By Deb Cupples on May 26, 2008 in Current Affairs | 60 Comments
Children do it often. When they get caught misbehaving, they tend to point fingers in every direction except toward the mirror. When adults engage in such behavior, it inspires questions about their rationality and character.
As adults, we can all agree that any negative statement by any Democratic candidate against another Dem candidate during a […]
By Deb Cupples on May 25, 2008 in Barack Obama, Chicago politics, Exelon, Lobbyists | 158 Comments
Barack Obama claimed he didn’t take oil-connected money, but he did (LA Times). He claimed he didn’t take lobbyist-connected money, but he did (USA Today , LA Times, SourceWatch and The Hill). He claimed he didn’t take corporate-connected cash, but he took more drug-company-connected cash than Hillary or McCain did (Newhouse News).
Both at No Quarter […]
By Deb Cupples on May 23, 2008 in Current Affairs | 181 Comments
Today, Rasmussen reports the following polling results regarding Pennsylvania’s presidential election in November 2008:.
Clinton
50%
….
Obama
45%
McCain
39%
McCain
43%
Apparently, Hillary is doing far better against John McCain in Pennsylvania than Barack Obama is. Given that the margin of error is 4%, Obama and McCain are statistically tied.
Oddly, that’s not what Rasmussen’s headline indicates. The relevant part of the headline […]
By Deb Cupples on May 23, 2008 in Current Affairs, DNC, Delegates, Democracy, Democrats, Disenfranchisement, Florida, Howard Dean, Talking Points Memo, Voter Enfranchisement | 101 Comments
Yesterday, TPM’s Josh Marshall or the “person who kidnapped Josh” (phrase from Lambert at Corrente) complains:
“…Then we have a speech like Sen. Clinton’s yesterday in Florida in which she compared the controversy over seating the Florida and Michigan delegates to the Florida recount debacle and many of the great voting and civil rights battles of […]
By Deb Cupples on May 21, 2008 in Current Affairs | 116 Comments
Just after Hillary Clinton beat Barack Obama last night in Kentucky’s primary (65% - 30%), the Obama campaign sent out an email signed by Obama himself. The relevant text is this:
"[I]t’s clear that tonight we have reached a major milestone on this journey.
"We have won an absolute majority of all the delegates chosen by the […]
By Deb Cupples on May 18, 2008 in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Media, Media Bias, Obamedia | 247 Comments
This from PEW Research Center:
"[T]he public is sending a strong message to journalists and pundits: It is too early to declare, as some already have, that the race is over.
"Fully 72% of the public - including comparable percentages of Democrats, Republicans and independents - say that journalists should not be anointing Obama as the Democratic […]
By Deb 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 Deb 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 Deb Cupples on May 6, 2008 in Education, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Maya Angelou, Race, Race Card, Women and Children | 20 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 Deb 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 […]
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