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2008 election

Obama's Mistakes

August 28, 2009

I was an ardent supporter of Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries of last year. Obama campaigned, correctly saying that he, alone, of all the candidates, could build a new coalition of voters in America by talking straight and confronting decades-old national problems. He promised a new kind of politics and he [...]

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Lawlessness & Thuggery Work

August 13, 2009

Please watch the first few minutes of this clip from last night's Rachel Maddow program……

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There are those who would seek to convince me that the hatred, rage, violence. swastikas, death threats, hangings-in-effigy and brandishing of firearms recently in and around townhall meetings is simply [...]

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Reviewing the "Rage"

August 12, 2009

The profound wisdom of Duncan Black, aka, Atrios….
"Nobody could've predicted that electing a black man president would drive this country completely f*cking insane."
The milder, less abrasive thoughtfulness of today's AB Journal editorialist….
"The furor at town-hall meetings has been revealing. It has exposed a disturbing depth of ignorance regarding the national structure of health care."
Are the [...]

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Southern Fried

August 2, 2009

In a very long article printed today in the AB Journal, McClathy's Steven Thomma includes this sentence in an opinion piece entirely about the "birthers" in America who do not believe that Obama is a U.S. citizen…..
"It's a powerful story about what experts call political paranoia over a new face in a time of anxiety [...]

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"Reason"-ed Anal Openings

July 20, 2009

The Washington Post, D.C.'s premier Villager rag, gave space to Reason.com and Reason magazine's Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch on Sunday. The resultant article is a nasty hitpiece on President Obama weaving a thread equating him with Jimmy Carter….
Like (President Jimmy) Carter, Obama is smart, moralistic and enamored of alternative energy schemes that were nonstarters [...]

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Tea Party Alert: Waaambulance Shortage Expected

April 14, 2009

Rick Santelli (CNBC)….the "average American" millionaire teevee talker who launched a thousand protest parties with a single rant,….never fully appreciated the comedic value he was adding to America's discourse when he lashed out against President Obama so crazily that fateful day…..the day the mighty 'grassroots' shot was heard 'round the world.
I'm here to tell ya'….I [...]

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Preparing For The Cleveland Tea Party

April 8, 2009

If you've ever had elementary school-age children in the house, you'll remember times when you had to make sure that your children were, you know, prepared for school. Homework done? Teeth brushed? Boots on? Stuff like that.
I see that the Great Nationwide Tax Day Tea Party is drawing near, and I feel like it's my [...]

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GOP: Still A Criminal Enterprise

April 7, 2009

Nothing really new in the New York Times article today entitled, "Report Outlines Medical Workers' Role in Torture"…..
Medical personnel were deeply involved in the abusive interrogation of terrorist suspects held overseas by the Central Intelligence Agency, including torture, and their participation was a “gross breach of medical ethics,” a long-secret report by the International Committee [...]

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GOP: Please Big Guv'mint….Interfere

March 31, 2009

Lots of stuff happening.
The American President cuts loose the CEO of General Motors. Wingnutland flaps its wings.
Abu-Zubaydah has proven, again, that torture isn't effective and only produces phony information.
But it's time to talk about the Norm Coleman-Al Franken battle for the senate seat of Minnesota. The election was held almost 5 months ago and [...]

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Laughing Matters

March 24, 2009

Immediately following Sunday night's appearance of President Obama on Sixty Minutes, I told the Mrs. that Obama's smiling would be the Villager story dominating Monday's "news" cycle.
Politico….
Even his awkward laughter highlighted an issue Obama has faced dating back to the campaign, a sense that he sometimes is too “cool” and detached to fully grasp the [...]

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