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Will the 2008 election be dominated by the same type of small-minded, petty distractions that have characterized the last several decades of elections?
  • Repellent AIM Article

    Greenwald belives that it is AIM's article which notes that a mentor and family friend only mentioned as "Frank" in Obama's book, Dreams From My Father, was a member of the American Communist Party.

    It would be important research to know if any candidate saw a member of the American Nazi Party as a mentor. Why is it repellent to note associations with Communists, but not associations with Nazi's?

    I'm sure Greenwald would deem it newsworthy and insightful if McCain staffers had confederate flags or pictures of David Duke or even Jerry Fallwell. However, noting the picture of Che Guevara, a man responsible for the torture and murder of thousands in a Cuban polical prison, superimposed on a Communist Flag, representing a system that killed tens of millions of people is irrelevent.