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By the Rev. Rebecca Voelkel, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Faith Work Director
In 1946, while addressing the Confessing Church in Germany about the Holocaust, Pastor Martin Niemoller ...
by National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
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on Fri Sep 10, 2010 at 08:45 AM PDT
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I thought a lot about this, and decided to post it anyway. Late at night so no one can see it.
Because of the sheer amount of discussion that has accumulated on this issue, I was surprised to ...
by Edgar08
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on Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 01:53 AM PDT
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I'm interested in getting comments from DailyKos members regarding when "will of the people" should be followed .
by Defoliate Bush
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on Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 11:46 AM PDT
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Ok, ok. I can't take this anymore. This tired old routine of, "if gender were not a factor in this race, this wouldn't be a race." This is generally followed with: "Hillary all the way."
No, ...
by GrimReefa
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on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 03:59 AM PDT
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I have always been baffled by Hillary's vote for the war, and any Democratic politician's for that matter. To me it shows a striking lack of judgment or courage, or both. The war broke out when I ...
by SouthSideDem
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on Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 09:34 AM PDT
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Look, they keep trying to blame Obama's successes on everything, no matter whether what they say has the slightest bearing in reality or not. In fact, if not, all the better. Obama is now winning ...
by GrimReefa
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on Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 03:35 AM PDT
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Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are being treated with disrespect by the Democratic base. Obama is being given too much lee-way. Clinton is being given too little.
They are both flawed candidates.
by Falstaff
132 comments
on Fri Feb 01, 2008 at 09:26 AM PST
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In tonight's debate, Hillary Clinton repeated her claim that she only voted for the October 2002 resolution on Iraq to allow for the resumption of UN inspections. Barack Obama countered, as he has ...
by john bonifaz
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on Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 07:51 PM PST
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There has been a lot of back-and-forth about Hillary Clinton's interview on Meet the Press this morning. I woke up early to watch her interview today (as I was out last ...
by poblano
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on Sun Jan 13, 2008 at 10:05 PM PST
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This diary has been percolating in me for a long time now, probably from the first time I heard this formulation of the Obama shot-across-the-bow to his fellow candidates. If they were as ...
by DraftChickenHawks
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on Mon Dec 24, 2007 at 08:47 AM PST
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Everyone knows today's the fifth anniversary of the Senate's vote to ...
by Adam B
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on Thu Oct 11, 2007 at 09:44 AM PDT
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[ Promoted by Meteor Blades ]
Five years ago today the House passed J. H. Res. 114 , which authorized the President (...
by smintheus
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on Wed Oct 10, 2007 at 11:31 PM PDT
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HuffingtonPost is carrying a story this morning entitled:
The Attempts to Discredit Obama's Iraq War Stance Have Begun
The story discusses the Clinton campaign'...
by delphine
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on Fri Aug 10, 2007 at 12:10 PM PDT
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The U.S. war in iraq is going to end one of three ways:
1) Vietnam-like [http://www.vaiw.org/vet/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2062&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 pandemonium] ...
by AllDemsOnBoard
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on Sun May 06, 2007 at 04:06 PM PDT
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Let me as a disclaimer first inform you that I am an leaning towards Obama with John Edwards as my close second in 2008. I felt that it's important for me to first get that out of the way because I ...
by dopper0189
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on Sat May 05, 2007 at 05:19 AM PDT
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I just now heard on CNN that Senators Byrd and Clinton have presented a bill (?) proposal (?) that the permission given to President Bush to go into Iraq be withdrawn.
by b tex
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on Thu May 03, 2007 at 01:31 PM PDT
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By buying into the GOP spinmeisters' rewriting of history around the Congressional resolution authorizing the use of force in Iraq, Democrats are legitimizing Bush's war and soiling our own nest.
by Steve Love
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on Sun Apr 29, 2007 at 04:53 PM PDT
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Big Dog, one of the best things you did was choose the Goreicle as your running mate in 1992. He's the reason we are all here. If it hadn't been for Gore's early support of pushing the Internet to ...
by goldberry
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on Sat Mar 24, 2007 at 12:31 PM PDT
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With the Senate potentially rescinding authorization, and the ongoing debate of how to say "we were wrong" by Clinton, Edwards, et al. I thought that this would be a good time to actually look at ...
by DrSteveB
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on Fri Feb 23, 2007 at 06:58 AM PST
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That is the opening sentence of a speech I would like to see Democrats give in the weeks to come, in the context of supporting a bill to repeal the 2002 Authorization to Use Military Force in Iraq.
by Major Danby
37 comments
on Thu Feb 22, 2007 at 03:20 PM PST
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