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The Obama Campaign: Consent of, or Contempt for, the People »

Originally published at Huffington Post. Reprinted with express permission.
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Senator Obama’s ill-conceived remarks likening small town Americans to embittered guns-and-God bigots have triggered a justifiable furor. Not only are the remarks insulting, but also factually incorrect.
As it happens, at the same event in San Francisco, Senator Obama made other remarks, equally startling, insulting our Foreign Service, […]

The Rights of Women and Children, Worldwide: The Candidates Differ »

   [You can talk] to women — from the Philippines to Latin America to the Middle East — who can vote, own property, or go to school, because Hillary Clinton helped start a global women’s movement for women’s rights. [You can travel] to Africa and Asia, where Hillary Clinton visited countless remote villages to show how […]

“U.S. Set to Offer Huge Arms Deal to Saudi Arabia” »

UPDATE below: “US accuses Saudis of telling lies about Iraq,” The Guardian
NYT:
WASHINGTON, July 27 — The Bush administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve an arms sale package for Saudi Arabia and its neighbors that is expected to eventually total $20 billion at a time when some United States officials contend that the […]

Location, Location, Location! (Open Thread) »

– Cartoon by Mike Luckovich of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, sent to me by Leslie
Next, from McClatchy’s top article today, “Constant filibuster threat is tying Senate in knots“:
 

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