Live blogging Barack's speech

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Tuesday July 15, 2008 · 7:31 AM PDT

2008/07/15 · 07:31

UPDATE: Listening to Barack now. Ah, the sweet sound of intelligence. Now he sounds presidential.

Thinking must be collapsing pretty bad as Bush holds a surprise news conference. The market drops below 10,000 and someone nonsense being spouted from the White House is "supposed to calm nerves." There are only nerves because Bush is still in the White House.

He is now babbling about the FDIC protecting deposits. Bush is now answering questions. How pathetic.

BY THE WAY: Need more reccs to keep the discussion on top of the diary list. Rec away.

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Thursday April 10, 2008 · 10:46 AM PDT

2008/04/10 · 10:46

Today I think we can finally say goodbye and goodnight to Air America. I have been an enthusiastic supporter of the network since it first aired. The talent was amazing. Marc Maron in the morning was frenzied and outrageous from his takes on politics to his life with his wife and cats. Rachel Maddow and Lizz Winstead were next, and they had an awesome show. Then came Al Franken, the best part of the day, with his sidekick Katherine Lanpher. His bits with Katherine were great. Then Randi Rhodes was up next. She was smart and entertaining. It was a full day of smart, funny, entertaining radio.

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Thursday October 04, 2007 · 12:48 AM PDT

2007/10/04 · 00:48

I'm listening to Rachel Maddow take apart Pat Buchanan over health care for kids on Hardball. And she points out, not enough for my taste, that it's disingenous for the Bush administration to claim fiscal responsibility while they are throwing billions away on the war in Iraq. Let's face it, according to the Republicans, we never have enough money for the health and welfare of the people of the United States even when we have enough money for the health and welfare for the people of the United States.

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Saturday August 11, 2007 · 10:35 AM PDT

2007/08/11 · 10:35

With the failures in the subprime markets now roiling the global economy, what did the leader of the Federal Reserve Board have to say about it? Like the rest of this administration, it held closely to a reality devoid of facts. There was nothing that the markets can't handle and laissez-faire economics was the philosophy of the day. Here are some of Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke's quotes from the New York Times:

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Tuesday May 08, 2007 · 10:58 AM PDT

2007/05/08 · 10:58

This letter just went to my senators. By snail mail. To politicians, they listen to snail mail the most. The more letters, the more political pressure. Let's be relentless. For a start, save and erase this letter, drop it into your word processing program, print it out, mail it. Addresses are easily availble on the Net, of course. Send the letter, add a comment here.

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Are you sending a snail mail letter?

10 votes Vote Now!

Are you sending a snail mail letter?

Yes

4 votes

No time

0 votes

Too much work

1 vote

Tomrrow

0 votes

Maybe later

1 vote

No, waste of time

2 votes

No, I support the war

2 votes

Hey Mr. Bush, here's your progress

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Sunday May 06, 2007 · 9:03 PM PDT

2007/05/06 · 21:03

From the Sunday L.A. Times

BAGHDAD — Kareem Yousif knew it would be a rough day when armed men tried to abduct four of his employees as they rode to work in a company van. The Radio Dijla staff members escaped unharmed, but the maverick news-and-talk station did not.

Hours after Thursday's foiled abduction, editors, security guards and other radio staffers battled with dozens of gunmen who stormed the building, killing one guard and wounding two others. They drove off the assailants, but the next night, arsonists returned to finish the job.

By Saturday, the station was a smoldering, looted ruin, one more casualty in a war in which independent voices face deadly repercussions.

Yousif, the station's acting director, and Ahmed Rikabi, its founder, blamed groups linked to Al Qaeda for Thursday's attack, which occurred on World Press Freedom Day.

"We're a symbol of unity. What we were doing is absolutely against their thinking," Rikabi said.

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Friday March 23, 2007 · 10:48 AM PDT

2007/03/23 · 10:48

From the New York Times

LONDON, March 23 — Fifteen British sailors carrying out a routine inspection in the Persian Gulf were captured at gunpoint and taken into custody by Iranian forces on Friday morning, the British Ministry of Defense said.

The foreign secretary, Margaret Beckett, summoned the Iranian ambassador here to demand their immediate release.

In a statement, the Defense Ministry said that the sailors had been conducting "routine boarding operations of merchant shipping in Iraqi territorial waters" and had just finished an inspection of a merchant vessel "when they and their two boats were surrounded and escorted by Iranian vessels into Iranian territorial waters."

The statement continued: "The British Government is demanding the immediate and safe return of our people and equipment."

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Will this be the excuse Bush needs to go to war with Iran

66 votes Vote Now!

Will this be the excuse Bush needs to go to war with Iran

Yes

7 votes

16 votes

Bears close watching

40 votes

Bush too tied up, weakened by AG scandal

3 votes

Gonzales tries to boost morale

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Sunday March 18, 2007 · 1:19 AM PDT

2007/03/18 · 01:19

Get load of this story from the AP on the N.Y. Times Web site.

The headline? Gonzales offers mea culpa to attorneys.

Well, you can't get more pathetic than this. First Alberto Gonzales fires 8 of his prosecutors for political reasons. Then he lies about it to Congress. Then it comes out he was going to fire all 92 prosecutors.

OK. You are a US attorney. You're probably not stupid. In most cases, you are doing a fine job. And I imagine its hard enough sometimes to maintain a bipartisan stance. And then this comes out, making you look like a partisan hack.

Also, if you are part of the surviving 84, you know that you were almost fired. And then the guy who was part of the plot,and the guy who is supposed to be on your team, calls you together for a pep talk? Gee, how much bitterness to you think was on the other side of that conference call.

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35 votes Show Results

When will Gonzales resign?

35 votes Vote Now!

When will Gonzales resign?

Today

0 votes

Monday

1 vote

Tuesday

3 votes

Wednesday, really?

2 votes

Thursday? Lost touch with reality?

0 votes

Friday? Ok. Traditional bad news day. Following a bad news week.

11 votes

Next week

3 votes

Next month

1 vote

Somehow wiggles out of it in true Bushie form.

14 votes

Underwear for wounded troops?

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Friday March 09, 2007 · 12:03 AM PST

2007/03/09 · 00:03

OK, so we know about the meltdown at Walter Reed Army Hospital and that the VA hospitals are a mess. We know we have to send the troops toothpaste, Kool-aid and deodorant. What's this about underwear for wounded troops?

There is a Web site, www.operationundergarment.com, which claims that soldiers who have been wounded get their clothes cut off, of course, but don't get much to replace them.

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42 votes Show Results

Who should clothe wounded troops?

42 votes Vote Now!

Who should clothe wounded troops?

The U.S. government

21 votes

Volunteer organizations

1 vote

Big, fat contractors

2 votes

This is all too crazy. Aren't the troops entitled to anything?

18 votes

More duplicity on 9/11

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Monday February 26, 2007 · 10:05 PM PST

2007/02/26 · 22:05

It's interesting how statements about one issue can trip you up on another. More precisely, it's interesting how Dick Cheney's statements on fighting terror today destroys the house of cards used to justify the Bush administration slow reaction to 9/11 and its total lack of preparedness.

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Friday January 26, 2007 · 11:38 PM PST

2007/01/26 · 23:38

At what point to we label this a "rogue" administration?

The definition of rogue: no longer obedient, belonging, or accepted and hence not controllable or answerable; deviating, renegade: a rogue cop; a rogue union local.

Sound familiar? Before this year, the Bush administration had it's way. It had a compliant Congress and election wins in its pocket. It was pretty hard to call it a rogue administration when Congress failed to do its job.

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Saturday January 13, 2007 · 12:51 AM PST

2007/01/13 · 00:51

Fox News Sunday
Vice President Dick Cheney joins 'FOX News Sunday' for an exclusive interview with Chris Wallace

What's on the Sunday news shows for Jan. 14? I did a quick spin around the network Web sites. The highlight, of course, is the Fox exclusive interview of Dick Cheney by Chris Wallace. Will he has him about the Murray Waas article that Libby was actually covering for him? Will Wallace ask Cheney how much of a driving force he was behind the Iraq escalation? Or getting Negroponte out of the Intelligence seat and putting his own yes-man in there? It will be more interesting to see how Wallace avoids the questions or how he turns them into softball questions. Maybe we will be treated to how the insurgency is still in its last throes, if you will.

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87 votes Show Results

Which Sunday show is a must watch?

87 votes Vote Now!

Which Sunday show is a must watch?

Cheney-Wallace lovefest on Fox

4 votes

Hadley vs. Murtha on ABC

15 votes

Lieberman as punching bag on NBC

4 votes

Actual voices from Iraq, Pakistan on CNN

2 votes

Obama vs. McCain on CBS

24 votes

Sleep in, get up for football

11 votes

Going to church, praying for country, troops still stuck in Iraq

10 votes

Joining antiwar protest

17 votes

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