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[Boing Boing] Hope is fading - Boing Boing: With one-quarter of his first and probably only term over, Obama has done nothing to prepare the US population for the economic collapse it faces. Billions were squandered on the kleptocrats, aid to states went into continuing wasteful programs of highway building for a future in which energy and cars will be limited, and what little he put into public transportation was squandered on high-profit margin, low-yield high speed rail projects that allow a few wealthier people to travel at the expense of millions of regular light rail and bus commuters who will desperately need more service as the dollar collapses and private transportation becomes untenable for millions.

[Times Topics» After Deadline] That Slangy Tone - Times Topics Blog - NYTimes.com: A canny self-promoter, a competent filmmaker and one of the few genuine populists in American pop culture, Perry is, with Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama, one face of a new black-power structure that has become part of the American establishment.

[Workbench] Obama's Speech to Schools No Reason to Freak Out | Workbench: He rolled in at a time when people were upset with the direction of the country, ie. the war in Iraq, the economy, etc. Things fell into place well as the mainstream media overwhelmingly supported him, and McCain's mis-step with the ...

[The Plum Line] Happy Hour Roundup | The Plum Line: Furthermore, when I filibuster this thing, I won’t care less about the Obama presidency and Democrats in Congress. Obama should have thought of that before he insulted me after I endorsed McCain, and the Dems should have thought of that before Ned Lamont challenged me in the 2006 primary.

[race42008.com] race42008.com » Blog Archive » Open Thread 11/21/09: Schmidt is, after all, part of the gang that had McCain suspend his presidential campaign and rush back to Washington to take the exact same position as Barack Obama on the first Federal bailout bill which in the end, only bailed out Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street Bankers. With his endorsement of the bailout, McCain lost any chance to draw a contrast with Obama and wage a competitive race for the Presidency.

[RealClearPolitics - Articles] RealClearPolitics - Can the Clinton Coalition Survive Obama?: Obama's fiscal policy, to make an understatement, hasn't been Clintonian. It may not be entirely his fault, but the $787 billion stimulus, the trillion dollar healthcare bill, the automobile bailout, and the budget showing trillion dollar deficits extending for the next decade make suburbanites shudder.

[Roland Martin | Washington Watch] THE BIG STORY: PRES. OBAMA GOES ON FOX | Roland Martin ...: Also, this is the same network that once called Barack Obama’s wife Michelle “Barack’s Baby’s Mama.” Sorry but that’s rude and disrespecful not only to Michelle Obama or even African-American women but to women period!

[Deceiver.com] Another Big Difference Between the Edwards Story and the Palin ...: A lot of Clinton supporters were pissed off at what was perceived to be (justified or not) a sexist assault on her by Obama’s campaign. So hearing Democratic pundits tell a woman she has too many kids to run for office, or that she should stay home and ”˜get her house in order’, is NOT the best way to bring those voters back into the fold right now.

[espuelas spurs debate] McCain, Campaign Staffers Criticize Palin Book Claims: It is her mastery of the lament that explained former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s appeal last year, and now her knack for self-pity is on full display in her book, “Going Rogue.” This is the memoir as prolonged, keening wail, larded with petty vindictiveness.

[Commentary] Commentary » Blog Archive » Flotsam and Jetsam: “McCain refers to the bill as 'cap and tax,' calls the climate legislation that passed the House in June 'a 1400-page monstrosity' and dismisses a cap-and-trade proposal included in the White House budget as 'a government slush fund.'” .Tensions boiled over this week, with an angry party caucus meeting Monday in the House, and black lawmakers Thursday threatening to block legislation in protest of President Barack Obama's economic policies.

[Jon Taplin's Blog] Obama vs. Palin in 2012 « Jon Taplin's Blog: There are virtually no moderates left in the Republican base. Although, there may be a significant number of independents voting in some of the primary states, which makes things marginally harder for Palin than in election where many independents were sucked into the Democratic primaries.

[Britannica Blog] Can Obama's "Organizing for America" Evolve into a Party-Building ...: Kennedy was a program called “Operation Support.”  Eerily similar to Organizing for America, Operation Support was also labeled a “project” of the DNC, and it, too, aimed to capitalize on the cult-of-personality surrounding the president to build support for his legislative agenda.  Volunteers were encouraged to write letters to the editor, call their congressmen, and rally their neighbors, just like OFA volunteers.  But Operation Support made no effort to train volunteers in campaign techniques or teach them other organizational skills.  “You know how to organize to do this job,” ground troops were told in the “action kits” they received.  The goal of the program, quite simply, was not to improve the party’s organizational capacities - it was to bring pressure to bear on Congress right now, on behalf of current policy initiatives.  Once the legislation was enacted (or tabled), the operation was over and the troops could return home.  Without simultaneous investments in the party’s structures, personnel, and operations, the DNC Kennedy bequeathed to Johnson in 1964 was a highly personalized organization that proved to be more of a burden for LBJ than a resource.

[POLITICO Top Stories] Defending Hillary in Ohio - Ben Smith's Blog - Politico.com: It's downright amazing how Hillary all along has been playing her gender card where Obama has not once been playing the race card, the media and the Clintons have been playing it for him, towards him, tryingly against him. But Hillary can shed a tear or two, seek sympathy votes over the air, not congratulate Obama on his wins and get away with it all.

[WORLDmag.com | Community] WORLDmag.com | Community | Blog Archive | UPDATE: Motion carries ...: In short, the conservative drive toward ideological purity threatens the viability of the Republican party without providing any viable alternative. Indeed a read of thge right wing blogs shows that this is apparently understood by the conservative right, often with the suggestion that extra-constitutional means may be necessary.

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » For the Dems, What a Difference a Year Makes: The Obama stimulus included large dollops of cash directed to reward the left-wing special interest groups that had helped elect the Democrats. Much of that federal largess also went to support bloated state and local governments whose costs have been driven up by the municipal unions who control them and, significantly, are a key to electing Democrats.

[race42008.com] race42008.com » Blog Archive » Book Review: “The Persecution of ...: As the magazine’s associate editor Matthew Continetti reminds us throughout the course of his new book, The Persecution of Sarah Palin, it was Fred Barnes who first brought the Alaska governor to the attention of grassroots conservatives. And so it’s fitting that his colleague would be the one to pen such a tome, released just days before the governor herself drops Going Rogue.

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