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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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McCain uses term ‘tar baby’ - msnbc.com

Posted by theangryindian from MSNBC

Republican presidential contender John McCain on Friday used the term "tar baby," considered by some a racial epithet, and later said he regretted it.

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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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Unintelligence in Federal Intelligence Agencies - Indies

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Incredible waste federal spending: $3 billion of taxpayer money annually because of privatization.

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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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Arrests Made in Alleged Obama Assassination Plot

Posted by theangryindian from TruthDig

A possible plot to kill Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama during his acceptance speech Thursday at the Democratic National Convention was foiled in Denver on Monday night when at least three suspects were arrested, authorities reported.

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