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Wednesday October 07, 2009 · 3:44 PM PDT

2009/10/07 · 15:44

Is a wonderful looking thing. Not the ad per se (though it's fine), just the aesthetics of a nice border-wrap around the main content is quite attractive.

REPOST: Obama/Eisenhower '08 (Updated)

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Friday August 22, 2008 · 10:10 AM PDT

2008/08/22 · 10:10

This was something I posted about six months ago, and was promptly shouted down by the majority of the Kossacks, but in light of this news today, I thought I'd re-post it:

Obama & the left's romanticism with defeat (REPOST)

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Wednesday July 09, 2008 · 5:27 PM PDT

2008/07/09 · 17:27

I'm sick and tired of reading all the lefty blogs freaking out that Obama isn't a mindless surrogate for every one of the netroots' pet policy-positions. He's not a living breathing manifestation of the liberal movement, he's a shrewd and brilliant progressive politician. Liberal ideological purity has been causing us to eat our own for decades, and I'm sick of losing.

If Kos, HuffPost, Think Progress, Crooks & Liars, Jesus General, MoveOn etc keep this shit up, defeating a 72 year old war-monger guaranteed to continue the policies of the most unpopular president in modern memory will turn into a bizarre curiosity that historians look back at and say "Wow...how could Obama have possibly lost?".

Obama & the left's romanticism with defeat

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Tuesday July 01, 2008 · 2:08 PM PDT

2008/07/01 · 14:08

HBO's Recount - Useful Scene

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Thursday June 19, 2008 · 4:16 PM PDT

2008/06/19 · 16:16

I've tried so many times to explain the complexity of the circumstances surrounding everything that happened in Florida--back in 2000 (and, really, in 2004 as well)--to people like my mother and some of my other musician friends; and, being that they're really not political junkies, they usually just stare at me blankly. ;)

Anyway, this scene from Recount has done the trick. Leary, despite his foul language (although I find that hillarious), explains the problems with punch-card voting succinctly, yet simply. Plus, the added CGI effects actually showing the processes going on inside the votermatic were genius.

So with the 2008 election right around the corner, this single clip has done more to inform and energize a lot of the 'casually-political' people I know to be a little extra diligent before stepping into the voting booth. To ask questions like "Has all the CHAD been cleaned out of this machine?" or "Is there a reason why you only have two machines for this entire district?" etc.

To the wingnuts pretending Obama isn't really black

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Wednesday June 11, 2008 · 2:58 PM PDT

2008/06/11 · 14:58

Apparently, wingnuttia's new talking point is something along the lines of "well, Obama isn't completely black, so therefore there's nothing historic about his nomination,"; the point being I guess to reassure racists that their hatred of Obama is not really racist because he's not really black...or something. Whatever. Anyway, I realize this is just another part of the steady little drip, drip, drip of insidious innuendos for the feeble minded morons that make up the GOP base, but I feel the need to say this because no lie has ever been corrected from ignoring it.

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