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Monday June 22, 2015 · 9:57 AM PDT

2015/06/22 · 09:57

The Donald's Toupee

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Sunday June 21, 2015 · 12:56 PM PDT

2015/06/21 · 12:56

Jeb?

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Friday June 19, 2015 · 11:57 AM PDT

2015/06/19 · 11:57

My take on Jeb!'s campaign logo - funny how he doesn't want to use his last name.

Jeb Bush's Faux Pas - maybe not.

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Tuesday May 12, 2015 · 9:33 AM PDT

2015/05/12 · 09:33

Anyone who knows me would tell you that I wouldn't vote for Jeb Bush in a million years. Regardless, I think the controversey surrounding his answer to the question about whether or not he would have authorized the invasion of Iraq is based on a faulty reading of said question and answer. To wit:

Fox News’ Megyn Kelly asked Bush a straightforward, concise question: “Knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the invasion?” Bush’s answer was an unhesitating yes.
“I would have, and so would have Hillary Clinton, just to remind everybody,” Bush said, “and so would have almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence they got.”

“You don’t think it was a mistake?” asked Kelly.

“In retrospect, the intelligence that everybody saw, that the world saw, not just the United States, was faulty,” Bush answered.

Kelly's question was NOT straightforward nor concise, it was ambiguous.

She didn't ask him what he would have done if he knew then what he knows now. She asked him to say what he would have done "knowing what he knows now" if he were the President then.

There is a subtle difference between that and the question she likely meant to ask, which could have been phrased thus: "If you knew then what you know now, would you have ordered the invasion?" He answered the question she asked, not the question she probably MEANT to ask.

And, by the way, he did concede, without actually saying it, that his brother's choice was based on a misreading of the facts at the time the decision was made.

Douglas Brinkley skews the facts on the Rachel Maddow Show

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Friday November 14, 2008 · 7:04 PM PST

2008/11/14 · 19:04

I was surprised to see Douglas Brinkley appearing on the Rachel Maddow show this evening, and being touted as a "distiguished presidential historian".

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Friday June 06, 2008 · 1:09 PM PDT

2008/06/06 · 13:09

For progressives, it started back in 2007 with that video take-off on the old Macintosh TV ad, depicting Hillary Clinton as some kind of Big Brother figure, and continued at an early Democratic Debate when Senator Obama used right wing talking points about the bogus "Social Security Crises", and false charges about her wanting to, "...force people to buy Health Insurance they can't afford.", to attack his most potent rival.

Of course, the far right had been out to get her since before her husband was in the White House, but it was Obama supporters, and the press, who took it to the max during the Democratic Primary season.

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Monday May 05, 2008 · 4:05 PM PDT

2008/05/05 · 16:05

I keep hearing the pundits saying, "This drawn out process is hurting the Democrats".

Is that right? Really?

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Friday March 07, 2008 · 9:45 AM PST

2008/03/07 · 09:45

I normally don't even read Brooks OPED column in the New York Times, but this mornings headline (Playing by Clinton Rules) grabbed my attention because I thought it might be a comment on something fellow NYT columnist, Paul Krugman, talked about a while back.

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Wednesday January 23, 2008 · 3:30 PM PST

2008/01/23 · 15:30

Watching this afternoon's edition of Hardball on MSNBC, I was startled to see conservative scoundrel, Patrick J. Buchanan playing the atypical role of "the voice of reason" during a discussion of the dust-up between Obama and Clinton at the debate the other night.

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Saturday December 08, 2007 · 9:33 PM PST

2007/12/08 · 21:33

I took that title above from an article posted today on The Huffington Post by Taylor Marsh, pointing out how Barack Obama has been attacking Hillary Clinton from the right for several weeks now, even using Republican talking points in his rhetoric.

I had the timerity to make some of the same points on these pages a few weeks ago and was immediately swamped by Obama supporters calling me every name in the book, including the worst possible insult they could think of...(Gasp!!) a Clinton supporter...

Now the Obama campaign has posted on its web site a critique of liberal icon Paul Krugman that is as error ridden and deliberately deceptive as anything that can be found Fox News or the right wing blogosphere...

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Monday November 12, 2007 · 5:09 PM PST

2007/11/12 · 17:09

In an opinion piece in the LA Times this morning, Tina Dupuy, a comedian by trade, proposed that rather than tax smokers to pay for health care, we should tax snack foods. The article was written for a laugh, but maybe this idea has real merit.

Poll

53 votes Show Results

Is a Snack Tax a good idea?

53 votes Vote Now!

Is a Snack Tax a good idea?

Yes! Let them eat cake.

40 votes

No! I eat cake!

13 votes

Obama flinches away

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Sunday November 04, 2007 · 1:27 AM PDT

2007/11/04 · 01:27

Barack Obama got to deliver the classic opening line on tonight's Saturday Night Live broadcast. It seemed emblematic of his campaign that he failed to look into the camera...

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