10 Reasons They're Scared of Obama's School Address

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Saturday September 05, 2009 · 11:10 AM PDT

2009/09/05 · 11:10

It's easy to be surprised by the notion that people wouldn't want the President of the United States to address young schoolchildren, telling them to study hard and get good grades. After all, and educated and diligent population seems like something you could build a nation on. But when you really think about it, there's plenty of reasons why Republicans don't want people telling kids to study hard. The list after the fold...

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Thursday November 06, 2008 · 8:08 PM PST

2008/11/06 · 20:08

So, the Republicans are in a pretty tight spot. They just got their asses handed to them in the election. The Left's grassroots movement wiped the floor with them, and exposed all their lies and fear mongering for what they are. It's so bad, that they've started a new web site to try and fix their problems! Very admirable. They're even taking suggestions from the peanut gallery on what rebuilding the party should entail. The site, however, was hastily created, and a lot of typos and factual errors made it to the live site. Seeing as they're gonna need all the help they can get, after the jump I'm offering them a proofread copy of their front page. Hopefully, it will help them get the ball rolling and they can make some real progress online.

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Friday October 17, 2008 · 2:53 PM PDT

2008/10/17 · 14:53

OK folks, it's now game-time. Come Tuesday, we are two weeks away from election day, and, to be honest, the national polls are tightening. It may or may not be coincidence, but Barack Obama and his campaign have all come out today, publicly and privately, saying they worry about complacency, and foregone conclusions causing many not to care. So, this is a post to get people motivated for the final push: we need it, we need to stay focused, and we need to get people to GET OUT AND VOTE, either now in early voting, or on Tuesday, November 4th. As Barack Obama says, it's time to start "running scared."

Yeah, this may be a prevelant theme in the diaries today, but I don't think people are quite understanding how urgent this is. I'm repeating this plea here, with visuals, and quotes, to make sure people understand that this is serious, and we have it within our power to lose this thing, and if we keep going the way we are, we just may.

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Tuesday October 14, 2008 · 10:07 AM PDT

2008/10/14 · 10:07

Florida is the crux of this election for me. 25 electoral votes, and without it, the Republicans do not get the White House, period. Obama can win without Florida, but it requires either Ohio, or multiple other states to go his way. With Florida, the rest is just landslide. He wins in Florida.

I've been following developments in and around Florida for a while now, and today we have a good picture on where it stands, why it looks like Obama will win it, and McCain's initial steps to firewall there.

Keep reading to see where we stand.

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Wednesday October 08, 2008 · 4:34 PM PDT

2008/10/08 · 16:34

A couple of news stories today combined with a great PAC video are painting a chilling case for John McCain no longer having the mental ability required to, you know, run this nation.

This is a cross-post from my blog, The Daily Shocker.

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Monday October 06, 2008 · 10:06 AM PDT

2008/10/06 · 10:06

Marc Ambinder outlines the Republican strategy for the next 28 days. They're Ayers, Crime, and Taxes. What do they all have in common? They've got nothing to do with McCain. The problem with that? There are two people running for President. This association game we've been over before. It's now entered meta territory. It no longer is about Obama's associations. It's about the McCain campaign's need to to distract. None of these associations, none of them, have any meat on them. And if you bring up Obama's skeletons, you bring up McCain and Palin's. And the sense I get is Obama is happy to have McCain do that.

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Tuesday September 30, 2008 · 9:19 AM PDT

2008/09/30 · 09:19

Amidst the finger-pointing, press conferencing, disillusionment and disbelief following the failure of the House to pass the bailout bill, something remarkable was being overlooked. The bill, an unpopular piece of legislation from the start, failed because the House Leadership couldn't get enough Republicans to vote for the measure. It was bitter enough medicine that both sides would have their share of holdouts, but to keep it from becoming a damning political issue for years to come, it required bipartisan support. It was believed, going into the vote, that the leadership had it's numbers; the unpopular but seemingly required measure would pass. The final breakdown came to about 60/40 yes to no for the Democrats, and 33/67 yes to no for the Republicans.

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Sunday September 28, 2008 · 6:04 PM PDT

2008/09/28 · 18:04

I haven't seen a blog post of this yet, or a diary, so I originally posted these at my blog The Daily Shocker, but thought maybe a diary would be a better way to get them out there. They're backstage photographs of Barack Obama -- taken by the campaign's photographer David Katz -- at the first Presidential Debate. It's a flickr gallery, but I'll lead with my favorite one.

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Wednesday September 24, 2008 · 3:18 PM PDT

2008/09/24 · 15:18

Why is no one even discussing the obvious: McCain wants to cancel the debate because he’s mentally unfit at the moment to have one? Yes, I know he’s stated he’d like to postpone it, but this man is 72 years old, with a history of melanoma, and a recent (past 6 months) history of misstatements, befuddlements, confusion, and cross-ups. The signs are there to at least raise the question that his advisors say he can’t debate at the moment.

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Monday September 08, 2008 · 10:00 AM PDT

2008/09/08 · 10:00

"If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun," Obama said in Philadelphia last night. "Because from what I understand, folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles fans."
- Politico

With that quote, Barack Obama signaled to many that his campaign wouldn't be pushed around like the last two Democratic Presidential Campaigns. He was going to fight for the change we need, and hell, he wasn't going to fight fairly.

So where has that Barack Obama gone?

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