I ordered this thing as soon as I heard about it and now I have it in my evil librul clutches. I will be cherry-picking the quotes, not more than 3 or 4.
So here we go.
Update: this is from 'The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals' by The New Yorker's (yes that one) excellent Jane Mayer.
Chapter 1:

"Some of those around Cheney wondered if the attacks...had exacerbated his natural pessimism"

"But instead of trying to learn from what had essentially been a collosal bureaucratic failure...the Bush White House deferred the focus elsewhere"

"As wilkerson, Powell's former chief of staff..., put it 'He[Cheney] had a single-minded objective in black and white, that American security was achievable. I can't fault the man for wanting to keep America safe. But he was willing to corrupt the country to save it."

By now, I'm fairly convinced the O-train is gonna mow down the so-called  'Straight Talk Express.' Although things may happen to dampen support here and there, generally, polls are trending Obama.
So, I have a question: Couldn't Obama fake middle and go left? Would he really be hurt by it? I don't think so. In fact I think calling someone a republican today is generally more connotative of something negative than calling someone a liberal. Now, I do have that mythical centrist American voter along with the low-information voter in mind, but I think that still stands.
I ask this because Democrats generally do the opposite, i.e., fake left-go center. One place for instance, where former Pres. Clinton's inclinations as a centrist began to show was in his embracing of free trade and the whole classical spiel of economics, as most famously espoused by Friedman.

I don't hear nearly enough news about the atrocities in Iraq these days. So I got curious and went to aljazeera's English homepage and found a lot of interesting stories. Note that I did go there to try to get news from the other side, so to speak.

I want to raise the awareness of this to all kossax because by now I am extremely suspicious of these criminals who are now in power. They could try to use the last thing they have, military power, to try to keep the power they have now.
  Apparently, Executive Directive 51 gives the president near dictatorial powers and was only recently issued, see the link below. One of these powers
is the authority to postpone elections, which would be rather convenient given the current climate.

Executve Directive
  The full details of the the US-Israeli plan are here:
US-Israeli plans of Attack

I'll put some highlights below the fold

This has been dairied already:
tullyccro's diary
The response of some was dismissive. This is not just wild speculation. THese are conclusions drawn from the facts.

Just when I thought Obama could be any better he goes and does this.
Obama:
 "As a student of history, I am saddened to say that I see the following pattern of behavior in our political leaders: a group of politicians comes to power through questionable, if not corrupt, means and sets up a corrupt administration. Then verifiably go on to serve their own interest and leave the American people behind.
  "My point is not to assassinate the character of this or that person. I intend to expose the fact that these corrupt ways do not expire of their own accord; in fact, they stay in the minds of some and remain there like a cancer waiting to reach a critical mass and killing the patient. It is these 'some' who I am particularly concerned with also and definitely want to influence."

It gets better below the fold!
 

This comes from an interview with Morning Blow..er...Joe cohost Mika B-something.

I'm willing to bet my bicycle that he will endorse Obama because he mentions his name; in fact it seems as if it was at the tip of his tongue, but he was holding back because he just does'nt wanna do it yet. No idea why though!! Its over!!

As an aside: it appears to me that Mrs. Edwards voted for Hillary; I wonder how comfortable his couch is!!!!

Will KO call HRC on her racial if not racist remarks?
will Rachel Maddow and KO make out?
Will KO finally reveal that he's got two Kos accounts!!!
Will HRC be worst person in the world?

make a huge difference.

As well all know Indiana is extremely close. Since we are so aware of this, let's do something about it...by phone banking for barack today.
I've just started doing it and since most people are home right now in Indiana, I'm talking to a lot more people than I did on the weekend.

I recently bought Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine. Reading it has informed me and infuriated me to the point of action. This is the first action I am taking. I am going to spread the word. I believe every American citizen has the obligation to read and thoroughly digest this wonderful work of art. (ALthough, I'll settle for every kossack)

To begin with, corporatism is a political system designed to support corporations. It has its beginnings in the laissez-faire economic theory of Milton Friedman. A better term for this whole system would be disaster capitalism. The reason being that corporatism requires a disaster to exist and/or sustain itself. For example, in the US 9/11. Indeed, the Neocons
here in the US are the party which most promote these ideas of disaster capitalism.

Disaster capitalism is the economic theory that is the true ideological opposite to marxist economic theory. There is a middle road called Keynesianism(pronounced: canezeeinism), named after John Keynes. Disaster capitalists relish in the fact that they have taken the place of keynesianism as the predominant economic theory among politicians

N.B.: this isn't gonna be technical or numerical!