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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...

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...

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...

Obama's a liar- that's not "change!"

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Monday March 31, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: 2008 barack race obama democrats presidential
Obama lied!! ----- During his first run for elected office, Barack Obama played a greater role than his aides now acknowledge in crafting liberal stands on gun control, the death penalty and abortion– positions that appear at odds with the more moderate...

Democrats' infighting will surely ruin them

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Wednesday March 26, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: hillary race 2008 barack clinton democrats presidential
The Democrats are split ! ----- "Twenty-two percent (22%) of Democratic voters nationwide say that Hillary Clinton should drop out of the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination. However, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found...

McCain leading by DOUBLE DIGITS

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Thursday March 20, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: presidential hillary clinton race 2008 democrats obama john barack mccain republicans
John McCain now leads both Democratic candidates by double digits . I know it's just a daily poll, but the Democrats make such a fuss when their candidate is ahead, so I thought I'd do the same. --- *** McCain 49% Barack Obama 42% McCain 51% Hillary...

We knew it was coming: Obama's "race" speech

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Tuesday March 18, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: republicans barack john obama clinton democrats hillary mccain 2008 race presidential
Here is the full text of Obama's "race speech" that was given today. One interesting note: the word "change" is mentioned 5 times. "...bring about real change." "...a belief that society can change." "...America can change." "...nothing...

Mankiw on free trade...the Dems are wrong

USD College Republicans | Trade | Tuesday March 18, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: democrats republicans bill mccain barack clinton 2008 hillary obama john
Harvard econ professor Greg Mankiw had a great op-ed this weekend in the New York Times. Mankiw states that most economists don't like barriers to free trade: --- "Economists are, overwhelmingly, free traders. A 2006 poll of Ph.D. members of the...

Big hat, no cattle

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Sunday March 09, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: barack 2008 john race mccain clinton presidential obama republicns democrats hillary
Check out Tim Carr's most recent Volante column . It discusses the fact that Barack Obama's message of "hope" and "change" sound good, but are just empty rhetoric. -Matt Hittle

Clinton's Candidacy: Good or Bad?

USD Democrats | General | Wednesday March 05, 2008 | By cberry
Tags: election hillary 2008 obama president bananas primary clinton barack
Don't get me wrong-- last night was a good night for Hillary. But its just that-- a night. A snapshot in the bigger context of the primary. How is she really standing? In order to answer this question we'll have to look at the past, present and future. ...

NAFTA not responsible

USD College Republicans | Trade | Tuesday March 04, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: presidential mccain barack race clinton obama john democrats hillary 2008 republicans
Mankiw links to a great Real Clear Politics article. The author, Thomas Sowell, makes a great point, that the "fair" in fair trade could mean anything to anyone. --- "Since "fair" is one of those words that can mean virtually anything to anybody, what...

Live Blogging Returns

USD Democrats | General | Tuesday March 04, 2008 | By cberry
Tags: hillary 2008 obama clinton primary election barack
Some very early results. Obama leading by almost 20 in Vermont and has already been called the winner. This was expected. Early vote returns from Texas look VERY promising for Obama-- but will he take the state? Ohio results were suspended with...

Foreign nations wary of Democrat trade policy

USD College Republicans | Trade | Tuesday March 04, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: race democrats obama hillary 2008 barack presidential clinton
Fareed Zakaria reports that many nations are unsettled by the Democrats' positions on trade. --- "For the rest of the world—particularly poorer countries—nice speeches about multilateralism are well and good. But what they really want is for the United...

Hillary and Obama: Frighteningly populist

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Friday February 29, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: 2008 presidential obama barack democrats race
The Economist has a great story today about Obamanomics. "FOR a man who has placed “hope” at the centre of his campaign, Barack Obama can sound pretty darned depressing. As the battle for the Democratic nomination reaches a climax in Texas and Ohio, the...

Canada and Mexico upset at Dem candidates

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Thursday February 28, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: clinton 2008 race presidential barack hillary obama democrats
Mankiw and the Financial Times report that the Canadian and Mexican governments are not happy with the Democratic presidential candidates Here's a quote from the Financial Times article: --- Mexico and Canada on Wednesday voiced concern about calls by...

On the Democrats on trade

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Wednesday February 27, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: clinton barack 2008 hillary obama democrats
Don Boudreaux has an excellent post on Cafe Hayek today. Boudreaux is the Chairman of the George Mason University Department of Economics. He has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Investors Business Daily, and Reason Magazine. I'm using it as a...

Obama's Patriot Act

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Wednesday February 27, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: democrats obama 2008 barack
Barack Obama's got a Patriot Act of his own! It's a bill that would essentially punish companies that engage in smart business. Because smart business is unpatriotic. "Mr. Obama's proposal would designate certain companies as "patriot employers" and...

Matt Hittle's Volante column 2/27

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Wednesday February 27, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: mccain obama clinton john republicans hillary democrats 2008 barack
Hi all, Please check out my column in this week's Volante It's called "Democrats' promises take form of nursery rhymes." It's about the Democrats' campaign promises and why they're nothing but fairy tales. -Matt Hittle

Another note on Obama's lack of accomplishments

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Sunday February 24, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: obama 2008 barack
I recently posted a video detailing the fact that many Obama supporters can't even identify any of his accomplishments. Rightfully so- they're extremely few in number. Here was a comment posted with regard to this video: --- "Here is a list of...

Obama supporters clueless on his Senate record

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Saturday February 23, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: obama 2008 barack
Even Obama supporters can't identify anything he's done! This is a video clip of Texas Democratic State Senator Kirk Watson being interviewd by Chris Matthews during MSNBC's election coverage. Matthews repeatedly asks Watson to name legislative...

The best line of the night

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Thursday February 21, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: barack democrats clinton 2008 hillary obama
In their 1,000,000,000,000th debate, Hillary and Barack got a bit heated. I spent most of the time watching The Dirty Dozen and writing a paper. I did, however, hear the best line of the night, from Hillary. She said that Obama's "change" is...

Obama panders to special interests

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Thursday February 21, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: 2008 obama barack
Barack Obama panders to his union special interests , even when American diplomacy is at stake. From the Wall Street Journal: --- Barack Obama has pledged to "renew American diplomacy." Except, apparently, when it might interfere with an endorsement...

More on the cult of Obama

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Thursday February 21, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: clinton hillary barack 2008 obama
I'm studying for an exam I have at 9:30, so I will just go head and post the entire piece - it's rather short. --- When backing Barack feels like joining a cult --- I’m an Obama girl and my man throttled Hillary Clinton, again, Tuesday night. ...

More comments on Obama's lack of substance

USD College Republicans | Presidential Race 2008 | Wednesday February 20, 2008 | By crepub
Tags: 2008 hillary clinton obama barack
Another columnist, James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal, is commenting on the frightening lack of substance behind Obama's "change" and "hope" mantras. Technically, he's critiquing the Clinton campaign for their "heavy-handed" tactics and "clumsy...
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