althouse.blogspot.com - 11/9/2008
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althouse.blogspot.com —
As promised , I'm mining my archive --
beginning in late August -- to try to understand...
how I turned against John McCain. August 25: "Nicely done. I'm glad to see the return of the light touch," I say about an Obama ad that uses the song "What a ...
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How McCain lost me.
cqpolitics.com - 11/15/2008
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cqpolitics.com —
CQ TODAY ONLINE NEWS – INTELLIGENCE Nov. 14,
2008 – 4:06 p.m. Hill Democrats Wait for Obama...
Stance on Interrogation Standards By Tim Starks, CQ Staff Top Democrats on congressional intelligence panels could be heading for conflict with ...
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Hill Democrats Wait for Obama Stance on Interrogation ...
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Backpedaling Towards Reality
JustOneMinute —
... conservatives who think it’s a terrible idea.” So this new Dem-dominated Congress is going to pass a preventive detention law that Bush never tried to run through a Republican controlled Congress in the heat of war? Hmm, and I'm the Queen of May. (Yes, I get that Bush was not interested in pushing for such a law and in expanding Executive Branch authority, but still - there is no way a preventive detention law gets through this Congress.) The Captain tees of on this and related Obama re-positioning on enhanced interogation , which will never, ever be called torture ...
Change That Matters
Jules Crittenden —
... Appears increasingly to be occuring within Obama policy positions. Hot Air , on the shifting change goalposts, reports on indicators that even as the incoming Obamists struggle with that thorny Guantanamo issue, they are looking at the idea of leaving CIA’s interrogation options open. If change keeps mattering like this, you have to ask yourself whether maybe the change that would have mattered most would have been to just amend the constitution and let George Bush be prez again … Topics: ...
Obama’s Firm But Nuanced Positions On GITMO And “Torture”
Nice Deb —
... But what are his surrogates saying? Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has been keeping an eye on that for us. On the Interrogation front, it seems that Obama may be moving away from his past position of supporting a bill that would have placed the CIA under the same set of restrictions as the Department of Defense: ...
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Re: Reform
corner.nationalreview.com 11/3/2008 — Good points Jonah, it sounds like we don't disagree on much. And for the record, I have been and remain a determined Palin booster. I think she was a smart pick, did far more good than harm for McCain's chances, and remains a Republican to watch ...
More Good News
balloon-juice.com 10/21/2008 — For John McCain :
As voters have gotten to know Senator Barack Obama, they have warmed up to him, with more than half, 53 percent, now saying they have a favorable impression of him and 33 percent saying they have an unfavorable view. But as ...
Obama's Moving Day: What Happens At The White House
huffingtonpost.com 12/18/2008 — There is drama on moving day, however. Gary Walters, who retired last year after 21 years of overseeing the 132-room mansion as chief White House usher, explained that on Inauguration Day it was his job to help the first families move, in the scant and hectic period between the time the exiting ...
Obama Under Pressure On Interrogation Policy
washingtonpost.com 1/11/2009 — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...
The Money Quote
wizbangblog.com 11/10/2008 — Now that the election is over in what turned out to be the most expensive presidential campaign -- by far, even adjusted for inflation -- in history, I thought it...
McToast
americablog.com 10/16/2008 — FL – St. Petersburg Times (Editorial) "McCain's last offensive:" On the same day a new poll showed that voters' confidence in the federal government has reached an all-time low, Obama spoke with a reassuring confidence…But when the questioning turned ...
Dixville Notch: Obama 15, McCain 6
swamppolitics.com 11/5/2008 — by Mark Silva
The first votes of the long-awaited 2008 presidential election have been counted, from the first polls to open. In Dixville Notch, N.H.
It's Barack Obama 15, John McCain 6.
We guarantee you: That margin will narrow ...
Things Are Looking Very Good
openleft.com 10/27/2008 — Worried about "the tightening?"
Well, Obama's national lead has been stable at 7% for a month now. The national campaign is not tightening, and we are just seeing statistical noise.
Even if the campaign were tightening, Obama would still have a ...
Democrats Take a Second Look at Torture
weeklystandard.com 12/4/2008 — Michael Scherer flags this quote from Dianne Feinstein in today's Times :
Senator Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who will take over as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee in January, led the fight this year to force the ...
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