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State of the Union by Barack Obama |
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THE PRESIDENT: Madam Speaker, Vice President Biden, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans:
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President Obama and the DLC by Steve Jonas |
Many of us on the Left, whether
that’s the Democratic Party Left or the Real Left, are becoming
increasingly disturbed, upset, concerned, what-have-you, with the
behavior of President in office. We are surely concerned with his
Afghanistan policy which is distinguishable from that of Bush-Cheney
only in that he is sending more troops.
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‘Darkness Over All’ by Mike Jay |
September 4, 2009
At the beginning of 1797, John
Robison was a man with a solid and long-standing reputation in the
British scientific establishment.
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What Cheney is Really About by Steve Jonas |
May 7, 2009
George W. Bush apparently really believes in the "alternate realities" that he presented to our nation and the world over and over again during his Presidency. |
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The Persistence of Cynicism by Noam Chomsky |
Barack Obama is recognised to be
a person of acute intelligence, a legal scholar, careful with his
choice of words. He deserves to be taken seriously -- both what he
says, and what he omits.
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Preparing for Civil Unrest in America by Michel Chossudovsky |
The financial meltdown has unleashed a latent and emergent social crisis across the United States.
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Afghanistan is not a Military Problem by Michael Carmichael |
To the jubilation of millions of
his followers, Barack Obama announced the withdrawal of all US forces
from Iraq by the end of 2011 when he addressed the Marines of Camp
Lejeune, North Carolina. While Obama’s statement provided a jolt of
clarity about American involvement in Iraq, his policy for a surging
escalation into Afghanistan leaves many haunting questions.
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Elections 2008 by Noam Chomsky |
The word that immediately rolled
off of every tongue after the presidential election was “historic.” And
rightly so. A Black family in the White House is truly a momentous
event.
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An Open Letter to John Edwards |
January 21, 2008
In the wake of the Iowa caucuses you managed to pinpoint the sentiments
of the American people better than any TV pundit.
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Caroline's Consummate Qualifications by Michael Carmichael |
America is transfixed. The world is transfixed. The Kennedy legend promises to open another chapter.
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Obama's Opening Gambit by Michael Carmichael |
To the dismay of many progressives, Obama named his centrist national security team: Hillary Clinton at State; Jim Jones at the NSC; Susan Rice at the UN; Janet Napolitano at Homeland Security; Robert Gates at the Pentagon and Eric Holder at Justice. Obama’s opening gambit led with the deliberate sacrifice of credibility with the antiwar left. Are Obama’s detractors right? Or, is there an underlying strategy to provoke a startling new diplomatic landscape that is driving Obama’s vision of America’s rolein the 21st century?
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Carolina Blue by Michael Carmichael |
It was a long and arduous journey, but the transition of power is now under way. George W. Bush received Barack Obama at the White House. America is moving toward a new period of change. The change promises to be dramatic.
For the past eight years, America suffered through one of the most turbulent and divisive periods in its history. The rise of neoconservatism violently propelled America and the rest of the world to the brink of global war. Designed by radical ideologues, America’s response to 9/11 backfired. Every move George W. Bush made enhanced the stature of Osama Bin Laden and increased the prestige and strength of Al Qaida. While the international response to Bush’s neoconservative ideology was frigid, the domestic response divided America more deeply than any time since the Civil War.
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McCain fizzles as Obama sizzles by Michael Carmichael |
McCain's big build-up promised a game-changing assault on Obama's credibility.
Led by the shrill Governor Sarah Palin, McCain's campaign shot a cannonade across the bow of the USS Obama to put them on notice of a historic showdown. Palin boasted that John McCain had the ammunition to redefine Barack Hussein Obama as a closet radical and a pliant pawn of convicted terrorists led by that dastardly villain of yesteryear, William Ayers of the notorious Weathermen.
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Biden devastates Palin by Michael Carmichael |
The Republican right touted the debate as a match-up between an old battle-scarred pro versus a highly talented challenger, and while the confrontation of the week did have its interesting moments -- in the ultimate analysis it was not a fair contest.
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Dear Colleague…this vote will be remembered By Dave Kelley |

This is the letter that members of the House of Representatives should be sending out to their colleagues. They should remind them that friends don't allow friends to drive drunk. That this is a bill giving the drunk drivers of this economy new wheels. Remind them that voters will not forget this betrayal but the American public will. We must finally have a government which fears its citizens and not the other way around - to paraphrase a movie line.
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The roller-coaster ride that is the US presidential campaign morphed from critical mass at the collapse of major banks to meltdown when Wall Street met Washington in the salon of lame duck President George W. Bush. Yesterday’s crisis meeting swiftly imploded following the verbal equivalent of political suicide by Senator John McCain.
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Memo to McCain: Be afraid, very afraid by Michael Carmichael |
Dear John,
Over the past few days, your campaign has taken a turn. Let’s go back
over some recent history to see what’s happening and what you can still
do about it.
Three months ago riding the crest of the wave of his message of change,
Barack Obama built up a commanding lead. Then you began running a
negative campaign criticizing him for his celebrity. Obama ignored
what you were doing, and your message worked. You intensified your
attack in August, and you drew even with him by the end of that month.
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John McCain is not renowned for his public speaking ability, but last night he bloviated more boldly and blustered more blatantly than he has ever done before.
Even with the bloated bloviations of his ill-advised acceptance speech, McCain fell flat on his face. McCain’s delivery was wooden, uninspiring, a pompous litany littered with clichés and empty promises that left the convention with nothing but broken dreams.
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Video - Former POW says McCain is not cut out to be President |
Dr. Phillip Butler knew McCain as a fellow POW, and he lived across the hall from him at Annapolis. Dr. Butler contradicts McCain's own account of his conduct as a POW, and he provides startling new evidence about McCain's reputation for explosive fits of anger and unprovoked volatility while at Annapolis. Dr. Butler states explicitly that McCain is not emotionally qualifed for the presidency. Please, watch the video and encourage others to watch it.
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They just don't get it by David Smith |

Obama's speech was cleverly crafted. By using the refrain "We are a better country than this" Obama succeeded in pointing out what is wrong with America, thanks to Bush, without running down the country and exposing himself to charges of being unpatriotic or unsupportive of America (i.e. a “nattering nabob of negativism,” to borrow the late unlamented Spiro Agnew’s phrase). Instead, Obama took the high ground by extolling American ideals tagging Bush/McCain with the failures to live up to them. That’s intelligent political oratory.
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The naked truth about the soft machine of the American body politic is that we are incessantly manipulated by invisible forces orchestrated by a conspiracy of strategists with vastly superior intelligences.
In recent months, weeks and days the American people have been programmed by the MSM to anticipate a Democratic presidential ticket that simply defies logic. Theoretically, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will lock themselves together in a strange and troubling political embrace under the time-honored captions, “Opposites attract,” and “Politics makes strange bedfellows.”
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The firewall: Obama wins NC primary |
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During a week of reverberations over the sayings of Reverend Wright, the political calculus in Clintonland hopefully reckoned that white voters would swiftly abandon the good ship Obama in a flight of fear following a paroxysm of soul-searching racial uncertainty.
The highly paid strategists of the Clinton campaign sharpened their pencils and carefully calculated their arcane political equations. Following a series of deft tactical maneuvers designed to manufacture a withering crisis, the MSM would subject Obama to another week on the defensive against the phantasmagorical sayings of Rev. Wright following his madcap spreeof ill-advised press conferences manufactured to stimulate the undercurrents ofracial intolerance still roiling just beneath the surface tension ofAmerica.
The Clintonian rationale for this round of“strategy” was at once stark and simple.
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Less than one week ago, a scandal hit the presidential campaign of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Clinton campaign’s Chief Strategist, Mark Penn, was exposed in a searing conflict of interest between his position in the presidential campaign and his other job: CEO of the massive multinational PR giant, Burson Marsteller.
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Last year, I had lunch with Jimmy and Rosalind Carter who were in Oxford for Encaenia, the annual ceremony where the former president received his Honorary Doctorate.
As a Democrat, I am immensely proud of the Carter legacy - EPA, Affirmative Action, Human Rights, Camp David Accords, no US military interventions (the only US administration of the 20th century not to invade or attack a foreign nation); equal rights and many other progressive achievements. Carter’s presidency is certainly the high-point of social progress in America.
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August is the cruelest month for Democrats by Michael Carmichael |
August always marks the launch of tornado season, and today is especially poignant for it is the anniversary of the single most deplorable act in world history: the genocidal bombing of Hirsoshima – an event that incinerated over 100,000 people in one atomic instant. Ominously August is the month when Democratic candidates traditionally meet their doom in a wasteland of presidential dreams.
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Obama forces flip-flops to paralyze McCain |
With a deft series of domestic political moves followed by vigorous international maneuvers, Barack Obama triggered a diplomatic revolution and forced flip-flops on one of his main rivals for the presidency -- incumbent President George W. Bush -- that have paralyzed the campaign of Senator John McCain.
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Michelle Obama: Simply The Best |
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With Tina Turner’s vocals blasting out of the loudspeakers, six thousand North Carolinians filled the atmosphere inside Reynolds Auditorium with sizzling jolts of political electricity. The electric current was transformed into lightning bolts when Michelle Obama stepped onto the platform. She transfixed the audience and delivered a spellbinding speech that kept every eye and ear rapt for the next 68 minutes.
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Is the Clinton Dynasty Crumbling? |
Limbaugh’s motives, howev er, have been perfectly clear from the start. “I’m asking people to cross over, and if they can stomach it and I know it’s a difficult thing to do, vote for Clinton,” Limbaugh said before the Ohio primary. The goal, he explained, was to ensure Barack Obama was “bloodied up politically” and to extend the Democratic primary “soap opera.”
-The Nation, March 25 2008
The annual convention of the Young Democrats of North Carolina (YDNC) scheduled for this weekend, appears as if it will be a vortex of political intrigue. With appearances by John Edwards, Chelsea Clinton and James Carville - there is a thinly disguised agenda operating at some level to create the impression of a pending endorsement of Senator Clinton by former Senator Edwards. However, the scene behind the arras is much more convoluted.
In actual point of fact, Senator Hillary Clinton’s bold campaign to become the first woman to be nominated for the presidency by a major party has already failed. The arithmetic of the nomination procedure no longer supports her endgame strategy. The Clinton campaign could be charitably described as the “walking wounded,” but the prognosis is actually quite grave. The political wounds Senator Clinton has sustained render her campaign untenable. The bottom line is now crystal clear: Senator Clinton is no longer viable as a presidential candidate.
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Reeling from polls -- Obama strikes back |
Reeling from a series of polls revealing a rapid slide in his popularity, Barack Obama struck back the way he knows best – a stunning speech on the urgent need for a new course in US foreign policy.
Over the past month, major polling organizations have published the results of their surveys of the presidential contest. One month ago, Obama held what appeared to be a commanding lead over John McCain. However, since his victory over Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, Obama made a number of statements that appeared to alter his progressive profile with a decisive shift to the center of the American political spectrum. Obama’s perceived shift to the center occurred immediately after his victory over Clinton in the final primary in Montana when he made several statements that clashed with his perceived image as a progressive ‘change’ candidate.
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Republicans Plan Double-Whammy |
It has been a long Good Friday even though Easter arrives early this year. Today’s full moon coincides with yesterday’s vernal equinox to deliver a very early Passover and Easter.
This holiday weekend, elite political circles will be charged with talk of a Republican “Double Whammy,” the internal nomenclature for a top secret plan to deliver the White House to the hand-picked candidate of the Bush-Cheney junta.
While the media is filled with stories analyzing and dissecting the White House plans for war with Iran in the wake of the sacking of Admiral William Fallon, only a select few politicians and their minions will be privy to a plan that it is arresting in its boldness and predicated on the establishment of an ironclad pretext for the forthcoming US hard-power attack on the regime in Tehran.
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In the closing minutes of his epic battle with Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama unveiled a brilliant new tactic: he pivoted and ran against John McCain. Obama’s focus on McCain rather than his primary opponent gave him presidential stature that led to the collapse of Clinton’s last vestiges of political support. Led by Rahm Emanuel, a stalwart Clintonian factotum and grandee of the now obsolete DLC, the exodus from Clinton’s campaign recalled the whoosh of gas escaping from a hot air balloon over the Grand Canyon.
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