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I’m surprised that Paul Krugman is surprised

…Hillary Clinton’s than Barack Obama’s; that is, it looks like an attempt at full universality. (The word I hear, by the way, is that Obama’s opposition to mandates was tactical…

Andrew Sullivan says focus on McCain

…Barack Obama or pigs or fish or lipstick. It’s about John McCain. The one thing I always thought I knew about him is that he is a decent and honest…

The Silver Standard

…what are you thinking about rjw) mmm 11) Obama right ? rjw) yeah 11) why don’t you ever think about anything else rjw) mmmm. Now about polling. My favorite site…

B and S

…did you make of Barack Obama?” Buchanan then replied with a brief Obama/Osama compare and contrast: BUCHANAN: Well, look, what—Osama, with due respect, is reality, Chris. Obama last night was…

The Real Deal I’ve liked Obama — the “skinny kid with a funny name” — since I first took a closer look at him last March. His speech Tuesday night…

Obama was 2; his mother raised him in Hawaii and Indonesia. Obama went to college at Columbia, then moved to Chicago for five years of community organizing in a fusion…

…Republican candidate will be Jack Ryan. The Democratic primary appears to be a tight race between Barack Obama and Blair Hull, with Obama leading 28% – 23%. I couldn’t find…