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By Eugene Robinson — Don’t laugh too hard at Rick Perry for his mortifying episode of brain-lock at Wednesday’s GOP presidential candidates’ debate. His opponents managed to remember their lines, but didn’t do any better at making sense.
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So he “stepped in it” during Wednesday night’s GOP presidential debate. Others might say he choked or even ate it. But despite Rick Perry’s Texas-sized blunder, he’s not giving up his White House dreams. (more)
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Republicans are still looking for a non-Romney to carry their banner into the White House, and although Herman Cain appears to be weathering numerous sexual harassment allegations with ease, a new poll shows a certain amphibian nipping at his heels. (more)
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — We have embarked on yet another presidential campaign in which religion will play an important role without any agreement over what the ground rules for that engagement should be.
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
Posted on Nov 5, 2011
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Rick McKee, Cagle Cartoons, The Augusta Chronicle —
Posted on Nov 5, 2011
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Can Mitt Romney be dislodged as the fragile but disciplined front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination? If he can, South Carolina is the best bet for the role of spoiler.
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By Juan Cole — As someone who has been running for president for many years, Romney should by now know something about foreign policy and he should know where he stands.
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Many keen political observers have not taken the ascendancy of Herman Cain seriously, because they know winning the Republican presidential nomination isn’t about national polls, it’s about Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and the other primaries and caucuses. (more)
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By Joe Conason — What does the career of the former Massachusetts governor tell us about the ideology of the LDS church—and what his personal beliefs may portend if he becomes the first Mormon in the Oval Office?
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AP / Isaac Brekken
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By Bill Boyarsky — Almost 20 miles from the Occupy L.A. encampment and 265 miles from the Las Vegas Republican presidential debate, the state employment office in Norwalk, Calif., was a sad, quiet reminder of what the presidential campaign should be about—unemployment that is dooming the prospects of this generation and its children.
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By The Rev. Madison Shockley — A candidate’s faith does in fact matter, especially when the religious institution to which he or she belongs is involved in explicit political campaigns that affect millions of lives. Such issues as civil rights for women, immigrants and the LGBT community come immediately to mind.
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White House / Chuck Kennedy
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President Obama and the Democratic National Committee have raised more from the financial industry than all the Republican candidates combined. However, without the DNC, Mitt Romney has raised almost twice as much as the president from that sector, according to analysis by The Washington Post. (more)
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AP / Chris Carlson
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Is there anything substantial, in the way of political mettle, that Herman “9-9-9” Cain can offer Americans who don’t have a repetition compulsion? According to this breakdown of Tuesday night’s GOP debate in the hotbed of conservatism that is Las Vegas, not so much. (more)
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In this episode of “Left, Right & Center,” show regulars Tony Blankley, Robert Scheer and Matt Miller, along with special guest panelist Laura Tyson, take on all things related to the economy in the week’s news, finding a lot of bad and ugly but not much good.
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By Robert Scheer — If a Republican were president, there would be millions of properly coiffed middle-class Democrats and independents at those Occupy Wall Street marches, and no questions asked as to what they really want.
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By Amy Goodman — Back when Barack Obama was still just a U.S. senator running for president, he told a group of donors in a New Jersey suburb, “Make me do it.”
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According to Google’s data, “4 of the top 10 cities with the most searches for [Herman Cain] are major cities right in Texas.” Those would be Austin, Houston, Dallas and San Antonio. (more)
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Sep 29, 2011
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On this week’s “Left, Right & Center”: setbacks in the effort to solve the European debt crisis, John Boehner’s remarks on Obama’s jobs plan, and where presidential hopefuls Rick Perry and Mitt Romney stand after the latest GOP candidates’ debate. (more)
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Closed churches are selling artifacts and furnishings in the U.S. and Europe; graffiti artist Banksy accuses a TV documentary of distortion; and Amazon has finally created the Kindle tablet. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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Not content to limit his worship of Ronald Reagan to the usual dewy-eyed remembrances and genuflection practiced by all Republican presidential candidates, Mitt Romney has decided to build an international monument to the former president in the form of a multilateral free trade zone.
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By Bill Boyarsky — Republican spending knows no limits when it comes to going into debt for failed and useless wars. But it’s another story when it comes to providing federal assistance for victims of Hurricane Irene or other catastrophes we may face in the months ahead.
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By William Pfaff — It now seems a necessary qualification for the Republican nomination, at least at the present primaries stage, to be a born-again fundamentalist Protestant. Yet in the United States the majority of the electorate is not fundamentalist, evangelical or Protestant.
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Flickr / Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a staunch conservative and evangelical Christian from the right side of the Mason-Dixon Line, may just be the most “electable” candidate the Republican establishment can nominate for president.
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AP / Charlie Neibergall
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By Eugene Robinson — The Iowa Straw Poll has shifted the GOP contest sharply to the right. This may fire up the Republican base, but it may also turn off independents who have made clear their distaste for uncompromising partisanship.
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Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann beat out other Republicans to win the Iowa straw poll in Ames on Saturday, receiving 4,823 of the nearly 17,000 votes cast. (more)
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Nate Beeler, The Washington Examiner —
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On Thursday former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney told the crowd at the Iowa State Fair that “corporations are people, my friend.” The Democratic National Committee took those words and turned them into advertising gold.
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Gage Skidmore (CC-BY-SA)
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The Texas governor will almost certainly launch a broadside against current GOP front-runner Mitt Romney this weekend when he takes the wraps off his campaign for president. (more)
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Internet porn causes pay-per-view sales to fall; a new chip will make HIV testing easy, affordable and readily available; meanwhile, mobile phones become more essential than toilets in the developed world. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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We don’t have the full picture yet on the lineup of candidates revving up to race for the White House in 2012, even from the GOP camp, which has already kicked into high campaigning gear. A certain governor of a big state ... (continued)
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In his first essay for New York Magazine since quitting The New York Times last spring, Frank Rich thoughtfully details Barack Obama’s failure to push back against the financial wheeler-dealers who drove the country to the brink of ruin ... (more)
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Truthdig political reporter Bill Boyarsky explains why Michele Bachmann could win Iowa, tells us about Mitt Romney’s advantage and says “The impact of [California’s] budget is going to be felt negatively for generations.”
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AP / Jim Cole
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By Bill Boyarsky — Viewing the Republican presidential debate was two hours of sheer misery, mixed with a foreboding that one of these people could defeat President Barack Obama.
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By Robert Scheer — Not one of the candidates for the GOP presidential nomination who debated Monday night rose to a point of seriousness in addressing the nation’s grievous problems. Instead, they ever so playfully thumbed their collective noses at any possible meaningful government reaction to the mess that we are in.
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By Eugene Robinson — Like Hillary Clinton, Rudy Giuliani and quite a few others who never got to be president, Mitt Romney has the misfortune of being an early front-runner.
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The economy will be President Obama’s biggest bugaboo, no doubt, as he makes his play in 2012 to remain in the White House. Here we have one of his Republican rivals, Mitt Romney, pointing this out via a campaign ad.
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Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — In an age of media flying circuses where you never know who is running for president and who is just trying to boost book sales and speaking fees, Mitt Romney did it the old-fashioned way.
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Presidential candidate Mitt Romney held his stance on climate change Friday, recognizing that humans have contributed to global warming even though GOP leaders have typically disputed this scientifically supported concept. (more)
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Friday’s job news was far from good news, pointing to more bumps down the road to economic recovery. Thus, it falls on “Left, Right & Center” regulars Matt Miller and Tony Blankley, along with guest panelists Ed Kilgore and Chrystia Freeland, to brainstorm ... (more)
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He’s tall, he’s telegenic and he’s back: Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is throwing in to run for president again in 2012. He’ll have some work to do when it comes to helping Republicans forget his role in revamping his home state’s health care system ... (more)
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