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Lunch Session - Take Back America

- Michael Tomasky Representative Mel Watt, D-NC Barbara Ehrenreich
By Scott Laczay
December 20th, 2007
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Michael Tomasky
Representative Mel Watt, D-NC
Barbara Ehrenreich

Closing Rally: Building a New Majority for Real Change - Take Back America 2007

- Howard Dean Anna Burger Jesse Jackson
By Scott Laczay
December 7th, 2007
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Howard Dean
Anna Burger
Jesse Jackson

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TBA 2007 - Closing Rally

Howard Dean speaks at the Closing Rally at Take Back America 2007.

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Running From Reality

By Bob Herbert
From nytimes.com
September 6th, 2008
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nytimes.com — If there was one pre-eminent characteristic of the Republican convention this week, it was the quality of deception. Words completely lost their meaning. Reality was turned upside down.

From the faux populist gibberish mouthed by speaker after speaker, you would never have known that the Republicans have been in power over the past several years and used that titanic power to lead the country to its present sorry state.

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As If the Last Eight Years Never Happened

By Tom Sullivan
September 5th, 2008

Scratch out Barack Obama's name and insert Al Gore or John Kerry's, and this week’s GOP convention was the same gleeful character assassination fest we have come to know and loathe. Except during Gov. Sarah Palin’s speech when it took on the air of a political movie written and directed by Joel & Ethan Coen.

Come to think of it, a lot of the convention had that feel. more »

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Defending Community Organizing

By Sally Kohn
September 4th, 2008

In her Republican convention speech, Gov. Sarah Palin said:

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a "community organizer," except that you have actual responsibilities.

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The Hot Mike of Truth - Two Cons Turn Thumbs Down on Palin

By Tom Sullivan
September 3rd, 2008

"It's over." - Peggy Noonan

Caught in a hot-mike moment, conservative pundits/advisors Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy reveal their feelings about McCain's VP pick to Chuck Todd: more »

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When did lawful dissent become "terror"

By Marjorie Cohn
From truthout.org
September 2nd, 2008
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truthout.org — Marcus Washington hit with pepper spraySo here it is America, vegetarians and left wing groups have been defined in the policies of the FBI and the state as suitable candidates for observation, surveillance, illegal arrest and detention. The security paradigm has changed.

The Mugabe tactics in Zimbabwe are here on your streets, now, at the hands of the state. The darkness is coming.

Also from the New York Times: Dozens Detained Ahead of Convention

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Carpe Dial

By Tom Sullivan
August 31st, 2008

Barack Obama’s seven year-old daughter, Sasha, said “Hi, Daddy” to his big-screen image after mother Michelle Obama’s speech to the Democratic convention in Denver. It was a humanizing moment, those two words perhaps doing more than her mother’s speech to make Obama accessible to voters. more »

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New Spy Software Coming On-Line: "Surveillance in a Box" Makes its Debut

By Tom Burghart
From globalresearch.ca
August 29th, 2008
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globalresearch.ca — You've heard of the FBI's "Quantico Circuit" and were outraged by illegal warrantless wiretapping by Bushist minions. To no avail, you flooded Congress with emails and phone calls, angered by the bipartisan "FISA Amendments Act of 2008" and the swell party thrown by AT&T for "Blue Dog" Democrats in Denver this week for the convention.

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Who Will Be In Obama's Cabinet?

By Jim Hightower
From alternet.org
August 28th, 2008
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alternet.org — For a clue as to what kinds of people either Sen. John McCain or Sen. Barack Obama would carry into office, look at the top campaign advisers, fundraisers and staffers already around them, for they're likely to move right along with their man. If progressives look at Obama's team through the conventional political lens, they'll get worried. Before panicking, however, let's note that little about the Obama campaign is conventional.

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What Really Scares Us About Barack Obama

By Bradley Burston
From haaretz.com
August 27th, 2008
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haaretz.com — What an expatriate finds after returning to the United States: America now seems to be eroding under the pressure of its fears, and as that happens Americans appear to be valuing mediocrity over excellence, turning a blind eye to facing hard truths full on.

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What Would You Do If You Had Guaranteed Health Care?

By Sara Robinson
August 26th, 2008

This was the Campaign for America's Future's Big Afternoon at the Big Tent. CAF took over the Digg Stage (the entire upstairs floor of The Big Tent) for a series of four panels addressing some of the Big Questions we wrestle with here. more »

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