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October 31, 2008

Today's Faves: Don't Vote, Obamamania, and One Hot Mama

Voices without Votes continuously aggregates interesting links about the election from world bloggers. Our authors take turns picking their top 3 personal favorites every weekday. Today's picks take us to blogs from Palestine, Canada and the UK.

September 5, 2008

The Anbar Story

Aggregated from: IraqPundit

While it's fashionable to mock President Bush, some in Washington are smart enough to speak the truth. WaPo's editorial writer says today that Bush's surge decision, in opposition to the counsel of most of Congress and some in his own administration, will stand as one of the best and most courageous...

September 2, 2008

What Bump?

Aggregated from: The Strong Conservative

Barack H. Obama probably was expecting a bump after picking Senator Joe Biden for his VP. But there's no bump.Michelle Obama gave a speech last night about how she really does love America, despite what she's said in the past. But we've yet to see any change in the polls.Hillary Clinton will be de...

August 30, 2008

Obligatory Obama acclamation & McCain Veep selection thread

Aggregated from: HOYDEN ABOUT TOWN

Bene mentioned last night a desire for some commentary on the cynically timed announcement of McCain’s running partner as Sarah Palin, so here goes: here’s a short bit from the LA Times, who sums her up as a risky choice due to her inexperience, the very charge that the McCain campaign has bee...

August 22, 2008

Obama needs Clinton or Gore as VP

Aggregated from: Darryl Wolk Blog

Obama needs Clinton or Gore as VPThe more I think about it, the more I cannot understand why Obama would name anyone besides Hillary as VP. Think of the situation right now:-Polls are declining for Obama in key swing states, among blue collar voters, among older voters, among female voters and amo...

August 19, 2008

John Edwards: Scummy, fake, manipulative and pretty?

Since the former Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards admitted to having an extra-marital affair, bloggers from around the world following the story have largely focused on two major issues: First, the sad irony of a politician having an affair while his wife, Elizabeth, fights breast cancer; Secondly, the role the mainstream press played in keeping the story silent.

August 18, 2008

Living: Me and Elizabeth Edwards

Aggregated from: Dove's Eye View

No scandal gossip here. Press coverage of Elizabeth Edwards' metastatic breast cancer has me steamed, and as a sister cancer patient, I want to say something about it. My story with breast cancer parallels Elizabeth's. Elizabeth Edwards and I are both *living* with cancer. We are alive! My fi...

Coddington on Edwards

Aggregated from: Kiwiblog

Deborah Coddington lets loose on John Edwards: … since American politics - whether we like it or not - impacts on the world - we should all be grateful to this woman who has exposed Edwards as a liar, hypocrite, narcissist, and, ultimately, misogynist. Edwards was always my least favourite Dem...

Regarding John Edwards

Aggregated from: Rantings of a Sandmonkey » American politics

You know, when he first showed up in the political scene, everybody in the democratic party called him the second coming of Bill Clinton. I guess they never knew how accurate they really were. Boy was I surprised. Mr. My dad worked in a windmill and I have a dead so and a cancer stricken wife is pho...

August 12, 2008

John Edwards Admits to Affair

Aggregated from: Desicritics Category: Politics: US

The United States has this obsession on a certain amount of moral purity among its politicians. They can solicit all sorts of funds from lobbyists who push for all sorts of things (including from the tobacco lobby, for people who want to spend over $200 million to build a bridge for 50 people, and o...