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What Obama Should Say to McCain: Part II

“Senator, youâ€™ve spent the last month making accusations about me that you know are false. Youâ€™ve been lying about my record, my position on the issues and about the people Iâ€™ve associated withâ€¦all in an effort to scare the American people.

The way youâ€™ve done it — behind my back — reminds me of that [...]

What Obama Should Say to John McCain

Senator, all Americans â€“ Republicans and Democrats alike â€“ honor your military service.
But we do not honor the way you are running this campaign.

When you say, â€œIâ€™m John McCain and I approve this message,â€ you are saying itâ€™s okay to distort the facts, lie about my record and question my patriotism.

What you fail to understand [...]

Back To Reality

Welcome to Washington Hotlist, the site for serious discussion about this presidential election. For the many of you that are concerned about the way Senator Obama used bad analogies involving lipstick and other such nonsense, feel free to pick up any mainstream media newspaper or turn on the television. With so many serious [...]

Dimwittedness is On The March!

Sheâ€™s Not Ready
By BOB HERBERT
Published: September 12, 2008

“While watching the Sarah Palin interview with Charlie Gibson Thursday night, and the coverage of the Palin phenomenon in general, Iâ€™ve gotten the scary feeling, for the first time in my life, that dimwittedness is not just on the march in the U.S., but that it might [...]

Progressive Blogger Shot in Washington

Breaking news.

Talking Points Memo is reporting this afternoon that progressive blogger Brian Beutler was shot and critically injured in a mugging in Adams Morgan, Washington, D.C.

Brian was critically injured but is expected to make a complete recovery. He was a project director for Media Consortium, a blog network of progressive blogs of which Talking Points [...]

PUBLIC SEES REPUBLICANS AS BETTER ON NATIONAL SECURITY!

In every poll taken since 9/11, Americans say they STILL view Republicans as the party better able to deal with terrorism and a national crisis, confirming (as if there were any doubt) that voters either suffer from severe amnesia, or else they are monumentally stupid.

Have they forgotten that it was the Republicans who were in [...]