to actually put his life where his mouth had been for years, namely being watertortured, Olbermann made a pledge to donate $10,000 to Veterans of Valor .
Olbermann also dismissed Sean Hannity who had been dodging and denying that he had ever offered to be waterboarded if the [...]
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First the conservative, at times, and bitter Christopher Hitchens: [PS: These last for about 5 minutes each as they set up and then do the actual torture. It is hard to watch. Very hard.]
Second, Mancow: The setup is much less professional than the one that tortured Hitchens. It was enough.
Now that’s horrible isn’t it? And [...]
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There is much to talk about.
Here’s one: The RW radio host ‘Mancow‘ was waterboarded this morning and lasted 12 seconds. He called it ‘drowning’ and, as much as he didn’t want to, vehemently called it ‘torture‘. I’ll be looking for the YouTube and post tomorrow or late tonight.
It’s vivid, horrid, quick and nowhere near the [...]
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