Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
There’s really no “new style politics” in Barack Obama’s playbook. Some of us have been saying this for months now. CNN catches on, finally, on the eve the Democratic National Committee meeting Saturday, which is scheduled to attempt to settle “the thorny issue of seating the Florida and Michigan delegations at its August convention.”
At the [...]
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Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
On 6-17-2005, I was already dismayed enough by the increasingly angry disagreements within the Progressive Blogsphere that I wrote an article about effective persuasion, communication and it’s impact on campaigns at my old blog The Political Dogfight. I also recorded a more detailed view in a 10 minute audio that was published at my audio [...]
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Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
Yup, you read that right and it happened in France, via Le Monde . So here is the story: this Muslim guy marries a young woman who told her she was a virgin. On the wedding night, he discovers - shock and horror - that she is not. The guy brings the daughter back to [...]
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Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Gilbert Martinez
I just read that David Bonior and Rep. Robert Wexler will represent Obama at the RBC over the weekend. I’m curious as to what their arguments will be. This is going to go into the permanent history of the United States. Will those two argue for disenfranchisement? How will History judge them–and Obama–for what happens [...]
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Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Frenchdoc
Via the Guardian,
“A Chilean judge has ordered the detention of almost 100 former soldiers and secret police officers from General Augusto Pinochet’s regime as part of investigations into human rights abuses, according to reports.
Among the 98 held are former employees of Pinochet’s notorious Dina intelligence service, which ran a series of secret prisons where leftwingers [...]
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Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Alegre
Ok I think we’ve finally entered silly season here folks. For a guy who got his big start by making a speech at an anti-war rally a few years back (a speech he seems to have built his entire campaign around), this statement by his campaign about this Saturday’s protest at the DNC meeting in [...]
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Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Big Tent Democrat asks today with the video below posted, “What Is Going On At Trinity Church?” BTD also clarifies that he feels this “has nothing to do with Barack Obama.” I tend to disagree. This is after all the church that Obama has been associated with for the past 20 years.
Clearly Rev. Michael Pfleger, [...]
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Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Diane Elayne Dees
This morning, a 70-year-old visually impaired African American woman called in to C-Span’s “Washington Journal” to express her support for Obama and her opposition to Clinton. She spoke for a moment about the discrimination she had experienced as a black woman and about the hope Obama gives her. Then she spoke about how disappointed she [...]
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Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Dizzy Dezzi
After, what amounts to seven days on the road, I feel like I am out of practice with this blogging thing. Obviously, from today’s Ten Post Round-Up the rest of the world did not stop finding trouble to get into, while I was away from my keyboard:
1: Hmmm…I never thought of it that way before….
Why [...]
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