One of the things that stuck in my mind about Barack Obama’s “bitter” statement was the fact that he used the statement to make some claims about the Clinton administration that were quite simply false. I meant to look for some references to the economy in Pennsylvania under the Clinton administration yesterday, but I got […]
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It’s official… “President Bush says he was aware that his top aides met in the White House basement to micromanage the application of waterboarding and other widely-condemned interrogation techniques.”
And he says it was no big deal.
“I’m aware our national security team met on this issue. And I approved,” Bush told ABC News’ Martha Raddatz on […]
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THE MOST SEVERE FAMINE EVER?
F*ck American conservatives! Just f*ck the rotten murdering bastards.
My wife is Filipino. A main food staple for the Philippines is rice. What we pay to buy food for her family back home has tripled in the last six months.
People are now starving to death in the Philippines. Mainly homeless people now, […]
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This is how the Republicans are trying to define Barack Obama: Too Liberal, Too Out of Touch.
“I know what makes people there ‘bitter.’ It’s slick-talking politicians who look down on their beliefs and values.” Michael Goodwin wrote in Sunday’s Daily News about his small town in Pennsylvania.
The well-circulated quotes from Huffington Post — of Obama […]
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Go read: Dear Sen. Obama (from an African-American woman) on Obama’s Annie Oakley reference to Hillary Clinton. And on the flip side Joe Gandelman views things a little differently.
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There’s been a lot of news about the upcoming Olympics in China and the various protests and calls for boycotts. NPR reports today that “Kenyan political activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai turned down an invitation to participate in the Olympic torch relay in Dar Es Salam, Tanzania.”
Listen Here as Maathai “explains her decision and […]
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I almost never watch broadcast or cable news because I can’t go more than a few minutes without hearing something absurd. I watched perhaps 7 minutes of This Week on Sunday (4/14) as I was eating breakfast, just enough time to see part of a round table with Donna Brazile, among others. (I don’t link […]
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(Programming note: I’m going to keep the round-up, short and sweet. But, I will continue to post a video for the day and make my usual commentary on my own crazy blog.)
Have cuppa? Prepare to traverse today’s Ten Post Round-Up:
1: Many Americans are avoiding movies and documentaries based on the Iraq War, regardless of […]
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Sunday was the day California Democrats chose district delegates to the national convention in August. Yes, I went to my delegate caucus. About a month ago I volunteered to help, naively thinking I’d be sitting at a table signing people in. Well, last Monday night I received an email saying I was responsible for running […]
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I have to admit something here… I am bitter. I am bitter about the economy. And, I am bitter about the war. Barack Obama is right that people in this country are bitter. Where Barack Obama got it wrong however, was in drawing the condescending correlations that he did about small town and rual Americans, […]
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