Archive for August 3rd, 2008

The Texas Option

03Aug08

Reports this weekend indicate there’s an unnoticed contender to be Barack’s VP pick – Congressman Chet Edwards of Texas.
Edwards, 56, has been pushed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other congressional Democrats who cite his work on veterans’ affairs and nuclear nonproliferation, as well as his potential to attract Southern white blue-collar voters. Pelosi has [...]


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Barack admits he was talking about race

03Aug08

Barack now admits the obvious, as his campaign manager did before him, that he was referring to race when he said:
So what they’re going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, `he’s not patriotic enough, he’s got a funny name,’ you know, `he doesn’t look like all those other presidents [...]


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Same Old Drill

03Aug08

Barack is shrewd to do change his stance on offshore drilling. The question is why anyone would be confused about what he’s up to.
Sen. Barack Obama said Saturday he is simply acting pragmatically in softening his opposition to additional oil drilling along the nation’s coastline, a shift Republicans say shows he is calculating and out [...]


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