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Obama raises $66 million in August - Not struggling apparently

Posted by Jeff from Firstread.msnbc.msn

NBC News has learned that Obama raised $66 million in August -- his biggest monthly haul of the campaign, which surpasses the more than $55 million the campaign raised in February. The Obama camp also notes that it added an additional 500,000 donors to its fundraising base. By comparison, McCain raised at least $47 million in August

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Obama Ad Goes After McCain For Being Old, Incompetent

Posted by Jeff from Huffington Post

"Change needs to be more than a slogan." Second Obama ad inside the link is pretty good. The first one, not so good - Obama is best when he stays on a positive message.

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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.

LINK TO FULL TEXT AT POLITICAL CORTEX

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Unintelligence in Federal Intelligence Agencies - Indies

Posted by statusquobuster

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

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Obama: Children are off limits

Posted by Jeff from Firstread.msnbc.msn

More change we can believe in: "We don't go after people's families; we don't get them involved in the politics. It is not appropriate and it is not relevant. Our people were not involved in any way in this and they will not be. And if I ever thought it was somebody in the campaign that was involved in something like that they would be fired."

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Values verses Candidates

Posted by Villagenyc

excerpt:

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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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Obama Is Nominated by Acclamation

Posted by Jeff from New York Times

Senator Barack Obama, the Hawaiian-born son of a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas, officially became the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party on Wednesday, capping a meteoric rise from a little-known state senator to the first African-American to win a major-party nomination.

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