Bird’s-Eye View

I suggested during the primary Hillary Clinton undermined her campaign through mixed messages like suggesting nobody should pay attention to early polls that put her and Republican John McCain neck-and-neck in a hypothetical matchup, then told crowds polling showed Barack Obama trailing McCain, too, and that was somehow indicative of a bad omen for Democrats.
McCain’s […]

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I’m going to build on something Gil Smart of the Sunday News wrote today. The Pennsylvania Family Institute, the group that’s been a catalyst for failed attempts to drive through an anti-gay marriage amendment to the Pennsylvania constitution, released a “factual, impartial and non-partisan” voting guide.
I don’t write this to be “anti-Pennsylvania Family Institute” but […]

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In case you missed it, yesterday the U.S. House led by the Democratic caucus passed a measure to lift the 26-year ban on off-shore oil drilling as long as it’s 50 miles away from the coast and the coastal state approves it.
I can see it now: Come to Ocean City, Maryland. Great crabs, Great beaches, […]

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You know, I’m going to throw this out there, but nobody’s going to care. Sarah Palin’s one of us, after all. By the way, don’t the Republicans have someone else running for president?
From Time:
ack to reality. Of the 50 states, Alaska ranks No. 1 in taxes per resident and No. 1 in spending per resident. […]

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Barack Obama in Springfield, Mo., hitting the Republicans back on the expanded domestic oil drilling issue. From CNN.com:
“The oil companies are shoving this thing down the throats of Congress, because they know everybody wants to try to pretend they’re doing something about the energy crisis,” Obama said. “This is not real. I know it’s tempting. […]

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John McCain’s new web ad attacks the media’s apparent love affair with one Barack Obama:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfogMFL7UJo

So let’s say this works. Let’s say John McCain is swept to victory in November because the electorate sees the media swooning over Obama and gives the sympathy vote to McCain. By the way, are we forgetting that McCain once called […]

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Barack Obama’s wrapping up the world tour. Astounding crowd in Germany and the speech was on target, but now, get home and start battling John McCain on your weakest front: energy policy. Unfortunately, no matter how false or misleading they get, the Republicans appear to have the American public convinced in an over-simplistic formula: More domestic drilling […]

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Joe Klein from Time gets it right about why Obama hasn’t seen a bump in the polls during his well-covered overseas trip to the Middle East:
People may be thinking, what on earth is Obama doing over there when we have so many problems back home? Why isn’t he talking about the economy? No doubt, the […]

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I’m being called to the arena by a Talkbacker named Right of Smart. So here’s my response: 
Oil companies know the American public is willing to spend only so much on gasoline, much like the health insurance industry knows their customers can spend only so much on coverage. If prices go too high, oil companies lose customers, […]

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CNN.com has an articledetailing both sides of the argument about whether America should drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR):
No one really knows how much oil the coastal plain might contain - no one has ever actually drilled there.
But based on the region’s geological features, and its proximity to the oil rich […]

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