Archive for August 7th, 2008
August 7th, 2008
The first ad here conveys several messages, the last of which is that Hillary Clinton deserved to lose the Democratic nomination.
The second ad, a response from the Democrats, Â shows that people in the first ad have changed their minds.
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August 7th, 2008
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Wouldn’t you know!
Just this past Monday night, I put my enviable reputation as a political seer on the line with a flat-out PREDICTION that John McCain will pick Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty as his running-mate. And then what happens?
Pawlenty is now telling America that he ADMIRES the positive tone of Barack Obama’s campaign. Such statements will not, of course, endear young Tim to certain elements in the Republican Party (which is why he’s pictured above fading into the background behind McCain).
Drat it all! I was looking forward to basking in the glow of my uncommon political prescience.Â
August 7th, 2008
August 7th, 2008
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Yeah, the Republicans are blowing the whistle on this ridiculous giveaway scheme, which supposedly is  aimed at reducing so-called global poverty.
It’s an outrage! Eight hundred and forty-five billion dollars! That’s more than $2,500 for each American taxpayer!
Oh, one other thing about this: It’s not true. In reality, the plan will cost each man, woman and child in America about one-third of one penny per year.
Read all about it HERE.
POSTSCRIPT: Incidentally, this scheme is so controversial that it passed the House on a simple voice vote and is co-sponsored in the Senate by such wild-eyed Marxists as Republican Sens. Richard Lugar and Chuck Hagel.
But the Republican National Committee thinks it’s cause for alarm and accordingly warns against electing its principal sponsor our next president.
August 7th, 2008
 
The political cognoscenti are inclined to say that political endorsements by celebrities don’t matter much.
That may be true in a general sense, but there might also be exceptions to the rule — perhaps momentous exceptions.
A couple of economists at the University of Maryland are out with a study suggesting that Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement “had a major — and possibly even decisive — impact on the Democratic primaries, netting Barack Obama more than one million votes.”
The story is HERE.
