thinkprogress.org - 11/5/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
Not only did Barack Obama win the presidency
yesterday, but progressives picked up significant victories in the
House, Senate, state, and local races. Nevertheless, pundits this morning continued to insist that the country remains “center ...
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Conservatives Who Slammed Obama For Being A Socialist ...
talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/7/2008
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talkingpointsmemo.com —
As you may know the Obama's transition has
now set up change.gov as the new transition website.
And as TPM Reader SB points out there's already signs of the radicalism McCain and Palin warned the country about. I've clipped out this section of ...
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Truly Radical
newshounds.us - 11/6/2008
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newshounds.us —
For a moment, I thought Sean Hannity was
going to take the high road over Barack Obama's
victory on last night's (11/5/08) Hannity & Colmes. And he did, briefly, by calling the election “a tremendous step forward” and “a great thing for the country” ...
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Sean Hannity, Karl Rove Still Calling Obama A Radical ...
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Rove: Obama Hoodwinked America Into Electing A Progressive President
Think Progress —
Last night on Fox’s Hannity and Colmes, Karl Rove argued that President-Elect Barack Obama ran a “center-right” campaign, but that if you “dig in” you can uncover the radical socialist that the right-wing warned the country about during the campaign:
ROVE: Let’s make it clear: He ran a center-right campaign. He said –
COLMES: Center-right? He was accused of being a radical socialist.
ROVE: Well, if you dug in.
Watch it:
In today’s Wall ...
This Day In 'Center-Right' Schizophrenia
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
Ever since the American people flocked to the polls and pulled the lever for a change in direction, specifically toward a more progressive set of policies and principles than the ones we'd been getting under George W. Bush and were offered by John S. McCain, right-tilting pundits have fallen all over themselves to insist that the United States remains some sort of "center-right" nation - this despite the fact that positions they once advertised as "extreme," like ending the Bush tax cuts and withdrawing from Iraq, are now, quite clearly, embraced fully as mainstream positions.
Nevertheless, the rightward chatterers prattle on. Matt Yglesias, who's been a ...
This Day In 'Center-Right' Schizophrenia
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Ever since the American people flocked to the polls and pulled the lever for a change in direction, specifically toward a more progressive set of policies and principles than the ones we'd been getting under George W. Bush and were offered by John S. McCain, right-tilting pundits have fallen all over themselves to insist that the United States remains some sort of "center-right" nation - this despite the fact that positions they once advertised as "extreme," like ending the Bush tax cuts and withdrawing from Iraq, are now, quite clearly, embraced fully as mainstream positions.
Nevertheless, the rightward chatterers prattle on. Matt Yglesias, who's been a ...
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