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Ben & Jerry’s Celebrates President Obama

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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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Reportedly a young student removed the Senator’s prayer from the Western Wall shortly after Obama left the holy site. Then the prayer was turned over to the local media, who chose to publish it.

You can read Sen. Obama’s prayer here

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

Get your “If You Want to Catch Osama You’ve Gotta Vote Obama” sticker here

See the Huffington post story about the GOP Obama/Osama propaganda

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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It’s hard to believe that a publication as respected as the New Yorker would allow something like this to take place. In looking at the controversial cover and listening to the back and forth in the media over the issue, I kept asking myself how many people had to have signed off on this before it went to print. How many experts, how man people with experience, how many editors, thought this was appropriate? The answer: enough, enough for this piece of “satire” to grace the cover of the New Yorker.

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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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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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