Kyle Bell

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Republican Smear Campaign on Obama Continues

August 26th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Ted Kennedy and Michelle Obama Deliver on a Remarkable Night

August 25th, 2008 · No Comments

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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GOP Convention Goers Greeted by Daily Show Billboard

August 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

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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McCain Supports Reinstating Draft

August 21st, 2008 · No Comments

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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McCain Doesn’t Know How Many Homes He Owns

August 21st, 2008 · No Comments

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 Real John McCain

August 18th, 2008 · No Comments

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John McCain Flip-Flops on Running a Positive Campaign

August 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

John McCain said some months ago that he wanted to run a positive campaign. His “Straight Talk Express” has found itself in the ditch the past week and keeps slinging the dirt at Barack Obama by essentially calling him the anti-Christ. Former democratic nominee John Kerry and former Democrat Joe Lieberman debated it on Meet [...]

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Paris and Britney and Moses, Oh My!

August 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

One week after Barack Obama’s widely praised trip to the Middle East and Europe, the McCain campaign has determined that the low road is the only road to the White House. With poll numbers having Obama up in the majority of battleground states (including Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Colorado, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa), and [...]

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John McCain: The Petroleum Pandering Politician

June 17th, 2008 · No Comments

John McCain today announced that he was for offshore oil drilling. Despite the fact that a.) many states don’t support it b.) it would produce only a long-term solution to an oil-focused energy mix, John McCain flip-flopped his position on this issue. That’s another flip-flop that you can add to the ever-growing list of flip-flops [...]

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The Real News in Pennsylvania: The Republican Primary

April 24th, 2008 · No Comments

With all of the talk of the “tide turning”, as Hillary Clinton puts it, the media lost focus on a huge story in Pennsylvania’s primary yesterday. No, it was not Clinton’s 9 point win where she only managed to reduce her 160+ delegate deficit by roughly 12. Not only was Hillary expected to win, she [...]

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