digbysblog.blogspot.com - 1/9/2009
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Thursday, January 08, 2009 Valued Voters by digby Since I've rudely called out the Democrats and the Republicans today, it seems unfair for me not to call attention to their uber-enablers. Today, before the Tim Kaine announcement: Nora O'Donnell: This is significant in many ways. This is the ...
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 1/10/2009
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This is no Friday joke. Word has just
been received at The Ticket that President-elect Barack Obama
sent out an actual e-mail today without asking for more money from tired donors. No, really. The N.Y. Times' Katharine Seelye recently ...
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Breaking: Obama sends national e-mail with NO plea for ...
bloomberg.com - 1/7/2009
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Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Virginia Governor Tim Kaine
has a Harvard Law School degree, has twice won
statewide office, and is fluent in Spanish. It’s a recent line on his resume that may become an issue as President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to head ...
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Kaine Heads Group Offering Donors Access to Governors ...
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Rick Warren, moderate
The Reality-Based Community —
... moderate, compared to his rival "evangelical" Bible-thumpers. Probably he is. Pretending not to hate gays isn't as good as actually not hating them, but it's better than openly hating them. And no doubt the tens of millions of Americans who can't tell poetic myth from biology are citizens, too, and deserve to have a public voice. Barack Obama may have done a smart thing by inviting Warren to give the invocation, if doing so helps de-mobilize the right . But Rick Warren is still a sick, twisted human being , and the smiling front-man for intolerably cruel ...
Cause the preacher tells visions he sees
SteveAudio —
Mark Kleiman, friend of ours, has a neat, tidy, concise dissection of the smarmy 'moderate' awfulness of Rick Warren: But Rick Warren is still a sick, twisted human being, and the smiling front-man for intolerably cruel and stupid policies. Intellectually and morally, he's several cuts below Jeremiah Wright (of whom I am by no means an admirer). Yet Warren, like his predecessor the Rev. Dr. Billy Graham, is treated with respect in the mass media, his many flaws airbrushed out of the picture. That's a problem. Indeed. Go read the ...
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