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Rielle Hunter Bares Love For 'Johnny' Edwards
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyAt last! Rielle Hunter, mistress and love-child mama to twice-failed Democratic White House wannabe John Edwards, bares her soul--her trim midriff and silky thighs--to GQ. The woman whose calling card to an Edwards campaign aide proclaimed "Rielle Hunter. Being is Free," says she's never been a "gold-digger" or a "stalker" in the relationship where Edwards "held all the power," and though she slept with him in a New York hotel room the night they met, she denied they had sex in the bed he shared with his wife Elizabeth in North Carolina. Hunter, 45, calls the couple's 33-year marriage ...
1 Year Later, How's Obama Doing?
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL NewsWhether or not Tuesday's voting turns out to be a referendum on President Obama, people are already making it clear how they feel about his job performance one year after his election. Obama has a 54 percent approval rating in a new CNN poll, nearly matching the 53 percent of the vote he got last November. What's changed in a year is that he's gained popularity among liberals and lost it among conservatives. And while the president remains above 50 percent in overall approval, most of the Americans CNN surveyed don't like the way he's dealt with such key issues as unemployment, health care ...
As Flu Spreads, Some Panic
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL NewsFirst, the swine flu story line was about how many people didn't want the vaccine. Now that there's less of it than officials promised, people are clamoring for the vaccine and a type of public hysteria is becoming part of the story. "I've never seen it like this," a besieged doctor's office administrator in suburban Atlanta told USA Today. "That name, H1N1, sends parents into a panic." There's been "a lot of verbal abuse" from patients who can't get the vaccine, she added. Sasha and Malia Obama got their flu shots from a White House doctor, and in an unscientific survey of our readers, 55 ...
The Book Obama Can't Seem to Finish
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyThe phase "Washington Read" refers to buying a political book, looking through the index for your name, and reading only the sections that refer to you. Then, you display the book in a prominent place along with the other political tomes that have not been cracked further than the index. ...
Former John Edwards Aide Shops Tell-All Book
By David Knowles - Politics Daily(via The Daily Beast) Who is the father of Rielle Hunter's baby? Hunter, of course, is the woman who had an affair with John Edwards during the '08 campaign for president. When it was revealed that Hunter was pregnant, Edwards denied he was the father. The campaign put forth an interesting explanation--that the baby's actual dad was Andrew Young, Edwards' longtime friend and aide. But then came word that Young, in return for an undisclosed sum, had agreed to move to Santa Barbara, Calif., along with a pregnant Hunter, his own wife and three children. Who paid for this relocation? Edwards' ...
Meghan McCain: We Need More Gay Republicans!
By David Knowles - Politics DailyHere's a question: Can Meghan McCain, the blog-a-lot daughter of Senator John McCain, help bring the Republican Party into the twenty-first century? Well, with her column at The Daily Beast, and during her many television interviews, she sure is giving it a go. Today's screed, for instance, attempts to light a fire under the Republican posterior on the matter of including gay rights in the party platform:If the Republican Party has any hope of gaining substantial support from a wider, younger base, we need to get past our anti-gay rhetoric. As you can image, the road for gay Republicans hasn't ...
CPAC Exclusive: John Ziegler/Max Blumenthal Smackdown
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyI posted spectator video, earlier, of the tail end of an altercation between "Media Malpractice" filmmaker John Ziegler and The Daily Beast's Max Blumenthal. Immediately afterward, Ziegler came down to Bloggers' Row to tell us all about it. Being the fair-minded guy that I am, I immediately set out to track down Blumenthal's side of the story. Together, their accounts form a weird, blogtastic version of Rashomon. I will be posting the unabridged versions of what they said later. Tommy on: BlogTalkRadio I Digg! I Facebook I TwitterOrder The Audacity of Democracy Starring Tommy Christopher ...
Bobby Jindal is a Brady Bunch Sleeper Agent
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThis has got to be one of the most bizarre attempts to score points against a politician that I've ever seen. Max Blumenthal at The Daily Beast has the scoop on the sinister origins of Bobby Jindal's first name. He first alludes to it in the subtitle of his article:Bobby Jindal's Secret PastDid you know about the exorcism? The name that came from The Brady Bunch? Those and other surprising facts about one of America's fastest rising young politicians.No way! What name? Was there a cousin Jindal in later seasons? Did Sam the Butcher reveal his last name in a "lost episode?" Blumenthal ...
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