Archives: February, 2008

Rightwing Tool Rep. Jack Kingston Goes on TV to Criticize Obama for Not Wearing Flag Pins – Not Wearing His Flag Pin
Jon Ponder | Feb. 29, 2008

Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) questions Barack Obama’s patriotism because Obama says wearing a flag lapel pin is a trivial way to show love for one’s country — but Kingston shows up for an interview on MSNBC not wearing his flag lapel pin.

Quote du Jour
Buck Banks | Feb. 29, 2008

President Roosevelt proved that a president could serve for life. Truman proved that anyone could be elected. Eisenhower proved that your country can be run without a president.
— Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964

Topics: Uncategorized

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Out of Touch: Bush Unaware That Gas Is Set to Rise to $4 Per Gallon – ‘Liberal Media’ Yawns
Jon Ponder | Feb. 29, 2008

In addition to being incoherent at a White House press briefing yesterday, George Bush also proved that he is out of touch:
The “liberal media” will let Bush off the hook on this one, just as they always do, because his being out of touch is simply par for the course.
Q What’s your advice to [...]

SFB*: Bush Incoherent at News Conference
Trish Ponder | Feb. 28, 2008

What did he say?
“We’ll see the effects of this pro-growth package,” Bush told reporters at a White House news conference. “I know there’s a lot of, here in Washington people are trying to – stimulus package two – and all that stuff. Why don’t we let stimulus package one, which seemed like a good idea [...]

Jilted McCain Supporter Cunningham Now Backing Hillary — or Nader
Trish Ponder | Feb. 28, 2008

Bill “Willie” Cunningham
Most of us liberal left-wing Air America listening progressives never heard of Bill “Willie” Cunningham until he spoke at a John McCain campaign rally. When Cunningham three times referred to Barack Obama as “Barack Hussein Obama,” it reminded anyone who lives under a rock that Obama has a more worldly background than the [...]

Topics: Congress, News

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734th Democratic Debate Most-Watched Show in History of MSNBC
Buck Banks | Feb. 28, 2008

Now I’m almost sorry I missed it:
In addition to being the third-most-watched debate of this election cycle, last night’s Democratic showdown in Cleveland was MSNBC’s most-watched program in the 11-year history of the network. In a head-to-head 9 p.m. ET match-up, the debate was second only to FOX’s American Idol. It ranked as the fourth [...]

Topics: Fox News, GOP & Prostitutes

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Hussein: How Quickly We Have Forgotten Our Ally, the Late King of Jordan
Jon Ponder | Feb. 27, 2008

All this silliness about Barack Hussein Obama’s middle name is an embarassing display of American ignorance about the outside world. Hussein is as common a name in the Middle East as Samuel is in the West.
Yes, there was an evil, despotic tyrant whose last name happened to be Hussein, but there was also an enlightened [...]

Topics: Congress

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Poll: 93% of Muslims Worldwide Condemn 9/11 Attacks – 0% Approve of Attacks on Religious Grounds
Jon Ponder | Feb. 27, 2008

This poll from Gallup is based on a huge worldwide sample:
One of the largest-ever opinion polls conducted in the Islamic world found that seven percent of Muslims condoned the Sep 11, 2001, attacks on the US, but none of them gave religious justification for their beliefs, according to the figures released Tuesday.
The [...]

Topics: News, Terrorism

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Palm Beach Post: The Nader Brand Means Nothing
Trish Ponder | Feb. 27, 2008

The Palm Beach Post is not amused by Ralph Nader’s decision to run for president yet again.
Forty-five years after making his reputation as a consumer advocate, Ralph Nader is as deceitful and arrogant as the corporate titans he used to expose.
Nader chided Democrats for failing to enact “decent” energy policy, reminding voters they could have [...]

Topics: Congress, Fox News, News, Veterans

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Poll: U.S. No Longer a Predominantly a Mainline Protestant Nation
Jon Ponder | Feb. 27, 2008

The presumption of a Protestant framework for understanding the American character is now a thing of the past. We are an increasingly pluralistic society, and we Protestants now have to think much about how we can contribute to the common good as simply just one more voice in the American choir.”
- Richard J. Mouw president [...]

Topics: Congress

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