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WallCloud: November 3rd, 2008 : Bush

Gan Golan B0006TN9VM
This compilation is simply great. It's got every single hit and the live concert cd is awesome. If you want all their hits and don't wanna spend too much money buying each album then you should definitely get this. You won't be dissapointed.
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It's 11:59 and no sign of the big dog. We're at the Bank United Center at University of Miami. It's Sunday night, thirty-six hours until nationwide polls open, and this is McCain's last appearance in south Florida. McCain is supposed to go on at 12:15, but he's flying in from New Hamps...
2008-11-03  Lessig Blog
I awoke in New Zealand today to an article in the New Zealand Herald, and I had a strange sense of deja vu. It is still Monday in America. And like the Monday before the 2004 election, and the Monday before the 2000 election, there is enormous confidence among Democrats that we are g...
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Bush decides to remain out of sight till election is over. Even the chimp can't pretend anymore, he's a fucking pariah. Fortunately, it's easy to forget after one of Laura's special cocktails. Mmmm, xanax and stoli...so smooth.
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2008-11-03  Boztopia.com
We’re still a day away from what is going to be the most momentous presidential election in modern American history, and already, all ideologies across the spectrum are casting aspersions on the transformative nature of the change we face. From the right–excuse me, the mys...
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2008-11-03  38 Pitches
I received this email today. Read it and take from it what you want. “I know that many of you are sick and tired of all this political BS as I am but if you read just one more thing between now and next month’s election, I urge you to read the following editorial. I donR...
, Family , General , Life
2008-11-03  Stop The ACLU
-By Warner Todd Huston From Beirut, Chawki Freiha reports* on a provocative editorial that appeared in the Al Quds Al Arabi newspaper on November 3 written by Abdelbari Atwan, the first journalist to have met with Osama bin Laden. Titled “Obama’s Historic Intifada,” Atwan praises...
, Barack , Domestic , Elections , Islam , Islamicfascism , Israel , Liberal , Middle , News , War , military
2008-11-03  Iraq Today
Photo: Syrian protesters gather at Youssef al-Azmi square during a demonstration against the U.S. raid on a village near the Syrian-Iraqi border last Monday, in Damascus, Syria, Thursday Oct. 30, 2008. Hundreds of Syrian riot police ringed the shuttered and closed U.S. Embassy in Dama...
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2008-11-03  David Corn
This time it's personal. Then again, it was personal in 2004. In September 2003, I published a book immoderately titled, The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception. Its contention was a simple one: that Bush had gone beyond the normal boundaries of presidential ...
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2008-11-03  Think Progress
Today, Vice President Cheney’s hometown newspaper, the Casper Star-Tribune in Wyoming, endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) for president. The paper endorsed Bush-Cheney in 2004. Today’s editorial states: The next occupant of the White House will inherit a national economy th...
, Think , Cheney , McCain , Obama
← Previous revision Revision as of 23:03, 3 November 2008 Line 21: Line 21: George Washington Bush was born in [[Pennsylvania]] around 1778. An only child, he was raised as a [[Quaker]] and educated in Philadelphia. Bush’s ...
Jacob Weisberg 0812978358
The Bush Tragedy is a book which immerses the reader into the personal and political life of the 43rd president of the United States: George W Bush. By immersing the reader into the politician's family life/history, politics, and convictions, the author allows him/her to understand "w...
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AP - It's no coincidence President Bush has been out of the public's eye in recent days — that's the way the Republican Party wants it.
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2008-11-03  GayPatriot
In making his case for John McCain, Dale Carpenter notes some of the Republican’s flaws, but gets at the essence of his appeal to gay conservatives, offering that “As the practical differences on gay issues get smaller, non-gay issues grow in salience:” You wouldn’t...
, 2008 , Gay , Gay
It was Jesus Christ, if Matthew is to be believed, who said, "Love thine enemy." It is in that spirit that I write this belated valentine to Sarah Palin. Sarah, I love you for having revealed unto the media the snarling heart of the beast that is the base (and the soul) of the Republic...
, Conservatives , Republicans , Sarah
2008-11-03  Scholars and Rogues
With less than a day left till the election, many Republicans are seeing the writing on the wall. Their days are numbered or are they? If you are Karl Rove, it is not over until the last dirty trick is played. Recently, a story broke out about Barack Obama’s Kenyan aunt, Zeituni...
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2008-11-03  The Stump
Electoral guru Stu Rothenberg has offered up his final House prediction: Democrats could capture Republican seats numbering "quite possibly well into the 30s." The drama here has been overshadowed by the presidential race, but that's just as big a Democratic congressional wave as...
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2008-11-03  Pirate's Cove
This headline from CNN certainly has to be a contender for the funniest of the week: Palin knocks Obama over months-old coal comments. Coming from an arm of the liberal media who has delved into Bush’s TANG service and drunk driving incidents, decades old, as well as McCain̵...
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Tom Young, BusinessGreen, Monday 3 November 2008 at 17:43:00 US House of Representatives committee warns Bush administration could use last few months in office for huge roll back of green legislation As the US prepares to elect a new president election tomorrow, fears are mounting tha...
, legislation , politics
2008-11-03  The Reaction
By Michael J.W. StickingsPeter Beinart writes this in today's WaPo:Why has America turned on Sarah Palin? Obviously, her wobbly television interviews haven't helped. Nor have the drip, drip of scandals from Alaska, which have tarnished her reformist image. But Palin's problems run deep...
, 2008 , John , Barack , Sarah , culture
2008-11-03  Hey Jenny Slater.
Contrary to the impression I'm sure I've given a lot of you, I am neither a knee-jerk liberal nor a straight-ticket Democratic voter; I've never voted a straight ticket in my life. And in fact, the first vote I ever cast in a primary election was for John McCain, when I was living in V...
, the , w00t , politics
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By Gina Chon Iraqis have an obvious personal stake in who becomes the next president of the United States. In my discussions with Iraqi officials and average residents in recent weeks, I’ve heard many views about how the political system works in America. As the security pact negoti...
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Bush Furniture B0000669XE
This was a very cool book and I loved reading about how Bush all came together. This band was huge and their music will always be around.
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2008-11-03  ie:missional
I have a good friend who simply cannot believe that any clear thinking American would vote for Barack Obama for president. In fact, he issued a challenge for someone–anyone–to give him a convincing reason to vote for the Illinois senator. Few took him up on the offer. I...
, Culture , Economy , Life , News , Politics , Barack , Democratic , George , government , John , Republican
2008-11-03  Wage Laborer
The other day, I predicted that if the Republicans stole the election this time, we would have "investigative journalism" rectifying the matter.Today, on Democracy Now, Mark Crispin Miller reported that Mike Connell is testifying today in Ohio about the stolen election of 2004.Bob Fri...
2008-11-03  The Left Coaster
As a rule I love history and political science, and although US history is rife with many regrettable and shameful episodes they’ve never bothered me, it was stuff the country had to go through (slavery) and generally Americans try hard to be a good people. But there is one episode ...
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2008-11-03  Joho the Blog
From Martin Varsavsky: On November 5th Americans will discover that the world did not hate them. That they just hated Bush. (Knocking wood.) And (knocking entire old-growth forests) maybe we’ll discover that we don’t have to hate ourselves. May the war between the Red and ...
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2008-11-03  Dandelion Salad
Dandelion Salad By Ralph Nader ICH Nov 3, 2008 Dear Senator Obama: In your nearly two-year presidential campaign, the words “hope and change,” “change and hope” have been your trademark declarations. Yet there is an asymmetry between those objectives and your po...
, 2008 , Candidates-Issues , Corporations , Dandelion , Economy , Israel , Nader-Ralph , Obama-Barack , Palestine , Politics , Poverty , The , WordPress
2008-11-03  Gawker
Do you feel that, liberals? If it's the first Monday of November, it must be nameless paranoid dread time! Maybe Joe the Plumber actually speaks to the secret fears of bitter Ohioans! Maybe Obama's bird-flipping scandal will turn off soccer moms! Maybe the polls are wrong, or tightenin...
, Paranoia , Barack , Campaigns , Liberals , Terror , Top
2008-11-03  The Common Ills
Monday, November 3, 2008. Chaos and violence continue, the treaty is still iffy, Syria still wants answers, Article 50 comes back . . . maybe, a Democrat 'explains' Barack's mentor, and more. Starting with the treaty masquerading as a Status Of Forces Agreement. Sameer N....
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2008-11-03  Talking Points Memo
I know there's a lot of talk in Republican circles that Sarah Palin is going to be the star, the new face of the GOP in the post-Bush, post-McCain era. And this speculation has been goosed by Palin's own hints that it's full speed ahead with Palinism on the national stage if she and M...
The economy has taken center stage in this presidential election, but more than a few people, including teachers, school administrators and other educators, are looking at candidates’ education platforms. “If you watched the last debate, you saw how far apart John McCain ...
, '08 , Blog , Education , Politics , Albuquerque , ATF , Barack , campaign , john
2008-11-03  Campaign Diaries
We have been talking so much about Missouri, Indiana and North Carolina that it would also seem that Barack Obama’s electoral fortunes depend on these highly competitive states. If that were true, we would be in for quite an unpredictable Election Day indeed. Unfortunately for Mc...
, AZ-Pres , GA-Pres , LA-Pres , NH-Pres , NJ-Pres , NV-Pres , Nat-Pres , PA-Pres , SC-Pres , WA-Pres , WV-Pres , electoral
This was an excellent album. The reasons others criticized "The Science of Things" is the reasons I love it. The techno influence was very innovative and creative in my opinion. It gave the music an atmospheric, science type vibe (which was the theme of their album). The music has ...
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George W. Bush will leave office on January 20th with one of the lowest approval ratings in American presidential history. "History will judge me," he says. Fair enough. Truman did not fare much better with public opinion in 1952. Consequently, historians and political commentators h...
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2008-11-03  PR Squared
The “Chief Marketing Officer” of the Obama campaign must be David Plouffe. He’s the candidate’s campiagn manager (working alongside chief strategist David Axelrod), and while I know he has a ton of supporting players – including the invaluable Joe Rospars...
2008-11-03  Economist's View
"What will defeat do to the Republicans?": The Republican Rump, by Paul Krugman, Commentary, NY Times: Maybe the polls are wrong, and John McCain is about to pull off the biggest election upset in American history. But right now the Democrats seem poised both to win the White Hou...
, Economics , Politics
2008-11-03  CJR
Language is communication, but it works only if the communicators understand one other. If you think a word means one thing, and the person you’re talking to thinks it means something else, what we have here is failure to communicate. Take “fulsome.” Please. One news report rece...
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One of our local radio stations ran a "Green Day - American Idiot" weekend in honour of the upcoming U.S. election. Every few songs, they would play a Green Day hit. How interesting that this band was credited by some as the group that brought to the forefront, or at least made public...
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2008-11-03  The Citizens
No matter who wins tomorrow, history will record the tremendous difference in campaigns. With some minor exceptions, the Obama campaign has been consistently upbeat, optimistic, and positive. With some minor exceptions, the McCain campaign has been all negative, all the time. Code w...
2008-11-03  Capitol Watchblog
Okay, it’s almost time to count the votes. That means it’s time for predictions. So here goes. PRESIDENT—Indiana is a real toss-up, with Barack Obama having the best chance to win it for the Democrats for the first time in 44 years. But it would really be only a historical ...
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2008-11-03  Cogitamus
Thanks to the wonders of the International Business Machines Corporation, here is a county level map of the 2004 election returns. The baseline here is the national vote, so a county that shows up as "0" is actually won that Bush won by about 3%: I'll update this with county returns ...
2008-11-03  Think Progress
Late last month, the Wall Street Journal’s conservative editorial page wrote that the Justice Department had “recently decided to reverse a policy in place since 2002 to send criminal attorneys and other federal employees to monitor polling places.” The next day, Fox ...
, Radical , Civil , Fox , Justice , Media
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2008-11-03  Gawker
PRWeek got predictions about the election from 30 flacks around the country. One (1) of them predicted a McCain victory. So be sure to hire Nick Kalm of Chicago's Reputation Partners for strategic counsel on how to horribly embarrass yourself in any large, public group! "Regardless of ...
, Public , Dumb , Election , Flackery , Flacks , horse , McCain , Nick , Predictions , Reputation
Vincent Bugliosi 159315481X
Vincent Bugliosi has written many good and interesting books. I do not know what happened to him but he has taken the Bush Derangement Syndrome to a whole new level. He says that the evidence he presents in the book in absolute and incontrovertibly true and verified. It may be in his o...
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2008-11-03  The Morning News
Election excitement crescendos in: Ohio, Kenya, London, Brooklyn, Indonesia, Israel, Pakistan. Springsteen campaigns for Obama: “We are at the crossroads.” Also: Mega-sized Obama portrait in the sand. Hitchens flips out after McCain compares Rashid Khalidi to a neo-Nazi....
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2008-11-03  Signs of the Times
As the curtain falls on the Bush Administration, one set piece of the Administration's policy on torture has finally been ushered offstage. The Bybee Memo, a 2002 opinion authored by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, was brushed aside last week by a federal judge overse...
BuzzFlash,   We Americans have heard Bush give advice to Americans in troubled times by telling citizens to "go shopping." Taking that advice when it comes to selecting a candidate to take this nation into the future may not be a bad idea. Canned Goods vs Fresh Produce. Most of us...
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2008-11-03  unbossed.com
On the very eve of the presidential election, George Bush & Co. finally got to unveil a conviction of somebody accused of having at least some role in the September 11, 2001 attack. They've spent years paying little attention to Bin Laden himself and doing nothing to charge the hundred...
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Early voters for the 2008 national elections in West Tampa, Florida during late October. It has been reported that 10 million people voted early.Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File PhotosHow McCain Could WinMonday 03 November 2008Greg Palast, t r u t h o u t Perspective ...
2008-11-03  The Trail
By Dan Eggen Is President Bush like an unpopular kid in high school? That was the unusual analogy offered today by White House press secretary Dana Perino. Perino was being pressed by reporters about why Bush is in hiding during the final days of the presidential campaign and whether h...
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Washington Wire takes a look at what’s at stake in key House races. Easha Anand reports on the 2008 elections. The Situation: Freshman Rep. Carol Shea-Porter is one of the few Democrats who might be hurt by the focus on the economy. In 2006, she ran a shoestring campaign and ous...
, Homestretch , Campaign
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I am glad to see that the Reason symposium on the presidential election includes Bill Kauffman’s endorsement of Ralph Nader. Kauffman’s best answer was: 3. Is this in fact the most important election in your lifetime? Nah, it’s Coke vs. Pepsi. Though I’d prefer ...
, Election
It's lazy, and possibly against the spirit of blogging, to post other people's words on my own blog, but I liked this email from Dad, thought it was timely and interesting and worthy of putting in front of the eyes of more than just the tiny group of family and friends to whom he sends...
Where elections and racetracks meetYOUR correspondent is an American, and spent a day with a friend on US Route 301 playing a distinctly American game: who’s more real? The McCain campaign’s attempt to define real and fake America collapsed into absurdity as a spokesperson ...
Bush Furniture B000002UA7
I have always liked Kate Bush.This will not hurt to have in your collection Igive it the thumbs up at 9 out of 10
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2008-11-03  Matthew Yglesias
In comments, Mixner offered this: Oh please. What “unambiguous public desire to put the fate of the nation in the hands of progressives?” The mood of the electorate is anti-Republican, not pro-progressive. Most of the new congresscritters the Dems are likely to pick up will be cent...
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Pills you can take for EAD (courtesy of The Stranger: "Rx for Election Anxiety Disorder").Tomorrow, of course, is election day here in the USA and it seems that the pharmaceutical industry is, for the most part, shrugging it off as of very little consequence one way or the other. There...
, Survey , Jaffe , Election , EAD , DTC , Senak
2008-11-03  CANNONFIRE
The election is very near, and I see little reason to attempt to persuade anyone to vote for John McCain -- or, more properly, against Barack Obama -- since every reader has by now surely made a decision. In all likelihood, Obama will win. Even so, the closeness of the race remains ris...
2008-11-03  PunkAssBlog.com
Exactly four years ago to the day (it’s already November 4th in my time zone), the Freedom Bandits made their world premiere. I was spending a few months back in Austin, Texas, in an interlude between my time in London and my move to Japan. While I was there, theater director fr...
, Imperialism , Punkass! , Music , Politics
2008-11-03  Feministing
So while we wait in anticipation for tomorrow to arrive, we wanted to get some of your thoughts on what you're expecting from the next presidency. Considering all the damage the Bush administration has done to women's rights for nearly a decade, what issue(s) do you think should be t...
, Election
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2008-11-03  Changing Way
We (our rather, the citizens of the country in which I reside, but cannot vote) are about to get a new president. Central to the discussion has been change. Obama notoriously uses the word at every opportunity. But McCain and Palin have been talking about the concept of change just as ...
, Web , change , election , obama , politics , president
2008-11-03  The Rude Pundit
Closing Argument (Rude Version): Rise Up, Assholes, and Get Your Lives Back:One of the things that the last eight years, if not the last couple of decades, has demonstrated is that, with lots of exceptions, we have become a nation of assholes. Indeed, the story of contemporary America...
Some one stole my bumper sticker from the back of my car yesterday. I put it on more than a year ago. I have been left me some interesting notes, all supportive, many apologetic.My bumper sticker saidBUSH LIED,MY SON DIEDWhy would someone take my bumper sticker?
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2008-11-03  The Confluence
Never could I have imagined this year that I would be voting for a Republican let alone a straight Republican ticket. I have been a Democrat my entire life. One of my early memories of politics occured the night Reagan beat Carter in 1980. I was eleven then, but I’ll never for...
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2008-11-03  Hugo Schwyzer
My wife and I spent the weekend down in Mexico City. Though we’ve spent a bit of time in South America (many visits to her mother’s native Colombia, as well as Chile and Argentina), we hadn’t gone to Mexico yet together. And though I did some missions work in a smal...
, Politics , Traveling
Bush Furniture B000W8JL14
First, in the end I was impressed enough with the product and consumer phone support that I've just ordered a second, smaller Bush Napa TV Stand. *And* I'm not getting as good a deal on it. As for the details, in short, the final piece of furniture is solid and sleek-looking and wort...
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Sundown for Colorado Fundamentalists Salon.com's Mike Madden attended the New Life evangelical Christian church in Colorado Springs yesterday and filed a report that considers the waning political power of religious fundamentalists in America on the eve of the 2008 election.  New L...
, Real , Election , Sexuality , STI/HIV/AIDS , abstinence-only , AIDS , Colorado , evangelicals , HIV , New , Religion , religious , religious , Sex , teen , teens , television , TV , youth
2008-11-03  Bush Out
And (surprisingly, perhaps) still no surprise. FAUX News is quoting a WSJ poll saying the gap is narrowing. Does the surprise come when the election results are tallied? Or did the fat cats in the corporate boxes long ago decide to cut their losses and let their B team win for a while?...
2008-11-03  Priyanka Writing
 My stand on the American elections is clear...  the choices are Barack and Obama. :)I don't know whether this joke is funny. But well I remember cracking Dumbya man jokes when I was much younger and then Bush declared war on Iraq. I stopped reading newspapers that day cause until th...
, news , society
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2008-11-03  Blog Simple
One 0f the joys of the Internets is the possibility of encountering someone who actually knows something of what they are writing about. It's even better when they are writing about something that reveals, just by its expertise and clarity, the swamp of misinformation that is presented...
Some have wondered as to how well the polling was in 2004 in terms of Bush v. Kerry, indeed, there has been some discussion over whether Kerry underperformed his poll numbers in 2004 and therefore whether that will be the case for Obama in 2008. For those interested in the question, Ch...
, 2004 , 2008 , US
Dandelion Salad By Ralph Nader ICH Nov 3, 2008 Dear Senator Obama: In your nearly two-year presidential campaign, the words "hope and change," "change and hope" have been your trademark declarations. Yet there is an asymmetry between those objectives and your political character that s...
2008-11-03  Rogue Columnist
And so it comes down to this. A day that will mark the most important election in my lifetime and certainly the most consequential since 1932. The polls show Obama leading and yet... One wonders how wealthy Republican John Sidney McCain III, standard bearer for the Party that Wrecked A...
, Politics
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Between Hope and RealityBy Ralph Nader (source: Information Clearing House)Dear Senator Obama:In your nearly two-year presidential campaign, the words "hope and change," "change and hope" have been your trademark declarations. Yet there is an asymmetry between those objectives and you...
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2008-11-03  Public Opinion
An interesting article on McCain's electoral strategy by Ezra Klein, one of the bloggers at American Prospect. What it doesn't say is describe the tectonic shift in the US electorate away from Reagan conservatism--a generational shift, if you like. A new political landscape is in for...
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As I rise early on October 4, 2008, to get to the polls on the way to court, I will still be kicking myself for my own role, through inaction, in our having a two-party-dominated underdemocratic/barely democratic Tweedledum-Tweedledee political system. The tealeaves do not show that Ob...
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2008-11-03  Modern Urban Living
You may remember Clark Sorensen’s fancy floral urinals from one of our previous posts,  Design Inspiration: Offensiveness. Well he’s moved on from flowers and is now making Bushes! Taking inspiration from the state of the nation, Sorensen recently unveiled his newest crea...
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It's a good time to recall just how severe what Dick Cheney and George Bush have done to the Republican Party really is. As historian Sean Wilentz lays out in How Bush Destroyed the Republican Party Rolling Stone 09/04/08:The Republican Party, having presided over the longest conservat...
, bush , republicans , republican
Mike Madden on Salon.com writes about Colorado's Amendment 48 ballot initiative and the conservative evangelical church formerly led its disgraced founding pastor and pro-Bush religio-activist the Rev. Ted Haggard, in "Sundown on Colorado fundamentalists." Madden's observations inclu...
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2008-11-03  Think Progress
TimeWarner announced today that “frequent CNN guest, Stephen F. Hayes, has made it official by signing on with the network as a political contributor”: Currently a senior writer at The Weekly Standard, Hayes will appear on the full line-up of CNN programming as part of the ...
, Braindead , Iraq , Media , Radical
2008-11-03  USA Erklärt
Da wir uns alle in einigen Tagen eine andere Form der Unterhaltung suchen müssen, heute ein Zeugs-Eintrag nur zur US-Wahl. Zu Wahlen: Ja, aber was machen wir dann die kommenden vier Jahre? Nun, man kann sich alte Wahlkämpfe anschauen. Wer Dramen, menschliche Schicksale und politisc...
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2008-11-03  Bob Barr 2008 Blog
Bob, writing over at Townhall.com, praises news of the investigation into Washington Mutual: Federal authorities have announced that they are opening an investigation into the collapse of Washington Mutual, the largest bank failure in America. This step is long overdue, and should be t...
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1984Somewhere (provided it wasn't destroyed in the fire--hmm.) my mom has a newspaper clipping from October 1984 in Sherborn, MA. The picture shows a group of people carrying homemade signs about the upcoming election. There's a little blonde girl, hair pulled back with barrettes, hold...
I'm already depressed about Obama's big victory tomorrow. Maybe it's because my dog is dying, maybe it's because I'm tangled up in blue over matters of the heart, maybe it's because I'm listening to On the Beach at 11 AM, but at the moment the only sensation I'm feeling about an Obama ...
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Let’s continue looking at the issues. In Obama’s book, he outlines three big investments that will make America more competitive; I wrote on this back in January when I made my initial “Why Obama?” post: I believe that Obama also has an intelligent and correct focus on ...
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2008-11-03  The Blue Voice
It's a good time to recall just how severe what Dick Cheney and George Bush have done to the Republican Party really is. As historian Sean Wilentz lays out in How Bush Destroyed the Republican Party Rolling Stone 09/04/08:The Republican Party, having presided over the longest conservat...
Vincent Bugliosi B00005OWIT
This cd is just as good as Razorblade Suitcase. There are some hit singles, most notably: "The People That We Love", which is my favorite Bush song since the days of 16 Stone. "Superman" is an excellent tune, and it is a solid effort throughout. They probably won some fans back with th...
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Before the networks call the first states, there are a number of county results that may offer clues to the outcome. Some counties in Indiana and Missouri have been reliable bellwethers for years, while others in Colorado and North Carolina went for Bush by just a hair. E-Mail This...
2008-11-03  Rising Hegemon
Feel the Mac-Mentum byatches!November 03, 2008Tampa Tampa rally: where is everybody?About 30 minutes before John McCain is scheduled to lead a rally outside Raymond James Stadium, looks like maybe 1,000 people here. What's up with that? On the day before the election? Bush drew at leas...
2008-11-03  The Mahablog
The final pre-election polls show Obama in the lead. I would have said “comfortably” in the lead, but you know us lefties. We always expect a cartoon anvil to drop out of the sky and flatten us. The Right is still running a signature right-wing campaign. They’ve got ...
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2008-11-03  Hullabaloo
Bipartisanship In Ermine and Epaulettesby digbyAs we sit anxiously on the eve of the election, wondering if it's possible that this dark, frustrating Bush era is really coming to a close, I thought I would take a little wander back in time and see what the gasbags were saying after the...
Here's a list of the most recent national poll numbers released by the major polling organizations (in descending order of favorability to Obama):CBS/NYTimes = Obama 54%, McCain 41% (O +13)ABC/WaPo = Obama 54%, McCain 43% (O +11)Gallup Tracking = Obama 53%, McCain 42% (O +11)USA Today/...
Jennifer O'Connor - Here with MeYou could trash this on the fact that O'Connor's unassuming, acoustic-based folk rock would have made her huge anywhere 1988-1994 but at no other time. But you won't, because she's a damn fine songwriter and like a certain politician currently, whatever ...
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Here’s a summary of the smartest new political analysis on the Web: by Gerald F. Seib and Sara Murray With the longest, most expensive campaign in American history down to its final day, Sen. John McCain’s campaign wants you to know this: He can still win this thing...
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2008-11-03  Streetsblog
Though we found plenty of fodder this election season, transportation policy never emerged as a consistent talking point in the presidential race. This is more than a little surprising, considering the sad state of American infrastructure and the importance of same to this ...
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And a fan of Karl Rove:Via El Gato Negro of Online Blogintegrity
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The new president also should signal that we will no longer confront problems just by blowing them up. The military toolbox is essential, but it shouldn’t be the first option for 21st-century challenges. You can’t bomb climate change. Nicholas Kristof -- NYTread more
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Frontline does a great job of breaking down the need-to-know information and the context when events took place. The strongest endorsement of the documentary is the quality and high-level guests and interviews. I haven't even made it the whole way through because I've seen several pa...
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2008-11-03  Twitter / djuggler
djuggler: @LissaKay That was weak and unintentional. Bush did the middle finger very intentionally http://tinyurl.com/4get7q
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We toasted the end of the Bush Era Saturday night at the bar, reason enough to feel good, but otherwise people seemed pretty nervous. It’s understandable, I suppose, after the past two elections–winning one and unfathomably losing the other–but I think we’re in ...
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2008-11-03  All Over the Board
Original article, a perspective from Patrick Martin, via World Socialist Web Site:In the run-up to Election Day, with polls pointing to a lopsided victory by the Democratic Party, both Barack Obama and leading congressional Democrats are making it clear in advance that a popular repudi...
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ALLies, First, (re-)read Shawn Wilbur’s excellent post from September, Time to free ALL the political prisoners. Also, the discussion on part Strategery for the post-Bush era part 1, and The Empire is Not American, But Washingtonian, and Beyond Blockades. Now, let’s brai...
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2008-11-03  Feministe
Elections are coming up soon, and there’s a lot at stake — not just for the presidency, but for offices and local initiatives across the country. Eleven states are electing governors. 5,800 legislative seats in 44 states are up for grabs. More than 100 ballot measures will ...
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2008-11-03  m-pyre
marjorie says...Update: Former Abq. Journal Writer & Editorial Board member Denise Tessier has now also added her description of Journal editorial decisions, which you can read here. Tessier also included a description of the 2004 endorsement of G.W. Bush--as it turns out, the recommen...
In a world that was based on equal treatment, if it was okay to hang the effigy of a white president as well as burn it, which has happened many times during the course of the Bush presidency, it would be okay to hang in effigy a white female vice presidential candidate, and it would b...
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2008-11-03  blue girl
I voted Saturday. That's not me. Pshaw! I wouldn't be caught dead in front of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections without my plastic Obama/Biden hat, slacks and tennis shoes. And my Redistributionists for Obama! lapel pin. That lady, only partially committed to the Democrat a...
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John McCain is desperate, he had a rally on campus last night at 12:30 a.m. Mostly to get the Hispanics to vote for him, which is a waste since they already support him. Why? Because they think all Democrats are Socialists. In Coral Gables, where the majority of the richer Cubans li...
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Obama Needs To Earn This BBSNews 2008-11-03 -- By Naman Crowe. Even though I'm writing this two days before the election, it's safe to say that Barack Obama has been elected president of the United States. He shook up the world, as Mohammad Ali would say. That's not far off the mark.Na...
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This was an excellent album. The reasons others criticized "The Science of Things" is the reasons I love it. The techno influence was very innovative and creative in my opinion. It gave the music an atmospheric, science type vibe (which was the theme of their album). The music has ...
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2008-11-03  South by Southwest
What can you say when time is running out? Talk to yourself:If you are a candidate, you would hope to say, "I have done my best; now the voters decide."If you are a voter who has already voted, you can say "Thank goodness!"If you haven't voted yet, you can say, "Whatever it takes . . ...
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Financial Update Here is a chart of where your Tax Dollars Go, click the image to see a large version: Your tax money at work. Read the source here.  Aren’t you so glad Congress passed the bailout bill. Multiple choice questions below: Was the Bailout Bill passed to? a) G...
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Please.  Vote tomorrow. Vote early in case some one tries to stop you or the machines don't work properly.Vote because after 8 years of Bush we cannot have 4 years of McCain and certainly not 4 years of Palin.Vote because we have a chance of something truly historic happening tomorro...
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2008-11-03  OB Rag Blog
Barack and Michelle, the night he won the Oregon Primary,Tuesday, May 20, 2008, and also secured enough delegates to win the Democratic nomination. Obama Is the First Truly 21st Century Figure In American Politics By E. J. Dionne Jr. / The Washington Post / November 3, 2008 A good poli...
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2008-11-02  THE TOOT
Wingnut morons write Obama 2012 fanfic.  Go ahead, look.  You know you want to look. The Loader of Pants gets this party started right, mailing in a story about how Obama presidency will be a failure because Joe Biden will go totally crazy and everything.  And they called Sarah Pali...
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Just came off the doors, back at the office, prepping for the next two days. We're at 50 hours 'til the clock runs out -- and less than two days until polls start to close in some states. Polls show McCain may be tightening the race up a bit nationally. We'll see. I'm still very optimi...
2008-11-02  Slaw
There might be a downside for Canada if Obama wins, according to some experts. The Rideau Institute released a report, How the next US president could affect our country, where Rideau president, Steven Staples had some harsh words for both major political parties, By virtue of conjoine...
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As of last Friday, the number of Nobel Laureates endorsing Barack Obama for president has risen to 76, saying Obama will end Bush-era trashing of scientific research, integrity, and competitiveness. In an open letter (pdf), the Laureates cite the politicization of science under the Bus...
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In February, 2007, David Broder -- the Dean of the Washington Press Corps -- announced that "President Bush is poised for a political comeback" and "is demonstrating political smarts that even his critics have to acknowledge."Today, his own paper, The Washington Post, documented how...
Wow. Last night’s Saturday Night Live was … well, not so funny. SNL - Smooching Butt To Power Or, actually it WAS funny, but not funny “ha ha.” The opening sketch, Tina Fey as Sarah Palin with the actual John McCain going on QVC because McCain didn’t have...
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BrandsOnSale Halloween Costumes B0019HZYAE
This product arrived within a few days after I placed the order. The mask was just what I was looking for.
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2008-11-02  Disloyal Opposition
Come Wednesday, Libertarian Party officials will almost certainly turn to their traditional task of putting a positive spin on miserable vote totals (don't blame me folks -- I threw you a bone). But amidst the spare electoral pickings, there may be more than a bit of hope for those of ...
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2008-11-02  louisgray.com
RSSMicro and FeedCamp have been out since 2006, trying to measure hot topics, popular RSS feeds and offer a broad search engine through millions of feeds. (See Search Engine Journal for a 2006 review.) In the last week, RSSMicro introduced a new measure they call FeedRank, which utiliz...
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2008-11-02  Battlepanda
Four years ago around this time of year, I had flown down to Florida with MoveOn to get out the vote. Of course, I voted early before I left, but of course, my vote didn't count. This was after a few months of canvassing for John Kerry, knocking on perhaps 50 doors a day or standing on...
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2008-11-02  The Road to Surfdom
A while ago I posted about our prime minister’s apparent wish to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor and bathe in the reflected glory of our long-ago deeds of war. In particular I criticised his assertion that in 1942 ‘a young nation found its very survival at risk’, on wh...
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2008-11-02  Debt Prison
Clemency can be in the form of a pardon, shortening of a prison sentence, or a commutation of a sentence, or a reprieve. Though rarely exercised, the governor of each state and the President of the United States has the power to grant clemency.  But there’s more to the question ...
, Prison , clemency , commute , pardon , remission
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2008-11-02  Onion News Network
Rescue crews have been working day and night to free the former first lady, who has been unable to extricate herself from the sand.
2008-11-02  In These Times
During her six terms as Democratic representative for Georgia, Cynthia McKinney gained a reputation for being one of the most controversial members of Congress as she single-mindedly (and often single-handedly) pursued issues like black voter disenfranchisement, U.S. corporate pillagin...
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Ross Douthat is still painfully oblivious to the actual point of the McCain campaign's tax argument.  He questions the wisdom of "pinning their hopes on a working-class backlash against the progressive income tax." But that's not at all what the McCain campaign is doing.If all the rh...
2008-11-02  The Stopped Clock
Whatever the outcome on Tuesday, let's hope it's at least marginally better than what we're continuing to suffer under Bush. We've seen the harm caused by Bush's many incompetent appointees, and now we're being, in essence, robbed by one of his few competent appointees. The swindle of ...
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2008-11-02  Universal Jellyfish
Paulson's Swindle Revealed by WILLIAM GREIDERThe swindle of American taxpayers is proceeding more or less in broad daylight, as the unwitting voters are preoccupied with the national election. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson agreed to invest $125 billion in the nine largest banks, incl...
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2008-11-02  TalkLeft
The San Francisco Chronicle examines the changing electoral map. Highlights: In the RealClearPolitics' average of polls today, Obama was ahead, at least slightly, in most swing states: Colorado (5.5 percentage points), New Mexico (7.3), Nevada (5.8), Virginia (3.8), Pennsylvania (...
2008-11-02  shystee's blog
Do politicians in our system really need to earn *your* vote? Do individual choices really matter or does it only count when millions of people do the same thing at the same time? This is in response to the question I see often on this blog: why is Obama not speaking to me and my con...
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2008-11-02  TomDispatch
[Note for TomDispatch Readers: As Election 2008 approaches, this seems like an appropriate time to look back, but also to say goodbye to all that. Yes, we have almost three months of the Bush administration to go; yes, so much that George W. did will be with us for an eternity. Sti...
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Dear reader it is that time of week again when we have a look at some of the interesting posts that can be found on weblogs throughout the internet. So without anymore ceremony here are my "accelerated links" for 11/02/2008:Newshounds with video from Fox News in which Ann Coulter liken...
2008-11-02  Angry Bear
...at least not so directly:The Treasury Department has turned down a request by General Motors for up to $10 billion to help finance the automaker’s possible merger with Chrysler, according to people close to the discussions.Instead of providing new assistance, the Treasury Departme...
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2008-11-02  The Peking Duck
I’ve never seen anything quite like this before. Stunning. Wonderful. Can you imagine Bush doing something like that? Update: Mormons have spent $20 million on this effort to legalize discrimination. Watch this scary video for some perspective.
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2008-11-02  Blacklidge
Twenty one months Obama has been on the trail. I guess Tuesday doesn't seem any further away for me than for him. It is looking so good for the Dems this time, but that's what I thought last time. It still amazes me that even die hard Republicans are thinking that voting for...
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2008-11-02  Spontaneous Arising
Or are we so stunted that we crave, deep down inside, an authoritarian dictatorship in the Republican mold?Former Nixon cabinet member John Dean pretty much speaks for me with regard to these questions (emphasis mine):Frankly, the fact that the pre-election polls are close - after ei...
Strategic threat or law enforcement problem? In John McCain’s final scramble for votes last week, there was a revealing moment in Tampa Bay, when he seemed to dismiss the economic crisis that will probably take a decade to fix, and urge undecided voters to instead focus on what ...
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2008-11-02  rc3.org
When intellectually honest conservatives criticize Barack Obama, they say that he’s the most liberal Democratic nominee since 1972. (The dishonest ones call him a radical or a socialist or other silly things, but they’re not worth arguing with.) At the same time, people on ...
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Gan Golan 031604041X
Anyone who has little kids has most likely read the classic children's book Goodnight Moon. This children's book is known for its illustrations and its poetic verse as a rabbit prepares for and attempts to avoid going to sleep. As the rabbit gets ready to go to bed, he says goodnight t...
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2008-11-02  Terry Ann Online
For some reason I decided to take some time out and read someoneof the reaction in the progressive blogosphere regarding SNL's hilariousskit on Keith Olbermann. I wanted to see if the left has a sense of humorabout themselves. To be fair, most comments I read stated they thoughtthe ski...
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2008-11-02  CNN.com - Politics
In the waning days of the election season, as both parties campaign fervently for their candidates, one man has been notably absent -- President George W. Bush.
I contribute to the raising of a nine year old child, whose family circle includes 14 people. She is one out of six children in the clan. They are all gifted kids, with keen wit and manipulative powers to accompany their intellect. In our house, we’re already preparing for the...
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2008-11-02  Greg Palast
by Greg Palast No question, Mr. Bruce was my favorite teacher in junior high. I went to this Loser-ville school in the San Fernando Valley.  It was all Chicano kids and working class white losers like me.  Everyone had to take 'metal shop' so we could work the bottom-end jobs in the ...
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As John McCain wanders around the country trying to find a Reverend Wright that will work, the wingnuts are freaking (and yes, one is verbatim - speculate in comments, and no peeking): Ace of Spades - Missouri will go for McCain because negroes standing in front of Greek columns mak...
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2008-11-02  Amr Awadallah Blog
The Facebook Lexicon is a very nifty tool which analyzes the frequency and associations of words in Facebook wall messages for profiles, events, and groups. The first graph below shows that Obama is mentioned significantly more frequently than Mccain, and, more importantly, the second ...
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2008-11-02  liberal catnip
Here's something to think about: considering how close Obama and McCain poll numbers are in the homestretch, would it have made any difference if they hadn't wasted hundreds of millions of dollars campaigning?The elections since 2000 have shown that Americans are still almost evenly ...
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2008-11-02  Contrary Brin
Fresh back from an exhausting trip east (to speak at MIT and IBM about the future of information technologies), I have only time to toss in a little last-minute "ostrich bait." I do hope to get in one last philosophical musing before the American People -- led by a new and potent and ...
What’s Wrong With This Picture?As early voting ends and Election Day rapidly approaches, charges and counter charges abound. You’d think that you might run into barricades in the street dividing political factions. But alas, it’s only the final reconstruction project on what seem...
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2008-11-02  ruhlman.com
Help end the 8-year fiasco with a resounding vote for Barack Obama. While we don't know much about where the candidates stand on food issues, nicely pointed out here by Jeff Houck of the Tampa Tribune, we do know that Obama's stances on all important issues, including his not raising ...
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Life in the Corporate Theater: Presentation Fashion Tips from an audio guy — “The main doctor arrived and to my dismay, she was wearing a white blouse with Ruffles down the center. It looked pretty, but I knew it was going to cause me problems all day. You might ask, what d...
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2008-11-01  Option ARMageddon
At the risk of pissing off many of my readers, I thought I’d step into the election buzzsaw with an endorsement. And by “OA’s” endorsement I mean my own. I’ll preface this by saying it’s almost a toss-up for me as usual: The lesser of two evils? ...
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The 52nd London Film Festival enjoyed its finest ever year of box office, breaking records with two days (and a Bond screening) to go. It matched its commercial success with an impressive breadth of quality programming sandwiched by Frost/Nixon, an illustrious opener, and Danny Boyle's...
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Entering this cycle, I had two thoughts I believed would hold. First, I thought Ohio would be a determinative afterthought. Considering the expanded map, with Virginia look to tip blue for the first time in two generations, and the mountain west taking on a blue hue, it seemed the PA...
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2008-11-01  Oil Wars
The post regarding how likely Venezuela is to weather the current economic crisis gave rise to some discussion on the United States and how its working class was likely to fare. So even though it is completely off topic for this blog I thought I'd give my views on the problems of the w...
2008-11-01  terrette
I do not have the time before November 4th to present a fully reasoned endorsement for Barack Obama. This is partly because I have many other responsibilities before me and partly because the reasons for the choice are too numerous to be explained in a few words. However, it seems to m...
DCCC Press: Today, the Buffalo News reported that Chris Lee was fired from his former employer for illegally breaking into company computers for his personal financial benefit. According to the Buffalo News, Chris Lee "hacked into a company computer for personal gain" and acco...
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2008-11-01  Jordan's View
Update 11-2-08: More articles on election 2008: Tuesday’s Choice More freedom and prosperity, or less? By Deroy MurdockEgo and Mouth by Thomas Sowell Born Gay or a Gay Basher? No Excuse by Frank TurekIt's just days away from the election. And its outcome is far from certain, despit...
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2008-11-01  Sharp Sand
I voted against Nixon; I voted against Reagan; I voted against both Bushes — this time, while I’m voting against McCain, I am also voting for Barack Obama. That’s a good feeling. Update: Josh Corey’s eloquent call to vote for Barack Obama.
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2008-11-01  Mathew Gross blogs
Interesting: Akhil Reed Amar, a professor of law and political science at Yale... raised the possibility that the 2008 election could be remembered as the fifth "pivot point" election in the presidency's 219-year history. In Amar's reading, history was changed and the United States was...
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Paramount B001BN4WJK
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2008-11-01  Phronesisaical
OMG!'I Would Make A Bad President,' Obama Says In Huge Campaign BlunderTALLAHASSEE, FL—In a campaign gaffe that could potentially jeopardize Sen. Barack Obama's White House bid, the Democratic presidential nominee told nearly 8,000 supporters Tuesday that, if elected, he would be a t...
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2008-11-01  Fact-esque
The blogworld has finally had an effect on news interviewers. It took a few years but they're starting to call the right wing on their gossip-mongering and free-form, proof-free accusations. Here's the video, care of TMiss, that you've probably already seen (just in case...
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Don't screw this up, America. After 8 miserable years of failed Bush policies, we don't need four more years of the same. We need real leadership. Granted, I'm not the biggest fan of BO but wake up and smell the roses. This goes to all the Yids voting GOP: stop buying into all the ...
2008-10-31  Atlantic Review
Christopher Meyer, former British Ambassador to the United States during 9/11, writes in the Telegraph:I have no idea - I have never met him - what Obama thinks of Britain, though in one of his attacks against Bush, he dismissively brackets the UK with Togo. McCain, whom I knew well an...
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John McCain’s speech in Dayton, Ohio, was repeated on The New York Times. The Arizona senator appears to be in a fighting mode stating, “I’m an American. And I choose to fight. Don’t give up hope. Be strong. Have courage. And fight.” Through his words, he aims to fight for wh...
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2008-10-31  American Footprints
I have to reprint this blogpost by dday at Hullabaloo because it is so perfectly on target and I can't rephrase it any better. That actions have consequences. The Syrian government has broken relations with Baghdad. It has completely opened its border. This article in Al-Ar...
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2008-10-31  The Flack
The battle to define Tuesday's expected outcome has begun.As if on cue, Craig Shirley and Tony Fabrizio have an op-ed over at Politico, claiming "Millions of Americans have come to erroneously see Bush as a conservative when nothing could be further from the truth. This election w...
When he is in Pennsylvania or Ohio, Sen. Barack Obama is the ultimate populist. But when he is in the affluent sections of Florida? The so-called wealth-spreader senator reveals an affinity for the wealthy. Associated Press Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. sp...
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ABC News is reporting today that General Petraeus has been pushing for a meeting with Syria's leadership but the Bush administration has refused. Although ABC News labels this an exclusive scoop, in truth, the story has been circulating for some time. Josh Landis, for example, was on...
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2008-10-31  ArmsControlWonk
A week ago, the State Department announced the imposition of sanctions for alleged supply of WMD and missile-related technology or destabilizing conventional weapons systems in accordance with the provisions of the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nonproliferation Act (P.L. 109-353). Sanc...
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I'm a conservative who did not know very much about Jacob Weisberg before buying this book. I heard his take on George W. Bush's religious views and they really intrigued me. I myself am no fan of the 43rd President. I consider Bush to be a big spending liberal so am more open to lefti...
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For the entirety of this rant, I’m putting on my Jon Stewart salt-and-pepper wig and shifting into US Election mode. There might be a project management theme or two. Understand that I’m not in the election mode so deeply that I’ll make a promise I can’t keep. But hopefully...
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2008-10-31  The Pump Handle
Celeste and other bloggers have noted that the Bush administration seems to be ignoring the Bolten memo, which told agency heads not to engage in the traditional end-of-administration rush to regulate. Now, a front-page story in today’s Washington Post confirms that this administrati...
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House minority leader Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) believes that he Department of Justice has become politicized, by the Democratic Party, Zachary Roth reports for TPMMuckraker. Roth reports on a letter that Boehner sent to Attorney General Michael Mukasey today complaining that the depa...
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