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‘No Values Voters’ Looking To Support Most Evil Candidate
Keep going ‘til the candidates pander!a
[...][Der Speigel] quoted Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as saying that he backed a proposal by presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq within 16 months.
A spokesman for al-Maliki said his remarks “were misunderstood, mistranslated and not conveyed accurately.”
Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh [...]
I have a girlfriend in New York who puts her boyfriends through Feats of Strength.
That noon, I had lunch with two [...]
Shorter version of this article, the biggest items in our federal budget are entitlement programs, therefore they must be cut, therefore we need to means test Medicare, which really means turn it into Medicaid. And we should not move to single payer because it lacks transparency. [...]
Matt Taibbi has an article up on alternet called Economic Realities Are Killing Our Era of Fantasy Politics.
Taibbi has published plenty of things I disagree with and this is not a blanket endorsement of him, but he has written a fine article and fits in with what we’ve been [...]
President Gore speaks. You listen.
Some choice excerpts:
Like a lot of people, it seems to me that all these problems are bigger than any of the solutions that have thus far been proposed for them, and that’s been worrying me…
Yet when we look at all three of these seemingly [...]
We all know how the Bushies leaned on al-Maliki to take back what he said in the Der Spiegel interview:
But a spokesman for al-Maliki said his remarks “were misunderstood, mistranslated and not conveyed accurately.”
Except that this doesn’t stand up under any sort of scrutiny:
he’s debunked shit [...]
I guess I’m one of the few people who were there the first year as well as last year, and recall the last minute “fuck off” that we Little People received in Chicago from Her Nibs. Hint: She didn’t show. Blah, Blah, order and security and Seriousness blah, but if [...]
While the Metro police had banned the use of Tasers for a time, they still used a controversial method to subdue unruly people, according to an [...]
… Well, make up your own jokes. Check the commentary on this Netroots panel, whose ostensible subject matter was:
In this blogosphere-focused panel, moderator Chris Bowers will pose two questions—one about the Obama/Clinton conflict in the blogosphere community and the second looking at how blogs compare with other forms of [...]
Personally, I confess to a little “fatigue and irritation” that the rumors keep flying that Hillary’s name won’t even be placed in nomination. Heck, put Hillary and Edwards, too — they both got pledged delegates. Maybe HoHo could straighten that out?
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Despite John McCain’s apparent best efforts to alert the terrorists to when they can expect to see Obama, the senator from Illinois went ahead with his state visit to the Middle East. First full stop, Afghanistan:
KABUL, Afghanistan - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama met Saturday with officials of [...]
