For 82 days in 1968, Robert F. Kennedy ran for President. His campaign was described as magical and mystical. With RFK, we believed that anything was possible. Then his life was tragically cut short. His great potential left unfulfilled. There hasn’t been another politician, since RFK, who has inspired this country so profoundly…until Barak Obama. Will Barack Obama be able to recreate the magic of those 82 days?

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Psycho Alert: Hostages held by environment whacko in Discovery

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Post your updates and what you find out about this nutball in the comments section, and let us hope he doesn’t take anybody with him when he does the world a favor and removes himself from the planet. Live links welcome. Share this: …. “ Perhaps inspired by Gore, and Dr. James Hansen’s recent call for civil disobedience, we have today’s environmental public relations train wreck turned armed hostage situation.” workingclass artist, on September 1, 2010 at 5:48 PM Said: …

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Message to Obama: Just flapping your gums doesn't cut it anymore!

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama was given God-like status by the media in regards to his oratory skills. He was so articulate, as well as being clean and bright! His mesmerized followers dropped like flies; passing out during his brilliantly inspired speeches about hope and change. Even one of my sisters (political neophyte who thankfully never voted in her life) commented on how he had such a nice voice – so smooth and silky. All Obama had to do was …

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Mormon-obsessed Christians add their pound of hate to Glenn Beck

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

“First, there’s evangelist Bill Keller, founder of liveprayer.com, that, in an amusing column bewailed the following: “The answers and hope they find in Glenn Beck’s “faith” will only do one thing, lead their eternal souls to the flames of ….. whether it’s on the campaign stump or in the pulpit. In sum, I reject outright the statements by Rev. Wright that are at issue.” Now what racist scum said that? President Barack Obama. Well, I guess Wrights brand of liberation …

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Pam's House Blend:: DREAM Now Letters to Barack Obama: Lizbeth Mateo

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Just as I had chosen to work on your campaign inspired by what you said, that “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek,” I also chose to face my fears, to risk it all, to seek that change, and sit-in so that the … by: you @ soon. To post this comment click here: Otherwise click cancel. You must enter a subject for your comment. Thanks Again, Pam. For all you’re doing for migrant youth. Hope you saw what I wrote about you in this post: …

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The Magnes Zionist: A Must-Read Analysis of American Policy in the

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

IN THE Middle East, U.S. President Barack Obama has spent the first year and a half of his presidency seeking to undo the damage wrought by his predecessor. He has made up some ground. But given how slowly U.S. policy has shifted, his administration runs the risk of … In the wake of the colonial era, as Arab nationalist movements emerged and took power across the Middle East, Europe either ignored the challenge they posed or treated them as Soviet-inspired irritants. …

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restored quadriga atop Brandenburg Gate pale-verdigris gateway

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has signaled unease over the prospect of a possible speech by Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama at Berlin’s historic Brandenburg Gate. Merkel has “only limited … The gate was inspired by the Propylaea, the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens. The structure is crowned by the “Quadriga of Victory”, a statue of a chariot drawn by four horses. The Doric gateway once served as a customs port. From 1961 to 1989 the gate was blocked …

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CHAS FREEMAN — America's Faltering Search for Peace in the Middle

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Even when there was no “peace process,” the possibility of resurrecting one provided hope to the gullible, cover to the guileful, beguilement for the press, an excuse for doing nothing to those gaining from the status quo, ….. In February 2009, unnamed sources leaked to the news media, initially to The Politico, that Freeman was Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair’s choice to chair the National Intelligence Council in the Barack Obama administration. …

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America's Faltering Search for Peace in the Middle East: Openings

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Even when there was no “peace process,” the possibility of resurrecting one provided hope to the gullible, cover to the guileful, beguilement for the press, an excuse for doing nothing to those gaining from the status quo, and – last but far from least – lifetime employment for ….. Tomorrow’s meeting may well demonstrate that, the election of Barack Obama notwithstanding, the United States is still unfit to manage the achievement of peace between Israel and the Arabs. …

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Caribbean Blog International: “Obama has to be persuaded to avoid

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

“We have to mobilize the world to persuade Barack Obama, president of the United States, to avoid a nuclear war. That is the only thing that he can do or not do, press the button.” With the data that he handles like an expert and the … I read it rapidly and its reading inspired me to write what I wrote.” “What inspired you?” “Discovering what he had done with the land, with the mines; what he had done with the oil… Finding out about the theft, the plunder that that …

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Will Bunch: What I Learned Behind the Lines of the Anti-Obama Backlash

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

But the right-wing rebellion is already wreaking havoc on the short run, and not just in the Washington gridlock it has inspired. The angry voices adopted by the likes of Beck and other extreme voices like radio conspiracy-monger Alex Jones are … that the Tea Party avidly does not want right now — spending on infrastructure and alternative energy, for example — because those things are the right thing to do. Even for Americans who think Barack Obama was born in Kenya. …

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