Friday frights from Gerry

Written by: Gerry L on Sep 5, 2008 9:06 AM EDT

an hour late...and shorter than usual...under the weather today..

Friday~

***************round of articles about our domestic ‘issues’ ~ September 5th,  2008

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You might throw some palpable ‘scorn’ into the mix, too…IMO

The Resentment Strategy

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/opinion/05krugman.html?hp

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Rambo and the Mean Girl

The Republican Party convention in Minneapolis gave us two American film narratives in an attempt to shift the national political debate away from issues and accountability to personalities and fluffy ideals.
Former Reagan speech writer Peggy Noonan let the strategy slip in an unguarded open mike moment. Asked if Sarah Palin is the most qualified woman Republican the McCain camp could have found, Noonan exploded: "The most qualified? No! I think they went for this -- excuse me-- political bullshit about narratives --"

http://www.juancole.com/

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The Real John McCain

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/opinion/05fri1.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

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McCain the Divider

By E.J. Dionne

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080904_mccain_the_divider/?ln

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Meet the Senator Most Likely to Start a Nuclear War

The Real McCain

By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR

http://www.counterpunch.org/

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5 Facts You Should Know About Sarah Palin’s Record

http://emilyslist.org/candidates/palin_top5/

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Fact Check: Palin’s Dishonest Speech

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20080904_fact_check_palins_dishonest_speech/

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The Anti-Republican Republican Who Is Really a Republican

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/355013

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McCain Uses His Big Speech to Give Us a Tour of His Vietnamese Prison Cell

By David Corn, MotherJones.com
http://www.alternet.org/story/97667/

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The Anti-Obama Hate-Fest
The overwhelmingly white Republican National Convention is letting loose on Barack Obama with ridicule and contempt, but many of the GOP claims aren't true, Robert Parry reports.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/090408.html

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Beyond the Conventions

http://www.truthout.org/article/beyond-conventions

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Abramoff Guilty Again: Four More Years

http://www.truthout.org/article/abramoff-guilty-again-four-more-years

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Detroit Mayor Pleads Guilty, Resigns

    Detroit - Kwame M. Kilpatrick, the charismatic mayor of Detroit who has been embroiled in legal problems stemming from a sex scandal since the beginning of the year, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and resigned his office Thursday morning as part of a deal with prosecutors.

http://www.truthout.org/article/detroit-mayor-pleads-guilty-resigns

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Firing Up the Faithful With Echoes of Culture War Rhetoric

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/us/politics/05memo.html

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Checking In From The Republican Convention

The New York Times reporter David Kirkpatrick joins us from the Republican Convention in Minneapolis. Kirkpatrick is the author of a series of articles profiling John McCain. He covered the conservative Christian movement during the 2004 election.

 http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13

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Commentary from a real ‘conservative’…

FEIN: Unaddressed issue

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/03/unaddressed-issue/

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Going on an Imperial Bender

How the U.S. Garrisons the Planet and Doesn't Even Notice

By Tom Engelhardt

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174972/being_in_base_denial

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from and about ‘over there’

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Cheney in Ukraine on solidarity mission

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/cheney-in-ukraine-on-solidarity-mission-919238.html

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Bhutto Widower With Clouded Past Is Set to Lead

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/world/asia/05zardari.html?ref=world

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Peace and Solidarity

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