It’s stated less blatantly than George W. Bush’s claim that “God speaks through me”, but the meaning is the same. Barack Obama has stated that he thinks it’s possible for him to serve as a channel for the will of God.

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This is not one of those twisted right wing circuses in which lies, distortions and crazy conspiracy theories are the entertainment of the evening. We believe in exposing Barack Obama in a positive way, because he’s a positive candidate who runs a clean and decent campaign.

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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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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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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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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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The camera doesn’t lie. The documented photograph you see in the video here shows Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul similing as he meets with Don Black, a leader of a white supremacist organization. Guess where they met: At a meeting of a group calling itself Values Voters. Some values those voters have […]

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In a December 7, 2007 speech on the Senate Floor, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse disclosed the content of previously classified opinions delivered by the Bush Administration’s Office of Legal Counsel:
For years under the Bush Administration, the Office of Legal Counsel within the Department of Justice has issued highly classified secret legal opinions related to surveillance. […]

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