Tag: Election 2008

Thursday, November 20, 2008

1. How Obama Got Elected (via).

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

1. YouTube - Obama Is Going To Pay For My Gas And Mortgage!!!. The whole messiah complex surrounding Obama is frightening.

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Friday, October 31, 2008

1. Political Punch: Obama's New Attack on Those Who Don't Want Higher Taxes: ‘Selfishness’ (via):

   "The point is, though, that -- and it’s not just charity, it’s not just that I want to help the middle class and working people who are trying to get in the middle class ... when everybody’s got a little more money at the end of the month – then guess what? Everybody starts spending that money, they decide maybe I can afford a new car, maybe I can afford a computer for my child. They can buy the products and services that businesses are selling and everybody is better off. All boats rise. That’s what happened in the 1990s, that’s what we need to restore.

   Sounds like trickle-down economics to me. Whereas conservatives want that to happen through less government intervention and low taxes, Obama wants that to happen through redistribution of wealth.

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Thursday, October 23, 2008

1. Neal Boortz: To the Undecided Voter (via). To read.

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Saturday, September 13, 2008

Obama's attack ad backfires

Looks like Obama's stupid attack ad on McCain has backfired. Goldberg also links to this McCain interview with the NYT from a few months ago, that, as Goldberg points out, makes McCain sound "awfully web savvy". The rest of it was a good read too.

Heh, Charles links another article (from back in 2000) similarly showing how false Obama's ad was:

In certain ways, McCain was a natural Web candidate. Chairman of the Senate Telecommunications Subcommittee and regarded as the U.S. Senate’s savviest technologist, McCain is an inveterate devotee of email. His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. “She’s a whiz on the keyboard, and I’m so laborious,” McCain admits.

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Thursday, September 11, 2008

1. Lol... Biden: Political Radar: Biden: Hillary a Better Pick Than Me

   "Make no mistake about this," Biden responded. "Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend, she is qualified to be president of the United States of America, she’s easily qualified to be vice president of the United States of America, and quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me. But she’s first rate, I mean that sincerely, she’s first rate, so let’s get that straight."

   We knew this guy would present us with lots of fun quotes.

   Edit: Biden living up to his gaffe-prone reputation - International Herald Tribune.

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

1. Ben Smith's Blog: Obama knocks press on 'made-up controversy' - Politico.com. It was a stupid comment given that Palin and the McCain campain have effectively commandeered all use of the word 'lipstick' for the rest of the election season... but two days of controversy over it is too much.

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Thursday, September 4, 2008

1. Fox News: Obama: Surge Succeeded Beyond ‘Wildest Dreams’ (via):

   The troop surge in Iraq has been more successful than anyone could have imagined, Barack Obama conceded Thursday in his first-ever interview on FOX News’ “The O’Reilly Factor.”
   
   As recently as July, the Democratic presidential candidate declined to rate the surge a success, but said it had helped reduce violence in the country. On Thursday, Obama acknowledged the 2007 increase in U.S. troops has benefited the Iraqi people.
   
   “I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated,” Obama said while refusing to retract his initial opposition to the surge. “I’ve already said it’s succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.”

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Wednesday, September 3, 2008

1. Giuliani on Obama:

   "I would say Barack Obama has never governed a city, never governed a state, never governed an agency, never run a military unit, never run anything," Giuliani said on CBS's "Early Show."

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Tuesday, September 2, 2008

1. Buchanan on Palin:

   Liberals howl that Palin has no experience, no qualifications to be president of the United States. But the lady has more executive experience than McCain, Joe Biden and Obama put together.
   
   None of them has ever started or run a business as Palin did. None of them has run a giant state like Alaska, which is larger than California and Texas put together. And though Alaska is not populous, Gov. Palin has as many constituents as Nancy Pelosi or Biden.

   And her experience as governor of Alaska, dealing with the oil industry and pipeline agreements with Canada, certainly compares favorably with that of Barack Obama, a community organizer who dealt in the mommy issues of food stamps and rent subsidies.

   Quick fact check... Alaska is more populous than Pelosi's district but less populous than Delaware, Biden's state, according to Wikipedia.

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Saturday, August 23, 2008

1. Little Green Footballs - New McCain Ad on Joe Biden. Wow that's priceless.

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