Posts Tagged ‘ Barack Obama ’

Via Drudge: Facing a double-digit defeat in New Hampshire, a sudden collapse in national polls and an expected fund-raising drought, Senator Hillary Clinton is preparing for a tough decision: Does she get out of the race? And when?! “She can’t take multiple double-digit losses in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada,” laments one top campaign insider...
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This is what Hillary Clinton supporter Andrew Young says about Barack Obama: Civil rights icon Andrew Young says Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is too young and lacks the support network to ascend to the White House. In a media interview posted online, Young also quipped that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton has her husband...
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… so he’s listening to people who do: I dunno though. This whole idea of not fighting a war unless the intelligence is good or there’s enough equipment to go around seems kinda like something a hippie would think up. Hat tip: Ollie.
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From Barack Obama’s appearance Sunday on Meet the Press (transcript): “I think the best way to approach this is to adjust the cap on the payroll tax so that people like myself are paying a little bit more and people who are in need are protected,” the Illinois senator said. “That is the option that I...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndQM0X5rhfE
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FOXNews and the New York Post took a thinly sourced story in some obscure Moonie rag and decided to run with it, claiming they were just commenting on someone else’s reporting. Apparently, the right-leaning news organization couldn’t couldn’t pass on anything that might toss dirt on two Democratic candidates for president. CNN on the...
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APx2YJ-_jos No comment. Barack Obama,Osama bin Laden Obama
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Chicago Tribune columnist/blogger Eric Zorn has details on how some conservative bloggers are doing their best to portray Barack Obama as a Muslim dope fiend who’s not-coincidentally named after a recently deceased dictator. Feh. Anyone so inclined to get all worked up over this tripe probably would have voted for that whack-job Alan Keyes anyway. Seriously,...
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Yeah, he’s getting a lot of free publicity now. You can tell how some conservatives are worried, judging by theincreasingly hateful and insulting comments. Barack Obama
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Oh, you better believe Barack Obama is going to run for president. On Meet the Press he denied ever completely ruling out a run in 2006 and said he would think about it in detail after the midterms are over: In recent weeks, his political stock has been rising as a potentially viable centrist candidate...
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I’m telling you, people. Barack Obama is going to run for president in 2008. He’s never, ever, going to be as popular as he is now. He doesn’t want to wait until 2016, which is how long he’s probably have to wait assuming a Democratic victory by someone else in 2008. And because he’s...
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I attended Barack Obama’s appearance at a rally for State Senate candidate Dave Koehler this afternoon outside the Peoria County Courthouse. I made the decision that If I wanted to shake Obama’s hand, I was going to have to stand next to Peoria City Council members Barbara Van Auken and Gary Sandberg, both of whom...
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A couple days ago, I came across a comment on a blog complaining that Barack Obama is overrated because, among other reasons, he hasn’t successfully sponsored a piece of legislation. It’s a silly argument of course. Obama is the first to tell you that his job the past few years has been to listen and...
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So says the Bloomington Pantagraph: The Center could not identify any money that Republican U.S. Reps. Tim Johnson of Champaign and Ray LaHood of Peoria or Democratic U.S. Sen. Barack Obama received from Abramoff or his clients. Sen. Dick Durbin, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, Rep. Lane Evans and Rep. Jerry Weller are among those...
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