Daily Archives: July 24th, 2008 «

 

Obama campaign using video of Berlin speech in campaign emails – complete with “DONATE” button

Posted by: ST on July 24, 2008 at 10:03 pm » 9 Comments

What was that they were saying again about how he was going overseas as a “Senator and not a presidential candidate”? Uh huh.  Here’s an mass email sent out tonight by the campaign: Dear [Sister Toldjah] – As you may have heard, Barack has been in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia this week. Today, he spoke [...]

 

Barack Obama surrogate Wesley Clark: Stuck on Stupid (INCLUDES VIDEO)

Posted by: ST on July 24, 2008 at 7:35 pm » 1 Comment

None of us are strangers to the foolish words that have come out of (Ret) Gen. Wesley Clark’s mouth over the last several years.   During the run up to the 2004 presidential primaries, Clark declared that he was “delighted” to have the support of Bush-hater Michael Moore, and refused to condemn his hateful remarks in [...]

 

Obama’s Berlin speech (MORE: VIDEO OF SPEECH ADDED)

Posted by: ST on July 24, 2008 at 2:23 pm » 9 Comments

Drudge has the transcript posted.  I’m posting it below in full as the Drudge link will probably no longer work a few weeks from now: BARACK OBAMA BERLIN SPEECH: ‘A WORLD THAT STANDS AS ONE’ THURS JULY 24 2008 12:58:02 Thank you to the citizens of Berlin and to the people of Germany. Let me [...]

 

Afternoon food for thought

Posted by: ST on July 24, 2008 at 2:14 pm » 5 Comments

The WaPo’s Chris Cillizza has an analysis up of a recent WaPo/Quinnipiac poll and finds that McCain has made “significant gains” in 4 key battleground states: Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.   Of course anything can happen between now and November, but it’s somewhat of a minor miracle that McCain has been able to  make gains when [...]

 

Obama in Germany (MORE: EXCUSE GIVEN FOR CANCELLATION)

Posted by: ST on July 24, 2008 at 11:00 am » 7 Comments

A speech in front of thousands of smiling Germans? Yes. Traveling to Paris for a pit stop on Friday?  Still on.  Visiting US military bases in Rammstein and Landstuhl? Cancelled.  Ed Morrissey is following developments. I guess Obama’s had enough troop photo ops in Afghanistan and Iraq and figures he doesn’t need anymore.  Will we later see pictures/vids of [...]

 

Thursday open thread

Posted by: ST on July 24, 2008 at 12:01 am » 5 Comments

I wanted to go ahead and get this one posted, as I probably won’t be around til sometime Thursday afternoon to blog.  Night night – sleep tight