2008 election

Obama's housing policy spells more of the same for inner city blacks.


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Curtain Time For Barack Obama - Part I

smirkingchimp.com — The Illinois political mob already had a major fundraising operation in place for Blagojevich by 2004, and its safe to assume that when Obama and Rezko first started setting up the real estate deal for the mansion and lot in December 2004, Obama never thought about any repercussions on his run for president.

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I could've told them there'd be days like this.

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Why Jeremiah Wright is justified in taking Barack Obama to task.

Last night MSNBC (including Keith Olbermann) was all over Jeremiah Wright for going on a book tour and — gasp! — daring to criticize Barack Obama. Reading today's hate-fueled rant on the web site, you'd think he had done something wrong. Why? more »

Why Clinton is going to become the Nader of 2008

Everyone's talking about Hillary Clinton's win in Pennsylvania yesterday over rival Barack Obama. Ten whole percentage points: may I make whoopee in my pants, now? It's still not enough to help the senator supposedly representing New York catch up to the one supposedly representing Illinois in terms of pledged delegates. more »

I am Change: a Manifesto

frankfurterschool.com — 14 practical steps you can take to help realize progressive change

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No solutions to the economic crisis in the presidential race.

In a recent EENR entry I posted about Paul Krugman's blog entry regarding the real reason regulators have failed to reign in the excesses of Wall Street. Essentially, the failure was deliberate -- an effort to systematically remove any and all regulation. more »

A Necessary Narrative -- for a timely and responsible exit of Iraq

In 2006, a majority of Americans grew tired of the continuing loss of soldiers and ever worsening situation in Iraq. The Bush administration had set our national goals on making a happy new liberal democratic state and there obviously wasn’t any such thing emerging. more »

How we can hold Barack Obama accountable.

The other day I posted a link to Matt Gonzalez's guest column at BeyondChron.org about how Barack Obama's record does not match his campaign rhetoric, or the misperceptions of far too many of his followers. more »