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Even if Sarah Palin’s mother-in-law is not sure she’d vote for the McCain/Palin ticket, it’s pretty harsh to say that publicly.
It will be interesting to see the reaction to Palin’s selection as time goes on- the media has been abuzz since the announcement, and rightly so, but I wonder how much digging and vetting the [...]

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Apparently, John McCain was a POW in Vietnam.
If you didn’t know that, quick, check your pulse because you may be dead.
But seriously, is there anyone who doesn’t respect McCain’s service to this country, including his time as a POW? I’m a liberal Democrat but I have the utmost respect for Senator McCain’s [...]

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Hillary will reportedly be releasing her pledged delegates to Barack Obama during the convention and the website, No Quarter, illustrated a rare show of common sense when it applauded her for doing so.
Of course, the fact that Larry Johnson and friends have conducted themselves with anything but class and dignity, unlike Hillary, is [...]

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So it’s Biden as VP candidate- no big surprise there. How boring.
I had to finally turn off the news because I am in danger of over-dosing on egotistical media elites repeating the same one news story over and over again. The media have absolutely no new information since the Biden [...]

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Getting sick of this speculation yet? I am.
More and more of the media focus is on Joe Biden. Whaddya think? Good, bad, indifferent?

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More and more it is beginning to look like the Democratic convention is going to be less a show of unity and strength than a show of anger, frustration with a possible hostile take-over thrown in. Perhaps that’s a tad too negative but it’s still early in the morning and instead of sipping coffee [...]

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Over on Heartfeldt, Gloria Feldt has a great post about John Edwards affair and the willingness of not just Edwards, but many men in power, to risk everything for a roll in the sack. Most importantly, she analyzes our reaction to these scandals in light of the fact that in the year 2008, sex [...]

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I’m with Firedoglake on this one- Peggy Noonan seems to be losing it. Or she just needs a new editor. Every column has that “oh-I-long-for-good-’ole-days” quality to it, which is nice once in a while, except that after a while of repeating it in one form or another over and over again, it [...]

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Don’t stoop to this level.
Let McCain run his silly celebrity ads and let the Democrats stick to the issues. I know it must be tempting for the Obama camp to get down in the dirt and fight with McCain’s people but at the end of the day, the McCain camp might end [...]

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What should the U.S. do if Russia refuses to withdraw it’s troops from Georgia?
It seems to me that after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has quietly become the 800lb gorilla in the middle of the room. Whether it’s their missing nukes turning up in the hands of islamic fundamentalists, clamping down on [...]

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