Kyle Bell

President Barack Obama (oops, Freudian slip!) was officially nominated today as the first African-American nominee to a major party. Hillary Clinton led on the convention floor to declare that Obama was the nominee of the party to defeat John McCain and the Republicans in November. It’s something that could only happen in the Democratic Party: [...]

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Hillary Clinton delivered perhaps her best speech of her political career tonight. I’m an Obama supporter and while I was disgusted by the tactics that the Clintons used against him in the primaries, Hillary gave a rousing speech tonight and deserves much credit for the effort she put forth. As the first woman to have [...]

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Always the party poopers, a good deal of Republicans from across the country have converged on Denver for the Democratic National Convention. One of them, a supposed former Hillary Clinton supporter, invoked on Hardball with Chris Matthews that Barack Obama was a Muslim who went to a madrassa. Even though CNN and other news organizations [...]

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The first day of the Democratic National Convention took place today with a number of different speakers taking the podium. The two most prominent speakers were Senator Ted Kennedy, the lion of the Senate, and Barack Obama’s wife, Michelle Obama. With the knowledge that Ted Kennedy has been diagnosed with brain cancer, it is likely [...]

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The ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Republican Senator Dick Lugar of Indiana, today congratulated Joe Biden on being selected as Barack Obama’s running mate. Biden is the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, a committee that Lugar chaired when Republicans controlled the Congress. Lugar had previously worked with Barack Obama on the [...]

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The upcoming Republican National Convention will take place on Monday, September 1, 2008 and run through the 4th. The Daily Show is greeting convention goers with the sign shown below: var wordpress_toolbar_urls = [];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “”;var wordpress_toolbar_oinw = “”;var wordpress_toolbar_hash = “aHR0cDovL2t5bGViZWxsLmNvbS8yMDA4LzA4LzIyL2dvcC1jb252ZW50aW9uLWdvZXJzLWdyZWV0ZWQtYnktZGFpbHktc2hvdy1iaWxsYm9hcmQvPHdwdGI%2BR09QIENvbnZlbnRpb24gR29lcnMgR3JlZXRlZCBieSBEYWlseSBTaG93IEJpbGxib2FyZDx3cHRiPmh0dHA6Ly9reWxlYmVsbC5jb208d3B0Yj5LeWxlIEJlbGw%3D”;

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The Obama VP pick is expected within the next 12 hours. Yet the Obama campaign just sent out an e-mail to their supporters from Indiana that tomorrow the campaign is celebrating the opening of 10 more campaign offices in the state. This is on top of the 16 other offices that had previously opened in [...]

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Don’t take my word for it… McCain said it himself: var wordpress_toolbar_urls = [];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “”;var wordpress_toolbar_oinw = “”;var wordpress_toolbar_hash = “aHR0cDovL2t5bGViZWxsLmNvbS8yMDA4LzA4LzIxL21jY2Fpbi1zdXBwb3J0cy1yZWluc3RhdGluZy1kcmFmdC88d3B0Yj5NY0NhaW4gU3VwcG9ydHMgUmVpbnN0YXRpbmcgRHJhZnQ8d3B0Yj5odHRwOi8va3lsZWJlbGwuY29tPHdwdGI%2BS3lsZSBCZWxs”;

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Call it old age or just being coy, the “Straight Talk Express” crashed head on with reality today as the number of homes John McCain owns became an issue when he claimed to a reporter that he didn’t know. Days after he cracked that being rich in the U.S. meant earning at least $5 million [...]

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The Nashville Post is reporting that Barack Obama’s campaign is converging on the city of Indianapolis, Indiana for an event on Saturday. The paper reports that Indiana Senator Evan Bayh will be named Barack Obama’s vice-presidential running mate and that the two will hold a “major event” together in the Hoosier State. Apparently staff preparing [...]

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