Posted in May 14th, 2008
The Mountain State proved insurmountable to Barack Obama, who conceded the contest to Hillary Clinton before the first vote was even cast. Unlike last week’s nail-biter in IN, within a nanosecond of polls closing at 7:30 p.m. ET, the networks put the check mark next to Hillary’s name (65 percent to Obama’s 28 percent).
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Posted in May 9th, 2008
The facts: Barack Obama won 38 percent of white Dems in NC, and didn’t do much better amongst whites in IN (35 percent). In exit polls of 1,881 IN Dems and 2,316 NC voters, two out of three Hillary Clinton supporters said they would be dissatisfied if he is their party’s nominee.
How much of […]
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Posted in May 6th, 2008
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New Jersey art dealer, George Wieschenberg of Lambertville, was sentenced to six years of prison for being a marijuana “farmer.”
According to MSNBC, Wieschenberg, pleaded guilty to “operating a marijuana production facility,” in which he grew marijuana plants, said State Attorney General Anne Milgrim.
Back in October of 2007, New Jersey State Police officers saw large marijuana […]
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Posted in April 25th, 2008
The last time Dems were considering which presidential hopeful should be the party’s standard-bearer, Howard Dean screamed (video link) and a frightened rank-and-file hurriedly anointed John Kerry the frontrunner - deeming him the most “electable” in the field – and then had the rest of the campaign to repent at leisure as Kerry became embroiled […]
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Posted in April 14th, 2008
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In their stump speeches Barack Obama (D-IL) and Hillary Clinton (D-NY) have done their best to create what Washington Post columnist George Will calls “economic hypochondria,” and their surrogates in the MSM are laboring mightily to find everyday folks who can put a face to the suffering the candidates claim is caused by the “housing […]
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Posted in April 7th, 2008
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Since May 2007, Absolut Vodka has been running an ongoing ad campaign created by TBWA/Chiat/Day/New York, “In an Absolut World,” described by The New York Times as:
[A] fanciful, even surreal, place where common sense prevails and just deserts are always on the menu.
On Planet Absolut, for instance, men can get pregnant, the Curse of the […]
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Posted in April 4th, 2008
Hill and Bill turn out the lights in their separate bedrooms, and the phone rings at 3 a.m. – again. This time the crisis is economic, home foreclosures mounting markets teetering. And even though the banks are closed and the NYSE won’t open for another 6½ hours, Hillary answers the phone. But wait – it’s […]
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Posted in March 31st, 2008
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When Hillary lies, does she know she is lying? Is she a reflexive liar, a compulsive liar, or a pathological liar? Does the staggering number of lies she has told during this campaign make her morally unfit for the office she seeks? Do the things about which she lied make her psychologically unfit?
Consider these questions […]
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Posted in March 31st, 2008
We can agree China is at present a totalitarian state, but that should not be the issue, I would argue it is also a culture slowly in transition to a free market representative republic, but the crises at hand is Tibet and the Olympic games.
The Dalai Lama and those who support him demand restoration of […]
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Posted in March 21st, 2008
Call me heretical if you must, but at some point even the media is going to start asking, “say what Barack.” The man who proclaims himself all but pre-ordained to be the first black president is sounding like he might have been sitting in the pew, listening to the good reverend Wright more then he […]
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Posted in March 19th, 2008
I listened as deputy D.O.D Secretary England introduce George Bush for a speech on the five year anniversary of the war. He used words that would describe Men like U.S Grant and Robert Lee, Lincoln and Stone Wall Jackson, Pershing and MacArthur, Patton and Marshal. England spoke with all the enthusiasm of a senior cult […]
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Posted in March 18th, 2008
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Consider this abbreviated list of unseemly associations, and decide if you would vote for this person. The stories are all true, and they have been verified. For now, we will call the person “Candidate X.” But further in this article the person will be exposed, by name.
One long term friend of Candidate X was sent […]
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Posted in March 18th, 2008
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The Democratic presidential hopefuls positions toward unrest in Tibet, typifies the stark difference between those who offer solutions based on text book foreign policy and statesmen who offer experience.
The Liberal left automatically blames China and demands condemnation, the reality is the peace loving Dali lama is to blame for the death’s and detentions, The blood […]
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Posted in March 14th, 2008
They do not call them depressions anymore. I think because the last one we had, was so bad the folks in charge of naming them, were warned by the powers that be, of dire personal consequences if they didn’t call it something else.
George Bush spoke today before the New York economic club, Seems he’s done […]
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Posted in March 10th, 2008
Much has been made by pundits and bloggers of this interview by New York Times reporter Elizabeth Bumiller aboard the McCain campaign plane, the point of which seemed to be to goad the clearly irked – but hardly enraged – GOP candidate (video link) into losing his temper so that she could write an article […]
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Posted in March 5th, 2008
A couple weeks ago I had the carpets cleaned, We have some rental property and use the same guy and always find time to sit after and brag on the Grand children, he has twelve to my two.Super Tuesday was a couple days past and I asked him what he thought of the fact depending […]
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Posted in March 5th, 2008
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John McCain (R-AZ) swept OH, RI, TX and VT by huge margins to secure his party’s nomination for the presidency, while Hillary Clinton (D-NY) staved Barack Obama (D-IL) off with double-digit margins in OH and VT and a narrow win in the TX primary (as of this writing, the TX caucuses have not been called, […]
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Posted in March 3rd, 2008
Maureen Dowd starts her New York Times column on Sunday, “Channeling her inner Cheney, Hillary Clinton dropped a fear bomb, as Michelle Obama might call it, implying in a new ad that if her opponent is elected, your angelic, innocent, sleeping children could die in a terrorist attack” – a reference to her latest campaign […]
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Posted in February 28th, 2008
Earlier this month The Washington Post published an op-ed by “lifelong Republican” Susan Eisenhower explaining why she supports Barack Obama (“We have been living in a zero-sum political environment where all heads have been lowered to avert being lopped off by angry, noisy extremists … he is a man who can salve our national wounds […]
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Posted in February 25th, 2008
The MSM was all over the map in its reaction to an anonymously sourced article in The New York Times claiming that eight years ago aides to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) were so concerned that the habitual presence of Washington lobbyist Vicki Iseman (pictured wearing an evening gown in the article) would give rise to […]
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Posted in February 22nd, 2008
25 Quotes from before, during and after the New York Times released their story about John McCain’s involvement with lobbyist, Vicki Iseman.
Something for those too busy to get the whole scoop.
25 quotes taken from the John McCain-Vicki Iseman story–with one bonus quote.
Quotations by the principle participants and others.
“People like that appeal to me.”
–John McCain, […]
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Posted in February 22nd, 2008
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1. Neil Armstrong takes “one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind” on the moon, in 1969 when Michelle Obama was 5 years old.
2. That same year, Shirley Chisholm (D-NY) becomes the first black woman elected to Congress.
3. Mark Spitz wins seven gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics Games in Munich, […]
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Posted in February 21st, 2008
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Weeks ago, comments were dropped on video sites hinting at the McCain-Iseman story
All comments were by “EllaLohan”
The Attempt to track EllaLohan down
Who is the Mysterious Video Commenter?
More Mystery!
Vicki Iseman Bio Returns to Alcalde & Fay Website!
Who is EllaLohan?
How did she know about Vicki Iseman and John McCain weeks before the New York Times published the […]
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Posted in February 21st, 2008
John McCain squashed Tom Gosinski, who’d contacted the DEA about Cindy McCain using his name for forged Prescriptions
14 Years Ago, John McCain used his Keating Five lawyer to harass a Gosinski
McCain filed extortion charges and the media played along at the time
Lies, Theft, Pain-killers and Cindy McCain
We ran across a story written in 1994, a […]
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Posted in February 21st, 2008
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More Questions Arise from Yesterday’s Vicki Iseman-John McCain story in the NYT
John Weaver says “No Reason to ask her” about Romantic Relationship
McCain Story an Indication of “State of the Times”?
UPDATE: Times Writer Paid to Write Hit Piece on Another Republican Senator
This chart of the NY Times stock prices could just as
easily be used […]
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Posted in February 21st, 2008
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Senator John McCain has denied insinuations made in a New York Times Story
Fox News: “No Substantial Evidence”
Reports Question the Times’ Possible Motives of the Timing of the Story
Letter: “The Times found evidence that McCain’s a Republican”
Fox News yesterday: “No Substantial Evidence”
Times doesn’t Mention if McCain is conservative
McCain calls Times story a “smear”
John McCain, speaking […]
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Posted in February 21st, 2008
The Wall Street Journal calls AZ “a laboratory for new ways to crack down on illegal immigrants.” Spurred in large part by “transplants” from other parts of the country, The Journal notes that AZ enacted 13 laws aimed at curbing illegal immigration, many of which triggered lawsuits or have yet to be enforced. These include […]
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Posted in February 21st, 2008
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Why Did the NY Times Sit on Story?
Why Did Alcalde & Fay Pull Vicki Iseman’s bio from its website?
The story of Vicki Iseman and any relationship to John McCain is starting to shift.
Questions are starting to arise as to the way the New York Times handled the story, when they chose to publish it, and […]
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Posted in February 20th, 2008
The Vicki Iseman-John McCain Allegations Aren’t the First Scandals Involving 2008 Presidential Candidates
Other Scandals Involving Candidates Include Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards
Complete Listing of DBKP Stories Involving the Candidates and Alleged Improper Behavior
DBKP Library of Political Scandals
DBKP stories involving 2008 Presidential Candidates
* Vicki Isemin-John McCain
* Hillary Clinton-Huma Abedin
* Barack Obama-Larry Sinclair
* John Edwards-Rielle […]
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Posted in February 20th, 2008
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The New York Times alleges that Vicki Iseman was involved with Senator John McCain
John McCain Gave “Special Favors to Female Lobbyist”
Vicki Iseman, who is alleged by the New York Times to be the female lobbyist given “special favors” by John McCain, is a partner at Alcalde & Fay, a DC lobbying firm.
–UPDATE: 10:30 pm February […]
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