It was a strange, and certainly ground breaking Special Comment on Countdown last night. Olbermann devoted it to criticizing Barack Obama over his support for the FISA bill.
OIbermann’s first criticism was that the Republicans are going to criticize Obama for being soft on terror regardless of his vote on FISA. That [...]
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Huffington Post reports:
Obama announced new staff today:
Chief of Staff to the Vice Presidential Nominee: Patti Solis Doyle
Thats, Patti Solis Doyle as in Clinton’s former campaign chair….and look at that position…
Update:
I’m hearing rumors that Doyle and Clinton don’t get along anymore, so there may be hope yet…
Update II:
Huffington Post now reporting its definitely a bad omen…who [...]
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Some trouble is a-stirrin’ at HuffPo today, as Tom Edsall writes about Obama beginning to move from the left more to the political center (hence the Giggs comparison–I’m a nerd). Edsall’s argument is based primarily in the staff he is hiring, which disappointingly includes Lawrence “before I was a blatant sexist I was named Larry” Summer, former president of Harvard. While [...]
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Well, ok, maybe he is race-baiting. Hillary could have never done that as a president.
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