Daily Archives: March 5th, 2008 «

 

Bowling for delegates

Posted by: ST on March 5, 2008 at 9:11 pm » 8 Comments

As the primary season lingers on, and the delegate count between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama so close, the question that keeps bubbling up into the minds of (mainly) Hillary supporters is: how can we legally seat the Florida and Michigan delegates, or can we have a re-vote in Florida and Michigan? Via Marc Ambinder, [...]

 

The Australian Messiah

Posted by: ST on March 5, 2008 at 1:08 pm » 6 Comments

Messiah-in-training Barack Obama ain’t got nothin’ on Aussie PM Kevin Rudd, who has rescued not just The Land Down Under, but the whole world, from a catastrophic climate crisis. When notified of this startling development, The Goracle had this to say in response: “Uhhh …” Does this mean we can dispense of all the “carbon [...]

 

Michelle Obama: This country is “just downright mean”

Posted by: ST on March 5, 2008 at 11:42 am » 8 Comments

The wife of Dem presidential hopeful Barack Obama keeps stepping in it, first with her “first time in my adult life I’ve been really proud of my country” and BO can “fix your soul” remarks, and now we read this from an interview she gave The New Yorker (emphasis added): [Michelle] Obama begins with a [...]

 

Attitudes on Iraq are changing

Posted by: ST on March 5, 2008 at 9:23 am » 26 Comments

This is fantastic news: WASHINGTON — The perception that the U.S. troop surge in Iraq has succeeded is changing some public views of the war, potentially blunting Democrats’ political edge on the issue. Americans continue to judge the nearly five-year-old U.S. invasion of Iraq as a mistake, by margins that have barely budged. But in [...]