BRAZENLY LIBERAL — a fact-based initiative

What’s all the sturm und drang? Have half the liberal bloggers - and more than one rightwingblognut - on the internet lost their minds? Does anyone with an IQ over 90 look at this cover and think for a nanosecond the New Yorker is taking a cheap shot at Barack and Michelle Obama? [...]

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To truly be successful, this initiative must utilize the unique resources and identity of the faith community, while at the same time recognizing the indispensible role that government and public policy must play in tackling the root causes of poverty. truthout
But at bottom, the faith-based initiative, no matter the clunky name Obama affixes to [...]

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I had no illusions.  I didn’t kid myself that he was perfect.  From the start, there were things that bugged me.
He supports the death penalty even as he acknowledges it does little or nothing to deter crime.  (He’s credited with working to reform its application here in Illinois, but from my POV, this is a [...]

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Good God, people! If the security guard at your office building did his job courageously, he’d be a hero. Give him a big fat bonus, throw him a party and get his picture in the paper. But would you then say he should run the company without additional evidence that he [...]

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Oh yeah, baby! Finally! A Democratic candidate who doesn’t roll over and tremble at the appearance of the swiftboat assholes.
From Rolling Stone, via the New York Times:
It was not all about pop culture. When Mr. Wenner asked how Mr. Obama might respond to harsh attacks from Republicans, suggesting that Democrats have “cowered” in [...]

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