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McCain: You've Got Authenticity -- It's Time for Something Else

Tom Alderman | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

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We value authentic individuality. It's part of our national DNA -- which is why McCain has been so front-and-center all these years. He's nailed authentic -- and it isn't enough.

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Obama's the Perfect Candidate for the Sally Field Party

Seth Swirsky | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics

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It's Obama's likeability that has made him the nominee, the political asset that trumps all others in Left-world. The Left is dying for America to be liked again!

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Powerful Video of Ugly Sexist Vilification of Hillary Clinton

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics

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Sexism is alive and well in America. One exit poll I saw had almost twice as many voters having trouble voting for a woman for president than voting...

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Deafening Silence on McCain, Hagee and Parsley

Sam Sedaei | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics

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Many bloggers and activists seem to have succeeded in getting the media to again do what it is supposed to do: cover the issues that matter most to people.

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Barack (Despite Setbacks)

Giles Slade | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics

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Obama currently deserves our meager respect and our support for coming this far without lobbyists, without compromise, without shutting down his own inner voice.

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Reading The Pictures: All The Obama-Wright That Can Be Fit Into Print (Or Digital, And Now, Broadcast)

Michael Shaw | Posted 05.06.2008 | Media

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Eight days after the Times starting milking the Wright story for all its color, they are still working this linkage.

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In NC Obama Proves He Has The Right Stuff (In Spite Of Wright)

Reny Monk | Posted 05.06.2008 | Home

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As I listened to him answer questions, though, all I could think of was those people who leave long, rambling messages on my voice mail, then forget to leave their name and number.

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The O'Hillary Interview

Julia Gorin | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

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Asked by Bill O'Reilly's last week how she feels when she hears people like Rev. Wright say the ugly things he does about America and seeing people st...

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Rove's Next Trick -- If Obama Must Answer For His Minister Now, Just Wait to See What the Republicans Will Do To Clinton Inc. in October

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.04.2008 | Politics

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Backhanded compliments have fooled the Democrats into thinking Hillary would be harder to beat than Obama. If she gets the nomination, Rove's easy destruction of Hillary will begin.

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Reverend Wright: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't

Lecia Shorter | Posted 05.01.2008 | Home

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The demonization of Wright is part of why there are so few strong black leaders in the United States. He did not cower from his convictions in the face of those who saw him only with jaded prejudice.

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Behind The Scenes Of The Obama-Wright Split

CBS | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics

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Chicago friends of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Sen. Barack Obama say both men are simply sad following a controversy and eventual falling out that ca...

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Against All Odds

Nora McAlvanah | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics

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Pundits have pretty much written off Hillary's chances in North Carolina. But yesterday, her campaign was handed an olive branch, an endorsement, and a chance to change the odds.

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Take Up The Wright Man's Burden

Dennis Perrin | Posted 04.29.2008 | Media

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"Reverend Wright -- may I call you J-Wry?" "If you wish. But why that?" "It's looser, more casual. Puts people at ease." "I see." "And trust me, J...

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Obama -- Acting Positively Presidential

Tom D'Antoni | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

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Compare the two news conferences we saw today, the angry, petulant, inarticulate, lie-filled Bush performance vs. Obama on Wright. Which guy looked presidential to you?

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I'm Wright and You're Not: Is He One of the Pharisees Who Will Not Abide the Popularity of the Upstart?

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 04.29.2008 | Media

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Tune in today to the Latest Talking Head. Obama and the media, particularly those who welcome his new low impact politics, could (and should) be appl...

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Wright is right

Stan Goff | Posted 04.28.2008 | Home

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Well, when the NAACP decides, rightly, to give Wright a pulpit to defend the prophetic tradition of many African American churches, we can now see wha...

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Obama In Indiana: Dispatches From GroundReport.com

Rachel Sterne | Posted 04.28.2008 | Home

At an Indianapolis press conference, Obama struggled to draw a clear distinction for voters between his policies and those of Hillary Clinton. "It's tough," he said, "a lot of our differences get blurred."

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MoveOn: Obama Got Outfoxed

Adam Green | Posted 04.28.2008 | Media

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Obama did himself, the Democratic Party, and the progressive movement a disservice this weekend. It was a mistake to go on FOX and treat the experience as if it was a real news interview.

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Why Is It So Quiet After the Moyers-Wright Interview?

Dave Winer | Posted 04.26.2008 | Media

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Those who watched Moyers and really listened to Wright realized that he's not a liability to Obama, he's an asset.

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Reading The Pictures: Taking On Ayers, Etc.

Michael Shaw | Posted 04.24.2008 | Media

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

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No More Debate: Why Clinton Must Bow Out

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 04.16.2008 | Home

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The debate's over. Let's stop pretending. The data demonstrates Obama has always been more electable; that Clinton still isn't electable; and that Clinton is weakening Obama for the general.

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Debate Questions I'd (Still) Like To Ask

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics

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Unfortunately these questions remain largely unanswered, almost two months after the last debate.

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Obama, Wright and Contested Stories

Gershom Gorenberg | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

if you attack a group's story, you attack the very meaning of its world. Criticize your own group's story, even softly, and you are likely to be considered a turncoat.

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Fire and Race

Robert Koehler | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Change, Obama, Wright, Race, Politics News

What could be more brittle than "Americanism"? What could be more tedious than the mass defense of its teary-eyed, ahistorical ignorance? We are stil...

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The Story I Didn't Tell You

Erin Kotecki Vest | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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As I watch the race issue unfold in this election, I wonder how many more grandfathers are out there -- the ones who think voting for a woman is a much better option than voting for a black man.

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