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Imagine, if you can, a Kerry presidency. Really think about it. Doesn’t it feelbetter? Like a tall glass of cool lemonade on a hot summer day? That ticker which runs constantly along the bottom of your screen won’t say “Threat Level: Elevated Threat Level: Elevated Threat Level: Elevated Threat Level: Elevated Threat Level: Elevated”. Tom [...]

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Will Safire is troubled. In today’s column, he writes that the Arab Americans are ALL voting for Kerry. Which is ok, he says, it is their right. But, the bizarro world scenario is that the majority of Jewish Americans are also voting for Kerry! His overall point is that the Jewish Americans should vote en [...]

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3-0. This was Our Fearless Leader’s best performance. And the saddest. Confession time: I don’t hate George W. Bush. I detest his policies, his rudimentary grasp of the world he so profoundly inhabits, his oedipal fixation on Iraq, his cultivated homeliness. And his overtly expressive face. But, not the man himself. He is not evil [...]

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Over on hijabman, he mentioned last week that he was not going to vote for Bush or Kerry. As he lives in Pennsylvania, I urged him to re-consider and also requested if he will share the basis of his decision. Hijabman was gracious enough to write a post explaining his viewpoint – something he was [...]

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We have seen all four in action now. I am a tad invested in these debates. I wanted to watch the first two before opining anything out loud. Mainly, because I didn’t want to jinx it. Basically, I am convinced that a house built of straws just needs a huffnpuff – not a hurricane. The [...]

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I needed to breathe. I think I gave up last Sunday. If you scroll down, you can see my post. All week, I have not read the newsites, haven’t gone to dailyKos or Atrios or TPM or, even, Juan Cole. I didn’t read that Musharraf is keeping the vardi. I didn’t follow Putin or the [...]

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My theory about the upcoming elections has been that the country cannot remain in such close contestation for too long – that something will happen that will prove to be the tipping point and, well, Kerry will win in a landslide. I believe that (barring any “revelations”), the presidential debates will be that point. Think [...]

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Good to be back. I have said, in public, that Kerry will win in a landslide; that the country cannot teeter on pinpoint for that long; that the debates (or some new tell-all revelation about Bush) will be the catalyst; that this race is most akin to 1980 with a sitting President bungling up a [...]

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As Daily Show pointed out last night, the new refrain from bushpartypeople is we’ve turned a corner and we are not going back (Bush said it 23 times in 8 speeches). HA. Could there be a more asinine theme for re-election? If you would remember the India Shining campaign (and it’s twin “feel good”), you [...]

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When expectations are met, the roar can be deafening. And the roar around Barack Obama’s speech is indeed deafening. All are believers now. You can watch the speech here (about 18 min). The speech itself spoke powerfully to all the things I consider to be unique and great about this country and it’s people. His [...]

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The Democratic National Convention is on. I watched a bit of the Fox coverage (they had the missing Utah hiker), CNN (Wolf was hitting on Judy while Jeff looked askance) and MSNBC (Ron Reagan was trying to get girls to flash him. I think). The world would be a terrible place without C-SPAN, I must [...]

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The mess Illinois Republicans are in is exquisite. After Ryan’s public outing, they have been turned down by almost every leading contender for the Senate bid (all hedging their bets for the 2006 Governor’s race) to the degree that a cigar-chomping, bad hipped, SUV driving Da Coach could be Da Candidate. Da Lame. I do [...]

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I woke up to this. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. counterterrorism officials are looking at an emergency proposal on the legal steps needed to postpone the November presidential election in case of an attack by al Qaeda, Newsweek reported on Sunday. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge warned last week that Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network [...]

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No. Not Gephardt. John Edwards is the actual pick, not that Murdoch Empire fantasy. I have to applaud the decision to go with Edwards. He connected really well with voters during the primaries. He polled as the “most likeable”. He is attractive on camera (trust me that is an issue when debating Cheney’s sneer) and [...]

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Rejoice! in the streets, if you will. South Dakota makes my day by electing Democrat Stephanie Herseth in that red state. It was a close election, no doubt, and Herseth will have re-compete in November. But, the important fact is that the Democrats are making in-roads into the red states. Kentucky led the way by [...]

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None of that pesky freedom and democracy rhetoric from the Democratic Presidential Nominee. He made it clear to the WaPo yesterday that “sometimes we are dealt a set of cards that don’t allow us do everything we want to do at once”. And the cards dealt to the DPN are such that he has to [...]

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I have to take time out from my Vegas shenenigans to express my outrage. Barack Obama is the Democratic candidate for US Senate from Illinois. He is a law professor at the UChicago. An incredibly cool guy who I think will make a great Senator. His Republican opponent Jack Ryan decided that since there is [...]

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It is ironic that Pakistan and Iraq are to be saved from the reign of Mullahs by Democracy. But what happens when democracy dictates bowing down before God? From Village Voice comes a startling tale of Bush advisors meeting with Christian Apocalyptics about W.H.’s position on a Palestinian state. Their concern was that the Road [...]

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