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These were the front page stories in today’s Sun-Sentinel:

Dancing with the stars

Miley Cyrus

the Dolphins’ personnel changes

None of which I care about in the least. The Dolphins’ hirings, firings, and trades was also the lead story on the evening news. I guess there’s nothing more important happening in the world. Nobody died in [...]

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With all of the concern about Obama’s association with Rev. Wright, almost nothing has been said about Rev. John Hagee’s endorsement of McCain.

Right-wing pastor John Hagee says vile, despicable things about patriotic Americans…the worst being that Catholics are part of a church that is a “great whore,” that “all Muslims have a mandate to kill [...]

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Last night’s Democratic debate was one of the worst examples of molehill politics so far in this election cycle. Charles Gibson and George Stephanopolous decided that Americans are more interested in Obama’s “Bitter” remark, Rev. Wright, Clinton’s trip to Bosnia, and whether a candidate wears a flag pin than issues like Iraq, the economy, and [...]

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David Byrne writes:
What will happen when half the country is unemployed, with no medical insurance, stuck in a sheet rock house miles from public transportation? They’ll be ripe for religion or revolution if you ask me. Bibles and bullets. Will they still support the billions a day spent in Iraq? I don’t think [...]

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Elizabeth Drew has a perfect term describing the state of the current presidential campaign: Molehill Politics. Instead of talking about real issues, Clinton and McBush are jumping on Obama for what he said in one speech, and that’s the top story in the news.
I don’t believe Obama said anything wrong. He’s absolutely right and this [...]

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Via Engadget:
a bill expected to be introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives demands that the U.S. Secretary of Transportation initiate a study to determine if a minimum sound level is in fact needed and, if so, require that automakers comply with it (possibly as early as 2010).
As AutoWeek reports, the bill was apparently [...]

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Fascinating story found at Flickr (Mundo Uno Photo Pool):

Hessy Levinsons was born in 1934. When she was six months old, Hessy was taken to a leading Berlin photographer to have her portrait taken. A few months later this picture appeared on the cover of the Nazi publication, "Sonne ins Haus" [Sun in the House]. Frightened [...]

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In his latest essay, Orson Scott Card talks about Obama and compares the senior theses of Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Obama has never said or done anything to suggest that he shares any of Wright’s offensive views. But I still hear people saying, “If he could associate with the man for twenty years, he must [...]

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B12 Solipsism points out that Hillary’s money problems have gotten worse.

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s cash-strapped presidential campaign has been putting off paying hundreds of bills for months — freeing up cash for critical media buys but also earning the campaign a reputation as something of a deadbeat in some small-business circles.
A pair [...]

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The Democrats, especially Obama’s camp, need to make sure this story stays in the news. Via Alternet:
As the board of election in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, where Cleveland is located, launches an investigation into illegal crossover voting in the state’s 2008 presidential primary, a big open question remains unanswered: Will county officials go after the ringleaders [...]

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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.
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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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