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See if you can guess which religious leader made this outrageous statement:

America has become the kingdom of individualism, and its people are individualists. You must realize that America has become the kingdom of Satan.
Of course that’s the Bush family’s best buddy, Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
John Gorenfeld makes an interesting comparison between Rev. Jeremiah Wright and [...]

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Taegan Goddard notes how some political missteps haunt their candidates forever, while others are soon forgotten. Howard Dean screeching on a stage in Iowa, instantly becomes the stuff of political history, but when George W. Bush admits that he was once arrested for driving under the influence, it’s mostly ignored by the media and quickly [...]

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Hilary Clinton proves beyond a doubt that she cares more about her own quest for power than she does about the Democratic party and the rest of the country. She doesn’t care who she destroys in her attempt to get elected. She would rather hand the election to McCain than give in to the will [...]

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Here’s a perfect McCain sound bite for the Democrats to use against him:

I don’t care what anybody says

Shades of Dick Cheney:

Reporter: Two-thirds of Americans say it’s not worth fighting, and they’re looking at the value gain versus the cost in American lives, certainly, and Iraqi lives.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: So?

If he has so little respect for [...]

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Daily Kos gives a good retrospective of how the media spread the Bush administration’s lies and made no attempt to find the facts and correct them. Any time a reporter told the truth, he was fired or forced to retract his story.
The invasion of Iraq is the single stupidest thing the United States has ever [...]

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A great article in Newsweek gives some good insight into Barack Obama’s personality and background. I believe his heritage gives him a unique perspective on America that would make him a great president. He makes me proud of this country and I think President Obama would raise the world’s opinion of us and repair the [...]

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March 19, 2008 marked the 5th anniversary of the war in Iraq, but yesterday marked another somber milestone: 4000 American lives lost, 97% of them after “Mission Accomplished”. Of course that doesn’t count the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who died. All because Bush knowingly lied to congress about the danger posed by Iraq.
No [...]

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Someone emailed me a link to this article in which a white South African gives his views on Obama.

A racial divide, once lived, dwells in the deepest parts of the psyche. This is what was captured by Barack Obama’s pitch-perfect speech on race. Slavery was indeed America’s “original sin.� Of course, “the brutal legacy of [...]

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Republicans have been voting for Hillary Clinton in open Democratic primaries in an attempt to damage the Democrats. According to exit polls, Republican voters have cast about 100,000 votes for her in Ohio, 119,000 in Texas, and about 38,000 in Mississippi.
Since Sen. John McCain effectively sewed up the GOP nomination last month, Republicans have [...]

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Obama’s speech was simply brilliant. He said exactly what needed to be said about race and religion in America. Drawing on his half-black, half-white roots, Obama urged Americans to break “a racial stalemate we’ve been stuck in for years.”

The anger is real; it is powerful; and to simply wish it away, to condemn it without [...]

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It looks like we have a bit of a double standard for candidates religious connections. People are up in arms over the statements by Pastor Wright of Obama’s church, yet they find nothing wrong with McCain’s support for Pastor John Hagee.
Obama’s religious beliefs don’t concern me since, like most Democrats, he understands that religion [...]

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Via MetaFilter:
"It’s the first time since Japanese Internment that we’ve imprisoned children" — from a post displaying a letter written by a 9 year old Canadian.

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I know there’s a snowball’s chance in hell that most of these will happen, but I can wish for them.

Stop using the threat of terrorism as a political weapon to maintain control.

Bring the troops home.

Eliminate the use of torture to interrogate prisoners.

Eliminate all domestic spying.

Eliminate the TSA and DHS in [...]

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Remember when Time magazine darkened the picture of O.J. Simpson on the cover to make him appear ‘menacing’? It looks like Hillary’s people are doing the same with Obama.
1994

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Hillary Clinton seems to be running her campaign right out of Karl Rove’s playbook. She’s obsessed at winning at any cost with no regard to how much damage she does to the party and the country. Her tactics pretty much guarantee a Republican win in November when she can praise McCain while attacking Obama:

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Arcade Fire played at an Obama rally in Nelsonville, OH. My favorite band promoting my favorite candidate.
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Marc tells about meeting Barack Obama in 2007 before he started campaigning when he was still able to see the real Obama, not the candidate. He came away with four distinct impressions.
Obama is a normal guy
I’ve spent time with a lot of politicians in the last 15 years. Most of them talk at you. Listening [...]

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Yet another reason I want Obama to win.
Arianna Huffington (Via Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire):
“Should Barack Obama end up winning his party’s nomination, he will give his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver on August 28 — 45 years to the day Martin Luther King delivered his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech on [...]

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Tartley.com, which I’ve never heard of until now, has posted this chart (originally by Susanna Hertrich) illustrating our disconnect between actual dangers and what we fear.
Note the actual danger of a terrorist attack vs. what the media is trying to make us fear. We have a much greater chance of being injured or killed in [...]

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William F. Buckley, Jr. died today. Dylan Matthews says:
He was an important figure, no doubt, but he wasn’t a good man, he wasn’t a sensible or fair opponent, and it’d be a shame if he’s remembered as such.
Despite his charming image, Buckley was a nasty racist who supported segregation & apartheid and defended Joseph McCarthy’s [...]

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