Update (Friday, September 19, 2008): Jake Tapper of ABC News is reporting that Bush Administration officials support Barack Obama’s version of events… Details below the fold… If this is true somebody’s got some splainin to do: OBAMA TRIED TO STALL GIS’ IRAQ WITHDRAWAL By AMIR TAHER, New York Post, September 15, 2008 WHILE campaigning in […]
Archives for September 2008
Bloody Monday…
The dust is starting to settle on what has been very ugly day on Wall Street. It’s not over by any stretch of the imagination… It’s going to take several days if not weeks for the markets and Main Street to fully digest the implications of Merrill Lynch’s shotgun marriage to Bank of America, Lehman […]
Bill & Jerry… Dude???
Microsoft has released the second in a series of ads featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld… It’s an improvement over the first one but I’m still not sure what Microsoft is trying to accomplish with these ads. Dude, I mean WTF???
Gibson versus Palin – Round Two
Scroll for Updates Over all Governor Palin did quite well last night, she was relaxed, confident and showed tremendous grace under pressure. I was disappointed in her answers on the economy though. Frankly I think she blew it. She didn’t do anything to differentiate the McCain campaign from Bush administration. She could have easily done […]
Never Assume Malice…
Where incompetence will suffice… Personally, I’m inclined to ascribe both to Washington Post reporter Anne Kornblut. In a page one news story, she accuses Sarah Palin of asserting “that the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein helped al-Qaeda plan the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.” There’s just one problem that’s not what […]
Gibson Versus Palin – Round One
Overall I thought Governor Palin more than held her own. The only really cringe worth moments were her answers to Gibson’s questions on the so called Bush Doctrine and Pakistan. She clearly didn’t know what Gibson meant by the Bush Doctrine and couldn’t answer the Pakistan question with anything more than platitudes about Islamic terrorism. […]
September 11th
Where were you when the world stopped turning? Every minute of that day is indelibly burned into my memory… Every site, every sound, every smell. It’s hard to believe it’s been seven years. It’s all still so fresh. It’s funny I used to think that the Twin Towers were some sort of cruel architectural joke […]
Something to Warm Your Heart…
Now that the conventions are over and the campaign coverage is getting more and more intense, it’s good to take a break from hardcore politics. This story will warm your heart and put a lump in your throat. It comes from Tracy at Beyond the Pale: I try not to talk politics much on this […]
Lipstick, Pigs and Politics…
I wasn’t going to jump into the fray over Barack Obama’s ‘Lipstick on a pig” comment… Frankly I don’t think they were intentionally or maliciously directed at Governor Palin. In politics though it’s not just what you say it’s what people hear. I understand the point Senator Obama was trying to make, I disagree with […]
Fannie & Freddie…
I’m not in a writing mood today but I hate to leave this page silent so I thought I’d share a few must reads on the Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac bailout with you. First is the Op Ed by John McCain in today’s Wall Street Journal: We’ll Protect Taxpayers From More Bailouts By John […]
Debunking Several Palin Myths…
There’s whole host of false or misleading claims about Sarah Palin flying around the internet. Factcheck.org has laid waste to several of them though. Palin did not cut funding for special needs education in Alaska by 62 percent. She didn’t cut it at all. In fact, she tripled per-pupil funding over just three years. She […]
The Gaffe That Wasn’t…
The Huffington Post is reporting that Sarah Palin has made her first gaffe: Gov. Sarah Palin made her first potentially major gaffe during her time on the national scene while discussing the developments of the perilous housing market this past weekend. Speaking before voters in Colorado Springs, the Republican vice presidential nominee claimed that lending […]
ABC’s Charles Gibson Lands First Palin Interview…
The Associated Press is reporting that Sarah Palin will sit down with ABC’s Charles Gibson for a one on one interview later this week. Palin will sit down for multiple interviews over two days in Alaska, probably on Thursday and Friday. Hopefully this will put and end to the media’s complaints that she hasn’t talked […]
A Message For Barack Obama…
A powerful message… Watch the whole thing.
Smears, Lies and Politics…
It’s getting so you can’t keep track of all the smears, lies and half-truths about Sarah Palin without a scorecard… Michelle Malkin has the latest here and here. I don’t even know what to say at this point… I don’t have a problem with hardball politics, we all know how the game is played and […]