Eric Florack on September 4th, 2008

In case you’re curious, the transcript of Palin’s speech is availble here.

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Eric Florack on September 4th, 2008

I have the habit of noting small, perhaps indicative things that some others might not notice. While the speech was great,  and we’ll be going over it repeatedly here and around the ‘sphere, there are quiet pictures that stay with

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Eric Florack on September 4th, 2008

It’s remarkable, the lack of reaction from the left to last night’s speech. Take a look for yourself at 7am Eastern time today at the lack coverage of it. Particularly, take note of how few leftie blogs utter a

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Eric Florack on September 3rd, 2008

Well, she hit this one out of the park.

When I saw the early release stuff coming down, this morning, I knew it was going to be a barnstormer, and I hoped her delivery was going to be up to

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davidl on September 3rd, 2008

Bit is on top of the BO;s campaign attempt to smear Sarah Palin.  The MSM simply can not be trusted to report the news.  Brian Ross, and Len Tepper, reporting this as if it were legitimate straight news:

“It’s

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ABC’s Jake Tapper is reporting this morning another Democrat Point has been exposed as a lie:

Gail Fenumiai, director of the Alaska Division of Elections, tells ABC News that regardless of the impression given to members of the Alaskan Independence

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Never let it be said that a blogger’s ego is a function of his hit rate.   While BItsblog is but small but maybe no so humble blog, I suggest to his Bitness that we promote William Kristol to the rank

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YetAnotherJohn on September 1st, 2008

There was a little paragraph sitting by itself in this New York Times article.

Ninety percent of the Democratic delegates said the nation was in a recession, while 72 percent of the Republican delegates say it is not.

Talk

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I’ll state this up front; I have no idea who Rogers Cadenhead is, nor do I much care, frankly.  But knowing something of the history of Alan Colmes, I can’t say I’m much surprised to find him in agreement with

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Eric Florack on August 31st, 2008

At this point, I realize I’m belaboring the point. “Sarah Palin is an awful choice for a running mate,” I can hear you saying, “We get it.”

No, Benen, that’s us, for the 20th time and more, tagging you as

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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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Eric Florack on August 30th, 2008

I see, by way of McQ, a set of trascripts on National Review  from Larry Kudlow, of interviews with Sarah Palin, Here and here I’ll include a few excepts, here.

Kudlow: Here’s the bad news. The Congress is going

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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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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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