The Political Inquirer

From Norm, a story posted at FreeRepublic:
A Chicago pol’s wife gets a 200 grand salary bump (almost tripling her compensation) and a year later hubby seeks to channel a million bucks to the wife’s employer. Good old time Chicago poltics, right?
Apparently not, because the candidate in question is running on a platform of change, and [...]

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The GOP has an advantage here in picking last and can adjust to what Obama does.
Personally, I think Hillary is a non-starter here: the campaign has been too nasty, Barack doesn’t want the dynamic duo’s negatives, and I think I can conVince you that Michelle Obama Fosters serious reservations obout Hillary being one heartbeat away [...]

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We can all make mistakes and misspeak except we aren’t running for President. I play this for Mike O. just to show that they all misspeak at one time or another. We didn’t have recording devices then but I bet even Lincoln misspoke: occasionally. I think we judged a bit too harshly on some of [...]

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Barack Obama advances much closer to the Democratic nomination for President as he roundly defeats Hillary Clinton in North Carolina and wins a morale victory in Indiana. But Obama didn’t just defeat Hillary Clinton, but he also defeated Rush Limbaugh and his merry band of followers such as Ann Coulter and the cast of Fox [...]

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(Photo: Larry Downing / Reuters / MSNBC)
A picture is worth a thousand words.

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Interesting list that Norm sent me for Obama, the one below it is a list of Clinton lies that I found and put up as well. The Obama list is a bit longer, but please add your own list of lies that either of these two candidates have made, could make for some interesting discussion:
Obama’s [...]

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More from the New York Times: a delegate calculator to see what each candidate needs to win.

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My prediction for the primaries is that the Indiana polling data is correct, Hillary will win there by a comfortable enough margin. It seems to be about 48.3% for Clinton and 42.5% for Obama, according to RealClearPolitics, I suspect the end result will be around a 5 point lead for Clinton.
North Carolina is where it [...]

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The New York Times is running a piece on Republicans that are voting in the Democrat primary. The story mostly talks about those who are crossing over to vote for Barack Obama, but there is mention of possibly the most interesting “covert operation” of any national election held in the United States: Operation Chaos.
Rush Limbaugh’s [...]

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A reader (Norm) posed the question to us at the Political Inquirer, “What if Obama gets elected? What will the impact of the country be?” It will be hard to say for certain, none of us on the staff are prophets (though some might claim to be).
I think the first thing that we will see [...]

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This will more than likely be my last posting about Reverend Jeremiah Wright, not because there is nothing more to say but because the interest will not be there. I continue to write about it today because the readers of this blog are still interested in reading about him and commenting on him. But soon, [...]

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Here is a change of pace from some of our political stuff like Reverend Wright, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain. Lee Elia would have made an interesting pr guy for one of the candidates. Listen to this.

Lee Elia, then manager of the Chicago Cubs, performed his famous rant on April 29, 1983 after a [...]

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