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Cory Booker: Hero?

By On July 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Politics

Despite my previous reflexive defense of East Orange, I’ll admit to buying in to the some of the negative perceptions of Newark, and was originally going to post a link to a great article on Newark’s Mayor Cory Booker that I just got around to reading in last month’s Esquire [...]

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Ignorance is Bliss

By On May 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Politics

Call me a latte-sipping elitist if you want*, but there are some truly stupid people in this country. Even worse, they’re willfully stupid!

Via Ben Smith’s “Things Americans Believe”:

10% of Americans believe [Barack] Obama’s a Muslim

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22% believe President Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks [...]

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Olbermann Pounds Nail Into Clinton Coffin

By On May 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Politics

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Again, Keith Olbermann cuts to the chase:

You actually used the word “assassination” in a time when there is a fear, unspoken but vivid and terrible, that our again-troubled land and fractured political landscape might target a black man running for president.

Or a white man.

Or a white woman!

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Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword

By On May 11, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Politics

Even Saturday Night Live knows it’s all over for Hillary Clinton: 

“Sore loser, racist supporters, no ethical standards — qualities Senator Obama simply cannot match.”

I don’t think she’ll be referencing this one any time soon!

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Poetry: Where Your Vote Really Counts

By On April 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Politics

Tired of the never-ending Democratic Primary and annoyed that, in the end, your vote might not really count anyway if the Super Delegates opt to nominate the candidate not in the lead when all is said and done?

As in many other aspects of life, poetry offers a much-needed alternative.

Blogsboro.com is running an election [...]

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