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a message from Darcy Burner

Monday, November 3, 2008

Leave it all on the road.

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clearly I need to watch more . . . .

Thursday, October 16, 2008

I think somebody played this clip on TV last night. I picked it up from Ben Smith. An interesting sidebar to the Batman rehearsal of an old rhetorical trick we’ve seen revived by McCain ads asking, “Who is Barack Obama”; is that Burgess Meredith, who plays The Penguin, was blacklisted in the 1950′s after being [...]

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snakes and end times

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Bloodlines? I’m thinking this election may be all over but the shouting. Ben Smith posted this video today from a liberal Ohio blogger. As I watch it I’m thinking that the folks I see are not representative of Americans as a whole, as some believe, and that the current McCain/Palin strategy is pretty desperate. Obama [...]

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markets (but not all) and McCain gone sour

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Financial markets may be in the tank, and luxury cars may be an embarrassment to hucksters, but capitalism is alive and well in niche markets where small-time entrepreneurs find ways to take advantage of fads du jour. Ben Smith today notes the following examples of campaign chic: Maybe Jewish voters are warming up to Sarah [...]

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“Oh c’mon, do we have to?”

Friday, October 3, 2008

Apparently Spunky Palin is not pleased with Maverick McCain’s decision to move campaign resources out of Michigan and has expressed her displeasure in a quick email. Spunky is also annoyed with Katie Couric, but Mav soldiers on. He is mostly annoyed with Barack Obama, it seems. Meanwhile the House of Representatives have passed the Wall [...]

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bailout fails

Monday, September 29, 2008

All the news services have carried the story. The bipartisan bailout of the nation’s largest financial institutions has failed in the House of Representatives by 13 votes. According to CNN: The measure need[ed] 218 votes for passage, but it came up 13 votes short of that target, as the final vote was 228 to 205 [...]

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