At 7:30PM Wednesday, the Senate will hold roll call votes on six amendments and pieces of legislation. Those items are as follows: Motion to concur on the House message, HR 2095, Rail Safety Dorgan amendment relating to HR 7081, the US-India Nuclear agreement Bingaman amendment relating to HR 7081, the US-India Nuclear agreement Passage of HR 7081, the US-India Nuclear agreement Dodd amendment to HR | Read More »
The class warfare worldview of the Democrat nominee for President was on full display Saturday in North Carolina, when the freshman Senator from Illinois said: But just as important as what we heard from John McCain was what we didn’t hear. The truth is, through 90 minutes of debating, John McCain had a lot to say about me, but he had nothing to say about | Read More »
The class warfare worldview of the Democrat nominee for President was on full display Saturday in North Carolina, when the freshman Senator from Illinois said: But just as important as what we heard from John McCain was what we didn’t hear. The truth is, through 90 minutes of debating, John McCain had a lot to say about me, but he had nothing to say about | Read More »
David Plouffe (rhymes with “bluff”), campaign manager for Barack Obama, sent an email to Obama supporters this evening claiming victory in last night’s debate and asking for further donations from all and sundry. Interestingly enough, the email cited a broad CBS poll and a supposedly narrower and more accurate CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll as evidence of Obama’s “breakthrough” performance that “show[ed] that Barack is offering | Read More »
Joe Biden dropped this little nugget of previously unknown information in a post-debate chat with Fox News’s Chris Wallace Friday evening: Biden: (at 0:18) “The fact of the matter is, the only thing succeeding in Iraq right now is the plan that Barack and I talked about that Petraeus is implementing — giving local control in the very areas with a limited central government.” This | Read More »
When attempting to defend his promise to meet, without precondition, with Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (while simultaneously attempting to deny he ever made such a promise), Barack Obama invoked Henry Kissinger as a supporter of his belief in unconditional diplomacy with enemies, leaders of terrorist states, and genocidal megalomaniacs alike. Senator McCain immediately begged to differ, saying that Kissinger, his friend of 30 years, believes quite | Read More »
In a three minute interview, that was the biggest lie. Wow.
Five Eight times tonight the freshman Democrat Senator from Illinois has responded to questions and McCain answers by saying, “John is right.” Further, he listened to McCain’s exceedingly knowledgeable response on Georgia by saying, in essence, “What he said.” Tonight, Senator Obama has reinforced the simple fact that – if he can shed the arrogance he wears on his sleeve – he is very well | Read More »
Sen. Obama has given McCain several openings so far in the debate; to this point, the Republican nominee has only taken a few of those opportunities to go on the offensive. From Obama’s claim that he warned the administration and the Congress Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, when it was McCain who attempted to actually deal with that mounting crisis through legislation, to Obama’s claim | Read More »
Funny, I thought there was supposed to be an election in between the campaign and the inauguration. Apparently I was mistaken, though; after all, nobody would spend $186,000 on Obama Presidential Coins (seen at right in gold, and also available in silver and platinum) if he wasn’t assured of the White House — right? After all, that would require a monumental level of hubris — | Read More »
Depending on where you sit, this move could be viewed as an act of sheer genius or of absolute political suicide. I tend to lean toward the former, while acknowledging that this play could still go very, very wrong. Here’s why: With this suggestion that the Presidential campaign be put on hold, and the Friday night foreign policy debate be delayed, John McCain is saying | Read More »
The latest New York Times hit job on the McCain campaign was met with the sternest rebuke yet of the segment of America McCain once called his “base.” On a conference call about the latest McCain ad, called “Chicago Machine” and featuring information on Barack Obama’s ties to convicted felon Tony Rezko, William Daley, corrupt State Senate resignee (and former Obama mentor) Emil Jones (D), | Read More »
Today, Barack Obama broke his silence on the mortgage bailout long enough to publicly decry the “staggering price tag” of $700 billion. Pardon me if I scratch my head at his choice of terminology, considering Mr. Obama has proposed over $1.4 Trillion in new spending programs should he win the White House this November. If the $700,000,000,000.00 price tag on the treasury bailout is “staggering” | Read More »
On Thursday, freshman Senator Barack Obama promised that he would be unveiling “new proposals” for dealing with the mortgage crisis at a Friday campaign stop in Florida. On Friday, Obama reneged [Ed.- Somebody call CNN and check if that word is still OK to use] on that promise, instead saying that this was “not the time to present specific details for how to fix the | Read More »
Earlier this week, I suggested that, if he really is in possession of superior knowledge and a foolproof plan to pull America’s financial system out of its current deepening hole, Barack Obama should put his money where his mouth is, show up in the U.S. Senate (where he’s currently being paid to be), and propose that plan in the form of legislation. Unsurprisingly, he didn’t | Read More »
Tuesday night, CNN “analyst” Jack Cafferty wrote the following on the news organization’s Political Ticker blog: Race is arguably the biggest issue in this election, and it’s one that nobody’s talking about. The differences between Barack Obama and John McCain couldn’t be more well-defined. Obama wants to change Washington. McCain is a part of Washington and a part of the Bush legacy. Yet the polls | Read More »
“We need some clear and steady leadership” in the current time of financial crisis, said Barack Obama in a Thursday campaign stop in Española, NM. “If Senator Obama really does know how to solve this crisis, he should show up in the Senate, where we are currently paying him to be, and present his proposal to the Congress, which is still in session, and end | Read More »
Barack, uh, Obama, the, uh, Democratic presidential nominee, is often referred to as “articulate” and as an outstanding orator (just peruse the 444,000 results of a Google search to that effect for evidence). This week, Obama gave a speech to a crowd of Hollywood acolytes supporters (Duane Patterson has the text). Below is the word cloud (courtesy of Wordle.net of that speech. For those who | Read More »
Me either; in fact, call me crazy, but I always thought that the radical Islamist cabal didn’t even come into power in Afghanistan until about 1996. Then again, I tend subscribe to the version of history that is, you know, real. Reuters, apparently, does not, as reporter Sayed Salahuddin and editors Alistair Scrutton and Jeremy Laurence put an article on the wire this morning stating | Read More »
Below the fold is the entire text of General David Petraeus’s final letter to troops before departing his command of Multinational Force-Iraq and assuming leadership of United States Central Command. A scan of the original can be seen in .pdf form here.
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