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POPSCrushed by the Elephant This is probably the best explaination for the totally confused campaign that McCain is so unfortunately emersed in.....he truely seems to "rather not be there" when he appears with Palin on television news interviews. The idea that he had something going in the 2004 election, but got defeated by not being down and dirty enough......and then wanting another chance at the top job.....and then caving into the divisive politics of the right wingnuts.....is very plausible, and very convincing. He may really have had a better chance if he came back to his 2004 version of "The Maverick"! The selection of Sarah Palin was his biggest mistake! Frank
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POPSSave Capitalism from the Capitalists...A Tale of Two Fine Roosevelts Do you think the champions of Capitalism will ever realize that in order for the system to work and survive, it needs some oversight? It cannot be allowed to "police" itself. Capitalism needs to work for all the people, not just those that will benifit at the expense of those that will be buried under their relentless and ruthless competition. It is not a good idea to allow the fox to guard the henhouse. The only think that people with the power and the money have in mind is the bottom line!
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POPSTime To Vote Contempt Where's the beef, when it comes to justice, and the rule of law. I guess politics trumps the law everytime.
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POPSGiuliani as Mayor: A Look at the Darker Side Thanks for the insight Joe Bierman. I could not have said it better....especially the following: "After seven years of similarly arrogant and petty leadership that has devastated our country’s reputation around the world, we can ill afford another president whose style of leadership can be summed up not just by the directive “My way or the highway” but, more accurately, “My way, or else!”
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POPSWhy Russian politics matter In this clip, Journalist David Remnick talks about why Americans should care about upcoming Russion elections. He talks about how this administration's loss of moral authority has been very helpful to Putin's brand of politics. Mention is made of the former chess player who got too involved in the politics, and is currently paying the price. For some reason, I think that Bush would not mind being able to control the politics of this country the same way Putin controls the politics of Russia.... of course, that's just my opinion :) Check out the video at the following link. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#21981169
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POPSDirty Tricks Real interesting interview about what takes place during an election, from a guy who's been there....done that!
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POPSRovian Politics....the politics of division It was always so damn obvious to me that "I'm a uniter, not a divider", was a totally untrue Bush statement. I've never seen this country so divided! All this crew cared about was winning elections....their strategy was to appeal to the base. They used every Rovian "dirty trick" possible to eek out that last vote.....to push them over the top.....no matter how divided the country became. Now, they get to slink off back under their rock.
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POPSBuilding a Coalition, Forgetting to Rule This administration was watching the polls very carefully. Not the polls of the majority of the people, but the polls of their base. They governed for the vote and to stay in power. They did not govern for the good of the people or of the nation.
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POPSFear and Loathing in Middle America
More: Lucky for us, Bageant didn't hop on the next plane back west, and didn't chalk it all up to a terrible, misconstrued nostalgia. Instead, he stuck to his guns -- literally -- and tried to understand why people in his part of the country, people he genuinely loves despite his utter detestation of their politics, are so dyed-in-the-wool conservative that it'd take the Apocalypse to prize them away from supporting George W. Bush. "In the days before the spine of the labor movement was crushed, back when you could be a gun owner and a liberal without any conflict, members of the political left supported these workers, stood on the lines taking beatings at the plant gates alongside them," he argues. "Now there is practically no labor movement, and large numbers on the left are comfortably ensconced in the true middle class... From that vantage point, liberals currently view working whites as angry, warmongering bigots, happy pawns of the American empire -- which begs the questions
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POPSForget Ethics, Remember Politics I don't know how "Turd Blossom" (Karl Rove} can continue to be intimately involved in these things without being called to account! I sure am looking forward to the day that his big smile is wiped from his unethical face!
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POPSThe Reverend Falwell’s Heavenly Timing from the article: What a difference a midterm election has made. The Karl Rove theory that Republicans cannot survive without pandering to religious-right pooh-bahs is yet another piece of Bush dogma lying in ruins, done in by two synergistic forces. The first is the raw political math. Polls consistently show that most Americans don’t want abortion outlawed, do want legal recognition for gay couples, do want stem-cell research and never want to see government intrude on a Terri Schiavo again. On Election Day 2006, voters in red states defeated both an abortion ban (South Dakota) and, for the first time, a same-sex marriage ban (Arizona). But equally crucial is how much the “family values” establishment has tarnished itself in the Bush era. Some of that self-destruction followed the time-honored Jimmy Swaggart-Jim Bakker paradigm of hypocrisy: the revelations that Ted Haggard, the head of the National Association of Evangelicals, was finding God in the arms of a male prostitute, an
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POPS1972 Nixon Re-election,and 20 year old Karl Rove. " "Bush’s political style, his attitudes toward executive power, and his contempt for democratic procedures — it has been clear for many years now that his real role model is Nixon. The resemblances could fill a magazine article as long as Keller’s. Both Bush and Nixon, resentful of the supposed cultural dominance of liberals, perfected a conservative populism that vilifies academics, journalists, bureaucrats and other professionals as out-of-touch elites. Both men, hostile to the news media, rigidly prescribed the messages that their staffers could take to the press. Both vaunted secrecy, restricted access to information, and politicized areas of the government once deemed the province of non-partisan experts. Iraq has generated even more echoes of the Nixon years. In a book review in The New York Times recently, Michiko Kakutani said it was hard to read Robert Dallek’s new tome, “Nixon and Kissinger” without regarding it “as a kind of parable about the presidency of George W.
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POPSI Report You Decide AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals. -- Jerry Falwell (attributed: source unknown) The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country. -- Rev Jerry Falwell, Sermon, July 4, 1976 The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually blind and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior. -- Jerry Falwell, Listen, America! Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan. -- Rev Jerry Falwell (attributed: source unknown) The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews. -- Rev Jerry Falwell (attributed: source unknown) AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharoah's chariotters. -- Rev Jerry Falwell (attributed: source unknown)
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POPSThe Rovian Era...his tracks are everywhere Karl's time has come. It's time to pay the piper. Old "turdblossom" needs to answer for subversion of our government for purely political purposes. This guy is the king of "divide and conquer" political tricks.
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POPSI Report, You Decide! H0pefully, this link will take you to the documentary "Outfoxed". All you fox news patriotic worshipers can check it out and let me know what you think. Remember......I report, you decide!
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