davidl on August 6th, 2008

DavidL's Breakfast ScrambleB.J’s fall from gtace, Los Angelos Times:

‘I am not a racist,’ ex-President Bill Clinton asserts
Former presidents get a whole lot of leeway in what they say in public. But former President Bill Clinton just violated one

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davidl on August 6th, 2008

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I think every single candidate for president, Republican and Democratic have lives, personal lives, that indicate something about what kind of human being they are

Slate.

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davidl on August 5th, 2008

Paris Hilton has responded to John McCain’s campaign video by issuing her own campaign video and announcing her own energy plan.   Ben Smith, Politcio, has the both the story and video.

Short McCain campaign reponse:

[D]rilling. Paris Hilton

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Eric Florack on August 5th, 2008

Got the BitsBlog pages listing correctly. It’s a little trick I forgot to import from the other layout. Got some of the Blogburst  and RSS pipes fixed, too.

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Eric Florack on August 5th, 2008

These Nightly Rambles are all things I’ve found during the day. I input them all day long and auto-post whatever I’ve collected at around 4 to 430 eastern. I put things in here that catch my eye but that perhaps

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Eric Florack on August 5th, 2008

Last night here and the night before over at Q&O, I wondered if Nancy Pelosi wasn’t setting us up for some reason. At Q&O I said:

She’s got better access to the numbers than any of us, and she knows

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davidl on August 4th, 2008

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“I’m so over exposed, I make Paris Hilton look like a recuse.”

Time, magazine.

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Eric Florack on August 4th, 2008

According to the Chicago Sun-Times:

Robert Novak has announced his immediate retirement following the diagnosis of a brain tumor, a prognosis the Sun-Times’ political columnist describes as “dire.”

“The details are being worked out with the doctors this week,

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Eric Florack on August 4th, 2008

These Nightly Rambles are all things I’ve found during the day. I input them all day long and auto-post whatever I’ve collected at around 4 to 430 eastern. I put things in here that catch my eye but that perhaps

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davidl on August 4th, 2008

James Rainey, Los Angles Times, thinks that the new media has been wrong to tag BO has an elite snob:

We have reporters, columnists and TV talking heads to thank for exposing these outrageous displays. So apparently the verdict

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YetAnotherJohn on August 4th, 2008

As those who can remember back to the 2006 elections realize, the political winds have been favoring the democrats of late. If you take all the ‘generic congressional polls‘ from April of 2005 through today, you get the

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Eric Florack on August 3rd, 2008

Back along about the end of 2006, during a  Christmas break, I wrote an extended piece about Islam and some of the problems in the world with relation to it. I’ll post it here, because I think it’;s ideas are

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Eric Florack on August 2nd, 2008

Michael D is miffed at Obama for suggesting that the solution for oil supply problems is to find more. Apparently to him, that’s not painful enough for us.

Look, I know that there are people who are suffering because of

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davidl on August 2nd, 2008

Bob Herbert, New York Times, attempts to slime John McCain, only to show his true and bigoted colors:

The racial fantasy factor in this presidential campaign is out of control. It was at work in that New Yorker cover

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davidl on August 2nd, 2008

Bit wasn’t the only one wrestling with problems this morning.

Ended up watching Zulu last night.  Good movie.  I’d seen the movie before.  So I wasn’t going to watch the whole movie   Needless to say, I got caught up in

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