crooksandliars.com - 11/18/2008
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[From Creative Loafing .]
As we predicted before the election , Barack Obama's victory has loosed a flood of hatefulness from the racist right in America. Digby yesterday had a detailed post laying out some of the cases that have erupted so far. From an AP report :
Threats against a ...
voices.washingtonpost.com - 11/20/2008
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voices.washingtonpost.com —
Democratic Senatorial candidate Jim Martin hugs state Sen.
Nan Orrock during a rally on the Capitol steps,
Monday, Nov. 3, 2008 in Atlanta. Martin is challenging incumbent Sen. Saxby Chambliss. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) UPDATE, 6:30 pm: Barack Obama has...
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Should Barack Obama Go To Georgia?
telegraph.co.uk - 11/17/2008
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/25/2008
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com —
The Obama transition team isn't disputing a new
report claiming that Obama won't be visiting Georgia to
campaign on behalf of Dem challenger Jim Martin in the high-stakes Georgia Senate runoff. The assertion that Obama won't be hitting the state, ...
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Obama Not Going To Georgia To Campaign In Senate Runoff?
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Republican Soul-Searching in Five Minutes
Open Left - Front Page —
... The GOP is going to do is futz around for awhile with the fake moderate versus conservative argument and then eventually find a way to tap into the newly emergent overt racism. It may happen in 2010, and it's impossible to predict whether the issues will be framed around 'law and order' as the millions of unemployed young people inevitably do what young people do when they are bored and disempowered in a recession, or some sort of stabbed in the back narrative around Iraq or Afghanistan, or some new set of issues focused on the fallout from this very scary financial ...
The racist backlash to Obama's presidency
Orcinus —
... saying that this kind of ugliness does not reflect well on the supposed liberals venting it. If nothing else, it makes them look decidedly illiberal in their intolerance. However, the flip side -- the violence-laced, vile hatred emanating from Obama haters around the country -- is already dwarfing this intolerance. Yet you have to wonder if Kass and the right-wing pundits who made the teen's story a cause celebre will even bother taking a look. [Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars].
Poor Liberal Babies Still Whining About Racism
Pirate's Cove —
... This is what we have to look forward to for the next 4 years from the mainstream left, starting with Crooks and Liars, the perfect name for a Progressive blog ...
Poor Liberal Babies Still Whining About Racism
Stop The ACLU —
This is what we have to look forward to for the next 4 years from the mainstream left, starting with Crooks and Liars , the perfect name for a Progressive blog As we ...
As the going gets tough, the white haters get going
Crooks and Liars —
... We've been reporting steadily on the drumbeat of post-election racial hate that's being stirred up by the far racist right, particularly revolving around the election of Barack Obama. The most recent incident was the ...
As the going gets tough, the white haters get going
Orcinus —
... We've been reporting steadily on the drumbeat of post-election racial hate that's being stirred up by the far racist right, particularly revolving around the election of Barack Obama. The most recent incident was the ...
Gun-toting hatemongers: They're ba-a-a-a-a-a-ack
Orcinus —
... the frantic effort to obscure this reality? Because they know the ideological and associative distance between far-right extremists and mainstream conservatives has shrunk dramatically over the past 10 years. They dread the consequences of what will happen when the real ugliness starts to break out. The Ugly Storm has been gathering for awhile. We've been reporting regularly on the increasing activities of far-right extremists, particularly the anti-Obama racism rampant throughout much of this contingent. Of course, it doesn't help when mainstream ...
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