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The kind where any journalist with credentials can attend, there are no restrictions or other ground rules, and cameras and videocams are present to record your "Bambi" moments in all their glory.
That should be the minimum entrance requirement for national office.
Between Sean Hannity and this interview, he's cleaning their clock. Keep it up!
The difference between a journalist and a tool.
Like that other news network we know and love (not). Where's the equal time for the Obama spokesperson?
Renee Montagne is weak and pathetic, like most of the other moral equivocators on NPR.
The guy is damaged beyond belief. Putting his coverup of My Lai aside, the guy sold a war and knew what he was selling was pure unadulterated bullshit. Then he hung around while the neocons made him carry more shit for the administration.
Even now, he fails to act decisively. The man is a disgrace.
This just screams for an SNL skit. Can you imagine what they could do having Cindy and Sarah on a shopping spree, charging it all on the campaign Visa card? Who would play Cindy?
His original plan, which Congress (to its discredit) failed to reject in its entirety, was used as a template and it took precious weeks to hammer it into something even remotely useful. Even then, it wasn't until Gordon Brown took decisive action that he even began moving in the direction of equity investments.
Progress was made IN SPITE OF PAULSON. He did nothing but inhibit the process.
I'm proud to say that Henry Waxman is my representative. It's easy to say that his efforts are in vain and that he personally can't change anything, but that view exposes a crucial misunderstanding of government and politics.
What Rep. Waxman is doing is putting these guys on record, and making them respond to tough questions. Once the precedent is set, it is up to public opinion (yes, you!) and others in Congress to press forward in bringing these frauds to justice.
Nobody can effect change in government by themselves, but he is certainly delivering on his end of the bargain.
Henry Waxman has been carrying the torch through eight years of very dark times. If you think you can do a better job, then get off your ass and get elected. Personally, I doubt that you are up to the task.
I'm with you on that action.
Given her status as a public figure, she's completely fair game for parody skits, especially ones that use her words verbatim.
If this were not the case, SNL would have lost countless such lawsuits over its decades-long history and would have been cut by their sponsors a looooong time ago.
Who'da thunk it?
I think the real challenge would be to find any instance in which he was right. Just thinking about attempting that makes me tired.
Just saw the first few minutes of the first video, and was gratified to see an interview with Anne Kilkenny, who broke the ice on Sarah Palin with her perspective on who Sarah Palin really is. I look forward to viewing the rest of the videos tonight.
Sorry Dude,
I know you're reaching hard for a rationale justifying a possible McCain win, but people are not laughing WITH Palin and McCain, but AT them.
The Letterman debacle is also damaging as it is a clear case of McCain LYING to Letterman and getting badly burned. A real insight into how they operate.
These are just two small examples. We're not even addressing the total lack of substance on policy and the schizophrenic changes in campaign strategy that have occurred on an almost daily basis. Or the incredible selection of Palin (whose popularity comes from a completely different source that Fey's).
McCain's attacks of the past two weeks haven't done anything to change the minds of possible swing voters. If you buy into that crap, you're one of the rightwing true believers.
aLSO, The polls and most "experts" don't really have an clear picture on how many new voters will be added to the "likely voters" that comprise most polling results. I think it's a lot bigger than they think.
The big question is how hard is it going to be to cast a ballot in the battleground states, and if it is cast, will it be recorded correctly or at all?
McCain's concession speech was the only one I've seen this entire campaign season where I got the feeling he actually believed the words he was speaking.
I think McCain believes in uniting the country, but failed to understand where and how to unite them. The bigger problem is that his "base" mostly consists of voters who are bigoted, ignorant and bitter. The last thing these people want to do is unite the country. McCain handed his campaign over to these people, and sold his soul in the process.
While I still wouldn't have voted for him, I can't help but wonder how he would have done if he had kept Mike Murphy and stuck to the themes he ran on in 2000.
Fortunately, we don't have to worry about that for four years.
There are much bigger fish to fry.
Although the economic crisis has foreshadowed everything, the prospect of supreme court nominations under a McCain presidency has been one of the more terrifying prospects that has motivated me through the campaign season.
Sure, these three justices could have hung on for four more years (god willing), but even one appointment would have pushed the court over the edge for decades to come.
We've really dodged a barrage of massive bullets this election. Now comes the really hard work.