January 20, 2009
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Well I'm guessing Hillary isn't too happy with this: Did you see how red Joe Biden got? Talk about loose lips sink ships.Jill Biden said on the Oprah show that she wanted her husband to be vice president instead of secretary of state, chiefly because it would involve less travel. "If you're secr...
go to article »January 19, 2009
Footage from yesterday’s train journey from Philadelphia to Washington: .msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;} .msnbcLinks a {text-decoration:none !important; border-botto...
go to article »January 14, 2009
It will take some time to close, but this is a great start: “Advisers to President-elect Barack Obama say one of his first duties in office will be to order the closing of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay. That executive order is expected during Obama’s first week on the job - ...
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If you’re like me, you started to watch George Bush’s last press conference, and gave up after about 30 seconds because it made you so mad. So here, instead, was Keith Olbermann’s coverage of it (ie the conference in nice, palatable chunks broken up by comment/sarcarsm/fact-correc...
go to article »January 13, 2009
I just got finished listening to the last Bush presidential press conference ever (let the celebrations begin!), and all I can do is shake my head. What a mess that man is. One of the most telling lines in the conference was when Bush talked about how "the presidency never leaves you! You can never ...
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Shihab Rattansi of Al Jazeera tries to make some sense of the nonsense coming out of the mouth of Democratic Congressman from New York, Eliot Engel. This week, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution supporting Israel’s actions in Gaza. Not to be outdone, the US Sen...
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Guess who’s staying in the Presidential guest house Blair House - and thus preventing the Obamas from moving in? The delightful John Howard. Although, as Margaret Carlson says here, the 35 (count ‘em!)-bathroomed Blair House was reportedly free until recently - and Howard may well have b...
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Sorry: intelligence choice. No, make that: intelligent intelligence choice. Rachel Maddow (brilliantly) covers the controversy surrounding Obama’s pick of Leon Panetta to head the CIA: .msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; backgr...
go to article »January 8, 2009
This is quite something: And here they are walking and talking and such. Well, talking, at least: .msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;} .msnbcLinks a {text-decoration:none !im...
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