Special Comment: It’s Called a Secret Strategy Because It’s a Secret!

01Jul08

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 may be true, […]

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So it’s Probably Gonna Be (Update: NOT) Hillary

16Jun08

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 […]

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Obama as Ryan Giggs

13Jun08

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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Now That He’s Got That Dirt Off His Shoulder, He Can Pound Away

04Jun08

Well, ok, maybe he is race-baiting. Hillary could have never done that as a president.

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