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For fourteen years we’ve sat on our hands in abject fear, allowing one party to dictate a far whacked-out right wing agenda watching a corrupt Administration lie its way into war, destroy the economy, tear up our treaties and relationships abroad, allow torture and hide behind so-called Patriotic fundamentalist Christian values.

I have written before on Organized Rage about the time warp that is politics in the north of Ireland. The latest unwelcome blast from the past is the opposition a Sinn Fein Minister in the Stormont administration is facing in her attempt to abolish selection in the north of Irelands schools and thus the 11 plus examination.

In the coming days and weeks, Bill Clinton's impact on Hillary Clinton's campaign is going to be discussed ad nauseam (get your barf bags ready). But here's the question on my mind: Can a family member's behavior really adversely affect your career?

I have been running an informal poll on this blog for weeks. First of all, this is not a scientific poll. That being said, other polls I have had have tracked close to other polls and have trended in a reality based manner.

Article by FT.com - US homepage at http://www.ft.com/home/us Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, urged Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and their supporters to tone down attacks against each other or risk jeopardising the party's chances of winning the White House in November