They found that George W. Bush and John McCain agree on an overwhelming majority of the issues - 80 percent. You don’t get much closer than that, so yes, it’s very fair to say that a vote for McCain is a vote for 4 more years of Bush.

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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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If Steve Pearce loves the oil corporations so much, why doesn’t he just go work for them? Oh, wait. That was a dumb question. Steve Pearce is working for the oil corporations already… as a member of the United States Congress.

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Some people have tried to limit the scope of the speech, by saying that it is just about confronting racism. The speech is about a great deal more than that. It’s about what it means to be an American. It’s about how we can reconcile the promise of the American nation, and the reality of American failures, moving forward to form, not a perfect nation, but a more perfect union.

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Habeas corpus is your opportunity to prove that the proceedings that have led to your incarceration have been improper or incorrect, or have come to the wrong conclusion. Without habeas corpus, it almost doesn’t matter what the law is, because what the law is at that point has almost nothing to do with what the government can do to you. If there is no habeas corpus, it’s just a matter that if there are enough people to guard the cell that you’re in, then your detention stands.

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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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Those young voters who chose Obama so overwhelmingly over Clinton are going to be in the ascendancy four years from now, and the older voters upon whom Hillary Clinton now depends will be smaller in number.

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Why should Democrats bother supporting Obama or Clinton when they won’t keep their promises to Democratic voters? Why should either Obama or Clinton be made President when they won’t do the job they have now as senators? If Clinton and Obama won’t act to defend our freedom from illegal government spying now, why should we believe that either one would defend our freedom as President?

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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards talks a good talk. Senator Russ Feingold knows that all too well.
When it comes to the walk, Edwards’s record in the Senate shows something quite different. Senator Feingold discusses the inconsistency between what John Edwards says and what John Edwards has actually done in an interview […]

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It was Barack Obama who was the agent of change, speaking out against the coming war, asking Democrats like you to show some backbone. When it comes to change, Hillary Clinton, you’re a talker, not a doer. You can’t convince people that you’re a reformer who will stand up to the Republicans just by dropping the word “change” into your speeches in every other sentence.

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