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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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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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          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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In what may be a positive sign for those hoping that Barack Obama will pick the dark horse in the vice presidential race, antiwar republican Chuck Hagel will join the democratic (presumptive) nominee on his upcoming visit to Iraq.

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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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If you look at the map and listen to Todd, an Obama landslide is possible, if the African American voters and young voters and independent voters show up like some think they will. To see if that is happening one has to keep an eye on states like Missouri, Indiana, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and North Carolina.

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It’s hard to figure out where these right wingers think Obama would have stood during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. I mean on the one hand he’s a (secret) Muslim and on the other hand he’s a (secret) Marxist, and that’s before we get in to Obama’s well known (secret) Black Nationalism, or his former life as a Rastafarian named Puff. How long till they say he’s from outer space or a cannibal or that has really just been a hologram projection all along?   In related news, George W Bush is a roast beef sandwich. 

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           It was announced on Wednesday that Caroline Kennedy, Daughter of J.F.K., will be one of three people who are heading up the search for Obama’s VP. This reminded me that when G.W.B. was the republican “presumptive nominee’ back in 2000, he put former Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney in charge of finding a VP, he would of course eventually suggest himself.

            Despite the buzz, Hillary Clinton seems a very unlikely choice because of Bill Clinton if for no other reason. As big of a figure as Obama is, even he could find himself being overshadowed by the former president, whose political judgment seems to be past it’s prime, and who has shown himself this primary season to be impossible for even his wife to control.

            Look for someone with executive experience, so a governor is better than a legislator, since being governor is like being the president of your state. When you’re running against John McCain having someone with military experience could sure help. Also given Hillary Clinton’s historic campaign and the left over rifts in the “traditional democratic alliance”, maybe Obama should consider a Woman for VP. Also the Obama team has to think about swing states, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Colorado, someone from these states could tip the election his way. Along with all of that you have to think about the well healed notion of a balanced ticket, so if you are from Chicago (/Hawaii/Indonesia/Kenya/Kansas) then having a southerner would make a lot of since.  Now it might be true that no single person can satisfy all of those needs but you can be sure whoever is chosen will address some of these issues.

            Here are the names I would look at: Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, who was the Secretary of the Navy under Ronald Reagan, Gen. Wesley Clark, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, or perhaps Clinton supporter Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh who is the former Indian Gov. Rounding out the conventional wisdoms short list are Former Georgia Sen. Sam Nunn, former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, and Penn Gov. Ed Rendell who also supported Clinton.

            Then there are those  who are less likely but who are my personal dream picks: former Sen. minority leader South Dakota’s Tom Daschle, who served three years as an intelligence officer in the Air Force Strategic Air Command, or the Senator from Delaware Joe Biden. But maybe the most interesting option, the anti-war retiring republican Senator from Nebraska, Chuck Hagel who is a Vietnam War veteran.

This is why so many Obama supporters resist an Obama/Clinton ticket.

Did some one say Vice President Hagel?

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 “Imagine the excitement of leaving the convention and still not knowing who the nominee was. That would be crazy, crazy exciting!”

Michael Moore is working on a follow up to Fahrenheit 9/11, a movie that dared to say what not even the democrats would; that George W. Bush is a phony and an opportunist.

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This week, while speaking in front of the NRA who interestingly banned guns from their convention, the former republican presidential candidate, Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee made what I guess we can call a joke, about Barack Obama diving for cover when someone aimed the barrel of a gun at him. He has since apologized for his poor delivery of a joke that he says came out wrong. But its hard to figure out how any comment with those components could come out any way but wrong. After Malcolm X and Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, what does Mike Huckabee think is funny about a gun being aimed at the man who may well be the first black president of these United States? And what are we to think of these sort of people, people like former preacher Huckabee, good natured , quick to laugh, presumably wholesome, and then they say something like this, something so racist and treasonous.

In a sign that the general election show down really has begun, John McCain’s biggest backer, George W. Bush is out slinging some mud at Barack Obama. The dust up is over Obama’s willingness to meet with leaders from friendly and unfriendly nations. The President and several McCain surrogates are arguing that this position is comparable to Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler before WWII.

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This should add the all important radical-libertarian-constitutional-internet-fringe. I for one think that if we get to a point where Ralph Nader and Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan and Denis Kucinich all agree on Obama’s candidacy then he has to be the guy, or maybe that should disqualify him, (Isn’t this like one of those books that Thich Nhat Hanh writes about how Jesus and the Buddha are really getting at the same thing?)

We’re not quite there yet; I’ll get back to you.

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Though George W was inspiring and reassuring when he was standing on that steaming rubble and shouting through the bull horn, what he said (the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon ) wasn’t true. More than six years have passed since 9/11 and our national treasures of blood and gold have been spent on war, but Osama bin Laden remains at large. According to a new congressional report, the Bush administration continues to lack a strategy for bringing the terrorist leader to justice.

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Here is a man, Joe Lieberman, who has not even a glass house to call home politically, throwing that most inflammatory of stones. It’s hard to imagine words like these being uttered about Al Gore or John Kerry or any other white politician.

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ABC’s Jake Tapper does a nice job, in his blog, capturing the feeling most of us got when we first heard of the Kentucky republican Geoff Davis call the man who might well be the next president “boy”.

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