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08 Aug 18 : 14 | John McCain may be the benefactor of too much Barack Obama coverage This has been the longest presidential campaign ever with the longest primary (Democratic) in the history of primaries. And on top of that, the MSM has been obsessing over Barack Obama. So it can't be too much of a shock that in a poll released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center, 48... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... 5 hours ago |
08 Aug 16 : 15 | Pick the day Barack Obama should tell us his running mate for VP Hey, it's Friday, it's August. You probably want to get to the beach or fill up the kiddie pool or go off to sell your blood to pay for gas and groceries. Either way, today's question is simple:The Olympics start tonight with the Opening Ceremony. The Democratic National Convention is August 25.... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... 7 hours ago |
07 Aug 17 : 57 | Barack Obama should pick a progressive as his running mate Yesterday came and went, and Barack Obama didn't select a vice presidential nominee. And that person, at least for the moment, wasn't Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN), despite the rumors.In perhaps the best-kept secret since "Who Shot J.R.?", we still have no clue who Obama will pick. But if Bayh's name was... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... 29 hours ago |
05 Aug 17 : 32 | Are you tired of waiting for Obama and McCain to pick a running mate? Will you be more impressed if you can predict when the VP will be picked more so than who that is?Bil Browning thinks Obama will name Sen. Evan Bayh on Wednesday. Speaker Nancy Pelosi pulls out Chet Edwards as a long-shot prospect. This is beginning to look like a game of Clue: "Obama will pick Sen.... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
04 Aug 17 : 06 | How the Obama vs. McCain Campaign is Looking -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony... It's now time for redrawing the political map:Vote for the wake-up call or vote for the napVERSE CASE SCENARIOTony Peyser provides daily poems and weekly cartoons for BuzzFlash and also writes the BuzzFlash column, "Blue State Jukebox." He was a daily cartoonist for the L.A. Times from 1994 to 1997.... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
04 Aug 21 : 42 | Happy Birthday, Barack: 47 is the new 46 BE ELECTEDby Amy Weiss The presumptive Democratic nominee was born 47 years ago today in Honolulu. In those 47 years he's received a bachelor's and a law degree from Ivy League institutions, become the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, worked as a community organizer, a civil rights... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
07 Aug 18 : 53 | Liberals and the Attack Game THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter Clarence Page, the Chicago Tribune's liberal columnist, chimed in yesterday on the officially slated Question of the Week -- "Why isn't [Barack Obama] further ahead in the polls?" -- with, it seemed to me, a singularly noteworthy... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... 28 hours ago |
31 Jul 13 : 37 | The Swift Goading of Barack Obama THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter Well, we've already made it to the entrée of our quadrennial feast, which is always previewed on the democratic bill of fare in the spring as an autumnal exchange of ideas on fiscal and foreign policy, energy independence and the like; you... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
02 Aug 14 : 31 | Lesson Obama Needs to Learn: A Good First Punch Is Superior to a Solid... THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter I can't quantify this observation, but it seems to me that the McCain campaign and its surrogates have, within roughly the last week, softly introduced a co-element to their principal thrust of attack against Barack Obama. Perhaps I'm just... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
28 Jul 16 : 36 | How do you think Barack Obama's world tour went? Barack Obama is back from his world tour. I hope we can buy T-shirts commemorating his world tour, as if he were Bruce Springsteen.Even if you thought your summer vacation has been great so far, it will be difficult to top Obama's vacation. Multiple countries, a magical 3-point shot, visiting the... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
01 Aug 19 : 31 | Obama's shape can be an asset in reducing America's obesity levels The MSM has come up with glorious theories for why Obama isn't ready to be president. But perhaps the stupidest one comes from Amy Chozick at The Wall Street Journal: Obama is too fit to be president.What is amazing, and sadly not surprising, is that the article doesn't mention the president who was... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
31 Jul 17 : 39 | Obama's strategy of staying above the fracas is groundbreaking, but will it... The MSM likes to cover political races in this basic mode: Candidate A attacks Candidate B.Doesn't matter if it's true or even remotely relevant. If a candidate attacks another candidate, that is "news." Don't have time for analysis since there needs to be a story about Britney Spears, a crime 1000... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
30 Jul 22 : 22 | Obama, The Presumptive President -- Because GeeDubya Is History A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSISby Christine BowmanFrank Rich's "How Obama Became Acting President" is a column for the history books -- totally on-target, with original and astute observations. Barack Obama is our new "acting president," as Rich says -- or the presumptive president, or president in... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
06 Aug 17 : 46 | Breaking down the Senate races: Can the Democrats make it to 60 seats? There is the big giant presidential race: Obama and McCain, plus Barr, McKinney, and Nader among others.But as true political junkies, there are some great House and Senate races to consider in this cycle. And so many questions to consider. Will Republicans win back House seats they lost due to... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
22 Jul 23 : 55 | Why Barack Obama had to leave Springfield As the largest progressive website between the coasts – and located in Chicago – we’ve become specialists on the campaign of Barack Obama. Bookmark/Search this post with: buzzflash | delicious | digg | technorati Technorati Tags: Video Barack Obama Springfield Abraham Lincolnread more Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
29 Jul 14 : 01 | Obama's Fortuitous Enemies THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter "By almost every measure," Dan Balz of the Washington Post wrote, "Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's overseas tour that concluded here [in London] Saturday was a clear success.... What isn't measurable is whether it worked. Will... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
28 Jul 17 : 08 | Comparing Obama's Berlin speech -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser My Republican Friend Says Obama's Berlin Speech Was 'A Little Too Leni Riefenstahl'Comparing Barack to "Triumph Of The Will"?People in the GOP really don'tWant to go there because all they've ever hadIs "Triumph Of The Won't."Bookmark/Search this post with: buzzflash | delicious | digg | ... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
28 Jul 14 : 31 | Obama's American Century THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter For more than a week the rabid chihuahuas of the fourth estate have had their monomaniacal fangs sunk into Barack Obama's trouser cuffs, ripping remorselessly at what they think is a bloody vulnerability: "Come now, Senator, why not your confess... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
19 Jul 15 : 49 | Barack Obama and the Vice of Chuck Hagel THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter The Obama has landed, in Afghanistan, accompanied by the bipartisan duo of Senators Chuck Hagel and Jack Reed. Before the weekend is out, the three will have migrated to Iraq, or at least that's the cloak-and-dagger word from the NY... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
05 Aug 22 : 08 | Since McCain won't tell us, you tell us why John McCain wants to be... What does John McCain want to accomplish? What vision does he have for this country's future? Where does he want this country to be 4 years from now?There are usually 4 themes in a presidential race: why Candidate A should be president, why Candidate A shouldn't be president, why Candidate B should... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
05 Aug 17 : 51 | According To Bay Buchanan, A Black Man Really Can't Get A Break In The... If he doesn't go to college, he's a defeatistIf he excels at a good one, he's an elitist. VERSE CASE SCENARIOTony Peyser provides daily poems and weekly cartoons for BuzzFlash and also writes the BuzzFlash column, "Blue State Jukebox." He was a daily cartoonist for the L.A. Times from 1994 to 1997.... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
15 Jul 15 : 33 | Richard A. Stitt: Can Barack Obama Dodge the Republicans' 5 Percent... A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTIONby Richard A. Stitt "As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know." ... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
16 Jul 14 : 37 | I'm Worried: Barack Obama and Afghanistan THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter How did things ever go so wrong; ergo, get this bad? You know what I mean -- things. Everything(s). The economy, the stagflation, the countless crises from energy to education, the war, the other war, the other yet possible war. Well, I... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
25 Jul 16 : 45 | Be Nostradamus: Tell us who you THINK Obama and McCain will pick for VP Looks like John McCain isn't going to pick a running mate this week after all. And Barack Obama is still on his world tour, so his focus isn't on his running mate.We have seen a few names drop off the lists, with the latest being Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA). And while it's certainly not official, Terry... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
14 Jul 16 : 05 | Should Barack Obama hire a well-known media figure as his WH press... Given the passing of Tony Snow over the weekend, I wondered whether he would still be press secretary if the colon cancer hadn't forced him to leave the post. Oh, he said something about the job not paying enough ($168,000) when he left, an insult to the 94% of Americans who make under $100,000 a... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
11 Jul 14 : 47 | Barack Obama's 'Ideology' THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter Yesterday the Washington Post prominently joined in feeding on the political feast du jour, asking in its top story just who this Barack Obama is -- ideologically speaking. Because the press, not to mention the ideologically obsessed players... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
09 Jul 16 : 58 | Barack Obama hasn't shifted; our perceptions have The MSM and others are freaking out over how Barack Obama is shifting to the center. But like those who blasted Galileo many centuries ago for his correct stance on heliocentrism (yes, the Sun is the center of the solar system), the perspective of the MSM (and others) is the one that has been... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
04 Aug 16 : 33 | Do you feel 'unified' over Michigan and Florida being seated at 100% voting... To no one's surprise, magically, Michigan and Florida will have full voting power in the upcoming Democratic National Convention. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee, as he wrote to the credentials committee: "As these delegates go about the important business of the... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
08 Jul 18 : 42 | Barack Obama's huge crowds speaks to the American spirit all the photos taken by me. This is approximately the view Barack Obama had that day. Bruce Springsteen. Rolling Stones. U2. How many major rock acts play football stadiums anymore? Barack Obama is not a major rock act, and there is no opening band. But for one night only, Obama will play Invesco... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
21 Jul 14 : 18 | Obama, Afghanistan, Politics and Promises THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter Because he's not yet president, and because he's on foreign soil, and because his Iraq/Afghanistan trip has been billed as merely an honest exploration of facts on the ground, Barack Obama is being understandably mum on matters of U.S. policy.... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
18 Jul 17 : 02 | Dan Rather, Who Did You Say Jesse Jackson Paved the Way For? Obama or... BE ELECTEDby Christine Bowman Friday morning Dan Rather was chatting with the "Morning Joe" crew at MSNBC about his pending lawsuit against CBS. Their talk turned to Barack Obama's run for the White House, and Jesse Jackson's recent off camera remarks at Fox News that were so insulting and... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
17 Jul 19 : 30 | Putting your money where your mouth is: McCain and Obama camps release June... In June, Barack Obama's campaign reported raising $52 million dollars and the McCain campaign raised $22 million, his best month to date. The Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) ended the month with $72 million cash on hand, while McCain and the Republican National Committee... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
13 Jul 14 : 30 | Obama, the Newsweek Poll and Other Downers THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter That Newsweek possesses a penchant for wry understatement was strikingly apparent when the magazine observed Friday: "Obama's overall decline from the last Newsweek Poll ... is hard to explain."As it turned out, Barack Obama's decline -- a... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
12 Jul 23 : 57 | Dear Senator Obama: Regarding FISA, What About the Rule of Law? A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTIONAnyone who reads BuzzFlash knows that we have favored Barack Obama, but supporting a candidate doesn't mean blind loyalty.Bookmark/Search this post with: buzzflash | delicious | digg | technorati Technorati Tags: Other FISA Obama Rule of Lawread more Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
10 Jul 17 : 19 | Rev. Jackson Caught On Tape Disparaging Obama One could easily argue that the major thingThat completely set this putz offIs Barack's not playing old school politicsHas already cut Jesse's nuts off.VERSE CASE SCENARIOTony Peyser provides daily poems and weekly cartoons for BuzzFlash and also writes the BuzzFlash column, "Blue State Jukebox." He... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
01 Aug 17 : 41 | McCain Has Heard of Celebrities and No Immunity for Bush Aides --... New GOP Presidential Ad Links Paris & Britney To Obama"Truth" during political campaignsIs given a certain leeway.In other news ... McCain's dignityIs now for sale on eBay.Judge Says Bush Aides Rove, Miers, And Bolton Have No Immunity Bookmark/Search this post with: buzzflash | delicious | digg |... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
31 Jul 18 : 52 | Dr. J.'s Commentary: No Obamallusions Since he secured the Democratic nomination for President, Sen. Barack Obama has been moving rapidly to organize, re-organize, and expand his policy staff. One feature has been the increasing presence of "Clinton people" such as Robert Rubin and Madeleine Albright. The response to this from an... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
31 Jul 17 : 23 | A Lying Thief We Can Believe In: McCain's Latest Ad Campaign BE ELECTEDby Meg WhiteThere's something about Sen. John McCain's newest ad campaign that sounds familiar, and it's not just because I've already heard every media outlet yammer about it at least twice in these past couple slow news weeks.Yes, McCain's newest ad has gotten a lot of publicity. Which... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
30 Jul 17 : 40 | Mean Mr. McCain His sister Shelly works in a shopShe never stops, she's a go-getterTakes him out to look at the queenOnly place that he's ever beenAlways shouts out something obscene-- Mean Mr. Mustard, John Lennon/Paul McCartney, 1969In the Beatles song, "Mean Mr. Mustard," he never really seemed that mean. The... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
29 Jul 21 : 05 | Comparing the 2008 Obama-McCain battle is a futile gesture The latest comparison of past presidential candidacies centers on 1980. How similar is the 2008 race compared to the 1980 race?In this scenario, Barack Obama is Ronald Reagan, Hillary Clinton is George H.W. Bush, John McCain is Jimmy Carter, and perhaps Cynthia McKinney and Bob Barr get to fight... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
25 Jul 21 : 15 | No offense Sen. McCain, but after all these bad weeks, perhaps you need... John McCain has had a bad week. No, this isn't a rerun. McCain had another bad week.Not that I am in the business of giving John McCain advice with his presidential campaign, but perhaps he should have taken the week off.Yes, given the pace of a heated presidential candidate, taking time off can be... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
24 Jul 19 : 42 | Dr. J.'s Commentary: The Surge is Working -- for Bush and Cheney In December 2000, Jim Baker, Republican Controller Extraordinaire, lead the engineering of the prevention of any recounts in the Florida "election" so GW Bush could take over (not "win") the Office of the Presidency by the width of one vote on the Supreme Court. In December 2006, Jim Baker, by now... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
23 Jul 17 : 27 | John McCain may have maturity, but his campaign is childish The one shining moment that keeps political rats going through this summer is waiting, salivating for a chance to find out who Barack Obama and John McCain are picking for their running mates.They have been playing this game, mostly McCain's side, of waiting until the last possible moment to name a... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
22 Jul 21 : 13 | Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for July 22, 2008 BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTEFace it people -- George Bush has opened "Pandora's Box" in the Middle East and he cannot close it! All the hype about the "surge working," "we're winning," "more troops," "less troops," "time horizons," etc. etc. etc. is just that, Repuglican HYPE! The Repuglicans... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
21 Jul 17 : 39 | Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for July 21, 2008 BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTEIt's been said Repuglicans are HYPOCRITES and judging by this latest revelation, regarding John McCain's Social Security checks, it is now a certainty! "Republican presidential candidate John McCain cashes his monthly Social Security checks despite calling the federal... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
18 Jul 13 : 40 | The GOP Plays the Victim Card, Again THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter Let's see, in the past few weeks Barack Obama has exposed the flawed internal logic of the Bush-McCain Iraq policy, urged a transformative shift in resources to the Afghanistan front, applauded or denounced controversial Supreme Court decisions,... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
15 Jul 14 : 24 | In Praise of the New Yorker for Forcing a National Discussion About the... THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter I doubt many copies of the latest New Yorker, nestled physically and perhaps spiritually somewhere betwixt Good Housekeeping and Hustler, are flying off the magazine rack at the local, beer-vending Get-N-Go. But if they are, perhaps such a... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
08 Jul 19 : 45 | Olympic Opening Ceremonies: To go or not to go? Sen. Barack Obama effectively criticized President Bush Monday, by saying, if he were president, he would not attend the Olympic opening ceremonies next month in Beijing as the situation stands. He would only attend pending progress between the Chinese government and the Dalai Lama. He has... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
08 Jul 16 : 13 | Jim Webb no longer a contender for VP We keep scratching names off the VP list. Jim Webb is the latest to join Ted Strickland in the "I'm not going to be VP" statements.I have said in the past that I didn't think Webb would be a good choice for a vice president, particularly his past views on women. Bookmark/Search this post with: ... Source : BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an... |
