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Liberal Values- Quote of the Day“President Obama and Mitt Romney both gave commencement speeches over the last few days. Obama was like, ‘You can be whatever you want to be,’ while Romney was like, ‘I can be whatever you want me to be.’” –Jimmy Fallon
- Mitt Romney Stands By What He Said, “Whatever It Was”A super PAC supporting Mitt Romney had planned to release an add reviving the Reverend Wright attack line against Obama. Apparently someone in Romney’s campaign realized that this could backfire. Romney said that bringing this up would be the “wrong course” and the ad was dropped. (There is also some question as to whether the [...]
- Debunking Karl Rove’s BSHave to love Stephanie Cutter when she entitles her response to the attack ad from Crossroads (Karl Rove’s group) “Stephanie Cutter: Get the facts on Karl Rove’s BS.”
- Conservative Lie of the Day: Obama Budget Voted DownThe right-wing propaganda rag, The Washington Times is running a story claiming that Obama suffered an” embarrassing defeat” in which his budget was voted down 99 to 0. Many conservative blogs are repeating this lie. They are also claiming that there were similar embarrassing votes for Obama in the past. In reality, there was no [...]
- Huckabee Has Letter Calling Obama Advisers Political Whores PulledHonorable move by Mike Huckabee to demand that a fund raising letter sent on his letterhead referring to Obama’s advisers as “morally repugnant political whores” be pulled. Huckabee denies having approved this. I am inclined to believe him. Compare Huckabee’s action in stating he did not approve this as soon as the letter went out [. […]
- Will The Voters Be Fooled Again?First Read reports that the Republicans plan to crash the economy again before the election with another fight over the debt limit. The Democrats need to be prepared to make sure that this time the Republicans are held accountable for their actions. If the Republicans were half as competent at governing as they are at [...]
- Quote of the Day“What more do we want this man to do for us, honest to god.” –David Letterman re President Barack Obama, comparing Obama’s successes on fighting terror to George Bush’s failures. Bonus Quote: “Remember the Iraq war, “mission accomplished,” well holy ****, the mission was not accomplished,” said Letterman. “They put a banner up o […]
- False Centrism In An Era Of Republican ExtremismAmericans Elect has failed to come up with a candidate to challenge the Democratic and Republican Party’s hold on the electoral system. There were problems with their idea. The group was backed by centrists but whenever you look at the types of policies self-described centrists want, you have a platform which is only very slightly [...]
- Obama vs. Romney: The Job Creator vs The Job DestroyerBarack Obama’s campaign is taking off from where Mitt Romney’s primary opponents left off. Romney’s years at Bain Capital is attacked in the above ad. It is debatable as to whether there was anything improper about Romney’s work at Bain or if this is part of the system. At Bain, Romney’s function was to increase [...]
- SciFi Weekend: Fringe; Awake; Lost-Style Reset on Once Upon A Time?; Mad Men, The Beatles, and Rory Gilmore; Damage to Manhattan from The Avengers; Why Companions on Doctor Who Are Usually Young WomenThe season finale of Fringe, Brave New Worlds, could easily have been the series finale if the show was not renewed. While there will always be questions remaining on Fringe, the major story lines of the season were resolved. Knowing both of September’s warning and that Olivia was the source of power needed by William [...]
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