The right wing attack on Obama's patriotism

Sun Sep 6, 2009 10:34 AM EDT

Race is always prevalent when you have a black president. It's completely natural that despite all the progress we made last year, there are still some people that harbor racist attitudes.

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Democrats' Woes Won't Cure GOP - WSJ.com

Seeded on Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:59 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

In this case, it means that even as Democrats hit rough seas, Republicans shouldn't forget that they still face significant deficiencies and structural problems of their own -- problems that just a few months ago seemed almost insurmountable.

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Blue Jersey:: Leading By Listening

Seeded on Mon Aug 24, 2009 5:09 PM EDT (bluejersey.com)

by: Congressman Frank Pallone Mon Aug 24, 2009 at 12:28:29 PM EDT

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3quarksdaily

Seeded on Mon Aug 24, 2009 5:08 PM EDT (3quarksdaily.com)

So the Prez says we're in a wee-wee period. Well, I am in a pee'd off period. Looks like nobody is going to rid me of my private health insurance. The public option looks dead.

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3quarksdaily

Seeded on Sun Aug 23, 2009 12:56 PM EDT (3quarksdaily.com)

Academics have been trying to work out from the evidence whether microcredit does actually raise people's incomes. But it's been hard to do a proper scientific survey, since you need to compare those who do get a loan with a control group of similar people who don't.

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CQ Politics | Vetting the Health Care Rhetoric

Seeded on Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:15 AM EDT (cqpolitics.com)

This summer's heated health care debate has been a forum for a host of inaccurate claims from the political right and left.

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The De-Facto Segregation of Health Care | The American Prospect

Seeded on Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:10 AM EDT (prospect.org)

Opponents of health care reform haven't shied away from invoking race. Why are advocates afraid to point out that people of color suffer the worst inequities of the current system?

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Why Liberals Embrace Government

Sat Aug 22, 2009 9:44 PM EDT

Only in our country, can people combined patriotism with a libertarian view of government. Conservatives believe that you can love your country and still hate your government.

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Has Obama lost the trust of progressives, as Krugman says? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

Seeded on Sat Aug 22, 2009 7:38 PM EDT (Salon.com)

The central pledges of the Obama campaign were less about specific policy positions and much more about changing the way Washington works -- to liberate political outcomes from the dictates of corporate interests; to ensure vast new levels of transparency in government; to separa …

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The Real Lesson that Obama should learn from the Clintons

Wed Aug 19, 2009 6:40 PM EDT

People want to point to Clinton's failed health care initiative as a justification for Obama's current strategy which would be to outsourced the entire legislative process to Congress, and stay flexible as possible when it comes to making concessions and brokering deals.

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