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Oballs: The (un)Official Response to Jesse Jackson

By Karoli July 10, 2008 Barack Obama No Comments

Courtesy of the ever-creative Lee Stranahan

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Obama got preferred mortgage terms & rates. So what?

By Karoli July 2, 2008 Barack Obama, Election 2008 No Comments

Obama Got Discount on Home Loan – washingtonpost.com The freshman Democratic senator received a discount. He locked in an interest rate of 5.625 percent on the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, below…

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If You’re John McCain, Cheating the System is Okay

By Karoli June 23, 2008 Barack Obama, Election 2008 No Comments

For all the public posturing that’s gone on over the past few days over Barack Obama’s wise decision to forego public financing by the McCain campaign and enabled by the…

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FISA, Fox and Obama

By Karoli June 21, 2008 Barack Obama, Domestic Policy, Election 2008 No Comments

“In our country, I have found that this cooperation happens not because we agree on everything, but because behind all the labels and false divisions and categories that define us;…

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Organizing for Obama: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Resolve

By Karoli June 18, 2008 Barack Obama, Election 2008 No Comments

Four years ago I was sure there wasn’t another Democrat living in this city. It wasn’t an unreasonable thing to believe, given that our representative is a 5-term Republican who…

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Leadership in Action

By Karoli June 15, 2008 Barack Obama, Domestic Policy, Election 2008 No Comments

“there is no problem we cannot solve…” What first attracted me to Barack Obama’s candidacy was the possibilities that I saw in his grass-roots bottom-up system of community organization. Here…

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