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joe the plumber

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0700

acbconstr blog - Nov. 02 (Opinion) - The real issue here is what it takes to make 250K. First this is Net not gross that has to be realized. Which according to all public records not even 1.4% of small business owners make. Also I'm not looking at buying I'm a small business owner. I feel the pain of economic problems. We see the slow down. Lewt me speak with "Joe the Plumber". Let me give him and anyone else a lesson in small business.

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Hillary Made Obama a Better Candidate

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Lanny J. Davis - Oct. 17 (Opinion) - The anti-Hillary Clinton pundits were sounding the theme a few months ago that by staying in the presidential race through June 3, the former first lady was a divisive force that would irreparably harm Barack Obama's chances of capturing the White House. But now Mrs. Clinton's decision to stay in the race until the last primary has been vindicated. Mr. Obama is a stronger candidate today thanks to Mrs. Clinton's pursuit of the Democratic nomination. And, far from being polarizing, she has helped bring the party together more than at any time in recent memory.

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DNC: From An Arab Prism

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jamal Dajani - Sep. 01 (Opinion) - In the U.S., Obama's choice of Biden as a vice-presidential running mate was seen by some critics as tacit admission that he lacked sufficient experience in the area. Not in the Arab media. This was seen as a shrewd maneuver to woo American Jewish voters and pro-Israeli groups in the U.S.

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The Big Tent in Denver

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Writing Corner - By Beth Wellington - Aug. 28 (Opinion) - [Disclosure: The is a post from the blog of a NewsTrust staff member.] It seems some of the more serious conversation on the future of the Democratic party in Denver this week--at least the progressive wing--might be taking place, not at the Convention or its associated events, but over at the Big Tent, a "new media center created by local organizations, national blogs, Digg, Google and YouTube."

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If Obama Wins, Who Will Be in His Cabinet -- And Who Should Be?

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Jim Hightower - Aug. 28 (Editorial) - "Tell me with whom you walk," goes the old adage, "and I'll tell you who you are." Who is walking with McCain and Obama? While it has been fun to speculate about who might be the vice president choices of this year's candidates, it's more instructive to rummage through the names on the campaign teams to see who might go inside with the winner.

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Veterans Opposed To The War In Iraq March In Denver

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By skinnychef - Aug. 28 (Opinion) - Kristofer Goldsmith is one of the growing number of veterans who have joined the group Iraq Veterans Against The War. He gave his "testimony" yesterday in Denver as part of the IVAW march on the Convention, the march designed to deliver a letter of demands concerning the war and veterans to Democratic presidential nominee Obama.

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The Illusory Middle

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Victor Navasky - Aug. 27 (Opinion) - His mistake is the same one that the last two Democratic candidates for President--Gore and Kerry--made. The assumption (shared by too many campaign consultants) that the way to woo those in the center is to move towards the center. Arianna Huffington, I believe, has a point when she advises, "Instead of targeting the swing voters he should target the unlikely voters." But I would argue there's nothing wrong with targeting the swing voters. What's wrong is to pander to them on the assumption that the way to win them over is to move towards the center.

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Here's how Obama can win

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Baratunde Thurston - Aug. 26 (Editorial) - But with the bar set so high, the only inevitability was that people would try to bring him down, starting with the media for whom the Democratic primary was the most exciting political event in a generation. Obama vs Clinton was an epic battle between generations, races, sexes. And it all came to an end in early June, taking with it ratings and drama that are hard to top. June through August is a newsless tundra across which scores of media outlets must generate content to keep their advertisers happy and their audiences seemingly informed. In this environment, questions dominate the reporting far more than answers. Media outlets, especially cable news, go with what they know: conflict.

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Dignity And Respect -- Except for Hillary

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jon Raymond - Aug. 26 (Opinion) - * Share * Print View * Comments Michelle Obama spoke on Monday about how "....you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them, and even if you don't agree with them." Is that the same kind of respect that Obama supporters show for Hillary supporters when they yell obscenities at them in the streets of Denver?

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Analysis: Biden pick shows lack of confidence

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Ron Fournier - Aug. 23 (Opinion) - The candidate of change went with the status quo. In picking Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate, Barack Obama sought to shore up his weakness -- inexperience in office and on foreign policy -- rather than underscore his strength as a new-generation candidate defying political conventions. He picked a 35-year veteran of the Senate -- the ultimate insider -- rather than a candidate from outside Washington, such as Govs. Tim Kaine of Virginia or Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas; or from outside his party, such as Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska; or from outside the mostly white male club of vice presidential candidates. Hillary Rodham Clinton didn't even make his short list.

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Dissent doesn't belong in a cage

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Amy Goodman - Aug. 15 (Opinion) - The bulwark against tyranny is dissent. Open opposition, the right to challenge those in power, is a mainstay of any healthy democracy. The Democratic and Republican conventions will test the commitment of the two dominant U.S. political parties to the cherished tradition of dissent. Things are not looking good.

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Democrats Can Show Some Moral Decency by not Kicking Edwards under the Bus

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - Aug. 09 (Opinion) - The reaction was swift, brutal, and yes hypocritical from Democratic Party big wigs to the public talk about John Edwards love tryst. Dan Fowler, former Democratic National Chair, minced no words and flatly said that if Edwards can't satisfactorily explain his conduct he won't be allowed to deliver a major talk at the Democratic national convention. Fowler punctuated his Edward's slap down with the demand that Edwards meet high moral standards in explaining his conduct.Earl

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Innocuous Videos Suddenly Shrouded In Secrecy

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Sam Stein - Aug. 08 (Opinion) - In the summer of 2006, former North Carolina Senator John Edwards commissioned a series of web-based documentary shorts for his pre-announcement leadership PAC, the One America Committee. Within political circles, the videos were regarded as innovative, having successfully painted Edwards in a sympathetic, down-to-earth light.

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Clinton's Not a Racist, but There's a Reason Many Blacks Think He Is

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - Aug. 05 (Opinion) - [Disclosure added by staff: this piece was submitted by the author's publicist, whose review has been hidden because she rated it as a 5 which will skew the ratings] Former President Bill Clinton was probably shocked at the storm of rage that he drew back in January with his apparent Jesse Jackson slough off of presumptive Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama's win in the South Carolina Democratic primary. And there was good reason. Midway through his second term, Clinton got higher popularity marks from blacks than Jackson, former Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and Al Sharpton. Everywhere he went in black communities he was mobbed. They ogled him with swooning, adoring, near coming of the Messiah adoring eyes. In a moment of pure runaway rapture or more likely silliness he was even dubbed the "black president."

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Obama's Draconian New Death Penalty Stance

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Liliana Segura - Jul. 02 (Opinion) - It is a sad day when a candidate who so many genuinely saw as bringing "change we can believe in" takes a politically motivated and intellectually dishonest stance in a matter of life and death. Obama risks alienating those who gave him his rise to the top, by betraying the very ideals that attracted them to him in the first place.

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Out of the mouths of babes-----When it comes to uniting the democratic party, the solution for unity just may lie in the next generations

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Anatomy of Change.org - By Doreen Deterville - Jul. 02 (Opinion) - "Recently, in Unity, New Hampshire, something amazing happened. Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton joined together at a rally in the town where they tied in the January primary, ceremoniously pledging their support to bridge the gap of dissention within the party, especially among Democratic voters. Clinton, urged for party unity, and encouraged all of her supporters to rally behind Democratic presidential nominee, Senator Barack Obama. Still, the reality of it is that not everyone got the memo. Many staunch Hillary supporters continue to cry "foul play" despite the overtly public call for unity from the party's top leadership. Now, with the elusive "Unity" spiraling downward into a vitriolic cesspool of raw emotionality and misguided sediment, uh ...sentiment, we must ask ourselves, "Have we reached a point of no return?" and "Where does the healing begin?""

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Google and the Anti-Obama Bloggers

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Miguel Helft - Jun. 30 (Opinion) - Did Google use its network of online services to silence critics of Barack Obama? That was the question buzzing on a corner of the blogosphere over the last few days, after several anti-Obama bloggers were unable to update their sites, which are hosted on Google's Blogger service.

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As Global Warming Fuels More Extreme Weather, McCain and Bush Urge Congress to Lift Offshore Oil Drilling Ban

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, David Helvarg - Jun. 20 (Interview) - this moratorium that's had bipartisan support, essentially it's protected offshore waters, pristine areas, from the threats of oil spills and catastrophic disasters at that level. Now we have this added issue, which if we start drilling production ten, fifteen years down the line offshore, this product, used as directed, overheats our planet. It simply makes no sense.

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The Other Math: How the Democratic Race Was Really Won

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Daniel Kurtzman - Jun. 09 (Opinion) - Clinton's followers, feeling the audacity of plagiarism, adopt, "Yes, we will" as their rallying cry: + 50 Clinton delegates believing in change you can Xerox.

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Nothing Went Wrong

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Drew Westen - Jun. 08 (Opinion) - In retrospect, finding flaws with the Clinton campaign seems the natural thing to do. How else could a man who was just a state senator four years ago have defeated one of the most competent, intelligent, well-connected, well-respected members of the Senate? The New York Times ran a series of op-ed pieces Sunday asking, "What Went Wrong?" Some said money. Some said sexism. Some said she took the low road in her campaign tactics. Some said her Iraq vote. Some said she was too establishment. But among the 13 political coroners who wrote post-mortems for the Clinton campaign, the one who put his finger on the hemorrhage that cost her the election was the one who knew where to look -- Bob Kerry -- because he had run against Hillary Clinton's charismatic husband in the 1992 primaries. Nothing went wrong. Hillary Clinton was emotionally outgunned, just as Bill Clinton outgunned his rivals in 1992.

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How Obama Did It

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Time - Jun. 05 (Opinion) - "That, I think, was probably one of the biggest surprises of the campaign, just how powerfully our message merged with the social networking and the power of the Internet."

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Hilary Rosen: I Am Not a Bargaining Chip, I Am a Democrat

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Hilary Rosen - Jun. 04 (Opinion) - Senator Clinton's speech last night was a justifiably proud recitation of her accomplishments over the course of this campaign, but it did not end right. She didn't do what she should have done. As hard and as painful as it might have been, she should have conceded, congratulated, endorsed and committed to Barack Obama. Therefore the next 48 hours are now as important to the future reputation of Hillary Clinton as the last year and a half have been.

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Kill Bill: Clinton is targeted for character assassination

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Leonard Doyle - Jun. 03 (Comment) - For all the damage-limitation exercises, the article, headlined "The Comeback Id" has once again stoked debate about Bill Clinton's legacy. His hopes of being the first First Gentleman appear to be in tatters, as Hillary's attempts to persuade superdelegates she is winning the popular vote fall on deaf ears. Some say Bill must accept his share of the blame for her failure.

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A thrilling but flawed campaign nears its end

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - Jun. 02 (Opinion) - The democratic process is not something that can, or should, be set in stone. To adjust the rules while a campaign is in progress, however, is to invite trouble. George Bush's own election showed how a combination of poor systems, ruthless ambition, sharp lawyers and a sympathetic court could subvert US democracy. It is not something that bears repetition, even when it is the nomination, rather than the presidency itself, that is at stake.

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Five things to watch in Puerto Rico

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Kenneth P. Vogel - Jun. 01 (Opinion) - New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is counting on a big win in today's Democratic presidential primary, one day after a party ruling left her presidential campaign on the ropes. A landslide victory would bolster Clinton's argument to superdelegates that she has received more votes than Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and is better equipped to win important Latino votes in a general election matchup with presumptive Republican nominee John McCain. Puerto Rico hasn't seemed particularly excited by all presidential campaign attention it has received in recent weeks but the island, a semi-autonomous territory of the United States, takes its politics seriously. Local elections draw upwards of 80 percent of its 2.3 million registered voters. But the debates - and even the parties - are largely based on disagreements about whether the island should continue as a commonwealth, become a state or an independent nation.

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