davidl on August 31st, 2008

In 1984 Dave Thomas took a bit out of McDonald’s by asking, “Where is the beef?”   Well today yet another Dave takes yet a bit out of another icon, to wit Barack Obama.   While BO was asleep at

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Eric Florack on August 30th, 2008

Reynolds:

For me, of course, most of the fun of the past 24 hours has come from watching Democrats get caught up in the whole identity-politics tangle.

And you know, Glenn’s hit this one. That’s really what this has been

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davidl on August 29th, 2008

Jake Tapper has the tale of two takes, ABC News

“Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency,” said Obama spox Bill Burton. “Gov.

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davidl on August 29th, 2008

The official Democrat Party Veep Hit list: 

Bobby Jindal
Mitt Romney
John Thune
Tom Ridge
Tim Pawlenty
Carly Fiorina
Charlie Crist
Fred Smith
Eric Cantor

Blind-sided baby!

Sarah Palin gives the McCain-Palin campaign some leverage to attack Obama a several

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Eric Florack on August 29th, 2008

Yes, I saw the speech last night. Let me be brief, because frankly, his dog and pony show deserves no more effort than that.

Obama, in the end, did and said nothing new. His speech was grandiose, certainly, but

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davidl on August 28th, 2008

Jim Geraghty’s Law, National Review

:All Barack Obama statements come with an expiration date. All of them.

Barack Obama, as attributed by Ed Morrissey, Hot Air:

You know, I am a believer in … in knowing what you’re doing

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Eric Florack on August 28th, 2008

Yeah, I saw some of it last night. I turned it n last night just in time to see that thing under Bubba’s big red WC Feilds nose, say to the country what a great president he’d been.

My reaction:

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davidl on August 28th, 2008

The Obama campaign is now smearing, Stanley Kurtz, for having the audacity to investigate BO’s long relationship with the terrorist Bill Ayers.

The key take, from the mind of former federal prosecutor, Andy McCarthy, National Review:

Obama and

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Eric Florack on August 28th, 2008

The McCain campaign is sending this one around:

Today, workers at Invesco Field are putting the final touches on the newest wonder of the modern political world — The Temple of Obama (“The Barackopolis”). It is upon this pulpit that

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davidl on August 27th, 2008

See the video Barack Obama wants to bury:

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The Obama Campaign has not disputed single word in the video. Yet they want the Department of Justice to investigate both the organization and the individual donors behind the ad.  Michelle

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Eric Florack on August 27th, 2008

If you want the honest truth, I never figured this to go down any other way.

Hillary Clinton gets up and makes her speech last night, introduces herself as a ‘proud Obama Supporter’. She makes a plea for unity.  And

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YetAnotherJohn on August 26th, 2008

So I wrote about the Biden pick by Obama and opined that it was so poorly done in execution and substance that any bounce would be gone by Sunday. When Sunday arrived, the first post-Biden pick poll confirmed my suspicion.

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Eric Florack on August 26th, 2008

I remarked the other night about how Biden didn’t provide any lift at all for Obama’s polling numbers, and how if we were talking about a republican getting an equally tepid response, we’d be hearing about a ‘dead cat bounce’.

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davidl on August 26th, 2008

The BO campaign is in panic mode:   Here is a link the American Issue Project ad.   A link to the BO campaign response.

Here the text of the core of BO’s response:

Obama: I’m Barack Obama, and I approved this

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Eric Florack on August 26th, 2008

I spent most of last night watching the convention.  Between all ego tripping, the pure nonsense, and the political positioning going on, there wasn’t really much to report. Trust me, the only way that anyone should be forced into watching

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