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Malkin and Fox: Flip-Flopping Racism in Action

Dear Michelle Obama, we’re watching your back. You betcha we are.

As I predicted, the pathetic whisper campaign of the nearly-hysterical Republicans to frame Michelle Obama as bitter, militant, angry, female and above all, BLACK is now reaching fever pitch. Yesterday’s little gem came from Fox News, via Michelle Malkin. (Pssst, Malkin. Did you [...]

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“We are always Americans first”

Tonight my daughter asked me why I wasn’t on the moon. I tried to explain my frustration at the grandstanding that had gone on in advance of his speech, not to mention the fates colliding to make sure I couldn’t give it my full attention, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on what [...]

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Dan Abrams has it wrong

He described the Obama supporters opposed to Hillary Clinton as VP as opposing her nomination because they don’t like her.
I don’t know her. I don’t like things she’s done. That’s not my issue.
My issue is that she is a distraction, an impediment to getting shit done. She is drama queen to his [...]

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Tonight is HISTORICAL, yet trivialized by media

Barack Obama will earn the right to be called the presumptive nominee of the Democratic party tonight. This is an historical moment. It’s HUGE. HUGE.
What are the pundits talking about right now?
They could be talking about how monumental it is that this man has overcome the barriers that he has.
They could be talking [...]

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What does ‘participate’ mean?

As I mentioned last night, the meeting of the RBC today is meaningless. Harold Ickes, in high dudgeon, dramatically reserved Senator Clinton’s right to ‘take the Michigan compromise to the credentials committee.”
Clinton supporters, in addition to being incredibly rude and unruly, are unhappy that Obama was given ANY delegates in Michigan, just as I suspected. [...]

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Clinton Flip-Flops on Assassination Analogies

Back in January, before the New Hampshire Primary, Senator Clinton was introduced at a campaign event with the following words:
“Some people compare one of the other candidates to John F. Kennedy. But he was assassinated. And Lyndon Baines Johnson was the one who actually” passed the civil rights legislation.
When the press pushed back on that [...]

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