Daily Archives: June 13th, 2008 «

 

Just what we needed

Posted by: ST on June 13, 2008 at 8:15 pm » 9 Comments

Not: A young New York City entrepreneur has decided to “have fun” with the campaign by marketing condoms featuring images of Barack Obama and John McCain. Benjamin Sherman, who created the company Practice Safe Policy, says the Obama condom carries the slogan “Use With Good Judgment.” The McCain version says “OLD BUT Not Expired.” According [...]

 

RIP, Tim Russert (MORE: VIDEO OF BROKAW ANNOUNCEMENT ADDED)

Posted by: ST on June 13, 2008 at 4:11 pm » 4 Comments

MSNBC’s Tim Russert passed away today from a sudden heart attack while working. He was 58. This is shocking, to say the least. My mouth dropped open when I got the news alert. Russert was one of the few journalists out there who, in my opinion, truly was fair and balanced 95% of the time. [...]

 

Obama campaign not crazy about town hall debate format

Posted by: ST on June 13, 2008 at 3:07 pm » 3 Comments

Why am I not surprised? The McCain camp proposed to Obama a series of 10 town hall meetings to take place each week before the Democrat National Convention. The Obama camp balked, saying they were only interested in doing one town hall debate with the others being the more traditional format (which would, of course, [...]

 

Friday open thread

Posted by: ST on June 13, 2008 at 9:26 am » 17 Comments

Hey ya’ll – I’m swamped and will be for most of the day. Will try to check in later this afternoon – if not, definitely this evening. TGIF