A Rubber Door

This is from the Senate race in Minnesota where Norm Coleman is running against Al Franken.

Talking Point of the day:
AP: “John McCain and Sarah Palin criticized Democrat Barack Obama over the amount of money he has requested for his home state of Illinois, even though Alaska under Palin’s leadership has asked Washington for 10 times [...]

The Palin talking points are amazing as is the ability of he Republican talking heads to sell it as if she’s Condeleeza Rice.  ”Alaska is close to Russia.” 
I saw this on Brendan Nyhan’s excellent political blog.  CNN’s Campbell Brown simply embarrasses McCain spokesperson Tucker Bounds as he tries in vain to describe Palin’s commander in [...]

The fight for the Democratic nomination was bloody and brutal.   This week’s Democratic National Convention goes a long way towards fixing the cracks that were developed.  It’s telling that those cracks are what Republicans were banking on.  Guess what: bank on something else.
Hillary Clinton, followed by husband Bill, and then Joe Biden have done [...]

I’m sorely disappointed in the coverage of the DNC tonight. A former President is currently speaking; a speech as important as last night’s.
Instead we get Supernanny, America’s Got Talent, and Criminal Minds.
Pathetic. Thank god for PBS.

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Really I’m not. Great video from I Voting Republican. By the way, get ready for a run of YouTube videos - I’ve got a backlog of them.

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All of the angst and bitterness of the past 16 months is done. We Democrats have a nominee and now it’s time to focus on righting the ship. It is time to end the enduring, national, embarrassment that has become of our executive branch. It is at this point in history that [...]

Looks like Al Gore is taking the high road and won’t be endorsing a candidate during the primaries.
From CNN:
The sources say Gore talks with both Clinton and Obama, and is on good terms with both. But with Sen. John Kerry and Bill Clinton both aligned to a candidate, Gore has a role to serve as [...]

What a crazy week.  I’ve been so busy at work.  I haven’t had a chance to look at my Google Reader account and should be working instead posting.  Anyway.

Watching MSNBC right now and Mike Huckabee has the line of the night “[Senator Romney] has taken both sides of the whining issue.”  The more I listen [...]