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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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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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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I’ve never been able to muster much good feeling for the slimy, hateful puppy-beating, possibly pedophilic reprobate, but if he’s going to encourage his addlepated followers not to vote for John McCain and, in fact, not to vote at all for either candidate for President in November, that’s a James Dobson that works for me.
Here [...]

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The millions of us who hoped Al Gore would run this year have gradually winnowed down. Some of us believed it the first time he said, “No.” Others needed a second, third or fourth denial. A large wave went to Edwards and then on to Obama. But there are a few [...]

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about to become the Democratic nominee for President of the United States.
I never thought it would happen in my lifetime, but here it is. This smart, accomplished, handsome, brave, charismatic man with the big ears and the 50,000 megawatt smile is giving us a chance to be better than we have been, better than [...]

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