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Monday, January 07, 2008 - Posts
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Sometimes it seems like the campaigns have an unofficial contest to see who can place their signs in the most unlikely/dangerous places. I spotted three Rudy Giuliani signs in a row, planted in the snow on the median of a four-lane highway here. (Wish Read More...
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A Q+A with Barack Obama, per the New York Times . Q. How's the throat? A: "It's a little better." After he ordered his tea, he added: "We sprinkled some magic powder in it." ( emphasis added) Not what you want to say when you have a history of cocaine Read More...
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In an act of desperation, Duncan Hunter resorted to Aesop to get people to pay attention to him. In a presidential reenactment of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," Duncan Hunter—the 27-year congressman from California who is (sort of) running for president—held Read More...
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Being a Masshole, I just got this in the mail: Damn you, mandates! Read More...
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Back in November, Barack Obama delighted HBO fans across America by declaring that one of his favorite TV shows is The Wire . So you'd think he would have put this campaign thing on hiatus for an hour to catch the Season 5 premiere last night at 9 p.m. Read More...
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Interesting piece in the Washington Times about Obama's ramped-up security detail. One passage describes how agents with bomb-sniffing dogs are vetting the media's equipment at every stop: "Just put all your equipment down, leave the room, and close the Read More...
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LEBANON, N.H.—"It’s time for a president who will talk to you in clear terms," said Barack Obama, addressing a packed room at City Hall. He paused as the crowd laughed. "I wasn’t talking about pronouncing nuclear , but that’s another thing." Read More...
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Mitt Romney, in an ad last week : In the next 10 years, we'll see more progress, more change than the world has seen in the last 10 centuries. Mitt Romney, in a two-minute address on New Hampshire TV to air tonight: We're going to see more dramatic change Read More...
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Even the New York Sun likes Obama : One of the questions we've been thinking about in advance of the New Hampshire primary is whether a case can be made for Senator Obama . We understand that, in respect of these columns, the notion sounds improbable. Read More...
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On Saturday, the Clinton campaign released a statement—“WHERE IS THE BOUNCE?”—asking why Obama’s victory in Iowa hadn’t given him a bump in the New Hampshire polls. They sent it about 24 hours too early. Last we heard, Obama was “narrowing the gap” between Read More...
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