Daily Archives: July 23rd, 2008 «

 

Tom Maguire catches Joe Klein contradicting himself on Obama’s Iraq position

Posted by: ST on July 23, 2008 at 11:36 pm » 1 Comment

Ouch!  Good catch.  Just one day after Klein went off (scroll) on McCain for making a similar comment, no less.

 

Obama campaign banners at the Western wall

Posted by: ST on July 23, 2008 at 11:05 pm » 6 Comments

Have ya’ll ever seen anything like this before? Caption: Supporters of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) stand behind banners printed with his name in Hebrew as they wait for his arrival at the Western wall in Jerusalem July 23, 2008.REUTERS/Baz Ratner Whether or not they were “official” or not (and knowing the [...]

 

Let’s talk about the John Edwards “affair” rumor

Posted by: ST on July 23, 2008 at 10:22 pm » 26 Comments

Longtime readers know how I feel about John Edwards aka His Royal Phoniness.  Even at that, though, I haven’t blogged anything about the latest affair rumors surrounding him for a few reasons, the top three being: I want to know as little about John Edwards’ sex life as humanly possible; So far, it’s been a completely unsubstantiated rumor (no [...]

 

The Encyclopedia Baracktannica

Posted by: ST on July 23, 2008 at 9:25 pm » 3 Comments

Where the heck have I been that I missed this? It’s hard to imagine that Barack Obama would be as big of a phenomenon if his name were, say, Tom Smith. As numerous fans, detractors, reporters, and bloggers have demonstrated, it’s a name that lends itself to neologisms—everything from Barackstar to Obamania to Omentum. We [...]

 

More “words of wisdom” on the use of the n-word from Whoopi and Co.

Posted by: ST on July 23, 2008 at 8:43 pm » 1 Comment

This time, unlike the last time, it was more watchable as Elisabeth seemed more confrontational and Ben Stein weighed in at the end and got in a couple of great points. One of the gals on the show, whose name I can’t recall just now (but who was noted as an Obama supporter) actually compared [...]

 

Reader survey: Would you like an “Obama-free” day here at the ST blog?

Posted by: ST on July 23, 2008 at 8:19 pm » 10 Comments

I just did a quick scan of the last several posts I’ve written and dang if every single one of them is not about Obama. LOL.  Well, it can’t be helped when his face has been plastered all over the news for the last few days thanks in no small part to his World Tour. Sometimes [...]

 

Obama Olympic advertising campaign confirmed

Posted by: ST on July 23, 2008 at 7:19 pm » 2 Comments

I first blogged back in June about the possiblity that the man with an Olympic-sized ego would be running a massive ad campaign during the summer Olympics.  It’s now been confirmed that he will do just that: WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) — It’s official. Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign will be among the TV sponsors of NBC Universal’s Olympics [...]

 

WaPo continues to take Obama to task for his Iraq position

Posted by: ST on July 23, 2008 at 9:39 am » 7 Comments

Continuing to demonstrate that their editorial writers have much more of a clue than the NYT’s, the Washington Post publishes another editorial criticizing Obama’s position(s) on Iraq. In an age where so many in the mainstream media have demonstrated how far in the tank they are for the Democrat nominee for president, it’s so refreshing [...]