Archive for February, 2007
Posted in February 12th, 2007
Apparently Australian Prime Minister John Howard thinks he’s giving an appropriate number of troops to what views as essential to the war on terror even though the vast majority of the violence is sectarian in nature. The US has 140,000 troops out of a population of 300,000,000 while Australia has 1,400 troops out of a […]
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Posted in February 12th, 2007
Apparently conservative white talk radio hosts are becoming experts on what constitutes black–you know, because they are so in touch with the black community. As Obama has said, no one splits these hairs when he tries to catch a cab. If you start to, you know, delve around the edges, say, ‘Wait a minute, isn’t […]
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Posted in February 12th, 2007
Greg Sargent writes about something some Clinton supporters have written in about concerning Obama on Clinton: A Hillary supporter writes in to argue that Barack Obama’s comments yesterday about his opposition to the Iraq War are at least somewhat at odds with what he said in October of last year. According to Reuters, here’s Obama […]
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Posted in February 12th, 2007
As many of you know Atrios, Markos, and The General all redid their blogrolls and I was eliminated from all three. I kind of expected it and I’m fine with it-Markos says it best with the following: To me, that’s a slap in the face of every new blog that was added. Rather than celebrate […]
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Posted in February 12th, 2007
One of the biggest kick-offs in Caucus history Wow. One good thing Yepson points out is that there was a good cross-section of Iowans there. A big mistake in Iowa is to bring in people from your home state to do the door knocking and such. Your organizers and such can be operatives and such, […]
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Posted in February 12th, 2007
Barack on 60 Minutes—does a tour of the Old Capitol–one of the coolest places in the world. I watched the first Obama-Keyes debate there and despite Alan, the ambience was amazing.
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Posted in February 12th, 2007
Urquhart Media Honors Life & Times of Francis Urquhart Chicago, Illinois… Urquhart Media, LLC today honors the life and times of our company’s namesake, Francis Urquhart, with the untimely passing of accomplished actor Sir Ian Richardson on Friday. In memory of Sir Ian Richardson/Francis Urquhart, a black armband has been affixed to the Urquhart Media […]
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Posted in February 12th, 2007
Chris Hayes was there and covers the tension between being the grassroots guy and the on message national politician. The great line of the article is this: Part of this can be chalked up to a kind of punk-rock-band-gone-MTV disaffection. People who were into Obama when he was an underground, authentic phenomenon aren’t necessarily so […]
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Posted in February 12th, 2007
Ahem, Salon has some explaining to do.
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Posted in February 12th, 2007
I’ve been thinking of how one could use a Debbie Does Dallas line to be funny. I came up with a few thoughts on it, such as if someone were discussing a sex education bill or something where one makes clear one is not talking about the individual’s behavior. However, it’s definitely not funny in […]
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Posted in February 12th, 2007
There’s something about Obama that makes people opposed to him explode into a burst of hot gas with the most recent example being Bill Kristol (video on C & L): KRISTOL: We’re electing a war president in 2008. If I can go back to Obama and Lincoln for just one second, Lincoln’s “house divided” speech […]
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Posted in February 12th, 2007
The weekend produced a lot of candidates, but the winner is…. Australian PM John Howard: n the same question-and-answer session with reporters, Obama had harsh words for Australian Prime Minister John Howard, who said Obama’s proposal to withdraw combat troops by March 2008 would “just encourage those who want to completely destabilize and destroy Iraq.” […]
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Posted in February 12th, 2007
But when Rich says we had a communication break down, it wasn’t we–it was me. I was a bit late getting there and didn’t think to catch up with him. It was fun and cold and I wouldn’t have missed it. Shomon’s party was a blast and I had a great time–glad to meet everyone […]
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Posted in February 10th, 2007
So I was in Springfield today for the Obama announcement. Very exciting, very cold, and a very, very early departure from Evanston (5am!). A lot of commentators have remarked on Obama’s many uses of the phrase “Let us be the generation…” What’s he talking about? Surely the man’s far too savvy to think he can […]
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Posted in February 9th, 2007
Through the weekend–you might check in, but I’ll largely be busy with some personal errands and then the announcement. Say hi if you are in Springfield.
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