All I did with this speech is replace John McCain’s name with Barack Obama’s name. Sadly, the criticism that Barack Obama sent McCain’s way now applies to him as well.

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Alternative Apparel profits from the authoritarian regime that keeps Tibet in chains.

That’s not very alternative, is it?

A company can have a nice sounding name, and still do nasty business.

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Why won’t Hillary Clinton listen? Is she just afraid of admitting that she’s wrong? That’s a frightening personality characteristic to have in a presidential candidate. Besides, the truth is that Hillary Clinton does quote economists all the time - when it suits her needs. Jim over at Irregular Times has put together a long list of quotes of Hillary Clinton citing the opinions of economic experts - elites, as she puts it.

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The Democrats in Ron Paul’s district aren’t even bothering to run a candidate against the man whose “Revolution” led down a dark alley filled with millions of dollars for Ron Paul to play around with. That’s very slick for Ron Paul, but not so slick for the people of the 14th congressional district.

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It’s been a crazy day of environmentalist action around the world, with strong protests against the economic infrastructure that delivers the dirty fossil fuels that are burning into accelerating climate change.

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Merrill Lynch and Citigroup lobby for the interests of top investors and gigantic corporations. They lobby against the interests of small Main Street business owners, and John McCain is right there with them.

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George W. Bush has submitted his proposed budget to the U.S. Congress for 2009 - and that proposed budget includes a half a billion dollar cut of funds for renewable energy resources and energy efficiency programs. Without better energy efficiency and an increase in energy from renewable resources, we cannot hope to fight global warming.

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Some remarkable advances in science have occurred under the Bush administration. Take, for example, the arrival of the Cassini probe at Titan, providing all sorts of new information about a world rich in hydrocarbons and with a thick atmosphere. Oh, but the Bush administration really ought not take credit for that. After […]

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Senator Edward Kennedy skewered George W. Bush’s rhetoric on surveillance without a warrant, corporations, and the value of human life in a speech to the Senate on December 17, 2007:
Think about what we’ve been hearing from the White House in this debate. The President has said that American lives will be sacrificed if Congress […]

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Right wing politicians often quote Calvin Coolidge, who said, in defense of the economic status quo, “Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”
I ask, why not expect such a thing? After all, don’t the strong build themselves up by holding down the weak?

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