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Obama Disagrees With Nevadan Assailing McCain’s Vietnam Service

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:15:11 +0000

RENO, NEV. - At a town hall meeting at Wooster High School just now, a questioner whom Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., had called on, assailed the Vietnam service of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. “He was the fattest prisoner that got…
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At Saddleback, Obama Is Asked Who His Wise Men Are

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:13:15 +0000

We’re here at Saddleback Church, the main sanctuary where 2,200 are watching Pastor Rick Warren’s “Civil Forum.” More than 4,200 others are watching from satellite locations elsewhere on the Saddleback campus, not to mention those checking it out on basic…
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Ooooh, That Smell. Can’t You Smell That Smell?

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:11:50 +0000

Democrats are pounding Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on the August 18 Georgia fundraiser for his campaign where he will hang with Ralph Reed, the former head of the Christian Coalition and a figure in the Jack Abramoff sleaze-a-thon. Indeed, the…
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Focus On The Family Pulls Video (Jokingly) Asking Supporters to Pray for Rain During Obama’s Speech

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:11:42 +0000

“Would it be wrong to ask people to pray for rain?” asks Stuart Shepard, director of digital media the political arm of the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family, Focus Action, in this video. “Not just rain,” Shepard clarifies,…
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Penn in December 2007 on Plan for Two-Way Race Against Obama: “Release the Tapes”

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:09:34 +0000

In a December 30, 2007 memo written on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, Mark Penn writes to his fellow Clinton staffers that after the caucuses, if Obama “is riding a high we will have to take him down.” He…
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Wolfson: Edwards’ Lies Kept Hillary from Becoming the Nominee

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:08:09 +0000

Brian Ross and I worked on a dot-com spot on this HERE. - jpt
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You Knew a Quote Like This Was Bound to Surface

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:07:01 +0000

“I think this President has shown a remarkable disrespect for his office, for the moral dimensions of leadership, for his friends, for his wife, for his precious daughter. It is breathtaking to me the level to which that disrespect has…
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The “Electable” Candidate Admits Affair

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:04:41 +0000

Sen. John Edwards, D-NC, tells ABC News’ Bob Woodruff that he did indeed have an affair with novice film-maker Rielle Hunter. In an interview to air tonight on Nightline, Edwards — who continually argued to voters that he had greater…
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New Pentagon Report Uses Language Kerry Used in 2004 that Bush-Cheney Called “Dangerous” and “Naive”

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:03:12 +0000

In October 2004, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., then the Democratic presidential nominee, was asked by the New York Times Magazine, what it would take for Americans to feel safe again: ”We have to get back to the place we were,…
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Drill Bits: How Much Oil Would Drilling in the OCS Yield?

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:01:14 +0000

Some readers have been asking about estimates about what new off-shore drilling would yield from the Energy Information Administration which says lifting the moratorium on new off shore drilling rigs would only yield 200,000 additional barrels per day. Experts with…
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