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Friday Talking Points [56] -- Turkeys Everywhere!

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

While today is not officially Turkey Day, I will warn you in advance that it's going to be a theme running through today's column, like gravy through ...

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Is Hillary Nomination Offer A Red Herring?

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

You've got to ask yourself -- why is this the only story that has leaked in this fashion from the transition team?

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The Government in Exile: What Obama Can Do for Women

Marie Wilson | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

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Marie Wilson

In a campaign whose rallying cry was "change", shifting the status of women in this country by bringing them fully to the tables of power would be a great place to start.

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Election Amnesia: Cuba on My Mind

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics

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Ashley Rindsberg

With the election in the air, there are many things we've forgotten to remember. But Oscar Elias Biscet isn't one of them because, sadly, we never remembered the good Doctor Biscet in the first place.

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Note To McCain For Picking a Cute Buffoon

Anita Thompson | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

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Anita Thompson

Thank you John McCain for picking a woman who represents the worst-case scenario.

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It's "Newspaper Week"

Michael DeJong | Posted 10.03.2008 | Green

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Michael DeJong

No matter how you receive your daily dose of everyday information, intelligent or dubious, if it's in print form, it's your responsibility to make certain it doesn't wind up in a landfill.

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Why Obama is (So Far) No Liberal Reagan

Shaun Jacob Halper | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics

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Shaun Jacob Halper

Obama will probably win this election, but only by the skin of his teeth. Let's face it: Obama is not the transformational candidate we liberals had hoped for.

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War and Politics at the Age Four and 11/12ths

Pete Cenedella | Posted 09.16.2008 | Politics

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Pete Cenedella

Today, I want to look fondly back at a moment before the bruising ugliness of this general election; indeed, a moment before even the tensions between...

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An Expat's View of the Conventions: End of Summer in America and Back "Home" to Europe

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 09.09.2008 | Politics

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Vivian Norris de Montaigu

I am a Democrat but actually found the old McCain palatable once upon a time...where in the hell did the real John McCain go?

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Picking On A Girl

Rob Stafford | Posted 09.01.2008 | Politics

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Rob Stafford

If Palin gets some traction, it's simple. We let Joe Biden and Hillary bust her up. Will some people accuse us of being bullies, of picking on a girl? -- yes, they will. I call those folks "Republicans."

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McCain gets the Gold!

Christopher Ingram | Posted 08.30.2008 | Politics

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Christopher Ingram

GOP nominee's pick is the best since Kennedy picked LBJ - but for totally different reasons Slap me silly and call me stupid, but John McCain is on h...

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Stephanie Tubbs Jones: Meeting Adjourned

Michelle Bart | Posted 08.30.2008 | Politics

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Michelle Bart

Today the nation adjourned the final meeting with Stephanie Tubbs Jones, 58, who died earlier this month of a massive brain aneurysm.

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Watching Clinton's Speech With 18 Million Voices

Nathaniel Bach | Posted 08.27.2008 | Home

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Nathaniel Bach

The site of the Clinton Watch Party had once been a cemetery, a fact surely unconsidered by the event's planners, and unintentionally symbolic for a group of supporters who wanted to see their candidate's chances resurrected,

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Clinton Team Convention Poster Strategy Tamped Down Dissent

Dawn Teo | Posted 08.27.2008 | Home

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Dawn Teo

Hillary's 40-person whip team, which spent the week tamping down on dissent within her delegate ranks, had a brilliant plan to thwart dissent in the convention hall Tuesday night.

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Hillary Clinton: Were You Only In It For Me?

Michelle Bart | Posted 08.27.2008 | Politics

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Michelle Bart

Words cannot express how I'm feeling after watching Hillary Clinton carry her speech tonight at the Democratic National Convention. What an example...

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Hillary Takes It to McCain on Health Care Today

Art Levine | Posted 08.27.2008 | Politics

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Art Levine

Maybe the Democrats, including Hillary's own most ardent supporters, will find winning health care reform a good enough reason to unite behind Obama.

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PUMA -- Endangered Species

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.27.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Hillary made the case she needed to make to her supporters who were still sitting on the fence, and she did it perfectly, in a speech for the ages.

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Gloria Allred, Clinton Delegate, Rallies Support; Reports Being "Gagged" At Delegation Meeting

John Tomasic | Posted 08.27.2008 | Home

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John Tomasic

"If you were at the California delegation this morning, you saw me with a gag in my mouth. That is because I was not permitted to either speak to the California delegation, even though I am a Hillary delegate, nor were the Hillary delegates permitted to have a meeting with each other."

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Dignity And Respect -- Except for Hillary

Jon Raymond | Posted 08.26.2008 | Home

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Jon Raymond

The real reason voters might go over to McCain is the animosity coming from the Obama people, the people who idolize a leader who "treats people with dignity and respect," as Michelle Obama put it.

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A Historical Perspective On Divided Democratic Conventions

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.25.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Don't buy into the media narrative that this is some sort of "divided party" -- because today's Democrats aren't. All true Democrats are pulling hard to defeat the legacy of George W. Bush.

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Hillary's Long Hot Summer

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 08.08.2008 | Home

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Mayhill Fowler

Last year, Hillary was reigning over the summer debates, shoring up claims to inevitability. Today she's stumping for Barack in Nevada, where it's 110 degrees in the shade. What a difference a summer makes.

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Bill Clinton, Middle East Envoy?

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Politically, this would give both the Clintons a personal stake in the race, and would go a long way towards healing the wounds inflicted in the primaries on both sides.

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Clinton Calls For "Cathartic" First-Ballot Nomination

John Tomasic | Posted 08.01.2008 | Home

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John Tomasic

"We do not want any Democrat, either in the hall or in the stadium or at home, walking away saying Well, you know, I'm just not satisfied. I'm not happy. Because that's what I'm trying to avoid."

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How Obama Can Finally Break Free of McCain: Hillary

Jackson Williams | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

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Jackson Williams

The final piece to the puzzle may well be adding Clinton's populist economic message to Obama's call for "change we can believe in."

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A Woman Scorned

Ellis Weiner | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics

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Ellis Weiner

When I want a bracing shot of pseudo-principled outrage, I normally turn to Republicans. But recently I found a Democratic source: Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, who may vote for McCain.

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