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Clinton and the Vast Media Conspiracy

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, John McCain, Tim Russert, George W. Bush, Texas, Democrats, Nafta, Barack Obama, Arkansas, Ohio, Sexism, John Edwards, 2008 Campaign, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Kazakhstan, Rezko, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

The media continue to portray Clinton as strongly viable, if not quite the frontrunner. This is a remarkable feat by her campaign, and a failure by journalists to accurately portray the state of the race.

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Fear Bombs of 2008

Dave Winer | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Swiftboating, Georg Lakoff, John McCain, Josh Marshall, Barack Hussein Obama, 2008 Election, Republicans, Politics News
Dave Winer

I don't get people who are old enough to remember swiftboating, and still willing to wait to "see what happens." There's no waiting. They're using exactly the same play that worked so well in 2004.

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Republican House Leader John Boehner Tells GOP To Get Off "Dead Asses"

Politico | Patrick O'Connor | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gop House Minority Leader, Gop Fundraising, Nrcc, John Boehner, Republicans, Politics News

House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) challenged Republicans on Tuesday to get off their "dead asses" and start raising money for the Nationa...

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Memo to Obama: McCain Won't Hesitate to Play the Race Card

Michael Fauntroy | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Harold Ford, John McCain, Terry Nelson, Jr., Racism, Michael Fauntroy, Republicans, Richard Quinn, Barack Obama, Politics News
Michael Fauntroy

Senator John McCain's win in Wisconsin places him mere inches away from the Republican nomination. McCain's march to the nomination is nearly complet...

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Age Won't Be Obama's Trump Card against McCain

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Norris, Florida Primary, Youth Vote, White House, Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee, Presidential Race, Seiors, Aarp, Democrats, John McCain, Republicans, John Mccain Age, John McCain's Age, 2008 Election, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

McCain deftly snatched a page from Reagan's political playbook, dampened the age issue, and will try to turn the age table on Obama.

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Clinton Campaigning As She Would Govern

Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Howard Wolfson, White House, Bill Clinton, John McCain, George W. Bush, Campaign Finance, Lanny Davis, Mark Penn, Democrats, Barack Obama, Chris Matthews, Ross Perot, South Carolina, Iowa, New Hampshire, 2008 Campaign, Patti Solis Doyle, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Jim Doyle, Wisconsin, Hillary Campaign, Clinton Campaign, Jim Doyle Obama, Lanny Davis Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Mark Penn, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

It is mind-boggling that the Clinton campaign could have failed to understand the importance of two key factors: the yearning for change, and the distaste for the street-fighting brutality that is the Clintons' trademark.

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Blacks Will Expect More From an Obama White House, But They Shouldn't

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: White House, Barack Obama, Iraq War, Presidential Race, Bill Clinton, Democratic Leadership Council, Democrats, African-American Voters, War on Terrorism, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Republicans, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

An Obama White House will be a historic first. But it will be a White House that keeps a firm, cautious and conciliatory eye on mid-America public opinion.

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The Republicans' Plan for Obama

Dan Brown | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Bush Administration, Karl Rove, Politico, John McCain 2008, RNC Obama, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Hillary Clinton, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News
Dan Brown

It will take heavy doses of whispered slime, insinuation, and fear for the GOP to take down Barack Obama. Prepare for the onslaught.

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Angry White Man: Different Rules for McCain?

Dorothy Bendel | Posted 02.18.2008 | Home

Read More: John McCain, Howard Dean, Hillary Clinton, Democrats, 2008 Election, McCain Temper, Barack Obama, Offthebus, Republicans, Home News
Dorothy Bendel

McCain's expletive-filled outbursts might garner some attention now, but is it enough to keep him from the White House?

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Bush Says Congress Putting US in Danger

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Spying Standoff, Eavesdropping, Democrats, Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON — With a government eavesdropping law about to expire, Washington is awash in accusations over who's to blame. President Bush said Fr...

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Coming to Los Angeles: Labyrinth

Steven Denlinger | Posted 02.15.2008 | Home

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Steven Denlinger

The novella 'Coming to Los Angeles' continues as a serial this week. Chapter 1: Labyrinth IN THE FALL OF 1998, I was teaching in the North Canton C...

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Twenty-Something Evangelicals

Jim Wallis | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fuller Seminary, David Kinnaman, Christianity, Republicans, Young Evangelicals, Post-Religious Right America, Democrats, Politics News
Jim Wallis

The most considerable evidence that we're entering a "post-Religious Right America" is the shifting political agenda and theological emphasis of a new generation of 20-something evangelicals.

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The Clinton Health Care Fallacy

Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Switzerland, Massachusetts, Canada, Capitalism, 2008 Election, Democrats, Japan, Barack Obama, France, Singapore, Rudy Giuliani, Great Britain, Elizabeth Edwards, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Doctors, Republicans, Socialism, Cuba, Health Care, Medicine, Marxism, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

Clinton isn't really for universal health care, or she would be advocating a socialized system not unlike Canada's, Great Britain's, or France's: free and accessible medical care.

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A Troop Draw-Down or Another Free Pass?

Dorothy Bendel | Posted 02.11.2008 | Home

Read More: Congress, Robert Gates, US Troops Iraq, Nancy Pelosi, US Troops, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Harry Reid, General Petraeus, Democrats, 2008 Election, Offthebus, Republicans, Hillary Clinton, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Home News
Dorothy Bendel

Has our inability to demand answers on Iraq given officials a free pass? Have we surrendered to the idea that we must endure this catastrophe until the next president takes office?

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To Republicans: Conservatism Has Failed. Deal With It

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 02.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Politics, Election 2008, New Orleans, Republican Presidential Candidate, Fiscal Conservatives, Rush Limbaugh, Economy, Republican Presidential Candidates, Powerline, Talk Radio, Republican Primary, Sean Hannity, Katrina, Conservative Talk Radio, Iraq, Republican Party, Terry Schiavo, Republicans, Redstate, Business News
Hale

Every "true conservative" Republican candidate has failed. The reason? Conservative polities don't work. You guys are trying to sell a typewriter in a word processor world.

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Mitt's CPAC Moronic Moment

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 02.08.2008 | Politics

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Amb. Marc Ginsberg

Mitt Romney was surely running low on red meat to throw into the mosh pit of C(onversative) PACers yesterday. How else to explain the meatball he tossed into the claws of his voracious right wing audience?

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Is the CDC Covering Up the Cancer Threat in Great Lakes States?

Art Levine | Posted 02.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Environment, Gop, Cdc, Cancer, War on Science, Global Warming, Center for Public Integrity, Great Lakes, Climate Change, Republicans, Politics News
Art Levine

Political pressures apparently led the CDC to pull the report just days before a division of the agency was scheduled to release it.

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A Rat Joke

Donnie Fowler | Posted 02.07.2008 | Politics

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Donnie Fowler

A woman walks into a shop. She notices a very life-like, life-sized bronze statue of a rat. It has no price tag, but is so striking she decides she must have it.

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A Mormon on a Weather Vane

Jim Wallis | Posted 02.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mitt Romney, Republicans, Election, Romney, Romney Drops Out, Religion, Mitt Romney Mormon, Religion and Politics, Mitt Romney Mormonism, Mormonism, 2008 Election, Politics News
Jim Wallis

Romney's problem was not that he was a Mormon, but that he was a Mormon sitting on top of a weather vane changing his positions every time the wind blew in a different direction.

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Democrats' 08 Election Problem: Too Many GOP Targets

Politico | John Bresnahan and Josh Kraushaar | Posted 02.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dccc, 2008 Campaign, Democratic Fundraising, Democrats Gop Targets, 2008 Elections, Democrats, Republicans, Politics News

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee began the year with lots of money, some promising recruits and the political winds in its favor. But ...

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Dr. James Dobson: Lying His Way Into Oblivion

Jim David | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: James Dobson, Christianity, Religious Right, CitizenLink.Com, John McCain, Focus on the Family, Republicans, Politics News
Jim David

Suddenly the religious right is realizing that the majority of Americans care about other issues than they do, and they don't like it one bit.

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GOP Scared Over Fraud Investigation Of NRCC

Politico | Patrick O'Connor and John Bresnahan | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Campaign, Gop, 2008 Elections, NRCC Probe, NRCC Fraud Investigation, Republicans, Politics News

Top House Republicans were told in recent days that a former employee of their campaign committee may have forged an official audit during the content...

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Anti-War Candidates Top Recipients Of '08 Donations From US Troops

Think Progress | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Anti-War Candidates Fundraising, Warwire, Campaign Fundraising, Iraq War, 2008 Presidential Race, War in Iraq, 2008 Campaign, US Troops, 2008 Elections, Democrats, President Bush, Iraq, Republicans, Politics News

Conservatives opposed to redeployment in Iraq have consistently claimed that U.S. troops are on their side: President Bush: The [military] famil...

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My Super Duper Tsunami Tuesday Primary Picks

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: North Dakota, Super Duper Tuesday, Delaware, West Virginia, Connecticut, Colorado, Campaign, Arizona, Missouri, Picks, Republican, California, Primaries, Montana, Mike Huckabee, 2008, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Super Tuesday, 2008 Campaign, Illinois, John McCain, Alaska, Florida, Super Duper Tsunami Tuesday, Primary, Mitt Romney, Democrat, Massachusetts, 2008 Elections, 08, Democrats, Minnesota, 2008 Election, Election, New York, Barack Obama, 08 Election, Elections, Rudy Giuliani, 08 Campaign, Tsunami Tuesday, Arkansas, 2008 Presidential Race, Georgia, Tennessee, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Utah, Alabama, New Mexico, Kansas, Idaho, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Between Obama and Clinton, it's going to be a virtual tie. Both campaigns will immediately release spin on why they are now the frontrunner, and why the other should politely drop out of the race.

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John McCain: "inspired" by Reagan?

Paul Loeb | Posted 02.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Political Right, John McCain, Republicans, Ronald Reagan, Exaggeration, Election Lies, Home News
Paul Loeb

McCain has been running ads talking about how Reagan had inspired him. Richard Greener, a friend of a friend, just wrote this interesting piece on wh...

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