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simplifythepositive.blogspot.com - 24 days ago
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The races themselves almost seem incidental, so hungry
is our political establishment on both sides of the...
aisle for a chance to trumpet their agendas. In many ways, to the people who package and sell political talk, reporting on the saying is is much more lucrative than reporting on the doing.
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Political Spin: The Media's Election Night After Party
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simplifythepositive.blogspot.com - 10/2/2009
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Alan Grayson boiled down the Republican opposition to
ANY healthcare overhaul to simple, direct, visceral terms -...
the kind Democrats normally shy away from. The kind the Republicans normally come up with in their sleep.
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Will Florida Brawler Inspire Democratic Crybabies?
simplifythepositive.blogspot.com - 9/8/2009
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Where are the white people with good sense
these days? Are you out there? Because a frenzied...
subset of our paler population are withdrawing their budding genuises from school today so that Little Johnny will not have to be subjected to listening to that bad, bad man, President Barack Obama.
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Where Are The White People With Good Sense?
simplifythepositive.blogspot.com - 9/6/2009
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Kris Broughton talks with Sean Yoes, the host
of "The WEAA/AFRO First Edition", about President Barack Obama's...
leadership on healthcare reform this Sunday night at 8 p.m.
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WEAA Features Kris Broughton This Sunday Night On "First ...
simplifythepositive.blogspot.com - 8/19/2009
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If Obama, who is a sports fan, can
take anything from the world of football in the...
ongoing scrum that our national healthcare debate has become, he needs to look at the things a team does when it is behind. When the plays it is calling aren't working. He needs to go back to the run.
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Obama Needs Simple Symbol To Rally Healthcare Reform ...
simplifythepositive.blogspot.com - 8/9/2009
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Last Friday I did a thirty minute radio
interview with Sean Yoes, who is the host of...
"The WEAA/AFRO First Edition", an hour-long political talk show on Baltimore's WEAA-FM (88.9 FM), which airs Sunday nights at 8 p.m.
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Sean Yoes Interviews Kris Broughton On WEAA
simplifythepositive.blogspot.com - 8/2/2009
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...the first thing I would do is ask
for bigger glasses. The thing about having a beer...
with someone, at least when it is not a symbolic gesture, is that the conversation doesn't really get earnest after a few sips. Its the second beer that changes the dynamics of a group of strangers.
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If I Had A Beer With President Obama...
simplifythepositive.blogspot.com - 6/11/2009
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Everybody from Newt Gingrich to Joe Lieberman to
Lindsey Graham seems to be hell bent on proving...
Sotomayor right. These guys, believe it or not, are just like the folks who run BET - both groups seem to be committed to pimping a distorted view of dysfunctional male misogyny.
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Could Sotomayor Be Right About White Men?
simplifythepositive.blogspot.com - 4/15/2009
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Take a close look into the eyes of
the vocal, rabid ten percent of the Tea Baggers...
who are hardcore followers of this diversion, and you will see the same kind of look you see in a hardcore crackhead. All they want is to get that feeling back that they had when they felt higher up on the food chain.
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Right Wing Extremists Slinging "Nope Dope" Today
simplifythepositive.blogspot.com - 4/14/2009
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Four Negroes in a lifeboat with a rocket
launcher and a couple of machine guns are a...
"defining moment in foreign policy" for the Obama administration? I think Bill Bennett is one of the more thoughtful conservative commentators, so I was more than a little surprised when I saw this quote.
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What Happens When You Step On A Worm
simplifythepositive.blogspot.com - 4/13/2009
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We've seen what New Age parenting has done
to our nation's children. Which means, Mr. President, that...
you need to discipline the banking industry and the auto industry the way you appear to discipline your own daughters - sternly, fairly, and without showing favoritism to one over another.
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Mr. President: Treat Bailout Companies Like You Treat ...
simplifythepositive.blogspot.com - 4/7/2009
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One of my previous posts, the tongue-in-cheek bit
of humor I whipped up last week titled When...
Are White People Going To Stop Looking For A Handout?, has struck a nerve out there in the blogosphere.
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Brown Man Gets Michelle Malkin's Goat
simplifythepositive.blogspot.com - 4/6/2009
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When you have this kind of perspective on
these toxic assets, you begin to truly see how...
insidious this latest national financial calamity is for us. You see people who have put good money behind good faith, paying on first mortgages with 10% and 12% interest rates.
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What A Toxic Asset Looks Like Up Close
simplifythepositive.blogspot.com - 3/23/2009
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The only people I see on my TV
these days, arguing with Congress about how much they...
think they should earn even though their businesses would closed by now without taxpayer assistance, or pouting to cable news analysts about the severity of their company’s situation, are white people.
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When Are White People Going To Stop Waiting For A Handout?
simplifythepositive.blogspot.com - 3/18/2009
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GM is practically dancing a jig and mouthing
"yassuh, boss" every time they call Washington for emergency...
cash, while AIG's "Dream Team" impetuously suffers its way through the humiliating process of asking our government for a new truckload of greenbacks.
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AIG Dream Team Holds White House Hostage
