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Andy Borowitz: Liberal Bloggers Accuse Obama of Trying to Win Election
The Liberal blogosphere was aflame today with new accusations that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) is trying to win the 2008 ... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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Why Not Victory?
I did a panel this afternoon with Marc, Ross, and David Brooks at which Brooks, Marc to some extent, and also Fred Malek (yes this Fred Malek ) were sort of harping on the idea that Barack Obama doesn't really have a McCain-esque background... Full Article At The Atlantic - Matthew Yglesias
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Mary Lyon: The Sacred McCow
I guess this is proof, after a fashion, that the war has indeed followed us home. Some of our leading Veterans-turned-political-warriors, from John McCain to Wesley Clark and ... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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Religion Polls: Americans Are More Diverse And Flexible Than You Think
One interesting thing about stereotypes: they are often wrong. For example, Michael Paulson in the Boston Globe, writing up the recent Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life Poll on religion in America: The... Full Article At Daily Kos
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A Choice, Not An Echo
Ed Kilgore wonders about parallels between a Sam's Club Republicanism and the Rockefeller Republicanism of yore: The argument that the GOP can rebuild an electoral majority by shrugging off its anti-government mentality and strategically... Full Article At The Atlantic - Ross Douthat
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Holly Gleason: I Know Why Elvis Shot The TV
I don't do it very often. I don't see the point. I'm not even sure why I did it sitting here right now, but I did. Plopped down on the couch, curious about Keith Olbermann - and like any true black hole, I was sucked into a bottomless... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
Limbaugh Calls McCain “The Team You Hate Less”
Profile of radio titan Rush Limbaugh and his role in GOP politics fronts Sunday’s New York Times magazine. On McCain: “If your team isn’t in it, you root for the team you hate... Full Article At Time - The Page
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Redstate Commenters Mock Redstate's Erick Erickson's Attack on Google
Periodically Redstate's Erick Erickson, a blog run by young GOP establishment consultants (Erickson is proud of being dubbed the 69th most influential conservative by the London Telegraph and authored a voter ID law ), writes a few really... Full Article At Open Left
Watch out for all those bitter folks in the crowd, Barry -- they tend to cling to things [Open Thread]
Courtesy of Roll Call($) comes this wonderful report: Obama May Campaign at NASCAR Races Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) in the coming weeks may become the first ... Full Article At Redstate
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To The Center
One thing that I think's gotten a bit lost in the progressive blog grumbling about Barack Obama's recent efforts to put a more centrist foot forward is that he's a substantially more ... Full Article At The Atlantic - Matthew Yglesias
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More Obama Flip Flops the Media Will Ignore
Update: Barack Obama's policy switches are giving the Left whiplash Everyone can add two more Obama flip-flops to the ever-growing list. ... Full Article At Newsbusters
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FISA vote not "moving to center"
I've gotten a million media requests lately to talk about Obama's "move to the center". Exhibit A for that conventional wisdom is Obama's capitulation on ... Full Article At Daily Kos
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Max Bergmann: Romney Thinks Stopping Spread of Nuclear Weapons is a Liberal Issue - Huh?
In an interview with John Roberts of CNN, potential Vice Presidential nominee Mitt Romney dismissed Barack Obama's bipartisanship accomplishments... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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MSNBC's John Ridley Sees Conspiracy in McCain Colombia Presence
You've heard of Bush Derangement Syndrome, now it seems as though McCain Derangement Syndrome is starting to appear. As you might expect, the first outbreak was on MSNBC where Liberal commentator and screenwriter John Ridley wondered whether McCain... Full Article At Newsbusters
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"National liberal special interest groups"
Wingnut John Shadegg's final end-of-quarter email blast: Dear Friend, With the FEC financial filing deadline at midnight tonight, I wanted to send you a quick email. ... Full Article At Daily Kos
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Primer Impacto: How Spanish-Language Ads Could Decide The Election
In a year of political milestones, prepare to add one more to the heap. Come this fall, Spanish-speaking Americans -- a community not always paid the greatest attention by presidential candidates -- should be just about as sick of political ads as the rest of their compatriots. With Latinos appearing... Full Article At HuffingtonPost
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Liberaltarianism, Revisited
Via Matt Yglesias, an interesting post from Tim Lee on the subject of Brink Lindsey's excellent book The Age of Abundance . Lee writes: Too many libertarians seem to define libertarianism as a very specific and restrictive political program: as a laundry list of government programs to be abolished... Full Article At The New Republic
Anglican form conservative group
Conservative Anglican leaders are to create a new global alliance to combat Liberal trends in the Church.... Full Article At BBC News - Americas
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After Socialism
Tim Lee, near the end of an interesting post inspired by Brink Lindsey's The Age of Abundance, writes: Too many libertarians seem to define libertarianism as a very specific and restrictive political program: as a laundry list of government programs to be abolished, or equivalently as a very short... Full Article At The Atlantic - Matthew Yglesias
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No Civility From 'Sociopath' Conservatives?
Matt Sheffield has made the point here several times that the Left is much quicker to be profane on the Web than the Right. Pardon me for pointing this out on a Sunday, but this made me laugh when a friend sent it along. Firedoglake was complaining about the congressional testimony of Cheney aide David... Full Article At Newsbusters