Archive for March, 2008

Top 10 Myths Keeping Hillary in the Race

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Huffington Post

Chip Collis Posted March 31, 2008 | 08:49 AM (EST)

I have noted a number of myths amongst the comments here as to why Hillary should stay in the race. Here are ten enduring, kudzu-like myths, with the debunking they sorely need.

Myth: This race is tied.

No, actually, it’s not. Obama has the lead in number of [...]

Basra burns again

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Sunday Herald, UK

By Trevor Royle

MILITARY PLANNERS call it the tipping point, the decisive moment when circumstances conspire to replace one set of certainties with the precise opposite, when what passes for normality slides into anarchy and the authorities are powerless to do anything to halt the mayhem.

In Iraq this weekend, the expression has taken on [...]

We’ll Never Know

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Baltimore City Paper by Brian Morton

If you think about it, it’s amazing how completely and thoroughly information has been “managed” over the last seven years of the Bush administration. E-mails have been mishandled and then lost, information that regularly was disseminated to Americans about the workings of their government has been cut off, questions that normally [...]

Progressives for Obama

Monday, March 24th, 2008

The Nation.

Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher Jr., Danny Glover & Barbara Ehrenreich

All American progressives should unite for Barack Obama. We descend from the proud tradition of independent social movements that have made America a more just and democratic country. We believe that the movement today supporting Barack Obama continues this great tradition of grassroots participation, drawing [...]

Obama’s Real Challenge: Shifting the Collective Consciousness

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Huffington Post

Pamela Gerloff

“Most men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up and continue as if nothing happened.” — Winston Churchill

Churchill’s words about the human propensity to ignore the truth that is right in front of us reminds me of the mainstream media’s response to Senator Obama’s speech on race. The speech was [...]

Robert Scheer: Just why is George W. Bush still smiling?

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Pasadena Star News

THAT idiotic “what me worry?” look just never leaves the man’s visage. Once again, there was our president, presiding over disasters, in part of his making and totally on his watch, grinning with an aplomb that suggested a serious disconnect between his worldview and reality. Be it in his announcement that Iraq is [...]

Racial Idealism vs Racial Realism: Obama’s Effort To Bridge the Divide and the DLC

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

New American Media New America Media, News Analysis Roberto Lovato, Posted: Mar 19, 2008

Editor’s note: Obama’s electrifying speech in Philadelphia on race and race relations points to the realism-idealism gap between his camp and Hillary Clinton’s, writes NAM editor Robert Lovato. Lovato is a writer based in New York.

Barack Obama’s speech in Philadelphia eloquently displayed how [...]