The hits keep coming: Former Secretary of State Colin Powell will endorse Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention, Weekly Standard Publisher Bill Kristol told FOX News exclusively on Thursday. “He may well give a speech at the Democratic convention explaining his endorsement of Obama,” Kristol said, citing inside sources. “For whatever reason I think …
Election 2008
Shorter Red State
Dear Pastor Warren, We know you promised to rise above partisanship and avoid “gotcha” questions when you host Obama and McCain at Saddleback Valley Community Church, but you have no idea how god damned desperate we are this year. Can you please act like a partisan hack AND REPEATEDLY STATE THAT OBAMA WANTS TO KILL …
Next Talking Point, McSame
Friedman tells McCain to suck on this: John McCain recently tried to underscore his seriousness about pushing through a new energy policy, with a strong focus on more drilling for oil, by telling a motorcycle convention that Congress needed to come back from vacation immediately and do something about America’s energy crisis. “Tell them to …
Can We Just Disappear Him?
Yay, team: New York Magazine has done a special issue this week on race and the US election. There’s lot of good stuff in the package but this line from John Heilemann’s cover story stood out to me: “In October, Obama’s former pastor, Wright, will publish a new book and hit the road to promote …
OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE FOUND
Via Unqualified Offerings: If someone knows who is responsible for that, let me know so I can toss ’em a link and the appropriate credit. *** Update *** Jesse Taylor is responsible.
All It Takes Is A Little Scrutiny and A Little Prodding And The Press Will Figure It Out
Josh Marshall, yesterday: In a sense the revelations of Mark Penn’s ‘xenophobia’ memos is old news, a post-mortem on a campaign that was all-consuming three months ago and now part of history. But seeing the memos beyond the message is instructive, highly instructive for another reason. During the campaign there was a lot of clucking …
More Bad News For Obama
This is ought to concern Obama supporters: According to a source in the Obama campaign, former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach — a Republican — will be endorsing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama this morning. Leach, as you may recall, lost his bid for re-election in 2006 after three decades representing portions of eastern Iowa in …