This post is about a pet peeve: the Clinton campaign’s love affair with the phrase “raises serious questions.” Just once, I’d like a reporter to respond: You’ve told us so and so raises serious questions. What questions? How are they serious? And why all the serious questions from the ’solutions’ candidate?
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Remember how, when Clinton was up against the ropes in her Bosnia lie, her campaign sent an email arguing that Obama has exaggerated his status as a Senior Lecturer by calling himself a Law Professor? Today the University of Chicago Law School made a statement that he wasn’t exaggerating–Obama was a professor.
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So yes, Clinton was recently caught in a lie she’s been repeating for months about ducking sniper fire on the tarmac in Bosnia, part of her Commander-in-Chief credentials. Her handling and explanations of the lie are worse than the lie.
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I received an email today (copied after the jump), which considers the facts that Obama is “from the east,” “charismatic in nature,” has “proposed solutions,” and has “attract[ed] many supporters,” and concludes that he must be the Anti-Christ. Question: Does the target demographic for this email even exist? Is there anyone out there who (a) is dumb enough to believe it and (b) was previously planning on voting Obama?
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An obscure bit of political news, but another example of silly season: Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter takes offense to a memo written by Obama-strategist David Plouffe. Read the memo, however, and you discover that the offending language was nothing more than the suggestion that all states matter, not just Pennsylvania.
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Analysis of the Mississippi exit polls shows that the Limbaugh-effect is real: conservative voters are crossing over in large numbers and voting for Hillary Clinton to cause chaos in the Democratic primary.
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Debate highlight: Hillary Clinton draws a lame distinction between rejecting and denouncing that may depend on what the meaning of is is. Barack Obama does an awesome, whatever Hillary, I’ll use both words then.
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