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McCain's Warped Worldview

Robert Scheer | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics

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A lesson McCain should have learned is that the world is a complex place, that today's enemies may be tomorrow's negotiating partners -- as Obama has at times dared to suggest.

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Bush Olympic Photo Caption Contest

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

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We haven't done a photo caption contest here in far too long, and this one just begged for it. What exactly is Bush saying? Picture a word balloon above him, and what would you put in it?

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The Candidates On Georgia: A Sharp Foreign Policy Divide

Chuck Lasker | Posted 08.13.2008 | Home

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From a strict foreign policy viewpoint, one candidate came out presidential, and one came out as a war hawk. One candidate was diplomatic, one was gruff and divisive.

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Sucking Up to the Bankers: A Bipartisan Lovefest

Robert Scheer | Posted 07.30.2008 | Business

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Both of our leading presidential candidates are scrambling to enlist the "expertise" of the very folks who advocated the financial industry deregulations at the heart of this meltdown.

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Veterans Respond to McCain's "Obama Wants to Lose" Remark

Brandon Friedman | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

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This type of insulting nonsense will not go unnoticed or unchallenged by the Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who've fought in both McCain's war in Iraq, and in the other war in Afghanistan.

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Obama on the Brink

Robert Scheer | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

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Both candidates are embracing, rather than challenging, the fundamental irrationality of Bush's "war on terror," which substitutes hysteria for rational analysis in appraising the dangers the country faces.

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My Conversation with Senator Jim Webb

Charlie Rose | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

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I spoke with Webb about how he sees the challenges facing America and the future of the Democratic party.

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A Look at Nelson Mandela's Legacy on His 90th Birthday

Charlie Rose | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics

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To mark the South African leader's life and legacy we talked to Rick Stengel who helped Mandela with his autobiography and Massachusetts Chief Justice Margaret Marshall who hails from South Africa.

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Zogby: Obama Leads Arizona; McCain Support Still Dropping

Dawn Teo | Posted 07.11.2008 | Home

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McCain is being squeezed on both sides in his home state. Obama now leads there by 3 points in a new statewide poll. The poll also shows Bob Barr garnering 16 percent among "very conservative" voters.

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Barack Obama Passes NORAD Test

Christine Pelosi | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

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Obama's recent NORAD tour and renewed call for national service evoked further evidence that he has passed an important milestone in his campaign: passing the NORAD Test for presidential candidates.

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Open Letter to the Presidential Candidates

Paul C. Light | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

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Dear Senators McCain and Obama, I am writing to seek your support for a bipartisan effort to restore the federal government's ability to faithfully execute the laws.

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The 269-269 Electoral Tie Scenario

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics

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So what would happen if the Electoral College tied? Well, it goes to the House of Representatives. And since the Democrats have an advantage in the House, you'd think "President Obama." But you'd be wrong.

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Almost Blue: The Obama-Dean Western Campaign

Dawn Teo | Posted 06.08.2008 | Home

Obama's army goes deep behind enemy lines in the West. He and Dean are determined to compete in red states as a matter of strategy, forcing McCain to spend money and resources on his own turf.

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Clinton's Speech: A Rorschach Test

Dawn Teo | Posted 06.07.2008 | Home

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For a significant portion of the mainstream media and blogosphere, the woman could have stood on her head and pledged undying love for Obama, and the reaction would have been the same.

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Meanwhile In McCainland... A Whole Lot Of Nothing

Dawn Teo | Posted 06.05.2008 | Home

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We're talking McCain's home state of 30 years-- there must be events, I thought, a troupe of highly motivated supporters making battle plans? But No, McCain HQ in Virginia told me there was absolutely nothing happening in Arizona.

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Robert F. Kennedy: What if He Had Lived? -- A Golden Age That Never Was

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics

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Kennedy's death came when the world was on the cusp of transformation -- between authoritarian societies and social and political justice. Much of that change was stalled in the US for decades to come.

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Clinton Did Not Steal Obama's Moment

Dawn Teo | Posted 06.04.2008 | Home

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I can't listen to another pundit imploring that Clinton "needs time" or that she needs to go through the stages of grief or that she needs to be allowed to come to terms with her loss. This primary, this election, this year is not about Hillary Clinton.

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Today, I Cried

Dawn Teo | Posted 06.03.2008 | Home

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One of my fellow Arizonans has just made a video (which I've embedded after the jump) entitled, I Cried Today. It's on

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Michelle Obama In Phoenix: "Fear Is A Useless Emotion"

Dawn Teo | Posted 05.28.2008 | Home

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Bush and McCain moved their event in the presumptive Republican nominee's hometown to a smaller venue, afraid protesters would outnumber guests. Meantime, Michelle packed a convention room around the corner.

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Obama And Clinton's California Kumbaya

William Bradley | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics

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Sunday's California DNC meeting made it clear that both the Clinton and Obama campaigns are ready to turn their swords into plowshares behind the impending nomination of Obama.

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Powerful Video of Ugly Sexist Vilification of Hillary Clinton

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics

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Sexism is alive and well in America. One exit poll I saw had almost twice as many voters having trouble voting for a woman for president than voting...

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Hillary Clinton Doesn't Deserve to Be President

Evan Handler | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics

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The problem with Clinton's campaign techniques is not just that they're Rovian, and reminiscent of earlier Republican smears against other candidates. It's that they're pointless.

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Obama's Consolidation of the Party

Matt Stoller | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics

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Obama has created a number of significant infrastructure pieces through his campaign, displacing traditional groups the way he promised he would by signaling the end of the old politics of division and partisanship.

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The White House?

Wayne E. Pollard | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics

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The White House. The Oval Office. The Pentagon. Why can't Americans think of more creative, more majestic sounding names for the nation's great buildings?

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My Conversation with Former President Jimmy Carter

Charlie Rose | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics

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I spoke with President Carter about moral equivalency in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and about how the next president can change America's image in the world.

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