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Archive for March 20th, 2008

Thoughts on Obama’s speech on race

Blog: March 20th, 2008

It appears as though, politically, Obama’s speech was a success. Apart from it being almost universally praised for it’s ethical and poetic strengths, it managed an important political achievement: it changed the mainstream media’s narrative away from the Reverend Wright video loop. Almost immediately, the MSM stopped playing those clips.
The Wright controversy is the second […]

Three State Dept. employees caught spying on Obama

Blog: March 20th, 2008

On three separate occasions, three State Department contract employees improperly accessed Obama’s passport information. Josh Marshall of TPM points out the relevance of the three days (January 9, February 21 and March 14) the records were breached:
That would be the day after the New Hampshire primary, the day of the Democratic debate in Texas and […]