Daily Archives: May 21st, 2008 «

 

Think the Dem contest will be over on June 3rd?

Posted by: ST on May 21, 2008 at 6:51 pm » 12 Comments

Not so fast, sez Hillary: BOCA RATON, Fla. – Hillary Clinton compared her effort to seat Florida and Michigan delegates to epic American struggles, including those to free the slaves and win the right to vote for blacks and women. The current stalemate over the two states’ primary votes threatens to replicate the disputed 2000 [...]

 

Political news and notes (Weds open thread)

Posted by: ST on May 21, 2008 at 3:58 pm » 5 Comments

—— Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) gave a speech on May 18th at a Commentary magazine dinner in which he talked about what has happened to his former party that was once strong on national security. In it, he praised both President Bush and John McCain, while criticizing Barack Obama’s position on unconditional direct talks, three [...]

 

Getting out of hand

Posted by: ST on May 21, 2008 at 11:07 am » 6 Comments

Captain Ed details a disturbing pattern emerging amongst prominent Barack Obama supporters bashing McCain’s military record, counting three recent attacks. It’s almost as if they are working in concert with the NYT magazine, which published this little hit piece on McCain a few days ago (h/t: ST reader Fat Tone): There is a feeling among [...]

 

About that 75,000 strong Obama rally …

Posted by: ST on May 21, 2008 at 9:53 am » 4 Comments

The buzz of the week earlier this week was the mainstream media’s news reports of how Barack Obama had a rally in Oregon that drew 75,000 people. It was an impressive story, but left out of most reports was the following information from Oregon Live about what else was going on at Portland’s Waterfront Park [...]