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That was Obama's brushback pitch, Hillary. What you have to worry about is his fastball

By acanuck on Sat, 11/15/2008 - 3:35am |
Hillary. Hillary. Hillary. Will you never learn? President-elect Obama meets wirh her, and floats the idea of Secretary of State. So she tries to lock that "offer" in with a couple of well-placed leaks. There are no immediate denials from...
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Washington Post has the worst ombudsman ever

By acanuck on Sat, 11/08/2008 - 9:07pm |
Deborah Howell continues to reinforce this widely shared assessment of her work. In Sunday's column, she examines her own paper's coverage of the election campaign, and detects a pro-Obama tilt. Her evidence is rigorously scientific: so many front-page Barack Obama...
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Election Day chaos: Just say no!

By acanuck on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 4:01am |
Reading this week about five-hour-plus lineups for advance voting, legal clashes over disputed registrations and extended hours, allegations of voter fraud and voter suppression, I couldn't help but think: WTF! Why do people put up with this crap? Two weeks...
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It's official: Lou Dobbs is insane

By acanuck on Tue, 10/14/2008 - 10:10pm |
I just heard Lou Dobbs refer to ACORN as "the leftist radical group ..." Like the Weather Underground or Baader-Meinhof! (In my defence, I wasn't intentionally watching Dobbs. The TV had been tuned to CNN and I wasn't fast enough in turning...
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Here's how Obama seals the deal: Tell 'em just how hard it's going to get

By acanuck on Mon, 09/29/2008 - 11:11pm |
I've avoided, up till now, all temptation to join the blogger chorus telling Axelrod, Plouffe and Co. how to run a winning campaign. But at the peak of the Palin bounce, before the current financial unpleasantness began, I did get an...
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When is Canada's financial bailout due?

By acanuck on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 5:11pm |
The Canadian and U.S. economies are just about as closely intertwined as any two in the world.So, given the ratio of their populations, why haven't we heard about the $70 billion emergency bailout that Canadian legislators have been called back...
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OK, so let's make the campaign all about McCain

By acanuck on Sat, 09/13/2008 - 7:16pm |
Earlier today, I read Kos on DailyKos and Ben Smith on Politico. Both offered interesting second-hand quotes, which happened to converge on crucial one point. Kos, citing a pre-conventions Bob Novak column (all bold-facing by me): I asked one of the...
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Thank you, Josh

By acanuck on Fri, 09/12/2008 - 10:31pm |
We're either running on a new server, or a whole lot of archived stuff has been shifted off this one.Breathe that air!It's like Nov. 5 morning in America....
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McCain: I'd run a clean campaign if I weren't desperate

By acanuck on Fri, 09/12/2008 - 8:32pm |
On The View, McCain was confronted about the lying, gutter-level approach his campaign is now taking.His excuse: The campaign's tone would be better if Obama hadn't rejected his proposal for an endless string of townhall meetings.Huh? What's the connection?Well, the conventional...
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Hey AP idiots, it's Democrat-bashing!

By acanuck on Fri, 09/05/2008 - 6:02pm |
Republicans love to annoy the left by referring to the Democrat Party, the Democrat candidate, etc.Right-wing bloggers and media types have picked it the habit.Now the once-venerable Associated Press, stung by evidence its coverage is in the tank for the GOP,...

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