davidl on March 6th, 2008

DavidL's Breakfast ScrambleCandidates is glass houses, the Obama campaign on the Clintons’  campaign, via MSNBC:

“As it relates to ethics and transparency,” Plouffe said, “we’re surprised that they would want to have an extended conversation about contributors and land deals and

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  • fromparcol20002imagefile.jpgThey’re waking up, sorta. Drum, today:
  • VITRIOL….Atrios:

    The campaigns and candidates themselves may not get nasty, but I get the sense that supporters of the various candidates are getting angrier at the other camp. Sure a lot of

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Eric Florack on March 5th, 2008

Did you see Hume, last night?

A study of the three broadcast network evening news programs indicates John McCain’s media fortunes have taken a dramatic turn south since early January. The Center for Media and Public Affairs says the percentage

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OK, so, Hillary Clinton did win Texas and Ohio, which places the Democrat race at essentially all equal. Which once again, leaves the Democrats hanging on Florida.  You do know that’s going to come up again, right? It seems

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  • Billy notes a comment at Wonkette, complaining about smoke stacks:

    “We should start bombing North Carolina.”

    … and notes:

    That’s exactly what all the false equivocations of the thing add up to.

    Exactly so. And I think I can

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Eric Florack on March 4th, 2008

Today’s the day.

Hillary Clinton either wins it all, or fails one of the several tests today, and is forced within a week or two to leave the race. THe latter happening, I cannot say I will complain about, though

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davidl on March 3rd, 2008

Gloria Steinem Gender feminists, see photo, keep trying to promote the ficton that having a set of boobs somehow makes women better leaders.    To promote this assine notion the former Playboy Bunny also known as Gloria Steinem has disparaged the courage of

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Eric Florack on March 1st, 2008

 

First, the premise, at OTB:

America’s top military leader is warning about rapid withdrawal from Iraq.

The Joint Chiefs chairman has a word of warning to Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton: A rapid of withdrawal from Iraq

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Eric Florack on February 29th, 2008

“Every so often I just wish that it were a little more of an even playing field,”

So complains Hillary Clinton.

Only problem of course is that everything being equal as she claims to prefer, would create a situation where

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davidl on February 29th, 2008

Words, mere words, Barack Obama’s stock in trade.   Obama has been campaigning in Ohio trashing NAFTA, whiile his campaign tells the Canadian government to ignore Obama’s words, CTV News(CA):

Allegations of double talk on NAFTA from the Obama and

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davidl on February 28th, 2008

DavidL's Breakfast ScrambleMaybe it was the fault of the building?

(CNN) — The building where a gunman killed five people at Northern Illinois University two weeks ago will be demolished, state officials said Wednesday

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s office confirmed

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Eric Florack on February 27th, 2008

Jonah Goldberg, whose book I have really got to sit down and read, remarks yesterday:

‘Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.”

This excerpt from William Ayers’ memoir appeared in the New York Times on

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davidl on February 27th, 2008

Richard Cohen, Washington Post, offers to plan to save Mrs. Clinton’s campaign:

There is dissension in the Hillary Clinton camp. Top aides have been in arguments, shouting back and forth about differences in strategy. Should Clinton come on strong?

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Eric Florack on February 27th, 2008

The NY Observer, yesterday:

The argument that the constant carping about Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been a function of an Obama-friendly, process-obsessed media is well and good. But how, then, to explain the deeply held dissatisfaction of an old Clinton

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