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Michael Moore: Let's Pass Some Laws Before the Republicans Head Into Town (after all, that's what they'd do)

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Michael Moore - Nov. 16 - Dear Congressional Democrats: Welcome back to our nation's capital for your one final session of the 111th Congress. Come January, the Republicans will take...

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Time for Dems to slam the GOP hypocrites

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Gene Lyons - Oct. 21 (Opinion) - Obama's GOP antagonists offer empty rhetoric even they don't believe. But does he have the heart to call them out?

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Palin Crossed Border For Canadian Health Care

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:59:11 -0800

Huffington Post - Mar. 08 - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- who has gone to great lengths to hype the supposed dangers of a big government takeover of American health care -- admitted over the weekend that she used to get her treatment in Canada's single-payer system. The irony,

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Pardon The Interruption: CNN Drops Afghanistan Discussion For Serious Breaking News About Rush Limbaugh

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jason Linkins - Oct. 15 (Opinion) - So, it's half past six or so on a Wednesday evening and I am watching that evening's edition of CNN's Wolf Blitzer and the Chamber of Situations, where my boss (full disclosure: Arianna Huffington is the co-founder of The Huffington Post) is discussing her provocative op-ed, which calls for Vice President Joe Biden to resign if he cannot reconcile his opposition to escalating the war in Afghanistan with an administration decision to proceed with such an escalation.

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Straight Man

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Republic - By Michelle Cottle - Apr. 28 (Opinion) - If Biden speaks the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, what happens should he eventually utter a disastrously inconvenient truth--not a run-of-the-mill gaffe but something more grave and substantive? Will the White House ultimately regret its decision to attach ethical import to the vice president's candid, digressive, unpredictable, and occasionally out-of-control political style?

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A Year of Smears or Barack Obama is a Muslim and Al Franken Laughs at the DisabledA

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0700

blogsareaboutego.blogspot.com - By Dustin Luke Nelson - Nov. 01 (Opinion) - This election year was, at one time and like so many others, filled with promises of a clean race from the presidential candidates and from countless Congressmen and women running for office. But it seems that the races across the nation have unraveled at an alarming rate.

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SNL VP Debate Open: Palin / Biden

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

nbc.com - Oct. 05 (Comedy News) - Opening sketch with Tina Fey as Sarah Palin, Queen Latifah as Gwen Ifill, and Jason Sudeikis as Joe Biden.

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A country in shambles, under GOP rule

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Oct. 04 (Opinion) - This joint right-wing/pundit claim that Americans would swoon in the face of Palin's empty chatter, self-conscious folksiness and chronic, seizure-like winking says much more about those making the claim than it does about their Regular People subjects.

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Initial Reaction

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By Josh Marshall - Oct. 03 (Opinion) - My global thought on this debate is that it helped the Obama-Biden ticket more than McCain-Palin's. But I also think it probably helped stop some of the hemorrhaging and morale breakdown among hardcore Republicans. One clear fact about this debate is that Palin didn't have one of those stammering moments that we've seen especially in the Couric interview. She got the name of the top general in Afghanistan wrong. And she dug in on a clearly false claim when she said that Joe Biden had supported McCain's Iraq policies up until this campaign started. That's nonsense. And I suspect we'll see that whopper taken apart over the next hours and days. Still, though, these whoppers and gaffes aren't in the same category. (I mean, a pretty ridiculous standard -- she clearly has virtually no grasp of any major national political or policy issue.) For that reason, as I said, I think she gives base Republicans a reason to feel reassured and permission to stop feeling embarrassed. One thing that I think is easy to overlook here is that Biden did really well. He started a little slow. But he quickly got into his groove and in the second half there were several answers that he took the debate squarely to John McCain in a way that I thought was very effective. So basically a win for Biden because he just did a lot better and it's Obama-Biden who want the trajectory of the race to stay as is. She made herself less of an embarrassment and gave core Republicans a reason to stop being embarrassed. But there were a bunch of flatly false or nonsensical things she said -- and we'll see those picked apart over the next few days.

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Well-Rehearsed Sarah Still Managed To Scare Me

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Brian Ross - Oct. 03 (Opinion) - There wasn't much substance coming out of Sarah Palin as she tried her best to avoid answering the questions last night. What did slip out, though, you should truly find frightening. How the PalinDroid threatens the United States Constitution and other tales of horror.

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Palin's Small-Town Snobbery: Why it's time to bury the myth of rural virtue

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Reason Magazine - By Steve Chapman - Oct. 02 (Opinion) - The myth of rural virtue and urban vice is an old one in this country, and it persists no matter what the changes in the landscape. And whatever questions Palin may face in her debate with Biden, her paeans to small-town virtue aren't likely to be among them.

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Sarah Rocks!

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Michelle Malkin - By Michelle Malkin - Oct. 02 (Opinion) - First, I would like to see all the Sarah doubters and detractors in the Beltway/Manhattan corridor eat their words.? ?? Eat them.? ?? Sarah Palin is the real deal.? Five weeks on the campaign trail, thrust onto the national stage, she rocked tonight's debate.

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Voices without Votes ? Debate Watch: What is Joe Biden Up Against?

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

voiceswithoutvotes.org - By Jillian York - Oct. 02 (Opinion) - Since Barack Obama selected Senator Joe Biden as his running mate just prior to the Democratic National Convention in August, little attention has been paid to the Senator from Delaware. With all of the media's attention focused on Obama himself (as well as Sarah Palin of course), little focus has been given to Biden. A few bloggers have noticed him, however.

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DNC: From An Arab Prism

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jamal Dajani - Sep. 01 (Opinion) - In the U.S., Obama's choice of Biden as a vice-presidential running mate was seen by some critics as tacit admission that he lacked sufficient experience in the area. Not in the Arab media. This was seen as a shrewd maneuver to woo American Jewish voters and pro-Israeli groups in the U.S.

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On National Security Night, Clinton Keeps His Gun Holstered and Biden Fires Away

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Arianna Huffington - Aug. 28 (Opinion) - It was a powerful indictment of McCain -- a heaping, close-to-9-minute serving of the red meat that has been sorely missing from the convention menu this week -- and effectively made the case that national security is actually John McCain's weakness. That's a point Democrats need to relentlessly hammer home from now until Election Day. Even when it's not national security night.

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Joe Biden and the political establishment's overriding goal

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Aug. 24 (Opinion) - Preserving "the centralization of government power in the White House" is the best and most effective means devised thus far for allowing the political elite to run the country without interference from the dirty, stupid masses, and though the establishment generally believes (accurately) that Republicans serve those ends more effectively, what they care about most is obtaining a bipartisan commitment to continuing that state of affairs. They're fine with rhetoric bashing the Bush administration -- now that it's almost over. What they oppose most vociferously is any effort to change the framework that enabled it.

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson: McCain, Not Obama, Picked VP Biden

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - Aug. 23 (Opinion) - Presumptive Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama did not choose Joe Biden as his VP mate. Republican rival John McCain did. McCain made the VP choice for Obama easy even before Obama became the likely Democratic presidential pick. In May, McCain hammered Obama as being inexperienced and naÃ¯ve on foreign policy issues. The tone, the tempo, and emphasis of McCain's attack were set.

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Obama, Clinton & the NAFTA Kabuki Dance

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:48:03 -0800

Common Sense - By David Sirota - Nov. 17 (Opinion) - Give credit where credit is due - Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, John Edwards and Dennis Kucinich have all refused to equivocate on this issue coming down the pike. They have all said they strongly oppose the Peru Free Trade Agreement. They realize in the era following the "for it, before I was against" it fiasco, you should probably straight-shoot voters by telling them whether you are for it or against it - for trade policies that crush the middle-class, or against them. And trying to pretend to be both is just silly.

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Chris Dodd's leadership vs. Clinton and Obama's game playing

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:35:06 -0700

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Oct. 24 (Opinion) - The issue here for Clinton and Obama is clear and simple and permits no equivocation: Will you support a filibuster of any bill that grants retroactive immunity to telecoms for enabling the Bush administration to spy illegally on Americans? There is absolutely no reason why they should be unable to answer that question in a clear, straightforward and unconditional manner. What they ought to be doing is leading on this issue -- taking a principled stand for the rule of law and our constitutional liberties and leading the Senate in a filibuster to stop this travesty. But since they are leaving that to Dodd, they ought to at least issue a clear statement as to their positions here.

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