Archive for April, 2008
Looks like McCain Does Understand Politics
Not too long ago, McCain was saying that he didn’t really understand politics. But now as the Democrats are having a slander war, McCain has used this time to play catch up, and it seems like he gets it now. On Tuesday, McCain released a new economic plan. Much of it focuses on tax cuts [...]
Posted: April 16th, 2008 under Drugs, Economy, Healthcare, McCain, Oil, Trade Policy.
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What Will It Take?
Obama’s been in a lot of trouble lately with his Jeremiah Wright controversy – the largest controversy to date at its time. I made a comment myself that the most effective attacks against Barack were to call him unamerican. I think in light of this “Bittergate” controversy (which is actually a pretty terrible thing to [...]
Posted: April 15th, 2008 under Distracting Non-Issue, Obama, Uncategorized.
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Have You Heard?
You probably have heard about Obama’s “elitist” comments on small towns, but chances are that you haven’t seen the entire thing. “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” Does this look familiar? [...]
Posted: April 14th, 2008 under Healthcare, Obama, Trade Policy.
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Wall Street in Trouble?
There seems to be a general agreement among Democratic politicians that no matter what solution we come up with to issues in the economy, Wall Street will be heavily regulated for some time. The approach is to do as much as possible to prevent an enormous crash, because even doing too much is better than [...]
Posted: April 13th, 2008 under Economy, Finance Reform, Mortgage Issue, The Fed.
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Petraeus Questioning in Senate
General Petraeus appeared in the Senate to be interviewed about the Iraq war recently. Here’s an excellent take on the presidential candidates and the recent happenings on Capitol Hill. We at electionstocks would like to remind you that when issues regarding defense such as the Iraq war come to the front page of the news, [...]
Posted: April 9th, 2008 under Defense, Iraq.
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McCain and Obama Bomb in NCAA Predictions
Full disclosure, so did we. On Friday, we said Obama had a slight edge in his bracket predictions. Today, or rather Saturday, both of them were totally out of it as Kansas(just squeaking by Davidson) whomped UNC and UCLA was totally embarrassed by Memphis(don’t make the mistake of under-rating these boys). We’ll be watching tonight, [...]
Posted: April 7th, 2008 under McCain, Obama.
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Penn Is Out (Most Recent Casualty)
Penn has resigned (been demoted) by the Hillary campaign, and the Colombians are royally bent out of shape about his apologies about his “error in judgment”. He is out of a job with them for sure. Hill and Bill were non too happy either (furious). “The worst kept secret in the whole Democratic race was [...]
Posted: April 7th, 2008 under Clinton, Obama, Uncategorized.
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McCain, Obama, and Their NCAA Bracket Sheets
Well, what are you watching tonight?? McCain and Obama have both disclosed their picks for the NCAA basketball tourney. The McCain Campaign even went so far as to set up a NCAA Contest Pool on its website. Hillary seems to be keeping hers a secret. Neither one of them picked all “chalk” to make it [...]
Posted: April 5th, 2008 under Clinton, Education, McCain, Obama, Uncategorized.
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40 Years Ago
Hillary. Obama. McCain. What would Dr. King think today? Is this some of what he saw on that mountaintop?
Posted: April 4th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Want To Look Under The Rug? – Clinton’s Release Tax Returns
And guess what? No dust. They took in $109 million since 2000. Donated to charity. Paid taxes. There is a nice summary on the HillaryClinton.com site. If you’re really nosy, the actual returns themselves are posted. Bedtime reading anybody?
Posted: April 4th, 2008 under Clinton, Uncategorized.
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