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It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Obama was supposed to be the one whose mission is to call us Americans back to the better angels of our nature. But it seems we’ve reached a point where it is we who need to summon Barack back to the better angels of his nature. We need to remind him of the nature of the force that has brought him to this point. We need to remind him of that deep place from which has come the power he’s ridden to win the Democratic nomination and to stand now within reach of

Thanks to Capitol Annex for this write up. This past Friday, TexBlog PAC endorsed Sherrie Matula (D-Houston), who is running against State Rep. John Davis (R-Clear Lake). The endorsement came with a $5,000 check to Matula's campaign made up of donations made mostly by Netroots activists and blog readers. Matula's race represents one of those races that a lot of folks in the "bricks and mortar political establishment" may have underestimated in the early part of this year. However, this distric

Can the Blogosphere Please Grow Up? by BooMan Tue Jul 1st, 2008 at 12:26:51 AM EST Barack Obama gave a speech today in Independence, Missouri. You can read the transcript here. It was another moving, excellent performance of the kind we've come to expect from Obama. Apparently, we now take it for granted that Obama will give a great speech, because we no longer give him any credit for them. He spoke of patriotism and of what it means to love this country. Here's just one example: I believe

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Tuesday July 1, 2008 · AIM: crnctruthcaucus · Section: TO WIT – THE AMERICAN CRISIS As the presidential campaign gets personal, as gas prices become about as affordable as an adjustable rate mortgage, as Barack Obama defends his patriotism (just days before July 4)… As Guy Ritchie gets out of Kabbalah (and possibly his marriage)… The rumor going around town is that Google used its powerful online network to silence Barack Obama critics. (Does this qualify as not being evil?) Politico rep

I think Barack Obama has just entered the worst campaign week he’s had since he tossed his hat in the ring, courtesy of Wesley “perfumed Prince” Clark. And he entered it on a Sunday, for God’s sake. You probably disagree, and I don’t blame you. After all, Obama is something of a perfumed prince himself where the media is concerned, and odds on Sunday were that Clark’s comments would be added to the immense pile of gaffes, flip-flops, stupid remarks, arrogant posturing, and smug comments from

ABC News' Teddy Davis and Gregory Wallace Report: Barack Obama aligned himself with welfare reform on Monday, launching a television ad which touts the way the overhaul "slashed the rolls by 80 percent." Obama leaves out, however, that he was against the 1996 federal legislation which precipitated the caseload reduction. "I am not a defender of the status quo with respect to welfare," Obama said on the floor of the Illinois state Senate on May 31, 1997. "Having said that, I probably would not

The recent sodomy accusations against Anwar Ibrahim have given rise to plentiful conjecture, analysis, and plain old blind guesses and rumour-mongering. This nation-shaking controversy has dominated local media and blog coverage since it first erupted. What really happened? Who is behind it? Who stands to gain most from it? Who will triumph in the end? But there is one word that is on everybody’s lips: CONSPIRACY. This controversy is simply too complicated, and the timing too right, to be a

Christopher Hitchens by Alexander Linklater For most of his 40-year career, Christopher Hitchens’s notoriety has been confined to highbrow journalistic, literary and political circles. In the last 15 years, he has been familiar to readers of Vanity Fair and the Atlantic, and to viewers of the American current affairs shows that invite him on to say outrageous things in stylish phrases. His aptitude for the iconoclastic flourish—describing Princess Diana and Mother Teresa at their deaths, for

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