Does BO Really Want to be a Black JFK?

Yesterday, Bit wrote:

[Mike] Goldfarb can be quite acerbic when he wants to be, can’t he?

You think?

History for Dummies (and Presidential Candidates!)

Education courtesy of a history teacher, Betsy Newmark, Betsy’s Page:

Obama has been citing

Got lots of mail last night on my “How to raise fuel prices” post of yesterday. Actually, that’s why my posting was a little lighter than usual, this morning… I was pouring over the mail. Some of it was pointing

So, John McCain took some time the other day to speak out for lower taxes, and free marketplace?

How much of this gets negotiated away, as he tried to get something through the Democrat Congress, I wonder?

• As predicted, Clinton in Kentucky, Obama in Oregon. The Depth of Clinton’s Kentucky win is striking , though. I’ll have to check, but I don’t know as there has ever been a Democrat who has won the White House who

Allison Benedikt, Village Voice, “My Lady Parts Do Not Ache for Hillary Clinton:”

My lady parts do not ache for Hillary Clinton.

As The First Viable Female Contender’s bid for the Democratic nomination sputters to its inevitable end, everyone

From Merriam Webster On-Line Dictionary:

Main Entry: 1bitch
Pronunciation: \?bich\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English bicche, from Old English bicce
Date: before 12th century
2b: a malicious, spiteful, or overbearing woman -sometimes used as a generalized term of abuse

• Create shortages in the oil markets by ensuring domestic oil supplies can never be used. This will force us to get oil from the least stable spots in the world, thus forcing not only higher prices, but forcing us to

Condescension, with a Georgian drawl, Kyle-Anne Shiver, “Barry honey, can we talk?”

For one thing, you might want to remember that when you’re out on the campaign trail, the professional female reporters are not your little maidservants,

The so-called newspaper of record, the New York Times, discovers Rusty Shackleford’S great group site, the Jawa Report. Read about Jane has to say about it:

Another article about me but this one is in the New York

The Democrats:

• Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it.
• Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.

Mike Goldfarb notes the Obamafest in Oregon, where something like 75000 people showed up, reportedly to see Obama himself.

Wrong. Mike Goldfarb:

Hugh points to this report from the local paper:

Obama was the biggest star at Sunday’s gathering —

I’ve been considering what to write about Kennedy, for most of the afternoon. With one thing and another, my thoughts ended up being interrupted frequently enough to make writing extended thoughts impossible. So I jotted down a bunch of smaller

The Sister is tracking the Kentucy and Oregon primaries.

There is no tactic to which Mrs. Clinton will not stoop.   Her use of plants is legendary.   Yet BO has surpassed even Mrs. Clinton.  Rather than planting a few ringers in the crowd, the BO campaigan planted the entire

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