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  • Obama leaks cabinet choices in time for Halloween scare

    10/19/2008 5:13:48 AM PDT · by shove_it · 35 replies · 1,412+ views
    townhall.com ^ | 10/19/2008 | Bill Dyer
    Sen. Barack Obama has done America a great service by leaking some names of likely cabinet nominees to the Times of London. For Secretary of Defense, The One is is looking to the Republican whose own bad judgment most closely duplicated Sen. Obama's own in fervently opposing the Surge and demanding that we surrender in Iraq on a strict timetable: Sen. Chuck Hagel. In January 2007, Sen. Hagel was quoted as saying that the surge would be "the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam, if it's carried out." This is the Obama definition of "working with...
  • Is Sarah Palin the new Dick Cheney? (Projectile vomit alert)

    09/07/2008 6:27:08 AM PDT · by markomalley · 55 replies · 326+ views
    LA Times ^ | 9/7/2008 | Johanna Neuman
    Of course Sarah Palin is much cuter than Dick Cheney. As the must-have Republican political button from St. Paul put it: "Hottest VP from Coldest State." And it sounds like she's better with a gun than the vice president, who accidentally shot a friend while on a hunting trip in South Texas. But lots of folks are beginning to draw a parallel between Cheney, with his secret meetings on energy policy, and Palin, the pistol-packing soccer Mom who took on -- and beat -- the political establishment in Alaska. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, in an interview today with ABC's...