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Resisting Karl Rove

Karl Rove tactics are being used to demoralize the Obama camp. Resist. Put it in their face and say shove it.

New Survey: 82% Of Americans Think Health Care Needs Major Overhaul

Americans are dissatisfied with the U.S. health care system and 82 percent think it should be fundamentally changed or completely rebuilt, according to a new survey released yesterday by The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation supporting independent research on health policy reform and a high performance health system.

On opting out of Public Financing: Pennies for Votes | The Agonist

excerpt: (Opinion)

Until we as a nation begin to aggressively address the growing influence that money has had in politics, we will continue to witness the political pollution that money buys on an increasingly grand scale.

http://agonist.org/cody_lyon/20080621/on_opting_out_of_public_financing_pennies_for_votes

Political Cortex: Gym Pundits Worry About Obama Nomination

When seeking to challenge his Obama friend, he asked him about the lopsided Clinton victory in West Virginia and the other wins in Pennsylvania and places like Ohio, places in America where progressives have work to do and trust to win, where aggressive attempts to prove to the economically disenfranchised or higher education denied and affordable universal health care starved people that government can do good things for people, the Obama supporter cut deep.

How Hillary Can Knock-Out Obama

There is a remarkable, bold and gutsy way for Hillary to knock-out Obama.

"Slash-And-Burn" Vs. "The Kitchen Sink"

The final push is on before Tuesday's presidential primary in Pennsylvania. We have two different campaign tactics at work among the Democratic candidates. Who's got the edge?

On a Hillary Departure: Politics on the Runway this Season

Sometimes, these same patterns emerge in political races. But, at least on Project Runway, the final goodbye is saved for after the runway show. In the case of the contest between Hillary and Barack, the runway is still occupied and the show goes on, but, fantasy seeds of an already rendered final decision have been planted by some who would bid one candidate goodbye.

As has been widely witnessed, calls by pundits, some Democratic leaders and other people with platforms are being made for Hillary Clinton to step aside so that the prematurely anointed candidate Barack Obama, can have free reign over the direction of the upcoming general campaign against Republican John McCain.

Why Democrats Should Not Neglect the Deep South

Still, during national elections, the more progressive party, the Democrats, basically write off the South as un-winnable during national elections which in turn, further fuels a sense that parts of this nation have been truly left behind.

Political Cortex: An Increasingly Smarmy Obama Campaign

Naturally, politicians in the heat of campaign are going to engage in slippery talk and a tendency to plant seeds of doubt aimed at potential voters that is often laden with fact challenged or questionable text and messages. But in the end, voters suffer because they are misled into believing messages that simply aren't true. And that's where the news people come in since its there job to expose that sort of material and behavior to readers, viewers and listeners for what it is, misleading.

Hayden Panettiere Hot Candies Photo Shoot

Hayden Panettiere is an actress and singer who is best known for her role on the NBC series Heroes as Claire Bennet. She also appeared as the voice of Kairi in the Square Enix Kingdom Hearts series.

Political Cortex: Is Barack Obama a True Agent of Change?

The Obama camp has yet to be fully vetted by the majority of the press that seems almost shy about interrupting what many have called a movement. Those that have done their homework and posed legitimate questions about policy, relationships and other issues have often been met with arrogant, evasive and dismissive shrugs and a fiercely protective network of supporters who shoot down critiques of the anointed beacon of change.

Gym Pundrity Urges "Go Girl" Approach in Hillary Campaign

While all four claimed to identify with Senator Barack Obama s message of hope and change, the loyalty was obviously with Clinton. They worried aloud that Obama s lack of experience and failure to articulate a clear and specific agenda were he to be elected. They agreed with President Bill Clinton, that Obama had received a free ride by the press, but, that Obama s victory in Iowa was historic, moving and a hopeful sign that America was slowly overcoming its racist curse.

PETA's New "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" Spokes Model

On February 9, 2007, Michelle Manhart, formerly a sergeant in the U.S. Air Force, was kicked out of her job, despite the fact she had served 13 spotless years, received perfect scores on performance reports and been recommended for immediate promotion. Her infraction? Posing nude in Playboy...

For Now, an Unofficial Rivalry

The possible Clinton-Obama presidential clash has the Senate abuzz.

Pelosi, venture capital and Sarbanes-Oxley

Silicon Valley venture capitalists will finally see Sarbanes-Oxley being wound back. They have been pushing politicians and regulators hard to water down the legislation. And the new House majority leader Nancy Pelosi is well-placed because she actually received more campaign money this year from venture capital outfit Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers than she got from the traditional Democrat soul-mates in the US union movement