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Dear Senator Obama, It is Time to Tie McCain Tight to Bush
firedoglake.com - 8/19/2008
Dear Senator Obama, It is Time to Tie McCain Tight to Bush
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Senator Obama, I hope you learned something yesterday on the Saddleback Church/Store stage. The thoughtful, considered answers you craft in hopes of sharing your faith with the greedy prosperity-Xtians aren't going to sway them. John McCain's angry snappish answers -- his rigidity, his soundbiteiness, his "clarity" -- provoked rabid applause. Your cautious conversational ...

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The Sideshow:  Can we please not throw another election?

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Can we please not throw another election?
The Sideshow — ... of "the past" that he doesn't seem to recall. The "new kind of politics" we need is really the old kind of politics - the one where progressives shoot back. At Open Left, "Obama's Slide Started with the FISA Compromise and NAFTA Reversal [...] Obama's brand is progressive. When he refuses to run as a progressive, he loses ground. This should not be a surprise." And: "Presidential Forecast, 8/18: Obama's Lead Almost Gone." (Also: "Dear Senator Obama, It is Time to Tie McCain Tight to Bush.") Here's what we mean about ...

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