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Group dkos project: "Not Fit To Command"

The Swift Boat Liars for Bush (tip of the hat to MaryScott) are trying to denigrate Kerry for several reasons:They want Bush to be elected.They are being funded by longtime GOP moneymen and operatives...

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"I will" - Kerry's new line?

Josh Marshall says that Kerry needs a catchphrase to take on Bush. Here is what I want to hear Kerry say:"Bush is running on what he should have done by now. I'm running on what I will do." And he...

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Email addresses for Sinclair advertisers

Via Tom Schaller at The Gadflyer, we get this list of national and regional advertisers on Sinclair stations:

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Hersh: We're executing civilians, just like Vietnam

Via Atrios, Seymour Hersh gets a call from a soldier in Iraq who tells him we are executing civilians. Tiny Revolution has the scoop; here are the key grafs:

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Sully: Bush 04 = Gore 00

A letter to Andrew Sullivan of all people nails this insight:

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The nightshift: Bush v Kerry on splitscreen

CSPAN has the debate on split screen and now a few things seem very obvious:

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Is Bush a Christian?

The Suskind article has created a fascinating dialogue in the blogsphere about Bush running the world on his personal faith rather than reality and reason.

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Why Kerry Is Right

Wouldn't you know it--a tiny alternative weekly has one of the most useful endorsements for Kerry out there. The Pacific Northwest Inlander not only has a smartly written editorial about why they...

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Seattle Times: The case for Kerry

The Seattle Times finally endorses Kerry and here's how they start:Seldom do Americans have a presidential election that hinges on foreign policy. This is one of those times, and on this matter we cast...

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Sen Graham to Gen Franks: Liar!

The other day General Franks said this in a NYT editorial:On more than one occasion, Senator Kerry has referred to the fight at Tora Bora in Afghanistan during late 2001 as a missed opportunity for...

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New WOLVES Download...

...here. Of course, I edited it a bit, changed the music some, and now have a quote from W in it. But otherwise it's exactly the same. If anyone knows how to/wants to post this to stream for dkossians,...

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Cleveland Rocks: JK, The Boss and me

Well not really me, since I was about 10,000 back, 5,000 over on the right. Watch for me on the TV screen; I'm over there with about 50,000 other people surrounding the giant Kerry Edwards sign. Those...

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The Democratic party is dead, long live...

...the new Democratic Party. Yep, depressing stuff the past few days but I for one am almost over it. Where to begin. Kos mentioned this earlier, but I think The Bull Moose says it best:Organization is...

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BREAKING: Arafat is dead

As Steve Clemons says on his inestimable blog:THE BUSH TEAM NOW HAS SOME VERY HARD DECISIONS TO MAKE. A transition in Palestinian leadership may be the best chance to set in place a credible path to a...

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Want to win on values? Go West.

Tired of the values thing already? Too bad, because if we're jostling for every vote we can get, then 22% of the electorate is a voting bloc that we have to figure out how to target. Digby tries, but...

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In 2008 I will vote for...

...Gavin Newsom, if he makes a Quixotic attempt at it. He's 37 today, so will be 41 by then. Chickenshit Deny-ocrats will run away screaming "gay marriage! gay marriage!" Stop. It's time to be bold....

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Its Ok to Call Them Fascists

Especially when conservatives are saying it about themselves. Via Jack Whelan at After The Future I read that The American Conservative magazine is worried about the strains of fascism it sees on the...

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Fascism pt 2" "If it walks like a duck..."

After reading rcmulliken's intriguing but much too brief diary on fascism, I couldn't help but weigh in.  This was meant to be just a comment, but as you can tell it got out of hand. Today via Jack...

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Schiavo: what we should have done

I didn't post this earlier because I know my opinion will not sit well with many, if not most, kossacks. But now that the heat is dissipating I have to say that I disagree with the whole approach many...

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The Democratic Nuclear Option

At the SoCal kossack get together this morning, I mentioned Mark Kleiman's interesting post about the Democrat's Nuclear Option that would give us the House of Representatives in one fell swoop....

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Until I Get To My Living Will... (w/poll)

..y'all are witnesses: I do not want to be kept alive by artificial means. Especially if it's determined that I have no brain activity worth speaking of, and have very little chance of ever having any...

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General Clark to HASC: "I Told You So"

Via First Draft, WAPO details the chickenhawks' first taste of crow. Who knew it would be so sweet? More below:

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Why Delay Is Really After Judges

So Mr. Behind the Scenes suddenly decides that he has to step out in front of the camera as the best friend the rightwing extremists ever had. Why is that? And why now? Lou Dubose, who has reported on...

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Reid's Strategy: "Rope-a-Dope"

The shill we love to hate, Howard Fineman, has an interesting take on Give 'Em Hell Harry's approach to battling the GOP: he let's them knock themselves out. More below.

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I outed myself last week

And I wish I could say it was because I was gay. Nope, it's because I'm part of the religious left. In many ways these days, it seems easier to be accepted as gay and progressive than as religious and...

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Dean & Dems, Go West to Win

I like the South. My family's from there. My last name is Cobb, as in Cobb County, Georgia. But it's killing me that the good Doctor Dean seems to be ignoring the West and Southwest. And I think it's a...

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Reid's Statement to Frist

Via Atrios, we find Senator Reid's statement regarding Frist's cynical exploitation of religion:I am disappointed that in an attempt to hide what the debate is really about, Senator Frist would exploit...

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CA Dem Convention LIVE

Hi kossacks. I'm here at the California State Democratic Convention and thought I'd share. I'm signed up as a volunteer, will be attending the Wes Clark event, will try and eavesdrop on the Dean event,...

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Clark in '08?

Update [2005-4-18 0:6:30 by Armando]: From the diaries by Armando. After getting covered by a number of bloggers, including Matt Yglesias, Mark Kleiman and MYDD, I feel less guilty promoting this post...

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Are You a Liberal?

I am, and proud of it. I even use the L word. But as we all know, many don't. Maybe even many here. We'll use progressive instead. How did that happen? How did the word Liberal become a perjorative,...

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The Ann Coulter Pooper Scooper

This is really not worthy of a diary, and I expect a number of people to tell me so. But in the interest of a little light-hearted Friday night partisan fun, I did want to let y'all know that, as I...

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Why Kerry might be spineless...

...and how he can prove he's not. To flesh out a comment I made yesterday, I wanted to dig deeper into kos' contentious assertion that Kerry is spineless for declaring that on gay marriage should not...

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Dean was wrong...

...but for all the right reasons. I love Dean's fighting spirit, but I think he's being too tactical and not strategic enough. And that comes from a larger problem--the Dem leadership that is so busy...

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How to talk about Iraq (and everything else)

Liberal Oasis gets it right. They talk about the process of getting to what Dems should say about Iraq in an article called Dems and IraqOnce again, attention is being called to the Democratic Party's...

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The DSM is the New Blue Dress

Steve Soto pulls his hair out at The Left Coaster in a post called The "We All Knew This" DefenseAs a follow-up to Marie's great piece below, I've become as jaded as anyone at how the media has ditched...

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2nd UPDATE: Did Rove out Plame to cover another crime?

Namely that he had some key role in the forging and/or dissemination of the Niger documents? It would fit Rove's pattern--those documents were the ultimate Nixonian "ratfucking," only this time of the...

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The Dem Brand: Liberty leads to liberalism leads to liberals

This entry is an edited version of an extra long comment I posted on Mark Schmitt's excellent blog The Decembrist in response to his post about the ongoing discussion of liberal ideas, or lack thereof....

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Is Judy Miller Protecting Condi Rice?

David Sirota follows the breadcrumb trail to that question. Here's how he gets there:Before I tell you who I think it might be, let's just go through what we know. Rove now admits he learned of the...

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AMERICABLOG: Rove in hiding [2ND UPDATE] 22 indictments???

Sweeeeeeet. As John says...The White House is hiding Karl Rove - they know something's coming... by John in DC - 10/05/2005 03:36:00 PM I just talked to a source who told me that Karl Rove has been...

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If Judy Miller had testified a year ago Kerry would have won

Our friends at Americablog raise a really important question:I just got a call from a friend whose wife came up with a very interesting point. Fitzgerald today said that he could have been having this...

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Bush at 34%: The Crazification Factor

Bush's approval rating is at 34%. To the rational among us, those paying attention and/or taking our meds, that still seems insane. Lucky for us John Rogers over at Kung Fu Monkey explains it. He has...

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Dem in 06 = Dean in 03

It is perhaps a fitting irony that Murtha has now come around to Dean's essential position of being opposed to this war. In hindsight Dean has been the real Dem leader on all of this. Ahead of Kerry...

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Alterman asks for help re: the next Ben Domenech

Eric Alterman asks for our help:Someone brought up the question of the whether the Democrats will be able to present an effective alternative to Bush in the next election, Joe Klein shouted out, "Well...

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Rove's October Surprise: Osama Bin Laden

Another Bin Laden tape has surfaced. As Steve Clemons remarks on his blog:If America does, in fact, capture or kill bin Laden in the next few months, I suspect that it will produce somewhat of a surge...

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Why protests don't work, and how to change that

Jeffrey Feldman's diary talks about how to remake protests so that they are more effective. Here are the steps: 1) Pick One Color 2) A Slogan Everyone Can Say 3) Pick A Protest Gesture All of those...

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SALON: Ask Harry Reid

As you all heard, Harry Reid gave the final keynote of Ykos. He speaks softly, with no bluster, reading his speech much of the time. He comes across as softspoken and almost shy. But as he spoke, it...

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Dear Rep Slaughter, about Iraq...

As you say,  starting Thursday, the House of Representatives will hold a debate on the Iraq war. We're pretty savvy here at dkos. We know that the goal will be to get: 1) Juicy soundbites for...

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Libertarian Democrat? No You're Not

I understand the marketing impulse behind kos' idea of the Libertarian Democrat; it's a desire to find a new term to take the place of that battered and maligned word, Liberal. But the facts, as they...

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Chalabi: 'The Real Culprit is Wolfowitz'

We are so far beyond the cliche of rats deserting a sinking ship. The neocons and their enablers are in a lifeboat throwing each other over the side.  The latest bit to dribble out? E&P has a...

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Can you help us help our Portland neighbor save her home from the big banks?

Longtime kossack here and, yes, it has been a very long time since I posted a diary. I did notice y'all have done just fine without my words of wisdom ;-)But after a long dry spell, I'm writing today...

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