Elections Blog

Like when you see somebody making a fool of himself and you get all squirmy, that kind of embarrassing:
Mr. Biden is equally skeptical—albeit in a slightly more backhanded way—about Mr. Obama. “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” he said.
I’m going to crawl [...]

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It’s no secret that I am no fan of Senator Joe Biden running for President. However, I can also do without Johnny Reid Edwards so this quote got me going this morning.
Hat tip to our friends at Politicalwire:
“I don’t think John Edwards knows what the heck he is talking about.”
-Senator Joe Biden, quoted by [...]

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Pioneering forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Bass is the inventor of the University of Tennessee “body farm,” made famous by Patricia Cornwell’s bestselling novel of the same name. Bass is also, with Jon Jefferson, a bestselling author in his own right under the name Jefferson Bass. We talk about forensic anthropology, their new novel Flesh and Bone, what CSI gets wrong, and how to have fun in Chattanooga’s gay bars.

Music: “Temptation,” by Mobius Dick.

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Multi-culturalism has met the Holocaust. There’s a movement afoot to make Holocaust remembrances more “inclusive;” especially in Britain, where the Muslim Council has been campaigning to replace “Holocaust Memorial Day” with “Genocide Day,” and proposing that the latter should include the so-called Israeli genocide against the Palestinians. The Squad discusses the benefits of victimhood, Kerry’s dissing of the US, Carter’s attitude towards history, and the only cause the Left ever championed and then abandoned.

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Unity 08 staff members were caught calling a grassroots member of Unity 08 a jackass. Why? Because that member asked awkward questions about Unity 08 financial dealings.

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Good for him. Via AP:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 2000 who won re-election as an independent last year, says he is open to supporting any party’s White House nominee in 2008.
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“So I’m open to supporting a Democrat, Republican or even an Independent, if there’s a [...]

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Unless I’m mistaken, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has found her campaign voice and George Bush, if he has a brain, had better buy a codpiece. Get him, Hillary!
Newsday reports:
Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday that President Bush has made a mess of Iraq and it is his responsibility to “extricate” the United States from the situation before [...]

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Check out The REAL McCain.

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Newsweek is publishing a expose on the real costs of the Iraq War. American lives are being thrown away! Americans are being maimed! Do you feel any safer now? If anything we are less safe today than 4 years ago.
Finally the press is starting to analyze the true costs [...]

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John Hawkins surveyed several right wing bloggers, including moi, to find out who we wanted least and most to win the Republican nomination for president in 2008. The list is here.
Speaking of presidential conteners, the WaPo did a write-up on Senator Chuck Hagel today and his pondering of a potential bid for the White [...]

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Another Republican

Huckabee to set up ‘08 exploratory panel - Yahoo! News
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Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) is considering a run for the White House.
An iconoclast in the Republican party, Hagel’s sharp criticism of the Iraq war has placed him squarely in the mainstream of public opinion on the conflict and revived speculation about his presidential ambitions.
Best of all, his Republican colleagues regard him warily, the White House barely [...]

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City Journal effectively skewers John Hawkins’s statement that Rudy is “not conservative in the least.”

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Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), the Democratic Presidential nominee in 2004, won’t make a second bid for the White House, according to sources close to the senator.
Kerry made the decision within the past day and is expected to announce it later Wednesday, the source said.
In the 2004 presidential race, Kerry lost the popular vote to President Bush by [...]

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The dextrosphere is full of speculation and debate regarding GOP race in 08 (the Bitch Girls have been slamming Romney, Born Again Redneck looks at the candidates — and those are only the examples I’ve seen this morning; there are too many to document).
But everybody is missing the boat — and I’m going to focus [...]

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      Last week,  Sen. Boxer  grilled Secretary Rice regarding the war in Iraq.  During Condoleezza began discussing the progress.  Sen. Boxer , in her infinite wisdom, asked Secretary Rice “Who pays the price?”.   She went on to ramble about Rice not having children and being unwed.   Since Rice didn’t have children, somehow she was not qualified to [...]

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A committee in the Virginia House of Delegates approved a measure today requiring 11-year-old girls to be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV), which the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention links to 99 percent of all cases of cervical cancer. The bill, sponsored by Del. Jeion A. Ward (D-Hampton), would require girls to receive three doses of the vaccine. Parents would be allowed to opt out of the mandatory vaccination after reviewing material linking the virus with cervical cancer. The bill, approved by the Health, Welfare and Institutions Committee, would become effective Sept. 1, 2008.

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Benny Morris’s sobering Jerusalem Post article paints a picture of a Second Holocaust–a nuclear-armed Iran willing to sacrifice the loss of millions of its own people to have the satisfaction of destroying Israel, and an Israel whose own nuclear weapons would be of no real use against an enemy so resistant to deterrence. Is there any way out of this dreadful dilemma? The Sanity Squad discusses paranoia vs. denial, the West as the enabler of its own enemies, and Iran’s vulnerabilities.

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She never did answer that question, so here it is again (maybe if a whole bunch of us start asking, she’ll answer). Here it is. So Hillary, pro-abortion folks are always claiming that only very few abortions are performed as birth control. Yet, the data seem to contradict that:

Reason

Birth control?

Percentage

Want to postpone childbearing

Y

25.5%

Cannot afford a [...]

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