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Google Maps Gone Wrong
via Googlified by Haochi on January 28, 2008
The unfortunate Jeff got 42% of his brain indexed by the Google Intruder(v2) 007.[video by thevacationeers; via Google Blogoscoped]
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Dick Morris' Insight
via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan by Andrew Sullivan on January 28, 2008
Yes, he has them - and when they're good, they're great:Obama has made the Super Tuesday vote more about who we are than who the candidates running for president are.It's the community organizer in him. Only now the community he is organizing is an entire country. I do think this is an important aspect to Obama's liberalism that provides a bridge to conservatism. He is not a...
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Obama As "Head Of State"?
via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan by Andrew Sullivan on January 28, 2008
Josh Claybourn helps explain how some on the right are drawn to Obama:As a libertarian-minded conservative, I agree with almost nothing of Barack Obama's actual policy positions. Whether it is with education, health care, or fiscal matters, Obama is a liberal in the truest sense of the word. He fails to respect federalism and his policies can often border on socialism. Indeed, I have trouble...
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Video: Teddy Kennedy's Speech Endorsing Obama
via TPM Election Central by Greg Sargent on January 28, 2008
... brother." Which in turn makes Teddy's endorsement of Obama that much more pregnant with symbolism...Late Update: One other thing about the video: You can see that Kennedy's shots at the Clintons -- his insistence that "no one" should distort Obama's record of opposition to the war, and his claim that Obama will be ready on "day one" -- are very pronounced, and clearly intended.
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Rudy Somehow Touting His Complete Lack of Support [Rudy Schadenfreude]
via Wonkette by Jim Newell on January 28, 2008
In last week’s Florida GOP debate, they asked Rudy about those dastardly words the New York Times offered him in their McCain endorsement. Rudy, with only one not-entirely-bullshit card to play, was proud — the New York Times, see, is for gays and Clintons and crippled hobbits. Now he’s actually running with that idea — that liberal newspapers are in gay-love with John McCain. And if...
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Realtors stick heads in the sand in new ads
via AdFreak by Tim Nudd on January 28, 2008
Journalists usually fare even more poorly than realtors in public-opinion polls about the most distrusted and/or unethical professions. Luckily for me, that may not be the case for long if the National Association of Realtors keeps its new “public awareness” campaign on the air for any length of time. In the midst of a nationwide housing crisis (just Google “foreclosure”), NAR breaks...
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More Bill And Jesse Arcana
via Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall by Josh Marshall on January 28, 2008
As you know, on Saturday evening we posted a clip of Bill Clinton comparing Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama. The clip came originally from MSNBC. At least that's where we originally saw it and picked it up from.Now, over the last day or so I've seen a number of readers claiming that MSNBC had somehow edited the clip to change its meaning -- specifically, editing out the question Bill was...
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Obama's Progressive Critique
via Matthew Yglesias by (author unknown) on January 28, 2008
I've gotten some pushback from Obama supporters for my less-than-enthusiastic response to his foreign policy messaging in this piece. And, indeed, there's a pretty strong section of his stump speech:I am running for President because I am sick and tired of democrats thinking that the only way to look tough on national security is by talking, and acting, and voting like George Bush...
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Obama: JFK Is The Reason I Stand Here Today
via TPM Election Central by Greg Sargent on January 28, 2008
... all addressed to colleges and universities across America, all filled with the hope of a young man who dreamed of more for his life. And his prayer was answered when he was brought over to study in this country.But what I learned much later is that part of what made it possible for him to come here was an effort by the young Senator from Massachusetts at the time, John F. Kennedy, and by a ...
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Clinton: A View From Europe
via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan by Andrew Sullivan on January 28, 2008
And not a pretty one:Her campaign managers probably think they are creating a perception of her as a bold, decisive and humane woman with the extraordinary intelligence required to cope with America's and the world's problems. To non-Americans she appears to be a mean street fighter who might be a vindictive and war-mongering President if her pride is crossed. She looks like the...
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