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[edit] debate dilemma for McCain - stay negative - San Francisco Chronicle
6 October 2008, by
| <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/5i-0&fd=A&url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/3135748/US-Election-How-Barack-Obama-and-John-McCain-have-attacked-each-other.html&cid=1254951509&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNFvEWOqkoOhh2UAsYloUiXq4ZQ3mg"><img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=W0wRhJj4UUYJ&imgurl=www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01003/obama-460b_1003893c.jpg width=80 height=50 alt="" border=1> Telegraph.co.uk</a> | <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/5-0&fd=A&url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi%3Ff%3D/c/a/2008/10/06/MNIN13C9O9.DTL&cid=1254951509&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNHe0SpkbpXmrCOTIRkYbsR9oyHXmg">debate dilemma for McCain - stay negative</a> San Francisco Chronicle, USA - <nobr>2 hours ago</nobr> She said that the best example of a grand slam in such a presidential forum was the performance of a young Arkansas governor named Bill Clinton against ... <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/5-1&fd=A&url=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D8VwksqdQ4N0&cid=1254951509&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNHBNAot5Eb7QcP0neH9WtgAtjh7nQ">Video: Obama Says McCain 'running Out of Time'</a> <nobr>AssociatedPress</nobr> <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/5-2&fd=A&url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/06/rollins.mccain/&cid=1254951509&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNG-hdMmDAi0o2UoJiTXo2DUylNnOQ">Commentary: Time for John McCain to turn up the heat</a> <nobr>CNN</nobr> <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/5-3&fd=A&url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/07/uselections2008.johnmccain&cid=1254951509&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNHclMTyxRZKC-bpJB7Bv-Rnsg_88A">Candidates dig up the dirt before TV debate</a> <nobr>guardian.co.uk</nobr> <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/5-4&fd=A&url=http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/10/06/the-filter-oct-6-2008.aspx&cid=1254951509&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNHuGs0SP-PCEdAVqO_BGx5aNBDLCQ"><nobr>Newsweek</nobr></a> - <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/5-5&fd=A&url=http://www.newshounds.us/2008/10/06/even_foxnewscom_bios_are_unfair_unbalanced.php&cid=1254951509&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNHkzN1cMBYkCrHDmtwgO3uViA8jJw"><nobr>News Hounds</nobr></a> <a><nobr>all 2,046 news articles</nobr></a> |
[edit] How town-hall debates can go very wrong for a candidate. - Slate
6 October 2008, by
<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/3-0&fd=A&url=http://www.slate.com/id/2201439/&cid=1254927675&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNGGFmsJDac_FH3_91UU1_-dKIUeKQ">How town-hall debates can go very wrong for a candidate.</a> Slate - <nobr>2 hours ago</nobr> Bush was the candidate running the character-based campaign, and he had answered a previous questioner by making the case for why Bill Clinton's character ... |
[edit] Barack is Not a Tiger - Huffington Post
6 October 2008, by
| <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/6i-0&fd=A&url=http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-10-06-voa55.cfm&cid=1254438696&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNGz8sM8pt13v1AJt5615aKTWYlyxA"><img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=54TKPAphVi4J&imgurl=www.voanews.com/english/images/AP_US_North_Carolina_Obama_06oct08_210.jpg width=80 height=78 alt="" border=1> Voice of America</a> | <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/6-0&fd=A&url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-rowan/barack-is-not-a-tiger_b_132400.html&cid=1254438696&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNEmQ2C8Z3xUy29pvZYRUhZP5SbF5Q">Barack is Not a Tiger</a> Huffington Post, NY - <nobr>4 hours ago</nobr> This is the real tragedy of Clinton for the Democrats: he had the solution for election and governance which was abandoned because of a sex scandal. ... <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/6-1&fd=A&url=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Drop2tViyYS4&cid=1254438696&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNHO6ZVhaBgKz3eUJHrUs0Q2qCr-9Q">Video: From Policy To Personality</a> <nobr>CBS</nobr> <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/6-2&fd=A&url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/1567b5ea-93de-11dd-b277-0000779fd18c.html&cid=1254438696&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNH5O9YOgJzAv_pmenikJ-Ex7Nyfdw">Obama lead forces McCain on to attack</a> <nobr>Financial Times</nobr> <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/6-3&fd=A&url=http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/10/06/will-mccains-anti-obama-strategy-work.aspx&cid=1254438696&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNH4unKDMG9ar7OZJmqtXjfgoHoP8A">Will McCain's New Anti-Obama Strategy Work?</a> <nobr>Newsweek</nobr> <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/6-4&fd=A&url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/715637.html&cid=1254438696&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNFuy14eqBk6biAsPJOPf97u73mACg"><nobr>The Miami Herald</nobr></a> - <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/6-5&fd=A&url=http://www.examiner.ie/irishexaminer/pages/story.aspx-qqqg%3Dsport-qqqm%3Dsport-qqqa%3Dsport-qqqid%3D74020-qqqx%3D1.asp&cid=1254438696&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNF603Zc5Rl26VgsMkf3fk4cZizMJQ"><nobr>IrishExaminer.com</nobr></a> <a><nobr>all 3,681 news articles</nobr></a> |
[edit] New Topic: Wow, looks like Palin just dusted off Rev. Wright ...
6 October 2008, by unknown At least with the Clinton scandals and they accused him of being with some girl, we all know Clinton wasnt just in the room watching lol. THAT'S a scandal that sticks ;). But as long as they can prove Obama goes golfing with these guys ...
[edit] McCain? Obama? Pah! Ohio wants Hillary Clinton - Kansas City Star
6 October 2008, by
| <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/4i-0&fd=A&url=http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/Politics/story%3Fid%3D5963651%26page%3D1&cid=1254948130&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNGmqazrP2NjH580z4JmraA54OFFfw"><img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=AbRkqpFS3roJ&imgurl=a.abcnews.com/images/PollingUnit/candidates_ohio_081006_mn.jpg width=80 height=60 alt="" border=1> ABC News</a> | <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/4-0&fd=A&url=http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/%3Fq%3Dnode/14841&cid=1254948130&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNEFq6eU8RViYGIx1SchN53i6Fn3sQ">McCain? Obama? Pah! Ohio wants Hillary Clinton</a> Kansas City Star, MO - <nobr>9 hours ago</nobr> Ohio lost hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs while Bush has been in office, and a GOP state corruption scandal allowed Democrats to retake top ... <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/4-1&fd=A&url=http://www.ohio.com/news/ap%3FarticleID%3D886349%26c%3Dy&cid=1254948130&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNGLR5SxUxv7cBN_S57mLOEasLyi6w">Candidates have burdens to shed as they court Ohio</a> <nobr>Akron Beacon Journal</nobr> <a><nobr>all 429 news articles</nobr></a> |
[edit] Freedom Watch Founder Larry Klayman to Wave 'Smoking Gun' October ... - Earthtimes (press release)
6 October 2008, by
<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/9-0&fd=A&url=http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/freedom-watch-founder-larry-klayman,568442.shtml&cid=1254847841&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNFhaVxYXdQMc866UjY-p4iPMoqpUA">Freedom Watch Founder Larry Klayman to Wave 'Smoking Gun' October ...</a> Earthtimes (press release), UK - <nobr>9 hours ago</nobr> ... celebrated lawsuit against the Clinton Administration during the height of scandals involving then President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton . ... |
[edit] Come Nov. 5th, All Will Be Forgiven - CBS News
6 October 2008, by
<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=A&url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/06/opinion/main4503745.shtml&cid=1254934578&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNHSxhPPGRx6OqRccnGJQOy93yF0lA">Come Nov. 5th, All Will Be Forgiven</a> CBS News, NY - <nobr>9 hours ago</nobr> Bush's successor, Bill Clinton, was deemed unfit for polite Washington society repeatedly during his two terms. And if the Monica Lewinsky scandal was too ... |
[edit] Government Is Not the Problem - Commonweal
6 October 2008, by
<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/2-0&fd=A&url=http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D2329&cid=1254951624&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNGR-MGx9iTvZfAeZNkJcXR3VkIgRA">Government Is Not the Problem</a> Commonweal, NY - <nobr>9 hours ago</nobr> President Bill Clinton successfully raised taxes on better-off Americans in 1993, but with the express purpose of reducing the federal deficit, ... |
[edit] They Gave Your Mortgage to a Less Qualified Minority
6 October 2008, by Karin Under Clinton, the entire federal government put massive pressure on banks to grant more mortgages to the poor and minorities. Clinton’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Andrew Cuomo, investigated Fannie Mae for racial ...
[edit] Sarah Palin Distorts Madeline Albright’s Words
6 October 2008, by Sarah Palin Scandals “There’sa place in Hell reserved for women who don’t support other women,” the Republican Vice Presidential nominee said, claiming she was quoting former Bill Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. The statement [...]
[edit] Web site thrives as conservative voice in West Palm - Palm Beach Post
6 October 2008, by
<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/1-0&fd=A&url=http://www.palmbeachpost.com/business/content/business/epaper/2008/10/05/a1a_newsmax_1006.html&cid=0&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNHZ3u-JcPjSDnEKnySv5xok5NaqJw">Web site thrives as conservative voice in West Palm</a> Palm Beach Post, United States - <nobr>Oct 5, 2008</nobr> In 1998, after seeing how much online opinion, speculation and conservative frenzy was stoked by the biggest of Clinton scandals — the Monica Lewinsky ... |
[edit] Obama Calls Bill Clinton as "Predatory Husband" and Hillary as a ...
6 October 2008, by Mike McConnell To see the shocking Scandal Index of the Clinton years, as compiled by the liberal Progressive Review ( http://prorev.com ) is to appreciate the Clinton's 24/7/365 belief that any progress in their leftist domestic and foreign affairs ...
[edit] House Of Lies: How a Democratic Congress Failed To Protect Our Economy
5 October 2008, by
[edit] Bit’s Greatest Hits: 02-19-01-Bill Clinton’s Real Legacy
5 October 2008, by The supposedly peace loving liberals among us must feel blind sided as regards the middle east these days, as they are a great many things. Because of Bill Clinton’s bumbling in the middle east, we’re now closer to war than we have been in years. Ah, yes… middle east peace. Never have so many westerners given so much for so little. So great is the need to believe that sacrifice and bloodshed will not be necessary; and that peace and prosperity are the universal goals of mankind, that they we
[edit] Bit’s Greatest Hits: 02-19-01-Bill Clinton’s Real Legacy
5 October 2008, by Bithead Israelis seem to be waking up from the over-long self delusion… one that’s been going on since President Clinton decided he wanted to try and create a legacy for himself, other than Monica, and a string of dead bodies and other scandals ...
[edit] His Emptiness
5 October 2008, by B-Daddy After all the trauma she's been through, the sordid Clinton scandals, 2000 election debacle, 9/11, the government's clumsy domestic response and now the S&L debacle, (did I really say that? I was thinking the current Fannie Mae and ...
[edit] Ideas & Trends Laugh, or the World Laughs at You - New York Times
5 October 2008, by
| <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/7i-0&fd=A&url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/bpalin-spoofsb/2008/10/02/1222651251064.html&cid=1254360039&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNGhqCzfzi7hpy5BPMlUx1R09beajg"><img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=QsrJvrPCHu4J&imgurl=www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2008/10/02/470sarahpalinspoofs.jpg width=75 height=80 alt="" border=1> Sydney Morning Herald</a> | <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/7-0&fd=A&url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/weekinreview/05leibovich.html%3Fem&cid=1254360039&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNE51gEWtUd_pk4UUW9XhFUmBK0m8w">Ideas & Trends Laugh, or the World Laughs at You</a> New York Times, United States - <nobr>Oct 4, 2008</nobr> Politicians at the center of sex scandals enter a particularly unforgiving punch-line purgatory. (You think Mr. Stewart or Conan O’Brien are ever going to ... <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/7-1&fd=A&url=http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/matthew-norman/matthew-norman-once-youre-a-joke-youre-doomed-949657.html&cid=1254360039&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNG-QYaAjCL_AH51rfKe639SLV3Gtw">Matthew Norman: Once you're a joke, you're doomed</a> <nobr>Independent</nobr> <a><nobr>all 504 news articles</nobr></a> |
[edit] AIG subsidiary parties in style in OC, two weeks after bailout
4 October 2008, by Less than two weeks after Uncle Sam gave American International Group (AIG) an $85 billion loan - staving off financial collapse - execs from one of its insurance subsidiaries, AIG American General, gathered for a conference at the uber-swank St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort, billed as “California’s only Mobil Travel Guide Five-Star Resort,” where ocean-view rooms start at $565 a night and “world class luxury” is the rule. On Friday, before the presidential debate got under way, caterers for the
[edit] Hillary Rodham Clinton
4 October 2008, by kallisue The Lewinsky affair has never been mentioned directly by Clinton’s opponents, though some have indirectly made reference to the hyper-partisanship and political scandals of his two terms in office. Late last year Obama argued it would ...
[edit] Lawrence Summers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2 October 2008, by trailblazer82
[edit] Fannie, Freddie Subsidized Obama Campaign - NewsMax.com
1 October 2008, by
| <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/8i-0&fd=A&url=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1131ap_meltdown_ads.html&cid=1252570270&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNFU8lq6l7FXh2r7iC7--6SgpSlTkA"><img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=3J0zIgpYh2QJ&imgurl=seattlepi.nwsource.com/dayart/aponline/55496.66McCain-2008.sff.jpg width=80 height=43 alt="" border=1> Seattle Post Intelligencer</a> | <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/8-0&fd=A&url=http://www.newsmax.com/politics/fannie_freddie_obama/2008/10/01/136184.html&cid=1252570270&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNHbKAuTYKbuZ6L8r5uGAKpYwSM7uw">Fannie, Freddie Subsidized Obama Campaign</a> NewsMax.com, FL - <nobr>Oct 1, 2008</nobr> Take, for example, People's Republic of China and the Democratic National Committee fundraising scandal of the 1990s: President Clinton and the Democrats ... <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/8-1&fd=A&url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D/20081003/OPINION03/810030326/1058&cid=1252570270&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNF-cCGXDs8eLAWbggIL8AVNCcMwPA">Irv Heard: We need leaders who can say no to freeloaders</a> <nobr>Shreveport Times</nobr> <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/8-2&fd=A&url=http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/northwestlaw/archives/150142.asp%3Ffrom%3Dblog_last3&cid=1252570270&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNHumS4EZdaXskARn6471pGjz4YO3Q">McCain's Feeble Effort to Look Like he Supports Governmental ...</a> <nobr>seattlepi.com Buzzworthy</nobr> <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/8-3&fd=A&url=http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2008/10/01/money/doc48e115578a3b0947426520.txt&cid=1252570270&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNFYOsZRJJMfE1Ao6EborAdWvWUWGw">Stocks surge higher, but credit worries persist</a> <nobr>Bloomington Pantagraph</nobr> <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/8-4&fd=A&url=http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp%3FarticleId%3D281474977465289&cid=1252570270&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNEPaqETGWGJUFq-ifxqO7KA-52YRQ"><nobr>Gather.com</nobr></a> - <a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/8-5&fd=A&url=http://www2.hernandotoday.com/content/2008/sep/30/trust-democrats-economy/&cid=1252570270&ei=QMbqSKHLCJnK8ATsyqn6CA&usg=AFQjCNFJavNoWHhLtuGp4Wz_cMU8zE_G7A"><nobr>Tampa Tribune</nobr></a> <a><nobr>all 500 news articles</nobr></a> |
[edit] Why Did They Try to Ban This Video? Burning Down the House
1 October 2008, by
[edit] Book Review: Failures of the President: From the Whisky Rebellion ...
30 September 2008, by noreply@blogger.com (Jennie W) In their introduction, they also made the case why they left out the Clinton scandal. The authors argue that the Clinton scandals, while embarrassing, were not damaging to the United States. I would argue that they should have been left ...
[edit] McCain Won: Watching The Debate in Deep Blue Country
27 September 2008, by By A.M. Mora y Leon AMERICAN THINKER - I saw something interesting a very blue beachfront LA community last night. I signed up for a debate-watching party with a Republican household — if anything just to see what kind of Republicans would show up to such an event out in bluest Los Angeles. There were about 25 people there and it was really cordial. There were some of the usual suspects you might expect from the region — military men, East Asians and Boeing engineers, for example. But the most
[edit] Palin Accepted Over $25,000 In Gifts
26 September 2008, by Sarah Palin lied again. The Washington Post reports she accepted gifts: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has made a crackdown on gift-giving to state officials a centerpiece of her ethics reform agenda, has accepted gifts valued at $25,367 from industry executives, municipalities and a cultural center whose board includes officials from some of the largest mining interests in the state, a review of state records shows. The 41 gifts Palin accepted during her 20 months as governor include honorific
[edit] Palin Accepted Over $25,000 In Gifts
26 September 2008, by Sarah Palin lied again. The Washington Post reports she accepted gifts: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has made a crackdown on gift-giving to state officials a centerpiece of her ethics reform agenda, has accepted gifts valued at $25,367 from industry executives, municipalities and a cultural center whose board includes officials from some of the largest mining interests in the state, a review of state records shows. The 41 gifts Palin accepted during her 20 months as governor include honorific
[edit] Palin Accepted Over $25,000 In Gifts
26 September 2008, by Sarah Palin lied again. The Washington Post reports she accepted gifts: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has made a crackdown on gift-giving to state officials a centerpiece of her ethics reform agenda, has accepted gifts valued at $25,367 from industry executives, municipalities and a cultural center whose board includes officials from some of the largest mining interests in the state, a review of state records shows. The 41 gifts Palin accepted during her 20 months as governor include honorific
[edit] Fannie Mae Officials, Former Clinton Cohorts, Benefit From Countrywide Mortgage VIP Program
25 September 2008, by We now know that many in the Clinton Administration received dubious loans from Countrywide Financial. The rates provided for these members of Bill & Hillary Clinton's Administration have been provided 'sweetheart' rates compliments of the president of Countrywide Anthony Mozilo. From the Wall Street Journal: Countrywide Made Home Loans to Gorelick, Mudd One of Countrywide's previously [...]
[edit] How Bill Clinton, Andrew Cuomo & Robert Rubin Made The Subprime Crisis Inevitable
25 September 2008, by The Clinton administration helped create the financial crisis we are experiencing today. The Clinton administration with the usual Democrat players botched the economy beginning in the early 1990's. From IBD: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, even into the early 1990s, weren't the juggernauts they'd later be. While President Carter in 1977 signed the Community Reinvestment Act, which pushed [...]
[edit] Financial Fixes
24 September 2008, by Proposals to fix the financial crisis are popping up like mushrooms in a lawn after a rain and are just as useful. Around here they call them fairy rings, an apt description of some of the ideas I have seen such as those coming from a White House that seems to have fairy dust in its eyes. Several years ago when I said that George W. Bush would go down as the worst President since Herbert Hoover, I did not think that he would do a literal Herbert Hoover and leave us with the worst mess since t
[edit] How the subprime mess started
19 September 2008, by You knew it would end up back with Clinton, didn't you? Since HUD became their regulator in 1992, Fannie and Freddie each year are supposed to buy a portion of "affordable" mortgages made to underserved borrowers. Every four years, HUD reviews the goals to adapt to market changes. In 1995, President Bill Clinton's HUD agreed to let Fannie and Freddie get affordable-housing credit for buying subprime securities that included loans to low-income borrowers. The idea was that subprime lending benef
[edit] Obama Off Base in Criticizing McCain Record
19 September 2008, by The following is an excerpt of an editorial from The Washington Post released today by the Republican National Committee: TO LISTEN to Sen. Barack Obama, Sen. John McCain is a Johnny-come-lately to the cause of regulating financial markets. “He has consistently opposed the sorts of common-sense regulations that might have lessened the current crisis,” Mr. Obama said in New Mexico yesterday. “When I was warning about the danger ahead on Wall Street months ago because of the lack of oversight, S
[edit] Barack Obama’s Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Connection
18 September 2008, by By John Gibson FOX NEWS - Lehman Brothers collapse is traced back to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two big mortgage banks that got a federal bailout a few weeks ago. Freddie and Fannie used huge lobbying budgets and political contributions to keep regulators off their backs. A group called the Center for Responsive Politics keeps track of which politicians get Fannie and Freddie political contributions. The top three U.S. senators getting big Fannie and Freddie political bucks were Democ
[edit] Obama Pummels McCain on Economic Policy
16 September 2008, by by Damozel | Finally. As Big Tent Democrat says, it is a barnburner. Great speech. Great delivery. As close to being like Bill Clinton on the economy as I have seen him. The Barack Obama I saw today will win this election easily. (Talk Left) Some of my favorite bits: Make no mistake: my opponent is running for four more years of policies that will throw the economy further out of balance. His outrage at Wall Street would be more convincing if he wasn't offering them more tax cuts. His ca
[edit] clinton scandals
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[edit] Do the Clintons Really Want Obama to Win?
13 September 2008, by Do the Clintons Really Want Obama to Win? September 13th, 2008 By ROBERT STEIN Amid all this year’s psychodramas about gender, race and age, consider the conflict in the heart and soul of the 42nd President of the United States as he looks back at his past and ahead to his place in history. This week Bill Clinton gave Barack Obama lunch in his Harlem office, a promise to do “whatever I’m asked” in the campaign and a prediction that Obama “will win and win handily” in November. But nothin
[edit] Anne Hathaway’s Ex Strikes A Deal With Prosecutors, Pleads Guilty
10 September 2008, by Raffaello Follieri, best known as Anne Hathaway’s criminal ex-boyfriend, has pled guilty to defrauding investors of millions of dollars. He entered his guilty plea this morning in federal court as “part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors to reduce his sentence and avoid trial.” ABC News reports that Follieri could have spent up to nine years [...]
[edit] Why the Smears Won't Work
6 September 2008, by Another day another scandal. Actually they are coming faster than that. The latest Sarah Palin non-scandal has to do with a supposed affair she had with her husband's business partner and his efforts to have his divorce records sealed, but it has already been debunked (via Hot Air):Nutcase bloggers ...
[edit] Educating the GOP on Community Organizers
4 September 2008, by This is an extremely powerful peace. It is a must read. Educating the GOP: A Photo History of Community Organizers From the Daily Kos: by BonnieSchlitz Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 10:13:06 AM PDT After watching the malicious speeches last night mocking Senator Obama, and by proxy, cynically attacking all of us who support our local communities, I thought it would be prudent to educate the Republican Party on the historical role of community organizers. For a quick reminder, let’s recap Giuliani’s snar
[edit] Ten Post Round-Up: Superwoman Edition
4 September 2008, by By the time you read this post you will either have recovered from the Palin Speech Drinking Game or had enough Pepto to settle your tummy. Of course, if you are like me, you probably opted for a refreshing rerun of CSI. For those of you who prefer your Republican/Conservative news in bite-size portions, today’s Ten Post Round-Up will not disappoint. But, before you proceed, you might want to indulge in a little musical interlude and remember that you are (or may very likely know) a Superwom
[edit] Ten Post Round-Up: Superwoman Edition
4 September 2008, by By the time you read this post you will either have recovered from the Palin Speech Drinking Game or had enough Pepto to settle your tummy. Of course, if you are like me, you probably opted for a refreshing rerun of CSI. For those of you who prefer your Republican/Conservative news in bite-size portions, today’s Ten Post Round-Up will not disappoint. But, before you proceed, you might want to indulge in a little musical interlude and remember that you are (or may very likely know) a Superwom
[edit] 9/1: All About Sarah
1 September 2008, by As we noted on Friday, conservative bloggers are ecstatic about John McCain's decision to choose AK Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. For the first time, many conservative bloggers appear genuinely excited about electing McCain (as opposed to merely wanting to keep Barack Obama out of the White ...
[edit] Palin = Huckabee
29 August 2008, by Human beings like to analogize. So I’ve realized that Sarah Palin is also a female Mike Huckabee. A folksy, culturally right-wing governor who will fire up the base. And one of my friends on Facebook said that Sarah Palin is to Hillary Clinton as Clarence Thomas is to Thurgood Marshall. This ...
[edit] Sarbanes-Oxley Upheld By Court as Constitutional
23 August 2008, by An appeals court yesterday upheld the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, dismissing arguments that the government's attempt to protect investors from repeats of the scandals at Enron and WorldCom gave federal overseers unchecked power.
[edit] The Clinton Scandals
12 August 2008, by Kim Moore We have drawn together all the articles we have written, or will write, on the Clinton scandals. Surely, no other subject has a greater importance in the life of America than to properly understand President Bill Clinton, and Hillary. ...
[edit] Edwards Scandal Raises Tough Questions for Obama
11 August 2008, by Through good luck or good sense, Democrats have managed to nominate their only top tier 2008 candidate who won&##x92;t bring the specter of a sex scandal (either their own or their spouse&##x92;s) into The White House. Over the past eight years, former President Bill Clinton&##x92;s ...
[edit] So Always Look For The Union Scumbags
29 July 2008, by Well, if it's an election year, then it's time to once again reflect on the state of organized labor as it once again assumes the role of John to the Democratic whores. They wave their money and wring all sorts of empty promises and proclamations of true love, of the sheer virility and irresistibility ...
[edit] A Brief Field Guide To Raffaello Follieri, Dumped Swindler (Celebrity Science)
17 June 2008, by Just last week we asked when button-cute actress Anne Hathaway would break up with her troublesome, scandal-plagued boyfriend of four years, Raffaello Follieri. She's reportedly "devastated," about it but hey, about time. He was a pretty sleazy character. After the jump, a field guide to the dumped ...
[edit] What undid Hillary Clinton - She campaigned as the ultimate Washington insider just when Democrats were clamoring for an...
16 June 2008, by A Washington mentality may even explain Hillary Clinton's astoundingly inept approach to the nominating process. The Clinton team seemed to treat the primaries more as a media narrative than a race for delegates. First, in their insider arrogance, Clinton's aides assumed that ...
[edit] QotD
6 June 2008, by (Sorry about the repeat. The QotD posting script's invocation yesterday never completed (so I'll have to go see which sites it never got to when I'm more awake). Since archiving the QotD and putting all-but-the-just-posted-bit of the queue back in place for the next day are the last two steps of the ...
