Puffin’s Place

If you believe John McCain’s boast that Sarah Palin stopped the $400m bridge to nowhere between Katchikan and Gravina Island, you have not yet listened to those who were there then and are there now.
According to columnist Dermot Cole today in the Fairbanks News-Miner:

In her introductory speech Friday as McCain’s running mate, Gov. Sarah [...]

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Whew. Our President notes that Gustav is “a serious storm.” Nice to see him at FEMA HQ leading a second mighty rescue of NOLA. As just a small sign of the significance of the threat, Bush and Cheney will skip the roll-out of the Republican convention so they can devote their skills and perceptions entirely [...]

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The media is awash with declarations that McCain’s choice of Palin fulfills his maverick’s promise and that Palin herself is a maverick.
Great boots. Since when is McCain’s toadying to the religious right, the women electorate, and the military/industrial complex a sign of maverickism?
What makes Palin’s return to the early 20th century maverickism? She wants creationism [...]

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Those Alaskans with whom I talk and who presume to believe they are delivering the truth about Sarah Palin tell me that she is hot to drill in ANWR and is suing the feds to dismantle protections for the polar bear.
I need hear no more.
But there is more. She is, they tell me, protective of [...]

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For all those who badger Obama supporters with tiresome “where’s the beef” cliche, take a look at this February 2008 post at The Daily Kos.

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My, my, Ms Matalin’s hubby thinks the Democrats wasted last night’s convention. No one attacked John McCain. No one exercised snidery or entered into attack mode. Surely a fatal waste of one evening of our lives.
And what was offered in place of a demolishing of John McCain? Well, nothing more than Michelle Obama talking about [...]

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What an astounding woman Michelle Obama is. From the beginning of these nineteen months, she has shown herself to be a woman of class—articulate, warm, intelligent, candid, and impressive.
Now we have but to wave goodbye to that last generation of Americans who see all of this unfold as a racial drama, and applaud us all [...]

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It’s very tough tonight to watch Sen. Ted Kennedy addressing the Democratic Convention. And to see Caroline reacting to his speech. A really terrific speech but very very sad farewell to a great public man, and a memorable family.

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Most of us have read reports of the impact of the torture-ready Fox tv show 24 on the Administration’s reframing of interrogation guidelines and the rise of Jack Bauer among the fantasist policy makers in the Bush White House..
A recent (August 4, 2008) issue of Newsweek develops this scenario:
According to British lawyer and writer [Philippe] [...]

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Don’t miss The Onion’s video report on Bush’s tour of America to observe the Damage caused by his disastrous presidency.

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