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I Adore Carol Marin of the Chicago Sun-Times »

Carol Marin of the Chicago Sun-Times is the blue flower in the landscape of journalistic vapidity.  Indeed, she is the intrepid news reporter who appears in this video created by Flineo:
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Casting a critical glance at Michelle Obama’s abortive attempt to woo women voters at the Palmer House this week in Chicago, Marin explains why Michelle’s [...]

Michelle Obama Should Save Her Breath »

Barack Obama believes his wife, Michelle Obama, will convince women to vote for her sexist husband.  I quote CBS2 News Chicago:
CBS 2’s Dorothy Tucker reports Michelle Obama gave a speech Monday at the Palmer House Hilton, at an event called “Women for Obama.” But the message was clearly aimed at women for Hillary Clinton. 
Michelle Obama walked [...]

Boston Globe Exposé, Part II: Barack Obama (D-Slumlord) Is Aloof, Oblivious, Dangerous »

This is the second of a series of articles to be written on a lengthy exposé published in the Boston Globe entitled “Grim Proving Ground for Obama’s Housing Policy.”  The 27 JUN 2008 investigative report is required reading for all No Quarter users.  The editorial board of No Quarter finds the evidence cited in Binyamin Appelbaum’s [...]

Boston Globe Exposé, Part I: Introducing Cecil Butler, Obama’s West Side Slumlord Patron »

This is the first of a series of articles to be written on a lengthy exposé published in the Boston Globe entitled “Grim Proving Ground for Obama’s Housing Policy.”  The 27 JUN 2008 investigative report is required reading for all No Quarter users.  The editorial board of No Quarter finds the evidence cited in Binyamin Appelbaum’s [...]

Recently Unsealed Court Documents Confirm Obama Heavily Embroiled in Rezko Case »

According to today’s edition of the Chicago Sun-Times, “Barack Obama’s name could have been invoked more at the corruption trial of his former fund-raiser Tony Rezko.”  But prosecutors instead chose to focus on the first target of Fitzgerald’s probe: convicted slumlord and notorious Chicago political fixer Antoin “Tony” Rezko, the man who helped Obama purchase his [...]

New Hampshire Union Leader: “Get A Grip, Obama’s Coming” »

Secure your seat belts, No Quarter readers, for this editorial by Jospeh McQuaid of the New Hampshire Union Leader is guaranteed to jolt you from your chairs.
NEW HAMPSHIRE RESIDENTS, grab something sturdy today. Barack Obama is coming and his ability to switch positions on major issues is dizzying. It wouldn’t matter, except Obama wants to become President. If that [...]

POLLS: Electability, “That Particular Questionnaire” & The DC Gun Ban »

Does anyone remember “that particular questionnaire,” the 1996 questionnaire Charlie Gibson invoked during the ABC debate in Philadelphia, where he and Obama engaged in a lengthy and somewhat contentious exchange over 2nd Amendment rights?  
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According to a Gallup poll conducted in February 2008, 70% oppose the ban on handguns Barack Obama unequivocally supported in 1996 when he [...]

Obama’s Out of Touch Economics: $115.62 for Soup and Sandwich »

The Obama campaign managed to offend a newspaper in one of those “swing states” they believe they will win with an invoice that charged exorbitant fees for services not even utilized.  According to Bob Zaltsberg of the Herald Times of Bloomington, Indiana, their company is not pleased with the bill they received from the Obama campaign [...]

POLLS: Obama’s Obvious Weakness on National Security Takes Its Toll »

The boost in the wake of the primaries about which Obama supporters have been gloating has evaporated.  According to Gallup’s three day tracking poll, Obama and McCain are now tied at 45%.
Obama also trails McCain in the important state Missouri by a margin of seven points in a poll Survey USA released today.  McCain has already consolidated [...]

No Quarter A Major Player in the Presidential Race »

No Quarter’s detractors can refer to us as fringe and irrelevant, but Presidential Watch 08’s map of the 297 most influential blogs writing on the Presidential race reveals we are one of the few progressive websites that is actually shaping and determining the terms of debate this election cycle.  
An explanation of Presidential Watch 08’s map and [...]

Antiprogressive Democrats in Denial about the Fat Pig with Clay Feet »

  
The cartoon Kevin Siers of the Charlotte Observer sketched today  illustrates what readers of No Quarter already know:  ostensible progressives and venal Democrats are acutely aware of the compromised status of their candidate.  But they will never admit it.  Instead, they will turn their backs and behave as if Barack Obama’s desire to privatize public institutions is entirely [...]

FACT CHECK: Lying Is Not A Core American Value »

     
According to the official Barack Obama campaign, “Barack speaks to voters about the core values this nation was founded on and how they have guided him to work hard for his education” in his advertisement entitled “The Country I Love.”  One wonders if lying is one of these “core values,” for Obama states in second 47 of [...]