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Last Feed Sample: Thank you, America, for being the nation I hoped you could be.
The reign of witches has passed over.
The work doesn't end tonight, there are many struggles still ahead. But we have time for tears of joy, and dreams of what could be. A brilliant speech, free of rancor and divisiveness, recalling what has made America great, and will again. Ah, to have a man who knows how to lead, and the vision
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:37:54 PDT
"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles." - Thomas JeffersonI voted this morning around 10am. It was my last opportunity to vote in person at a real polling place, because King County will soon be joining the rest of Washington state in all-vote-by-mail
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:37:54 PDT
DIXVILLE NOTCH, New Hampshire (CNN) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama emerged victorious in the first election returns of the 2008 presidential race, winning 15 of 21 votes cast in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire.
People in the village in New Hampshire's northeast corner voted just after midnight Tuesday.
It was the first time since 1968 that the village leaned Democratic in an
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:37:54 PDT
Obama runs a nimble and fast campaign organization.
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:37:54 PDT
Has John McCain read Harry Potter, or anything else, to his children?
Has Sarah Palin?
Barack Obama is the the candidate of tradition, and conserving the age-old American values.
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:37:54 PDT
What is it about McCain supporters that drives them to perpetrate hoaxes in their effort to discredit the Obama campaign?
Friday, the breaking story of a McCain volunteer's violent attack and mutilation dissolved into smoke almost as fast as it had arisen. Ashley Todd, a young white woman from Texas volunteering for the McCain campaign in Pennsylvania, originally told police that she'd been
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:37:54 PDT
True.
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:37:54 PDT
Josh Marshall has a prediction of what we'll be seeing between now and Election Day that I agree with. The GOP isn't going to give up without a fight.Stripped down to its components McCain's message to voters is this: "Don't forget. He's definitely black. And he may be a terrorist." That's the message. The nuts and bolts is a concerted effort to keep Democrats from voting -- through intimidation,
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:37:54 PDT
'Joe the Plumber' is the perfect symbol for the McCain campaign. Steve Benen at the Washington Monthly sums up why:* The United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry finds McCain's "Joe the Plumber" talk ridiculous.
* Speaking of which, "Joe the Plumber" isn't a licensed plumber, isn't a political independent, doesn't make more than $250,000, and his
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:37:54 PDT
Posting has been a little light recently as my computer has died. Here's a little laugh to enjoy while I work on replacing it.
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:37:54 PDT
This isn't quite the way my New England forebears did things...?The questions will be culled from a group of 100 to 150 uncommitted likely voters in the audience and another one-third to come via the Internet. Brokaw selects which questions to ask from written queries submitted prior to the debate.
?The Gallup Organization makes sure the questioners reflect the demographic makeup of the nation.
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:37:54 PDT
The 8-year-old Barack Obama was never on the board of the Weather Underground, not even a little. WASHINGTON - GOP presidential nominee John McCain has past connections to a private group that supplied aid to guerrillas seeking to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua in the Iran-Contra affair.
McCain's ties are facing renewed scrutiny after his campaign criticized Barack Obama for his
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:37:54 PDT
Sarah Palin has success with their new campaign initiative: to energize their core constituency, the angry, racist mob. Barack Obama, she told 8,000 fans at a rally here Monday afternoon, "launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist!" This followed her earlier accusation that the Democrat pals around with terrorists. "This is not a man who sees America the way you and
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:37:54 PDT
This morning NPR aired an interview between host Steve Inskeep and John McCain:Inskeep: Senator, as you know, the vice presidential debate comes on Thursday ? your running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, against Joe Biden. Gov. Palin has been asked about her foreign policy qualifications and cited Alaska's proximity to Russia as one reason she's qualified. I'd like to ask you, senator, what specifically
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:37:54 PDT
Sources in Hollywood are reporting tonight that top executives at FOX are happy about the prospects of a new series building on the ratings success of their show 'Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?'
Focus group results have been suggesting that many viewers found the questions on that series embarrassing, since, like many of the contestants, they couldn't get the right answers either. "We've
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:37:54 PDT
Really?
OK, well, maybe not Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, but at least Asahi Shimbun, I'm sure.
Seriously, how hard is it to name a couple of newspapers, even if you don't actually read them? Anchorage Daily News? Wall St. Journal?
Not even USA Today?
I realize I'm a nerd and a current-events junkie, but without trying I can think of the names of at least a dozen more newspapers in this
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:37:54 PDT
You probably know him too, or have crossed his path.
He (or she) is the boss who ignores the pathetic mismanagement in one part of the company, because that part is headed by a pal of his, and besides, he's never really understood what it is they do, exactly. He's the guy who has ignored anyone who dared to warn him that he might want to pay attention, maybe even yelled at them for being
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:37:54 PDT
Over at Digby's place, I read an enjoyable rant comparing Hank Paulson to the insane Colonel Kurtz, the iconic character played by Marlon Brando in Coppola's Apocalypse Now.
The comparison struck me as strangely apt. In this crazy world where none of the rules seem to apply anymore, where free-market fanatics are asking for the largest government intervention in the markets ever, where
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:37:54 PDT
The scariest thing I've read in a long time.
From email sent to blogger Matt Stoller by a lawmaker who chooses to remain anonymous, a description of an all-too-plausible scenario for how Congress will handle the absolutely insane $700,000,000,000.00 blank check proposal.Here's the industry's play: progressives will approach Nancy with ideas for reform, and she'll agree to push for their
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:37:54 PDT
If every second of every minute of every hour of every day for the next 22 years, you were to hand a Wall Street CEO a $1000 bill, you would still not have spent $700 Billion.
Wouldn't we rather spend the time handing $1000 bills to teachers, wind-power engineers, healthcare workers and bridge-repair specialists? They could even take turns, one every four seconds. Or maybe we should just start
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:37:54 PDT
Robert Reich, who is another guy with some smarts and a considerable understanding of economics has some ideas, in the TPMCafe:So if you are a member of Congress, you just might be in a position to demand from Wall Street certain conditions in return for the blank check.
My five nominees:
1. The government (i.e. taxpayers) gets an equity stake in every Wall Street financial company proportional
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:37:54 PDT
it probably isn't a carefully considered plan to navigate the country and the world through a complex and historic financial crisis.WASHINGTON ? The Bush administration on Saturday formally proposed to Congress what could become the largest financial bailout in United States history, requesting unfettered authority for the Treasury Department to buy up to $700 billion in mortgage-related assets.
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:37:54 PDT
The LOTD comes from my favorite economist, Paul Krugman:OK, a correspondent directs me to John McCain?s article, Better Health Care at Lower Cost for Every American, in the Sept./Oct. issue of Contingencies, the magazine of the American Academy of Actuaries. You might want to be seated before reading this.
Here?s what McCain has to say about the wonders of market-based health reform:Opening up
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:37:54 PDT
Back when George Bush and his gang were blathering about the "ownership society" and how wonderful it would be, I didn't realize quite what they had in mind...The Bush administration sketched out a multi-faceted effort on Friday to confront the worst U.S. financial crisis in decades, outlining a program that could cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars to buy up bad mortgages and other
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:37:54 PDT
CNN's Political Ticker reports that a prominent Hillary Clinton supporter has come out in favor of John McCain.
Lynn Forester de Rothschild, who happens to be CEO of an international holding company, and is married to international banker Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (yes, of those Rothschilds), who splits her time between the house in London, the 3,200-acre Buckinghamshire estate and the place in
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:37:54 PDT
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