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“Americans can only hope that those in charge know what they’re doing.”

October 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

That’s how the Reno Gazette Journal summed up the bailout package this Sunday in their lead editorial.  The funny (not ha-ha) thing is that it was how they summed up a positive editorial on the situation. The only thing worse than the summation was the headline:

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Liveblogging the Second Presidential Debate

October 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments

And it’s in the books. I think McCain decisively whupped up on Obama on this one, especially on the issues.  It’s clear why Obama didn’t want to do any more of these.  The questions, though, seemed pretty pedestrian.  I wish Brokaw hadn’t filtered them first – it would have been much better had people been […]

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