latimes.com - 10/23/2008
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Discuss Article Will the "real" America please stand up? According to Sarah Palin, she and John McCain "believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hardworking, ...
spectator.co.uk - 10/25/2008
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spectator.co.uk —
The impact of the financial crisis on the
American presidential election has somewhat obscured the most important...
reason why the prospect of an Obama presidency is giving so many people nightmares. This is the fear that, if he wins, US defences ...
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Is America really going to do this?
washingtonpost.com - 10/22/2008
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washingtonpost.com —
Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or
other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from...
the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...
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Palin Apologizes for 'Real America' Comments
dailykos.com - 10/19/2008
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dailykos.com —
(From the diaries. Susan) Germans had been shaken
to their roots by defeat in 1918. The emotional...
impact was all the more severe because German leaders had been trumpeting victory until a few weeks before. So unbelievable a calamity was easily ...
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The New Stabbed In the Back Myth
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Townhall.com Staff: What's Hot Thursday?
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... GOP "Death List" Predicts Democratic Blowout Politico: GOP Donors critical of Palin's Pricey Threads New York Post: Tragedy in 'Leno' Case Newsweek: Dancing With Wolves Slate: Presidential Race Philadelphia Inquirer: Whatever Happened to the 1980 Phillies? FOX News: Hunt on for Missing Missouri Teen New York Times: Moved by a Crescent Boston Globe: Lenox Spa Reaches $14.75m Settlement Over Tips Los Angeles Times: The 'Real' America, Really ABC News: 10 Myths About Autism CNN: Terrorist Watch Lists ...
Time and Tides
The Mahablog —
... We see disorientation already in the way the McCain campaign evokes a “real” America that looks like the America they thought was out there somewhere, but which they are finding strangely elusive. Rosa Brooks writes, ...
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Daily Kos —
... And McCain chose her because... Jay Carney: "I can't tell you how many denim shirts I've bought for candidates," said one media strategist. "If the cost of the ad is $10,000, you bill the campaign $10,075 to cover the shirt.") Why weren't Palin's clothing and accessory expenses buried somewhere, so that reporters wouldn't find out about them? That's where the political malpractice occured, say disgruntled Repubs. Rosa Brooks: I agree with Devilstower. Not only is Sarah Palin not real, but real America ...
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washingtonmonthly.com 10/22/2008 — A WARDROBE FOR THE REAL AMERICA.... As Hilzoy noted last night, Sarah Palin has a new and unexpected problem -- the Republican National Committee has spent more than $150,000 on clothes and accessories for Palin and her family in just...
Is Anything For Real?
balloon-juice.com 10/29/2008 —
For chrissakes, now “Joe the Plumber” is on the campaign trail stumping for McCain :
“I’m honestly scared for America,” Wurzelbacher said.
He later said Obama would end the democracy that the U.S. military ...
Obama's not 'new' - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com 10/28/2008 — Discuss Article There's an old saying: The oldest word in American politics is "new." Only in that sense is there anything new to Barack Obama. Obama prefers the word "progressive" to "liberal" because it makes it sound like he's shedding old liberal ...
Understanding “Real America”
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 10/19/2008 — Nate Silver provides some statistical analysis of what distinguishes Sarah Palin’s real America from the fake America where the rest of us live. Basically, real America has more non-Hispanic whites.
The Real McCain
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 10/30/2008 —
Anne Applebaum and Joe Klein, like countless others, cannot support McCain because of his repulsive, vicious, negative, McCarthyite campaign and his unvetted spur-of-the-moment decision to pick Sarah Palin, an unhinged, know-nothing, ...
Palin in 2012?
anonymousliberal.com 10/24/2008 — Given that the election is far from over, this entire conversation is more than a little premature, but I'm going to wade in anyway. There's been a lot of talk lately about Sarah Palin's chances of becoming the GOP standard-bearer in 2012 if McCain ...
Racism and litigation
slacktivist.typepad.com 10/17/2008 — How very strange it is these days to hear Sen. John McCain and his surrogates constantly vacillating between calls for (undefined) "Reform!" and scapegoating condemnations of "Reform Now." What do they want? Reform! And when do they want it? Not now. ...
McCain: Lashing out at Bush —
First Read 10/23/2008
The Washington Times reports, “Sen. John McCain on Wednesday blasted President Bush for building a mountain of debt for future generations, failing to pay for expanding Medicare and abusing executive powers, leveling his strongest criticism to date of ...
Palin: What not to wear —
First Read 10/23/2008
The New York Times front-pages the $150,000 shopping spree for Palin -- and what it might have done to her political image. Sarah Palin’s wardrobe joined the ranks of symbolic political excess on Wednesday, alongside John McCain’s multiple houses and ...
Republicans Still Have Big Cash Reserves —
WSJ.com: Washington Wire 10/23/2008
T.W. Farnam reports on the presidential race.
The Republican Party had $59.2 million left in its bank account on Oct. 15, according to a report filed this evening with the Federal Election Commission. The Republican National Committee raised ...
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