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By D. Cupples on May 9, 2008 in Barack Obama, Democrats, Michigan | 34 Comments
Michigan’s Democratic Party is proposing that Michigan’s delegates be split 69 to 59 between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. According to the actual election results, Hillary would get 73 delegates. Jeralyn at TalkLeft sums up the results of the new proposal as follows:
"It not only gives Obama all of the uncommitted delegates, a number that […]
By D. Cupples on May 6, 2008 in Barack Obama, Economy, Gas Prices, Hillary Clinton, John McCain | 17 Comments
Last week, economist Paul Krugman made it very clear that he finds John McCain’s gas tax holiday proposal potentially harmful. Krugman also made very clear that he doesn’t like Hillary Clinton’s counter-proposal but considers it harmless.
That said, Krugman reportedly heard about (but has not seen) a negative Obama ad that falsely uses Krugman’s criticism of […]
By D. Cupples on May 6, 2008 in Education, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Maya Angelou, Race, Race Card, Women and Children | 19 Comments
Most Americans who watch Oprah know of Dr. Maya Angelou as Oprah’s mentor, but Dr. Angelou earned acclaim years ago through her civil-rights leadership, poems and books. Dr. Angelou is a national treasure, as Bill Clinton acknowledged when he invited her to recite a poem during his 1993 inauguration.
While some Obama supporters […]
By D. Cupples on May 4, 2008 in Barack Obama, Gas Prices, Hillary Clinton, John McCain | 100 Comments
Sen. Barack Obama is chastising Hillary Clinton and John McCain for supporting a gas-tax holiday. McCain’s proposal is a straight lifting of the tax. Hillary’s proposal would include a windfall-profits tax on oil companies, meaning that oil companies would in theory pay for the gas-tax holiday. Of course, oil companies could just raise prices to […]
By D. Cupples on May 3, 2008 in ABC News, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Indiana, Media, Media Bias, Mickey Kantor, Obamedia, The War Room | 79 Comments
[Susan’s Note: SluggoJD is doing more sleuthing, and we’ll be posting his findings and insights later.]
Yesterday, a YouTube video spread throughout the blogosphere and media like mildew in a lazy bachelor’s shower stall. The clip’s audio is terribly unclear, but the editor inserted subtitles to give the false impression that Mickey Kantor, a former Bill […]
By D. Cupples on May 3, 2008 in Barack Obama, Gas Prices, Hillary Clinton, John McCain | 54 Comments
Today, I bought gas in North Florida: $3.79 a gallon for regular, up about 83 cents since early February. Friday, Exxon Mobil reported quarterly profits of $10.9 billion. Last quarter, Exxon listed the highest quarterly profits in U.S. corporate history ($11.66 billion), as well as record-high annual profits of $40.66 billion in 2007.
Exxon’s share […]
By D. Cupples on Apr 27, 2008 in ABC News, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Lobbyists | 74 Comments
Some bloggers are upset with Barack Obama for giving conflicting responses about the flag-pin non-issue (Little Green Footballs via Memeorandum). Aside from admiring Nancy Pelosi’s pearls, I don’t care about politicians’ jewelry.
I do care about mainstream media’s repeated failure to cover the more substantive misleading statements that Sen. Obama has made: chiefly, those about where […]
By D. Cupples on Apr 21, 2008 in Civil Rights, Commander in Chief, Economy, Employment, Flag officers, Foreign Policy, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, John McCain, Soldiers/Veterans | 105 Comments
Pennsylvania’s primary is tomorrow, and TV ads are reportedly running round the clock, aimed at swaying undecided voters. Unfortunately, many campaign ads are not truly informative.
This morning, I thought again about why I support Hillary — reasons beyond the intelligence, warmth and wit that would make her a great Happy Hour partner. I […]
By D. Cupples on Apr 19, 2008 in Barack Obama, DNC, Democrats, Donna Brazile, Florida, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Michigan | 57 Comments
In early March, I predicted that party leaders’ attempts to sway the Democratic presidential primaries would create a new wave of Independents. Since then, I’ve seen hundreds of comments from democrats expressing intent to register as Independents. Perfectly understandable.
For starters, the DNC’s disenfranchisement of Michigan and Florida (the fourth largest state) was neither forgivable nor […]
By D. Cupples on Apr 18, 2008 in ABC News, Barack Obama, Big Oil, Hillary Clinton, Lobbyists, PACs | 16 Comments
Originally posted at the Buck Naked Politics blog.
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During Tuesday’s Clinton-Obama debate, the candidates were restrained but took a few jabs at each other. They made some policy statements, and each said that the other could beat John McCain. Blah, blah, blah. That’s what I figured I’d blog about.
As Barack Obama delivered the final words of […]
