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Political tidbits: Burns likes Obama’s stance on Iran, Fleischer calls Obama new Carter (UPDATED)

Former Bush administration official Nicholas Burns says Barack Obama is right: The United States should talk to adversaries like Iran, in Newsweek. Former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer calls Barack Obama “the Jimmy Carter of the 21st century” and brings up Jeremiah Wright when talking to Jewish voters in Las Vegas, reports the Wall Street […]

By Eric Fingerhut October 28, 2008 7:19 pm

Political tidbits: Franken up by nine, Mason flip-flopped on McCain

Al Franken (D) leads Sen. Norm Coleman (R) by nine points in a new poll of voters in Minnesota, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. The paper also has a report on the first debate of the campaign, held Sunday night. On “Meet the Press”… Democratic strategist Paul Begala warns that the GOP’s guilt-by-association reasoning could […]

October 6, 2008 8:04 pm

Franken: ‘I don’t think Minnesota is ready for a gentile in this seat’

Two Jews running against each other for the U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota? It’s not unique, it’s tradition, says Democratic candidate Al Franken. After noting to JTA that the three previous elections for the seat have also matched two Jews – Rudy Boschwitz vs. Paul Wellstone twice, then Wellstone (before he died in a plane […]

September 24, 2008 7:12 am

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Political tidbits: Burns likes Obama’s stance on Iran, Fleischer calls Obama new Carter (UPDATED)

Political tidbits: Franken up by nine, Mason flip-flopped on McCain

Franken: ‘I don’t think Minnesota is ready for a gentile in this seat’

Political tidbits: A West Bank rabbi for Obama

Pigs. Jews. Saints. Can’t wait for the debate with Franken.

Ellison on blacks and Jews, Al Franken and the platform

A “Frozen Chosen” congressman in Alaska?

Al Franken on the run

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