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Updated on 2008-10-30
Created on 2008-05-09
Category: Government & Politics
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Like, Socialism: Comment: The New Yorker
Sometimes, when a political campaign has run out of ideas and senses that the prize is slipping through its fingers, it rolls up a sleeve and plunges an arm, shoulder deep, right down to the bottom of the barrel. The problem for John McCain, Sarah Palin, and the Republican Party is that the bottom was scraped clean long before it dropped out. Back when the polls were nip and tuck and the leaves had not yet begun to turn, Barack Obama had already been accused of betraying the troops, wanting to teach kindergartners all about sex, favoring infanticide, and being a friend of terrorists and terrorism. What was left? The anticlimactic answer came as the long Presidential march of 2008 staggered toward its final week: Senator Obama is a socialist.
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The Art of the Possible » Blog Archive » The Art of the Art of the Possible
So rather than attempt to mount a decisive positive case for Barack Obama’s candidacy (which I wouldn’t wholeheartedly believe in), let alone a defense of his spinelessness on FISA or his less-than-full-throated (let’s say) opposition to the war, allow me to offer a few points that might help clarify for others in the anti-imperialist wings of the left and right where they stand.
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Op-Ed Contributor - My Plan for Iraq - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
Obama clearly states his plan to get U. S. out of Iraq.
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The Obama campaign's past two weeks - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
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*intervened in a Democratic Congressional primary to support one of the worst Bush-enabling Blue Dogs over a credible, progressive challenger;
* announced his support for Bush's FISA bill, reversing himself completely on this issue;
* sided with the Scalia/Thomas faction in two highly charged Supreme Court decisions;
* repudiated Wesley Clark and embraced the patently false media narrative that Clark had "dishonored McCain's service" (and for the best commentary I've seen, by far, on the Clark matter, see this appropriately indignant piece by Iraq veteran Brandon Friedman);
* condemned MoveOn.org for its newspaper advertisement criticizing Gen. Petraeus;
* defended his own patriotism by impugning the patriotism of others, specifically those in what he described as the "the so-called counter-culture of the Sixties" for "attacking the symbols, and in extreme cases, the very idea, of America itself" and -- echoing Jeanne Kirkpatrick's 1984 RNC speech -- "blaming America for all that was wrong with the world";
* unveiled plans "to expand President Bush's program steering federal social service dollars to religious groups and -- in a move sure to cause controversy . . . letting religious charities that receive federal funding consider religion in employment decisions," a move that could "invite a storm of protest from those who view such faith requirements as discrimination" -- something not even the Bush faith programs allowed.
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Keith Olbermann: Then and now - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
The real danger is that those who defend Obama the Candidate no matter what he does are likely to defend Obama the President no matter what he does, too.
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Can Obama do anything to get Clinton out of the race? - By John Dickerson - Slate Magazine
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The race for the Democratic nomination—"race" is hardly the right word, is it?—now feels like a quantum physics problem: How long can a body exist in a state approximating motionlessness without actually stopping?
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Oh Boy Obama! Vote for or Submit Ideas to Contribute to the Obama Campaign
Oh Boy Obama is the unofficial campaign think-tank. Created by Obama supporters for the purpose of giving the Obama grassroots a platform to submit and vote on ideas to better the 2008 primary and general election campaign of Barack Obama. All supporters are welcome to contribute.
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Another Way to Measure Electoral Clout: Watch the Widgets - ReadWriteWeb
Obama has dominated the online discussion since day one. It would appear that when it comes to spreading his campaign message via widgets, there's no exception to the rule -- Obama widgets are far and away the most popular.
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Obama to Receive Endorsement Of 3 Former SEC Chairmen - WSJ.com
3 more SEC heads, after Paul Volcker. If ony voters in West Virginia were this smart.
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Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners Pause
Who says it's not about race?
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'I'll never vote for a black person,'
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"Hang that darky from a tree!"
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