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Cold comfort
Transcript: “It’s 3am and your children are safe and asleep. But there’ s a phone in the White House and it is ringing. something is happening in the world your vote will decide who answers that call. whether it is someone who already knows the world’s leaders, knows the military someone tested and ready to…
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'Jimmy and Todd'
My friend Todd Drew over at Yankees for Justice has a new post up that is just dynamite. I envy him his tone, his perfect pitch, and this post is just exemplary. Todd was at a book signing last night where Jimmy Breslin signed his new book, the Good Rat. Todd, a devoted Breslin reader…
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Character Questions
During the South Carolina primary in 2000, Bush aides mounted a vile whispering campaign in which anonymous callers phoned voters and told them John McCain, who had won the New Hampshire primary, had an illegitimate black daughter born to a prostitute. McCain lost that primary. The child was in fact McCain’s adopted daughter, Bridget, a…
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A Well-liked Gentleman
In the remaining days before Super Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama, (D-IL), is reaping endorsements like they’re going out of style. What I know is that, whether this pushes him over the hump in California or not, this is impressive. The L.A. Times said this in its endorsement: An Obama presidency would present, as a distinctly…
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OurTube
On the day before the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, Senator Barack Obama delivers a speech to the congregation of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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“A.B.M.”
The Clintons and the national media covering the Democratic Party race for the presidential nomination have broken out a new story line regarding Barack Obama: That he’s “angry” and “frustrated.” Hillary Clinton practically taunts him with this. It does not help that the media has not only totally bought into this, they’re mischaracterizing their news…
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Bill. Raw
Obama once said, in response to people (the Clintons) who said he’s in too much of a hurry to become president, that what they wanted was for him to wait until all the hope is boiled out of him. It was a good line. He probably did not realize that there was not going to…
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People & Stories
Todd is a friend of mine. His blog is a must read for me. He recently posted to a different site. It’s a great piece, called “Gang’s All Here,” about many of the the characters that people his blog. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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Keep your head up
This is an old story but . . . Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin