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Bonnie Fuller

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Sarah Palin Dissed John and Sam Adams, Ben Franklin, the Original George W. and the Rest of the Founding Fathers!

Bonnie Fuller | Posted September 6, 2008 | Politics


Has anyone just stopped for a second to reflect on the fact that Sarah didn't just diss Barack Obama, Rosa Parks and the thousands of other community organizers when she derided the Democratic presidential nominee's experience?

Hello! How about the founding fathers. I watched those guys portrayed in the recent...

Michael Seitzman

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If you really "work for me," then interview for the job.

Michael Seitzman | Posted September 6, 2008 | Politics


Read More: John McCain, Sarah Palin

The McCain campaign has now said publicly that they don't think Sarah Palin should have to answer any questions from the media. Since a free press is the only way the People can ask the questions we have a right to know, maybe the media should stop granting access to...

Alec Baldwin

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John McCain Is Not George Bush, Sarah Palin Is

Alec Baldwin | Posted September 6, 2008 | Politics


I thought McCain was the next Bush. I said so, like countless others, on this blog. More war. More debt while keeping taxes low and mocking the Democrats who want to pay down that debt. No vision regarding the energy issue. Or education. Or health care. More fear. Less solutions....

Hale

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Fannie and Freddie Bail-Out: How We Got Here and The Plan To Get Us Out

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted September 6, 2008 | Business


The Housing Crisis has claimed its two largest victims: Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Plans have been announced to place these institutions into conservatorship (I'll get to that in a minute). What follows is

1.) A brief explanation of what Fannie and Freddie do and why they are so...

Peter Dreier

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GOP Mocks Public Service

Peter Dreier | Posted September 6, 2008 | Off The Bus


By Peter Dreier and John Atlas


For the first time in American history, a major political party devoted a substantial portion of its national convention to attacking grassroots organizing.

Speaking Wednesday at the Republican National Convention, former New York Governor George Pataki sneered, "[Barack Obama] was a...

Richard Walter

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Special Needs

Richard Walter | Posted September 6, 2008 | Politics


What moved me above all else in Governor Palin's acceptance speech was her pledge to parents of special needs children: she will be their warrior in Washington. They can count on her, she says, to win for them the government support they require and deserve.

I'm an Obama supporter who...

Paul Abrams

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If You Think Bush Is So Bad that McCain Can't Win, Recall French President Sarkozy

Paul Abrams | Posted September 6, 2008 | Politics


He served a President with historically low approval ratings. His opponent was an attractive, intelligent history-making leader--Ségolène Royal would have been France's first female President. The country was struggling economically, and Sarkozy had been, among other things, the Finance Minister under the unpopular President Chirac.

Nonetheless, Nicolas Sarkozy had brandished...

Joseph A. Palermo

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A Line of Attack the Obama Campaign Must Answer Forcefully

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted September 6, 2008 | Politics


Tonight during the evening news the Republican National Committee ran an attack ad (multiple times) that featured menacing black-and-white images of Harry Reid, Charles Schumer, Patrick Leahy and other leading Democrats with the captions: "Ready to Tax" and "Ready to Spend." I was hoping the DNC or the Obama Campaign...

Gordon Marino

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Wanted: President of the United States: Educational Background, Not a Factor

Gordon Marino | Posted September 5, 2008 | Politics



Wanted: President of the United States: Educational Background, Not a Factor.


Everyone claims to be for better teachers and schools. Both Democrats and Republicans, to say nothing of independents, fervently believe that American children should receive a first-rate education. After all, democracy is great but not...

Harry C. Boyte

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Trashing Democracy

Harry C. Boyte | Posted September 5, 2008 | Politics


During the Republican convention Rudolph Giuliani and Sarah Palin heaped scorn on "community organizers" with snappy sound bites. Giuliani laughed off the idea that Barack Obama's community organizing background could count for anything. Palin followed, calling herself "just your average hockey mom" who became mayor and then governor, also mocking...

Max Blumenthal

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Palin's Pastor: God "Is Gonna Strike Out His Hand Against" America

Max Blumenthal | Posted September 5, 2008 | Politics


On July 20, 2008, the pastor of Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's home church, Larry Kroon, delivered a sermon called "Sin Is Personal To God." Kroon, the senior pastor of the non-denominational Wasilla Bible Church in Wasilla, Alaska, used the book of Zephanaiah as his reference point for discussing...

Chris Weigant

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Friday Talking Points [46] -- Moose Poop!

Chris Weigant | Posted September 5, 2008 | Politics


Sarah Palin has already singlehandedly introduced several terms into our political lexicon. "Hockey mom" is probably the most recognizable of these. "Troopergate" will become more and more known in the next few weeks. But today, I would like to personally add to this growing body of terms the Alaskan governor...

Michelle Kraus

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Violence or Vigilance At the Conventions

Michelle Kraus | Posted September 5, 2008 | Politics


There was an overall shocking disparity between the Republican and Democratic Conventions, their tone, and most importantly the way force was used to quell the voices of protestors.

Consider that the prelude to the Republican Convention was a search and seizure of computers and detention of "organizers" from...

Tom D'Antoni

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What people will McCain will fire/hire to make this "change?"

Tom D'Antoni | Posted September 5, 2008 | Politics


As laughably ludicrous as the concept of Republicans changing things in Washington after being in power for eight years may be to you and me, I'd like to hear one reporter ask any Republican - McCain, Palin, Davis, Rove, etc. -- two questions.

Who will you fire? Who will you...

Nancy L. Cohen

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Why Sarah Palin? It's the Base, Stupid

Nancy L. Cohen | Posted September 5, 2008 | Politics


What if John McCain had chosen a white man with Sarah Palin's extremist views as his running mate? Instead of a week of media glee that the maverick was back, would the punditocracy have been forced to dwell on a more hard-headed analysis of the power of the radical Right...

Dave Johnson

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What Is Obama's Story?

Dave Johnson | Posted September 5, 2008 | Politics


Read More: Barack Obama

Almost every single thing Palin said in her speech the other night turns out to be just a lie -- and it doesn't matter. She now has 58% favorability among the public. And she has a story. Within a day of the Palin announcement a well-informed, liberal, Democratic,...

Betty Fussell

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Pistol-Packin' Sarah Shoots Up the Screen

Betty Fussell | Posted September 5, 2008 | Politics


John Ford couldn't have staged it better. There was Cowboy George disappearing into the sunset, draggling a few twigs of Crawford brush behind him, while Old Man McCain, patriarch of Sedona Ranch -- or one of those dang houses, never could remember which -- was waving him off with relief....

Dave Winer

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Frum's annoying wrong idiotic argument

Dave Winer | Posted September 5, 2008 | Politics


David Frum, a Republican, thinks the McCain campaign shouldn't put Palin in a box and hide her from the press. Good, he's right about that, and his piece is a must-read. But like most Republicans his disdain for "elites" is itself the height of elite arrogance.

Marc R. Stanley

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Palin is No Winner with the Jewish Community

Marc R. Stanley | Posted September 5, 2008 | Politics


Over the last week there has been a lot of talk about Senator John McCain's newly picked running mate Governor Sarah Palin and the Jewish community. Wednesday, I published an op-ed for The Jerusalem Post titled, "Sarah Palin and the Jewish community." The choice of Palin as McCain's Vice...

Joan Williams

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God and Taxes: Culture Wars as Class Conflict

Joan Williams | Posted September 5, 2008 | Politics


The culture wars are resurgent, says the New York Times. The Times' analysis of the themes in the Republican National Convention showed that God was mentioned more than any other single theme, followed closely by taxes.

God and taxes. You wouldn't think they were a natural pair.

Actually, if...

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