davidl on November 17th, 2010

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
Newt boots it, or why Newt Gingrich should never again run for public office. Gingrich is the political version of Glenn Beck, a better than average mind sabotaged by the chronic problem talking before thinking.  Gingrich’s latest Beck moment,

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davidl on January 21st, 2010

Eric Zimmerman, Hill writes

President Obama came out swinging today against the Supreme Court’s ruling in a major campaign finance case.[…]

With its ruling today, the Supreme Court has given a green light to a new stampede of special

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Eric Florack on July 24th, 2008

 Thomas Barnett notes:

Spray one apartment and the bugs move over to the next. Wherever there’s the least resistance or the most opportunity, you find them clustered.

The Anbar awakening ruins al Qaeda’s long-term chances in Iraq, and so the

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Eric Florack on July 12th, 2008

Barack Obama appears to be losing ground in the polling data, which Ed Morrissey notes this morning:

Last month, Newsweek’s poll surprised many by showing a huge gap between Barack Obama and John McCain, with the Democratic nominee-apparent enjoying a

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Eric Florack on July 11th, 2008

I commented earlier this week that I had my doubts about Jesse Jackson’s open-mike trick.

What if this comment of Jackson’s was staged to give Obama some white street creds?

Normally, I’d not give the man credit for being able

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davidl on July 7th, 2008

Lynn Sweet, Sun-Times (Chicago) reports the BO campaign is  trying some imaginative rebranding and is attempt to foist BO off as a reincaranted version of both John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan:

WASHINGTON–A German friend passed along the news Saturday

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Eric Florack on May 12th, 2008

(CNN) Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign rejected suggestions Sunday that Sen. Hillary Clinton is staying in the race in hopes of brokering some kind of agreement with the likely Democratic nominee.

“I don’t believe that Sen. Clinton is looking

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The London Times:

One of Barack Obama’s Middle East policy advisers disclosed yesterday that he had held meetings with the militant Palestinian group Hamas – prompting the likely Democratic nominee to sever all links with him.

Robert Malley told The

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