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McCain visit

According to the Times-News, GOP presidential candidate John McCain is expected to get a pre-Election Day message out in Tennessee and Virginia by campaigning at Tri-Cities Regional Airport on Monday. McCain’s appearance at Tri-City Aviation is scheduled to happen about 11 a.m., 1st Congressional District GOP nominee Phil Roe said.
The greatest part of the [...]

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What Fred Said…

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Democrats on Tax Reform: “They say they’re not going to take any water out of your side of the bucket, just the other side of the bucket.”
Heh.

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Babbling Ol’ Men are Often Ignored

Several years ago, I volunteered at one of the area nursing homes. There was an elderly gentleman there at the time, who would launch into these tirades about Exxon, politicians and alien aircrafts. The CNA’s on his wing would tell me, “Oh, don’t pay any attention to him. He doesn’t know what [...]

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McCain’s Amex not like mine

Interesting tidbit over at Huffington Post.

As The Hill reported this morning, based on disclosure reports released today, Sen. John McCain and his wife Cindy owe at least $100,000 to American Express, with a “dependent child” also holding a card with a balance between $15,000 and $50,000.
But not all credit card debts are created [...]

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Party Factions

Dear Republicans:
McCain is your frontrunner.  I’d love to take the time to tell you why this is not a good thing, but I have children home from school battling a messy, sort of sick.
So, Rob Huddleston will do the explaining for you.

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We here at the bipartisan watch party are watching. We don’t know exactly what we’re watching for – yet none of us like what we see.
Clinton and McCain are expected to carry California – and McCain and Obama in Missouri.
The Democrats here are giddy over the Republican results.  They think McCain means an [...]

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Precincts Don’t Lie

With 100% of Hawkins Co. Precincts Reporting, here is how you locals voted:
Republicans:

McCain

2,459

40%

Huckabee

2,272

37%

Romney

804

13%

Paul

291

5%

Thompson

251

4%

Giuliani

61

1%

Uncommitted

38

0%

Democrats:

Clinton

2,422

74%

Obama

564

17%

Edwards

262

8%

Uncommitted

14

0%

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After months of debates and kissing babies, Super Tuesday is finally here. Mr. Smartypants wants to know what is so super about it…  and I don’t know the answer to his question.
I don’t think it is so super myself.
In fact, for the past two weeks, I’ve been out of sorts because I do not [...]

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Last night, I was working on the taxes, cursing the government and watching CNN when Mr. Smartypants flopped down on the sofa.
“I sure hope that Obama guy doesn’t win the and move into the White House,” he said pointing at the television.
“Why?”
“I want that other person to win. The one Daddy thinks is a [...]

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Battle of the Endorsers

From NBC:  Sylvester Stallone endorsed McCain today.
“I like McCain a lot. A lot,” Stallone said on Fox News.
“And you know, things may change along the way, but there’s something about matching the character with the script. And right now, the script that’s being written and reality is pretty brutal and pretty hard-edged like a [...]

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