The surge escalation didn't work: "No amount of White House spin can hide the fact that the escalation's chief objective of political reconciliation remains unmet, Iraqis have not demonstrated any...
Author - Bob Cesca
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Best Health Care System In The World
Last weekend, the Republican candidates -- especially Giuliani -- crowed about how the American health care system is the best in the world. Paul Krugman makes graphs: "Amenable mortality" is death...
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Foo Fighters, Long Road To Ruin
Clarifications
1) I don't care if or why Senator Clinton became emotional ("cried" or whatever you call it). I do care that the cable news pundits turned it into a sexist "girls are so weak" reason for Senator...
New Huffington Post Item
I have a new blog entry posted here. And for the record... If Senator Clinton ultimately wins this nomination, I want to be able to support her with the same enthusiasm I have for Senator Obama right...
Rove Calls Senator Obama "Prissy"
Karl Rove on Senator Obama's "you're likeable enough" remark in the ABC debate (WARNING: link takes you to the awful CNS website): "Obama, who was having a mediocre night in my opinion, rather than...
Glenn Beck Has Head Removed From His Ass
Watch at your own risk. See, the thing about Glass Cock-- oh there I go again, getting his name wrong. What an unfortunate name he has.
Bizarro Iraq
From Bizarro Iraq in which the surge didn't work: BAGHDAD — Nine American soldiers were killed in the first two days of a new American drive to kill al-Qaida in Iraq fighters holed up in districts...
Keeping Score
Because of the tight margin, Senators Clinton and Obama received the same number of delegates last night. Clinton 9 Obama 9 Edwards 4 (h/t Oliver Willis) UPDATE: Just to be clear, in the Democratic...
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New Hampshire Observations
11:26PM Well that's it for tonight. Congratulations to the Clinton campaign. Seriously. Something from Election Day 2004 applies to New Hampshire 2008: no matter what the polls say, the vote is the...
Senator Clinton Pulling Away
Last check as of 9:10PM EST: Clinton 40 Obama 36 Edwards 17 NBC is still saying it's too close to call. I gotta say, I won't be upset if Senator Obama doesn't win this one. The primaries are far from...
Senator Obama's Kenyan Granny
Just... Wow.
Larry David In New Hampshire
Larry David is in New Hampshire campaigning for Senator Obama today. This exchange was awesome: "What about Giuliani?" asked another student. "He did a good job for you in the low-fat yogurt Seinfeld...
Sam Seder in New Hampshire
Feel the burn from the pulse-pounding Rudy Giuliani house afire...
Huge Democratic Turnout…
...which is great, except for the fact that they're running out of ballots! The New Hampshire Secretary of State's office is in the process of locating extra ballots to ship to towns that have...
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Dixville Notch and Hart's Location
The first two towns to traditionally vote in the New Hampshire primary have cast their ballots. Dixville Notch: Barack Obama 7 John Edwards 2 Bill Richardson 1 Hillary Clinton 0 Hart's Location:...
Huckabee And "God's Army"
For what it's worth, I'd like to call your attention to a response I wrote to a reader/commenter about Huckabee's "God's Army" remarks. Check the comments here.