Morning Docket: 08.14.08
* Liberal religious leaders say a new McCain online ad is intended to label Obama “the antichrist.” Is that worse than being compared to Paris Hilton? [Political Perceptions/Wall Street Journal]
* Judge throws out murder case against New Orleans policemen who fired on unarmed residents during the Katrina crisis. [BBC News]
* Blackberry vs. iPhone. The war for consumers’ hearts is on. [Financial Times]
* Manslaughter charge for police officer responsible for death by Taser. [CNN]
* Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg was a spy for the CIA’s predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services. [Associated Press]
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so close to first it kills me
Kash, want to go out on a date tonight? You pick the restaurant, and I'll pay. How about it?
Fourth bitches!
Do all of the McCain ads make anyone else just sick? For that matter, does anyone remember when the Bushies buried him back in the primaries leading up to the 2000 election with the same kind of advertising? This shows me he really is no different than the rest of his party ...
Do all of the McCain ads make anyone else just sick? For that matter, does anyone remember when the Bushies buried him back in the primaries leading up to the 2000 election with the same kind of advertising? This shows me he really is no different than the rest of his party ...
A vote for McCain is a vote for democracy and levitra!
dude, Julia Child was also an OSS spy! if that's not awesome, i don't know what is.
iPhones are for high schoolers.
The McCain ads would be terrible if they were false. But they are 100% true.
And they strike a nerve with the American public (except liberal crazies like you #6).
CWT gives out iPhones all the time.
DON'T LINK ARTICLES THAT REQUIRE REGISTRATION!
DON'T LINK ARTICLES THAT REQUIRE REGISTRATION!
DON'T LINK ARTICLES THAT REQUIRE REGISTRATION!
DON'T LINK ARTICLES THAT REQUIRE REGISTRATION!
DON'T LINK ARTICLES THAT REQUIRE REGISTRATION!
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KASH RULES!
10 -- you're an idiot.
An exchange on Faux News (of all places) regarding the most recent McCain ad:
WALLACE: All right. Let's take a look at one of your campaign's recent ads. Here it is.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
NARRATOR: Life in the spotlight must be grand. But for the rest of us, times are tough. Obama voted to raise taxes on people making just $42,000.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
WALLACE: Mr. Davis, especially that last sentence, isn't that misleading?
DAVIS: Nothing misleading about it. Barack Obama voted for a budget resolution that would have increased taxes on people, families, making $42,000. What's misleading about that?
WALLACE: Well, in fact, it only would be single people making $42,000. It would be families making over $60,000. But Obama — as you say, he voted for a non-binding budget resolution that overall talked about doing away with the Bush tax cuts. In fact, he says, that's not his tax plan, that he supports a middle-class tax cut. And I want to put something up on the screen. The non-partisan Tax Policy Center says someone making $37,000 a year under Obama's plan would get a tax cut of $892. Under McCain's plan, they get a tax cut of $113.
That's just one of many. Go back to your Coulter books.
Awe man, freakin ATL messed up my ascii art.
# 14 - you're an idiot. Keep wasting billables to transcribe Fox News broadcasts.
The gist of what the ad says is true and your post shows that.
Ascii art is for nerrrrddds!
16 -- If your reading of 14's post makes you believe the ad was a fair and honest characterization of Obama's tax plan, I hope you never work at my firm.
18 -- Where do you work? I'll make sure never to hire your firm as local counsel.
19 -- I work in the Waco TX office of Skadden. Powerhouse, so suck it!
My dad used to play bridge with this crazy old guy. He was a pretty good bridge player, though, so my dad and the other players put up with his occasional outbursts, which often included fantastical stories. Some highlights were (a) being a back-up catcher for the Yankees; (b) chilling with the emperor of Japan; and (c) stealing Nazi nuclear secrets by posing as a kraut physicist. Everything short of being Napoleon.
He'd start one of these yarns, and invariably someone would have to direct his attention back to the cards. I don't remember precisely, but I think that after a few years the guy drifted off into oblivion.
Turns out he was Moe Berg. All the stories were true.
18 -- Well, ummm, that's awkward. I work in the Waco office of Skadden as well.
So...guess I'll see you at lunch. Buddy.
Some of Berg's stories were true, but many were not. Either way, :"The Catcher Was A Spy" is a good read.
22 - I work in the Waco office of Skadden too... this is kind of creeping me out.
Poor Skadden Waco.