Monthly ArchiveJune 2008
Money & Politics admin on 25 Jun 2008
US Families: Dinner, or Clinton Debt?
Like many families across the country, the Davis’s of Brentridge, Ky. are finding their daily finances further and further pinched by the souring economy. Don Davis has given up his beloved weekly golf game, Doris Davis has started taking in darning, and the Davis kids have grudgingly agreed to cut back to a basic-tiered cable package for the summer. Their struggle to compromise and cut expenses is being felt keenest, however, in a battle that is being waged at kitchen tables across the country.
“It just seems un-American to have to choose between food and the rising cost of the Clinton debt,” says Don Davis as he putts balls into an old flowerpot in his backyard. “Do we eat, or do we help Hillary pay off her debt? That’s just not right.”
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Politics admin on 18 Jun 2008
McCain’s 100 Year War Goes To The Dogs
The McCain campaign dove headlong into more controversy over its “100 year Iraq war” claim this week as it sought to clarify its candidate’s original comment. This latest message meltdown started innocently enough at a Houston, Tex. fundraising luncheon attended by Sen. McCain and a host of Texan GOP leaders.
“My friends, when I was talking about staying in Iraq for a hundred years, I was not talking people years,” McCain said, flashing his token smile. “I was talking dog years, and my opponent knows this. Shame, shame on Barack Obama for thinking I meant people years.”
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Politics admin on 03 Jun 2008
McCain Concedes, Recants, Vows To Fight On
The political world was abuzz last night when news broke of a concession in the 2008 presidential election. Coming on the heels of Democratic front-runner Barack Obama’s victories in South Dakota and Montana, many assumed that the breaking news notices blazing across their televisions were related to Obama’s opponent, Hillary Clinton.
They were not.
“My friends, it’s been a hard-fought battle, a good battle, but it was not our battle to win,” John McCain told a stunned and confused crowd of supporters at a rally in Kenner, La. “It’s been a long fight, even though it seems like it just started.
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