AP quotes Chuck Hagel calling out Palin as unqualified: updated

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Thursday September 18, 2008 · 8:13 AM PDT

2008/09/18 · 08:13

GOP senator: A 'stretch' to say Palin is qualified

WASHINGTON - Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel said his party's vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, lacks foreign policy experience and called it a "stretch" to say she's qualified to be president.

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Could Palin lead the country if GOP presidential nominee John McCain could not?

"I think it's a stretch to, in any way, to say that she's got the experience to be president of the United States," Hagel said.

Wow, someone at the AP editorial desk must have either stopped drinking the McCain kool-aid or they lost a lot in the stock market this past week. The AP has largely been carrying water for the GOP this cycle, especially their Washington Bureau.

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Friday June 01, 2007 · 1:18 PM PDT

2007/06/01 · 13:18

I’ve read bits and pieces of the various diaries and flame wars over Obama and Edwards, touting Hillary, praising Richardson, laughing at Biden, etc..., one thing remains perfectly clear to me -- all of you are backing the wrong candidate.

Face it, if you want honesty, integrity, a fire in the belly, good solid foreign policy and domestic policy credentials -- and good hair (don't underestimate the hair factor folks) -- then you need to look to someone who currently isn't in the Democratic field.

What Democrats really want is a candidate who is equal part wonk and equal part rock star; a candidate who will inspire you to fight the good fight, who cares about his fellow Americans, who will get serious about getting us off of our dependence on oil and fossil fuels, who simply can communicate in complete sentences.

Well, IMHO, while all of the Democratic candidates can speak in complete sentences, they’re all missing that "something" special, i.e., they don’t go to "11". There is one potential candidate out there though who is both a true rock star, a policy wonk, and potentially a quality presidential candidate.

Bush Must Pay A Political Price For Illegally Spying On Americans Now

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Friday January 27, 2006 · 11:56 AM PST

2006/01/27 · 11:56

From purely a political perspective President Bush does not deserve to have Judge Alito confirmed by the Senate.

No President who has arguably violated the United States Constitution and therefore committed impeachable offenses deserves the privilege of appointing any person to the judiciary. Scholars and politicians on both sides of the aisle strongly believe that President Bush's policy of spying on Americans without a warrant is a violation of the law and the Constitution and, if true, rises to the level of an impeachable offense. So long as President Bush refuses to come clean on the spying allegations, so long as Bush remains tainted by accusations of violating the very Constitution he swore to defend, he is unworthy of the honor of appointing any person to the judiciary. Let Bush prove that he didn't violate his oath of office before his political appointments are given consideration on the merits.
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It Is GOTV Time Again

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Wednesday November 02, 2005 · 8:05 PM PST

2005/11/02 · 20:05

Election Day is right Around the Corner

This coming Tuesday, November 8th, local off year elections are happening in many places around the country. Turnout is even more important in off-year elections so, if you're stuck for something to do this weekend, volunteer to help a local candidate in any way that you can. Phone banking, assembling drop-off literature, dropping off literature, and, on election day, poll watching, calling voters who didn't vote before the polls close, and perhaps even driving people to the polls.
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Anonymous leaks text of draft Bush speech (satire)

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Monday June 27, 2005 · 1:40 PM PDT

2005/06/27 · 13:40

Straight from the presses on the internets is a Plame style ~~leak~~ preview of Bush's Tuesday night Speech. It lays out the administrations future strategery for Iraq and the war on terror and answers questions about our successes in Iraq. The speech also defends Karl Rove, and otherwise sets new standards in the annals of American political rhetoric. So folks, be sure to watch this speech instead of ESPN2's scheduled bullfrog jumping tournament or the reruns of Scrubs and get ready for some good old fashioned American speechifying.

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Tuesday June 14, 2005 · 1:46 PM PDT

2005/06/14 · 13:46

Ok, I had to share this because I almost spit my soda all over my computer monitor when I saw it.

A former Bush team member during his first administration is now voicing serious doubts about the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9-11. Former chief economist for the Department of Labor during President George W. Bush's first term Morgan Reynolds comments that the official story about the collapse of the WTC is "bogus" and that it is more likely that a controlled demolition destroyed the Twin Towers and adjacent Building No. 7.

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Monday June 13, 2005 · 12:44 PM PDT

2005/06/13 · 12:44

Off-duty behavior can affect job

Some companies are cracking down on employees' off-duty behavior, raising questions about how far employers should go in policing what workers do on their own time.

This ties in nicely with kos' discussion about core principles and the Democratic Party, the privacy plank in particular.

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Monday May 16, 2005 · 9:46 AM PDT

2005/05/16 · 09:46

and Ken Starr does something that even a wine drinking Democrat can agree with. (Ken Starr is not mentioned in the article but he was advocating for the out-of-state wineries trying to sell in Michigan and New York).