tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82658172011-09-28T23:35:58.007-04:00Divide and conquer is the oldest trick in the book of dirty politics, and yet on 'the left' we still fall for it. My blog is about sustaining a progressive power coalition while getting laid safely.10-Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04015520406033557360noreply@blogger.comBlogger701100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8265817.post-8694309593570363592010-07-29T16:33:00.025-04:002010-07-29T18:39:51.359-04:00

My first instinct re the Ground Zero Mosque was: not all Muslims are terrorists, I don't equate Islam with Jihad. So at first I felt the Mosque should be built. Ironically, it's the Lying Leftists deriding Mosque opponents who convinced me we should not allow the Mosque. I'll explain.I certainly will not slander all Muslims as terrorists. I don't suspect that any Muslim I meet is a terrorist

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The New Black Panthers. Arizona. Rev. Wright. NAACP. We're caught up in a political race war started by President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and the Far Left (Jornolist). Team Obama is so used to being patronized, they were caught off guard when the Tea Party punched back. Watch this clip from The View where John McCain patronizes a ridiculous question by Whoopi Goldberg on whether McCain wants to

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I don't think Obama should be our President. And he's turned out even worse than I expected. It was a big mistake to elect him, I can only hope it doesn't end up a fatal mistake. Obama is getting a much needed whipping from Republicans. The President has to wrap his head around the concept of strict liability on terrorism. If they hit us, he's french toast.But in the rush to punish Obama,

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On the question of whether we are "At War", there are the facts, the propaganda and the policies:The Facts: Obviously we are at war and obviously the President knows at least that much. He's escalated in Afghanistan, and I'm pretty sure he knows they're not playing pattycake over there.The Propaganda: What we call it, what we call them, is really just propaganda. Republicans confuse American

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I've got three posts on the Supreme Court.It's a curious mini-uproar over a statement by Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor, taken out of context to suggest she's a 'naked racist' who believes she’s smarter than any white man simply by virtue of being Latina. I say ‘curious’ because the mini-uproar runs with an implausible interpretation of Sotomayor’s words. And every time this melodrama of a

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I mentioned above the problem with ‘strict construction’ as it's currently used. Contemporary right wing radicals give ‘strict construction’ a bad name. Look at the record of the Burger court--packed by President Nixon with strict constructionists, including Chief Justice Burger. If Warren Burger is a strict constructionist, then I’m not sure what the term means. It certainly doesn't mean

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The Roe Court followed a precedent set in a 1965 birth control case, Griswold v. Connecticut. Griswold is one of the most important cases on the question of judicial interpretation. The Connecticut legislature banned contraception--say what??!!! I kid you not: "A Connecticut statute makes it a crime for any person to use any drug or article to prevent conception."The Supreme Court ruled the

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(why I cannot vote for Obama)The political rise of Obama resembles the rise of George Bush so closely it makes me want to throw up on my shoes. It also makes me fear for my country. Obama and Bush both arise from grave flaws in our political culture, symptoms of a nation on the downslope: a news media so useless, it makes the First Amendment almost irrelevant; the rise of extremists, on both

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I take no solace at all in Joe Biden. What difference does it make whether he’s Vice President? Does anybody in Washington not know Joe Biden’s opinion on any subject? But more importantly, advisors don’t make the President, the President makes the advisors. I wonder if people remember that the odious Dick Cheney served brilliantly as Defense Secretary in Desert Storm under the first

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(If you'd like, feel free to post on non-commercial pro-Hillary blogs, just link back please.)

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The Dem leadership has screwed things up. If Clinton is the nominee, black voters will be deeply wounded. If Obama is the nominee, Clinton's passionately loyal base will be furious and Reagan Democrats will become McCain Democrats.This no-win scenario was cooked up by the cock-eyed Democratic leadership. What was Kennedy thinking when he 'passed the Kennedy torch' on to Obama without vetting

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There's a scene from The Autobiography of Malcolm X: After police beat and arrested a black man in Harlem, X called all the residents in the neighborhood out into the streets in a tightly controlled protest -- hundreds of blacks solemnly lined the street behind him as he demanded--and got--medical attention for the man the police had beaten. Legend has it that the police captain, after caving

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Dear Senator Leahy:Let's play Jepoardy:Clue: Pat Buchanan understands Democratic voters better than Pat Leahy.Question: Why do Democrats always lose Presidential elections unless a Clinton is running?With all respect to a former friend, your claim that Hillary is hurting Democratic chances in the fall is wrong. Chaos and confusion in the primary is worse than a healthy, hotly contested primary

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This isn't pleasant. I did some editing of Rev. Wright with 9/11 footage and the Zapruder film of the Kennedy killing: The Obama talking points are: (1) Wright was actually quoting some guy named Edward Beck who no one has ever heard of. Bullshit. Wright was quoting Malcolm X and he says so:"What Malcolm X said when he got silenced by Elijah Muhammad was in fact true. America's chickens

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My 'NOBAMA' graffiti art. I'm not that good at graffiti style. These guys are amazing:I just love her!O-bots are in a hurry to get Hillary out of the race so they can start negative campaigning on McCain--that's all they've got. Hillary's record and positive message on the economy apply to both the primary and the general -- she's already campaigining against McCain with her 'Solutions for

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I feel like I should give a language advisory at the top of this post. This is from James Cone, the spiritual mentor of Obama's pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright:"Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to

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When in trouble, make a speech.To me, it seems like self-parody for Obama to make a speech to solve his Jeremiah Wright problem, when his claim to the Presidency is based primarily on speeches: His 2002 anti-Iraq War speech which didn't stop the war. And his 'One America' speech that had no impact whatsoever on the people closest to him. Yet, how predictable it was for our mass media to wax

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Playing the race card is a common power play on the left -- it's only effective against liberal whites who bend over backwards not to appear racist. But it's just a power play -- dirty politics. It has no effect on real racists, and blacks who play the race card know that. It's a tool for self-promotion by people who profiteer in tweaking black rage.I recall a writer's conference where my

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Hearsay evidence is not allowed at trial because it lacks credibility. I can't testify in court 'Susan Rice said Clinton is not ready' because its hearsay and, for all I know, Susan Rice was lying through her teeth.There is a major exception to the Hearsay rule called 'Statement Against Interest.' Basically, if someone says something that goes against their interest, they have no motive to lie

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Obama is so typical. Clinton's paid media assassin Howard Wolfson was interrupted by Bob Bauer, a contract killer paid by Obama's shadow handlers, during a media call in which Wolfson accused Obama of dirty tricks in the Texas caucus. Bauer claimed Wolfson was only making these charges against the caucus system because Clinton wasn't winning caucuses.This is a silly argument for a lawyer to

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I just love these pix of my Senator!She's so cool. I want to share my Senator with the rest of the world!

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When Putin's puppet Medvedev starts in with the 'hope and change' bullshit, you know something stinks. From the Moscow Times: "'Although of course it's easier to work with people who have modern positions, and not with those who have glints of the past in their eyes and, frequently, simply profess semi-senile views,' he added. He did not elaborate."As if he had to. The Times then makes a funny

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I found more evidence that Michelle Obama is ambivalent about her American identity in her 1985 thesis on racial identity among Princeton alumni. Her thesis is consistent with her very recent statement that she has never been proud of America before now. As I said in my last blog post -- the key issue here is identification. Obama does not identify as an American. That is why she is not proud

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I'm going out on a limb and say I know what Michelle Obama really meant when she said she has never been really proud of her country until now.It has to do with identification--something movie directors, I'm sure advertisers, all creative people are always trying to tweak. Do you identify with John Wayne or the Indians? The police or the suspect? The criminal or the victim? It's one reason

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More selectivity: 'A month ago, he [John Lewis] even had this to say about Barack Obama: "He is no Martin Luther King Jr. I knew Martin Luther King. I knew Bobby Kennedy. I knew President Kennedy. You need more than speech-making. You need someone who is prepared to provide bold leadership."This is what he's saying now: "In recent days, there is a sense of movement and a sense of spirit.

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I followed this link from Andrew Sullivan's. I'll get to Sullivan's post in a bit because he quotes Victor Davis Hanson selectively, avoiding Hanson's even more potent point, which is:"But his success seems to have been achieved with a slightly different calculus — 80-90 percent of the African-American vote, elite yuppie whites, and students and Moveon.org progressives."and "Since the agendas

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I'm participating in the Clinton 'Money Bomb'. Go HERE to find out more about the online fundraiser scheduled for this Tuesday, February 12, 2008. $10.44 is the ticket.Please distribute the news of this online fundraiser on as many blogs and lists as possible. Send the news of the fundraiser to as many contacts as possible by email too.Contribute directly to the campaign at HillaryClinton.com:

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Jake Tapper at ABC reports on Emily's List response to David Shuster (yechh). The David Shuster Coalition is out in force on the net cooking up spurious defenses. I'd hate to be Shuster's psychiatrist. Can you imagine that man's free associations? Yechh.Shuster is the true face of the 'Obama Movement'--that's Obama's dirty secret. Sure there's the youth vote (which Clinton won in California)

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Roger Simon breaks down the mind-boggling mess the DNC has cooked up with proportional rep/pledged delegates/superdelegates. Simon's thinking is wrong about Florida and Michigan:"In Michigan, Hillary Clinton was the only name on the Democratic ballot. In Florida, Democratic candidates were banned from campaigning. Are the Democrats really going to seat them if they could make the difference in

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That's the picture of Obama I get from Super Tuesday -- a specialty candidate who can't claim broad-based victories in any state.Two things are striking: One, the caucus states broke conspicuously away from the primary states. Why would Obama win bigger in Minnesota than in Illinois?Here's the caucus numbers (%) from Politico.: Minnesota/Colorado: 67/32. Alaska: 75/25. Idaho: 80/17.

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Taylor Marsh takes down this very strange sequence from Harold Meyerson at American Prospect over an anonymous caller using a 'Chris Rock' style voice to phone a pro-Obama message to a white friend of his:"I cannot empirically verify that the call came from some group backing Hillary Clinton. But based on my knowledge of L.A. elections, I certainly believe it came from such a group, and the odds

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"California show your teeth"She's my priestess; I'm your priest"I love that song by the Chili Peppers!Barack Obama is gifted, he's talented. He belongs in the majors. This woman is just on another level.*******He starts right in with the self-serving abstractions: "This isn't about black or white, or male or female, this is about going forward or looking back." Nice frame, but a meaningless

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If Obama were ahead at the convention, but the FL and MI votes would give the nom to Hillary, how could DNC resist the pressure to seat those delegates? In that case, DNC would ’select’ the nominee just as the Supreme Court selected Bush. Even more so, since the Court only ended the recount, they didn’t throw Gore’s votes in the dumpster.There are only three scenarios: (1) If Hillary is leading,

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Super Tuesday Smackdown - MetacafeMy new animation. Silly, yes. Juvenile, yes. GOTV.

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Compare Tim Russert's babyfood questioning of Obama on Rezko to Russert's hardball with Giuliani on Bernard Kerik on 'Meet the Press':MR. RUSSERT: Tony Rezko, who is he?SEN. OBAMA: He is a developer in Illinois. He was a friend of mine for, for over 10 years. He was, he was a supporter of Democrats and Republicans back in Illinois. He was indicted recently for issues completely unrelated to

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Andrew Sullivan hard at work on a remake of 'Dynasty.' I don't think he's convincing:SULLIVAN: "In the first Clinton term, we had an unprecedented situation where a woman elected to nothing and with no Cabinet rank was given responsibility for the entire healthcare system. She was accountable largely to a man she was married to - not the American people."I thought the spin was 'she just served

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Pretzel logic is on overdrive going into Super Tuesday. William Greider admits that 'politics ain't beanbag: "That's what politics is always about. Tough, even nasty conflict is educational, also entertaining."Then proceeds to blame the Clintons for being good at 'tough conflict': "The one-two style of Clintons, however, is as informative as low-life street fighters. Mr. Bill punches Obama in

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I like Rich Lowry. He's a conservative hit man, but not a total tool like Tucker Carlson. He's trying to wave Big Dog off Bambi's ass. I don't agree with most of Lowry's piece. But he gets in some nice zingers like: "If the dignity of the office meant so little to him, why should the dignity of the former office restrain him at all?" Good one.Then this:"Clinton has usually delivered his

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Obama and his defenders keep saying 'Bill is distorting Obama's record on the war." But they don't say what that distortion is. And Obama isn't vocally defending his war voting record. He just keeps repeating that the Clintons are distorting that record.Obama: "When Senator Clinton says -- or President Clinton says -- that I wasn't opposed to the war from the start or says it's a fairytale

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Two weeks ago the New York Times ran a specious editorial claiming that Hillary Clinton implied Martin Luther King "needed a white man's help." She never said that, and House Ways & Means Chairman Charles Rangel called the Times's argument "absolutely stupid." But now Obama needs Ted Kennedy to help him handle Big Dog? Do I have to say it?Apparently I do. The image of white-maned white man Ted

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Sure it's easy to say now, but Hil missed a zinger last night. While Obama goes on some lengthy explanation of what he really meant about Reagan, Hil could have said."Save it for the classroom, Barack. You invoked a conservative icon who was a figurehead because you're running as figurehead. And as for what I was doing during the Reagan years? I was fighting Reagan head-to-head to protect

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Over at Frameshop, Jeff Feldman sees rights through:"the problem with Obama's comment about Reagan was less that he praised the icon of the Republican Party than the inability of anyone to understand what Obama meant.When questioned by Clinton on his Reagan comment, Obama clarified by saying that Reagan should be noted for his ability to convince Democrats to vote for policies they did not think

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I love making fun of Rudy. A jab at Obama is a fringe benefit.Eriposte, Richard Perlstein, Paul Krugman and Taylor Marsh all reacted negatively to Obama's Reagan slobberfest. I found these remarks about the '60s anti-war movement from the same interview, well, weird:"Even when you discuss war, the frame of reference is always Viet Nam. That's not my frame of reference. My frame of reference

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Eriposte voices our growing disgust with the media while debunking media spin that blacks voting for Obama in Nevada or South Carolina somehow means we won't turnout for Clinton in the general.Repubs and the media would love to recreate the 2001 Mayor's Race in NYC. Liberal Mark Green lost to total unknown Mike Bloomberg in heavily Dem NY after race problems crept into the primary between Green

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"Wannabes"Reagan. Ehhhh. It's no coincidence all this Obama-Reagan stuff comes up right after Obama announces he is explicitly running as a figurehead; people think Reagan was a figurehead and that wasn't a disaster. That's my take, but digby and others are debating Obama at his word, rather than the 'figurehead' subtext. Subtext is everything. Obama talks as if Reagan won big with

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Kate Harding proves it -- the media is a joke. In just the best blog post of this election, Harding skewers Meghan Daum of the L.A. Times -- comparing Daum's gender hit piece on Clinton stupid-for-stupid to a joke piece in the spoof newspaper The Onion. This is unbelievable:"Shouldn't the first woman to break the gender barrier of the American presidency be the type of woman who listens to

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Ezra Klein documents the Clinton Obsession Factor. Exhibit 1, Andrew Sullivan's play-by-play of the Nevada debate:"Read [Sullivan's] liveblogging of last night's debate. Edwards never even makes an appearance. Obama, who Andrew is deeply committed to, hardly even qualifies as a walk-on character. Instead, it's Clinton. It's Clinton and Clinton and Clinton and Clinton."Klein is describing the

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"You underestimate her at your peril." -- John McCain.McCain should know. Hillary Clinton has a track record of regrouping and coming back to win against Republicans. Her challenge in NH was to find a way to win without the fearsome infighting she deploys against the Radical Right--the peril McCain rightly fears--but would never use on a fellow Democrat and a likeable African American.* And

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I hope Giuliani goes nowhere. Though it's not very reassuring if Huckabee is the reason. The subtext to Giuliani tanking, Huckabee and Obama rising is "Bush was a good President, he solved terrorism." That's scary naive. Clinton vs. McCain would restore my faith in the good sense of the American voter.My animation is inspired by an old 'Three Stooges' spoof of Hitler, Hirohito and

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I'm so disappointed in Obama right now. He's a brilliant bullshitter -- that's all I see. But this will all work out fine. Hillary will win the nom. I think she'll be President. And sometime in the future -- assuming we have a future in light of Pakistan -- perhaps one day Obama will fit the bill.I won't go on at length, but Obama's campaign is insulting. All his arguments are bullshit

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I saw blues legend Stevie Ray Vaughn a New Year's Eve Concert - one of his last concert before he died in the summer of 1990. As his band jammed behind him, Stevie Ray stopped playing for a moment to talk to the audience. I couldn't hear what Stevie Ray was saying, but I could tell he was speaking about something deeply personal. I was moved even without hearing his words.Later on I saw a

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Rudy Giuliani got some press last week with his cheap shot at Barack Obama. "You're not Ronald Reagan, ya know." Not enough attention was paid to Giuliani's ridiculous views on the Cold War:"He [Reagan] took missiles, intermediate-range missiles ... and he put them in European cities, and he pointed the missiles at Russian cities with names on them. Then he said, in a very nice way, 'Let's

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I spent time on the right wing whacko blogs yesterday and I was surprised to read all the vicious delirium aimed at Iraq Study Group co-chair Jim Baker. It was the same treatment Democratic war heroes John Kerry, Max Cleland and Jim Webb have received. But it was unsettling even to my cast-iron stomach to see the foam-mouthed wingnut extremists turn on even one of their own with such homicidal

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Though the specific policy recommendations of the Iraq Study Group may disappoint, the Group does target the root of the Iraq problem: the power of President Bush. Sunday morning pundits and impassioned bloggers advocating timelines and redeployment benchmarks are just conversation as long as our troops are at the mercy of a Commander-in-Chief who appears to be insane. The ISG is not about

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"I got an idea! Let's send Hillary Clinton into South Carolina to campaign on a gay marriage platform. That way we can retake the Congress and the White House, and restore two party rule. Sounds like a plan!"In a bizarre move that resembles George Bush's 'stay the course' attitude on Iraq, Alan Van Capelle, Exec. Dir. of NY's Empire State Pride Agenda, has demanded that Hillary Clinton come

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Daily Kos linked yesterday in the open thread to the recent Gallup Poll on American public opinion about the Iranian nuclear threat. The poll showed that Americans recognize the danger, have little confidence in Bush's ability to handle the problem, and slightly more confidence in the U.N. The perception among 47% polled that the U.N. can help is being seeded by Bush State of Delusion Message

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The Center in New York City is sponsoring a contest for graphic designers for a new GLBT Health campaign. I designed this entry. Now if i can just print it out at 36 x 24, I'm in business.My new website at savegaylife.com is under construction. The site will hopefully take a new look at HIV prevention strategies, using graphics, animation, gaming, safe sex branding, philosophy, anything I can

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If there is an HIV superstrain running around, I certainly hope we won't repeat the awful mistakes of the 1980s. Unfortunately, it looks to me like we're might. I know it's hard to accept, but I don't see anyway around the harshest of truths. If you have unprotected sex often (whoopee!), sometime in the next five to seven years you are going to seroconvert. It might be with some irredeemable

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Like all gay people, I'm dismayed when Walter Fauntroy, a key lieutenant to Martin Luther King and pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church, holds a ballyhooed press conference with Bill Frist and the hateful likes of Rick Santorum in support of the Federal Marriage Amendment. But let me be crystal clear. Right now I'm speaking as a black man, not as a gay man. As a member of Fauntroy's African

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If Hillary Clinton were President, Osama Bin Laden's nuts would be floating in a pickle jar on the desk in the Oval Office as we speak.

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In Washington Times, Martin Sieff outlines coming confrontation with Iran over nukes.  Iraq quagmire is Iran's trump card as they maneuver their way into the nuclear club.  Another glaring example of Bush diplomatic impotency - Russia and China are paving way for Iran to go nuke, perhaps to 'contain' perceived American adventurism.  George 'Neville' Bush offers nothing put pillowtalk to Iran.  No

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People are shrieking about Kerry's smiling stab at the heart of the Cheney family. Did he do it on purpose? Well, it looks like his style. There's no doubt he was fucking with the President's mind when he quoted from his much, much, much smarter father's book predicting quagmire in Iraq. In the first debate, while laughing at the size of Bush's alliance, Kerry subliminally asked George Bush

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Osama Bin Laden prays for Bush re-election.

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I'm amused to hear the Republicans claiming victory in last Friday's debate. I'm amazed to hear some pundits declaring the debate a draw. Kerry won far too easily, and depending on your point of view, Bush either did as bad or worse than in his first performance. You might think that the President had an 'off night' in the first debate; he couldn't really be that incompetent. The 'real' Bush

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'President' Bush, what would you do if a state sponsor of terrorism, with ties to Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and possibly Al Queada, aggressively pursued nuclear weapons and threatened a pre-emptive strike against Israel to protect their nuclear reactor?I'd ask the foreign ministers of other countries to carry the message not to get nuclear weapons if they want to join the world

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I saw the funniest thing on Tucker Carlson's PBS show. Carlson said Kerry was a 'wuss' and that women didn't find him attractive. No disrespect to Carlson, but when Al Franken challenged him to a boxing match, Carlson appeared to wet his thong on CNN and passed on the whole hand-to-hand combat thing. For Tucker Carlson to call Swiftboat Commander Kerry a 'wuss', that's not spin, that's

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Take a close look at the debate clips when Bush talked about Iran's nuclear program. Consider that the Iranian government was watching one of the most feeble, nonsensical and incoherent performances by an American President in history. "We have a good strategy. I hope it works." "We already put on sanctions. We can't put on any more sanctions." "Foreign ministers are carrying the message to

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President Bush was so non-Presidential today in his response to John Kerry's speech on Iraq. Re Iraq, Bush glibly stated, "I saw the intelligence, Senator Kerry saw the intelligence, the U.N. saw the intelligence." Yes, but the intelligence was wrong. Whose fault is that? Is it possible Bush is so illiterate that he never heard the famous Truman line, "the buck stops here." Bush speaks as if he

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I am a lifelong liberal and I will definitely vote for Kerry-Edwards. Bush is a lightweight and a phony, and Dick Cheney is a has-been. Their strategic failure in Iraq tells me they are too dumb to win the war on terror, which is a battle of the wits. Bush-Cheney like to pretend it's a battle of military power, but that's just wishful thinking. Obviously, American military power is lightyears

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Does it matter whether there is actual corruption by VP Cheney re Halliburton's role in the Iraq reconstruction? There is clearly an appearance of impropriety, and Halliburton should have recused itself from Iraq for the sake of American national security. Halliburton pigging out in Iraq creates the appearance of an economic motive for the invasion, giving a huge propaganda bonus to those who

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