Liberal Blogosphere

Obama Staffer Bashes 'Firebagger Lefty Blogosphere'

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 10.17.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Obama campaign's point person in New Mexico recently sent an email to supporters defending the president's position on the debt deal...

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'Apres le deluge' -- a Liberated Obama?

Lanny Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Out of the deluge, if there is one, President Obama may be able to convince the Republicans, who are no longer the opposition party and now might be blamed for the country's unsolved problems.

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Donors Reward Dems Who Pushed Public Option

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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An online effort has quietly raised nearly $90,000 in the past few days to reward three freshman House Democrats for organizing an effort to put the p...

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Left, Right, and Reality in Obamaland

Bennet Kelley | Posted 05.25.2011

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The worst criticism from the left is that Obama is no different than Bush. It was this intellectual laziness that led some on the left to embrace Ralph Nader and the decade's biggest lie, that Gore and George Bush were one in the same.

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Hope 2.0: Standing With Obama Over the Long Haul

Mark Klempner | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's not that I object to critical thinking. We need it. Yet, while we're reminding Obama of his promises and scrutinizing him on his decisions, we need to stand with him.

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The Dangerous Joining of the Far Right and Far Left

Lanny Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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When the far left and the far right join in the Politics of Hate and Demonization, it is time for the vast center-left and center-right of this country to speak up and call them out equally.

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Bloggers Fail to Convince Their Mothers They Met with Obama

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Yesterday I told my mom that I was going to meet Obama and she was like, 'Yeah, tell me another one,'" said one blogger. "I think she thought I was just going to see Harry Potter again."

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Accidental Empire: The Rise of the Liberal Blogosphere

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

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The liberal blogosphere, at least at its inception, represented perhaps the most unplanned, un-thought-through media and political movement in modern America. It really was an accidental empire.

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Markos, John, & Elizabeth: How Daily Kos Keeps Swallowing The Kool-Aid

Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011

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I think I know why I'm still banned. Markos got this story totally wrong and his wrongness set the tone over at Daily Kos for everyone who attacked me and who continue to attack me to this day.

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Politico: Republicans Have No Rival To HuffPost, TPM

Posted 05.25.2011

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Republicans have no lack of would-be George F. Wills. But what they really need are some more Robert D. Novaks. The distinction between the two prom...

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