Archive for May, 2008

Crawford: Obama Has Replaced Clintons As Boss Of Party on The Huffington Post

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Make no mistake about it. The decision rendered today by the Democratic National Committee’s rules panel showed that Barack Obama has displaced Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, as boss of the party.

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Cavuto did not challenge Vets for Freedom’s false claim that Obama has “never met with General

Friday, May 30th, 2008

On the May 29 edition of Fox News’ Your World, host Neil Cavuto left unchallenged a false claim by Vets For Freedom chairman Pete Hegseth that Sen. Barack Obama has "never met with General [David] Petraeus." In fact, as recently as April 8, Obama questioned Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker at a Senate Committee on Foreign Relation…

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Bill Clinton’s enemies list? - Kenneth P. Vogel - Politico.com

Friday, May 30th, 2008

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With Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign on the verge of defeat, Bill Clinton has been placing blame on enemies including a brazenly biased media that tried to suppress blue-collar votes, a deep-pocketed anti-war group that endorsed rival Barack Obama and weak-willed party leaders unable to stand up to either of these nefarious forces.

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How John McCain Went from the GOP’s 4th Choice to Its Nominee - Eyes On Obama

Friday, May 30th, 2008

What many in the media are overlooking is that his success and ultimate coronation as the Republican nominee was not a result of his ability to convince those both within as well as outside his party that he’s the best man for the job. Rather, his rise to the top was born out of a pile-up that took the top-tier out of contention. Whether he’ll be able to parlay that success into the White House is yet to be seen.

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All but conceding Dem primary is over, DNC turns to Obama defense - Politico

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Citing what they call John McCain’s "troubling pattern of flubbing key facts and echoing obviously false statements about his own record," the committee has put out a Top 10 of McCain’s "misstatements and outright deceptions."

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Comic actor Harvey Korman dies at 81 - CNN.com

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

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Harvey Korman, the tall, versatile comedian who won four Emmys for his outrageously funny contributions to "The Carol Burnett Show" and played a conniving politician to hilarious effect in "Blazing Saddles," died Thursday. He was 81.

The guy made me laugh very hard as a kid. He’ll be missed.

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NASA - 100 Explosions on the Moon

Monday, May 26th, 2008

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Not so long ago, anyone claiming to see flashes of light on the Moon would be viewed with deep suspicion by professional astronomers. Such reports were filed under L … for lunatic. Not anymore. Over the past two and a half years, NASA astronomers have observed the Moon flashing at them not just once but one hundred times.

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Sydney Pollack dies of cancer at 73

Monday, May 26th, 2008

An agent for actor and director Sydney Pollack says the Academy Award winner has died. He was 73.

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Is the Secret Service Investigating Liz Trotta and Fox News?

Monday, May 26th, 2008

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FOX News political pundit Liz Trotta jokingly suggested this weekend that someone should assassinate an American presidential candidate. She had first "mistakenly" referred to Obama as "Osama" while discussing theories that Hillary Clinton’s recent comments about the RFK assassination was in fact a suggestion that someone "knock off Osama." When she was corrected and reminded that she meant "Obama," she then said, "Well, both if we could."

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Op-Ed Columnist - All About Eve - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Obama now has the perfect excuse not to pick Hillary as his running mate. She has been too unseemly in her desire to be on the scene if he trips, or gets hit with a devastating story. She may want to take a cue from the Miss America contest: make a graceful, magnanimous exit and wait in the wings. That’s where the runners-up can be found, prettily lurking, in case it turns out the girl with the crown has some naked pictures in her past.

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