Archives for the 'pols' Category
Civic Involvement Decried
Published on 7 Aug 2009 at 8:46 am.
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Filed under America, Norman Rockwell, Obama, media, pols.
Paul Krugman among others are fully handwrought over the latest expression of American democracy, decrying the fact that citizens are involved, that they give a damn what their government is doing, that they are mad as hell, etc. Krugman wants to know whatever happened to Rockwellian democracy.
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Chaos
Published on 22 Jul 2009 at 9:13 am.
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In the enemy camp. Always a good sign. Better when there’s signs of panic. The Hill on much gnashing of teeth, rending of garments, wails from the city walls as Dems attempt to seize defeat from the jaws of victory re health care. Kind of reminds me of when they tried to end the Iraq war with that [...]
Cheney Tried To Keep Secret Stuff Secret
Published on 12 Jul 2009 at 12:21 pm.
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Filed under Cheney, Intel, pols.
It’s yet another a big scandal revolving around our Dark Lord Cheney, evil be his name. Maybe he didn’t want Congress to blab about it, or the New York Times to tell al-Qaeda about it. No word yet on what the big secret program was, though this, buried in the NYT article, is interesting:
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Economic Credulus
Published on 11 Jul 2009 at 11:11 am.
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Filed under Obama, hacks, money, pols.
Obama rejects a second stimulus. Coming from the Hero of Guantanamo and Savior of America’s Image Abroad, I believe that. via the Boston Herald:
The Guys Doth Protest Too Much
Published on 7 Jul 2009 at 7:58 am.
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Kristol at the Washington Post defends Palin against the media and the GOP establishment. It’s faint praise, but far from damning. Nothing like an establishment elite explaining to the others that they don’t own this thing, the people do.
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Politburo Mulls Airbrushing Reagan
Published on 3 Jul 2009 at 9:05 am.
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Filed under commies, moronocy, pols.
Barbara Hollingsworth, Washington Examiner:
At Wednesday’s Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board meeting, chairman H.R. Crawford – a former District Council member and Marion Barry confidante – told fellow Board members that he has heard talk on Capitol Hill about yanking former President Ronald Reagan’s name off the local airport and returning it to its previous generic [...]
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Clown Wins Senate Seat
Published on 30 Jun 2009 at 10:27 pm.
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Smile! Comedian gives Dems their super majority. Seems appropriate it should happen this way. Not the drawn-out, months-long court battle part, though that did cut into Franken’s term. The fact that it took Bozo* winning to make them theoretically filibuster-proof. Now, everytime they bulldoze something through, it will be because Minnesota sent in a clown.
Politico with the news, roundup at [...]
Man-Caused Disasterists Persecuted
Published on 21 May 2009 at 10:29 am.
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Filed under al qaeda, pols, terrorists.
NY Daily News: Homegrown jailhouse Islamists planned to blow up synagogues and shoot down planes in New York. They bought their fake explosives from FBI plants posing as al-Qaeda. Gotta love it when that happens …
The suspects - three U.S.-born citizens and one Haitian immigrant - at least three of whom were said to be [...]
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Briar Patch
Published on 18 May 2009 at 10:35 pm.
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Yglesias thinks the evil Cheneyite plan to humiliate Pelosi will fail, because insisting on a Truth Commission will result in a Truth Commission, and it’s only fair that people who have already admitted they ordered waterboarding to save Americans will look worse than the people who just went along with it and then denounced it [...]
Dome Capping
Published on 18 May 2009 at 10:44 am.
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Filed under impending doom!, pols.
In the offing? Republican operative John Feehery at Politico handicaps the chances for a Democratic Congressional coup, comparing Pelosi’s woes against Republicans who lost their heads under the Dome, finds current conditions perfectly stormy.
Biden Targets Himself
Published on 17 May 2009 at 2:20 pm.
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Reveals location of secret veep bunker in latest gaffe. Fox News.
Sounds bad. But I dunno. If I was a foreign enemy bent on bringing America to its knees, I think I’d leave Biden in place. He could be a critical player.*
Kind of makes me a little nostalgic for Cheney. We don’t have to miss him, though. He [...]
Getting Cheney
Published on 17 May 2009 at 8:42 am.
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Filed under Cheney, ancient mysteries, media, pols.
The first thing you need to understand about him is his strange power to induce irrationality in his opponents, even greater possibly than the similar power wielded by Bush. It will be the stuff academic careers are built on. For now, we have to make do with the media and punditry, their descriptions of the raw [...]
“Ignore The Noise”
Published on 16 May 2009 at 8:14 am.
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Filed under impending doom!, pols.
Are you kidding? Enjoy the show. Panetta re Pelosi, via The Hill:
CIA Director Leon Panetta challenged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s accusations that the agency lied to her, writing a memo to his agents saying she received nothing but the truth.
Panetta said that “ultimately, it is up to Congress to evaluate all the evidence and reach [...]
Metaphor Wanted
Published on 15 May 2009 at 11:26 am.
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Smells like blood in the water, as people start to notice the House Speaker’s come unhinged. Dan Balz at the Washington Post delicately analyzes the situation:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s extraordinary accusation that the Bush administration lied to Congress about the use of harsh interrogation techniques dramatically raised the stakes in the growing debate over the Bush administration’s anti-terrorism [...]
Now He’s Worried
Published on 15 May 2009 at 8:32 am.
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Filed under Obama, money, pols.
Obama, U.S. long-term debt unsustainable. Bloomberg:
President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending “unsustainable,” warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries.
“We can’t keep on just borrowing from China,” Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, outside Albuquerque. “We have to [...]
Wicked Web Woven
Published on 14 May 2009 at 9:16 pm.
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Filed under Bush, GWOT, pols.
By someone. This is fascinating. Sounds like Pelosi plans to pit her word against the CIA. Or she’s betting on the CIA staying mum, keeping its agents out of the limelight. Then there’s ex-CIA Chief Porter Goss, who was there as a ranking Republican congressman at the time. Maybe she figures she can take him on the [...]
Rebrand Planned
Published on 13 May 2009 at 12:14 pm.
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Politico: GOP, RNC plan to rebrand Dems as Socialists. Huh? I thought they already were branded that way. I also recall it didn’t work last time. Maybe they figure they have more to work with now.
Hot Air: Stupid.
Actual Voters Cared About
Published on 13 May 2009 at 11:27 am.
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Filed under military, pols.
As tens of thousands of military absentee ballots are estimated to have been lost. Congressional study finds nearly 100,000 votes missing in a survey of seven states: California, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington and West Virginia. If some of those states’ names look familiar, you may remember them as key swing states in recent elections.
What’s astonishing is [...]
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Ox Gored
Published on 13 May 2009 at 11:10 am.
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Filed under Intel, pols.
“Democrats: The CIA is out to get us.” Politico:
Democrats charged Tuesday that the CIA has released documents about congressional briefings on harsh interrogation techniques in order to deflect attention and blame away from itself.
“I think there is so much embarrassment in some quarters [of the CIA] that people are going to try to shift some [...]
Donald Trump For Supreme Court
Published on 13 May 2009 at 9:43 am.
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Filed under Obama, justice, moronocy, pols, sex, sexism.
The guy’s like freakin’ Solomon. OK, sort of a low-budget, Cheese Whiz, weird combover Solomon with an eye for nautch girls. He couldn’t possibly be worse than anyone else Obama will nominate. And as this sage decision shows, he’s a uniter, finding what we have in common, splitting the baby without axing the babe. Politico:
President [...]
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Take The High Road
Published on 13 May 2009 at 8:31 am.
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Filed under books, pols.
It’ll drive the low road crazy.
There’s Palin tome due out. Here’s hoping she doesn’t turn it into a big whinefest about how she was attacked by the press and purported supporters of women’s rights. We all know that already. How about something a little more stirring and insightful about how a beauty queen and mom became mayor, [...]
Nancy Is Very Bright But Doesn’t Apply Herself
Published on 12 May 2009 at 7:55 am.
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Filed under GWOT, pols.
Her latest excuse: Respect for appropriate legislative channels ate her homework. Politico:
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Sounds Like His Heart Was In The Right Place
Published on 9 May 2009 at 9:04 am.
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Filed under al qaeda, media, military, pols.
But it doesn’t sound like he knows the troops as well as he thinks he does. The Hill:
CBS Sports commentator David Feherty drew criticism Friday for suggesting any U.S. soldier would murder House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) if given the chance.
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GOP-Caused PTSD-Related Kiddie Porn Jones
Published on 8 May 2009 at 10:45 am.
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Filed under PTSD, crime, pervs, pols, porn.
It’s a shocking allegation, that the rightwing persecution of Kerry’s Swift Boat Veterans for Truth induced a tragic case of PTSD perversion in Wade Sanders. via Howie Carr at Boston Herald.
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Liar, Liar
Published on 8 May 2009 at 7:48 am.
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Filed under GWOT, hated Crusaders, pols.
Pants on fire. CIA reports Pelosi was briefed on the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” on Abu Zubaydah in 2002. Last month, the House Speaker claimed that as a member of the House Intel Committee she was only informed of the legal opinions, to explain why she raised no objections at the time. Turns out [...]
Free Cars For Welfare Recipients!
Published on 7 May 2009 at 12:30 pm.
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Filed under cars, money, pols.
Welcome to Massachusetts! Vroom vroom!
(Republican meanspiritedness alert. NSF bleeding-heart libs).
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Hell Hath No Fury
Published on 7 May 2009 at 10:23 am.
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Turns out great minds think alike … sort of. Yesterday, it was former Edwards speechwriter Wendy Button earnestly wishing John Edwards would put this paternity thing past him so he could re-emerge as America’s great Champion of the Poor! Never mind the wretched poverty of character.
Today, that great American supermarket tabloid, The National Enquirer,* brings news that the [...]
Philosophical Poser Of The Day
Published on 6 May 2009 at 1:40 pm.
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No, not poseur, though it’s about one. Here’s the stumper: If a wealthy, narcissistic, opportunistic, parasitic bounder stops talking about poverty, are we richer or poorer for it?
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Turncoat Pariahed
Published on 6 May 2009 at 9:56 am.
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Specter denied seniority, given junior rank on the Dem side of committees. Hey, I thought he had Harry Reid’s word on that! Turns out he’ll get it … if he behaves through 2010. It’s evil and diabolical. I like it. Fitting punishment for someone who bailed on the party he rode in on, squawking about [...]
Hasta
Published on 29 Apr 2009 at 8:28 am.
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Bill Kristol with the good news re Specter’s switch: No O excuses.
Don’t Let The Door Hit Your Arlen Specter …
Published on 28 Apr 2009 at 1:27 pm.
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On the way out. Facing the specter of losing, Arlen switches sides. Statement here. News here. Malkin, to whom the same phrase above occured, with some background. Outside The Beltway: poor timing on the door/ass hittage avoidance. Gateway, with a simple “goodbye” adds this odd remark from RNC chair Steele:
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Pelosi = Schultz
Published on 24 Apr 2009 at 9:11 am.
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“I know nothink!” Politico re the House Speaker and waterboarding:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pushing back on GOP charges that she knew about waterboarding for years and did nothing.
Pelosi says she was briefed by Bush administration officials on the legal justification for using waterboarding — but that they never followed through on promises to inform [...]
Bush Lied, People Were Waterboarded
Published on 22 Apr 2009 at 9:21 am.
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Filed under Iraq, al qaeda, media, pols.
Great hit for the left! McClatchy-Tribune has the details … some of them, anyway … that among other things, Khalid Sheikh Muhammed and Abu Zubaydah were asked about Saddam-al-Qaeda operational ties during their dunkings. McClatchy and Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., are delighted to report no evidence of operational ties emerged from the sessions. But this is the [...]
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Spanish Inquisition Re-Update
Published on 18 Apr 2009 at 9:17 am.
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Filed under Spain, moronocy, pols.
Spanish judge to Spanish AG: “How dare you attempt to render me unstupid?”
OK, that’s not exactly how he said it. But investigative judge Baltasar Garzon insists he will press ahead with the persecution of Bush admin officials on torture charges, despite a lack of jurisdiction, and despite the lack of interest in the duly elected [...]
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OBushma
Published on 13 Apr 2009 at 8:09 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Bush, Iraq, Obama, military, pols.
Boston Herald editorial: Obama the president pushes Congress for quick, no-effing-around action on his $83 billion warfighting request, to a great wringing of hands among his erstwhile pals in the anti-war left.
“This funding will do two things: It will prolong our occupation of Iraq through at least the end of 2011, and it will deepen and expand our [...]
The Money Part
Published on 8 Apr 2009 at 8:18 am.
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Filed under military, money, pols.
And the procurement part of war-fighting. Danger Room on the end of an arms procurement program. One-vehicle-fits-all-purposes sounds like a pretty bad idea. More Pentagon budget discussion at Abu Muqawama, who looks at nuance in budgetary COIN support in several posts.
UPDATE: Thomas Donnelly and Gary Schmitt pick through in a little more detail at WSJ. Not happy. [...]
New Politics
Published on 2 Apr 2009 at 1:08 pm.
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Includes old-fashioned scorekeeping. Our Dark Lord Rove at WSJ re Obama:
“Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother.” That’s what President Barack Obama said to Rep. Peter DeFazio in a closed-door meeting of the House Democratic Caucus last week, according to the Associated Press.
A few weeks ago, Mr. DeFazio voted against the administration’s stimulus bill. The comment [...]
Unemployment Spike
Published on 27 Mar 2009 at 1:05 am.
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Feared in Massachusetts. UMass study predicts 9.1 percent before summer at the current rate, with the prospect of double digits. And that’s not even the worst part. Boston Herald:
Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) said the new numbers “put an exclamation point on the problems we’re trying to solve” but he insisted “help is on the way.”
Really, [...]
Boo Hoo
Published on 25 Mar 2009 at 9:25 pm.
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Filed under money, pols.
AIG guy resigns via NYT op-ed, makes a compelling case for why he’s being screwed by his bosses and the pols, when he’s innocent of everything in this horrible mess, and he’s just a regular guy from a humble background, an American Dream-come-true who is being shafted.
KindleNacht
Published on 25 Mar 2009 at 9:59 am.
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Althouse, rounds up the bizarre turn the free speech case, Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission took into book-banning arguments, with a Kindle review/1st Amendment argument. That’s different, but we’re living in different times.* Sounds a little like the United States, such as the United States is currently comprised, is grasping a little in its desire to control pre-vote thought and [...]
Obama Lite Update
Published on 20 Mar 2009 at 12:40 am.
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They wanted you know how much alike they are … right down to the tin ear, as it turns out.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, when asked by an ink-stained wretch in a State House presser how he summons the gall to shake down the citizenry for more $$$ while lavishing pay raises on hacks and cronies, says he concentrates [...]
Love & War
Published on 18 Mar 2009 at 8:52 am.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Obama, Pakistan, military, pols.
US mulling whether to hit Taliban R&R/support areas in the vicinity of Quetta, Baluchistan, Pakistan proper, where big mullahs have fallen back due to the heat in Waziristan’s tribal areas. via Al Qaeda Early Warning System, aka NYT. Rather than whack NYT for reporting what admin officials are blabbing about, though, it’s more useful to consider what it says [...]
Dawn Over Firedoglake?
Published on 16 Mar 2009 at 1:40 pm.
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Not exactly, but it’s a start. Lefty blog* rails “Who stole our country and how are we going to get it back?” positing our democracy is seriously broken. It’s an odd statement considering the source. We just had an election, your side won, and your guy appointed the two people you’re complaining about, Geithner and Summers, the [...]
His Evilness Speaks
Published on 15 Mar 2009 at 1:43 pm.
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Our Dark Lord Cheney turns his adversary’s own light saber against him: Obama’s using the economic crisis as an excuse for the “greatest expansion of federal authority over the private sector in the republic’s history.” I dunno, FDR and LBJ set that bar pretty high.
Iowa Buzz
Published on 15 Mar 2009 at 10:43 am.
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Because Petraeus has signed on to speak at a commencement there in 2010. Interesting. Sometimes a commencement speech is just a commencement speech. Bully pulpit, though. UK Spectator and Weekly Standard, which notes he’s also going to Princeton. Could be interesting, but it would need to be a lot more than a war candidacy. 2010’s [...]
Finger To The Breeze
Published on 13 Mar 2009 at 10:23 am.
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No wonder the Object In Chief’s worried about whipsaw.
Clinton admin windsock Schoen and pollster Rasmussen at WSJ describe “a substantial degree of polarization so early in the administration” and a “decidely negative” trend in support for his performance and his proposals.
It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack Obama’s high levels [...]
White House To Carrion: Don’t Give Them Anything To Feed On
Published on 12 Mar 2009 at 10:57 am.
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Lawhawk updates with White House’s desire to mask the smell of Carrion. They can’t take much more dead meat.
In other Obama appointee news, WTOP: Two arrested in FBI raid at Obama appointee’s office. A little more from Politico and Hot Air, where they’re wondering … when will the nightmare end? Plus Kundra background via Malkin.
Never mind [...]
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If Sully Sullenberger Had One Of These …
Published on 12 Mar 2009 at 9:50 am.
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155 people wouldn’t have lost their luggage. Michelle with some cruel Photoshop of Air Pelosi elicits some practical applications re troublesome problems. Malkin commenter:
That airplane would scare hell out of any bird within sight. Scares ME too.
Hurtful!
What a payload! Talk about an anti-missile defense shield, she’s so ugly, any missile would detonate before it got within two miles.
How’d [...]
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Edward M. Kennedy Non-Presidential Consolation Institute
Published on 11 Mar 2009 at 10:20 pm.
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It’s sort of a non-Presidential Library for a guy who was never quite president. It’ll be next to his brother’s presidential library in Dorchester. Teddy didn’t get one of those, but he’s hung in for nearly 50 years, through events that would have croaked a lesser man’s career, and incidentally he’s a Kennedy, so he’ll get the Edward M. [...]
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Moral Standing
Published on 11 Mar 2009 at 12:32 pm.
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Dan Collins at Protein Wisdom posits John Edwards, bloviating last night on our moral obligations re global poverty at Brown University, doesn’t have any. Moral standing, that is. I’m confused by the part where the News & Observer calls Edwards a “two-time candidate.” I thought the problem was he was a “two-timing candidate.” Edwards also addressed that, sort of:
