democratic party
January 7, 2009
- Maybe it's just because she is the first female speaker of the house...who knows -- but Nancy Pelosi's wardrobe has been getting a ton of attention of late with most of the discussion revolving around her signature strand of South Sea Cultured Pearls, which are estimated to cost around 80k!! Caption and Image Credit: diamondvues.comOne-Party Rule Does Away With TransparencyBe afraid, be very ...
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October 19, 2008
- Casting the tax debate as a “values” issue Saturday, Barack Obama said John McCain was "out-of-touch" for equating the Illinois senator's plan to cut taxes for middle class families with welfare. /// “It comes down to values – in America, do we simply value wealth, or do we value the work that creates it?” Obama said at a rally under the Gateway Arch. “I’m not giving tax ...
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October 8, 2008
- 8 p.m. La Guardia --- The people left here tonight either have somewhere they have to go that's life and death or have lost all hope. All the bathroom floors are wet; the coffee machines are empty and I'm sitting next to a woman who either is Amy Weinstein or channeling her. v. bad.8:30 p.m. -- Someone turns on the second debate between Senators McCain and Obama. Much comment on Obama's purple ...
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September 8, 2008
- Now I write novels. Before that, I produced and wrote television drama, which means that I've spent a considerable part of my adult life making stuff up. It's been my job. I like to think I'm good at it, a real professional. And one of the things that makes me so good is that I spend hours, days, years sometimes, doing research, all in an effort to make what I write seem true. Yet, I ...
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September 5, 2008
- ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 5...Inside the Denver Pepsi Center two weeks ago Hillary Clinton was congratulating women on the progress they've made in the last eighty years. But outside, Leah Schildkraut was on a hunger strike in front of the heavily guarded doors of to protest what she called the "Democratic party's willful neglect of the dire plight of women around the world." While ...
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August 31, 2008
- Friday morning, on my way to a meeting that’s an hour+ drive from home, some of those thoughts that only come along while doing 65 invaded my grainy brain: What if McCain chose a woman as VP candidate? He surely wouldn’t choose a woman just for the sake of supplying a fem. Then again, maybe he would appoint a woman from the roll of GOP women in the US Senate or Congress. There were ...
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June 3, 2008
- A few hours ago, the Associated Press announced that it had calculated that Barack Obama had secured the endorsement of enough delegates to win the Democratic nomination. Soon after, it announced that Hillary Clinton was prepared to concede that fact, if not the race. Twenty minutes later, the Clinton camp announced that that was untrue. But just an hour ago the AP released another report that ...
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