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Barack Obama's purpose-driven gamble

The Democrat wanted to show he could compete for evangelical votes, too. Will he succeed?

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  • Monday, August 18, 2008 10:47 PM

    SALONIC HYPOCRISY

    Salon.com's worst crime against humanity is not that it's a left wing website. Rather, it's the pretense that it's not.

    Why pretend to be objective when most rational people know Salon is as far left as MoveOn.org but without the gonads to admit it.

    I've been on both sides, on the left until I grew up and on the right since I did. I crossed over when I realized I loved the United States of America far more than I loved pretentious nations, and cultures, whose chief interest was to reduce us to their level.

    So, please drop the objective pretense of such articles as this.

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