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Veepstakes

by blue stockings | Kathy Kolbert still thinks Obama is a progressive and hopes he'll pick a progressive veep. I am going to vote for him, but he ain't no progressive. I'm expecting to be let down on...

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Colbert Twofer: John McCain Steals from Wikipedia /Blame Monica Goodling

Did John McCain plagiarize? RECENT POSTINGSChristian PAC Comes Out in Support of Obama, Infuriating the Right-eous Hope for a New Species or Giant Hoax? Men Claim to Have Recovered the Body of...

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Christian PAC Comes Out in Support of Obama, Infuriating the Right-eous

by Teh Nutroots | As Damozel posted earlier at BN-Politics, McCain's attempt to present his wife as a biker chick hasn't panned out too well for him. A man who goes a-wooing the far right...

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Hope for a New Species or Giant Hoax? Men Claim to Have Recovered the Body of Sasquatch

by Cockney Robin | cross-posted at BN-Politics | Apparently two men from Georgia (USA) have recovered the frozen 7'7, 500 pound body of a creature they believe is Sasquatch---or rather a sasquatch...

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CNN Inquires: "[IS] OBAMA THE ANTICHRIST?"

Posted by Damozel | cross posted at BN-Politics | Hey, what do you know? McCain's ad, "The One," portraying Obama as Antichrist (see the ad here) seems to have worked! In "debunking" the "rumor," CNN...

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McCain Yanks Off Bush's Crown; Tries It on For Size

by Teh Nutroots | Riddle me this: Wasn't it only 2-3 weeks ago that the Republicans were moaning about the presumptuousness of Barack Obama? If so, how do they explain McCain's sudden accession to an...

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Two Ads: "Maverick No More" and "The Original"

by Damozel | These should have gone up before now. It was a response to one in which various Dems praise him for his "maverick" views. In my opinion, this nails the reason that I've turned against...

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The Faulty Reasoning Almanack: Shuster Is Polite To PUMAs....but....

Taylor Marsh, formerly one of Hillary's most stalwart advocates, has the intelligent and tactful take on this: The video speaks for itself. Shuster just about makes up for his horrific "pimping"...

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Colmes Being Awesome

Posted by Blue Stockings | I wrote this up last night. Here's the You Tube. Wonkette: [T]he panel of guests is saying how John Edwards “getting away” with his affair (really?) reveals a double...

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John Derbyshire is Alarmed! And Other Things Beginning with 'A'!

by Cockney Robin | You've got to hand it to him for always being able to come up with new ways of being a pillock. Here is exhibit A (for 'arsehole'), from his comments about the cowardliness of the...

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Troops Give It Up for Obama and, um, Ron Paul?

by Damozel | This piece by Luke Rosiak at Open Secrets is fraught with interest. According to an analysis of campaign contributions by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, Democrat Barack...

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Hillary: What, She's Not the Evil Scheming Genius MoDo Would Have Had You Believe?

Posted by Teh Nutroots | At our sister blog, Buck Naked Politics, Deb Cupples saw off Maureen Dowd's Hillary-based fiction about the Democratic convention in fine style yesterday. (Maureen Dowd Talks...

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Andrew Sullivan on McCain

by Teh Nutroots | As he mulls over his former support for the war in Iraq, provides a summary of McCain's militarism in a nutshell .For him, it is always 1938 somewhere; America's duty is to control,...

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Pelosi on Joe Lieberman

Posted by Teh Nutroots | What do you know. In an interview with a Bay area talk show host, she actually said something worthy of not of a raspberry, but a tip of the hat. The sting's in the tail. Joe...

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Colmes Fights Back Against Hannity's Double Standard for McCain

Posted by Teh Nutroots | Good for Colmes. Didn't think he had it in him. We generally type his name in the manner suggested by Al Franken: Colmes. But today he gets him some full-sized letters for...

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Arkansas Chair Bill Gwatney is Shot in His Office; Collateral Damage: Malkin's Feelings Get Wounded

Posted by Blue Stockings | Deb Cupples deals with this tragedy at our sister blog, Buck Naked Politics, here. To add to the anguish, poor little Malkin received a mean email accusing her and her...

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Irony Alert: McCain: "In the 21st Century, Nations Don't Invade Other Nations"

Damozel & Teh Nutroots | Would that he were right. You can see the video (via Think Progress) below. Not only does John McCain not know any Russian history, he also apparently doesn't remember as far...

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McCain on the Conflict Between Georgia and Russia

“I think it’s very clear that Russian ambitions are to restore the old Russian Empire. Not the Soviet Union, but the Russian Empire.”And people think this man is "ready to lead"? He's not even living...

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And Maureen Dowd Knows Narcissism

By Blue Stockings | We already know there isn't enough shut up in all the world for Maureen Dowd. But John Edwards should probably be grateful to her. If there's one writer who can probably bring...

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Admiral Fallon Discusses US foreign policy on BBC's Newsnight

by Damozel | Highly recommended. Fallon is the CENTCOM Chief who resigned last year. Fallon opposed the “surge” in Iraq and...consistently battled the Bush administration to avoid a confrontation...

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How A Bill Becomes Law (Revised)

Posted by Damozel | Gen. J.C. Christian of Jesus' General writes:While watching John McCain work the offshore oil drilling issue, it occurred to me that the old "How a Bill Becomes Law" chart we used...

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The Edwards "Controversy" & The Media Double Standard

by Teh Nutroots | Okay, we've dissed Edwards. We've said what there is to say, i.e. [accompanied by the sound of a newspaper whapping him on the nose]: BAD BAD BAD! [::whap::] How could you do it to...

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If Barack Obama is Your New Bicycle, What are John McCain & Ron Paul?

by Damozel | I commented the other day on a MoJo interview with Matthew Honan, the creator of Barack Obama is Your New Bicycle.com (and how the site came about). To see all the ways he cares, click...

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Ride the Wayback Pony: Edwards' Hypocrisy Gets A Democrat Down

by Blue Stockings | Sometimes The Huffington Post really gets on my last nerve. I know, I know, THEY TOLD US SO and we told them to shut up till they had proof. Still: it's a tragedy for Dems and...

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Ride the Wayback Pony: Michael Moore's Advice to Obama in Today's Guardian & His Open Letter to Al Gore in 2000

Blue Stockings | I like Michael Moore, and some of what he says in this piece in The Guardian is dead on, but the following annoys me. It's flat out hypocritical. [Y]ou would think, with more than...

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Harry Shearer: "Addicted to Oil"

Posted by Damozel | "Addiction always seems to wind up with a foreigner and a gun."

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A Right-Wing Christian Asks: If Obama Really is the Antichrist, Shouldn't We Vote for Him?

by (Mrs.) Anna Hosanna | I know that the "crazy liberals" who also post here are not going to like this post and will roll their Eyes, even Damozel who owns this site and is a Quaker (which I thought...

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Jon Stewart: Who Banned Offshore Drilling? "His Presidency Seems So Cute Now"

One of Stewart's best. [When did McCain start saying "nucular"?]

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Obama Not Hopeful Enough for the Jolly, Upbeat, Glass-Half-Full Lads of the Right

by Teh Nutroots | The right wing megaphones are rushing to broadcast to their audience of gulls that Barack Obama isn't delivering the message of hope that America is longing for. Voters, they...

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"Barack Obama is Your New Bicycle" Explained

I loved that site. MoJo discusses the genesis of the site with its creator, Mathew Honan (who now has a book deal).My wife Harper and I are both avid cyclists. Harper is absolutely consumed with...

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The Daily Show: George W. Bush's Real Contribution to Language

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A Right Wing Man's Plea: Right Wing Women, Please Stop Blogging

by John Q. Public I've been thinking about this topic for weeks, but have hesitated to publish my views. It is a controversial subject. Even my powerful brothers of the far right dare not address it...

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[Republican] Women, Know Your Limits!

Posted by Mr. John Q. Public [So Right It's Wrong] | Instructional videos from our British cousins, specifically the great Harry Enfield: VIDEO A: WOMEN, KNOW YOUR LIMITS! [cf. Mr. Robert Stacy...

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"It's Like These Guys Take Pride in Being Ignorant"

by Blue Stockings | It's much more like they think the public is really ignorant---or rather the part constituting their base. Obama was talking about the tire gauge kerfuffle, but he could be...

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Cindy McCain, Biker Chick?

by Teh Nutroots | Ben Smith:Meanwhile, at a biker rally in Sturgis, S.D., John McCain appears to have volunteered his wife for a topless beauty pageant: McCain felt so comfortable at the event that...

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Jon Stewart & Bob Herbert's "Phallic Symbols"

by Damozel | I'm not fond of Bob Herbert after what he helped do to Hillary and Bill Clinton. But I thought we Obama supporters---I am one of those now---won a point or two on the "dog whistle"...

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Jon Swift Schools The Blogosphere on Satire

by Teh Nutroots & Damozel | We had an uncomfortable day or two last week when A-List blogger Andrew Sullivan read one of Z-List bloggers John Q's pieces which quoted from one of Sullivan's postings...

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Ride the Wayback Pony: The Daily Show Bashes the Bush Administration's Pre-Katrina Attempts to Create Its Own Media Filter

by Teh Nutroots | A Twofer from The Daily Show, March 2003. Needless to say, it was really Clinton's fault. The Liberal filter: RECENT POSTINGSNow More than Ever: 'Everything has Something to Do with...

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Now More than Ever: Everything has Something to Do with the Templars

by Cockney Robin | The best novel--bar none--about the Knights Templar is Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum. [Damozel reviewed it here. She also made me read it---as in 'nagged me all the hours there...

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