Joe Conason

DNC Day Three: "Y'all Sit Down, Now, We Got to Get on with the Show Here!"

philnugentexperience.blogspot.com     Aug 28, 2008   56 related          

First things first: Happy one hundredth birthday, Lyndon Johnson!A lot of vamping between the nominating process and the big speeches, as nobody really wants to listen to Melissa Etheridge. Incidentally, with convention...                    

Seven Sick Days, the Clinton-Obama Soap Opera

observer.com     Aug 26, 2008          

Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan and Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida say Barack Obama has to make up lot of ground in their states. [McClatchy] Michelle Obama said a roundtable with Joe Biden that...                    

If we must discuss plagiarism, let's talk exorcism too

salon.com     Aug 25, 2008   77 related          

Republicans and the press love revisiting Joe Biden's past, but everybody -- including the possible GOP vice-presidential candidates -- has one. By Joe Conason Reuters/Jim Young Sen. Barack Obama listens to Sen. Joe Biden...                    

McCain's McMansions

salon.com     Aug 18, 2008   3 related          

Robert Greenwald and his dogged band of researchers at Brave New Films have a new film focusing on John McCain’s real estate mini-empire. Here is the release announcing it: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 18, 2008 AFL-CIO AND...                    

Georgia crisis is a test for Obama, McCain

detnews.com     Aug 16, 2008   593 related          

Nancy Kruh The ongoing conflict between Russia and Georgia has given both John McCain and Barack Obama an opportunity to put their foreign-policy mettle on display, and pundits are now taking measure. "It was a near-perfect...                    

Mccain's Speech on Georgia Plagiarized?

time.com     Aug 15, 2008   934 related          

Posted by GREG BOBRINSKOY | we're discussing the incoming news over when Obama and McCain will pick their running mates and the ramifications of the timing; whether Tim Kaine's stock is actually rising as the New York Times...                    

A pre-convention memo to Hillary Clinton

salon.com     Aug 15, 2008   1,196 related          

Ignore your sniping campaign team. Smart advisors would tell you to give Barack Obama your undivided support from now until Election Day. Throughout the campaign they misunderstood how Democratic politics has changed over the...                    

A Cut-and-Paste Foreign Policy (Joe Conason)

yahoo.com     Aug 14, 2008   2 related          

Joe Conason - The discovery that John McCain's remarks on Georgia were derived from Wikipedia, to put it politely, is disturbing and even depressing — but not surprising. Under the tutelage of the neoconservatives, who revealed...                    

From the Dead Tree Observer

observer.com     Aug 13, 2008          

The latest print edition of the Observer just hit the streets, complete with these exciting political stories: Jason Horowitz talks to some of Hillary Clinton’s most devoted female backers – and finds that they don’t have much...                    

Ignoring forged war documents is a dangerous precedent

reddit.com     Aug 12, 2008   1 related          

How can impeachment be off the table if there is proof that documents that linked al Qaeda to Saddam or documents that made the case for invading Iraq were forged by the Office of Special Plans/Doug Feith/Dick Cheney/Scooter...                    

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