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Friday, September 5, 2008

Republicans’ story engine creaking to a halt…

by Frank Paynter on September 5, 2008

McCain’s presentation at the RNC included the image of Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood, CA on the big screen behind him…. TPM offers speculation about the irrelevancy.

A soldier’s funeral flag folding ceremony was revealed by CBS to be stock footage from Getty Images. No real widows had to suffer to put a lump in our throats.

And the biggest hoot of all… the pictures of black people that appeared on the big screen were also stock photos.

Seems like Bush and Cheney blew the whole myth making budget and there’s not much left for John and Sarah.

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Obama in Fox News Interview

by Frank Paynter on September 5, 2008

I wish he wasn’t a war mongering imperialist, but at least he’s a principled, intelligent, diplomatic war mongering imperialist and running dog of the international corporate elite.

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Executioner’s Thong

September 5, 2008

Much has been made of the “executive” experience of half-term Governor Palin (Alaska). Running smoothly on some combination of Astroglide and Chutzpah, this week the Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin asserted that she “knows how to execute.” George W. Bush knew how to execute too.
According to the ‘pedia, “During his tenure, Bush signed [...]

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