The Middle
Washington Post Hit Piece On Sen McCain - ‘Hypocrisy on Hamas’
UPDATE: 7:38pm PST - from - Hot Air
Washington Post
By James P. Rubin
James P. Rubin Bio
If the recent exchanges between President Bush, Barack Obama and John McCain on Hamas and terrorism are a preview of the general election, we are in for an ugly six months. Despite his reputation in the media as a charming [...]
Amputee Sprinter To Compete For Spot On S. Africa Olympic Team
By Howard Schneider
Washington Post Staff Writer
Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius will be allowed to compete for a spot on the South African Olympic team after a sport regulatory body ruled today that his carbon-fiber prosthetic limbs do not give him an advantage over other runners.
The Switzerland-based Court of Arbitration for Sport in a decision released this [...]
Obama To Reporter: Hold On A Minute Sweetie
Via Ben Smith
An almost miraculous stroke of bad luck: He dropped this on the one member of the media who wouldn’t coo and squeal like an infant at being addressed by him this way. In any other year no one would care but expect the pro-Hillary bloggers to tear him a new Messiah-hole for it, [...]
Nation Of Islam: Curious George Obama 08 T-Shirts Are Racist
Charges of racist and demonstrations by groups such as the anti-semitic Nation of Islam (Obama’s friends) continue to harass local Marietta, Georgia bar owner Mike Norman over his Curious George Obama t-shirts.
Norman claims he’s saying out loud what everyone else in town whispers while Rich Pellegrino, director of the Cobb-Cherokee Immigrant Alliance says it’s “time [...]
Obama “Curious George” T-Shirts - For Sale
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Christian Boone
Pam Lindley of Marietta holds up the T-shirt in question as about a dozen people protested outside Mulligan’s bar in Marietta Tuesday. They object to the establishment selling a Curious George t-shirt that says ‘Obama in ‘08.’ The bar has caused controversy in the past with its billboard messages.
About a dozen [...]
House G.O.P. Adopts ‘Change’ Theme From Anti-Depressant Ad
By Carl Hulse
GOP “Change” Slogan Borrowed From Antidepressant
In a memo to be sent to Republican members today, the leadership hints at a new slogan building on the change message that has already been shown to have political resonance with a public unhappy with the nation’s direction.
It looks like Republicans will counter the Democratic push [...]
Voters: Racism Is Not the Problem
National Journal Magazine
by Stuart Taylor Jr.
Wright aside, if Obama’s race were a net liability with voters, he would have had no chance of winning the nomination.
Is Barack Obama–now closer than ever to winning the Democratic nomination–nonetheless at a political disadvantage because of white racism, or “racial fears,” or “race-baiting,” or racial “double standards,” as some [...]
Ted Kennedy’s Divisive Rhetoric
Talk Left
By Big Tent Democrat
Ted Kennedy:
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama isn’t likely to pick rival Hillary Clinton as a running mate, according to one of his most prominent supporters. “I don’t think it’s possible,” Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital With Al Hunt,” airing this weekend.
Kennedy, 76, without [...]
Obama Has Visited All 57 States But One
Think Left
By Jeralyn
Whoops, Obama in Oregon today:
It is wonderful to be back in Oregon,” Obama said. “Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I [...]
