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The most screwed up political issue of the Bush administration will be returning I imagine very shortly for the Obama administration.  First, I want to make sure people understand where I’m coming from:

The “Bush ban on stem cells” originally was passed in 1999.  Bush wasn’t president, Bill Clinton was.  This was a complete ban on [...]

Tags: barack obama, bush administration, claire mccaskill, conservatives, embryonic, embryonic research, embryonic stem cell, george-hw-bush, harry reid, human embryonic stem cell, human embryonic stem cell research, john-mccain, lie, livescience, manipulation, michael-j-fox, nancy pelosi, NIH, politicization, president, President-Bush, republicans, stem cell ban, stem cells

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“Well, my understanding is that Governor Palin’s town of Wasilla has, I think, 50 employees. We’ve got 2,500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. You know, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. So I think that our ability to manage large [...]

Tags: alaska, barack obama, boat, campaign, congress, election, executive, governor, governor palin, governors, mayor, mccain, president, ronald-reagan, sarah palin, state government, swift, wasilla

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I’ve seen this a couple of times:
Talk of Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel as a potential running mate for Democratic candidate Barack Obama tends to confound partisans in both parties.
Sure, they’ve been spotted together a few times, but the bottom line is no.  Obama doesn’t appeal to the rational, middle of the road Democrats who would [...]

Tags: Chuck-Hagel, hawaii, mccain, obama, president, race, Vice-President

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Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters wonders how the John Edwards flap has affected the 2008 Presidential race:
…the case can certainly be made that if the Edwards affair had gotten the press attention it deserved back in October when the National Enquirer first broke the story, the former senator would have been forced out of the race [...]

Tags: candidate, clinton, delegates, edwards, iowa, obama, popularity, president, primaries

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Barack Obama’s having a rough week.
First, he did the very odd thing of stating very publicly he liked President Bush’s Faith Based Initiative so much he wanted to expand it.  That drew the ire of the Reverend Jesse Jackson:
“See, Barack’s been talking down to black people on this faith-based—,” Jackson says during a break in [...]

Tags: aclu, barack, bush, conservative, conservatives, dailykos, democrat, democrats, faith based initiative, feingold, FISA, jesse-jackson, john-kerry, legislation, liberal, liberals, mccain, nuts, obama, president, race, republican, republicans, Senate, vote

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Via See-Dubya at Michelle Malkin’s blog, with an assist from Gasbuddy:

Apparently Nancy is finally starting to feel the heat.  So, she came up with the ultimate solution her feable mind could produce:

July 8, 2008
The Honorable George W. Bush
The President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20500 [...]

Tags: bush, china, clinton, demand, drawdown, economy, energy, Katrina, oil, oline, opec, pelosi, petroleum, president, price, recession, SPR

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An article today pointed to the fact that not all National Rifle Association members are against Obama.  Heck, Obama even has the support of the American Hunters and Shooters Association.  Hey, since it has the words “hunter” and “shooter” in its title, it’s got to be about guys who like to shoot things with guns, [...]

Tags: 527, ABC, american hunters and shooters association, barack, cling, cnn, constitution, democrat, fbi, federal, gun, hunter, hunting, mccain, militia, obama, president, rifle, safety, scalia, vote

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Saudi Arabia has announced it’s increasing production by 200,000 barrels a day.  There are some thoughts I have about the article.

“Saudi Arabia is concerned that sustained high oil prices will eventually slacken the world’s appetite for oil, affecting the kingdom in the long run.”  I wonder what gave them that idea?  Could it have been [...]

Tags: anwr, aptera, aptra, dependence, economics, ethanol, gas, hybdrid, legislation, mccain, obama, oil, opec, petroleum, president, saudi arabia, SUV, volt

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This is very interesting to me:

Angelina Jolie supports the surge.  She does because it’s working.  In that it’s working, it allows humanitarian aid to get to those in need inside Iraq.  And, apparently displaced people are trying to come home.  So, she’s trying to keep the surge in place so that they can safely.
I don’t [...]

Tags: angelina-jolie, General, iraq, petreaus, president, surge

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Nancy Pelosi took over as House Speaker on January 3, 2007.  Most people I think took that as no big deal.  Just another politician with a big title.  However, I think people need to consider who runs our country a little better and the impact they have.  For instance, from the period of one year [...]

Tags: Dow-Jones, nancy pelosi, National Politics, president, recession, speaker-of-the-house, unemployment

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