Sarah Palin last night while talking to Charlie Gibson: Let me speak specifically about a credential that I do bring to this table, Charlie, and that’s with the energy independence that I’ve been working on for these years as the governor of this state that produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of […]
The Republicans are trying to get Sarah ready to debate Biden: Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman is among several national security experts helping brief Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin on foreign policy issues as she prepares to hit the campaign trail while cramming for a debate with her Democratic opponent, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. […]
USA Today: Obama holds a 47%-43% edge over McCain among registered voters and a 48%-45% edge among likUSA Todayely voters. Both leads are within the margin of error of +/—4 percentage points. To this, Bob Cesca points out: The previous numbers showed McCain 49, Obama 45. Why can’t McBush close the deal? So why is […]
Bush speaking today about the Georgia conflict: “Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st century.” Not acceptable unless your name is George Bush. His foreign policy has been based on nothing but “bullying and intimidation”. Just ask Iraq.
Georgian President, Mikheil Saakashvili, tells McCain it’s time to turn words into deeds: Yesterday, I heard Sen. McCain say, ‘We are all Georgians now,’” Saakashvili said on CNN’s American Morning. “Well, very nice, you know, very cheering for us to hear that, but OK, it’s time to pass from this. From words to deeds.” When […]
That would be former congressman, Republican Jim Leach from Iowa. Many might try to blow this off, but here is part of Leach’s resume: Interim director of the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University John L. Weinberg Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow […]
This morning while talking with Harold Ford about Obama’s trip, Scarborough tried to frame it as McCain would appeal to middle America by being in a restaurant in Ohio, while Obama was in Germany. Catch that? Now when McCain is overseas, Scarborough and the rest of the right talk about it being some big resume […]
Is that what we say about John McCain? Read this then answer that question: “I think it’s serious. . . . It’s a serious situation, but there’s a lot of things we need to do. We have a lot of work to do and I’m afraid it’s a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation […]
McCain talks about Obama missing stuff, well look here: It turns out that presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain has attended even fewer Afghanistan-related Senate hearings over the past two years than Obama’s one. Which is a nice way of saying, McCain, R-Ariz., the top Republican on the Senate Armed Service Committee, has attended zero […]
Know world geography: At a press availability today, John McCain expressed concern about relations between Russia and a country that hasn’t existed for quite some time: “I was concerned about a couple of steps that the Russian government took in the last several days. One was reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia. Apparently that is […]