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John Edwards is an idiot.
While I am not the slightest bit shocked that yet another politician has been found to have had an extramarital affair, I am shocked at how stupid these guys are. Do they really think no one is going to find out? Is it really worth jeopardizing a career?
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I wrote here about the energy issue and how the corporate media seems to leave key facts out of their coverage- like the fact that we likely won’t see a drop of oil until approx. 2020 and thus it will have no immediate impact on oil and gas prices. The media leaves that little [...]

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Please God, no.
Rumors that Hardball’s Chris Mathews may one day run for political office, have been swirling around for about 2 years. The latest buzz is that he may challenge moderate Republican Senator Arlen Specter of PA in 2010.
Chris Mathews’ ego is already big enough as it is- if he were to become a [...]

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McCain is doing really well with the whole “we’re going to run an honorable camaign” thing, isn’t he?
I guess if by honorable he meant putting out ads with Obama next to the President of Iran and Cuba, pill-popping young female celebrities and Moses in addition to going the sad, tired route of ‘my [...]

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CNN asks the largely irrelevant question of whether the electorate will punish members of Congress for not coming up with a comprehensive energy plan in the last five minutes of their session- hey, earth to CNN and the rest in the corporate media- what about the last 7 1/2 years of the Bush administration and [...]

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CNN political analyst, David Gergen, has written a piece for CNN which discusses why Barack Obama may want to reconsider choosing Hillary as his running mate. Of course, for those of us who want to pull the lever for the ‘dream ticket’ Gergen’s words are music to our ears. But more telling than [...]

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…has gone the way of the Dodo Bird and the Straight Talk Express and is moving quickly towards dumpster-diving.
A new web ad has appeared from the McCain camp which features Obama as ‘The One’ and uses the image of Moses. McCain is starting to remind me of a jealous kid who has tried going [...]

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Judge Bates shot down the White House argument that it’s advisers and staff are totally immune from Congressional oversight. In other words, they cannot simply ignore subpoenas from Congress and I think the implications of allowing them to do so was the underlying reason behind the court’s decision- that, and the fact that there [...]

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