Archive for February, 2008
Posted in February 29th, 2008
Peter Daou tells an interesting story for the press on the $35 million raised ($30 million online). Peter’s a smart guy and probably could have done an even better job if they had let him do this earlier. The campaign’s Internet chief, Peter Daou, said online donors had included “students who skipped meals, grandmothers who […]
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Posted in February 29th, 2008
Apparently celebrating the passing of Wirtz has brought me Sam Zell. I have no idea why the state should buy Wrigley. I thought it was a joke when I first heard it and while I doubt it passes, I’m shocked the idea has gotten as far as it has.
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Posted in February 29th, 2008
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/M70emIFxETs” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] I had the obvious response of that’s great, she’ll answer the phone, but she might respond to the wrong country since she voted to invade Iraq after terrorists from Afghanistan attacked us. However, the Obama campaign was ahead of that: “We don’t think the ad is going to be […]
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Posted in February 29th, 2008
Making Bill Pascoe’s faux outrage even worse, Oberweis talked about wanting to privatize social security during the Trib forum. “In return for being able to direct one quarter of the total payments into the special account, the individual would be giving up…the first, approximately six years of social security payments. It would move him from, […]
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Posted in February 29th, 2008
John Hagee Creatively Interprets the U.S. Great Seal [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/kUBwrjrxOIk” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Making John Bolton look like Woodrow Wilson: [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/YFYiSJHbnZc” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Katrina is God’s Punishment for New Orleans’ sins: TG: I just want to ask you one question, based on one of your sermons, and this is not about […]
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Posted in February 29th, 2008
I seem to remember suggesting that the press cared an awful lot about black anti-semitic leaders, but tended to ignore white anti-semites and other bigots who are fundamentalists: The thing is, everyone is missing the point about how fucking stupid this line of questioning was. When was the last time Timmeh took on some right […]
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Posted in February 28th, 2008
Are his comments about how to run a campaign in 2004: First, understand why your opponent has problems with significant elements of his base, and drive wedges where you can, to the maximum extent possible; second, recognize that it is not your campaign’s job to tell the objective truth, it’s your campaign’s job to tell […]
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Posted in February 28th, 2008
Bill Pascoe isn’t known for being a part of the reality based commmunity: “Finally: Has anyone noticed that the quote the Foster campaign constantly uses — ‘I’ve supported the President on almost everything’ — comes from a newspaper article that’s more than FOUR YEARS OLD? That’s more than half the length of time George Bush […]
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Posted in February 28th, 2008
Pascoe below makes the claim: “The on-screen sources listed for Mr. Foster’s ridiculous allegation are the Daily Herald of Feb. 17, 2002, and Jeff Berkowitz’s ‘Public Affairs’ show of Dec. 7, 2007. NOWHERE in the contents of EITHER source is there ANY indication that Jim Oberweis ‘supported Bush’s scheme to privatize Social Security’ — in […]
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Posted in February 28th, 2008
Pascoe’s most recent work of ‘art’ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Bill Pascoe FEBRUARY 28, 2008 FOSTER, EXPOSED AS A TAX-HIKER, MAKES STUFF UP (BATAVIA, February 28) — Oberweis for Congress spokesman Bill Pascoe today criticized liberal Democrat Bill Foster for airing a television advertisement made up of half-truths, distortions, and outright lies. “Bill Foster’s latest […]
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Posted in February 28th, 2008
Illinois Review, with issues of honesty themselves, attack Bill Foster’s commercial as being untrue because it claims: The false claim in the ad is that somehow Jim Oberweis doesn’t support employer provided health care. However, according to the correction that ran in today’s Chicago Tribune, Foster’s charge is false. You have to read the fine […]
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Posted in February 28th, 2008
That’s the kind of bullshit line you find all of the time about Jewish candidates at White Supremacist and Anti-Semitic sites–like JewWatch, the site run by a gay Nazi. I think we’d all be appalled by such a line. And we get such a line from the Greenberg campaign: Republican challenger Steve Greenberg circulated a […]
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Posted in February 28th, 2008
Dan Curry, a nice guy who I genuinely appreciate a good back and forth with, tries to argue that the decline in violence over the last 8 months is evidence of victory. Choosing the peak and then showing a decline is a misrepresentation of the data. The violence is back to 2006 levels which is […]
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Posted in February 28th, 2008
Lying twice wasn’t enough over at Illinois Review, they pulled in Phyllis Schlafly to lie a third time about the ERA and Social Security. The passage Eaton and Schlafly are lying about is on page 206 in Sex Bias in the U.S. Code Here is what they claim supports them on page 206: “Congress and […]
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Posted in February 27th, 2008
Blagojevich: Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Wednesday offered his first public comments since being named as Public Official A in court filings that are part of his top campaign fundraiser’s upcoming federal corruption trial. “It doesn’t matter what letter of the alphabet it is. What was described there doesn’t describe me or how I do things,” […]
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