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Pander-Fest '08: Hillary Vs. OPEC
By David Knowles - Politics DailyFresh off a gas tax holiday idea that over 200 economists (including noted elitist Nobel Prize winners) have panned, Hillary Clinton has followed-up with another startling proposal sure to rouse populist blood pressure but, like the tax holiday, never amount to a hill of beans. As oil prices have reached record levels, Hillary has sensed a campaign opening, so she's sticking with the "Gas" category, but raising the wager somewhat. Now, she's going after the big boys: OPEC, your days are numbered. As Ben Smith reported yesterday, Hillary boldly declared the following:"We're going to go right at ...
Pander-Fest '08
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThe following definitions come to us from the Oxford English Dictionary:pander v. 1. trans. To act as a pander to: to minister to the gratification of (another's lust).2. To lay the pander, to sub-serve or minister to base passions, tendencies, or designs. For another dimension of just what it means to "pander," we might also consult a thesaurus and look up the word "politics." Yes, political campaigns are, by definition, all about ministering to the gratification of another's lusts. Paid political consultants are hired to locate our basest desires, so that each candidate can exploit them. It ...
Hillary Hits the Gas
By David Knowles - Politics DailyHillary Clinton isn't backing down. She's got a terrible idea, and she sticking to it. The idea, one she shares with John McCain, is to give drivers across America a gas tax holiday, despite a universal outcry from economists, environmentalists, fellow politicians, and superdelegates that the proposal amounts to nothing more than a disastrous, and shameless pander to voters. That's not stopping Clinton, who yesterday reiterated her claim that her proposal would do what everyone with a modicum of common sense knows it won't. At a rally in Indiana, Hillary employed George Bush's black-and-white, ...
Rudy Giuliani Trolling For Votes on Rivals.com
By Brian Grummell - AOL NewsWe're two years out from the next Presidential election, but already one of the lead candidates is hitting the red state sports scene hard for votes: Rudy Giuliani. See the screen capture below - a Guiliani for President ad placed prominently on the Rivals.com college football website.Nice.This is smart and annoying at the same time. Guiliani must first defeat several other big time Republicans in the various primaries if he is to have a shot at being President.. Seeing as how he hails from deep blue New York, a concerted effort must be made to bridge the gap between himself and the red, ...
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