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Line of the night

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Friday September 26, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: debate palin mccain race obama presidential biden 2008
"I agree with Senator McCain." More to come. -Matt Hittle

NOW who's bringing politics into the financial "cr...

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Friday September 26, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: palin democrats boomers race presidential republicans pelosi biden obama 2008 mccain
Mark Ambinder is reporting that Chris Dodd, another old, white-haired man, insinuated that John McCain caused a ruckus during yesterday's bigwig meeting about the bailout at the White House. But the truth is that McCain and the Republicans listened openly...

Obama refuses to suspend campaign

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Wednesday September 24, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: republicans mccain biden presidential race palin obama 2008 democrats
I'm watching Barack Obama on CNN right now. He is saying that he won't suspend his campaign right now and that he wants to debate on Friday. This move doesn't lend much to his lie that he works in a bipartisan fashion. More updates as things occur. ...

absentee Senator McCain announces that he's suspen...

USD Democrats | Taylor | Wednesday September 24, 2008 | By taylor.poro
Tags: 2008 obama republicans election bailout democrats economy mccain
Senator McCain has announced that he will be suspending his campaign and has asked to postpone Friday’s debate until a resolution has been hammered out on the current economic crisis. This at first seems like a stunning instance of bipartisanship, yet beneath...

The Coal Miner

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Wednesday September 24, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: 2008 palin mccain race obama presidential biden
Either your support coal or not. Which is it?

Biden: No coal plants in America, but China OK

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Tuesday September 23, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: obama presidential mccain palin joe sara race republicans 2008 barack john biden
"No coal plants here in America," he said. "Build them, if they're going to build them, over there. Make them clean." "We’re not supporting clean coal," he said of himself and Obama. They do, on paper, support clean coal. -------- ...

Biden doesn't like Obama campaign's negativitiy

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Tuesday September 23, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: democrats obama palin presidential 2008 biden mccain race republicans
The Obama campaign has taken a turn toward Negative Town, but it appears Gaffe-Master General Joe Biden isn't on board . The ad in question is the one that ridicules McCain for his inability to use the Internet (which is because he is physically unable...

Democratic Sweep?

USD Democrats | XiaoXi | Thursday September 18, 2008 | By xzhang01
Tags: election 2008 senate
With all the attention paid to the Presidential election, the house and Senate races have been all but forgotten. This is a mistake, because while the Presidency is a powerful and prestigious position, the Democrats might have a chance to create an...

Dems Prez off the mark

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Wednesday September 17, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: race 2008 democrats john barack republicans mccain presidential obama
In response to my column last week, USD Democrats President, Brittany Neiles wrote a letter to the Volante editor . An Obama supporter, she was off-the-mark. Her primary argument is that government-forced civil service, like USD's IDEA program and other...

more lies in the presidential campaign

USD Democrats | Taylor | Saturday September 13, 2008 | By taylor.poro
Tags: lies obama lipstick 2008 ads election mccain pig
The political campaign has sadly vacated the quiet calm days of summer and entered the time of lies, slander and distortion.   A large amount of this has come in recent days from the McCain campaign.   Polifact, an independent fact checking agency...

Obama needs to try fact-checking

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Saturday September 13, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: presidential race john mccain republicans democrats 2008 obama barack
Barack Obama has launched a new ad that lampoons John McCain for his inability to use the Internet. Unfortunately for Obama, his lack of fact-checking left this tidbit of information unfound: " McCain's severe war injuries prevent him from combing his...

Why the GOP turns me away from voting McCain.

A is for Atheism | General | Friday September 12, 2008 | By dan.smart
Tags: democrat palin election rnc mccain obama biden vote 2008 john presidential barack republican dnc gop
I don't write often these days and I write even less often about politics. With the current political climate I feel it is necessary to tell everyone why I like John McCain but hate the GOP. McCain is an amazing guy, he willingly went to an unpopular war , he...

Obama realizes tax increases are bad. Finally.

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Monday September 08, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: presidential republicans barack 2008 democrats mccain race john obama
Barack Obama has finally realized that tax increases are bad. Appearing with George Stephanopolous on one of the Sunday morning talk shows, Obama said he finally realized tax increases aren't the cure-all he has made them out to be. From the Wall...

Obama's protectionism isn't the answer

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Monday September 08, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: presidential race mccain john 2008 democrats barack obama republicans
Today's Wall Street Journal offers a great op-ed about the history- and folly- of protectionist tendencies. The same tendencies toward which Barack Obama leans. Here is the pertinent section, discussing Obama in particular: ---------- Mr. Obama...

GOP Convention Protests are out-of-hand

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Tuesday September 02, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: 2008 presidential mccain republicans race
A great post from the Volokh Conspiracy . ------- In light of the post I wrote yesterday on the arrests and search warrants targeting groups seeking to disrupt the Republican convention, I thought I would add this update: Protesters smashed windows,...

Biden's ridiculous speech

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Saturday August 23, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: presidential obama biden mccain john 2008 democrats barack election republicans joe
I just watched Joe Biden's speech on MSNBC. Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews are both salivating over THE ONE, as always. Their "objectivity" was shot LONG ago. The only problem was that Biden's speech was riddled with so many economic and political...

Obama picks way more experienced Biden

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Saturday August 23, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: biden 2008 presidential obama
Barry has picked Joe Biden, Gaffe Master of the World, to be his VP nominee. Just five short months ago, Biden called Obama "inexperienced" at every turn. Of course, that sentiment is tacitly admitted by Obama because of the fact that he CHOSE Biden to...

polls closed

USD Democrats | General | Tuesday June 03, 2008 | By taylor.poro
Tags: hillary obama clinton 2008 election
Polls are closed with Hillary leading, but the state too close to call. The exit polls shows them split amongst men, but her running away with women, but the exit polls have screwed me in the past, so we’ll have to see. Votes have started coming in from Sioux...

primary night

USD Democrats | General | Tuesday June 03, 2008 | By taylor.poro
Tags: south 2008 obama usd primary dakota election clinton hillary
Hey there, I know it’s summer, and I’m probably just writing to myself here, but it’s the night of the Montana and more importantly, south Dakota primaries, so how could I not write something about tonight’s activities. For those who don’t know me, I’m Taylor...

Watching Clinton and Obama destroy each other

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Wednesday April 23, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: clinton presidential obama 2008 mccain hillary john race barack republicans democrats
Republicans are sitting back and watching the action --- "Republican strategists believe McCain has benefited from having won his party's nomination in March, giving him time to raise much-needed cash and lay the groundwork for his general election...

Democrats bash McCain on Age...

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Friday April 18, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: 2008 mccain presidential race republicans
...but they forget about Robert Byrd . If McCain is too old to be president, why do the Democratic party bosses allow Byrd,who was IN THE KKK , for Christ's sake, to "serve" in the Senate. (By "serve," I mean drool on his desk). -Matt Hittle

Republicans no longer underdogs in 2008

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Thursday April 17, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: 2008 race john republicans presidential mccain
Republicans are no longer underdogs in 2008 --- Partly thanks to an increasingly likable image, the Republican presidential candidate has pulled even with the two Democrats still brawling for their party's nomination, according to an Associated Press-Yahoo...

Democratic Debate...Yawn

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Wednesday April 16, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: barack obama democrats presidential clinton 2008 hillary race
Both the Democratic candidates were terrible in tonight's debate. Especially Obama, though. He flubbed almost every question about the string of stupid stuff he has said and done and the stuff from his past. The winner tonight? John McCain. -Matt...

Rockefeller apologizes

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Tuesday April 08, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: presidential republicans mccain race 2008 john
Senator Jay Rockefeller apologized to John McCain today . What did Rockefeller, who hasn't served in the military, say? "McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit. What happened when...
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