Dem Platform had to get approval from extremist Israeli organization AIPAC

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Wednesday September 05, 2012 · 3:43 PM PDT

2012/09/05 · 15:43

At this point is there any debate over whether America has a foreign policy independent of Israel?

But the aide and a second source affiliated with the party -- both of whom were not authorized to speak on the drafting process -- added that officials with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the hardline pro-Israel interest group, had reviewed and approved the language prior to its finalization.
"They loved it," said the aide who worked on the platform.

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This is kind of disgusting how a nation like Israel, which has built an apartheid state in the West Bank, has American politicians groveling at their feet.

Romney = Reagan

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Monday August 27, 2012 · 9:58 AM PDT

2012/08/27 · 09:58

From Joseph Crespino: In Search of Another Country:

ON AUGUST 4, 1964, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents recovered the mangled bodies of three civil rights workers beneath an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Mississippi....
Sixteen years later, the national spotlight shone on Philadelphia, Mississippi, for a much different reason. In 1980, Ronald Reagan launched his presidential campaign at the Neshoba County Fair. Addressing a crowd of more than fifteen thousand enthusiastic supporters, Reagan invoked a mantra that had sustained a generation of southern segregationists. “I believe in states’ rights,” he told the crowd. Reagan pledged that, if he were elected, he would “restore to states and local governments the power that properly belongs to them.” The candidate’s remarks were prepared beforehand and were not a part of his regular campaign speech; reporters following Reagan could not remember him using the term before Neshoba County. Republican officials in Mississippi had designed the visit to Neshoba County to reach out to what the Republican national committeeman in Mississippi described as “George Wallace inclined voters.”

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Monday August 13, 2012 · 10:13 AM PDT

2012/08/13 · 10:13

Rachel Maddow was on Meet the Press Sunday and did a fine job until Rich Lowry asked her if she supports Obama's cuts in Medicare. Instead of giving a straight forward and intelligent defense of the Affordable Care Act she essentially copped out:

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Dem Platform had to get approval from extremist Israeli organization AIPAC

Romney = Reagan

Maddow screwed up: Just say you support cuts in Medicare!