2008

Palin Gets Pranked! LOL

Posted by j1o2n3a4s5 from Associated Press

Sarah Palin unwittingly took a prank call Saturday from a Canadian comedian posing as French President Nicolas Sarkozy and telling her she would make a good president someday....

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4481532/Sarah_Palin_Prank_Call_

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Political Cortex: The Role of Hope, Fear and Race in the Election of the President

Posted by Villagenyc from politicalcortex

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Despite polls predicting otherwise, one of the three raised doubts about a Democratic win, a hope they all said they subscribed to.

The doubter worried that while the potential election of the African American candidate created the appearance that race no longer plays an active role in American politics, the fear remained, racism could rear its ugly head on election day.

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The Choice: Comment: The New Yorker

Posted by Jenzaka from New Yorker

Never in living memory has an election been more critical than the one fast approaching-that's the quadrennial cliché, as expected as the balloons and the bombast. And yet when has it ever felt so urgently true? When have so many Americans had so clear a sense that a Presidency has-at the levels of competence, vision, and integrity-undermined the country and its ideals?

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Political Cortex: Downfall into Political Chaos?

Posted by Villagenyc from politicalcortex

Despite the fact that 50 million un-insured, a disappearing middle class, the headlines are filled with talk of pitbulls, swine and lipstick, as if some sort of Animal Farm like fever had stolen the meat from the potato's of reality that politics is meant to address.

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The Truth about Pit Bulls and Lipstick | The Agonist

Posted by Villagenyc from Agonist

Could it actually be a sign of pervasive sexism, that a woman candidate believes that in order to win her party's approval she must prove she's tough enough to run a nation by invoking analogous machismo by holding up a dog with a less than gentle reputation as an example of her strength? Is Palin and her party's attempt to elevate her into a tomboyish tough love Mom with conservative virtues a party that deep down, at least appears to be complacent with a woman knowing her place in the grand political game of the true powers that be in the western world?....

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Values verses Candidates

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In these modern times when a campaign song like "Happy Days are here again" seems silly, in these days of Presidential administrations filled with countless advisors, policy shapers and other insiders who pontificate from above to the 'chosen ones' occupying the oval office, it is imperative that voters take into account what are clearly package deals, they are the packages that each party embodies, and each is filled with stark differences and competing ideologies.

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McCain's dirty pool

Posted by nathalie

Be careful about believing those ads.

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