Archive for September 3rd, 2008

QOM

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How many CEO’s (former) spoke (will have spoken) for the non elitist GOP convention?

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Comment Rescue: Newbie Suze Lays It Down

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suze // Sep 3, 2008 at 11:10 pm The point is that Sara Palin wants to legislate teaching abstinence. Her daughter is a prime example of how it doesn’t work, so she’s fair game. My one question to Palin would be, “How’s that abstinence program workin for ya?” I love how conservatives follow the “do as […]

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We Are Liveblogging the Palin Speech

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Hey look, election year + oil reserves release + Hugo Chavez

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U.S. grants Citgo 250K barrels of oil from reserve

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UPDATED: Red-neck dysfunction is to be celebrated

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Update: The redneck boyfriend is in the family box seats.  I guess teenage pregnancy is the cool, maverick position now.  This helps McCain.  Everything does.   ======================================================   Byron York via Atrios via kos Perhaps I’m focusing on an irrelevant issue, but the presence, or non-presence, of Johnston on the stage tonight strikes me as […]

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I’d hit it…and apparently so would he

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RN5xbWtNSU[/youtube]

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Commenting Comments

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A little behind the scenes brew ha ha is brewing in the Delaware blogosphere because some commenters are getting the shitty end of the stick.   I will not pretend to know all the technical ins and outs of this thing, but here is the little bit I’ve been able to gleen from being on […]

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QOTE

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What keywords lead you to believe a talking head/reporter/consultant/analyst favors one candidate or another?

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Just Listen to Mike Murphy and Peggy Noonan

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Don’t worry about the visual — listen carefully to thse two and they think they are off mike. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq4sOM4tpno[/youtube] h/t TPM

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Palin Was Not Vetted

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The simple fact of the matter is that McCain paniced and picked Palin to shore up the rightwing lunatic vote. it is well known that McCain only spoke to Palin once, but it now turns out that the campaign only spoke to her once. ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 2 — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was […]

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Private Sector Analogy

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Let’s suppose that Warren Buffett were doing some succession planning.  On Friday afternoon, he announced that if he were to die, a district manager for Borsheim’s Jewelry (one of his holdings) would take over as CEO. If, as the weekend progressed, stories came out about questionable business practices and personal decisions by this district manager,  […]

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Deep Thought

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If the Denver Police had teargassed and beaten docile crowds outside of the Dems Convention, I wonder if the national press would have covered it?

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She is a Religious Whack Job.

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She believes the Iraq War and a $30 billion oil pipeline are part of God’s plan, so she asks her congregation to pray for it.   Not to end suffering in this world, not to end poverty, not to end war and disease and hate.  No, Sarah Fucking Palin asks her congregation to pray for war […]

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