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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

Read More: 1968, Student Demonstrations, Civil Rights, John Kennedy, Mlk, Protests, Jfk, Anti-War, President, Chicago, Kennedy, 1968 Primaries, Black Liberation Front, Bush, Reagan, Clinton, Mccarthy, Vietnam War, Revolution, Johnson, General Election, 1968 Primary, 1968 Election, California Primary, Weather Underground, Democratic National Convention, Carter, Ford, Rfk, Mcgovern, Peter Edelman, Ted Kennedy, Election, 1968 DNC, Humphrey, Nixon, Robert F. Kennedy, Politics News

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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Not The Time To Celebrate Clinton As Brawler

Tom Hayden | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Weather Underground, Voters, Black Voters, Race, Racism, Susan Faludi, Votes, Hillary Clinton, White Voters, Obliterate Iran, Limbaugh, Barack Obama, Politics News

It's one thing to recognize that the idealism of social movements has to be complemented by a tough realism in contests for political power. It's another to celebrate brawling.

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Reading The Pictures: Taking On Ayers, Etc.

Michael Shaw | Posted 04.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Weather Underground, Time, Halperin, Ayers, Wright, Mark Halperin Barack Obama, Obama Jeremiah Wright, Jeremiah Wright, Mark Halperin, Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright Barack Obama, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Ayers Obama, Media News

Surprise, featured on Mark Halperin's page today is a double-dose of guilt-by-association.

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The Latest Proof that the Karl Rove Playbook Has Become the MSM's Bible

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.21.2008 | Media

The mainstream media seems intent on confirming that it has so internalized the Right's framing and messages they have now become part of its DNA. The first of the latest round of exhibits proving this was offered into evidence during last week's ABC debate. This was followed by the New York Times' epic revelation of the unseemly complicity between the Pentagon and the media in delivering the Bush administration's talking points on Iraq via "a kind of Trojan media horse" -- Pentagon-approved, prepped, and financially-enriched "military analysts" dutifully parroting the Bush party line, with nary a raised eyebrow from the TV stations and newspapers offering these highly-decorated sock puppets their prestigious platforms. And it's not just the media. Witness Hillary Clinton repeating the Rove-promoted lie that MoveOn was against intervention in Afghanistan after 9/11.

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Democratic Race 'Too Mean,' Say Swift Boat Veterans

Andy Borowitz | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Weather Underground, Andy Borowitz, Larry King, Jonathan Alter, John Kerry, Calvin Trillin, Swift Boat Vsterans for Truth, Hillary Clinon, Susie Essman, Barack Obama, Politics News

The Democratic race has descended to "a level of meanness and acrimony that is damaging to American politics," the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth said today.

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Clinton Backer Distributes Essay On How GOP Would Link Obama To '70s Radicals

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Weather Underground, Karl Rove, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Politics News

A high-ranking labor supporter of Hillary Clinton is distributing to union leaders and to Democratic strategists a document detailing the radical acti...

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Obama's Ayers Issue

John Ridley | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pennsylvania Debate, Ayers, Bill Ayers, Weathermen, ABC Debate, Abc, Weather Underground, Ayers Obama, Fugitive Days, Barack Obama, Politics News

What someone did forty years ago should not damn them forever. But that's assuming the offending individual pays their debt to society and repents. Bill Ayers has done neither.

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Flipping off Hillary, Silly petitions, Chelsea's tight Pants, and Obama's Weather Underground Connection

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.18.2008 | Home

Read More: George Stephanoupoulos, Abc, Barack Obama, Ayers, Chelsea Clinton, Bill Clinton, Dorn, GOP Hit Sqads, Weather Underground, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Charles Gibson, Home News

Whoever called the presidential campaign grind, the silly season got it wrong. It's worse. It's the farcical season. Let's look at some of the latest...

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Clinton's McCarthyism (and my Brother Bill Ayers)

Rick Ayers | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Joseph Welch, Joseph McCarthy, John Kerry, Mccarthyism, Rick Ayers, Bill Ayers, Obama McCarthyism, ABC Debate, John Kerry Swiftboating, John Kerry Obama, Abc, Weather Underground, Politics News

It is clear that Hillary has no limits. Barack Obama, attempting to take the high ground, gave her a pass on her despicable behavior.

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Flag Pins, Cookies, and a Depressing Debate

Matt Cooper | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Michael Dukakis, Charlie Gibson, Weather Underground, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Social Security, Mike Gravel, Obama Lapel Pin, Abc, Rose Law Firm, ABC Debate, George Stephanopoulos, Obama Flag Pin, Politics News

Charlie Gibson was unctuous and petty and wrong. If Americans needed more proof that the media elite are rich and out of touch, Gibson gave them more.

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The "What He Said" Game

Cenk Uygur | Posted 04.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Taxes, American Flag Lapel Pin, Barack Obama, George Stephanopoulos, ABC News, ABC Debate, Charlie Gibson, Iraq, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Debate, Weather Underground, Obama Lapel Pin, Obama Jeremiah Wright, Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Ayers Obama, Obama Flag Pin, Media News

This game sickens me. All I want to know now is whether the so-called news folks are in on it or if they are fools being played like clueless puppets.

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Bill, Bernardine, and Barack

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 04.17.2008 | Media

Read More: The Washington Post, Weather Underground, The New York Times, Obama, Bernardine Dohrn, Anne E. Kornblut, Dan Balz, Bill Ayers, Media News

Anne E. Kornblut and Dan Balz, two of the Washington Post's best political reporters made a big mistake in their coverage of that part of the debate;...

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The Weather Underground False Debate

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bobby Rush, Nigel Young, Bernardine Dorhn, Hillary Clinton, Colgate College, George Stephanapolous, Fred Hampton, Bernardine Dohrn, George Stephanopoulos, Democratic Debate, Bill Ayers, Charlie Gibson, ABC Debate, Abc, Weather Underground, Politics News

If Hillary Clinton thinks it's a big deal that Barack Obama has crossed paths with Bill Ayers, the political discourse is stuck in neutral.

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Hillary And The Commies

Marc Cooper | Posted 04.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Huey Newton, Sds, Treuhaft, Weathermen, 60's Radicals, Marc Cooper, Black Panthers, Abc Presidential Debate, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayres, Pennsylvania Debate, Barack Obama, Pennsylvania Primary, Weather Underground, Carl Bernstein, Hillary Clinton, Bill Ayers, Home News

During Wednesday night's debate, George Stephanopoulos didn't flinch from trying to smear Obama by association with former '60s radical Bill Ayers. Too bad George didn't ask Hillary about her summer spent working for a law firm run by Communists.

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The ABC Debate: A Shameful Night for the U.S. Media

Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics

Gibson and Stephanopoulos focused mainly on trivial issues as Clinton and Obama faced off in Philadelphia. They, and their network, should hang their collective heads in shame.

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