“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” — Benjamin Franklin
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10 Aug 2008: Looks like when I updated my database to support UTF-8, this article got scrogged. Oh well, I haven’t the time to re-create it. Sorry! You can rest assured, however, that it was quite witty and succinct.
MSNBC had a short clip of this, but cut out the part where Obama actually responded to the various issues raised by a heckler or two, apparently from a offshoot of an old Black Panther party (one other than the Crips, I guess). I found some more details on Marc Ambider’s blog from The Atlantic: Marc Ambinder (August 01, 2008) - Obama Engages With Heckler
Oh, you thought you heard enough about McCain’s new campaign ad (covered in my previous blog entry)? Apparently, we didn’t hear the half of it.
Far be it from the McCain campaign to muddy the political discourse with petty issues like the economy, foreign policy or the like. As McCain campaign manager Rick Davis points out in the snippet below… there are much more important questions Americans have about Barack Obama…
Only celebrities like Barack Obama go to the gym three times a day, demand MET-RX chocolate roasted-peanut protein bars and bottles of a hard-to-find organic brew
I was listening to Wednesday’s Talk of the Nation podcast episode, and they had on Bob Barr as a guest. Why not? He’s a retired Congressman, he’s probably got nothing better to do with his time. Wait, he’s running for President on the Libertarian Party ticket? Well… like I said, he’s probably got nothing better to do with his time.
There were a couple of parts of the show that caused me to laugh aloud.., well alright snicker, but I was on the bus at the time.
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