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Palin Drops Reference To "Bridge To Nowhere" In Speech

NY Times | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics

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In speech after speech to crowds in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia in recent days, Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate for vice president, has...

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Daughter Dearest: You'll Never Be Vice-President

Marc Cooper | Posted 10.11.2008 | Home

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Marc Cooper

Here you are at age 25 with what your Mom and I thought was a solid education, and you're but a common community organizer. Let me count the ways we did you wrong.

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Enough! Look At The Record, Not The Bells And Whistles

Teresa McCoy | Posted 10.11.2008 | Home

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Teresa McCoy

Women here in Defiance, Ohio, are insulted that the McCain camp thinks that in 2008 we can't speak or think for ourselves. "Throw a woman on the ticket and they'll fall in line."

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Barack vs. the Bully Brigade, Part 1: Playground Politics at its Worst

Pete Cenedella | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics

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Pete Cenedella

If you were subjected to the whims of a bully or two in your youth, and especially if you're a parent today who frets for your kid's emotional safety,...

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Mockery in the Public Discourse: Another Problem with Sarah Palin

Pamela Gerloff | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics

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Pamela Gerloff

I suggest that it is time to ask: What are we personally doing to make mocking others unacceptable? What are we doing to create a culture of dignity?

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An Open Letter to Sarah Palin From a Community Organizer

Gabriel Thompson | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

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Gabriel Thompson

But unlike you, most people don't go out of their way to disparage a group who has done so much to make this country great.

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Meet Peach, My Loving Pit Bull - The Anti-Palin

Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.09.2008 | Living

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Linda Milazzo

The second I heard that pit-slam from Governor Palin, I thought about putting some lipstick on my gorgeous pit bull, Peach, and sending Palin the photo.

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SAT Question for Sarah Palin (Hint: Think MLK)

Elizabeth Austin | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

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Elizabeth Austin

A community organizer is like a mayor, except ...

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Sarah Palin In Verse

John Lundberg | Posted 10.08.2008 | Living

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John Lundberg

I was wondering what kind of mother, being an avowed evangelical and knowing that her underage daughter is pregnant out of wedlock, would choose to ac...

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Palin Electrifies but Will She Signify? - Why Her Selection as VP May Cost Republicans the White House

Mario Almonte | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

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Mario Almonte

No one denies that John McCain's choice of Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin as his VP running mate was an act of desperation - but by an extraordinary str...

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Sarah Palin Dissed John and Sam Adams, Ben Franklin, the Original George W. and the Rest of the Founding Fathers!

Bonnie Fuller | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

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Bonnie Fuller

The American Revolution began with a whole lot of grassroots community organizing done by dedicated private individuals focused on trying to build a better political system.

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Special Needs

Richard Walter | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

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Richard Walter

Republican advice to special needs families: cut back on your lavish lifestyle, get entrepreneurial, get night work, get a weekend job too.

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Trashing Democracy

Harry C. Boyte | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

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Harry C. Boyte

Community organizers are those who teach the arts of combining -- how to work together across differences of religion, ethnicity and partisan background.

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John McCain, Sarah Palin, and "Rights"

Kit Gallant | Posted 10.06.2008 | Home

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Kit Gallant

Governor Sarah Palin's acceptance speech was the best horror movie I've seen in a long time. I came to this realization after Palin exclaimed that, "A...

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What Kind of Fall is This Going to Be?

David Murray | Posted 10.06.2008 | Chicago

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David Murray

Wednesday night after Sarah Palin's speech, I went to bed with a pit in my stomach that reminded me not of November, 2004, but rather October, 2003.

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Truly a Bridge to Nowhere

Rob McKay | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

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Rob McKay

How dare the Republicans look down their noses at Obama and thousands of other organizers who put community, and yes, country first by trying to make life a little bit better for other people.

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GOP Talked of Terrorists and Iraq, But Not Veterans, Dead Troops

Bob Geiger | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

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Bob Geiger

What do McCain and his party have to say about the almost 1,100 military men and women who have died since the surge-for-nothing began in February of 2007?

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Alaska: the Un-American State

Billy Kimball | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

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Billy Kimball

We still need to know more about Sarah Palin. There's one way to find out where she is "coming from" and that's to learn more about where she actually is coming from: Alaska.

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McComics: Behind the Scenes of Palin's Speech

Michael Seitzman | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

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Michael Seitzman

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RNC Speech Proves Sarah Palin is Not "Every Woman"

Kim Mance | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

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Kim Mance

As a woman and feminist, I'm not buying all the rhetoric. Mainly because Sarah Palin is the most anti-women woman to hit national politics to date.

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Dear Governor Palin: Abort the Bump

Disgrasian | Posted 10.05.2008 | Style

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Disgrasian

Are you hiding something in that lofty hair-nest of yours? Hockey mom-lipstick? Trig's burp cloth? Pencils? Whatever your reasons are for having it, the hair bump is mighty clever.

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Don't Dis Community Organizers

Scott Kurashige | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

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Scott Kurashige

I hope Sarah Palin understands that most Americans are not on a first-name basis with their mayor. In places like Chicago, community organizers engage citizens in the practice of democratic action.

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Sarah Palin: The Face of Ugly Americanism

John Seery | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

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John Seery

Sarah Palin's arrogance is a sanctified, self-satisfied presumptuousness that flows from sheer naïveté about oneself and the world and manifests itself in giddy ambition.

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Republican National Convention Ratings: Sarah Palin Speech Draws 37.2 Million Viewers

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 10.05.2008 | Media

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NEW YORK — Barack Obama apparently isn't the only "rock star" in presidential politics this year. After days of intense media coverage about Re...

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George W. Palin

Bob Cesca | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

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Bob Cesca

The dark, twisted madness of the last eight years is being entirely ignored in the face of the exact same bogus Republican packaging -- the exact same script.

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