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By- Suzie-Q @ 10:30 PM MST
Obama: McCain ‘Doesn’t Know What He’s up Against’
Obama: McCain ‘doesn’t know what he’s up against,’ says rival shouldn’t question his character
By BETH FOUHY Associated Press Writer
RALEIGH, N.C. August 19, 2008 (AP)
A combative Barack Obama said Tuesday that Republican John McCain “doesn’t know what he’s up against” in this election [...]
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By- Suzie-Q @ 6:30 PM MST
Coal company CEO: ‘Black is the new green.’
Think Progress- By Ali at 8:30 pm
Speaking to USA Today, Gregory Boyce, CEO of Peabody, the world’s largest coal company, “shrugged off any worries” about coal’s enormous greenhouse gas emissions or moves to make energy more environmentally friendly, declaring the U.S. would never [...]
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GEF @ 8:28 PM
Dear Mr. President – Pink
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By- Suzie-Q @ 2:05 PM MST
Obama VP speculation centering on Biden
Raw Story- Nick Juliano
Published: Tuesday August 19, 2008
Senate veteran opposed wiretap expansion
Joe Biden seems to be emerging as the most likely candidate to become Barack Obama’s running mate, according to the DC Conventional Wisdom crowd.
The Delaware Senator and former presidential candidate also is receiving considerable [...]
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By- Suzie-Q @ 2:00 PM MST
The Cure – Lovesong
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By- Suzie-Q @ 11:15 AM MST
Miers: From Supreme Court Nominee To Pakistan Lobbyist
TPM Muckraker
Kate Klonick – August 19, 2008, 9:57AM
Harriet Miers, former White House counsel, one-time Supreme Court nominee and current partner at Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, can now add lobbyist for the Pakistan People’s Party and the Embassy of Pakistan to her [...]
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by Geezer Power…10:28 am
CRISIS IN THE CAUCASUS. WHAT WERE THEY SMOKING IN THE WHITE HOUSE?
Eric Margolis
Archives > August 18, 2008
WASHINGTON DC- The Bush administration appears to have pulled off its latest military fiasco in the Caucasus. What was supposed to have been a swiftly and painless takeover of rebellious South Ossetia by America’s favourite new [...]
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By- Suzie-Q @ 10:15 AM MST
How Democrats can take back the South
The author of “Blue Dixie” says don’t give up on the region — but don’t pander to it with Clintonian centrism.
Editor’s note: Read Thomas Schaller’s response to Bob Moser here.
Salon- By Bob Moser
Aug. 19, 2008 | When a couple of fellows in [...]
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by betmo @ 9:04 AM EDT
hmmmm…. yeah. i guess i wonder where it’s moving. can someone check its pulse? that’s my second cuppa snark this morning. there are many folks in this country who want peace- no doubt. and there are some who actually engage with the rest of humanity on a quest to get [...]
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Sudhan @12:12 CET
by Patrick J. Buchanan | Antiwar.com, August 19, 2008
The American people should be eternally grateful to Old Europe for having spiked the Bush-McCain plan to bring Georgia into NATO.
Had Georgia been in NATO when Mikheil Saakashvili invaded South Ossetia, we would be eyeball to eyeball with Russia, facing war in the Caucasus, where [...]
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