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Is that he might actually tell us the truth.
Read it all, but here’s the money quote:
But what the foreign visitor finds the most frightening, the most dangerous, is the voter who, after eight years of abject catastrophe, continues to pray “Please, please, give me a reason to vote for the person who says that things [...]

Hurricane Gustav is barreling toward the Gulf Coast. Today it was forecasted to hit New Orleans on Monday, the first day of the Republican National Convention. By then it could be a Category 3 storm, which triggers mandatory evacuations. President George W. Bush will be the featured speaker at the convention in [...]

I am dying to see the outcome of this election because it will tell us how many American voters are still living with fear and greed.

Back on election night 2006, I watched Hillary Clinton deliver a great speech. Last night at the convention, she delivered a great speech. Her references to American history - including Seneca Falls and Sojourner Truth - were pitch perfect. She did a great job of connecting the core values and goals of [...]

Via Think Progress– Senator John McCain is running a campaign of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich:

Asked to “define rich” recently, McCain joked, “How about $5 million.” Asked to refine that answer, McCain later said that some people “are poor if they’re billionaires.”
McCain’s is proposing a tax policy that primarily benefits the [...]

Harper’s publisher Rick MacArthur [with] a new book You Can’t Be President… says that the popular notion that any American can become president only reinforces the “destructive national delusion that widespread, up-from-the-ground, truly popular democracy, both political and economic, really exists in America.” To assume that, he says, is equal to believing that Santa Claus [...]

Allow me to begin at the most basic.
Gender identity is broadly defined as one’s sense of one’s self as male or female. Most human beings’ sense of gender identity corresponds to their physical gender. People with vulvas/vaginas identify as female, people with penises identify as male. However, gender is a far more [...]

I’ve been watching Joe Biden work and speak for many years. C-Span is on 24/7 in my world.
More important than the promise he will crush his republican counter-part in debates, Obama and Biden will govern really well.
Biden ranks in the bottom 1% in personal wealth within all of Congress [...]

In the L.A. Times, Andrew Bacevich tells it like it is:

Will the next president actually bring about Big Change? Don’t get your hopes up.
Regardless of who wins Nov. 4, we should temper our expectations of what George W. Bush’s successor will accomplish, especially on foreign policy.
In reality, presidents don’t make policy; administrations do. To judge [...]

Uh Oh. I would appear Fox New has finally met it’s own undoing.
Watch this video of a Fox News reporter trying to interview protesters at the first march of the convention. Listen carefully as Fox is met with nothing but F-bombs.

I do believe this is unprecedented, [...]