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Posted at 11:15am on Apr. 15, 2008 Ferraro's comments echoed, Another one soon thrown under the bus?

By Common Cents

“Wading back into the Democratic presidential race, billionaire businessman Bob Johnson said Monday that Sen. Barack Obama would not be his party's leading candidate if he were white.
Johnson's comments to the Observer echoed those of former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro. She stepped down as an adviser to Sen. Hillary Clinton last month after saying Obama wouldn't be where he is if he were white.”

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Posted at 10:40am on Apr. 13, 2008 Obama or Hillary?

By Common Cents

I am pretty surprised to see blog after blog exposing Obama while there is little mention of Hillary. Who do we really want to face? I am not sure at this point.

I see Obama having a larger variability of outcomes. He could lose big for being exposed as an empty suit, or he could be the change hero and win. Depends if the Dems rally behind him once the nomination is over and MSM makes him their hero once again. I never underestimate the ability of the MSM to turn on a dime as witnessed by the alternating cycles between Obama and Hillary.

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Posted at 11:55am on Apr. 12, 2008 CNN Report: Racism, a family tradition, hand me down.

By Common Cents

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Wow, An interesting story by CNN interviewing college students about racism. When pressed about why they believe racism exists, many say they haven't really experienced it much but have been told about it by their elders and see it on the news.

One even said his peers use racism as an excuse for not putting forth effort.

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Posted at 6:55pm on Apr. 3, 2008 Fundraising/Election Success Correlation

By Common Cents

Fundraising Totals:

Obama, Barack $193,600,733

Clinton, Hillary $169,003,120

McCain, John $64,654,539

Source: opensecrets.org

Reps are being out fund-raised $362 million to $64 million. Now much of the Dem money is used in their primary battle but the overall picture shows a large bias in fundraising ability to Dems.

Historically, aside from the obvious platform differences is there a correlation between fundraising and election success? Or is the unusually tight primary race skewing the numbers?

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Posted at 9:03pm on Mar. 24, 2008 Definition of "is" is begat "Misspoke"

By Common Cents

"I certainly do remember that trip to Bosnia, and as Togo said, there was a saying around the White House that if a place was too small, too poor, or too dangerous, the president couldn't go, so send the First Lady. That’s where we went.

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Posted at 10:31am on Nov. 21, 2007 Can Oprah puts Hillary Out of Business?

By Common Cents

Oprah is treading on thin ice. Obama has indicated that Oprah will begin stumping for him. I posted this a few months ago. Oprah has the respect(Hillary campaign should look this word up) of millions of women. Women trust her opinion almost without question for a good reason. Oprah has built respect and real credibility, not manufactured MSM hocus pocus.

Can the Clinton machine neutralize the Oprah effect? I think we have seen a little bit of that over the blowup in the media about problems at Oprah's school in Africa.

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Posted at 10:16pm on Oct. 26, 2007 Cable News Network in Peril

By Common Cents

CNN has been pimping their "Planet in Peril" special with memos put out to use the forest fires to pimp the special.

Preaching gloom and doom to keep us feeling guilty so we pay ever increasing taxes without too much fuss.

A segment of the show is endangered animals being smuggled into the US. WTF!? At least show me some gore or natural disasters....If smuggled animals is a big priority putting our planet in peril I think I'll be able to sleep ok tonite. I'll let AC and Jeff Corwin worry about that one.

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Posted at 5:02pm on Oct. 3, 2007 Police Report 4 Fires in Senate Offices

By Common Cents

I wonder who was burning what evidence this time?

Police Report 4 Fires in Senate Offices
Oct 3 03:54 PM US/Eastern
By LAURIE KELLMAN
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. Capitol Police reported four fires in Senate office buildings Wednesday. All were extinguished by midafternoon, but an investigation continued.

"They are suspicious in nature," said Sgt. Kimberly Schneider.

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Posted at 1:11pm on Oct. 1, 2007 CNN Reporter Rick Sanchez "Getting Personal"

By Common Cents

I saw a teaser for an immigration story on CNN by Rick Sanchez today.

Rick Sanchez, "getting personal" on immigration story.

A "news" outlet blatantly admitting they are getting personal and have a biased reporter doing a story.

Things that make you go hmmmmmm.

Sanchez is from Cuba and studied journalism in Minnesota. Arrggggggg.

Here is another blurb on Sanchez via Wikipedia.

He is one of the nation’s first Cuban American news anchors and made broadcast history with two shows on two mediums in two languages.[1]