Is this what Barack Obama means when he says he is THE candidate of change: staging apparently fake interviews with non-reporters while overseas?

That seems to be the assessment of NBC’s Andrea Mitchell who blew the whistle on the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate’s “performances” while in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Appearing on Chris  Matthew’s MSNBC program, Mitchell lashed out [...]

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Here’s a short post for you:  The New York Times is wrong to reject publishing an op-ed piece by Republican John McCain no matter how it tries to rationalize it. The decision stinks. Period.
Considering some of the garbage the Times has printed in its op-ed pages in the recent past, why not let McCain write [...]

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Since he is already acting like and being treated like he is president, it probably makes sense that Barack Obama is now on Afghan soil.
It was one of those hush-hush trips where no one knew his travel plans, except segments of the news media obviously did though no reporters were apparently allowed to go with [...]

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It’s official. Well, sort of. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration now says it is okay to eat tomatoes after all—just don’t eat the rest of the food that is out there!
Of course, the FDA didn’t actually say that, but it might as well have. After months of people all across America coming down with [...]

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When the U.S. government announced this past weekend an emergency plan to bailout mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by increasing their credit line and maybe even using taxpayer dollars to purchase shares in the companies, the conventional wisdom was that this was being done because officials concluded that Fannie and Freddie are too [...]

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As they say in Brooklyn, give me a break!
Still more news coverage today of the New Yorker magazine flap–you know, the one where the magazine’s cover depicts Barack Obama in traditional Muslim clothing, along with his wife sporting an assault rifle in an Oval Office decorated with a picture of Osama bin Laden. An [...]

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