Barack Obama

Obama and Clinton Forces: Why Can't We All Just Get Along?

huffingtonpost.com — The Fighting Between The Two Major Democrats Has To Get Under Control Or We Are Handing The Republicans Another Four To Eight Years In The White House. The Very Dirty Politics Of Race Has No Place In The United States Political Arena. No More DEMOCRATIC Mud Slinging By Surrogates and Fellow Democrats, Please! As Progressives, lets set the example!

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Cynthia Boaz's picture

Earth to Senator Clinton: Just Stop Already

An open letter to Hillary Clinton from someone who should be her biggest supporter.

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Michael Kwiatkowski's picture

A mistake that never should have been made.

You've just got to feel sorry for Hillary Clinton. She just can't seem to do anything right in this campaign. It's not just her underestimation of the Clinton Rules, under which anything she says or does -- no matter how innocent or mundane -- is transformed into some conniving attack formed from evil intentions (just look at the false hype over the "dark" ad). more »

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Michael Kwiatkowski's picture

This does the left no good.

Looks like Moulitsas still can't let go of the paranoid "Clinton darkened Obama in her ad" conspiracy theory. more »

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Greg Palast2's picture

Exxon suxx, McCain duxx

Next month marks 19 years since the Exxon Valdez dumped its load of crude oil across the Prince William Sound, Alaska. A big gooey load of this crude spilled over the lands of the Chenega Natives. Paul Kompkoff was a seal hunter for the village. That is, until Exxon’s ship killed the seals and poisoned the rest of Chenega’s food supply.

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Michael Kwiatkowski's picture

How we can hold Barack Obama accountable.

The other day I posted a link to Matt Gonzalez's guest column at BeyondChron.org about how Barack Obama's record does not match his campaign rhetoric, or the misperceptions of far too many of his followers. more »

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Michael Kwiatkowski's picture

The Do's and Don'ts of Campaigning: Clinton and Obama Edition

Earlier I posted the Do's and Don'ts of campaigning against Ralph Nader, because it is quite obvious that as in 2004, far too many Democrats are going to waste badly needed time and energy trying to eliminate him from the ballot -- time and energy that can and should be spent selling the Democratic nominee. more »

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Harry Moroz's picture

The Age of Infrastructure

Perhaps because national infrastructure is so amenable to physiological comparison – highways are the nation’s bloodstream, its sewage systems the digestive tract, its bridges synapses – it is also subject, at least in journalistic cliché, to one of life’s few inevitabilities: aging. more »

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David Sirota's picture

The 2008 Class War

The two taboo subjects in American politics, class and race, are now front and center in the Democratic nominating contest. more »

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Brian Dockstader's picture

Barack Obama's victory speech in Iowa

It is being hailed as electrifying, exciting, elevating, and inspirational. For me, it was probably the most amazing speech I can ever remember hearing. more »