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Clinton raises serious questions

Clinton raises serious questions

March 31st, 2008

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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Law School: It’s PROFESSOR Barack Obama

Law School: It’s PROFESSOR Barack Obama

March 28th, 2008

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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How Clinton bumbled Bosniagate

How Clinton bumbled Bosniagate

March 26th, 2008

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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Viral Email Confirms: Obama is the Anti-Christ [silly]

Viral Email Confirms: Obama is the Anti-Christ [silly]

March 24th, 2008

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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Mayor Nutter: "Plouffe should be fired for suggesting other states are important"

Mayor Nutter: "Plouffe should be fired for suggesting other states are important"

March 13th, 2008

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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Mississippi Exit Polls: Rush Limbaugh steals some delegates for Hillary

Mississippi Exit Polls: Rush Limbaugh steals some delegates for Hillary

March 11th, 2008

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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I reject the distinction between "reject" and "denounce," but I cannot in good conscience denounce it.

I reject the distinction between "reject" and "denounce," but I cannot in good conscience denounce it.

February 27th, 2008

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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