NBC’s Russert says Obama will claim the Democratic nomination next week

16 comments May 27th, 2008

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Obama’s so-called gaffe

12 comments May 27th, 2008

 

Barack Obama said the other day that his great uncle was with the first group of U.S. troops to liberate a Nazi concentration camp toward the end of World War II.

That’s true, but Obama got the NAME OF THE CAMP wrong.  It was Ohrdruf (pictured above), a subcamp of the more infamous Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.  Obama mistakenly said it was Auschwitz, which was in Poland.

The Obama campaign corrected the mistake the following day, but Republicans are trying to turn it into a big scandal. Some overwrought guy at NewsBusters.org has even accused Obama of “an insult to mankind,” simply because Ohrdruf was smaller than Auschwitz.

Insult to mankind!

That McCain feller is debatin’ hisself agin

4 comments May 27th, 2008

In this thrillin’ episode, Mr. Straight Talk faults others for talkin’ about timetables for withdrawin’ our troops from Iraq — and then he sets hisself his own timetable for withdrawin’ the troops.

Oh, and don’t miss the real good part at the end where he admits that the war is about oil.

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How many vets will kill themselves today?

11 comments May 27th, 2008

 

As we honored our American military veterans yesterday, most of us gave little or no thought to the thousands of them who have TAKEN THEIR OWN LIVES.

By one count, vets are killing themselves at the rate of nearly 18 a day. But we don’t ordinarily count these as casualties of war.

GOP senators abandon Bush and McCain

Add comment May 27th, 2008

 

On a farm bill and veterans legislation, substantial numbers of Senate Republicans voted with the Democrats last week to HAND DEFEATS to President Bush and John McCain.

Bush has become so politically toxic that McCain doesn’t want the president to appear at his fundraisers unless they’re held in private. So, don’t expect to see any new photos like the one above.

“No one wants to be seen as aligning with Bush right now,” said one GOP lobbyist.