Since when are education and eloquence liabilities in a president?
Sunday, September 7th, 2008Isn’t it ludicrous even to ask such a question? Apparently not, in the presidential race of 2008…
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Clinton invokes RFK assassination in summer 1968 among reasons to stay in race
Friday, May 23rd, 2008Sen. Hillary Clinton, in defending her decision to continue running for the Democratic nomination that almost certainly will go to rival Sen. Barack Obama, invoked the shooting death of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in the summer of 1968…
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has endorsed Barack Obama’s bid for the Democratic nomination for U.S. president, in a big boost for the senator…
Sphere: Related ContentRalph Nader: George Bush is a war criminal
Monday, March 17th, 2008
Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader, reflecting on the quick exit of former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, wonders aloud in a new essay how President George W. Bush has escaped the same fate despite Bush’s role in considerably more damning and damaging crimes…
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008To our presidential candidates, I am not a human being: I am a set of data points, one of about 168 million sets of data points collected by both the Democratic and Republican national committees. Presidential candidates will base their direct-mail, push-poll, robo-call and volunteers-knocking-on-my-door messages on computerized analyses of me as data. I will be micro-targeted by candidates’ campaign organizations for the sole purpose of producing a vote…
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008For a guy who just lost a primary, ‘08 Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama sounds like he won. Highlights and remarks follow the video below…
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