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The List 3/31/08

Join me won’t you in my pretend time machine, let’s go back one year. How could the Democrats possibly lose in 08’ people wonder in this far off time known as 2007. The President h...
Posted by Jeremy Essig on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:40:00 PST

The List 3/28/08- Musical Edition

Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) endorsed Barack Obama this morning. Casey, who had initially promised to stay neutral, changed his mind after "travel[ing] to Florida over Easter [where] rain forced him to stay...
Posted by Jeremy Essig on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:59:00 PST

The List 3/26/08

Can we invent a new state, and can that State have a primary immediately? I’m not suggesting we invade another country, but perhaps could we split one of the States we already have into two? I...
Posted by Jeremy Essig on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:21:00 PST

The List 3/25/08

The following is an exchange I had with a bartender friend of mine a week or so ago:Bartender: I’m voting for McCainMe (a tad surprised): Why?Bartender: Dude, have you seen his wife? That&rsq...
Posted by Jeremy Essig on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:48:00 PST

The List 4,000

"A roadside bomb killed four U.S. soldiers on patrol in southern Baghdad late Sunday, the military said in a statement Monday, taking the overall U.S. death toll in the five-year Iraq war to at least ...
Posted by Jeremy Essig on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:28:00 PST

The List 3/24/08 part 1

I can’t remember the last time I took a whole weekend off. Since writing Friday’s post I’ve left the house exactly twice, once for medicine and once for margaritas. I don’t g...
Posted by Jeremy Essig on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:30:00 PST

The List 3/21/08

Two state department officials were fired today for illegally accessing Obama’s passport file. Typical white people.According to the Washington Post "senior [State] department officials said th...
Posted by Jeremy Essig on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:48:00 PST

The List 3/20/08

I wonder if some Obama supporters wish he hadn’t given such a good speech.Perhaps if the speech had been a boring and predictable denouncement of Rev. Wright and nothing more, the media may have...
Posted by Jeremy Essig on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:00:00 PST

The List 3/19/08

How good was Obama’s speech yesterday? It managed to stop anything else from happening in the 24-hours that followed.Well, not everything. The "greatest speech ever" according to Chris Matthew...
Posted by Jeremy Essig on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:39:00 PST

The List 3/18/08

David Kurtz at Talking Points Memo described Obama’s speech this morning as "flat" described the speaker as "not having his A game today." I couldn’t disagree more. This was the first Ob...
Posted by Jeremy Essig on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:22:00 PST