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05 Sept 22 : 05 | The Resentment Strategy - Paul Krugman Can the super-rich former governor of Massachusetts — the son of a Fortune 500 C.E.O. who made a vast fortune in the leveraged-buyout business — really keep a straight face while denouncing “Eastern elites”? Can the former mayor of New York City, a man who, as USA Today put it, “marched in... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published 102 minutes ago |
04 Sept 17 : 00 | FBI Wanted Obama Plotters Charged, But A Rove Appointee Said No We noticed last week that it was awfully peculiar that Colorado’s U.S. Attorney, Troy Eid, had so airily dismissed conspiracy charges against the three white-supremacist tweakers who were caught planning to assassinate Barack Obama at last week’s Democratic National Convention in Denver. Now it... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published 31 hours ago |
04 Sept 11 : 45 | Genius. Obama to upstage McCain on O'Reilly Thursday night. Barack Obama will appear on the O'Reilly Factor Thursday night before McCain speaks. This is a genius move. Way too many people watch Bill-O to ignore him and his audience. Obama fans have nothing to fear. Barack can handle Bill-o. Grabbing the attention during the RNC...pure... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published 36 hours ago |
04 Sept 10 : 05 | GOP Attack on Obama Draws Swift Counterattack Boy, Barack Obama wasn't bluffing when he vowed that he wasn't going to allow himself to be "swift-boated" by the Republicans and their conservative allies. Less than 24 hours after Republicans unleashed a barrage of anti-Obama attacks, the Obama campaign struck back -- HARD! » original news Source : BuzzFlash.net: published 38 hours ago |
05 Sept 14 : 35 | The Anti-Obama Hate-Fest - Robert Parry The Republican Party, which has defined modern-day negative politics, was back at it again, bashing Barack Obama and the news media in an ugly display that rivaled the old days of Nixon-Agnew – or George W. Bush’s last convention where GOP operatives passed out “Purple Heart Band-Aids” to... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published 9 hours ago |
03 Sept 00 : 20 | Poll: Obama gets post-convention 'bounce' - USATODAY The Democratic National Convention significantly boosted Americans' views of Barack Obama as a strong leader who "shares your values" and can manage the economy and Iraq, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Saturday and Sunday finds. Republican John McCain's advantage in handling terrorism was... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
30 Aug 01 : 25 | Barack Obama, American revolutionary: the United States-still capable of... Barack Obama -- smiling, reassuring and firm -- was the face of change. Four years after this little-known Illinois state senator delivered the keynote address at the Democratic convention, Obama accepted the Democratic nomination in a stunning testament to the pace of change. The Democrats have... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
05 Sept 00 : 40 | Attacks, Praise Stretch Truth at GOP Convention -Truthout/AP "Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth." » original news Source : BuzzFlash.net: published 23 hours ago |
04 Sept 19 : 40 | Biden Rips Bush Administration ABC News' Matthew Jaffe reports: While Republicans congregate in the Twin Cities striving to keep their hold on the White House, Barack Obama's running mate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., sharply criticized the Bush administration Tuesday while delineating the changes Democrats would demand if they rise to... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published 28 hours ago |
31 Aug 22 : 10 | Frank Rich: Obama Outwits the Bloviators - NYTimes After a weeklong orgy of inane manufactured melodrama labeled “convention coverage” on television, Barack Obama set the record straight. America is in too much trouble, he said, to indulge in “a big election about small things.” Obama did what he had to do in his acceptance speech - he... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
26 Aug 22 : 40 | Barack Obama, A Free-Market-Loving, Big-Spending, Fiscally Conservative... As Barack Obama prepares to accept the Democratic nomination this week, it is clear that the economic policies of the next president are going to be hugely important. Ever since Wall Street bankers were called back from their vacations last summer to deal with the convulsions in the mortgage market,... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
30 Aug 05 : 50 | Kristol: Bush Might Bomb Iran If He ‘Thinks Senator Obama’s Going To... Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol said that President Bush is more likely to attack Iran if he believes Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is going to be elected. However, “if the president thought John McCain was going to be the next president, he would think it more appropriate to let the next president... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
04 Sept 07 : 25 | McCain should endorse timetable for withdrawal from Iraq When Sen. John McCain makes his acceptance speech this week as the Republican presidential nominee, he would advance his own political fortunes and those of the United States, too, if he abandons his objection to setting a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. While McCain has been... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published 40 hours ago |
03 Sept 23 : 15 | McCain (R-Idiot) Campaign Manager: 'This Election is Not About Issues' Rick Davis, campaign manager for John McCain's presidential bid, insisted that the presidential race will be decided more over personalities than issues during an interview with Post editors this morning. "This election is not about issues," said Davis. "This election is about a composite view of... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
27 Aug 13 : 20 | Whoops! Top Republican Admits That GOP Is Running "Ministry Of Truth"... Wow -- a leading Republican appears to have just inadvertently admitted that the GOP's spin machine set up to counter Barack Obama during the convention is a propaganda machine spewing nothing but lies. The GOPer in question is Colorado GOP chairman Dick Wadhams, who accidentally made the admission... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
27 Aug 01 : 50 | Obama's nomination marks start of new epoch: the third American... The nomination of Barack Obama as the Democratic Party's White House candidate will end the two-centuries-old hold that white men have had on the presidential nomination of this country's major political parties. This is a transformative moment, one that signals the beginning of the third American... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
18 Aug 05 : 50 | Swiftboating Barack Obama Jerome Corsi’s new book, "The Obama Nation", is in keeping with his previous handiwork, notably his share of the shameless “swiftboating” of Sen. John Kerry four years ago. Corsi is essentially claiming the right to just make things up whenever he decides Obama can’t be trusted — and he... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
03 Sept 00 : 40 | Palin's drive for family values hits a (tummy) bump - plus she's Dan Quayle... John McCain did not pick Sarah Palin as his running mate because she was the best candidate around. He picked her because she was a young and photogenic conservative woman with a family-values trump card. So what becomes of family values now [that Palin has announced that her unwed daughter is... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
23 Aug 22 : 50 | Obama Sued In Philadelphia Federal Court On Grounds He Is Constitutionally... A prominent Philadelphia attorney and Hillary Clinton supporter filed suit this afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic National Committee and the Federal Election Commission. The action seeks an injunction... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
22 Aug 00 : 50 | Obama Shifts To Offense - while McCain overplays his hand?-CBS news Back on the road with Barack Obama in Virginia, one senses an immediate shift to offense in the face of a new and feistier McCain camp. This week, Obama is in a fighting mood, repeatedly charging that on issues which matter to Americans, McCain "just doesn't get it." This is not to say that the... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
21 Aug 22 : 10 | Obama: Russia, U.S. should not ‘charge into’ other countries-Reuters Democrat Barack Obama scolded Russia again on Wednesday for invading another country’s sovereign territory while adding a new twist: the United States, he said, should set a better example on that front, too. The Illinois senator’s opposition to the Iraq war, which his comment clearly... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
21 Aug 09 : 50 | Denver's homeless get free haircuts to look good for Obama and his... Last month The Ticket wrote that officials in Denver, worried about the impression that 50,000 visitors to the Democratic National Convention would get next week, were planning to hide the estimated 4,000 homeless people who hang around the city's downtown area. They arranged for free movie passes... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
21 Aug 01 : 35 | New Zogby Poll Results Bad News for McCain, Obama - MarketWatch Nearly 2 in 3 voters want someone else: 62.4% of Americans say they would like to see better choices of candidates, parties in future. A new Zogby poll indicates a large percentage are ready to throw in the towel rather than vote for either of the two candidates in Nov. 2008. "I think what we see... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
08 Aug 09 : 55 | Barack Obama should pick a progressive as his running mate Was the name Evan Byah a leak to see how progressives would react to a centrist running mate for Barack Obama? His chances would improve in November if Obama went with someone strong and left-leaning as the running mate. Obama needs that person, in the #2 slot, to be a true believer to the cause,... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
19 Aug 06 : 25 | Obama takes off gloves to attack McCain - The Associated Press After a handshake and the briefest of embraces in a church full of evangelical Christians, Democrat Barack Obama quickly took off the gloves and was again battering John McCain as little different from President George W. Bush. The first-term Illinois senator also laid into the campaign team of his... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
15 Aug 19 : 55 | Veterans For Obama Over McCain Barack Obama is fundraising among active servicemen overseas by a 6 to 1 margin over John McCain. I cannot recall a population of servicemen so overwhelmingly supporting a Democrat. And check out the reception McCain got at the Disabled Veterans of America shindig in Vegas. He can be thankful he... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
15 Aug 00 : 25 | Deployed Troops Contribute to Obama Over McCain 6 - 1 Open Secrets is reporting that troops overseas are giving to Barack Obama over John McCain at a rate of 6 - 1 » original news Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
31 Aug 11 : 25 | Great Speech, Big Questions, and a Curve Ball from McCain by Dave Lindorff Sen. Barack Obama scored big in the Invesco Stadium Thursday night with an acceptance speech that managed to do everything that the political operatives, pundits and critics had argued he’d have to do: It was at once impassioned, full of actual policy plans, and aggressive in its attack on John... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
13 Aug 12 : 35 | The Lies About Obama - Brent Budowsky Editor’s Note: Despite the conventional wisdom that the U.S. news media is “in the tank” for Barack Obama, something close to the opposite seems to be true, as many political reporters repeat scurrilous attacks on the Democrat without fact-checking or grill him in interviews to show how tough... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
10 Aug 11 : 15 | Seats for Obama's Speech Sold Out in 1 Day Colorado's tickets to see Barack Obama's acceptance speech at Invesco Field at Mile High were more than spoken for within about 24 hours, officials said, and the application process closed Thursday for all but those willing to be put on a waiting list. » original news Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
08 Aug 21 : 15 | FOX News Still Trying To Portray Obama As A Muslim Even though guest Stephen Mansfield, author of the book The Faith of Barack Obama, specifically told the Hannity & Colmes audience Tuesday night (8/5/08) that Barack Obama is “a serious Christian” who will govern out of his religious base, FOX News producers ran a series of banners on the lower... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
08 Aug 15 : 35 | Condoleezza Rice: US would be safe under Obama US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the nation would be safe under a Barack Obama presidency and that she is ruling out a shot at the vice presidency under either Obama or Republican John McCain. Rice also said "But there's something to be said for fresh blood," in reference to the running... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
05 Aug 11 : 50 | Obama leads McCain among low-wage workers: poll Democrat Barack Obama holds a two-to-one lead over Republican John McCain among low-wage workers but many are uncommitted to either presidential candidate, to according to a new poll by The Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University. Obama's advantage is due largely to... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
29 Aug 03 : 10 | Leonard Pitts Jr.: A promise and a dream Martin Luther King Jr. reminded a watching world that in writing the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, the founders were "signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note," said Dr. King, "was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men,... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
28 Aug 16 : 45 | The Influence Game in Denver: What Are They Hiding? Not even the emotionally charged speech by Sen. Ted Kennedy kept corporate lobbyists from carrying out their multi-million dollar campaign to wine and dine and influence Democratic lawmakers at a series of lavish parties last night in Denver. Anti-lobby law loopholes keep the gravy train running in... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
26 Aug 11 : 05 | Pouring Gas On The Afghanistan Bonfire - Chris Hedges The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan grind forward with their terrible human toll, even as the press and many Americans play who gets thrown off the island with Barack Obama. Coalition forces carried out an airstrike that killed up to 95 Afghan civilians in western Afghanistan on Friday, 50 of them... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
25 Aug 22 : 20 | John McCain is NOT a Self Made Man John McCain's campaign and the Republican bloggers and attack machines keep calling Barack Obama an elitist; and by inference, attempting to paint John McCain as a self-made "common man". Nothing could be further from the truth. » original news Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
24 Aug 21 : 50 | Frank Rich: Last Call for Change We Can Believe In - NYTimes AS the real campaign at last begins in Denver this week, this much is certain: It’s time for Barack Obama to dispatch “Change We Can Believe In” to a dignified death. As the presidential race finally gains the country’s full attention, the strategy that vanquished Hillary Clinton must be... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
24 Aug 01 : 00 | Why We Can't Afford a McCain Presidency All in all, it's really a simple choice. If you're a multi-millionaire or billionaire and all you care about is preserving what you have, you're likely to want a third Bush term. If, on the other hand, you worry about the future, you know that maintaining the status quo is a recipe for disaster. If... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
23 Aug 10 : 35 | The Right And Men Who Live Off their Second Wives' Inherited Wealth - Glenn... What's most notable about John McCain's confusion over the number of homes he owns isn't merely that it demonstrates that, after running his campaign based on depicting Barack Obama as an out-of-touch elitist and himself as the all-American Everyman, McCain lives a life that is about as far removed... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
22 Aug 05 : 50 | Alexander Burns: Poll: Mixed results on candidates' patriotism-... The public views Sen. John McCain as more patriotic than his opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, 74 to 56 percent, even though it prefers the way Obama talks about patriotism, 52-41 percent, according to a new poll. When respondents were read two excerpts of Obama and McCain’s comments describing their... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
20 Aug 01 : 20 | U.S. election contrasts two types of patriotism The U.S. presidential election presents a sharp contrast between two types of patriotism: John McCain stands as a war hero. His rival Barack Obama calls Americans back to the can-do spirit of the nation's founders. In November the candidates will find out which style appealed more to voters in this... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
19 Aug 06 : 25 | McCain's "Cone Of Silence" Caper - Robert Parry Millions of Americans who watched Barack Obama and then John McCain respond to nearly identical questions from evangelical minister Rick Warren were surely impressed by McCain’s quick and sharp answers. Supposedly he had been in a “cone of silence” while Obama was getting grilled during the... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
18 Aug 07 : 50 | US Senator Biden to visit Georgia for crisis talks Democratic Senator Joseph Biden, who has been mentioned as a possible vice presidential running mate for White House hopeful Barack Obama, said on Saturday he would visit Georgia this weekend.Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, said he had been asked to go to Georgia by... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
15 Aug 04 : 10 | The Coming Surge in Afghanistan: Good War, Bad War? By Conn Hallian Every war has a story line: World War I was “The war to end all wars.” World War II was “The war to defeat fascism.” Iraq was sold as a war to halt weapons of mass destruction; then to overthrow Saddam Hussein, then to build democracy. In the end it was a fabrication. Built on a falsehood.... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
14 Aug 01 : 10 | NATO, Georgia and the Ready-Made War By William Pfaff British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery was the man who said the first three rules of warfare are “Do not invade Russia,” repeated three times. The fourth rule of war might be, “Do not let anyone trick you into invading Russia.” The Russian version of the betrayal theme [that ... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
11 Aug 14 : 35 | McCain's Michigan Melt-Down Madness - Harvey Wasserman Leave it to John McCain to pick the site of a horrific atomic meltdown to symbolize his push for nuke power. McCain says he wants at least 45 more US reactors as part of his “do everything” campaign for American energy independence. Apparently that strategy does not include inflating car tires,... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
08 Aug 23 : 35 | Old Wrinkly's Roverian cancer How mud-wallowingly deep may a multi-millionaire US presidential campaign go? Way deep - deeper and deeper. And this is only early August. Republican Senator John McCain's presidential campaign's strategic decision is now all too obvious. Swift-boating Democratic Senator Barack Obama is the only... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
06 Aug 07 : 30 | Why McCain May Well Win --Robert Parry " It might seem unlikely that the United States would elect John McCain to succeed George W. Bush when that would ensure continuation of many unpopular Bush policies: an ill-defined war with the Muslim world, right-wing consolidation of the U.S. Supreme Court, a drill-oriented energy strategy, tax... Source : BuzzFlash.net: published |
