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November 2006
Obamania
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And Maureen Dowd has a column on him today noting that experience isn’t always the best thing…Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice….etch.
Obama’s Pricey Real Estate
He paid Rezko more for the land than it was assessed at. It’s a scandal! And Obama pays to mow Tony’s lawn. Sort of a different direction in the benefits for anyone else dealing with Rezko.
Sort of the anti-Blagojevich. The story is well written by the Gibson and Jackson with a descriptive title instead of exploitive. On the other hand DayBreak went out and tried to create a controversial headline. The story is good and necessary, but it’s also good in tracking down the details.
It seems to me that Rezko wanted to get his hands on Obama, and Obama kept a decent distance given the details. If only some others were that smart.
Even More Laesch Fun
Yeah, I’d vote for him, I just wouldn’t be happy about it.
Don’t Confuse me with being a fan of Kerry
I tend to like to call him Liveshot–hysterical numbers from post Katrina polling at Zogby that tells of how big of a problem Kerry created for himself in 2004:
In a sign of just how severe the damage to the President’s standing caused by Katrina is, the Zogby America survey finds that, despite his re-election last fall, President Bush would lose to every modern president since Jimmy Carter, the one-term Democrat who left office amid record unpopularity and a presidency rated, at the time, dismally. He would also lose to his own father, who left office amid an economic recession triggered, in part, by a devastating hurricane.
However, in one of the few bright spots for the President, he would still beat Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry, by a narrow, one-point margin.
It’s nice that he decided to fight back. Over two years too late.
New Zogby Polling in IL-6
This is the only poll showing any kind of lead like this, so take it with that in mind. And remember to get out there and work.
n Illinois’ 6th District, which encompasses the western suburbs of Chicago and is now represented by outgoing Republican Henry Hyde, Democrat Tammy Duckworth, an Iraqi War veteran and double amputee, has moved from 5% ahead of Republican Peter Roskam to 14% ahead. This district is right next door to the Chicago district represented by Rahm Emanuel, the Clinton-era White House advisor who is now in charge of the Democratic efforts to take control of the House of Representatives. The Democratic surge in this district holds one more irony for Emanuel, who witnessed the impeachment of his former boss led by a team of Republicans – one of whom was Hyde.
These are phone polls, not the online polls that no one trusts
The polls were taken between Oct. 24 and Oct. 29 in 15 of the most competitive House districts across the country. The surveys of at least 500 likely voters had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.
Good News Cubed
Scott Altman of Lincoln will be flying the shuttle again and they are definitely repairing the Hubble to have it last until 2013. It’s been a great resource to astronomers and has performed admirably. My Dad was on the ground crew that got it ready for flight. He worked on the heating/cooling system which was especially sensitive on the Hubble because of its sensitivity to humidity.
Al-Sadr has US troops called off for a second time
This time US Troops were trying to find a missing soldier.
If you can’t go after death squads and our own troops, how is it that we are going to ‘win’?
And if we cannot go after death squads, how do we plan to create a stable democracy? Usually the rule of law and monopoly on force are pretty much necessary conditions of a stable democracy.
Okay, not usually, but always.