Brad Miller, Sex and Vernon’s Ad

Gary, after all the trials and lottery scandals a little dose of sex and politics sounded interesting so when I read your blog (see below) about Vernon Robinson’s new ad about Brad Miller I looked at the copy on factcheck.org. Unfortunately, poor Vernon’s his own worst enemy. He has two legitimate points. Congressman Miller did…

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Shoot the Alligator

This is from Dick Morris’ newsletter (“Attack Dog – Bill Threatens Media”) about President Clinton’s interview on the Today Show and his eruption during an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News. Morris says former President Clinton’s ‘Play Book,’ when it comes to dealing with critics, works this way: “Item one is ‘deny the allegation;’…

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Bubba is Back

Well, Gary, I watched President Clinton on Fox News the other night and it was like old times not forgotten. He said four times he wanted to kill Osama bin Laden and it was sort of a shock hearing the words, “We tried to kill him,” come out of anyone’s mouth quite so bluntly. He…

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Robinson plays to the sex card

One of our readers wonders whether Vernon Robinson has gone too far this time – with an ad claiming Rep. Brad Miller voted to fund sex research but not body armor. Factcheck.org calls the ad “distasteful” and “misleading.” Click here to read its analysis and view the ad: http://www.factcheck.org/article442.html. The website says: “Robinson accuses…Miller of…

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The Devil and the United Nations

Sometimes you just have to wonder about the United Nations. Last week the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, flew to New York to address the United Nations the day after President Bush spoke. “’Yesterday, the devil came here,’ Chavez said, drawing giggles from the audience as he crossed himself, looked toward the heavens and said…

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Hillary’s Secret Weapon

“Half of all the women in the United states are single, and they voted for John Kerry in 2004 by a margin of 25 points” – (DickMorrisReports@Vote.com). I guess because I’m old and married I never thought of half the women in America as being single; and though I knew women are more likely to…

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Bill Clinton and Terror Politics

The Bush Administration seems to be doing everything it can to lose the war against terror, but I still don’t know if Democrats can win the political battle. The headlines are bad for Bush: Intelligence agencies say the Iraq war has spread terror instead of stopping it. Retired military officers bash Rumsfeld for malpractice. The…

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Nifong’s Logic

I don’t know Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong but, sometimes, he says things that leave me shaking my head. Like when the press asked him why the defense attorneys tried to have him recused from the Duke Lacrosse trial. Mr. Nifong said, in effect, ‘Well, if he was a defense attorney he wouldn’t want to…

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They come to bury the Progress Board

An editorial in The News & Observer fondly hopes that Governor Easley’s appointees to lead the Progress Board – Mac McCorkle and John Merritt – will revive the board, which has been wandering in the wilderness for years now. Not a chance. The Progress Board has always been plagued by a fatal premise: Its supporters…

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