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The Long Run: Pragmatic Politics, Forged on the South Side
http://www.nytimes.com/ 2008/ 05/ 11/ us/ politics/ 11chicago.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=...Reactions / posts that link to this article
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The NYT hits and misses in its new profile of Obama [Karl]
http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=12141Sundays New York Times has a lengthy piece on Barack Obamas rise in Chicagos political milieu, filled with hits and misses.ÃÂ For example, even the caption of the lead photo shows Obama campaigning for the Illinois State Senate in 1996, a race he easily
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Focus On Obama - SOFT Focus
http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2008/05/focus-on-obama...The enterprising team at All The News That Fits The Narrative work hard to report on Obama's political history without actually disturbing his supporters. Their coverage of his relationship with Bill Ayers is incurious to be an accident: Mr. Obama also
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Political Pragmatism Or Expediency?
http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=27652Guest post by Grey In a seven-page profile, The New York Times charts the history of Barack Obamas political awakening, from his days as a third-year law student at Harvard to the campaign trail. The secret of his transformation, which has brought him to
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Pragmatic
http://susiemadrak.com/2008/05/11/09/09/pragmatic/This doesnt exactly sound like a principled stand, does it: Betty Lu Saltzman, a Democratic doyenne from Chicagos lakefront liberal crowd, convened a small group of activists, including Ms. Katz, in her living room to organize a rally to protest the
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A Defense Of Obama On Iraq
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/5/11/202227/995Barack Obama was right and courageous to oppose the Iraq Debacle in 2002. No one should ever try and diminish that. What he did once he became a Senator, well that is a different story. But his 2002 speech struck the right chord with me. The estimable
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A Defense Of Obama On Iraq
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/5/11/202227/995Barack Obama was right and courageous to oppose the Iraq Debacle in 2002. No one should ever try and diminish that. What he did once he became a Senator, well that is a different story. But his 2002 speech struck the right chord with me. The estimable
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A Defense Of Obama On Iraq
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/5/11/202227/995Barack Obama was right and courageous to oppose the Iraq Debacle in 2002. No one should ever try and diminish that. What he did once he became a Senator, well that is a different story. But his 2002 speech struck the right chord with me. The estimable
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A Defense Of Obama On Iraq
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/5/11/202227/995Barack Obama was right and courageous to oppose the Iraq Debacle in 2002. No one should ever try and diminish that. What he did once he became a Senator, well that is a different story. But his 2002 speech struck the right chord with me. The estimable
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Sunday reading: The lady in the pantsuit
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Sunday_reading_T...Obama's Kentucky coal ad, which makes "clean coal" seem rather immediate, YouTubed for your viewing pleasure. The campaign, atypically, still hasn't put it on the Web, as far as I can tell. Hillary: "It's not over until the lady in the
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Campaign Notes.
http://snunes.blogspot.com/2008/05/campaign-notes_11.htmlBecause of Obama's extremely narrow base ala George McGovern in 1972, states like Ohio and Florida would be out of reach for him in November, which is another reason why Hillary Clinton or somebody else should be the presidential nominee for the
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http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2008/05/still-mr.html
"Still, Mr. Khalidi said ascertaining Mr. Obamas precise position was often difficult. You may come away thinking, Wow, he agrees with me, he said. But later, when you get home and think about it, you are not sure." Let me explain this one. It
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In the news on websites across the nation
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/05/in-the-news-on....Happy Mother's Day. Here's what's going on: The New York Times reports on how presidential hopefuls Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama are firmly setting their sights on each other, despite Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's continuing fight for the
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Candidate Profiling
http://thepage.time.com/2008/05/10/candidate-profiling-16/Looong Sunday NY Times piece focuses on Obamas inner circle of aides from Chicago, how theyve been able to take him this far.
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All things To All People
http://www.correntewire.com/all_things_to_all_peopleAll things To All People Submitted by myiq2xu on Sat, 2008-05-10 18:20. Disinformation Department of Now It All Makes Sense Barack Obama Exelon William Ayers This New York Times article about Barack Obama is a must read. Its so full of interesting topics
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