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• Biden put the hockey mom myth to bed by talking about being a single dad who lost a wife and daughter, then choking up. … * I was amused how she kept saying ‘i want to respond on _’ when that wasn’t actually even brought up, just to hit her talking points.

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/110/senate/vote-missers/ Good thing he made it back to the Hill to solve this crisis! Hopefully they’ll all recognize him. >hr />

Referring to the Depression: “When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed.

… Jesse Walker of Reason expounds upon this particular thought: And if you owned an experimental TV set in 1929, you would have seen him.

” For me to impose that judgment on everyone else who is equally and maybe even more devout than I am seems to me is inappropriate in a pluralistic society .” Meanwhile Obama says he was too flippant in answering that the decision as to determine when conception begins was ‘above my paygrade’: “And so, all I meant to communicate was that I don’t presume to be able to answer these kinds of theological questions,” he said in an interview broadcast Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12988.html John McCain today announced a running mate who he met only six months ago and who he spoke with just once on the phone about the position before offering it in person earlier this week. … PS: The next pundit who says ‘she has more executive experience than Obama and/or Biden’ without also clarifying that McCain has no executive background either is going to get a Xerox of my left cheek in their email box.