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3 December, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘vice president selection’

Sarah Palin And Me

By Charley James • Sep 9th, 2008 • Category: Politics
(Ed. The M.O. for Republicans is if you cannot definitively answer the charges, attack the one making the charge. Charley has been getting both barrels from the right including Mary Malkin, Hennessy and others. This is his thoughtful reply.)
By Charley James
Anonymous sources are the bane of a reporter’s existence, and have been at least since [...]



Welcome Joe!

By Denis Campbell • Aug 23rd, 2008 • Category: Reflections
Many will deride your selection as ‘old politics as usual’ but from this chair you bring more straight talk than McCain now seems capable of doing as well as balance, compassion, every day common sense and gravitas to the ticket. You also can be a pit bull when needed capable of gnawing a leg or [...]



Vice Presidential Bingo

By Denis Campbell • Jun 11th, 2008 • Category: Features
At left is your very own Veep-stakes bingo card (print and collect the entire set) as Barack Obama and John McCain play that time-tested game of finding someone who will bring them victory in 1-4 key swing states and then can be ignored for 8-years because they are willing to step into the background. Haven’t [...]