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McCain camp to Obama: Wanna play “guilt by association”? Let’s go there

Posted by: ST on August 20, 2008 at 9:16 pm » 10 Comments

The Obama campaign released [correction: will release tomorrow] the below ad in Georgia that strains to link Senator McCain to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.  CNN reports on the ad here: The 30-second spot is the Obama campaign’s second negative ad in the past 24 hours. It attacks the Arizona senator for his association with former [...]

 

Clinton camp to create “whip team” for Dem convention

Posted by: ST on August 20, 2008 at 8:48 pm » 2 Comments

Since the so-called “PUMA”‘s have made it clear that they won’t go away quietly, Team Clinton has had to assemble a “whip” team in an effort to make sure the PUMA’s don’t embarass themselves … and La Clinton … during the DNC: In an unusual move, Hillary Clinton’s staff is creating a 40-member “whip team” [...]

 

RIP Stephanie Tubbs Jones

Posted by: ST on August 20, 2008 at 2:45 pm » 6 Comments

Breaking news from Fox: EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio —  U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress, has died, FOX News confirms. Tubbs Jones, 58, was earlier sent to the hospital Tuesday evening after suffering an aneurysm while driving her car. Tubbs Jones’ car veered off the side of the road [...]

 

What will they sell next? A lock of his hair?

Posted by: ST on August 20, 2008 at 1:14 pm » 1 Comment

CBS4Denver reports on how while Team Obama claimed to the public that tickets to his concert, er, acceptance speech were free, privately some were being sold in exchange for campaign cash: Two known Democratic supporters are outraged at their own party after being solicited to buy tickets to Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at Invesco Field next Thursday, [...]

 

From hiding the homeless in Denver to giving them haircuts

Posted by: ST on August 20, 2008 at 10:26 am » 9 Comments

LOL.  Gotta love it: Last month The Ticket wrote that officials in Denver, worried about the impression that 50,000 visitors to the Democratic National Convention would get next week, were planning to hide the estimated 4,000 homeless people who hang around the city’s downtown area. They arranged for free movie passes and bingo games to [...]

 

More on Obama’s Chicago days

Posted by: ST on August 20, 2008 at 10:05 am » 1 Comment

David Freddoso, author of The Case Against Obama, has an opinion piece today in the Wall Street Journal that describes how Obama, the so-called “Agent of Change” didn’t embrace “change” until it became politically convenient for him to do so.   Freddoso talks about Obama’s State Senate run, where he had all four of his opponents [...]