Barack Obama pronounces “Pakistan” correctly, with a soft “a,” just like a lot of people who know what they’re talking about, including Gen. David Petraeus. Apparently, having completely run out of compelling policy arguments to make, some high-profile conservatives have decided to make this their latest campaign hobbyhorse.
The National Review’s Mark Stein, for example, said [...]

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Article courtesy of the Huffington post.
Don’t let them tell you this economic meltdown is a complicated mess. It’s not. Our national financial crisis is readily understood by anyone who has seen greed and hypocrisy. But we are now witnessing them on a profound, monumental scale.
Conservative Republicans always want the government to stay out of business [...]

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Reposted from The Daily Dish by Andrew Sullivan.
I checked the transcript this morning and the biggest bombshell in this campaign so far, in my opinion, is the following section of Bush’s speech:
John McCain’s life is a story of service above self. Forty years ago, in an enemy prison camp, Lieutenant Commander McCain was offered release [...]

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Article courtesy of DailyKOS.

There’s just 84 days until the election, but more and more, John McCain’s campaign is doing everything they can to shield their candidate from the press. Apparently fed up with foreign policy blunder, after blunder, after blunder, and mixed messages on exactly who speaks for John McCain, along with his habit of [...]

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In a series of public events today, John McCain has ramped up his disingenuous attack on the impact proper tire inflation can have in saving energy. At a rally in South Dakota, a hyper McCain yelled to the crowd: “My opponent doesn’t want to drill. He doesn’t want nuclear power. He wants you to inflate [...]

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A new book by Pullitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind claims that, after the Iraq war began, the White House ordered the CIA to forge a backdated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein, in an attempt to tie Hussein to the 9/11 attacks. Here’s what Suskind reports:
– Saddam Hussein’s intelligence chief, [...]

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Best ad of the campaign, ladies and gents.

“Every time you fill your tank, the oil companies fill their pockets. Now Big Oil’s filling John McCain’s campaign with 2 million dollars in contributions. Because instead of taxing their windfall profits to help drivers, McCain wants to give them another 4 billion in tax breaks. After one [...]

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Having watched the Obama campaign for the last six weeks, I can tell you two things for certain about this election:
First, Issue #1 for the Obama campaign is the economy. Duh.
Second, Issue #1 for the majority of the electorate is also the economy. Duh.
Why then does the McCain camp seem so intent on dodging the [...]

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When you think about the biggest skunk in the Grand Ole Party, does Karl Rove’s eau de turdblossom spring to mind? It should:

We have recently learned that Rove has signed a mid-six figure consulting deal with billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson to oversee the activities of the right-wing shadow group Freedom’s Watch. With the National [...]

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