Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Iowa straw poll liveblogging

  Published: August 11, 2007, 8:46 pm

  Tags: Election 08, Elections, Mitt

  Brian at Iowa Voice is following all the developments of today’s all-important straw poll activities in Ames. He’s got a lot of updates and video clips, and I presume will be posting the results from the straw poll shortly. Related: Check out this humorous piece from the Politico on Mitt Romney’s “guest cook” stint

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• Cindy Sheehan officially announces candidacy for Nancy Pelosi’s Congressional seat

  Published: August 10, 2007, 10:28 am

  Tags: Cindy Sheehan, Election 08, Elections, Clueless Wonders

  a gadfly to Pelosi in the 2008 race. Even with the support of Daniel Ellsberg, who accompanied Sheehan yesterday, San Francisco voters are not likely to toss away Pelosi’s powerful leadership position to support someone who plays kissy-face with Hugo Chavez. Frisco has its nuts, but they’re not that crazy. [Note: I wouldn’t be

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• Confronting media-aided myths: Barack Obama is no political “outsider” - and other Dem candidate news

  Published: August 9, 2007, 9:07 pm

  Tags: Election 08, Elections, Congress, Barack Obama

  to Illinois Board of Elections records. He tapped financial services firms, real estate developers, healthcare providers, oil companies, and many other corporate interests, the records show. Obama’s US Senate campaign committee, starting with his successful run in 2004, has collected $128,000 from lobbyists and $1.3 million from

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• Anti-war moonbat questions Mitt, he gives a silly answer, but …

  Published: August 8, 2007, 6:56 pm

  Tags: Election 08, Elections, Clueless Wonders, Mitt

  The Bush-hating anti-war (but ‘troop supporting’) moonbats in the blogosphere are having a field day with recent remarks Mitt Romney made in response to a question about whether or not any of his five sons are enlisted. Here’s the story, via AP: BETTENDORF, Iowa - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Wednesday defended

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• Elizabeth Edwards: “We can’t make John black, we can’t make him a woman.”

  Published: August 8, 2007, 2:05 pm

  Tags: Election 08, Elections, John Edwards

  In other words, even though they can’t ‘make’ Silky Phoney black or a woman, he can still adequately represent their needs, according to implications made by Elizabeth Edwards on press coverage of Obama and Hillary vs. her husband’s press coverage. This is also the strong implication we get when we hear and read from other

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• Hillary, in full Socialist mode, coddles the Daily Kos

  Published: August 8, 2007, 9:33 am

  Tags: Blogging Blog Watch, Election 08, Elections, Congress, The Clintons, Barack Obama, John Edwards

  Amanda Carpenter has a mini-recap of what was said at a “special session” of YearlyKos where Hillary Clinton sat down to talk to the “Kossacks”: In the end, however, Clinton made time in her schedule to talk to the bloggers. In a 12 p.m. Saturday session at the McCormick Place Convention Center, Clinton lauded DailyKos.

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• Tommy Thompson drops out of presidential race (MORE: YOUTUBE DEBATE FOR R’S BACK ON)

  Published: August 12, 2007, 10:38 pm

  Tags: Breaking News Stories, Election 08, Elections

  He made it official via a press release. The AP reports: MILWAUKEE - Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson is dropping out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, a campaign official said Sunday. His campaign released a statement saying the Republican is leaving the campaign trail several hours after WITI-TV in Milwaukee reported

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• Some Democrat leaders are ‘fearful’ of a Hillary candidacy

  Published: August 12, 2007, 8:06 pm

  Tags: Election 08, Elections, The Clintons

  Not because of what they perceive to be her adequate qualifications for the office, but because of how she could galvanize a Republican base which loathes the Clintons: They say the former first lady may be too polarizing for much of the country. She could jeopardize the party’s standing with independent voters and give Republicans who

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• Silky Phony caught lying - again

  Published: August 13, 2007, 6:17 pm

  Tags: Election 08, Elections, John Edwards

  First, the initial assertion, back on August 3 (emphasis added) August 3, 2007 WASHINGTON - John Edwards, who yesterday demanded Democratic candidates return any campaign donations from Rupert Murdoch and News Corp., himself earned at least $800,000 for a book published by one of the media mogul's companies. The Edwards campaign said the

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• And this man wants to be Commander in Chief? (PM UPDATE AND BUMP: AP COVERS FOR OBAMA)

  Published: August 14, 2007, 6:50 pm

  Tags: War On Terror, Election 08, Elections, Military, Afghanistan, Middle East, Clueless Wonders, Barack Obama

  **scroll to the bottom for updates** Say what? Obama defended his push to prosecute a tougher military effort to root out al-Qaida on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, which drew criticism from primary rivals for sounding too bellicose. Now you have narco drug lords who are helping to finance the Taliban, so we've got to get the job done there,

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• John Edwards: Flip-flopper extraordinaire

  Published: August 14, 2007, 1:09 pm

  Tags: Election 08, Elections, Clueless Wonders, John Edwards

  I swear, the hits just keep comin’ from this guy. Let’s take a short trip back in time, to review comments made by the former Senator from NC on the idea of a military draft (blogged about originally in this post): Edwards also called Monday for spreading the burden of serving the country by mandating national service. One of the

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• Silky Phoney: Show me the *clean* money

  Published: August 17, 2007, 9:25 pm

  Tags: Election 08, Elections, Clueless Wonders, John Edwards

  John Edwards has issued a challenge to the other Dem contenders to help him eliminate federal special interest contributions to the Democratic party, and while doing so is making an appeal to his supporters to send him some ‘clean’ money. No word yet on whether or not he plans on returning contributions he’s rec’d from

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• Thanks to Iraq successes, Democrats having to “refocus” their Iraq message

  Published: August 22, 2007, 9:26 am

  Tags: Election 08, Elections, Congress, Clueless Wonders

  this year, they took 108 days to come up with a funding formula that wouldn’t get vetoed by the Bush administration, thinking that they could dictate terms to the White House. They found out, as the Republicans did in 1995, that Presidents are never irrelevant. He played “chicken” better than the Democrats, who swerved

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• More on the Nutroots targeting of Blue Dog Democrats

  Published: August 23, 2007, 10:51 am

  Tags: Election 08, Elections, Clueless Wonders

  A week ago, I blogged about a plan being cooked up by prominent far lefties in the Nutroots movement to target for ridicule and possible ouster from office moderate Democrats, including the Blue Dog and ‘New’ Democrats who helped form the Democrat majority last year, simply because they don’t toe the ‘progressive’

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• Howard Kurtz on mortgage loans

  Published: August 23, 2007, 11:03 pm

  Tags: Media Watch, Election 08, Elections, The Clintons, John Edwards

  ST reader Leslie forwarded me this piece written by Howard Kurtz on the “sob stories” we hear about people who’ve bought a home they can’t afford thanks to a dicey loan, and how the media portrays them as victims: Memo to the media: Everyone who is defaulting on a home mortgage is not necessarily a victim. I feel sorry for

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