Will "God damn America"?

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Friday March 14, 2008 · 8:05 PM PDT

2008/03/14 · 20:05

I've only seen the clip of the sermon from Jeremiah Wright in which he uses the phrase in the title. I don't know the context for sure, but he does say "it's in the Bible."

Analysts have claimed he was wishing damnation on America. I doubt that. My guess is that he was drawing that assessment from scripture and what he has seen.

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Sunday March 09, 2008 · 8:09 PM PDT

2008/03/09 · 20:09

Looks like her bounce has left her.

PRINCETON, NJ -- Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are roughly tied in national Democratic preferences -- 47% for Obama vs. 45% for Clinton -- according to Gallup Poll Daily tracking conducted March 6-8.

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Wednesday February 27, 2008 · 8:02 PM PST

2008/02/27 · 20:02

Didn't take HRC to show just how deep her convictions are-- and how incredibly hypocritical she is.

During a series of satellite television interviews, Clinton was questioned by Dallas station KTVT about comments by Adelfa Callejo, a local activist who supports Clinton candidacy. The interviewer quoted Callejo as saying "Obama's problem is he happens to be black" and asked Clinton to respond.

"Well obviously I want all of us judged on our merits," Clinton said. "I believe strongly that the fact we have an African American and a woman running for the Democratic nomination is historical and I'm very, very proud of that."

"I want people though to look beyond, look beyond race and gender, look at our records, look at what we stand for, look at what we've done and I think that's what most voters are looking for," she said.

The interviewer asked Clinton whether she rejected or denounced Callejo's comment.

"People have every reason to express their opinions, I just don't agree with that," she said, adding "You know, this is a free country. People get to express their opinions."

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Monday February 25, 2008 · 9:05 PM PST

2008/02/25 · 21:05

Hillary mocked me the other day. Essentially called me foolish.

"Now I can stand up here and say: Let's just get everybody together, let's get unified, the sky will open, the light will come down, celestial choirs will be singing, and everyone will know we should do the right thing, and the world will be perfect."

"Maybe I just lived a little long. But I have no illusions about how hard this is going to be. You are not going to wave a magic wand and have the special interests disappear,"

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Friday February 15, 2008 · 10:56 PM PST

2008/02/15 · 22:56

Some strange happenings in the NYC primary vote:

Black voters are heavily represented in the 94th Election District in Harlem’s 70th Assembly District. Yet according to the unofficial results from the New York Democratic primary last week, not a single vote in the district was cast for Senator Barack Obama.

That anomaly was not unique. In fact, a review by The New York Times of the unofficial results reported on primary night found about 80 election districts among the city’s 6,106 where Mr. Obama supposedly did not receive even one vote, including cases where he ran a respectable race in a nearby district.

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Wednesday January 30, 2008 · 8:51 PM PST

2008/01/30 · 20:51

Obama has significantly closed the gap with HRC in California:

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in California shows Hillary Clinton with a very narrow three-percentage point lead over Barack Obama. The survey was conducted in the hours immediately following Florida’s Presidential Primary and before John Edwards dropped out of the race.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/...

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Sunday January 27, 2008 · 7:42 AM PST

2008/01/27 · 07:42

Bill Clinton doesn't appear to think that African-American votes are that valuable-- unless a Clinton needs them.

Another reporter asked what it said about Obama that it “took two people to beat him.” Clinton again passed. “That’s’ just bait, too. Jesse Jackson won South Carolina twice, in '84 and '88. And he ran a good campaign. Senator Obama's run a good campaign here, he’s run a good campaign everywhere.”

The reference to Jackson seemed a way to downplay today's result in a state where a majority of voters are African American.

Talk about "bait." Bill: Obama is just like Jesse. Don't take him seriously.

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Friday January 25, 2008 · 10:50 PM PST

2008/01/25 · 22:50

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama expanded his lead on rival Hillary Clinton to 15 points heading into South Carolina's bitterly contested presidential primary, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Saturday.

Obama, an Illinois senator, gained two points on Clinton overnight to lead 41 percent to 26 percent just hours before voting began in Saturday's primary. John Edwards was in third place after slipping two points to 19 percent.

http://www.reuters.com/...

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Thursday January 24, 2008 · 9:41 PM PST

2008/01/24 · 21:41

Let's be honest and admit a few basic facts:

Ronald Reagan deserved credit for winning the Cold War.

Reagan deserves credit for his rhetoric in defense of freedom and his role in advancing the idea that communism could be rolled back.

The idea that we were going to stand firm and reaffirm our containment strategy, and the fact that we forced them to spend even more when they were already producing a Cadillac defense system and a dinosaur economy, hastened the evil empire's undoing.

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Monday January 21, 2008 · 1:16 PM PST

2008/01/21 · 13:16

I've spent much of the last 16 years defending Bill Clinton. I've done it over the last four plus years in the dKos community when people attacked him for not effectively pursuing a more progressive agenda. I've also done it in countless discussions and arguments with more conservative friends and acquaintances elsewhere.

Bill was my guy. I loved the Big Dog, and forgave him everything. The first Dem since FDR to be elected to two terms, he was a proud member of the DLC and triangulated the hell out of more progressive Dems, but I defended it as necessary under the circumstances. Bill Clinton was not elected during a particularly progressive era. The first two years of his Presidency ushered in an even less progressive era. That is how poorly even a man of his incomparable political skill managed to sell the American people on the more progressive agenda he did, at least initially, arrive in Washington with.

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Wednesday January 16, 2008 · 8:50 PM PST

2008/01/16 · 20:50

I've read some some diaries that seem to border on hysteria today regarding Barack Obama's alleged loving embrace of all things Reagan. Here's a quote that infuriated one diarist:

"I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. I think they felt like with all the excesses of the 1960s and 1970s and government had grown and grown but there wasn't much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating."

I think Reagan was a lousy President. I think his policies did great damage to this country from which we may never fully recover. I think the reverence with which he is held in many quarters cannot be logically linked to his actual "accomplishments." I also think that the above statement of Obama's is absolutely correct.

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Monday May 28, 2007 · 10:28 PM PDT

2007/05/28 · 22:28

Sometimes its fun to go back and look at what who said about who. So let's have a little game-- you're on the honor system, i.e. no googling.

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