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Conservatives For Patients' Rights Ad Mocks Obama's Vacation (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | T.J. Ortenzi | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

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An organization taking credit for ginning up protesters at health care town halls has produced an ad mocking President Obama's vacation. The ad by Co...

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The Silly Season In Politics

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

"Silly season" refers to late summer, when governments go on massive taxpayer-funded vacations all over the world. This year's season could produce a bumper crop of silly.

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Franken Gives Millionaire Swift Boat Ads Funder A Piece Of His Mind

Politico | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

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Five years after he put his money behind the Swift Boat ads that helped tanked John Kerry's presidential campaign, Senate Democrats gave T. Boone Pick...

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Swift Boat Vets Group Enters Sotomayor Fight

Washington Post | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

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When conservative leaders wanted to criticize the White House over Sonia Sotomayor's record on crime, they turned to a little-known Alexandria public ...

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Obama Could Lose Election Due To Voter Suppression

Judah Freed | Posted 12.01.2008 | Home

Read More: 2008 Elections, Law, Democrat, Youth Vote, Swift Boat, Obama, Democratic Party, Voter Suppression, Voting Problems, Voter Su, Colorado, Acorn Voter Fraud, Hava, Voter Registration, Voters, Election 2008, Voter Fraud, Republican Party, Voting, Denver, Republican Presidential Candidate, Acorn Voter Registration, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, John McCain, Acorn, Women Voters, Indiana, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Democracy, Democrats, Acorn Scandal, 2008 Election, Election, Barack Obama, Swiftboating, Early Voting, Republican, New York Times, Breaking Politics News, Voter ID Laws, Republicans, West Virginia, Paper Ballots, Kansas, Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Tennessee, Home News
Judah Freed

Republicans are seeking to suppress the voter turnout among youth, minorities and poor people. If Republicans can prevent enough Democrats from casting ballots, McCain could win the election.

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The Word on the Street

James P. Hoffa | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics

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James P. Hoffa

Rank-and-file teamsters get it. They aren't willing to be swayed by false, irrelevant arguments. They want change. They want ideas. And the fact is -- McCain doesn't have any.

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This Election, Plates of Human History Will Shift

Michael Hughes | Posted 11.30.2008 | Home

Read More: Mccain, Jonestown, Obama, Devil We Know, Chris Matthews, Iowa, Change Candidate, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, T. Boone Pickens, Obama Muslim, Obama Marxist, George W. Bush, Marxist, Barack Obama, Swift Boat, Bush Administration, Rand Corporation, Obama Change, McCain Attack Ads, Election 2008, Millions Uninsured, Muslim, Health Care, Obama Smears, Home News
Michael Hughes

As November 4th approaches, voters are determining if they want to be an integral part of history, or on the wrong side of it. Forces are at work beyond description, like some divine hand pushing us forward.

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McCain: Same As He Ever Was

Paul Jenkins | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

At some point it becomes hard to blame the traditional media for its improper coverage. Clearly, the McCain/Palin lies have not gone unnoticed -- yet, there is barely a blip in the polls.

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A Line of Attack the Obama Campaign Must Answer Forcefully

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Republican Attack Ads, John McCain, Phyllis Schlafly, Swift Boat, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Era, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Tonight during the evening news the Republican National Committee ran an attack ad (multiple times) that featured menacing black-and-white images of H...

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The Incredible Lightness of Being Sarah Palin

Joe Cutbirth | Posted 10.05.2008 | Media

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Joe Cutbirth

Palin will throw mud with impunity, then in the tradition of Agnew, Dole and Quayle yell "double standard" and "bias reporting" when she is called on it.

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What Obama Needs to Do in Denver

Drew Westen | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics

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Drew Westen

It is time, once and for all, for Democrats to burn the Kerry playbook. It is the same playbook used to guide one losing Democratic campaign after another for decades.

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Swift Boat Sugar Daddy's Other Water Issues?

Patt Morrison | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics

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Patt Morrison

Harold Simmons has written a check for all of the $2.87 million it's costing to run ominous-sounding ads in Ohio and Pennsylvania about Obama's relationship with William Ayers.

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Culture Zohn: Dear Democrats, Please Wake Up!

Patricia Zohn | Posted 09.21.2008 | Politics

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Patricia Zohn

McCain was droll, offensive without being nasty and very relaxed. He was handy at spewing mixed-up rhetoric about his position and Obama's on the war, oil drilling, NATO and tax cuts -- It was seductive.

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T. Boone Pickens: From Swift Boater To Pluralist

Larry Gellman | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics

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Larry Gellman

In just a few years Pickens has moved from being a totally partisan political animal to a man who is looking for the partial truth in the disparate views of a variety of people.

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The New York Sun's Obama Frame-Up

Joel Whitney | Posted 09.16.2008 | Media

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Joel Whitney

What The Sun had hoped to paint as Islamic extremism was an important agreement between a candidate and a Muslim human rights group to look at ways not to persecute Muslims.

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Unlike 2004, Mainstream Media -- Even AP -- Hit Back at New"Swiftboat" Book

Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.15.2008 | Media

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Greg Mitchell

Among the Corsi pieces this week one stands out. It appeared Thursday night via The AP, written by one of its top political reporters, Nedra Pickler -- a journalist the liberal blogosphere has frequently criticized.

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Seth Colter Walls

Obama Campaign Punches Back Hard Against Corsi Smears

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics

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As promised, Barack Obama's campaign is hitting back hard against smear author Jerome Corsi's New York Times best-selling book The Obama Nation. In a...

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The Wesley Clark "Scandal:" Democrats Get Sucked Into the Same Old Republican Trap

Andy Ostroy | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics

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Andy Ostroy

In the past couple of weeks Obama has reversed course on a number of issues in a centrist ploy to out-McCain McCain. Be careful, Barack, that and a few more episodes in the wuss-suitand you'll be waking up empty-handed November 5th.

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Vets Fighting To Reclaim "Swift Boat" Name

New York Times | KATE ZERNIKE | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

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Years ago, when William Miller talked about being in the Vietnam War -- if he talked about being in the Vietnam War -- he would tell people he served ...

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Friday Talking Points [35] -- Tim Russert Memorial Edition

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.21.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Nobody seriously annoyed me this week, but I will launch a pre-emptive finger-wagging, to anyone on the left who can't resist the urge to be disrespectful of Tim Russert's memory right now.

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The Swift-Boating of Graeme Frost

Time | KAREN TUMULTY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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If you listen closely to the two-minute radio address that 12-year-old Graeme Frost delivered last week for the Democrats, you can hear the lingering ...

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