Clinton
August 27, 2009
- The Daily Event is proud to have Igor Yopsvoyomatsky, editor-in chief of paranoiaisfact.com, to answers readers' questions. Dear Igor, I sell souvenirs to tourists on the Staten Island Ferry and after eight years of Dubya I can't give America away. Nobody wants Statue of Liberty piggy banks, FBI caps, "Brooklyn Rules" tees...Not even Michael Jackson wind up dolls. People used to ...
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March 25, 2009
- In back-to-back press conferences (held Nov. 24, 2008) by Bush (first) and Obama (second), the men either stated or implied that they were sort of working together to muscle the nation through this tough economic period. Bush said, “I talked to Obama about the decision we made. I told the American people, and I told the president-elect when I first met him, that anytime we were to make a big ...
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January 21, 2009
- In 1997, I braved the winter cold on January 20 to attend my first ever - and probably only - presidential inauguration. At the time, I'd just moved back from Germany, was in grad school at the University of Virginia working on my PhD in poli sci, and lucked into a couple of tickets. My parents live in Oklahoma, a very very red state (Note: Oklahoma made the national news this election because ...
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November 10, 2008
- As the curtain mercifully falls on the Most Important Election of Your Lifetime, the nation breathes a collective sigh of relief. Or do they? Sure, there were enough Byzantine plot twists and darkly rich comic characters to exhaust Dostoyevsky’s older smarter brother. And I imagine more than a few of you are woke up spent, limp, barely able to grasp your coffee cup and raise it to quivering ...
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November 7, 2008
- GREENPOINT, Bklyn, Nov.7...Toasts and cheers resounded at Golubchik's tavern last night as Obama euphoria kept the party floating two days after the historic election. "To change," people shouted, raising their glasses. "To peace." This was too much for Ivan Yopsvoyomatsky, recent immigrant from Pinsk and senior scholar at the Greezhnizihd Think Tank. ...
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August 30, 2008
- To all supporters of Senator Hillary Clinton, who now vow to vote for Senator John McCain… I understand your disappointment for surely Senator Clinton would have fulfilled both the promise of a new and better day, and become our first woman president. We all know that Senator Clinton would have made an excellent president, she promised universal healthcare, greater opportunities for the ...
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August 29, 2008
- Don't be fooled.Sarah Palin, the first-term governor of Alaska and now presumptive Republican vice-presidential candidate, is as smart as tacks. She's young and she has legs -- of the actual and political sort. That John McCain chose her as his running mate is one of the smartest and deeply cynical acts of pure politics at its very worst I've seen in my lifetime.Although I wept through Hillary ...
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August 4, 2008
- I’m going to go ahead and spend some time writing my own blog tonight. I’m a little irritated. Well, a lot! I got a few bones to pick all with the same theme.I’m going to go ahead and start with the ignorant bitchasses that keep saying…“You’re just voting for Obama because he is black!”I will try and respond to this without cursing or getting angry.Since I’m a factual kinda gal, ...
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July 30, 2008
- I remember the days when people used to write something–a novel, a newspaper column, whatever–and it stood. Absent some blatant factual error, what you read was what you got. The same used to be true about what people said, particularly famous people, who speak a lot, in public, with people listening. You researched your topic, you wrote your speech, knowing people would hear it, and ...
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May 24, 2008
- Yesterday I said that the Clinton camp's "leak" was the day's best drama, part of the most captivating national election since my family set up our TV dinner trays around the clunky black-and-white Sylvania, ate mac and cheese (Velveeta) with diced hot dogs, and watched John Kennedy and Richard Nixon get tapped by their respective parties -- after real debates (where the moderators ...
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