Is it valid to question a candidate’s health?
A couple of weeks ago I posted my utter disgust about an ad released by a group lead by Howard Dean’s brother. The ad questioned Senator John McCain’s health because of his cancer history. Regardless of whether or not that is a legitimate issue, the ad was disgraceful. […]
Archive for October, 2008
[Crystal Clear Conservative] So, What Are You Planning to Do With Your Bailout Money, AIG?
Posted by crystalclearconservative in October 9th 2008 under: Economy, NO on Government Bailouts, National Politics, aggregated
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Sending executives to attend a $440,000 spa visit to a posh resort in California. The breakdown of their visit was $23,380 worth of spa treatments, not to count the stay at the St. Regis Resort.
Here is the most angering part: AIG did this while the company begged for an bailout loan of the Federal Government. […]
Jon Henke is dead on with this one. We need to turn this trend around if there’s to be any hope of saving the country from a socialist take-over.
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[The Write Side of My Brain] The truth about Fannie Mae
Posted by Michael in October 9th 2008 under: 2008 Congressional Races, 2008 Presidential Race, 2008 U.S. Senate, Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats, Economy, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, John McCain, Scandals, aggregated, bailout
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Take the time to view this slide show.
H/T RedState
[Virginia Virtucon] Evidence Emerging That Obama Was Member of Socialist “New Party” In The ’90s
Posted by Riley in October 9th 2008 under: 2008 Elections, Democrats, National Politics, Scandal!, Socialists, Teleprompter Barry, aggregated
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Right Field over at The Mud Pit has stumbled across some blockbuster information that appears to have legs that could very well sink Barack Obama once and for all.
Earlier this summer, allegations arose that Obama had been a member of the “New Party” in Illinois at a time when candidates could run on multiple party […]
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The Flyers hockey season will begin in Philadelphia with America’s favorite hockey mom dropping the first puck. Flyers owner and McCain supporter Ed Snider proudly announced the news.
“Because of the tremendous amount of publicity she has brou…
The Mud Pit shares today that Sen. Barack Obama was once a member of the “New Party”. According to the American Thinker Blog:
The New Party was a radical left organization, established in 1992, to amalgamate far left groups and push the United States into socialism by forcing the Democratic Party to the left. It […]
[Bearing Drift :: Virginia Politics and Podcasts] McCain’s $300 Billion Mortgage Bailout
Posted by J.R. Hoeft in October 8th 2008 under: Campaigns and Elections, Features, John McCain, aggregated
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In last night’s debate, I was taken aback when I heard Sen. Barack Obama, the Democrat, call for tax cuts for the middle class in order to ease their financial burden and thus, perhaps, enabling them to keep their mortgage, contrasted with Sen. John McCain, the Republican, who called for a $300 billion adventure by […]
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Sen. Jim Webb will moderate three panels at George Mason University regarding drug trafficking, policy, and criminal sentencing this coming Oct. 15.
Beginning at 8 a.m. and running through noon, the three panels are: How do drugs get into the United St…
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Today’s Zogby daily tracking poll has the presidential race back to a 1.9% difference – Barry Obama 47.1 to John McCain 45.2.
(The Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll, was conducted before Tuesday’s Obama-McCain debate. It was performed by live telephone operators in Zogby’s in-house call center in Upstate New York, included a total of 1,220 likely voters nationwide, and carries […]
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The Financial Crisis, as Explained to My Fourteen-Year-Old Sister
Jim Riley at Virginia Virtucon writes that Bill Day, Democratic candidate for the 1st District, has taken all sides possible on the bailout:
Daily Press - 9/24/08:
“I’m totally against it. I haven’t met anybody yet who’s for it. I’ve talked to hundreds of people. They’re all saying, ‘Why are we bailing out a company that couldn’t […]
[The right-wing liberal] Bill Day vs. Bill Day vs. Bill Day vs. Bill Day (now THAT’s a debate!)
Posted by rightwingliberal in October 8th 2008 under: Government spending, Republican Party, Rob Wittman, U.S. politics, Virginia politics, aggregated
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Can you guess which candidate for Virginia’s 1st Congressional District said the following on the Wall Street panic bailout?
“I’m totally against it. I haven’t met anybody yet who’s for it.” (Daily Press)
“If we’re talking about buying assets and protecting taxpayers, that’s something I would consider.” (Daily Press)
“We need to approve this thing on its own merit. […]
[Virginia Virtucon] Bill Day — Against The Bailout Until Wittman Was Against It, Then Day Was For It
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And the entertainment from Bill “The Crush Puppy” Day just keeps on coming:
9/24/08
“I’m totally against it. I haven’t met anybody yet who’s for it. I’ve talked to hundreds of people. They’re all saying, ‘Why are we bailing out a company that couldn’t make it? Why do we have to bail out a company that made […]
[Virginia Virtucon] Bill Day Falsely Claims Endorsement
Posted by Riley in October 8th 2008 under: 2008 Elections, Congress, Morons, Northern Neck Politics, Rob Wittman, Virginia politics, aggregated
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Retraction: We falsely reported an endorsement by the Times Community Papers on this page yesterday. The paper has not yet made a formal decision or announcement. Our apologies!
Latest movies in some stage of development in Hollywood (in order of their sequel number):
Bull Durham 2
Ghostbusters 3
Pirates of the Carribean 4
Lethal Weapon 5
Indiana Jones 5
Within sight of receiving an $85 million golden parachute.
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The Obama campaign recently released an ad mocking John McCain’s inability to use a keyboard as evidence that he’s “out of touch”. But according to a post by my SamSphere colleague Warner Todd Huston, the McCain campaign’s Web site is way ahead of the …
[The right-wing liberal] Looking for a game-changing debate? You were a week early.
Posted by rightwingliberal in October 8th 2008 under: Barack Obama, Government spending, John McCain, On the Blogosphere, U.S. politics, aggregated, taxes
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I must confess that I had no intention of watching last night’s debate. I figured anything new or unusual would be reported afterwards (and indeed, it was - Fox News). Ironically, it was one of my teenage sons who decided the debate would be on our TV screens. As expected, I didn’t see anything I […]
[Leslie Carbone] Alexander Hamilton and Blogging
Posted by Leslie Carbone in October 8th 2008 under: aggregated
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One of the things I love about blogging is all the fun opportunities it brings me. I spent last night tweeting the presidential debate in DuPont Circle with a group of other bloggers. We were being filmed for an upcoming PBS documentary on Alexander …
[Virginia Virtucon] Virginia Felons For Obama
Posted by Riley in October 8th 2008 under: 2008 Elections, National Politics, Teleprompter Barry, Virginia politics, aggregated
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Today’s DC Examiner has an article on Fairfax County elections officials making a special visit to the county jail to register inmates to vote.
Both Fairfax County General Registrar Rokey Suleman and Sheriff Stan Barry deny any wrongdoing in the decision that granted Office of Elections on-site access to the Adult Detention Center in downtown Fairfax. Barry […]
[The Contemporary Conservative] Jerome Corsi incommunicado at the airport until he departs for book about Obama
Posted by James Young in October 8th 2008 under: Jerome Corsi held incommunicado in Kenya for anti-Obama, aggregated
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From World Net News: The government of Kenya is holding WND senior staff reporter Jerome Corsi incommunicado at the airport until he departs the country after police shut down a scheduled news conference in which he planned to announce the findings of his investigation into Barack Obama’s connections in the country….Corsi, the author of the No. 1 best-selling book “The Obama Nation,” was picked
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Last night I was on Bearing Drift’s Politics On Demand podcast with Danae Jones and Jim Hoeft to give immedeate thoughts after the second Presidential Debate. Good times. A few thoughts:
I’ve done radio, I should be better about “um…” and “ah…” and “you know…”
“Below the belt” wasn’t what I meant but I said it so […]
[The Contemporary Conservative] Why I am strongly supporting Randy Forbes - Our Economy
Posted by James Young in October 8th 2008 under: Congressman J. Randy Forbes re-Election, Vote for Randy Forbes, aggregated
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Our Economy
“While economists and politicians look at stock prices, interest rates, money supply, and consumer confidence for measurements of our economic outlook, for most of us these measurements are widely irrelevant in our everyday lives. People cannot eat GDP, fill their gas tanks with the interest rate, clothe their families with stock prices, or pay college tuition bills with the
[The Contemporary Conservative] Did we learn anything in the debate last night? I don’t think so..
Posted by James Young in October 8th 2008 under: Do debates sway elections, Preseidential debate, Presidential election, aggregated
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I don’t think we learned anything new and it is all going to depend on the people already backing these candidates to get out the vote on election day. These two candidates are so diametrical opposed that I cannot see someone watching these debates going,”I really liked that John McCain but Barrack Obama’s answers in this debate really changed my mind”….not going to happen (and vice versa to be
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