Countdown Supplemental
Posted: Friday, August 22, 2008 4:28 PM by Countdown
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Countdown Supplemental
Politico.com's reporting on McCain's odd answer to the house
question is here
(with the original audio).
Architectural
Digest Visits Senator and Mrs. John McCain - Southwestern Style for their
Phoenix Family Home
Here's a ranked
list of the greatest exporters in the world. This list includes the E.U.
even though Germany alone ranks higher than the E.U. but Keith's point on
Thursday's show holds. China already leads the U.S. in exports.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development country
productivity rankings are in this chart. The GDP per hour worked stat that
Keith described last night is the second column from the right. So again, where
John McCain specifically lists productivity as one of the strong fundamentals
of the U.S. economy, calling us "the most productive" we see that in
fact the U.S. ranks sixth.
Jon Soltz of VoteVets.org mentioned a couple of times to Keith on Thursday's
show that the plan John McCain has on his Web site "equals the
draft." On the
"National Security" issues page of McCain's campaign site, that
does seem to be a reasonable interpretation of the "Increasing the Size of
the American Military" section.
Here
are two
letters to the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration opposing the
appointment of Hans von Spakovsky to the Federal Election Commission. As Keith
pointed out on in Thursday's show, despite his rejection from the F.E.C.,
"the Civil Rights Commission reportedly wants him to oversee its report on
how well the Justice Department is monitoring the 2008 Presidential
Election."
Senators
raise concerns over attorney general guidelines for FBI investigations
The back cover of Chaplain Bill McCoy's book bearing the endorsement of General
Petreaus (See Thursday's Worsts) can
be seen on the Barnes & Noble site. The author does have a blog entry from a
few days ago on Amazon.com in which he says that a new back cover is being
redesigned.
