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Elections: This Is the Only World We’ve Got, Folks
We Have a Chance to Choose a Better RoadBy Caroline Arnold / August 24, 2008 Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are Anger and Courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not … Continue reading
Home Sweet Homes : Ten and Counting
John and Cindy McCain’s house keys.The Rag Blog / Posted August 23, 2008
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The Man Hiding Behind the Mask of War Hero
Why the Senator is Not a War Hero: John McCain in a New ContextBy Patty O’Grady / August 23, 2008 Did you know that when John McCain was away from home for extended periods of time working as a U.S. … Continue reading
Same Sex Marriage Affects the Whole Country
What impact will it have on the elections? Maybe not much.By Suzi Steffen / August 22, 2008 Patchwork, partying, pessimism, politics: That’s the state, so to speak, of same-sex marriage around the U.S. since same-sex couples began lining up to … Continue reading
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Democrats Have Turned Sharply to the Left
‘They are more liberal than at any time in a generation’By Steven Thomma / August 22, 2008 DENVER — As they meet for their national convention Monday through Thursday, Democrats are poised to shift their party’s course — and the … Continue reading
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Joe Biden : Senator MasterCard
Faux Photomontage.Biden’s bankrupt policy causing people to lose their homesBy Tom Cleaver / The Rag Blog / August 23, 2008 Has anyone else noted the irony that Joe Biden is the Senator who led the “bi-partisan” charge for “banktruptcy reform”? … Continue reading
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The Newest (and Most Vibrant) Presidential Candidate
Jerry taps running mate PapuAugust 20, 2008 MEDWAY, MA — Jerry has selected his Vice President. It’s Papu, the “Inexplicable Force of Nature.” By selecting his Vice President now, Jerry, (www.itsjerrytime.com) who announced that he was running for President of … Continue reading
Riding the New Media : How Obama Really Did It
Cake and eat it too. From a party organized through Obama social-networking site. Photo by Porter Gifford / Technology Review.The social-networking strategy that took an obscure senator to the doors of the White House.By David Talbot This article appears in … Continue reading
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Tom Hayden on Obama : Transformational President or Another Disappointment?
Screen print from Ray Noland’s (CRO) traveling Obama art show entitled Go Tell Mama!.‘Whether he wins or loses, the vast movement inspired by Obama will become the next generation of American social activists’By Tom Hayden Barack Obama, it is true, … Continue reading
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Deployed U.S. Troops Donate to Obama by Six to One Margin
‘Tremendous shift from 2000, when the military vote leaned heavily towards the Republicans’By Luke Rosiak / August 14, 2008 During World War II, soldiers crouching in foxholes penned letters assuring their sweethearts that they’d be home soon. Now, between firefights … Continue reading
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Texas Congressman Chet Edwards Pivots Closer to V.P. Nomination
Rep. Chet Edwards,D-Texas, at news conference on Capitol Hill in May. A likely veep pick for Barack? Photo by Lauren Victoria Burke / AP.Powerful moderate Democrat: ‘Simply put, Edwards on the ticket would turn Texas purple in one cycle’By Matt … Continue reading
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Why McCain Would Be a Mediocre President
John McCain campaign staff and early model of the “Straight Talk Express.”‘A careful look at McCain’s biography shows that he isn’t prepared for the job’By Rex Nutting WASHINGTON — In his frivolous Paris and Britney ad, Sen. John McCain has … Continue reading
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