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The Democratic Party has hoisted a great spoof website called Exxon-McCain 2008 that uses the guise of an Exxon/McCain presidential ticket as a way of talking about John McCain’s connections not just to that one oil company but to the oil industry in general. Did you know, for instance, that right after John McCain […]

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Soo far, Obama has spent his summer making his progressive base so angry that they’ve begin to rise up in rebellion against his candidacy. Obama needs to do some Democratic Party damage control, and he needs to do it fast. Russ Feingold could be just the running mate to make that happen.

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People got involved in the 2004 presidential election because they saw that George W. Bush was a profound threat to America… but then they lost, and lost interest. The lesson they took away from the 2004 presidential election is that it doesn’t matter what they do.

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I spoke to the designer of this collection of campaign buttons just this morning, and apparently, the collection has been up for only a few hours. He says we can expect to see their anti-McCain pins double in number by the end of the day.

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Weavers are the practitioners of warp and woof. They start with spools of string and end up with art. They see both union and individuality. That’s the metaphor people refer to when they talk about the fabric of the American nation.

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Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States, and the American flag belongs to him just as much as it does to any American citizen. Don’t let the opponents of Barack Obama bludgeon Obama and the American flag.

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An Obama-Sebelius political team has obvious potential to bring Democrats together, showing a positive, powerful new face for the American future. There’s never been a ticket like this before, but the USA is a country where the limitations of the past have fallen over and over again to the progress of democratic ideals.

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Politically, Vito Fossella ought to be judged according to his actions in Congress, not according to his private actions during his time away from his job. That’s just the approach that has been taken by Steve Harrison, a Democrat challenging Fossella for New York’s 13th district seat in the House of Representatives.

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Then there’s Oregon. That’s a little more straightforward. The West Virginia Democratic presidential primary is in a few more days now, but even giving West Virginia its due, West Virginia is not big enough to settle the score between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Oregon is the biggest state there is left.

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can’t link to all the environmentalists that are endorsing Barack Obama for President. Go see the list for yourself. The point is clear - Barack Obama is the choice of American environmentalists.

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