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By purpleonyx - Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 at 4:19 PM
“I’m getting ready to buy a business.”
Joe the Plumber
More accurately, Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher hopes to buy a business someday. Joe told Obama that the business he hopes to buy earns somewhere between $250,000 and $280,000 dollars. The business in question, Newell Heating and Plumbing, reported earnings of approximately $101 more...
By purpleonyx - Thursday, October 16th, 2008 at 2:50 PM
What I couldn’t understand was why Obama’s unflappability seemed to irritate McCain so. He was taking it to him: he even seemed to be enjoying himself for roughly the first 30 minutes. I couldn’t figure out whether it was because Obama forced his hand on the Ayers issue – completely defusing it - or because he just couldn&rs more...
By purpleonyx - Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 at 3:57 PM
In the classic film The Cain Mutiny, Humphrey Bogart plays a ship’s captain who loses his mind after having been undermined by his crew. Conservative pundits such as Bill Kristol, George Will and Charles Krauthammer as well as Florida governor Charlie Crist and former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson appear to be staging a mutiny of more...
By purpleonyx - Thursday, October 9th, 2008 at 1:04 PM
After the debate on Tuesday, I got the sneaking suspicion that Obama was holding back a little. He was too cool - nothing like last time. Not once did he say John McCain was “absolutely right.” Every time he prefaced a remark with some sort of agreement with his opponent, it was the set up line for drawing a contrast between him more...
By purpleonyx - Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 at 1:51 PM
"Baffle ‘em with [expletive].” I’ve never seen a more baffling candidate than Sarah Palin. She clearly embraces the above cited credo. Having no interest in policy outside her limited interest in the oil reserves of her native Alaska, she decided long ago to bluff her way through the rest. She bluffed her way into a mayoral s more...
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