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It was like watching Gidget address the Reichstag. |
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We do not support government bailouts of private institutions. Government interference in the markets exacerbates problems in the marketplace and causes the free market to take longer to correct itself. We believe in the free market as the best tool to sustained prosperity and opportunity for all. |
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Conservatives who insist that electing McCain is crucial usually start, and increasingly end, by saying he would make excellent judicial selections. But the more one sees of his impulsive, intensely personal reactions to people and events, the less confidence one has that he would select judges by calm reflection and clear principles, having neither patience nor aptitude for either. |
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In this strange new pro-woman tableau, feminism -- a word that is being used all over the country with regard to Palin's potential power -- means voting for someone who would limit reproductive control, access to healthcare and funding for places like Covenant House Alaska, an organization that helps unwed teen mothers. It means cheering someone who allowed women to be charged for their rape kits while she was mayor of Wasilla, who supports the teaching of creationism alongside evolution, who has inquired locally about the possibility of using her position to ban children's books from the public library, who does not support the teaching of sex education. |
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From the article: |
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It is always enlightening to see what a desperate campaign (or their followers) will resort to when they're down.
A current tactic by the conservatives is to cast doubt on Senator Obama's eligibility to even hold the office of the President. Article II of the US Constitution outlines the three requirements to be eligible for election as President:
It is on that last item, "be a natural-born citizen of the United States" on which many have tried to "disqualify" Obama. They claim that his mother had to have been 21 at the time of his birth in order for Obama to be a natural-born citizen of the United States. But is this really the case?
I would direct these "detectives" to the United States Code, Title 8 > Chapter 12 > Subchapter III > Part I > § 1405:
A person born in Hawaii on or after August 12, 1898, and before April 30, 1900, is declared to be a citizen of the United States as of April 30, 1900. A person born in Hawaii on or after April 30, 1900, is a citizen of the United States at birth. A person who was a citizen of the Republic of Hawaii on August 12, 1898, is declared to be a citizen of the United States as of April 30, 1900. |
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In response to a question about what individual Americans can do about the high cost of gasoline, Senator Obama replied that individuals could inflate their tires to the proper pressure in other to improve fuel efficiency.

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From the article: |
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May 7, 2008 |
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According to the "Hillary is 44" Web site/About page:
"The way to continue our fight now, to accomplish the goals for which we stand, is to take our energy, our passion, our strength, and do all we can to help elect Barack Obama the next president of the United States," Clinton told a crowd of 8,000 supporters during an emotion-filled rally at the National Building Museum in Washington. |
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I was recently watching Star Trek: Insurrection, and it struck me that Ad'har Ru'afo looks a lot like John McCain. What do you think?
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If there's a so-called "whitey" tape out there I, for one, would like to see it instead of hearing all of the "I heard from someone who heard from someone who knows someone who has seen it" hype.
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There are those who erroneously claim that Jimmy Carter was the worst president ever. They cite the economic situation during his administration and the Iranian hostage crisis as proof of their assertion.
An Unnatural Disasterby Michael Hirsh In a month of horrific natural disasters—the China quake, the Burma cyclone—it's instructive to consider what one of the biggest unnatural disasters in memory looks like. That is the decline in America's position in the world from where we were when George W. Bush inherited power on Jan. 20, 2001, to what he will bequeath to the next president eight months from now. |
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From our friends at Democratic Underground, and the 336th edition of The Top Ten Conservative Idiots (in this case, #7, George W. Bush):



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This continues the discussion from tonight's broadcast of The Political Atlas.
On the right, bloggers accused Obama of offering "false moral equivalence," "blame whitey," and "the politics of grievance." ... One thing is clear: those who predicted that an Obama-John McCain race would lead to a "civil" debate about this country's future (we're looking at you, Andrew Sullivan!) are deluding themselves. If the conservative reaction to the Wright controversy is any indication, an Obama-McCain race would be just as nasty as a Hillary Clinton-McCain race. |
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One of the best I've read:
Alas, I cannot give a more considered response right now as I have to get on the road. But I do want to say that this searing, nuanced, gut-wrenching, loyal, and deeply, deeply Christian speech is the most honest speech on race in America in my adult lifetime. It is a speech we have all been waiting for for a generation. Its ability to embrace both the legitimate fears and resentments of whites and the understandable anger and dashed hopes of many blacks was, in my view, unique in recent American history. |
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Mitch Ceasar, Broward County DEC Chair, DNC Executive Committee member and Superdelegate to the Democratic Convention in August, had some great insights on this morning's broadcast of Situation Awareness:
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Florida's Republican-majority legislature, with bipartisan support, passed a bill moving Florida's 2008 president primary from March 11th to January 29th. Florida's Republican governor signed the bill into law. The idea was to give Florida an earlier voice in deciding who would be the nominees for the two major political parties, rather than leaving that honor to Iowa and New Hampshire and other small states.
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Obama emerges as a liberal Reagan who can reunite America
The historical analogies for the phenomenon that is Barack Obama have already stretched credibility. For a while pundits likened him to the effete loser Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic party’s 1950s version of Labour’s Hugh Gaitskell, the greatest prime minister we never had. |
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From Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
A new American Research Group national poll shows Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee are tied for first place in the Republican presidential race with 21%, followed by Sen. John McCain at 18%, Mitt Romney at 16% and Fred Thompson at 6%.
Just a month ago, Huckabee was in fifth place in the same poll with just 6% support.
Among Democrats, Sen. Hillary Clinton leads with 41% support, followed by Sen. Barack Obama at 22%, and John Edwards at 13%.
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This was on WorldNutDaily. If they say it, well, it must be true. Right?
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Just ahead of my Saturday's broadcast of Situation Awareness ("Poison the Well, Salt the Earth") comes this excellent article from Oliver Willis ("2008: George Bush The Pariah").In 2008, there will be a sitting Republican president with an approval rating ranging between probably 25-32% percent. In many ways the election will be the fork in the road 2004 should have been: stay the course or change direction. In order to garner their party's nomination, Republicans have pandered to the base by essentially endorsing a continuation of Bush's strategy in Iraq. It is a course of events violently opposed by Democrats and now Independents. The Republican party is going to have a George Bush problem, I think. (read the entire article) |
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