Washington Post (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
ST. PAUL, Minn. Sept. 4 -- One group had looked forward to this moment for more than 10 years, the other for less than 10 days. But on Thursday night, the delegations from New Hampshire and Iowa both stood and waved campaign signs, welcoming John McCain to the stage with the same rousing ovation.
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Hypocrisy is their bread, and chutzpah their butter . “Sarah Palin, a commercial fisherman from Wasilla, told her husband on Tuesday she was driving to Anchorage to shop at Costco. Instead, she headed straight for Ivana. And there, at J.C. Penney’s cosmetic department, was Ivana, the former Mrs. Donald Trump, [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Last night I did something way out of the norm for me. I ventured over to the Hillary Clinton Forum. Thus the title of my post. Wow! I spent quite a bit of delightful time reading the posts left by Hillary Fans. In the process I learned a lot about Hillary [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
For me, the nomination of Sarah Palin for vice president brings to the forefront the question: Is it best for children, especially young ones, to have their mother working outside the home? I am not in any way standing in judgment of Sarah Palin on this. For people whose finances allow them to [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
On Wednesday morning Charlie Black, introduced as a "senior advisor" to the McCain campaign, spoke to the Iowa delegates attending the Republican National Convention. His remarks were brief -- mp3 runs 5 minutes. "Didn't we get off to a great starr when we finnaly started this convention (Tuesday) night?" [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
See photo at Monsters and Critics (m&c): Police wearing riot gear arrest Jason Johnson, a protester from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, near the Xcel Energy Center where the Republican National Convention is being held in St. Paul, Minnesota … [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Guess which party actually saves you money. My guess is that the best response partisan conservatives will have for this is “NY Times liberal media he’s advised Democrats I refuse to actually read the data I’ve got my talking points and I’m happy with ‘em,” etc., i.e., press lever, [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | yesterday
How long until some Keystone-cops former Soviet breakaway Republic says it no longer feels obligated by standards of international propriety to recognize elected U.S. officials, given the constant irregularities in their elections? I know my conservative friends find it very amusing that Florida thinks the bottom-line basis of our democracy [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Number of comments: 2 Ability to lead = ability to effectively recite a Matt Scully speech : The media has pushed the Obama campaign’s narrative for days that Governor Palin does not have enough experience to be Vice President. Tonight, she proved the media wrong. She proved the media frauds. She proved she’s tough, she’s [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Number of comments: 1 Dear Mike~ I doubt you will ever read my words or come to understand what being one of your ardent supporters has meant to me- how following you, supporting your campaign, and my becoming “grass roots” is all because of you! One day last fall I saw a man interviewed on TV. [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Number of comments: 2 After a week to practice reading a Matthew Scully speech off of a teleprompter the McCain campaign has set the ground rules: With last night’s cheerfully vicious speeches from Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin, the Republicans did what they always do in order to win elections: they exploited raw cultural divides [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The rest of her outfit on Tuesday added another $20,000-$35,000 dollars . This is all okay, though, because the McCains believe in giving the rich the biggest tax breaks. If they tried caring about the poor, they’d be unconscionable hypocrites. John McCain’t proposed tax break for the McCains just about pays [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The emcee for the breakfast meeting of the Iowa Republican delegation at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul told the audience they'd decided against inviting the Illinois senator who has won the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, nor did they invite the other U.S. senator from Illinois -- Democrat Dick [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Not a single order given , apparently: When presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain introduced Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate last Friday, the Arizona senator emphasized her role as the commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard . Later, when questions were raised about Palin’s lack of experience [...]
BlogNetNews.com/Iowa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dave Roederer, John McCain's Iowa campaign chairman, thrust himself into the role of bouncer last night on the convention floor. Two protestors standing on stage caught Roederer's eye, and he jumped up and hustled them up the aisle and off the floor. "I kept thinking somebody would come to help [...]
