Is this somehow a way to hide donations? Doyou think BMW, instead of keeping money, is putting into the accounts of the real candidates? I don't know what the reason would be - maybe if someone were maxed out for a candidate and wanted to find a way around the limits.

Posted at July 2, 2008 5:04 PM in response to Washington Fundraising Firm Drains Some Campaign Coffers, Not Others

Cubans drilling for oil off Cuba? How dare they!

This all sounds like a poly in support of allowing offshore drilling - "If we don't get the [insert enemey, real or imagined] will."

Posted at July 2, 2008 4:59 PM in response to Right-Wing China-Cuba Oil Myth Mutates Into New Form

As Rendell said, you don't negotiate with the presidential nominee.

Posted at June 25, 2008 5:00 PM in response to Obama Making Private Calls Appealing To Hillary's Top Fundraisers -- And Sometimes Hearing Criticism In Return

He has and will have that support. This is just about self-important people who thought they were buying a piece of the action.

Posted at June 25, 2008 4:52 PM in response to Obama Making Private Calls Appealing To Hillary's Top Fundraisers -- And Sometimes Hearing Criticism In Return

And then they can go find another Democratic nominee for President...oh, wait, they can't.

Posted at June 25, 2008 4:51 PM in response to Obama Making Private Calls Appealing To Hillary's Top Fundraisers -- And Sometimes Hearing Criticism In Return

I think the point everyone is making is, electing a Democrat president should be the first priority, not retiring Hillary's debt. Their threat that they won't help unless Hillary is taken care of makes a political party a personal racket. That's not what any of us want.

Posted at June 25, 2008 4:48 PM in response to Obama Making Private Calls Appealing To Hillary's Top Fundraisers -- And Sometimes Hearing Criticism In Return

People have heard this stuff so many times they're not going to put one ounce of trust in it. Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush - they've all promised we would wean ourselves off of foreign oil through one bs program or another (remember the great promise of shale oil?). This gets McCain nothing, and makes him just seen another in a long line of Washington bsers.

Posted at June 25, 2008 1:27 PM in response to McCain: We Can Achieve "Strategic Independence" From Foreign Oil By 2025

The polls show Obama doesn't need Clinton's help in the states she won. Obama's proposal should be that until the election, every penny goes to the general election and downticket candidates. After the election, his first priority (party-wise) will be helping her to retire her debt. She'll lose her loans, then, but I understand she's somewhat resigned to that fact.

I agree with others here: he's got to make it clear to the Clinton fundraisers that he's in charge, not them, and that the rules have changed. Elections have consequences, as the saying goes.

Posted at June 25, 2008 12:28 PM in response to Obama Making Private Calls Appealing To Hillary's Top Fundraisers -- And Sometimes Hearing Criticism In Return

And all these polls from swing states make Clinton's position in what we are told are ongoing negotiations absolutely untenable.

Posted at June 24, 2008 1:30 PM in response to Poll: Obama Has Big Lead In Michigan

H"is public warnings about the threat were infrequent. To the extent that he mentioned terrorism in his aborted run for the Senate in 2000, for example, it was to call for more spending on intelligence. Even in the weeks after Sept. 11, he framed the attacks in the language of crime, describing the hijackers as "insane murderers" and calling for restoration of the "rule of law." "

Giuliani's desire to keep terrorism in perspective could be discerned even on Sept. 11, 2001, and in the days following, when he sought to marginalize the attackers and the threat they represented. Asked on the day of the attacks whether they constituted an "act of war," he said, "I don't know that I want to use those words. . . . I'm totally confident that American democracy and the American rule of law will prevail."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/23/AR2007092301432.html?hpid=topnews

Posted at June 18, 2008 3:24 PM in response to Flashback: Rudy Said The Law Was A "Far Greater Weapon" Against Terror Than Violence