Apparently, over the week-end, Obama errantly said that is Great Uncle helped to liberate Auschwitz, when he actually liberated Buchenvald: Obama’s campaign clarified the comments about the candidate’s great-uncle liberating Auschwitz, saying Obama was “mistaken,” and was referring to Buchenwald, not Auschwitz. “Senator Obama’s family is proud of the service of his grandfather and uncles …
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The Renzi Connection
Interesting: Federal agents interviewed staffers for likely Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) as part of their corruption case against Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.). U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona Diane J. Humetewa and fellow prosecutors disclosed the interviews with aides for McCain and fellow Arizona Republican Sen. Jon Kyl in a written …
Some Other Proposals
It is Wednesday, so you know what that means- another opportunity for Lanny Davis to make a contorted and stupid argument about delegates and humiliate himself before the general public. To save him some time, I have come up with a few arguments for him. Here are some arguments he should advance before the Rules …
More On McLellan
dday at Drum’s: The spate of memoirs that always roll out near the end of an Administration will take on an even greater “every-man-for-himself” quality in this one. From the lowest-level staffer to his personal food-taster, Bush will see half of his underlings or more trash him to every publisher in the country. If someone …
McClellan Throws Self, Rest of White House Under the Bus
Thanks for speaking up so early, when we could do something about all the lies you witnessed. Dick.
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This Should Go Well
Death throes of a campaign can be ugly: The Democratic National Committee is bracing itself for protests outside its Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting on Saturday in Washington, where the fates of the Florida and Michigan primaries could finally be decided. Supporters of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton are organizing to march and then gather on …
A Whole Lotta Jacobs
This is quite a gem: Jose is again the top boy’s name for babies born in Texas in 2007, evidence, as one approving blogger puts it, “that decades of Hispanic immigration has fundamentally changed this state’s character.” Did anyone ask Texans if, you know, they wanted to fundamentally change the state’s character? (You can search …