Q. What Broomfield, CO resident has no fucking idea what he’s talking about? Answer: Charles W. Wooten.
From the Rocky Mountain News’ Letters to the Editor, we get this parade of ignorance:

Palin better qualified than Obama, Biden
Charles W. Wooten, Broomfield
Questions regarding the national security of the United States and the foreign policy expertise of Republican vice [...]

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“Joe the Plumber,” (a.k.a., Sam Wurzelbacher) has brought the topic of taxes to the political table in a fashion that has long been necessary. Not that “Joe” has made any sort of a valid point—and regardless of whether or not he has a plumber’s license or his affiliation with the McCain campaign. No, Joe’s comments [...]

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Palin for President!

At least with Michael Palin we know that he intends to be funny.
Sarah Palin is funny in a sad, sad, … very sad way.

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On Wall St., the “dead cat bounce” is what happens to a company goes under. The stock price falls precipitously, as everyone sells, sells, sells. Towards the end, there is a brief, but small spike in the price before slipping off the charts … or a “bounce.”
Those who thought the crash was over after the [...]

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I generally try to avoid hot button topics like abortion. Really, I do. By and large, abortions are difficult, if not impossible, to justify. By the same token, there is little benefit to anyone n forcing a mother to carry an unwanted fetus to term.
This year, Colorado has an initiative, “Amendment 48,” to make a [...]

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News flash: when you’re getting booed by your own supporters, it’s probably time to pack it in.

Republican anger bubbles up at McCain rally
LAKEVILLE, Minnesota (Reuters) - Republican presidential nominee John McCain was booed at his own rally on Friday as he tried to rein in increasingly raw anger among supporters stunned by Democrat Barack Obama’s [...]

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Anyone who has had a brush with conservative economic or political principles will readily recognize the language that is used to communicate such simplistic ideas. “Taxation” becomes “redistribution of wealth”; structured tax brackets become “punishment for success”; social welfare programs become “the government teat”; and anything less than laissez-faire capitalism becomes “socialism.”
These terms are great [...]

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For all the hullabaloo the last week over how to bail out the financial markets, and amid John McCain’s “Country Clubs First” meme, and Bush’s dire warning and call to stabilize the markets before things get much worse, you’d think that today would be the day that Congress would pull together after a weekend’s worth [...]

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Places everyone! Places! We’ve got a show to run here.
Barbara Curtis over at the Christian Science Monitor is ginning up a real life controversy over the Sarah Palin hullabaloo. Unfortunately, Barbara is missing the “real life” part of the controversy:

Sarah Palin can have it all
Bluemont, Va. - The five children. The newborn diagnosed with Down [...]

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I’ve more or less been staying away from politics until after the national conventions because right now the political cycle is simply a morass of various messages and screeds being floated as test balloons. The real campaigning won’t start until mid-September.
But Sunday, I awoke to read this story and had to do a double-take:

Obama, McCain [...]

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