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The White House - BVD News Bloggtographer , BVD some how got inside the The White House for a 1 on 1 with GW , in The Oval Office

BVD : Thank you Mr. President for seeing me

President Bush : Glad to have you. I've enjoyed reading your syndicated column

BVD : How's your surge going ?

Donald Sensing has some ideas on how to make the Presidential debates more illuminating:

You know, maybe there’s just something about political debates that makes you remember the little things that don’t even matter in the bigger policy discussions.  Maybe they’re the things that point to character, personality, drive, sincerity.  Maybe that’s why we remember them.

Well, I fell asleep on the couch last night at the halfway point in the Great Debate. The half that I saw did not impress me for either candidate, but impressed me less for the debate format itself. I credit Jim Lehrer for trying to get the two candidates to mix it up some, but the format of the debate does not lend itself to what Lehrer was trying to get them to do. Why?

Now that’s what I’m talking about!  

From CNN:

“If H.R. 6899 were presented to the president, his senior advisers would recommend that he veto the bill,” the White House said.

and:

The following statement was made by John McCain on the floor of the Senate on May 25, 2005.
Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, this week Fannie Mae’s regulator reported that the company’s quarterly reports of profit growth over the past few years were “illusions deliberately and systematically created” by the company’s senior management, which resulted in a [...]

On the day of John McCain’s speech at the Republican National Convention our favorite progressive site returns to its Stalinist ways. Via la purge.
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By the way, great speech John. I mean Mr. President.

The Radar reports from Ron Paul’s rump convention:

Between anti-war author Bill Kauffman and anti-torture lawyer Bruce Fein was a slot on the agenda for “Special Guest.”

Here are some of the less primetime speeches worthy of posting. It's grocery list size, but bear with me.

Former Rear Admiral John Hutson

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