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Obama Fires Back at McCain

By Ripper on Wed, 07/30/2008 - 8:49pm |
I love that Barack Obama chose Springfield, Mo., to start firing back at John McCain. I used to live there.Speaking to supporters today in a heavily Republican area  (House Minority Whip Roy Blunt's home district), Obama took aim at McCain's...

Come On, Ya *#@$& Pukes, Get It Out of Your Systems!

By Ripper on Wed, 07/30/2008 - 7:28pm |
Whether you believe commentators who engage in insults here at TPM should be ignored, sued or dissected and fried, it's obvious that nearly everyone (not quite all) her have some degree of temper from time to time (or nearly always,...

Borger Almost Gets the Story Right (formatted)

By Ripper on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 11:18pm |
John McCain's increasing meltdown into jealousy and fury seems invisible to most of the mainstream media, including Katie Couric's fawning piece on tonight's "CBS Evening News," which examined none of McCain's policies and, in fact, barely quoted McCain at all.Gloria...

Borger Almost Gets the Story Right

By Ripper on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 11:12pm |
John McCain's increasing meltdown into jealousy and fury seems invisible to most of the mainstream media, including Katie Couric's fawning piece on tonight's "CBS Evening News," which examined none of McCain's policies and, in fact, barely quoted McCain at all.Gloria...

On Why Obama is RIGHT About War in Afghanistan

By Ripper on Sat, 07/26/2008 - 2:01pm |
I must respectfully disagree with David O'Brien's recent post, wherein he argued Barack Obama is wrong about sending more troops into Afghanistan to "widen" the conflict there. Although the goal of a peaceful world free of imperialism and war is...

Rachel Sklar's Answer to My TPM Post

By Ripper on Mon, 07/21/2008 - 11:31pm |
By Chris PowersMy identity is revealed above for the sake of transparency and also because I decided to call Rachel Sklar's bluff.Rachel, one of the bigwig bloggers at Huffington Post, served up a horribly knee-jerk attack on Barack Obama with...

With Friends Like This, Who Needs Enemas?

By Ripper on Mon, 07/21/2008 - 6:40pm |
Hint: Keep reading, you'll love my ending.Following up on Gary Cohen's post, I decided to register my complaint to Rachel Sklar about her hit piece at HuffPo under the headline "Obama's Revenge: New Yorker Reporter Banned From Press Plane For...

Lieberman Becomes Zell Miller

By Ripper on Sun, 07/20/2008 - 3:35pm |
Barack Obama is prepared to accept defeat in Iraq, Sen. Joe Lieberman said today on Fox News Sunday (see the video here).Lieberman, who described himself as an Independent Democrat, attacked Obama relentlessly and also confirmed to host Chris Wallace that...

McCain's Next Move on Iraq

By Ripper on Sun, 07/20/2008 - 1:01am |
Now that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has endorsed Barack Obama's plan to withdraw American combat troops from his country over 16 months, what will John McCain's response be?Some are hailing al-Maliki's position as bolting the door closed on McCain's...

SCAMMD: How the Press Escapes Accountability

By Ripper on Wed, 07/16/2008 - 2:36am |
TPM blogger Eric Kramer was recently kind enough to list the Associated Press board members in his reader post "Horrified by AP Bias."Having tried and failed again today to contact an editor at the Associated Press bureau in Washington, D.C.,...

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