yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 11/2/2008
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When you’re 27, you sometimes feel that things that seem very present to many people in the political world — the 1994 midterms, say — are like ancient history. But by the same token, Frank Rich’s column reminds us that some aspects of the American experience that are ...
nytimes.com - 11/2/2008
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nytimes.com —
AND so: just how far have we come?
As a rough gauge last week, I watched a...
movie I hadn’t seen since it came out when I was a teenager in 1967. Back then “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” was Hollywood’s idea of a stirring call for racial justice. The ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
washingtonmonthly.com - 11/5/2008
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washingtonmonthly.com —
I GUESS THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING....
Chances are you've seen the pic showing Barack Obama...
delivering a speech, with a mock caption that reads, "Everyone chill the f*** out. I got this." At times, it was hard to...
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I guess they knew what they were doing
perfunction.typepad.com - 11/4/2008
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perfunction.typepad.com —
I assume this was a local market buy,
as it was interspersed among a couple of other...
local political ads (judges, councilmen, etc.). But why play it on Election Day morning in the deepest of deep red states? While I'm not exactly in a ...
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Guess What Ad I Just Saw During The Today Show?
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Why McCain Will Win
Jon Swift —
... as they are. Old people don’t care if their daughter marries a young man, they just don’t want one running the country. And they can sympathize with someone whose rightful promotion is being stolen by some precocious young whippersnapper who doesn’t have the decency to wait his turn. It seems like lately Presidents just keep getting younger and younger and old people think it’s about time someone who looks like them gets in the White House for a ...
Re-fighting the 60s
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
by Amanda Marcotte
Matt’s right---this article by Frank Rich that uses “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner” as a reference point is a sobering reminder to those of us who were born after the 60s that the majority of Americans actually lived through those tumultuous times, which goes a long way to explain McCain’s baffling showing in the polls. Because for all that McCain is supposedly so far behind, really this should be a blowout. The Republicans have done pretty much everything they can to turn ...
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