The prospect of an African American president is bringing the nation's white supremacists out of the shadows—and, along with them, some subtler versions of racialist populism.
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And just now, John McCain -- speaking in New Mexico -- delivered one of the ugliest, nastiest, most invective-filled personality attacks a major candidate has ever delivered, blatantly designed to stoke raw racial resentments and depict Obama as a Manchurian candidate funded by …
SC cop runs over man intentionally and then brags.
I just, I'm speechless watching this. The transcript is after the video, below.
Last nights Presidential debate demonstrated one clear aspect of this Presidential campaign that to me cinched the choice. One candidate presented an open and encompassing style.
Fort Hill, SC Mayor Danny Funderburk said he forwarded a chain email suggesting Barack Obama is the antichrist because he was "just curious" if it was true:
i'd rather have the whole "sucker go down" than have another republican in office
Republican U.S. House candidate Cynthia Lummis said Wednesday that her press secretary was leaving her campaign after a report that the staffer called in to a rival's news conference and used a fake name to pose a question.
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the hardest working band in punk rock keep it up...
One trading-floor denizen described how it happens: Your phone rings, and you're told to report to human resources. You stand up and announce to the people in your row that it's all over. If they like you, they hug you and maybe even applaud.
more GOP members see the light and join ObamaMania!
McChanging indeed.
OK, a correspondent directs me to John McCain's article, Better Health Care at Lower Cost for Every American, in the Sept./Oct. issue of Contingencies, the magazine of the American Academy of Actuaries.
The Democratic vice presidential candidate says for those earning more than $250,000, "It's time to be patriotic ... time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut."
Barack Obama is not my ideal candidate for president. (In fact, I made the maximum donation to John McCain during the primaries, when there was still hope he might come to his senses.) But I now see that Obama is almost the ideal candidate for this moment in American history.
Text of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's remarks to reporters Wednesday on the bailout of AIG:
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All of a sudden, North Carolina matters.
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He has become the sort of politician he once despised.
He has become the sort of politician he once despised.
wonder who's voting obama now?
But McCain has concluded that a fact-based case about Obama isn't enough to prevail in November. So he has chosen to smear his opponent with ridiculous claims that he thinks the American people are gullible enough to believe.
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