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Archive for July, 2009

McCain Campaign Researched, Rejected Obama Birth Theories

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, July 24th, 2009. Filed under 2008 Election, Barack Obama, John McCain, Politics

David Weigel reports today that the McCain campaign investigated and ultimately rejected the theories asserting that Barack Obama was not entitled to serve as President:
In the final months of the 2008 presidential race, Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) campaign learned of a lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania that asked the state to strip Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) [...]

July 24, 1969 12:50pm EDT — Apollo 11 Returns To Earth

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, July 24th, 2009. Filed under History, Science, Space Exploration

Lowering The Presidency

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, July 24th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Politics

Tyler Cowen explains why President Obama made a strategic mistake by stepping into the middle of the Henry Louis Gates story:
[E]ngaging with the incident has been one of the few major tactical mistakes of the Obama Presidency.  Presidents (and many others) make big mistakes when they “respond” to people with much lower status than themselves, [...]

Christian Group Makes Up Founding Father Quotes For Billboard Campaign

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, July 24th, 2009. Filed under Freedom of Religion, History, Religion

A Christian group in Florida has been caught playing fast and loose with history:
A Hillsborough public policy group whose Christian platform included a push for a state ban on gay marriage has embraced a new attack on an old target: the separation of church and state.
Ten billboard advertisements against what activist Terry Kemple called the [...]

Rasmussen: Obama’s Approval Rating Falls Below 50%

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, July 24th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Politics

For the first time, President Obama’s approval rating has fallen below 50%:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 30% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-eight percent (38%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of [...]

ABC/WaPo: Huckabee Leads Among 2012 GOP Contenders

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, July 24th, 2009. Filed under 2012 Election, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Politics, Sarah Palin

The ABC/Washington Post poll that I talked about earlier today in connection with Sarah Palin, also has this little tidbit about the yes-it’s-happening-way-too-early race for the 2012 GOP nomination:
As the shadowboxing for the GOP nomination begins, Palin’s eroding favorability among Republicans and white evangelicals could be a hurdle. The poll showed former Arkansas governor Mike [...]

Lou Dobbs Continues To Pursue The Birther Agenda

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, July 24th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Obama Derangement Syndrome, Politics

Despite having every single one of his “concerns” addressed by the woman who filled in for him last Friday, Lou Dobbs continue to pursue the birther agenda, as evidence by last night’s segment with Congressman Ted Poe, one of the co-sponsor’s of the so-called Birther Bill, and CNN’s Roland Martin:

What struck me about this piece [...]

Palin’s Popularity Drops As She Gets Ready To Leave Office

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, July 24th, 2009. Filed under Politics, Sarah Palin

This weekend, Sarah Palin will officially step down as Governor of Alaska and head off into whatever it is that she has planned.
A new ABC/Washington Post poll, though, would seem to suggest that a national political career isn’t in the cards:
As Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin prepares for the next stage of her political career, [...]

Birther-ism: It’s Not Just For Conservatives Anymore

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, July 23rd, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Obama Derangement Syndrome, Politics

Just in case you thought that the paranoia-induced idea that Barack Obama is hiding the truth of his citizenship from the public, here’s left-wing talk radio host Lynn Samuels:

Now, Lynn Samuels is far from your ordinary liberal talk-show host. I first ran into her back in the 1980s when she did a show on WBAI, [...]

The Final Days Of Bush 43 And The War With Dick Cheney

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, July 23rd, 2009. Filed under Dick Cheney, George W Bush, Politics, Valerie Plame

There’s a fascinating piece in the upcoming issue of Time Magazine detailing what can only be described as the complete breakdown of the relationship between President Bush and Vice-President Cheney during their final days in office over Bush’s refusal to grant a Presidential Pardon to former Cheney aide Scooter Libby.
Hours before they were to leave [...]

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