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<title><![CDATA[Kenyan Birth Certificate: Obama Birthers Latch On To Forgery]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:01:15 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The latest development in the Obama "birther" conspiracy is the emergence of a "Kenyan birth certificate" for the president, put online by movement maven Orly Taitz.<br /><br />Oddly, the same people who are so skeptical of Obama's Hawaii birth certificate are willing to accept this new document despite many flaws, documented by the Washington Independent's Dave Weigel and Markos Moulitsas.<br /><br />Here are just some of the flaws: <br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[xpostfactoid: The Great Risk Shift-back: Hacker exhorts Obama]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:33:38 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Jacob S. Hacker, the economist who best described the erosion of economic security for the middle class over the past thirty years in The Great Risk Shift, makes a tightly argued case (in tnr.com) that an all-out push toward universal health insurance is at once the best short-term stimulus and the best long-term investment Obama can make right now.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[xpostfactoid: Obama's modest and ambitious agenda]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:48:48 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In an interview with Time, Obama lays out a two-year agenda that's both staggeringly ambitious and refreshingly modest. Modest, because many of the benchmarks bespeak new beginnings, tangible and positive changes of approach, rather than completely transformed institutions...The goals are huge, but the approach is incremental.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[xpostfactoid: Son of  Bush Sr.?  Obama prepares for state-croft]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:06:41 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal notes that "many of the Republicans emerging as potential members of the Obama administration have professional and ideological ties to Brent Scowcroft" -- Bush Sr.'s national security adviser. And it's widely reported that Obama will keep on Robert Gates as defense secretary. Gates was deputy national security adviser under Scowcroft.<br /><br />The Journal article stresses policy affinities between Scowcroft and Obama -- most notably that both opposed going to war in Iraq.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[xpostfactoid: Promises to keep: The ACLU puts the heat on Obama]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:52:17 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Kudos to the ACLU for working from Day 1 to hold Obama to his always rather briefly expressed promises to end torture, close Guantanamo, and revisit FISA. Since November 5, when they took out full-page ads quoting those promises (the first two, anyway), they've been in congratulations-we're-waiting-for-action mode. Yesterday they sent an email to supporters linking to a segment of Obama's recent 60 Minutes interview in which he reiterates those promises (again, without elaboration), filling <br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[xpostfactoid: Obama: damn the deficit, full speed ahead]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:46:22 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In his first weekly address as President elect, Obama echoed Paul Krugman, signaling in no uncertain terms that he's going going full-speed ahead with his economic agenda, deficits be damned:<br /><br />Even as we dig ourselves out of this recession, we must also recognize that out of this economic crisis comes an opportunity to create new jobs, strengthen our middle class, and keep our economy competitive in the 21st century.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[xpostfactoid: You must become as little children...]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:19:33 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Vaclav Havel, addressing the newly self-liberated Czechoslovaks at his inaugural on Jan. 1, 1990, might also have been speaking to Americans today:<br /><br />Where did the young people who never knew another system get their desire for truth, their love of free thought, their political ideas, their civic courage and civic prudence? How did it happen that their parents -- the very generation that had been considered lost -- joined them?<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[xpostfactoid: A nation's education: Obama's conversation]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:03:12 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When challenged on his relatively slight record, Obama has often said, "look at my campaign." He's meant mainly that the campaign is proof of his executive ability. But looking at his campaign speaks also to the role of rhetoric in getting things done. Part of Obama's platform is to change the conduct of our politics, and in large measure he's already done that. For some twenty months, he has educated and elevated the nation. He's made us believe again that we can have a meaningful debate<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[xpostfactoid: James Fallows, Palin Prophet]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:14:49 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A thousand years ago, on August 29, 2008, James Fallows had this to say about Sarah Palin's campaigning prospects: "...The smartest person in the world could not prepare quickly enough to know the pitfalls, and to sound confident while doing so, on all the issues she will be forced to address." Compare now the bitter complaints of McCain aides reported by CNN...<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[xpostfactoid: Palin sinks under Obama's light touch]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:58:54 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The polling evidence is overwhelming that Sarah Palin is dragging McCain down. And the reason is simple. While Democratic news junkies may be convinced that she's a Putinesque thug (see the Troopergate report), a quasi-fascist demagogue (whipping up mobs to violent fantasy) and a Christianist kook (accepting a laying on of hands from an avowed anti-semite to protect her from witchcraft), most Americans view her simply as likeable but unqualified.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[xpostfactoid: Silent Sarah submits to SNL skewering]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:16:42 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin acquiesced to her own humiliation on Saturday Night Live last night. In two skits, the central trope was her refusal to say anything. She played right along and allowed the show's creators to write all over her. Not only did no one on the show have any substantive verbal interaction with the potential-president-in-purdah. No one really even looked at her.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[xpostfactoid: The return of Bill Richardson at Hofstra]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:54:44 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Tonight McCain sounded like Bill Richardson, the worst debater in the Democratic field. You've got two minutes, and talking points on various loosely related issues keep tumbling into your mind, and you pack them all in without transition and without adequate context for each. Syntax is herky-jerky; sentences begin with one structure and switch to another, or trail off.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[xpostfactoid: McMea Culpa coming early?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:36:48 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[early?<br />On September 10, Joe Klein, denouncing McCain for "one of the sleaziest ads I've ever seen in presidential politics," predicted that McCain would gin up an Act of Contrition some time after November 4. Now, William Kristol suggests that the worm is about to turn...tomorrow.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[xpostfactoid: Attacking "Pahkeestan"]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:26:55 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If the McCain camp wants to "turn the page" on the economy, how about running on an issue voters can really sink their teeth into-- like pronunciation? Here's a speech that's sure to turn the tide:<br /><br />My fellow real Americans --<br />Skip! Rocky! Stan! --<br />My exotic opponent<br />speaks of "Pahkeestan."<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[xpostfactoid: Obama's social spending plans: the Reich stuff?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:59:59 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In the first months of the Clinton Administration, Robert Reich lost the argument over public investment vs. deficit reduction. Today, writing in the The New York Times, he's in with an early bid to convince Obama to go the other way -- that is, not to significantly slow his promised drives for universal healthcare and Federal investments in alternative energy and infrastructure (and, Obama would add, education).<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[xpostfactoid: Obama's actionable intelligence]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:35:17 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The vogue in debate analysis is to focus on body language, eye contact, human connection, memorable turns of phrase. All that's important but it's secondary. At least in this contest.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[xpostfactoid: Obama launches final assault on "ownership society"]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:52:20 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Today, Obama launched an endgame assault to convince America that McCain's plans to further privatize healthcare, privatize social security, and pile up more tax cuts for the wealthy are "radical." The agenda of "the ownership society" is radical. It has denuded, by stages, the middle and working classes of core protections and resources.<br /><br />The campaign's final phase began in Newport News, Virginia, with a detailed attack on McCain's healthcare plan...<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Audacity of The New Yorker: Comparing Obama and Lincoln]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:41:48 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The editors of the New Yorker, in the best retrospective of this endless campaign and the Bush Administration that I've read anywhere, have the 'audacity to at least indirectly compare Obama's eloquence with Lincoln's:<br /><br />     Obama has returned eloquence to its essential place in American politics...<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[xpostfactoid: Obama's wide-angle lens wins the debate]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:21:54 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[...this debate was no draw. Throughout, Obama displayed a broader strategic vision, the ability to put his position on a particular issue in the context of his broader goals. Above all, he returned over and over to the misallocation of our resources in Iraq, and how it's fixated and distorted and enervated our engagement with the world. Near the end, he summed up masterfully the full extent of this strategic disaster, and in the process he also summed up McCain:<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bill O'Reilly Defends Obama, Slams Smears]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:51:50 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bill O'Reilly led off tonight's episode of The Factor with a pointed critique of the latest small-minded content of the news cycle, criticizing the McCain campaign both in terms of character and tactics, slagging the media for pressing the story senselessly, and largely absolving Obama<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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