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Lincoln-Douglas Debates (as moderated by ABC)

I saw this on Pharyngula earlier:
MR. GIBSON: So we’re going to begin with opening statements, and we had a flip of the coin, and the brief opening statement first from Mr. Lincoln.

LINCOLN: Thank you very much, Charlie and George, and thanks to all in the audience and who are out there. I appear before you […]

Barack Obama on Rural and Working Class America, Circa 2004

via Talking Points Memo

Video of Bush being booed at MLB’s 2008 Opening Night

Haha! /Nelson (via ThinkProgress.org)

Barack Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” speech

Hopefully, we’ll be telling our grandkids about this one.

Follow the link for the full text…

YouTube - Romney ad becomes parody of itself


Deleted Scenes from Bush’s State of the Union Address


Bush’s abstinence-only hack linked with prostitution service

I haven’t written in awhile but the kids are gone and the wife is asleep so I thought I’d mention this story that’s probably going to get buried since it released over the weekend.

Another one of Bush’s top people has resigned after being linked with a DC prostitution service. This time it is Deputy […]

SUV Magnet Sales Plummer

Obviously due to this brilliance (first mentioned here):

From the Financial Times:

For three years after the invasion of Iraq, it was difficult to drive more than a few miles through middle America without seeing a car displaying a magnetic yellow ribbon.

The magnets, bearing the slogan “Support Our Troops”, became a symbol of patriotism for millions of […]

Olbermann gives Condi a history lesson

While I’m posting videos from Countdown, here’s Keith Olbermann giving our Secretary of State a little history lesson on WWII.

On Sunday morning on Fox News, the Secretary of State said that if Congress were now to revise the Iraq authorization, “it would be like saying that after Adolf Hitler was overthrown, we needed to change, […]

Is Bush funding groups linked to Al Qaeda?

via Alternet:

Seymour Hersh’s latest piece in the New Yorker reveals that the Pentagon is accelerating plans for an attack on Iran, that ex-Iran-Contra figure John Negroponte is moving to the State Dept because he’s “too ethical” for the Pentagon and that the president is pushing the “absolute limit” of his authority in bypassing Congress and […]