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    Good post, Booman.  Also, whatever caution President Obama has about dealing with the media was likely reinforced by his brief…
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    • Charlie Pierce makes the following point with some regularity:  professional reporters don't let their feelings about the person they're covering…
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    • Thanks for the response, but I think Steve LaBonne has it right.  There's a sizable faction of whites in the…
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    • It's not a "working class" monster.  It's a white "monster".  And it's a disproportionately southern white monster.  White working class…
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    • Here's one difference: Gays are more publicly out of the closet today than are women who've had abortions.  If that…
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    • And because there are hundreds of reporters and cameras at the finish line.
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    • As much as I agree with Booman and you about this issue, and as much as I'm ashamed and angry…
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    • Howard University is "Mecca" in Ta-Nehisi Coates' memoir.  (FWIW)
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    • Just my opinion but, yes.  "Better" is better than "bad".  Just because "better" isn't as good as "best" doesn't mean…
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    • Which is one of the reasons I'd love to see the Dems play hardball.  Make Republicans put up or shut…
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    • I don't remember a politics where folks would say what they meant and either your agreed or didn't.  (FDR's a…
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    • Yeah, well, then we're in the position of having to defend President Obama for dictatorial actions.  (Though I share your…
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    • Somewhat off-topic here, but part of the answer is that, as with many collaborative art forms, there can be different…
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    • I've always thought it's called "Good Friday" because the reality is so horrible.  Kind of like the cross only becoming…
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    • I think what happens is the reactionaries gradually lose power as they age and die off. That, combined with the…
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    • Good questions.  I think it's important to recall the racial/political context in which white evangelicals became a political force---namely, in…
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    • Just for the record, "the people who settled the back country came over because they were barbarians, and the English…
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    • President Obama, on the other hand, keeps offering examples of how to move the goalposts. It's not just because of…
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    • Thanks for this.  Two things: 1 - For non-Celsius fluent types (like myself), 40 degrees Celsius is 104 degrees Fahrenheit.…
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    • That.  The Recovery Act. Etc. It's important for progressives to continue to be dissatisfied at the progress we've made, and…
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