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Memo To Right-Wing: Withdrawal Timetable Now Doubleplusgood

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: War on Terror, War Wire, Timetable, Nineteen Eighty Four, Democratic, Failure, Iraq, Withdrawal, Bush, Memory Hole, Doubleplusungood, Iraqi, Sofa, Ministry of Truth, Status of Forces, Orwell, 1984, White Flag, Time Horizon, George Orwell, Democrat, Right Wing, Surrender, Democrats, Chris Weigant, Lose a War, Doubleplus, Hypocrisy, Doubleplusgood, Newspeak, Maliki, Timetable for Withdrawal, Aspirational Goal, On the Ground, Minitrue, Politics News
Chris Weigant

I'm on a lot of strange press lists, so I get a lot of strange press releases, but this is the first time I've ever gotten one from another dimension, I have to admit.

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How Small-Town America Taught Me to Be Open-Minded

Jeannie Ralston | Posted 11.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Rural America, Evangelical Christians, Dirty Politics, Hypocrisy, Open-Minded, Liberal, Democrats, Tolerance, Right-Wing Extremism, Republicans, Living News
Jeannie Ralston

To be part of a small town, or at least my small town, I had to be more broadminded than I had been living in a big city.

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Intolerance is Back Again

Richard Grenell | Posted 11.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hypocrisy, Religious Right, 1992 Election, Intolerance, 2008 Election, Compassionate Conservative, New York City, Bigotry, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Richard Grenell

The height of hypocrisy is to see the angry left advocate for diversity but to completely become enraged when someone isn't seeing the world the way they do.

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A Race Full of Ironies

Tony Campolo | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sarah Palin, Hypocrisy, Irony, 2008 Election, Sarah Palin Reaction, Double Standard, Politics News
Tony Campolo

There are all kinds of ironies in this election, especially concerning Sarah Palin's nomination as the vice presidential candidate for the Republican Party.

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Everybody Just Calm Down

Roderick Spencer | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Phony Outrage vs. Phony Dismay, Politics, Obama vs. Mccain, Barack Obama, Attacks and Answers, Hypocrisy, Politics News
Roderick Spencer

It seems that with each new punch thrown by the opposition, his most avid supporters, especially those on the chattering Left who supposedly know better, seem to forget... that Obama is good at this.

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Adulterer. Addict. Career-Obsessed Mom: Why No "Character Issue" in this Race?

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain, Cindy McCain, Addiction, Hypocrisy, Drugs, Media, Democrats, Palin, Republicans, Politics News
Maia Szalavitz

If any of these people were Democrats, we would read about how having an ex-junkie, prescription-forger thief as First Lady sends the wrong message to kids about drug use.

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The Republican Hypocrisy is Enough to Make You Sick

Andy Ostroy | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hypocrisy, John McCain, Joe Biden, Democrats, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Republicans, Republican Convention, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

No Democrat would be foolish enough to state that liberals are perfect, or that we're scandal-free. Sinners come in both blue and red.

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What If Bristol Palin Were Black?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Conservatives, Sarah Palin, Hypocrisy, James Dobson, Child Out of Wedlock, Discrimination, Christian-Right, Teenage Pregnancy, Bristol Palin, Double-Standard, Race Relations, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

Do you think the Republicans would lay off of Obama if his 17 year-old daughter had gotten pregnant out of wedlock? You know the answer to that question. Everyone does.

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Framing Sarah Palin

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Democrats should stay away from the baby stories. They must resist the urge to comment at all on it. Let the media do the muckraking.

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2004: GOP Blasts John Edwards As Too Inexperienced To Be VP...2008: GOP Leaders Say Sarah Palin A Great VP Pick

Mark Nickolas | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Palin Experience, John McCain Hypocrisy, John Kerry, Sarah Palin, Hypocrisy, Republican Hypocrisy, John Edwards, Sarah Palin Vice President, Kerry Edwards, Sarah Palin Reaction, John Kerry 2004, Politics News
Mark Nickolas

It is instructive to recall what many of these GOP leaders -- who are now praising Palin's complete lack of national and foreign policy experience -- said in 2004 about Edwards.

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Politics on the Couch: Projection is Nine-Tenths of the Law, as Defined by McCaIn's "Hail Sarah" Pass

Justin Frank | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Patriotism, Karl Rove, Hypocrisy, Mccain, Projection, Sarah Palin, Veterans, Negation, Sarah Palin Vp, McCain Palin, Sarah Palin Vice President, McCain VP, Palin Vp, Mccain Palin Ticket, Sarah Palin Reaction, Politics News
Justin Frank

From this moment on, every accusation McCain makes must be regarded as a description of his own motives and character.

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McCain Salutes Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" Speech

Martin Lewis | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: "I Have a Dream" Speech, John McCain, Multi-Millionaire, Fatcat, Younger Woman, Mistress, Faux Regret, Cindy McCain, Cheerleader, Carol Shepp, Expedience, Humbug, “I Have a Dream” Speech, Cindy Lou Hensley, Ditching the First Wife, Trust Fund Babe, Trust Fund, Jim Hensley, Carol Mccain, Adultery, Convicted Felon, Faux Humility, Hypocrisy, I Have a Dream, Politics News
Martin Lewis

McCain: I have a dream that one day all men will live out the true meaning of my creed: "We hold these first wives to be self-evidently dump-able (especially if they have gained a lot of weight after a severely disfiguring car accident).

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State of Confusion: Things We Cannot Say About John McCain

Bryant Welch | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, State of Confusion, Mccain's Health, Age, Narcissism, Hypocrisy, Answering the Phone at Three in the Morning, Straight Talk, Barack Obama, Politics News
Bryant Welch

As a psychologist we learn quickly that we are all subject to subtle, subliminally transmitted "rules" that we let control us. In my book State of Con...

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McCain's MLK Moment: "I Have A McDream!"

Martin Lewis | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics

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Martin Lewis

"I am grateful for the fact that I have a wonderful life. I spent some years without a kitchen table, without a chair, and I know what it's like to b...

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McCain In His Memoirs: "It Had Become My Ambition To Be President"

Mark Nickolas | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ambition, John McCain Hypocrisy, John McCain, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Hypocrisy, Media, Barack Obama, Media Bias, Politics News
Mark Nickolas

McCain's self-confessed "ambition to be president" isn't part of any media analysis when it comes to his own attacks against Obama on the same issue.

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John Edwards, George Washington and Hypocrisy

Giles Slade | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Adultery, George Washington, David Paterson, Changing Values, The Scarlet Letter, George W. Bush, Hypocrisy, John Edwards, Integrity, Eliot Spitzer, Richard. M. Nixon, Politics News
Giles Slade

The central issue in John Edwards downfall was his hypocrisy. And thank God! In our morally-relaxed universe, hypocrisy is still an unforgivable s...

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Jesse Jackson Should Retire from Public Life

Ray Hanania | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hypocrisy, Congressman Jackson, Controversy, Barack Obama, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Jesse Jackson, Politics News
Ray Hanania

I can understand Jesse Jackson's jealousy at watching a young, smart black man like Barack Obama do what he has tried and failed to do his entire career.

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Coming to a Screen Near You: John McCain and His Sidekicks, Dumb and Dumber

Elizabeth Shipp | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Politics, Naral Pro-Choice America, Family Research Council, John McCain, Hypocrisy, James Dobson, National Right to Life, Birth Control, Focus on the Family, Tony Perkins, Title X, Politics News
Elizabeth Shipp

James Dobson and Tony Perkins, and John McCain don't have the guts to stand up and speak the truth about their radical, out-of-the-mainstream views.

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McCain: Lock-Step and (Oil) Barrel

Janet Ritz | Posted 06.27.2008 | Green

Read More: Floods, Bush Oil, Congress, Nasa, Right Wing Media, Phil Gramm, Lobbyists, George W. Bush, Iraq, Iraq Oil, Smears, Republican Hypocrisy, Stagflation, Political Corruption, Hurricane Katrina, Jim Wilkinson, Jeffrey Skilling, Texas Oil, John McCain, Michelle Obama, John McCain Hypocrisy, World Hunger, Enron, Climate Satellites, John McCain Lobbyist, Midwest Flooding, Barack Obama, Barack Obama 2008, Farm Bill, Enron Loophole, Enron Scam, John McCain 2008, Inflation, Hypocrisy, Refugees, Republicans, Green, Green News
Janet Ritz

While Obama was in Illinois shoveling sand in bags to hold back the Bush-neglected infrastructure that was crumbling around him McCain was on his way to accept whoops and cheers from oil industry insiders.

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Some Blind Spots and Hypocrisies of European Obamamania

Andrei Markovits and Jeff Weintraub | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hypocrisy, Europe, Obamamania, Obama, American Exceptionalism, Election 08, Politics News
Andrei Markovits and Jeff Weintraub

Despite the swooning praises of Obama from the western European chattering classes, the reality is that someone in their own countries with Obama's political style would actually turn them off.

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John McCain, the Cowardly Lion

David Roberts | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hypocrisy, Renewable Energy, John McCain, Nuclear Power, Climate Change, Green, Politics News
David Roberts

McCain -- who just weeks ago said of the Climate Security Act, "I hope it will pass," -- now says he won't show up to vote on it. He won't vote against it, mind you. He just won't show.

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Bittergate: It's Not About Mayhill Fowler

Linda Hansen | Posted 04.21.2008 | Home

Read More: Abortion, Religion, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Poverty, Journalism, Barack Obama, Huffington Post Bias, Guns, Clinton Impeachment, Mayhill Fowler, San Francisco Fundraiser, Illegal Aliens, Pennsylvania Primary, Hypocrisy, Alienating Rural Pennsylvanians, Hillary Clinton, Gays, Bittergate, Home News
Linda Hansen

Are we bitter in Povertyland, USA? Hell, yes. That's what the story was about. We've been hung out to dry so long, we feel like ragged, abandoned laundry. All those election year promises? Please.

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