Obama At The Gate: Merkel Not So Excited

Barack Obama wants to hold a speech at the Brandenburg Gate when he comes to Berlin later this month. In the past, it has only been used on very special occasions for addresses by politicians, and by American presidents only after they have been elected.
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Cynthia McKinney Deserves Your Support, Obama Does Not

Obama’s Right turns seem to increase in direct proportion to the nearness of the general election. “Surely no one with a brain any longer believes that Obama is a closet progressive, or even a genuine liberal.”
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The People vs The Mile High Hoax

Obama and company would like to dispense with all the tedious things that normally happen at a convention (like voting) and get right to the rock concert/speech at the stadium. This gives rise to a new coalition of Democrats called The Denver Group, who are attending to a more basic concern: democracy.
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Obama Playing Voters for Dupes

Has there ever in recent political memory been so much calculation and bad faith by a politician who has made so much of eschewing both? We now know that Barack Obama is not naive, but his ardent supporters are.
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Conservatives for Obama?

What is becoming ever more painfully apparent is that too many people this year– whether conservative, liberals or whatever– are all too willing to judge Barack Obama on the basis of his election-year rhetoric, rather than on the record of what he has advocated and done during the past two decades.
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Don’t Misunderestimate Obama

Who is Barack Obama? Is he a populist or a free-trader? Does he support separation of church and state or faith-based initiatives? Lately, he is trying to be all things to all people; a combination of Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush rolled into one. What is he really up to?
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Lurching With Abandon

Senator Barack Obama is not just tacking gently toward the center. He’s zigging so fast it’s guaranteed to cause disillusion, if not whiplash.
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Obama was ‘quite religious in Islam’

Interviews with people from the candidate’s past conflict with the claims being made by his campaign.
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PUMA’s Declaration of Objections

When, in the course of U. S. Presidential Elections, it becomes necessary for one portion of a political party to assume among the people of the nation a position different from that which they have previously occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of their Constitution entitle them, a decent respect for [...]