davidl on January 6th, 2008

Fred was not the only person with a defining moment yesterday in New Hampshire. 

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Hat Tip:  Real Clear Politics.

Jake Tapper. ABC News:

Frankly, I don’t even really understand what she was saying. What I was getting

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Eric Florack on January 6th, 2008

As we enter the eighth year of the Bush-Cheney administration, I have belatedly and painfully concluded that the only honorable course for me is to urge the impeachment of the president and the vice president.

That’s George McGovern, in

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Eric Florack on January 6th, 2008

Matt Yglesias, who I usually have serious disagreements with, points out that Hillary Clinton may well be on the wrong scent, here:

Hillary Clinton’s campaign seems determined to convince Barack Obama’s detractors in the blogosphere that he is so

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Eric Florack on January 6th, 2008

James Joyner, earlier today:

George Will closes a subpar (by his standards, at least) column on the silly populism of Mike Huckabee and John Edwards with this praise for Barack Obama:

Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the

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Eric Florack on January 5th, 2008

I note with some amusement the flack Jonah is getting form the Left… such as Matt Stoller and Glenn Greenwald…for example, over this:

Imagine the Democrats do rally around Obama. Imagine the media invests as heavily in him as I

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davidl on January 5th, 2008

The Joe Gandelman, Moderate Voice has gone snarky:

It is often been said that former President Bill Clinton is Senator Hillary Clinton’s closest, best and most astute political advisor. If that’s the case and a recent statement he reportedly

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Eric Florack on January 5th, 2008

I get asked fairly frequently of late, what are you guys gonna do if one of the (current) frontrunners wins the Republican nomination? Aren’t you painting yourselves into a corner just a little by targeting the front runners? (Example, calling

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Eric Florack on January 5th, 2008

OK, we’ll start out here with the fact that I like the Palm Pilot. I have had several; a III, an M-100, a 500 a 505 and most recently, an E2.

I love this E2. I keep several Ebooks in

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davidl on January 5th, 2008

Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo, is confused by what Mike Huckabee means by his term ‘vertical” politics.   Josh does a real good job documenting Huckabee’s use this baffling term.   In the end, Josh concludes

The more I look at

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Eric Florack on January 4th, 2008

Was installing a new screen in my Palm Pilot, tonight. While working, I had a chance to mentally break down each candidate with respect to Iowa.

Some notes in no particular Order:

Mike Huckabee;

Huckabee did about as well as

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davidl on January 4th, 2008

Stephen Green, Vodka Pundit, asks a simple question:

Dear Iowa Republicans,

I’ll put this in language even your tiny little Iowa brains can understand: What the f*** is wrong with you people?

The news coming out of Des Moines

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Eric Florack on January 4th, 2008

Interesting story in the American Thinker by buddy Rick Moran, this morning. It seems that the number of people idetifying themselves as Republican has hit a two year high.

According to pollster Rasmussen, the number of Americans

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davidl on January 4th, 2008

The image Bitsblog has a special place, can’t say just where, for Keith Olbermann.   I have found another blog which holds Olberman in like regard:

Half of Keith’s audience watches him on Crooks and Liars. He’s got to stay in good with

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Eric Florack on January 4th, 2008

Dodd has dropped out. So has Biden. Most didn’t know they were running at all. THe results were so bad for them they apparently decided not to wait the few days to New Hampshire.

The State of IowaHillary Clinton, meanwhile, will be

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Eric Florack on January 3rd, 2008

Hey, Billy;

Yeah, I was aware of the links from Starz to Looking Glass…(One of my offbeat favorite pop tunes was “Jimmy Loves Mary Anne” (Both that and “Brandy” were written by Elliot Lurie, who was the lead vocal/guitar)) Great

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