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Posted at 2:00pm on May 11, 2008 The Superbowl Champion Patriots
By Robert A. Hahn
I’m a bit tired of the Sunday shout shows, so this morning I played hooky. I watched The Football Channel instead.
They were interviewing Bill Belichick. As you know, he’s demanding that the New England Patriots be named Superbowl champions. You probably remember that New England lost the Superbowl, 17 to 14. But Belichick questions whether the score should really determine the winner.
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Posted at 4:36pm on May 10, 2008 McCain to Send Blacks Back to Plantation
By Robert A. Hahn
In an editorial that probably leaves its African-American readers doubled over in paroxysms of laughter, The New York Times today trots out the Democrats' quadrennial boogeyman: Republicans are racists. Among other effects of a possible McCain presidency, the Times lists:
...courts packed with right-wing activists intent on undoing decades of progress in civil rights
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Posted at 11:56am on May 7, 2008 Enough
By Robert A. Hahn
I got angry last night. It happened in the first fifteen seconds of Hillary Clinton's victory speech.
I am not a Democratic Party superdelegate, but I play one on the Internet. So last night I imagined myself to be one as I watched Senator Obama's speech from North Carolina, and then Senator Clinton's from Indiana.
Senator Obama, though speaking to the crowd in the arena, was obviously addressing me: the superdelegate. "As you can see from these results here tonight," he told me, "it's over. Now I'm not going to rub her nose in it... in fact I congratulate Senator Clinton on her victory tonight in Indiana. But can we please end this charade now and get on with the business of unifying the Party and running a campaign against John McCain?"
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Posted at 7:23pm on May 3, 2008 A Foreign Policy as Tough as Mommy
By Robert A. Hahn
Having already imposed a "trade time out" and promised that her administration will "roll up our sleeves", Mrs. Clinton today vowed to blow the whistle on China. This follows her earlier promise on the Fox News Channel to hold OPEC accountable.
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Posted at 3:47pm on May 2, 2008 Cap'n! The Shields are Down to 22 Per Cent!
By Robert A. Hahn
It’s time for someone to inform the Admiral of the Democratic fleet that the shields have failed. Barack Obama now joins John Kerry on the list of Democratic presidential hopefuls who relied on a sympathetic liberal media to shield them from the effects of bad news, only to find out The Hard Way that the shields no longer work.
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Posted at 8:15pm on Apr. 30, 2008 She Tried to Use Us for Propaganda
By Robert A. Hahn
The title of this piece is a quote from one Ed Dixon of Valparaiso, Indiana. He was reacting to a story about an Indiana manufacturing company that Hillary Clinton has been telling on the campaign trail. According to Steven Thomma of McClatchey, here is how Clinton told the story at a recent union meeting:
A Chinese company bought the company, called Magnequench, and they wanted to move the jobs to China. The people in Indiana protested, did everything they could to convince the Bush administration that this was a terrible mistake. Couldn't even get a hearing,” she said."The jobs went to China, but so did the technology. And now the United States military has to buy the magnets we need for the smart bombs we invented from China," she said as the union members booed.
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Posted at 10:02pm on Apr. 27, 2008 Because I like to watch them die
By Robert A. Hahn
If you were Howard Dean — or one of the employees of the Democratic National Committee’s advertising agency — it would make perfect sense to you that John McCain wishes U.S. troops to remain in Iraq for a hundred years. After all, he’s a Republican. Republicans, as we all know, are warmongering, homophomic racists. Or at least, the cartoon ones who inhabit the brain of Doctor Howard Dean are. In fact the cartoon Republicans that Howard Dean believes in want children to die at young ages of horrible diseases. He said so today on Tim Russert’s Liberal Hour of Power.
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Posted at 11:55am on Feb. 1, 2008 President Canute
By Robert A. Hahn
A thoroughly depressing poll from AP/Yahoo, released today, tells us that more than two-thirds of voters see the president making gasoline prices go up or down. 59% think the president can influence housing prices. More than three-quarters believe the president influences health care costs.
By comparison, only half think the president can influence how things work in Washington.
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Posted at 5:42pm on Jan. 24, 2008 Down With Bill Clinton
By Robert A. Hahn
Here is another in my series of good ideas we should steal from liberals. This one has to do with McCain-Feingold. Or rather, the lack of it. According to the Associated Press...
A liberal advocacy group plans to spend $8.5 million in a drive to ensure that President Bush's public approval doesn't improve as his days in the White House come to an end.
At first glance this sounds like a dumb idea. But maybe it's not. Maybe it's a McCain-Feingold idea. George Bush is not a candidate for any federal office. This means that "Americans United for Change" can spend infinite money trashing him, and they don't even have to report their donors to the FEC. What's more, there is inevitably going to be a certain, erm, latitude concerning what constitutes criticism of Bush and what constitutes criticism of Republican policies in general.
Which reminds me. (And frankly, it ought to remind T. Boone Pickens as well). In spite of the way former President Clinton is comporting himself, Bill Clinton is not a candidate for any federal office.
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Posted at 9:45pm on Nov. 10, 2007 Winds Out of the Right, Gusts up to 42mph
By Robert A. Hahn
I know of no reason why the currents in the Eternal Struggle between political right and left should flow across country boundaries, but it's amazing how often that happens. Why should Britain elect Thatcher at about the same time the U..S. elected Reagan? Why would Italy select the party of center-right Silvio Berlusconi in 2001, and then toss them out in 2006 just as Americans were handing our Congress to Democrats? I don't know, but this happens a lot.
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Posted at 9:42pm on Nov. 6, 2007 Bill Clinton Loses a News Cycle
By Robert A. Hahn
We don't often see the Clintons making political mistakes. That especially goes for Bill. Of the two, he is the far more talented politician.
But this time I think he's made a mistake. Maybe a big one.
By now most people have heard that the former president was out speaking to the Postal Workers Union yesterday and he used the occasion to defend his wife's performance in the debate. He got in the usual spears about 'swiftboating' and tried to turn the controversy into one between Hillary and Republicans, but he forgot one thing. Hillary had played the sex card.
Hillary had positioned herself as the poor downtrodden female victim of a bunch of Big Bad Men who tried to beat her up. "The politics of piling on," she called it. She even put a video on her web site, showing them beating her up.
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Posted at 4:14pm on Nov. 6, 2007 AP Writer Visits NH, Finds Democrats
By Robert A. Hahn
Associated Press writer Philip Elliott is on the ground in New Hampshire. What he found is that all the good people he found to write about plan to vote in the Democratic primary.
In fact, come primary day, the Republicans shouldn't be counting on very many of the independents at all.
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Posted at 5:17pm on Oct. 28, 2007 Edwards: 2-Year Ban on New Drug Ads
By Robert A. Hahn
That's the title of a news story that Democratic presidential candidate John "No Ambulance Too Fast" Edwards wrote for the Associated Press.
Besides the two-year delay on new-drug advertising, he would require drug companies to get FDA approval before launching major ad campaigns.
Like this one, I guess.
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Posted at 1:37am on Oct. 21, 2007 The Presidential 4
By Robert A. Hahn
Saturday marked the opening of the Republican Party of Florida's Presidency 4 event in Orlando, which will conclude Sunday evening with the presidential debate televised on Fox News. Attendees at Presidency 4 are Republican activists from across the state. These are the Party faithful; the folks who attend the meetings, make the phone calls, walk the precincts and ring the doorbells on behalf of the Florida GOP.
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Posted at 4:46pm on Oct. 19, 2007 Democratic Senators Raise $2 Million for Children
By Robert A. Hahn
WASHINGTON (MOVEON MEDIA) — Senate Majority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced today that he and 40 of his Democratic Senate colleagues had raised $2.1 million for the children of fallen Marines and Law Enforcement personnel.
A letter signed by 41 Democratic Senators which criticized radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh for calling U. S. troops "phony soldiers" brought over $2 million at auction. Reid said the proceeds would be donated to the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation.
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