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  • This is pretty consistent with a Salon article

    [Read the article: Fallon says Bush doesn't want war with Iran]
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    a few months back (Greenwald?) stating that Bush had been convinced of the folly of attacking Iran. However, the rest of the neocons are gnashing their teeth for red meat and blood.

  • Last I saw, Hillary was in front of a large crowd

    [Read the article: Dem leaders want race over this week]
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    speaking of herself in the 3rd person, repeatedly.

  • Please not that the Republicans have their own Rezko

    [Read the article: Rezko rains on Obama's parade]
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    problem. Bob Kjellander and Bill Cellini, major RNC players from Illinois have been majorly implicated in the Rezko trial.

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-06jun05,0,3215974.column

  • @sajwan

    [Read the article: Rezko rains on Obama's parade]
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    "If it's not illegal then it must be ethical."

    What's this "IT" you are referring to?

  • McCain/Bush

    [Read the article: McCain camp debuts new ad with big buy]
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    "So, is McCain calling Bush a fool or fraud?"

    I'll bet that if you keep asking him that question at every opportunity he will eventually get mad.

  • Google "Terrorist Fist Jab"

    [Read the article: Quote of the day]
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    and you'll discover it's a phrase that did not exist before last week when E.D. Hill made it all up in her little blond head.

  • Regardless of the carnage, the Iraq

    [Read the article: McCain: Timeline of Iraq withdrawal "not too important"]
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    occupation is costing US taxpayers at least $2 Billion/ Week. All of this is happening "off the books." Here's an issue with political traction.

  • Maybe Fox "News" could use

    [Read the article: Obama won't be at town hall tonight]
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    one of those gun range targets of a black guy with a gun to represent Obama's absence.

  • I have a dream

    [Read the article: Fox News responds]
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    of seeing every minority employee of Fox "News" file an EEOC complaint against FNC for maintaining a hostile, racist working environment. I have never worked in an environment where those types of comments would be tolerated, let alone become the substance of our message.

  • Give the guy a break

    [Read the article: McCain's tax troubles]
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    He's an elderly man who sometimes has trouble remembering things and falls asleep in public. This should not prevent him from controlling a nuclear arsenal.

  • It's only a matter of time before

    [Read the article: McCain campaign gets greedy]
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    conservatives start their quivering-lipped blubbering that the Obama campaign is treating McCain worse than the North Vietnamese did.

  • True Conservatives distrust McCain because

    [Read the article: McCain bristles at Vietnam question]
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    he is a weakling who allowed the North Vietnamese to scare him into making a treasonous claim against the United States.

  • @Gcubed

    [Read the article: McCain bristles at Vietnam question]
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    "If I had his experience in the military and considering that the President is commander in chief of the military, he is definetly more qualified than Obama in that regard.

    So for someone to ask hime that question is rather ridiculous!"

    So how will Senator Sleepy get that message across to the millions of people who are not as wise as yourself if he keeps acting like a truculent child every time the subject arises?

  • I remember back in 2001

    [Read the article: Bush vows more troops for Afghanistan, but Mullen doesn't have them]
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    after we invaded, the bushies were under orders to constantly tell the Afghanies "we will never abandon you again". They sure know how to split hairs.

  • How quickly the local trolls forget

    [Read the article: Big speech, big venue]
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    that the 2004 Republican Convention was diliberately scheduled as close to the 9/11 "Anniversary" (cuz they actually celibrate it) as possible to maximize their use of fear on their own people.

    From the posts I've read here, Obama is doing exactly the right thing.

  • Cut Nyshooter some slack!

    [Read the article: Big speech, big venue]
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    He's still recovering from the Million Man March.

  • In contrast,

    [Read the article: Obama hires HRC women's outreach director]
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    the McCain campaign is resorting to cannibalism.

  • @James T Kirk

    [Read the article: Edwards opens door wider to veep bid]
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    "Obama's clown car must have a two headed lesbian midget communist Hindu as his running mate."

    In other words, you're announcing your candidacy?

  • Senator Sleepy is quick to point out

    [Read the article: Progressives push healthcare]
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    that if you think government health care is so great, you should consider the "government health care" he received from the North Vietnamese. No, seriously, he made this exact argument on This Week with George S.

  • True Colors

    [Read the article: Conservatives worry about McCain backslide on immigration]
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    Republicans afraid of Mexicans, Republicans afraid of black voter surge. White, right and lookin for a fight.

  • If the Dems were smart

    [Read the article: Conservatives worry about McCain backslide on immigration]
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    they would collect some of the more outrageous statements about immigration made by Republican legislators (and there's plenty of them), translate them to spanish, print it all on to a double-sided 8.5"x 11" sheet of paper and distribute it far and wide in the hispanic communities across the US.

  • I found the book to be very

    [Read the article: True grittiness of Iraq]
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    enlightening about overall attitude of today's soldiers about going to war and the disillusionment that combat brings. *If* the series stays true to the book, then it should be good. I, personally, wouldn't classify it as "entertainment" as the book did not glorify the war in any way.

  • Senator McSleepy's media honeymoon

    [Read the article: McCain's unfortunate schedule today]
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    may be coming to an end. Gramm's ("senior McCain adviser")remarks are front and center on CNN this morning. "Are YOU one of those whiners?"

    Then, in a real departure, they showed a clip of McCain taking an long "akward" pause when answering a question and called it "another akward pause brought to you by Viagra."

    Personally, I attribute it to the msm sharks smelling more blood in the water on the Republican side these days.

  • Satire aside,

    [Read the article: The Obama cover kerfuffle]
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    this seems to be another event that is giving Obama a celebrity status in the media that poor Senator McSleepy can't match. And Americans loves their celebrities.

    Personally, I think it's great satire.

  • @Pathfinder

    [Read the article: The Obama cover kerfuffle]
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    You should really put the cap back on the paint thinner when you're done.

  • @ James T Kirk

    [Read the article: Best. Bailout. Ever.]
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    "I for one would LOVE to have a mortgage holder collapse. I would stop sending them checks. I would have instant 100% ownership in my home."

    Ha Ha Ha! You will be disappointed in the same proportions as your delusions.

  • Just don't get him started on

    [Read the article: Oops, he did it again]
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    Persia...

  • The "surge" was helped by cash

    [Read the article: McCain wants surge in Afghanistan, but with what troops?]
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    flown in by the pallet-load and given to Sunni tribes in exchange for their "loyalty". Holding with the long-standing Conservative tradition of paying people to change their behavior.

  • @ annony

    [Read the article: McCain wants surge in Afghanistan, but with what troops?]
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    One reason we could afford to send 500,000 troops to combat in Gulf War 1 was that we had a much larger military in 1990-91 because of the Cold War. I'm looking for the numbers now...

  • A few weeks back

    [Read the article: McCain advisor's new message on Iraq: Obama's just like Bush]
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    McSleepy was drawing a parallel between Obama and Jimmy Carter...

  • The interesting thing about reading

    [Read the article: McCain plans to keep up attacks while Obama's away]
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    the conservative blather on Salon is that I have yet to read even 1 endorsement of McCain or his policies. The Republican party is dead in its tracks, just pathetic.

  • Denying access

    [Read the article: Obama campaign taking revenge?]
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    is not censorship. The New Yorker is still free to print what is chooses and Obama is free to let who he wants on the plane.

    Btw, It really brightened my morning to see all outraged Republicans braying on about the unfairness of Obama's press coverage. Get used to it.

  • @ Independece_2008

    [Read the article: Obama campaign taking revenge?]
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    Did it ever occur to you that the NYT rejected Senator McSleepy's "Op-Ed" because it was nothing but rambling gibberish?

  • "We've Succeeded"

    [Read the article: McCain meets with first President Bush, slams Obama]
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    He's right, a D- is a passing grade.

  • Bill Kristol got

    [Read the article: Right calls foul on rejection of McCain's Op-Ed]
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    his op-ed printed today. So WTF are they complaining about?

  • One additional problem for McCain

    [Read the article: The Clinton strategy -- for McCain?]
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    is that a significant number of Americans view the Republican party as 1 big pathalogical liar.

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