ScrappleFace.com editor Scott Ott also writes non-satirical columns at Townhall.com. Here’s a brief excerpt of his latest and a link to read the rest…
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Bench McCain, Put in a Second Stringer
by Scott Ott at Townhall.com
Every sports fan knows there comes a time when the game plan has collapsed, and the star has stumbled. Wisdom and experience [...]

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(2008-06-08) — If legislation introduced this week by Sen. Bill Nelson, D-FL, becomes law, the nation will never again elect a candidate like George W. Bush, who has served as president for seven years after losing the popular vote in 2000 to former Vice President Al Gore.
That’s because Sen. Nelson’s bill would replace the Electoral [...]

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(2008-06-03) — Former President Bill Clinton told a rally in Billings, Montana, today that even if his wife drops out of the race for the Democrat presidential nomination, he will take his historic fight to be First Gent “all the way to Denver in August.”
“This isn’t about me,” said Mr. Clinton, “It’s about a glass [...]

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(2008-06-02) — As Sen. Barack Obama appears poised this week to lock up his party’s virtual nomination, campaign staffers have devised a plan to allow his rival to bow out gracefully without offending her die-hard supporters who want to see a woman as commander in chief.
Previous proposed arrangements to unify the Democrat party have failed [...]

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(2008-05-26) — Sen. Hillary Clinton, in a further attempt to distance herself from her recent remarks about Robert F. Kennedy’s White House bid, released a list of other circumstances that provide the rationale for her staying in the race for the Democrat presidential nomination.

Handed to reporters aboard her campaign’s flagship Toyota Prius, the list of [...]

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(2008-05-24) — Just a day after citing the persistence of Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign as justification for her to remain in the race for the Democrat nomination, Sen. Hillary Clinton noted that the U.S. victory over Hitler’s Germany “didn’t really get started until June.”

Sen. Clinton, in an interview aboard her financially-strapped campaign’s flagship Toyota [...]

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(2008-05-23) — Former President Bill Clinton, faithful to his wife to the end, today made the case that putting her on the ticket as vice president “would accomplish what Democrats have dreamed of for years.”
“Black racists and white racists would, of course, refuse to vote for Obama-Hillary,” said Mr. Clinton. “Elitists will snub Hillary and [...]

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(2008-05-22) — Sen. Barack Obama has finally agreed to Sen. Hillary Clinton’s demand that delegates from Michigan and Florida be seated at the Democrat convention in violation of party rules, on the condition that the votes of “disenfranchised delegates” from the seven remaining states also get counted.
“Our objection to seating the illegal delegates, of course, [...]

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(2008-05-15) — Former Democrat presidential hopeful John Edwards Wednesday endorsed Sen. Barack Obama’s White House bid, but said he’s still undecided about which horse to pick in the Kentucky Derby, which was run on May 3.

Sen. Obama welcomed the support of the one-term senator who is, thus far, 0-for-3 in attempts to win a [...]

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(2008-05-14) — An ebullient Sen. John McCain told a crowd of supporters today that the Republican loss of a Mississippi Congressional seat Tuesday bodes well for his presidential hopes in November.
“Travis Childers, who beat the Republican in Mississippi, ran as a conservative Democrat and will now join the liberal Democrat coalition in the House,” said [...]

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