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Friday Talking Points [37] -- Welcome, New Readers

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics


Chris Weigant

McCain flip-flops on torture, tax cuts, the religious right, Roe v. Wade, lobbyists, gay marriage, creationism, Iraq, talking to enemies, and just about any other subject you care to name.

Story is Everything

Lisa Dale Norton | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics


Lisa Dale Norton

Hillary Clinton is shifting the paradigm and the narrative. Because the story is everything in the culture of politics, these are important shifts to ...

Obama Countdown; Clinton Spin: Press Release Tea Leaves

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 06.02.2008 | Home


M.S. Bellows, Jr.

The delegate countdown is revealing on both sides. Clinton press releases portray a two-person race. Obama's portray the race as a solitary time trial. In any case, he'll reach the number Tuesday.

Obama's Clarifying Win: The Fly on the Wall Is the Wall

Norman Solomon | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics


Norman Solomon

In North Carolina and Indiana, voters had more votes than all the pundits did. Pundits lost. Voters came out ahead. So did Obama. And so did the body politic.

Clinton PR People Send Out Mailer Featuring $2200 Gun

Paul Loeb | Posted 05.04.2008 | Home


Paul Loeb

Continuing to parrot every possible Republican sound bite, Hillary's PR people have just sent out a mailer accusing Obama of being insufficiently supportive of gun rights.

Spinning? Fine. Spinning AND Lying? Not Cool.

David Sirota | Posted 05.04.2008 | Politics


David Sirota

Clinton is trying to set expectations in advance of the Indiana primary, with the goal of making it seem as if a victory is "unexpected." In reality, she has been ahead from the beginning.

Hillary Wins PA by Triple Digits!

Evan Eisenberg | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics


Evan Eisenberg

Based on the AP's almost-final vote count (which hasn't budged since Wednesday afternoon), Clinton has blasted her rival out of the water with a triple-digit margin of victory: 9.31%.

Pentagon Propaganda & Antiwar Analysts (Updated)

Ari Melber | Posted 04.21.2008 | Media


Ari Melber

While the Times exposed a sophisticated propaganda campaign, the flip-side is harder to document -- but antiwar perspectives are routinely marginalized or scrubbed from televised debate.

Barack the Politician With a Smokescreen to Block

Kristen Breitweiser | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics


Kristen Breitweiser

Obama has taken something that is an absolute and undeniable truth (race relations are a problem in America) and attached it to something that is flawed and wrong (Wright's hate speech).

Clinton Spinning Into Twilight Zone

Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics


Paul Jenkins

The Clinton operation's dismissive attitude towards the states that she loses feels uncomfortably like a post-facto snub by the aggrieved party in a break up: "he's not really my type anyway."

Friday Democratic Talking Points

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.28.2007 | Politics


Chris Weigant

Time for another round of Democratic talking points, for the benefit of whoever's going to be on this weekend's Sunday morning talk shows (or for any ...

Friday Democratic Talking Points

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.21.2007 | Politics


Chris Weigant

Why are Democrats so lame on basic PR? Someone asked me that question on my blog the other day, and I didn't really have an answer. Why are Democrats...

What Democrats Need To Say Before Bush's Speech

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.12.2007 | Politics


Chris Weigant

Democrats in Congress have to quickly decide what to do about this state of affairs. If they aren't careful, Republicans could wind up owning the "withdrawal" as a political issue.


 

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