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The Death of DC Suburban Mayor's Dogs Should Matter to Every American

Robert Creamer | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Labrador Retrievers, Civil Liberties, John McCain, Mayor Calvo, Civil Rights, Breaking News, Drug Policy, Politics News

The Prince George's Sheriff's Office SWAT team raided the home of Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo and without apparent provocation, they shot and killed the couples' two Labrador retrievers.

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Hiroshima Mayor Asks US To Back Nuclear Ban On 63rd Anniversary of Atomic Bomb

AP | KATSUMI KASAHARA | Posted 08.06.2008 | Home

Read More: Tokyo, Wwii, Hiroshima, World War II, Japan, Atomic Bomb, Breaking News, Home News

HIROSHIMA, Japan — Hiroshima's mayor on Wednesday urged the next U.S. president to support a proposed ban on nuclear weapons, as Japan marked th...

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The Significance of Obama's Foreign Trip

Robert Creamer | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Breaking News, Iraq War, Reality TV, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Afganistan, Obama Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Politics News

It isn't just the American people who want us to leave Iraq. Now it's the U.S.-backed Prime Minister of Iraq. That leaves Bush, McCain and the neo cons as the only people still committed to this war.

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Progressives Must Guard Against Helping to Promote Republican Narrative That Alleges Obama "Flip Flops"

Robert Creamer | Posted 07.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Values, Barack Obama, Flip Flops, Breaking News, Presidential Election, Politics News

Progressives who disagree with Barack Obama but at the same time don't want to help Republicans usher in a third Bush term need to remember these three things.

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Americans Can't Allow McCain to Continue Bush's Failed Policies in the "War on Drugs"

Robert Creamer | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sentencing Policy, Cocain Use, Presidential Election, War on Terror, Latin America, Prison, Mccain, Coca Eradication, War on Drugs, Breaking News, Columbia, Drug Policy, Drug War, Bush War on Drugs, Jan Schakowsky, Politics News

Though the failures of the "War on Drugs" are more silent and insidious than the president's dramatic failures in the Middle East, the two have much in common.

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Unity Too Cute by Half?

Jennifer Donahue | Posted 06.26.2008 | Home

Read More: Al Gore, John McCain, Breaking Political News, New Hampshire, Breaking News, Hillary Clinton, Dream Ticket, Barack Obama, Bush, Home News

Obama does not need to overtly court Clinton voters in New Hampshire --he needs independent voters. The manufactured dog-and-pony show tomorrow in Unity, N.H., might hurt as much as it helps.

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McCain Advisor's Terrorism Comment Highlights the Right's Historic Use of Fear: How Progressives Can Overcome It

Robert Creamer | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, War on Terror, Hope, War in Iraq, Progressives, 2008 Presidential Race, 9/11, Fear, Right Wing, Barack Obama, Charles Black, Breaking News, Charlie Black, Charlie Black Terrorist Attack, John McCain Charlie Black, Politics News

Fundamentally, the centuries-long battle between Progressives and the right wing has been a struggle between empowerment and domination.

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Obama's Opt-Out of Public Financing Will Increase the Odds of True Public Financing for All Federal Races

Robert Creamer | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Presidential Campaign, Public Financing, Barack Obama, Breaking News, Freedom's Watch, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Obama Public Financing, 2008 Election, Politics News

Our goal shouldn't be to keep money out of politics -- but rather to keep big money out of politics.

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MSNBC Sinks To New Low With Ten Minute-Long "Man Stuck In Tree" Coverage

Huffington Post | Patrick Waldo | Posted 06.19.2008 | Media

Read More: Man Stuck in Tree, Msnbc, Worst News Coverage Ever, Breaking News, Media News

This afternoon MSNBC exhausted ten minutes of "Breaking News" coverage on a man stuck in a tree. Here's what anchor Contessa Brewer knew about the si...

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Falling Cranes and New York's Growing Pains

Sherman Yellen | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: New York Crane Collapse, Upper East Side, Crane Collapse, New York Real Estate, Michael Bloomberg, Real Estate, Gossip Girl, New York City, Breaking News, Gentrification, Politics News

Events like this morning's disaster will happen again and again because in Bloomberg's New York a crane hangs dangerously over the world below every few blocks.

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Why the Long Primary Battle with Clinton Will Actually Help Obama Win in November

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Kentucky Primary, Hillary Clinton, Oregon Primary, Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Breaking News, Presidential Primary, 2008 Election, Politics News

Listen to the talking heads drone endlessly about Obama's drubbing in Kentucky and Clinton's superior appeal among working class whites in Appalachia, and it is hard not to believe that the continuing primary battle won't hurt Obama in the fall.

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A New Iconic Moment for Bush -- Giving Up Golf

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Legacy, Mccain, Bush Legacy Tour, Bush's Golf, Breaking News, Bush, Politics News

According to Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, Bush's War in Iraq will cost American tax payers $3 trillion. The Commander-in-Chief's sacrifice: golf.

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Top 10 Reasons Obama Defeated Clinton for the Democratic Nomination

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Presidential Election, Presidential Primary Campaign, Barack Obama, Breaking News, Obama Top 10, Politics News

It's worth looking systematically at the major factors that gave victory to Obama -- fifteen months ago, conventional wisdom viewed him as an audacious long shot.

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McCain and Myanmar

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 05.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Doug Goodyear, John McCain, Senator McCain, Burma, GOP Convention, Katie Couric, Mccain, Myanmar, DCI Group, Breaking News, Politics News

McCain's first major appointment upon winning the Republican nomination for president was Doug Goodyear, an Arizona PR consultant with just one foreign client... Myanmar.

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Game, Set, Match: North Carolina and Indiana Settled the Democratic Nomination

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Presidential Election, Democratic Primary, Barack Obama, Breaking News, North Carolina, Indiana, Obama Nominee, Hillary Clinton North Carolina, Michigan Delegates, Hillary Clinton Indiana, Superdelegates Barack Obama, Obama North Carolina, Florida Primary, Jeremiah Wright, 2008 Election, Michigan Primary, Obama Indiana, Florida Delegates, Democratic Nomination, North Carolina Primary, Superdelegates, Florida, Superdelegates Hillary Clinton, Michigan, Democratic Nominee, Indiana Primary, Politics News

Barack will most likely lose West Virginia and Kentucky, but each one will contribute more delegates to the final number he needs to clinch the nomination.

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Why Obama Provides a More Compelling Contrast to McCain than Hillary

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Presidential Election, Religious Right, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Presidential Primary, Gas Tax Holiday, Breaking News, Politics News

Our first task is to prove to swing voters that a vote for McCain is a vote for a Bush third term. Over and over we need to demonstrate why "if you liked Bush, you'll love McCain."

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Can Obama Appeal to White Rural Men?

Robert Creamer | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: White Men, Presidential Primaries, Rev Wright, Obama, Clinton, Breaking News, Hillary White Voters, Obama White Voters, Empathy, Abraham Lincoln, White Vote 2008, White Voters, Politics News

The notion that Obama "can't appeal" to white rural men sells short both Barack Obama and white men who live in rural America. It also flies in the face of the facts.

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Last Night Clinton Won the Pennsylvania Primary, but Lost the War for the Nomination

Robert Creamer | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics

She started with a lead of almost 20 points. But her final margin of 9.2% fell far short of what was needed to stop Obama's nomination. Here's why.

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Chris Matthews Demonstrates Our Fourth Estate is Third Rate on Real Time (And Nobody Notices!)

Katie Halper | Posted 04.21.2008 | Media

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Obama Clinton 2008, Bill Maher, Hillary Clinton Sexism, Sexism, 2008 Election and Sexism, Real Time With Bill Maher, Hillary Clinton, Chris Matthews and Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Chris Matthews, Chris Matthews Hillary Clinton, Breaking News, Media News

On Friday's Real Time, Chris Matthews spoke from a position of fabricated and self-appointed authority, this time as as the spokesman of all blue collar men in Pennsylvania.

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Clinton's Attacks on Obama Patriotism Have Nothing to Do With "What the Republicans Will Say in November" - Everything to Do with Her Own Strategy

Robert Creamer | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Clinton, Presidential Election, Democratic Primary, Breaking News, Politics News

The problem for Clinton is that Obama is the furthest thing from an unpatriotic elitist, and that by relentlessly making these charges she has been raising her own negatives to dizzying heights.

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Connecting the Bush Legacy to the Republicans Who Enacted It: Americans United for Change Launches New Ads as Part of "Bush Legacy Project"

Robert Creamer | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Legacy Project, Americans United for Change, Breaking News, Bush, Politics News

Americans United for Change (AUFC), the group best known for leading the fight to defeat the President's effort to privatize Social Security in 2...

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Why Hillary Clinton's Slash-and-Burn Politics May Hurt Her More Than Obama

Robert Creamer | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Negative Campaigning, Obama, Pennsylvania Primary, Presidential Election, Clinton, Breaking News, Politics News

I've talked to a number of undecided Super Delegate Members of Congress who are furious at Hillary's willingness to attack the candidate who they consider almost certain to be the Democratic nominee.

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The Alabama of Pennsylvania Mirrors New Hampshire

Jennifer Donahue | Posted 04.15.2008 | Home

Read More: Politics, Clinton, Primary, Democratic Nomination, Bitter, Breaking News, Obama, Pennsylvania, God, Chris Matthews, Guns, Barack Obama Pennsylvania, Obama Bitter Pennsylvanians, Clinton Pennsylvania, Hillary Clinton Pennsylvania Primary, Pennsylvania Primary, Obama Calls Small Towns Bitter, Obama Pennsylvania, Home News

It's anybody's guess how the state will shake out a week from today. But listening to voters in Pennsylvania, I'd guess it won't turn on the word "bitter," "gun" or "God."

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It Takes Real Chutzpah for a Guy Who Owns Eight Houses (McCain) to Call Barack Obama an "Elitist"

Robert Creamer | Posted 04.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Mccain, Presidential Election, Clinton, Breaking News, Hypocracy, Politics News

Small town midwesterners are bitter because of the economic and trade policies championed by Bush and McCain.

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What They're Really Fighting for in Tibet

Abrahm Lustgarten | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Boycott, Human Rights, Economy, Beijing, Tibet, Protests, San Francisco, Olympic Torch, Breaking News, Olympics, Beijing Olympics, China Tibet, China, 2008 Beijing Olympics, Lhasa, Politics News

Tibet's culture has been packaged for tourism. Business is booming. But they aren't getting any of the bounty.

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