The Vig

TPM is reporting tonight that the Clintons believe they’ve given Obama most of if not all of the information he’s asked for.  Parse that sentence for a minute and you understand why she must be kept out of this White House and walled off in the Senate.  There’s just too damned much baggage and too [...]

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NPR had a little bit on Obama the poker player last night.  In it, they interviewed James McManus, who’s Positively Fifth Street remains one of the greatest poker stories ever written.  McManus wrote an article on Obama back in February when he was still locked in battle with Hillary.
Obama’s analytical mind helped him excel at [...]

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As it should.  From Slog:
Ms. Dunham’s absentee mail ballot was received and reviewed under the Hawaii standards for processing absentee mail ballots… She was alive at that time. Her ballot will be opened tomorrow, and it will be counted in the same way that all absentee voters would be treated under our law.
Imagine the joy [...]

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Look who took his daughter out trick-or-treating last night.

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Seriously. What’s not to like there?

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A phrase which drives me absolutely insane is “you’re too young to remember, but…”  I’ve heard that way too much in my life.  I’m careful to never use it around anyone younger than me.  It’s condescending and arrogant.
I’ve had a few conversations with friends and relatives about Obama over the last year-and-a-half.  Not all of [...]

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It’s been ten days since McCain announced his choice for vice president.  She has yet to face the press and may not for another two weeks.
Sullivan suggests she’s more of a chihuahua.
The strategy here is actually pretty cagey on the part of the Republican machine.  Rather than risk sending her out to make some sort [...]

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So close, yet so far away.

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I was out of town last weekend when Obama selected Biden to be his VP.  I exchanged a few texts with friends and advisers as I drove across the high desert.  Mostly they sought assurance that Biden would be a decent pick, particularly after I knocked him around a bit.  I remember thinking at the [...]

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Of course Sean Hannity will see it differently this afternoon, but I think Pat Buchanan spoke for a lot of small-c conservatives last night. The first Obama counter-punch has been thrown. I still haven’t seen it, but apparently it was a doozy.

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