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Submitted by Chad on Fri, 05/02/2008 - 12:56pm.
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by Chad Rubel One element of Hillary Clinton's run for president of the United States is the country asking itself whether it was comfortable with having a woman be the leader of the country. However Sen. Clinton's run may finish, she has done a great job at convincing Americans that a woman can be in charge.
Not that it should have been a struggle. Canada, Great Britain, Israel, Germany, and countless other countries have had women in charge without issue. We currently have a female Speaker of the House, countless U.S. representatives and senators, state governors and much, much more.
So in terms of women in power, we've come a long way (baby). But in other areas, we still find ourselves a little perplexed.
When the news came across that Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the "DC Madam," had committed suicide, I felt a little sad for her.  Technorati Tags: Analysis Chad Rubel 2008 race Barack Obama Hillary Clinton DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey suicide power Miley Cyrus
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Wed, 04/30/2008 - 4:25pm.
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by Christine Bowman From a BuzzFlash Interview, 5/17/07: People ask me: Are they going to steal the 2008 election? No, they’ve already stolen the 2008 election. -- Greg Palast, author of Armed Madhouse
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Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 04/29/2008 - 1:35pm.
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by Christine Bowman Leave a comment if you miss Molly Ivins. What clear vision she had and what a great ability to sniff out political b.s.! What a hero and patriot she was. On January 20, 2006, Molly Ivins wrote a plea for reform and a stinging critique of certain Democrats* who had pissed her off. She wrote about the fear that had kept those Democratic disappointers in line, causing them to line up behind the misbegotten Iraq war:
Bush, Cheney and Co. will continue to play the patriotic bully card just as long as you let them. I've said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kicking dachshunds on the grounds that dachshunds were "German dogs." They did not, however, go around kicking German shepherds. Technorati Tags: Analysis Patriotism Obama Clinton Wright Lapel Pin Weather Underground
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 12:00am.
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by Christine Bowman Here they are in a nutshell: Now choose! It's been said we could gauge how Obama or Clinton would govern as president by what they would show us between January and August of 2008. We're at the halfway point of that timeline now, so let's review what they've shown us. Surely there's enough there for any undeclared superdelegates and the remaining voters to make their decisions? Technorati Tags: Analysis Obama Clinton Superdelegates Choose Primary Democrats Leadership Governing
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 4:06pm.
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by Christine Bowman Here's a story to ponder while waiting for the PA election returns to trickle in Tuesday night. This one's bigger than politics; it's Constitutional. Put the cable pundits on mute for awhile and look instead at how they've been covering stories from the Pentagon. David Barstow and his team at The New York Times dug deep into some Freedom of Information Act documents to come up with a dramatic expose of Bush Administration manipulation of public opinion on Iraq, Gitmo human rights issues, and Donald Rumsfeld's performance as Secretary of Defense. Barstow documents that the administration selected people, mostly ex-military, to "catapult the propaganda" by going directly from meetings with Rumsfeld and others at the Pentagon to the microphones of big media with a set of administration talking points in hand. Outlets including CNN, Fox News, ABC and CBS, to name just a few, uncritically provided them with same-day opportunities to sell the Pentagon view to Americans while posturing as independent experts and pundits on major news programs. Pentagon staffers also helped two Fox analysts write "their" OpEd for publication in The Wall Street Journal. The Pentagon called these folks "message force multipliers."
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Submitted by BuzzFlash on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 11:08am.
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by Christine Bowman
Senator Joe Biden is talking national security, and though no longer a candidate for the presidency, he just challenged Republican candidate John McCain on behalf of the Democrats on what some presume is McCain's main strength with voters. "I think we as Democrats should not shy away from a direct confrontation with the Republicans on national security. The Democratic Party and the Democratic candidates are stronger on National security than George Bush or John McCain. ...
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Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 3:56pm.
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by Christine Bowman
Why is Clinton calling Obama names? Could this be what she learned from 35 years of experience in politics? That reckless name-calling can work in elections. Removing words from their context is just a strategy. Unscripted truths sometimes explode like grenades. Technorati Tags: Analysis Clinton Obama Elite Elitist Gaffes
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Wed, 04/09/2008 - 12:52pm.
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by Christine Bowman Since our current president was put in office in 2000 by the Supreme Court of the United States, it may be that congressional oversight of elections and their financing has become as quaint and obsolete a concept as the Geneva Conventions. That would be a shame. Yet there is no urgency evident among lawmakers or the Bush Administration to appoint and confirm replacement members to the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) in time to impact this year's election. Currently, the FEC has only two sitting members; and at least four of a mandated six members are needed for a quorum. Thus, the oversight commission's "neutering." Since January, the two remaining FEC members have been forbidden to issue opinions or launch new investigations. Technorati Tags: Analysis FEC McCain Oversight 2008 Election Campaign Finance Bundling Watchdogs Obama
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 10:28pm.
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by Christine Bowman John McCain rightly has put Vietnam back on the table for discussion. We have to ask what lessons Captain John McCain learned, and whether his experiences prepared him to lead us well now.
John McCain is busy defining himself this week, taking advantage of the unending primary contest between Obama and Clinton. Strangely, McCain has decided to feature pictures and narratives of himself as a POW. His snapshots are now 40 years old. Technorati Tags: Analysis McCain Hagel Vietnam Iraq Obama Quagmire
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