FOX (Faux) New's objective in this presidential race has been painfully clear for a while. They've been carpet bombing Barack Obama with negative stories, distortions, and smears in the run up to today's Pennsylvania primary in an attempt to skew the outcome. But how could FOX have guessed that the "liberal" media would be such willing accomplices?
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Added by Steve Wilmarth on April 22, 2008 at 12:30am —
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Here in the city of Yinchuan in northwest China on the edge of the great Gobi desert, where Marco Polo passed nearly 800 years ago on the Silk Road, I find myself watching the events back home in a curious "out-of-body" fashion. The work here is hard and the days long, made longer by my complete and utter inability to master the language. But my hosts are gracious and wonderful, the students as ardent and optimistic as any I've met.
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Added by Steve Wilmarth on March 26, 2008 at 12:57pm —
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In the Huffington Post, Off-The-Bus blogger Linda Hansen makes an elegant case for how the Clinton strategy of "throwing the kitchen sink" at Barack Obama in the run-up to the March 4th primaries, is a sure-fire miss. If the time has come to draw a line around the politics of personal destruction,
this blog post will help you make the case and push back on those who think that another eight years of t…
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Added by Steve Wilmarth on March 13, 2008 at 5:21am —
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To add to the story about the relative importance and impact Connecticut's grassroots organization has had on the Obama Presidential Campaign from the beginning and through the crucial early primary states, money (i.e., the kind of money that comes from the "bottom up" in a campaign driven by ideals and progressive change) tells a story. And nothing frames this story better than
interactive tools such as those prov…
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Added by Steve Wilmarth on February 22, 2008 at 2:30pm —
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There was a time, long ago when a President was able to appeal to the "better angels of our nature." As I listened to Barack Obama's speech at the close of the South Carolina primary, I'm reminded of that time before politics became the domain of cynicism, narcissism, division, and personal destruction. And in this morning's New York Times, it all comes together for me.
Caroline Kennedy's eloquent call for a "President like my fa…
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Added by Steve Wilmarth on January 27, 2008 at 3:37pm —
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Andrew Sullivan of the Atlantic Monthly writes about the "corruption of feminism" by the Clintons and their surrogates. Andrew writes in
The Atlantic Online's Daily Dish:
A reader transcribed the following conversation on Hardball tonight:
Chris Matthews: Faye, you first, you know Hillary Clinton, you know Bill Clinton. What's Bill's role in this thing, is it a good role
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Added by Steve Wilmarth on January 26, 2008 at 5:55pm —
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George Packer writes an article in the New Yorker that lays out the critical differences in an approach to the presidency as represented between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. It's worth
reading. The substance of Packer's article is that Hillary
acknowledges that the next President will absolutely need to unite the
country to take on the tough issues that we'll need to confront. Her
approach, however, will be
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Added by Steve Wilmarth on January 21, 2008 at 5:42pm —
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From today's TechPresident Newsletter comes this neat way of viewing
the media (online and print) exposure being given to each candidate:
- Mapping solutions specialists
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Added by Steve Wilmarth on December 28, 2007 at 3:33pm —
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WOW! The Boston Globe throws its weight behind Barack Obama! This is huge good news. While the DesMoines Register, Iowa's leading paper, gave what reads like a passing endorsement - it took 7 paragraphs for them to get to the point, and by then they'd basically said that the Democrats had several candidates worthy of endorsement, the Boston Globe endorsement makes no such equivocation. It's Barack Obama, once and for all. This should charge up the base, sway independent voters, and make N…
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Added by Steve Wilmarth on December 19, 2007 at 12:14am —
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The New Republic article below tells a wonderful story about why Barack Obama is the "change we can all believe in." Enjoy....
The Closer by Noam Scheiber
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Added by Steve Wilmarth on December 11, 2007 at 5:02pm —
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Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, has been a fierce advocate for working people and strengthening the social programs that are the backbone of our democracy.
On his blog today, Reich says that Barack's health care plan will cover more people than Clinton's, argues that Barack's approach to Social Security is
"sensible," and defends Obama against Clinton's "irresponsible" atta
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Added by Steve Wilmarth on December 3, 2007 at 11:14pm —
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Come catch Thursday evening's New England News Forum town meeting to debate the effect of the Internet on the N.H. primary. The list of attendees/particpants so far promises a lively discussion. The weather
is looking good after an early-in-the-week storm.
The public is welcome t…
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Added by Steve Wilmarth on December 2, 2007 at 5:48pm —
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Political
Base, the site that tracks the candidates’ stands on the issues and
fundraising data, has released another piece of data fun. They’ve mapped political contributions
on to a Google…
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Added by Steve Wilmarth on November 2, 2007 at 3:20pm —
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Marie Santiago asked that the following message be posted, so I'm passing this along as a blog item:
Thank you for calling on your senator to support S. 1668. This bill can
pass in the Senate, but only if we can generate enough pressure in
support of it.
Can you take a few moments and ask your friends and family to contact
their senators?
Below you'll find a brief letter you can send. Personalize it as you
wish or write your own, but please send it alon…
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Added by Steve Wilmarth on November 2, 2007 at 12:22am —
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Marie Santiago, a member of CT Grassroots for Obama '08 offered the following e-mail item she recived regarding
Hans von Spakovsky, a man who has made a career out of suppressing Black votes, but who is about to be confirmed by the Senate for a position on the FEC:
You joined ColorOfChange.org to fight for justice for the Jena 6. Today, we need your help to fight another instance of modern-day Jim Crow -- suppression of the Black vote.
For far too long, the Republican party h
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Added by Steve Wilmarth on October 19, 2007 at 12:42am —
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The following post was written by Jane Fleming Kleeb.
Young voters are not mythical unicorns; we don’t just show up out of nowhere nor do we just live in a candidate’s dreams. Any candidate who wants a
young person’s vote must target us, talk to us about issues we care
about and then have a field and messaging program to get us to the
polls or caucus.
In a recent article on CBS.com, “
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Added by Steve Wilmarth on October 5, 2007 at 9:43pm —
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The National Review’s
Jim Geraghty asks
if “YouTubeMySpaceFaceBookMashUp” — that is, all of this technology
stuff — really matters in a campaign. He writes that in the end, new
“innovations” like the CNN/YouTube debate and the MySpace/MTV dialogues
are trying to r…
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Added by Steve Wilmarth on October 5, 2007 at 3:51pm —
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Weekly Talking Points | September 10 – 16
Challenging Conventional Thinking in Washington
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Added by Steve Wilmarth on September 12, 2007 at 12:35am —
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Unity08 is an independent community that advocates for a "3rd party candidacy" for the '08 presidential elections. It is arguably true that a sizable number of Americans are unhappy with the general quality of candidates being fielded by both national parties. Indeed, "independent" voters make up the single biggest block of voters in our political system today. Take a look at the numbers, however, in a detailed survey taken by the Unity08 sponsors, and one c…
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Added by Steve Wilmarth on September 12, 2007 at 12:19am —
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The DFA Training Academy's mission is to focus, network, and train grassroots activists in the skills and strategies to take back our
country. This isn't just about the next election, or what we can do for
our country every two to four years. This is about building a movement
to take back our country. Democracy for
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Added by Steve Wilmarth on September 11, 2007 at 5:07pm —
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