Nevada: Jimmy Carter

September 22, 2009 - 04:26 am
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Obama on Letterman Show


President Obama went on TV yet again tonight on the David Letterman show. He's been on TV more times than he's had days in office! Anybody besides me question this strategy? GET OFF MY TV ALREADY!

RACE - YES - the race card was pulled again!

Letterman asked Obama how long he's been a black man - his response? "So the American people, I think, gave me this extraordinary honor. That tells you a lot, I think, a lot about where the country is at." Obama joked that he was actually black before the election - he wasn't :)

Obama's CORRECT response to how long he's been a black man should be NEVER!!! The race card is wrinkled, smelly, incorrect, and Obama IS NOT a black man :) Obama has a white mother, a black father, he's neither - he's just as much white as he is black - but yet America still praises the first black president.

June 5, 2009 - 04:55 am
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Obama Makes My Jaw Drop


I swear...I never thought I'd live to see the things happening right before my own eyes today. One man managed in 6 months to spend more money than ever before in 30 administrations before him. One man has managed to appall the masses (even the ones that voted for him)...

The last time I "overly" shook my head was when Jimmy Carter was in office. But today, I'm beginning to think I've contracted a terminal case of both Parkinson's Disease and TMJ all at the same time! I walk around each day with my head continually shaking and my jaw dropped (it's locked in that dropped position), as I watch my President throwing away 200+ years of history.

June 1, 2009 - 07:21 am
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Experts Grasping At Straws

I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice this, but the blame game over the economic situation seems to have entered full tilt boogie mode. First, it was all Phil Gramm's fault, no wait, it was Bill Clinton. Hang on a minute, it was Jimmy Carter's fault, no wait, it was Allen Greenspan that caused it all. Just a second here, what about Barney Frank? Now, here comes Paul Krugman blaming Ronald

April 30, 2009 - 05:25 pm
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Michele Bachmann's Greatest Hits

Kirk Caraway was being kind to call Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) “historically illiterate.” I'm not going to be so polite. Her gaffes should outlive her tenure in the House of Representatives by decades. Herewith, the DB compilation of Bachmann's Greatest Hits.

Goin' to the Mall: The Minnesota Congresswoman went to Iraq in the Summer of 2007 and said we should support the invasion and occupation of Iraq because speaking of a palace in the Green Zone “...there's a commonality with the Mall of America, in that it's on that proportion. There's marble everywhere. The other thing I remarked about was there is water everywhere.

Mon, 08/25/2008 - 08:57

Today's convention schedule

The Democratic National Convention will be called to order at 5:00 PM EST today, with a theme of "One Nation."  Featured speakers include Michelle Obama, U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill.), former President Jimmy Carter, and Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, who will introduce a tribute to her uncle, U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.). 

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Tue, 01/15/2008 - 17:30

A little history on Nevada's role in presidential campaigns

Nevada’s early caucus has given voters a true relevance in the presidential nomination process, perhaps for the first time in state history.  Past caucuses have gone largely unnoticed, and presidential primaries held in 1976 and 1980 were not hotly contested.  In 1976, Ronald Reagan defeated Gerald Ford here by a 66%-29% margin, but lost primaries in Oregon and Kentucky that had attracted considerably more attention.  On the Democratic side,

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Fri, 11/02/2007 - 15:34

Why the Next Democratic Era May Be Different

Let’s start by stipulating the obvious: A Republican, particularly one named Rudolph, could wind up winning next year’s presidential race, denying Democrats simultaneous control of the White House and Congress at least through 2012.

But let’s say that doesn’t happen. Let’s suppose that, for the first time since the Republican tidal wave of 1994, Democrats end up next year with total control of the federal government.

It’s not an unlikely prospect.

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