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By Bill Boyarsky — Record numbers of Latino voters almost certainly gave Obama Nevada, Colorado, Pennsylvania and, thus, the presidency.
Posted on Nov 7, 2012
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He spent only two years in Congress before losing the gig in 2010, and just like that you can drop the “former” from Rep. Alan Grayson’s title. The good people of Orlando, Fla., are sending the sharp-tongued liberal fireball back to work in the Capitol.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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By Peter Z. Scheer — I suspect that when my life is over I will have had two opportunities to vote in a presidential election for a black man, and I intend to take both of them.
Posted on Nov 6, 2012
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By Robert Scheer — I have been a harsh critic of the president, but a vote for Barack Obama in a swing state is a no-brainer.
Posted on Nov 5, 2012
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By Chris Hedges — I learned at the age of 10, when I was shipped off to a New England boarding school where the hazing of younger boys was the principal form of recreation, that those who hunger for power are psychopathic bastards.
Posted on Nov 5, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The 2012 campaign began on Aug. 2, 2011, when President Obama signed the deal ending the debt-ceiling fiasco. At that moment, the president relinquished his last illusions that the current, radical version of the Republican Party could be dealt with as a governing partner. From then on, Obama was determined to fight—and to win.
Posted on Nov 4, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Back when he was being “severely conservative,” Mitt Romney suggested that responsibility for disaster relief should be taken from the big, bad federal government and given to the states, or perhaps even privatized. Hurricane Sandy would like to know if he’d care to reconsider.
Posted on Oct 29, 2012
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By Chris Hedges — The November election is not a battle between Republicans and Democrats. It is not a battle between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. It is a battle between the corporate state and us.
Posted on Oct 29, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — We still make a lot of stuff in the United States of America, and one of the good things about this election is that it is likely to be decided in the nation’s industrial heartland.
Posted on Oct 28, 2012
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By David Sirota — A confession: I recently received my Colorado ballot but, even though my state will play a key role in the presidential election, I still haven’t voted.
Posted on Oct 25, 2012
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The candidates have talked a lot about health care this election cycle, but not so much about the actual health of Americans. According to a study by Gallup, adult Americans of just about every age are likelier to be obese today than they were in 2008.
Posted on Oct 24, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — You may have noticed that the Green Party presidential candidate, Dr. Jill Stein, was absent from the “town hall” presidential debate at Hofstra University the other night. That’s because she was shackled to a chair in a nearby New York police facility, along with her running mate, Green Party vice president nominee Cheri Honkala.
Posted on Oct 17, 2012
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By Peter Z. Scheer — There is no single issue more frustrating to the cause of progress than the relative struggle the left has organizing voters and getting them to the polls.
Posted on Oct 16, 2012
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By Clancy Sigal, Reader Supported News —
I’m critical of Obama’s presidency, but my medical emergency convinced me that for Obamacare alone we must re-elect him.
Posted on Oct 15, 2012
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By The Rev. Madison Shockley — My family survived the Great Recession because of the policies of the Obama administration. I suspect we were not alone in benefiting from one or another of the various relief programs.
Posted on Oct 15, 2012
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In his latest Op-Ed, the New York Times columnist rips the Republican presidential ticket for a health care plan that would deny potentially millions of Americans coverage in order to save money—all while proposing a trillion-dollar tax cut that would help the wealthiest Americans.
Posted on Oct 15, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Some have written that Biden was too hot and overreacted to Obama’s disengagement. But this misreads the net impact of the debate.
Posted on Oct 14, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a Wisconsin Republican who says “some girls rape easy,” why Todd Akin should never be allowed to weigh in on scientific matters again and two congressional candidates nearly come to blows at a debate.
Posted on Oct 12, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — It’s not surprising that in Thursday’s vice presidential debate Paul Ryan didn’t mention the millions of working poor who would suffer should he and Mitt Romney win in November, but I expected more from Joe Biden.
Posted on Oct 11, 2012
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By Robert Scheer — The presidential debate this week was much ado about nothing, and Mitt Romney beat Barack Obama because he was more energetic in distorting the significance of their miniscule differences.
Posted on Oct 5, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The strangest aspect of Wednesday night’s debate was Mitt Romney’s decision to change his tax policies on the fly.
Posted on Oct 4, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — A few miles south of the campus arena in the Mile High City where Barack Obama and Mitt Romney met in their first debate, “Democracy Now!” news hour broke the sound barrier by expanding their gated debate to include two third-party presidential candidates.
Posted on Oct 4, 2012
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By Robert Reich — In Wednesday night’s debate, Romney won on style while Obama won on substance. Romney sounded as if he had conviction, which means he’s either convinced himself that the lies he tells are true or he’s a fabulous actor.
Posted on Oct 4, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — Massachusetts Mitt is back. The right-winger of the Republican primaries is gone. And the mainstream media couldn’t be happier.
Posted on Oct 3, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Dr. Martin Makary blows the whistle on hospital horror stories, Paul Ryan’s “secret” tape, women hand it to Obama and Nato Green says the left will never be happy.
Posted on Sep 30, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Dr. Martin Makary blows the whistle on hospital horror stories, Paul Ryan’s “secret” tape, women hand it to Obama and Nato Green says the left will never be happy.
Posted on Sep 30, 2012
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By Joe Conason — Watching him on video, the Republican nominee sounds not only vulgar and arrogant, but profoundly ignorant about the nation he hopes to govern.
Posted on Sep 24, 2012
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On CBS’ “60 Minutes” on Sunday night, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney revealed his new plan for the millions of Americans who don’t have any health care coverage. It differs dramatically from the one he supported when he was governor of Massachusetts.
Posted on Sep 24, 2012
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By Chris Hedges — We can take it from nurse Romney or we can take it from nurse Obama, but one way or another the corporate hemlock will be shoved down our throats.
Posted on Sep 24, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — Watching Mitt Romney talk about the 47 percent of Americans he says are freeloaders, I thought of Paul Ryan’s mom, a Medicare recipient.
Posted on Sep 21, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The most incisive reaction to Mitt Romney’s disparaging comments about 47 percent of us came from a conservative friend who emailed: “If I were you, I’d wonder why Romney hates America so much.”
Posted on Sep 19, 2012
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By Scott Tucker — Democratic and Republican politicians keep each other in business.
Posted on Sep 16, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Romney’s rushed statement Tuesday night calling the Obama administration’s response to the violence in the Middle East “disgraceful” was a new low in a campaign already scraping bottom.
Posted on Sep 13, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — These community organizers, mostly Latino and African-American, are practical working people who like the president and aren’t fixated on his shortcomings. They want solutions now, and they’re working to get them.
Posted on Sep 13, 2012
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By Mark Heisler — This isn’t just a choice of philosophies, but the long-awaited showdown between post-FDR Democrats and post-Reagan Revolutionaries.
Posted on Sep 11, 2012
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By Robert Scheer — Bill Clinton bears as much responsibility as any politician for the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and the wild applause for his disingenuous speech at the Democratic National Convention last week is a sure sign of the poverty of what passes for progressive politics.
Posted on Sep 10, 2012
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By Joe Conason — There has been no political leader since FDR with Clinton’s capacity to perform this rhetorical magic, and there is none today who can match him.
Posted on Sep 9, 2012
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By Alan Minsky —
It’s fine to catalog the sins of Obama, but it’s a largely meaningless parlor game unless we offer a coherent vision that outlines a winning strategy.
Posted on Sep 6, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Elizabeth Warren is the kind of person Massachusetts has always liked to send to the U.S. Senate. So why hasn’t one of this year’s most exciting Senate candidates put the election away?
Posted on Aug 22, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — There is a difference between Obama saying that Romney and Ryan want to alter Medicare fundamentally, which is true, and the GOP saying that Obama wants to undercut Medicare, which is not.
Posted on Aug 19, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Republicans and Democrats are being equally nasty in their campaign rhetoric, but they’re not being equally truthful.
Posted on Aug 17, 2012
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By Joe Conason — By naming Paul Ryan as the Republican vice presidential nominee, Mitt Romney has endorsed what used to be known as “voodoo economics”—and restored that special brand of Republican superstition to the center of national debate.
Posted on Aug 17, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — The floundering Romney campaign was thrown a life ring of sorts last week, from aboard the USS Wisconsin, a decommissioned US Navy vessel based in Norfolk, Virginia.
Posted on Aug 15, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — There is the idea of having Paul Ryan on the Republican ticket, and then there is the reality.
Posted on Aug 15, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate underscores the central question posed by this campaign: Should cold selfishness become the template for our society, or do we still believe in community?
Posted on Aug 14, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — Some days, I feel I have seen it all. Other days, I just don’t want to get out of bed. Over eight years my family has been hit with lung cancer, brain cancer, strokes and various other medical calamities.
Posted on Aug 3, 2012
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