Secret Service Agents: Palin’s Attacks On Obama Spiked Death Threats

Sarah Palin blamed by the US Secret Service over death threats against Barack Obama
Sarah Palin’s attacks on Barack Obama’s patriotism provoked a spike in death threats against the future president, Secret Service agents revealed during the final weeks of the campaign.

Telegraph.co.uk
By Tim Shipman in Washington
Last Updated: 4:04PM GMT 08 Nov 2008
The Republican vice presidential candidate [...]

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Highlights From Tuesday November 4, 2008 (VIDEO)

A Night To Remember: Video Highlights From Tuesday
by Jed L
Fri Nov 07, 2008 at 06:35:05 PM PST
A new montage of that magical night, including video of each major network calling the election for Barack Obama and of highlights from his victory speech:

Links: Daily Kos | YouTube | Digg | Veoh (if [...]

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Italy In Uproar Over Berlusconi’s Racist Insult To Obama!

GEF @ 2:08 PM EDT

Obama Joke by Premier Has Italy in an Uproar
By RACHEL DONADIO
ROME — Italians never quite know whether to laugh or cry at Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. But many reacted with incredulity and outrage after the prime minister, visiting Moscow on Thursday, amiably called the first African-American president-elect in United States history [...]

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Democracy Won And The Tremendous Shift Among Young Voters

Tuesday’s Second Biggest Winner: Democracy
Huffington Post- Arianna Huffington

Posted November 7, 2008 | 11:25 AM (EST)
Along with Barack Obama (and the other winners I’ve written about), there was another big winner on election day: democracy.
Based on initial numbers, it looks like over 133 million people turned out to vote on Tuesday — 11 million more [...]

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Obama’s Inauguration Day: Huge Demand For Tickets

INAUGURATION DAY
Calls for tickets through the roof
Chicago Tribune
By Lolly Bowean |Tribune reporter- November 8, 2008
There have been calls from forgotten childhood classmates, from long-gone girlfriends and boyfriends, and even from the widows of deceased Chicago icons.
In the three days since the election of Barack Obama, the demand for tickets to Inauguration Day events has been [...]

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Shock!! 86% Bailout Cash Used For CEO Bonuses!

GEF @ 11:58 AM EDT

86% of Bailout Money Used for Executive Bonuses
When confronted about these numbers, the executives will always claim that the bonuses are paid out of other funds and company earnings. This completely ignores the fact that without the taxpayers’ bailout money, there would be no earnings! If there was anyone left who [...]

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President-Elect Obama’s Radio Address: ‘We Need A Rescue Plan For The Middle Class’

President-Elect Obama’s Saturday radio address
Daily Kos- by SusanG
Sat Nov 08, 2008 at 06:30:02 AM PST

Because I’ll never get enough of typing “President-Elect Obama” … you can listen here:
On Tuesday, Americans stood in lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen.  It didn’t matter who they were or where they [...]

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Focus On The Family Action: Compares Obama Victory To Nazi Bombing

Focus on the Family compares Obama victory to Nazi bombing.
Think Progress- By Amanda Terkel on Nov 7th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Yesterday evening, James Dobson’s Focus on the Family Action sent out a fundraising e-mail lamenting the victory of Barack Obama. (Dobson had personally endorsed the McCain-Palin ticket.) The author of the e-mail, Focus on the [...]

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Spray Tanners & Silk Boxer Shorts: $40,000 On Luxury Goods For Todd Palin

Sarah Palin Spent $40,000 On Luxury Goods For Todd
Huffington Post |   November 7, 2008 05:37 PM

Washington Post’s Reliable Sources column reports [...]

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The legend of Rahm

Was Rahm Emanuel the reason the Democrats took back the House in the 2006 election? A Chicago reporter makes the case.
Edward McClelland | Salon.com | May. 08, 2007
Election Night 2002 was a gloomy watch for Democrats. Their party, led by a pair of innocuous Midwestern Main Streeters, Richard Gephardt and Thomas Daschle, lost control [...]

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The Right’s Five Biggest Screwups Of The 2008 Election

The Desperate Right’s Five Biggest Flops of the 2008 Election

By Brad Reed, AlterNet. Posted November 8, 2008.

How Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber and other stupid stunts did not win the election for McCain.

After every election cycle, our national press corps likes to point out the so-called game-changing moments during [...]

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Mixed Reactions to Obama’s Choice of WH Chief of Staff

Who is Rahm Emanuel?
David Swanson | YouTube | From: TheRealNews
Added: November 06, 2008n: Rahm Emanuel has been the amazing early bad news following the past two elections

Rahm Emanuel Is The Hot To Obama’s Cool
Washington Post: Chief Of Staff Pick’s Flair For The Well-Timed Verbal Hand Grenade Is Legendary
(Washington Post) This [...]

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Friedmanite Financial WMDs Advocate and Failed Former Harvard President as Obama’s Treasury Secretary? Spare Us!

Obama’s Treasury Secretary? Let’s Hope Not
Robert Scheer | Truthdig | Posted on Nov 6, 2008
Barack Obama is rumored to favor Lawrence Summers as his treasury secretary. That’s a terrible choice, says Robert Scheer, if the president-elect is at all concerned about the financial meltdown.
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Transcript:
Truthdig: Today on the Truthdig podcast, Truthdig editor Robert Scheer explains [...]

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