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In his new book, the widely respected Ron Suskind charges that in run up to the war in Iraq, the Bush Administration ordered the CIA to forge a document that would support the claim that there was a connection between the al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein’s Government. If this is true, and there is every reason to believe that it is, then the smoking gun that justifies the impeachment of George W Bush and Dick Cheney may have just turned up.  

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This is an idea that no serious politician can be caught handing out, but there is speculation that some are trying to encourage this line of thinking.

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You don’t have to be a Hebrew or a Christian or a Muslim for these images to stir complex emotions. As a wise friend of mine recently said to me, “History usually dawns on us after the fact; we are not used to looking it right in the face, and knowing that we are doing so.”

There has been wide spread discussion amongst democrats that Joe Lieberman be formally tossed out of the democratic caucus in the senate. This is a measure many think appropriate especially if Lieberman address the republican convention. Anger with Lieberman comes not over his independence or even his backing of the Republican nominee, but from his willingness to publicly besmirch the character and qualifications of the Democratic Party’s nominee.

Now comes a poll that shows that Barack Obama is more popular amongst Jewish voters than is the 2000 democratic nominee for Vice President.

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Ok, one more time for anyone who is still confused. Osama bin Laden a terrorist who lives in a cave; Barack Obama is a Senator with a ridicules name and the favorite to be the next President of the United States. Jon Stewart has more.

This stuff really is out there folks. It’s interesting that as our society may be stepping closer towards an expression of healing and reconciliation, the forces of ignorance and division are simultaneously intensifying under the pressure of moment

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If you are one of the growing army of people who have contributed to the Obama campaign over the past months, and wonder where all that money is going, here is your answer. The Obama campaign has chosen to invest primarily in people, rather than yard signs and TV adds. Now the Paid staff is the largest ever assembled, and offices are being open in parts of the country that no democrat in resent memory has competed in. Is this a revolutionary strategy or a waste of resources? Only time will tell, but if past performance is any indicator, the Illinois Senator’s Campaign has already won a hotly contested primary fight, and moved out in front of his opponent in many of the traditional swing states, forcing the McCain to make difficult choices about how to spend his limited resources.

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John McCain just revealed to the media secret detail about Sen. Obama’s travel schedule in Iraqi over the next two days, potentially endangering Obama by tipping of the terrorist to his whereabouts

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          So this is the guy who rides around on something called the “straight talk express”. This is from a man who promised a different kind of campaign; one that on the issues and on substance.
          It seems that the McCain camp has decided that they cannot win this election on the issues. They have decided, along with a majority of the punditry, that with the republican brand so badly damaged by the Bush years, the 2008 election has become a referendum on Barack Obama. If people decide that he is a regular democrat who drinks water and breaths air he will walk to an electoral triumph. The only path to victory for McCain involves a series of Obama stumbles or else some dirty campaigning that convinces Americans in mass that Obama is too risky or fundamentally unlike the rest of us, un-American.
           It’s an all or nothing approach because this type of attack undercuts McCain’s own image as a different kind of politician. It is telling, I believe, that the McCain camp has gone to this strategy so early. The window to define Obama in the public eye closes more and more each passing day.

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The Iraqi government has stepped into the debate over the future of American military presence there. All indications are that Barack Obama’s schedule for a phased redeployment of American troops from Iraq corresponds to a growing consensus with in the Iraqi Government, that an open ended military presence in the country is both unwelcome and counter productive.

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Just in case anyone doesn’t understand why the Obama campaign’s courting of the Clintons, in the name of democratic unity, is such a delicate undertaking there is this.

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It might be hard to believe but there were some of us out there in the progressive community who still admired Ralph Nader, even after his questionable presidential runs. Today, after his racist comments about Sen. Obama, there is one less progressive in that already dwindling category.

Mr. Nader has done more good for the consumers and citizens in this country than almost anyone you will find on our currency, but the words he has now uttered sound like they could have come from the mouth of Don Imus. For some time, questions have been raised over the role Nader’s ego has played in his choice to campaign in swing states; where his marginal successes have been blamed for throwing the race to the republicans. What is not in question is the effect of those republican victories; they have pushed back the progress in consumer safety, workers rights, and environmental protections, that Mr. Nader had spent the greater part of his life fighting for.

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The full title of the story was “Obama: bin Laden still free because of GOP”. In fairness to Drudge the author of the piece, the associated press’s Nedra Pickler used this title as well. Obama’s comments on the subject are important and shine light on a seldom spoken truth; the republican conceived war on terror has failed to bring America’s greatest enemy to justice. This is the debate that democrats have been to afraid to have for the last seven years, but it is the right one for the nation. In that spirit one has to commend Drudge for covering it, on the other hand, it is probably never a good idea to have the words “Obama: bin Laden” right underneath a huge picture of the Senator.

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The man who used to the next President of the United States has endorsed Barack Obama’s White House run. Al Gore brings with him considerable democratic institutional credibility as well as impeccable environmental credentials. 

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             In what is being widely acclaimed as a gracious and effective concession speech, Hillary Clinton suspended her campaign and endorsed Sen. Obama, on Saturday. In the most telling words of her speech Sen. Clinton said, “You will always find me on the frontlines of democracy”. The frontline for Hillary, has for sixteen months, been the fight for her own candidacy; now she is trying to explain to her supporters that the general election is the new frontline, and Obama the best hope for progress for the issues that she has fought for all these years.

            Hillary Clinton is a good senator and a historic candidate. There are those things that she holds sole responsibility for. It was she who recalled sniper fire in Bosnia; it was she who seemed to diminish the accomplishments Martin Luther King; it was she who trusted George W. Bush on Iraq. These things played a role, but much of what has been so widely criticized about her campaign, in deed much of what led to its downfall, was not of her doing. Her advisers, particularly Mark Penn, gave her terrible advice. Her husband at times lots his temper at any challenge on the extent of his administrations accomplishments or more often stole the show when the focus should have been on the Clinton who was running for the highest office. (President, not God)  

            Perhaps it is not the best thing for women’s equality that the first woman president also be the wife of the former Commander-n-Chief. Perhaps it is not wise to run as the inevitable incumbent nominee in a “change election” when the sitting president is the most unpopular in generations. Perhaps a big state strategy doesn’t make a lot of since when the democratic primary contest is won on delegates that are distributed proportionally. These are the flaws that have undone the campaign, but they are not Sen. Clinton’s alone, and they are not reflections of a bad candidate, or a bad legislator.   

            Saturday’s concession speech was that of a woman who knows that her political future is still promising. Describing the impact of her campaign on women around the nation she said that while she had not broken the highest of glass ceilings she had put eighteen million cracks in it, referring to her number of votes. As Barack Obama said in his victory speech this past Tuesday, when our nation finally secures healthcare for all of its citizens, Hillary Clinton’s name will be on that project.

            The coming opportunity to achieve universal healthcare along with so many other progressive initiatives has called Clinton to this moment. In pointing to the fact that democrats have only won three out of the last ten elections she urged her supporters to seize the moment and win back the White House for the Democratic Party. And in her concession speech she not only endorsed Obama but even implied that the whole Clinton family was standing with her. Back in January in South Carolina at a campaign event for his wife, Bill Clinton spoke with me about how he hoped he might get a chance to vote for Obama someday, now they both will get their chance.

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