Daily Archives: July 8th, 2007 «

 

Hold on to your wallets

Posted by: ST on July 8, 2007 at 9:18 pm » 6 Comments

Mike Allen reports that Dem presidential hopeful John Edwards, trailing badly in the campaign money race, is getting ready to head out on a ‘poverty tour’: Can JRE pull off a JFK, or an RFK (asks Politico chief political writer Mike Allen, who is sharing guestblogging duties while Ben is on vacation)? John Edwards plans [...]

 

Cindy Sheehan considers challenge to Nancy Pelosi

Posted by: ST on July 8, 2007 at 5:03 pm » 13 Comments

“Retired” anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan says she’ll challenge Nancy Pelosi for her San Francisco seat if she doesn’t introduce articles of impeachment against the President in the next two weeks: CRAWFORD, Texas – Six weeks after announcing her departure from the peace movement, Cindy Sheehan said Sunday that she plans to run against House Speaker [...]

 

How low can they go: The NYT describes Fred Thompson’s wife as a “trophy” wife

Posted by: ST on July 8, 2007 at 1:12 pm » 12 Comments

The attacks on Fred Thompson continue in this weekend’s lamestream media outlets. Yesterday it was the LAT, and today it’s the NYT: AS the election of 2008 approaches with its cast of contenders who bring unprecedented diversity to the quest for the White House, the voting public has been called on to ponder several questions: [...]

 

NYT: We must surrender in Iraq

Posted by: ST on July 8, 2007 at 12:50 pm » 6 Comments

Considering the consistent anti-war position of the New York Times, this editorial, where they pull a Murtha and call for an immediate pull out of Iraq, is hardly surprising: It is time for the United States to leave Iraq, without any more delay than the Pentagon needs to organize an orderly exit. [...] Continuing to [...]