Election 2008

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An Open Letter to My Elderly Parents in Florida About the 2008 Election

Gary Cohan | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

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I appreciate your multiple emails, however, I must respectfully disagree with your separate choices of Clinton (mother) and McCain (father).

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Wake Up Democrats: You Are Hung up on Barack, but Hillary is What You Need

Heather Robinson | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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I know he's exciting and different. I know that when he speaks you get hot. I know all your friends love him. I know something else, though. You don't really know this man.

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The Puppy Party

Will Durst | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

Hillary has put a brave face on her acknowledged uphill battle, comparing herself to Rocky Balboa, but seems to have forgotten, that in the first movie, Rocky loses. To a black guy.

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Why Younger Women Aren't Supporting Hillary

Carlotta Cooper | Posted 04.04.2008 | Home

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Many people have become sensitized -- even hypersensitized -- to issues of racism in this campaign, and words and attitudes are being examined and questioned. But sexism seems to go largely unnoticed or, if it is noticed, is dismissed as irrelevant.

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Clinton Finally Agrees to Debate in North Carolina

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 04.03.2008 | Home

So, seeing Pennsylvania (and her shot at President, at least this election cycle) slipping away, Clinton's folks announced yesterday that she WILL debate him in North Carolina as well.

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Hillary Sees Sense and Exits Gracefully

Simon Woods | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics

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That "graceful" exit 22% of the electorate have been waiting for all this time, as told to Jane Austen. "Sir, I shall stand in your way no longer..."

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Hillary Clinton and the Opaque Politics of Porkbarrel Spending

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 04.02.2008 | Home

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But Hillary Clinton not only engages in earmarking, but she voted against a proposed bill to make earmarks public and has refused to make her earmarks public.

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Patriotism, Race, and Lies

Lawrence Alexander | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics

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Americans have always had a certain fondness for the likeable scoundrel. It is why so many were always so willing to forgive Bill Clinton.

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McCain and Obama: What to Do About Wall Street's Addiction to Risk

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics

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In back to back speeches last week, McCain and Obama laid out their remedies. The contrast could not be more stark. Obama prescribed a withdrawal program. McCain suggested slipping the risk addicts more drugs.

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Obama Risks Alienating Clinton Women and Blue-Collar Supporters

Carlotta Cooper | Posted 04.01.2008 | Home

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This doesn't go down very well with a lot of voters, especially with the working class and underpaid professional women who make up many of Senator Clinton's supporters -- women who may have been passed over for jobs in the past and who work for 80 cents of a man's dollar.

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Video: Craig Barnacle for President

David Teitelbaum | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics

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Obama/Hillary Debates on Economy Would Lift Both Candidates

James Love | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics

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Both Obama and Hillary are appealing and impressive in televised debates. It would be helpful for the Democrats to get both back on television, debating the economy.

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A Detailed Analysis of Hillary's Choice to Stay in the Race in Cartoon Form

Lee Camp | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics

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No More Happy Iraqi Stories

Carlotta Cooper | Posted 03.29.2008 | Home

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My fiance is living on a small base a few kilometers from Nassiriya and I hadn't heard from him in a few days.

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If Hillary Loses - Will She Blame it on "The Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy?"

Bill Katovsky | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Now that Snipergate has temporarily shoved aside Racegate in the furious media death spiral, it's premature to assume that McCain's big bounce in the national polls will hold.

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"Countdown" with Keith Olbermann Turns Five: Hurting Democrats November Chances?

Jackson Williams | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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There was a time Olbermann's ammo was aimed almost exclusively at Republicans and administration incompetence. Things have definitely changed since then.

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Clinton Promises to Produce Income Tax Returns Next Week

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 03.27.2008 | Home

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Today I asked Clinton Communications Director Howard Wolfson directly whether Clinton, next week, would make public all her tax returns from 2000 through 2006. He promised that she would. If the Clinton campaign keeps its word, Pennsylvania voters will have much more insight into where her interests and loyalties lie before they vote next month.

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The Great American Sad-Off

Jamie Kilstein | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics

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This is where the candidates try to out-sad each other by telling horrifically heartbreaking stories about themselves, or people they met on the campaign trail, instead of dealing with the issues.

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Clinton's Economic Plan Isn't for Us -- It's For the Superdelegates

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 03.27.2008 | Home

The candidates are laying out their economic plans. But a press release from the Clinton campaign last week shows who she's really talking to: party insiders.

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Clinton and Obama Silence On Winter Soldier Divides Progressives

Christine Escobar | Posted 03.26.2008 | Home

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Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have yet to acknowledge the Iraq withdrawal plan crafted by members of their own party, and it appears there is little pressure from the press to question them on it.

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How Low Can They Go?

Carlotta Cooper | Posted 03.26.2008 | Home

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A student at Butler University asked Chelsea Clinton this week if her father's affair with Monica Lewinsky had lessened her mother's 'credibility.' Where is the new kind of politics we were promised in this campaign?

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Who's Afraid Of James Carville?

Matt Littman | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics

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James Carville believes that if he goes on TV and stares straight at the screen for a long enough period of time, some super delegate watching him will cower in their closet for fear of being treated like Bill Richardson.

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Oh, That Way Madness Lies

Deanie Mills | Posted 03.25.2008 | Home

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When we become obsessed with a problem or worry or grief or point of view, this inner tempest can take over our minds to such an extent that we forget all else. I discovered this for myself when my son was deployed the first time.

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A Detailed Analysis of the Democratic Party's Strategy in Cartoon Form

Lee Camp | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics

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The Black Elephant in the Room

Jim David | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics

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At least Obama was trying, in his speech, to start a dialogue about the black elephant in the room. And that's more than any white politician has done.

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