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Política Estados Unidos Entries

11 de Julio, 2008

Latinos [and Allies] Want Specifics, Not Soundbytes

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Latin America , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , , , , , ,


MMMM! DO YOU SMELL WHAT NEZUA'S COOKIN'? It's the flava of the voting week, and that flava is currently simmering and spiceh!!! It may fade in a few, but for now, that flavor is Obama and McCain's Concern for Latin@ Issues. It also means that the "Left Blogosphere" or...

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4 de Julio, 2008

The Bombs Bursting in Air

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26 de Junio, 2008

The Realestateconquista

Categorized under Historia , Política Estados Unidos , Política México , Raza | Tags: , , , , , , , ,


AS THE AMIGO who sent this link wrote: "Lou must be having a bad day." And just knowing that brings some sun to these gray skies. June 25 (Bloomberg) -- More than a century and a half after Mexico lost Texas to the U.S., Virgilio Garza wants a piece...

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24 de Junio, 2008

The Aroma of Justice

Categorized under Acción , Blogando , Historia , Juegos , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,


AMIGA CARMEN talks about how some pissed off Hillary supporters are stewing and planning on disrupting the Democratic National Convention and of understanding their anger...but not their cause. George Carlin talks about how most of Feminism's concerns don't involve women of color. Nezua is remembering when he was pissed...

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11 de Junio, 2008

And now, on to the rest of the year

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ARE YOU AS GLAD as I am that the primaries are over? Wow. I think I actually feel some kind of psychological and physical rebound. Or relaxation settling in. So here's a long sigh and a smile for that reality. To celebrate, I'm going to take a breather up...

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9 de Junio, 2008

For Women or For Woman?

Categorized under Juegos , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , ,


Clinton's bid to claim a piece of the ticket was regarded as brazen by some experienced Democratic politicians. It could prevent another Democratic woman from eclipsing her and even sabotage Obama's chances of winning, advancing a Clinton comeback by four years, to 2012 instead of 2016. Here's why: By advertising...

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7 de Junio, 2008

LiveBlogging Hillary's Concession Speech

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LIVEBLOG: keith olbermann introducing her...it feels like a sporting event with that voice. like obama does in so many venues, now hillary finally gets the roaring 80s-styx-arena tsunami of applause superstar treatment from the audience...and it takes losing to obama to get it. how ironic. and by ironic, i...

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6 de Junio, 2008

"He Shouldn't Do So On Our Account."

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The idea that Obama can't win Latino votes is a myth -- one that Clinton supporters only perpetuate when they suggest that he needs to choose Clinton as his running mate to win those votes. That's the argument advanced by Rep. Nydia M. Velazquez, D-N.Y., who said recently that...

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The Democrats and the Destructo-Rat

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HONESTLY, I never understood why the Dems tolerated Lieberman, the whiny traitor. He makes them look weak and silly and ineffective, as he runs around punching holes in the hull with a donkey sticker on his awl handle. But I just figured there was some arcane political rule or reason...

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High-Ranking Disturbance

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SOME DELUDED BLOGGERS (once I may have been able to say "rightwing bloggers") insist that it is, perversely, Obama who has pulled some "race card" because they are at a loss as to how to understand certain realities, and as I've said, certain politicians have factored this willing blindness into...

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Tus Mensajes [Mirrors and Time]

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FROM THE MAIL: Firstly, I really should have posted this right after Obama's big speech on race, but it is one of those things that slipped through. Here is the person I've called "D," when mentioning them before. "D," is John, a reader in Georgia, and here he shares a...

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5 de Junio, 2008

John McCain Flings Self 2000 Feet From Peak of Heightgeist

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IT WAS RIVETING, John "Betcha I Can Doom My Campaign in One Night" McCain's speech the night Barack Obama declared his winning the Democratic nomination for President. It was embarassing and awful and hilarious and surreal. It was as if McCain were doing a satire of himself. It was...

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The Dream Dies Not Readily. Clearly.

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IT IS RIDICULOUS to think of HRC as Obama's VP. Perhaps once it would have been possible. Not now. Where does that push come from? The Clinton campaign. Were HRC to be named now as VP, whose will has been enforced and with an intensity and assumption of priority...

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3 de Junio, 2008

Bow to the Mat

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REGARDING HILLARY CLINTONs odd non-concession speech last night: I do understand that Hillary, as a woman, feels she must appear strong to the end. And as a fighter, myself, I do respect that idea. And I do get that she is angling for cash and for a position in Obama's...

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Obama Wins Democratic Nomination

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ILLINOIS SENATOR BARACK OBAMA secures the necessary amount of delegates to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination. In above photograph, the universe's most magical eight-ball confirms the future. Foto from footage shot at mid-May Obama rally at the University of Oregon 'Quad'...

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2 de Junio, 2008

Nuestra Amiga, Mi Prima Nicole

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MI PRIMA, my cousin, is pictured to the left. Nicole is descended from the same familia, the same amazing mujeres y hombres who brought our family into the United States 70 or 80 years ago. I have become a freaky artist type cat, and she is on the politician...

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1 de Junio, 2008

The Spirit of Baghdad Bob Returns

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , ,


THE CLINTON CAMP looks forward to VICTORY!!!!! “We’re still fighting hard to be the nominee,” Mr. McAuliffe said. “We’re looking for a big win here in Puerto Rico.” When asked if Mrs. Clinton would suspend her campaign if Mr. Obama clinched the nomination this week, Mr. McAuliffe said that...

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31 de Mayo, 2008

Michigan and Florida - The RBC Votes.

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DEMOCRATIC RULES AND BYLAWS COMMITTEE MEETING over, and while Ausman (and Levin) here had a nice rimlight/kicker effect going on, most people were not lit as well and were rather flat in appearance. I know that's what you were wondering about. Anyway, votes were taken, sides argued, and Harold...

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30 de Mayo, 2008

Nezua Goes to Denver?

Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags:


OR... NEZUA GOES TO DENVER! That is to say, I have been given access and credentials to attend the Democratic Convention through my affiliation and bloggership with Culture Kitchen (which is the outfit run by the talented and lovely Liza Sabater, we also have worked together on other projects). I...

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25 de Mayo, 2008

Hillary Clinton's "Assassination" Remark & Why It Matters To Me

Categorized under Guest Blogando , Kevin , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , ,


[Update: I've added several more blogger of color reactions below. I post these reactions to show the breadth of thought on the matter from bloggers of color. I don't necessarily agree with everything that is said. Oh Wait! You mean not all black people and other people of color think...

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The Rush to Cruelty, the Climb to Liberty

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Raza , Violencia | Tags: , , , , , , , ,


At a fundraiser in Florida Thursday night, Barack Obama accused anti-immigrant crusaders Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh of "ginning things up" to such an extent that there was a rise in hate crimes against Hispanics last year. "A certain segment has basically been feeding a kind of xenophobia. There's a...

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24 de Mayo, 2008

Banking on Denial

Categorized under Hipnotismo , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , , ,


HILLARY CLINTON plays a dangerous game. She uses her supporters—who believe in her so much that they refuse to see she is a calculating politician—to cover her crooked technique. Don't get me wrong, of course Obama is a calculating politician too. I don't think he is some beautiful pure...

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23 de Mayo, 2008

The Little-Discussed Resurrection-Nomination!

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I LOVE how, well, disingenuous the arguments are getting from those trying to justify what Hillary did. "She was referring to herself getting shot" they desperately try to argue. HELLO, what?? Are you really about to try and say that she was arguing that she should stay in the race...

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Hillary Hints at Murder

Categorized under Hipnotismo , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 , Violencia | Tags: , , , , ,


WOW. This is going too far by anyone's standards, Senator. Either you are purposely feeding a violent and bone-white theme snaking around this election's feet, or you are plain stupid and unaware of what is dropping out of your mouth. And I respect you too much to call you...

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Obama Gets Four More

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OBAMA scoopin' up more superdelegates. Takes four today, one of who was previously in Clinton's camp. State Senator Peter Burling of Cornish and Deborah Nelson of Hanover, two former Edwards superdelegates from New Hampshire, plan to announce their switch at a news conference this morning, the Associated Press reported....

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Rocky in the Black Spidey Suit

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Hillary Clinton is not Rocky. Because Rocky was neither a dirty fighter nor a sore loser....

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22 de Mayo, 2008

Voting in Oregon: The 2008 Democratic Primary

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , , , , ,


VOTING IN OREGON: The 2008 Democratic Primary gives you a peek into the mail-in elections that Oregon employs, as well as the inside of the Lane County Convention Center where the results came in the evening of the 20th. The latest video by Oregon's Official MTV Choose or Lose...

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20 de Mayo, 2008

Some of Your Money Funds Terrorism, too.

Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,


THERE IS misogyny among both supporters of Clinton and Obama. And there is racism in both camps, too. Some people will not vote for a woman, no matter what. And guess what, some people will not vote for a man who looks like Obama. Some people who harbor a...

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Last Day for Oregon to Vote in Primary!

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AS OREGON'S OFFICIAL MTV Street Team Rep. and all-around virtual dawn street crier, it falls upon me now to type out this message—OREGON: TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to take your ballot and get thee to an official drop! Drive and be counted! Don't let Nader get elected due...

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19 de Mayo, 2008

Awe Koota Bilxpaak Kooxshiiwiash

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WHILE HE WAS NOT quite slammin' shots with the Crow Indians, Obama clearly did impress the Crow Nation with his attention today. After holding a town hall meeting in Billings, Barack headed to the Crow Nation Reservation in Crow Agency, Montana, where he was formally adopted as a member...

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15 de Mayo, 2008

Chillin' on the 20 Yard Line

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NOTE TO SELF: Must blog soon on important social justice issue or risk losing that "feeling good and helping the world" sensation I've come to love from my computer tappings. Sometimes I feel like a football fan out here. But...I am! I've said it before. Politics seem to be...

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14 de Mayo, 2008

John Edwards for Barack Obama!

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NOW we can say it for sure. So, as suspected, it wasn't a slip the other day when, as reported in the Ticket, [also snatched up by the mighty ears of UMX!] former Sen. John Edwards said he was going to endorse the Democratic presidential candidate he had just...

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Obama in Eugene Pt. 3 [MTV vlog 5-14-08]

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OBAMA IN OREGON (PT. 3) concludes our trilogy featuring Obama's rousing event that energized the town of Eugene, Oregon as well as the University of Oregon, and packed McArthur Court to overflowing on March 21, 2008. • Part One here. • Part Two • The Making Of narrative The...

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13 de Mayo, 2008

Change in the Weather

Categorized under Pelicula , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , ,


BOY did I pick the wrong gig if I wanted not to be immersed in politics all the time. Whew. There's one giant politician here after another, every other day. When I'm not eating, I'm editing. When I'm not editing, I'm asleep. I hear Hillary is coming back and...

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Bill Clinton in Eugene, Oregon

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , , , ,


BILL CLINTON spoke last night at the University of Oregon in Eugene in behalf of his wife's candidacy, and of course, your trusty citizen journalist Nezua was on the scene. The speech was attended by about 800 - 1000 people. I didn't count, but the venue was switched at...

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10 de Mayo, 2008

Obama at the Quad

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , ,


EIGHT THOUSAND members of the O.F.B. showed up yesterday at the Memorial Quad at the University of Oregon to listen to Senator Obama. As usual, I feel exhausted after the whole ordeal, and it's always hard to believe that this is mostly from standing and waiting. As well as...

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9 de Mayo, 2008

Our Death Will Be Inside Our Homes

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah , Parenting , Política Estados Unidos , Violencia | Tags: , , , ,


AND IN THE LAND THAT FLOATS UPON OIL, U.S. Forces and their subordinates are murdering the children of Iraq at the fastest rate possible. Though it's not quite fast or deadly enough to save them from the looming WMDs that endanger them all—the ones that required our military to...

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I Expect You'll Understand the Difference Between White and Wrong

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , , , , ,


IT IS FUNNY how the primaries don't even seem to be about who actually wins or loses each state, but how each win or loss matches up to the expectation of whether or not that state will be won or lost. Of course the expectations are constantly massaged, sort...

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8 de Mayo, 2008

Rust Takes Down the (Clinton) Machine

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A CONCISE AND UNEMOTIONAL article on why the Clinton Machine couldn't crest the hill. Some say "old guard" and this piece more or less backs that up. Their thinking is yesterday's news in various ways and that's why they never saw what hit them. Bam, bam, bam! Blogmigo Kai just...

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7 de Mayo, 2008

Summoning Us to Greatness

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I'M RATHER DISAPPOINTED that the Clintons will not be moving back into La Casa Blanca. After all, it would have been great to have Hillary as President. I could have proudly pointed both my daughters to her and show them how a strong and smart woman should act in...

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4 de Mayo, 2008

The Empire Strikes Barack

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THE FORCE is strong with this one....

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1 de Mayo, 2008

Hillary Clinton in Eugene, Oregon [pt. 4]

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LAST WEEK we watched a young man (whom one person wrote me and called "arrogant") engage the democratic process as he questioned Hillary Clinton during her Town Rally at the South Eugene High School (April 4). The bold student wanted to know if when all was said and done...

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29 de Abril, 2008

A Proper Context

Categorized under Cultura , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Política México | Tags: , , ,


MEXCELLENT. AUSTIN, Texas — The School of Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin is offering an online course for working journalists on how to incorporate the voices and views of their communities' Latinos into their reporting. The four-week course, "Covering the Latino Community," will teach journalists across Texas...

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Home of the Brave, Sweatshop of the Free

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TAKE the power back. This is unacceptable. The eight University of Montana students who stormed Main Hall earlier this month, staged a sit-in protest in the campus president's office, and were arrested for disorderly conduct and trespassing will get a lesson in consequences from UM administrators on Tuesday. Charles Couture,...

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Reminder for Oregon

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28 de Abril, 2008

Blue-collar Bitter Gun Owning Harley Riding Voters

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sombrero tip to yliza...

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Fear Builds Walls, Hope Builds Pigs

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HA HAAAA CHARADE YOU ARE... Man, I love that song! Haven't played it in years, don't even think I have it anymore. That was in the cassette era, and I've lost all my music casettes. I saw Floyd in '88, NJ. (Maybe it was '89.) I think it was the...

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So Much for Lucidity and Political Abstinence.

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I SWEAR! There really was one lovely shining moment when I just didn't care anymore. Ah well. I excuse it by remembering I never follow football or basketball or anything. Politics is boxing without the sweat and shiny shorts. And we do know how I love to watch boxing....

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When Blackness Approaches Power

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 , Religión , Violencia | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,


THE CONTINUED hypocritical attacks on Jeremiah Wright and Obama's name are disgustingly racist. Period. And the more I hear of this Pastor vato, the more I like him. Speaking the National Press Club in Washington on Monday, [Pastor Jeremiah] Wright called the recent criticism surrounding his sermons "an attack on...

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27 de Abril, 2008

How Hillary Can Still Win

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25 de Abril, 2008

Oregon Latinos for Obama

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A coalition of Latino community leaders in Oregon has thrown its support behind Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. Ramon Ramirez, the president of PCUN, the state's largest farmworker union, made the announcement Wednesday, citing Obama's commitment to improving the lives of farmworkers and Latino families in...

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24 de Abril, 2008

The Civic Reawakening of a New Generation

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With the central mission of the Institute of Politics being to engage and inspire young Americans in the memory of John F. Kennedy and his legacy, we are particularly pleased that the underlying shifts in civic participation that we noted in 2002 are not a one-time phenomenon but instead represent...

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Time to Lift the Rug (Again)

Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , , , , ,


When I say my thinking has traveled an arc with Clinton, dont take it the wrong way. I still do not think she is going to be, our should be, our president. But I have grown more sympathetic to her as a person, through the course of my recording...

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23 de Abril, 2008

Hillary Clinton in Eugene, Oregon [pt. 3]

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , , , ,


HILLARY CLINTON IN EUGENE [3] continues our HRC four-part series, which features the Senator's appearance at Oregon's South Eugene High School Gymnasium. You've read the comments of Tapper and Suarez and myself and probably many others, regarding this very appearance. If you're one of the chosen ones, you've even...

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21 de Abril, 2008

Hillary Clinton in Eugene, Oregon [MTV Vlog Apr21]

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HILLARY CLINTON IN EUGENE [1] begins our HRC three-part series, which will feature the Senator's rally/town-hall appearance at Eugene, Oregon's South Eugene High School Gymnasium. You've read Tapper and Suarez and myself and many others comment on this very appearance*. Now, witness all the small town high school political...

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Ruben Salazar Remembered

Categorized under Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Raza , Salud | Tags: , , , ,


RUBEN SALAZAR, a respected Mexican American journalist whose face and voice became important to El Movimiento in the 70s will be posthumously recognized on a stamp. Salazar was shot and killed while covering the National Chicano Moratorium March, which was organized by the Mexican American community mostly to protest...

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15 de Abril, 2008

King Rat the Corpse Rancher

Categorized under Acción , Closing in on Bush , Política Estados Unidos , Violencia | Tags: , , ,


I SAID I'D WRITE ON TORTURE today, as the Gross W. MoronTerror has recently admitted—using his typical "YGAFPWT"* methodology of confronting accusations of his violating the social contract—that he has signed off on the torturing of humans. A brief comment to mark yet one more slimy, sleazy, slipped notch...

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8 de Abril, 2008

A Hunger for Truth (And Tomato): Shooting the Obama Trilogy

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I PROMISED YA I would relate my arduous tale of shooting the Obama event here in Eugene (Parts 1 and 2, 3 still to come), and so I now point you to a lengthy and well-illustrated blog wherein I relate the story of A Hunger for Truth (and Tomato):...

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Bill Past Due

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SO I'VE BEEN THINKING after reading a few irate writers who imply that there is some kind of contagious framing out in the aether that unfairly paints Hillary Clinton as a liar. Some of these people say this persistent test she must pass is a special Clinton rule, or is...

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7 de Abril, 2008

Obama in Oregon, Part 2

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Pelicula , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , , , , , ,


OBAMA IN OREGON (PT. 2) continues our trilogy of Obama-in-Oregonity as promised last week! Peep through the Lens O' Nez and once again, enter "The Pit" in Eugene, Oregon—which is really not as gruesome as the name might sound, but instead a rather invigorating and some might even venture,...

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5 de Abril, 2008

Hillary Clinton in Eugene, Oregon

Categorized under MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , , , ,


COVERED THE HILLARY CLINTON campaign stop in Eugene yesterday, at the South Eugene High School. While there was a smattering across a few demographics (there were young people, too), it seemed to my eye to be mostly white women, and older people. (You can't judge by who is behind HRC...

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4 de Abril, 2008

Hillary Clinton Releases Oregon Campaign Schedule

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HILLARY CLINTON has released her schedule for Oregon with one day to spare. (Senator Obama gave but two days notice). She will be speaking in Portland and Eugene. (Senator Obama spoke in Salem, Portland, and Eugene.) Senator Clinton will be stopping in Eugene tomorrow to speak at two high...

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2 de Abril, 2008

Raging Bill

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SOMEONE'S SMOOTH VENEER is popping off like pine panel in a bonfire. "It was one of the worst political meetings I have ever attended," one superdelegate said. According to those at the meeting, Clinton - who flew in from Chicago with bags under his eyes - was classic old Bill...

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30 de Marzo, 2008

Occupational Hazard

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I'M NOT HERE to be an unwavering bullhorn for Obama. That is utterly boring. And yes, I don't think there's any contest between him and Senator Clinton, as far as who could get more done. Or who would be more uplifting as a President in a few senses. Or...

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Obama Opens Office in Eugene

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RIDING THE WAVE of his recent appearance(s) in Oregon, the Obama campaign opens a local office. DOWNTOWN EUGENE - More than one hundred people showed up Saturday morning for the grand opening Obama's new office located at 1280 Willamette Street in Downtown Eugene. "I'm here this morning to support...

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The Invaders Press On

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: , ,


IF WE STEP BACK a moment from our ethnocentric surety and simply think out what it might mean to be INVADED by another nation, no not simply bombed once and let be to work our economy and feelings of unity and national safety out as we all have (supposedly)...

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28 de Marzo, 2008

Obama in Eugene Pt. 1 [MTV vlog 3-28-08]

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OBAMA IN OREGON (PT. 1) is the name of the new video shot and edited by yours truly, Oregon's Official MTV Choose or Lose Street Team 08 Citizen Journalist, and just as the title foreshadows, there will be two more parts to this tryptych of political goodness. Clicking the...

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27 de Marzo, 2008

Is Avoidance the Answer?

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THESE DAYS, there is a sure way to have me laugh at writing and declare it devoid of intelligent method, and that is to employ cute little hatenames for Obama supporters. I mean, come on. Is "Obama supporters" really so hard to type? Does it actually hurt to not sling...

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25 de Marzo, 2008

Vigil (to End the War) - [MTV Vid 3-25-08]

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ON THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY of the Iraq Invasion, MoveOn held vigils all over the country at the same time. This video commemorates and captures the public vigil held in Eugene, Oregon to call for an end to the Iraq Occupation. The latest video for my MTV Citizen Journalist gig....

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24 de Marzo, 2008

Shining, Gleaming, Streaming, Flaxen, Waxen

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ANYWAY, I'm feeling burnt out on some of these conversations. Political swattings and virtual angers. Maybe this is a place to which I keep returning. So I guess I must enjoy it on some level. How perverse. But I do need to step back, I'm getting too stirred up...

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Bethesda and Oaxaca [The White Lens 8.5]

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AND NOW A STEAMING MUG OF COFFEE and a big wave from Nezua and all others in la casa—and by the way, big thanks to my weekend warriors, those that showed up and bloggedeth, adding their stones to the scale, daring to brave a hungry and discerning readership that...

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22 de Marzo, 2008

The McCain Girls

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I'M NOT SURE what inspired this video or what the hell it is supposed to achieve other than making me laugh out loud for over two minutes. If you only see one YouTube video this month, make it this one....

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I was in the room when....

Categorized under Aprender , Character Study , Corazón , Cultura , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Gobierno , Guest Blogando , Historia , Invitados , La Lente Blanca , Política Estados Unidos , Preguntas , Race for '08 , Rafael , Raza , Religión , Stories , Terrorizing la Gente , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: , , , , ,


I was in the room when... a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic...

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21 de Marzo, 2008

Happy Friday, Baby.

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SOME SMOOOVE VOCALS to take ya into this sunny (at least where I am) Friday afternoon. Hoy less Flamenco, y más Bachata! Just feels right. Aventura with La Boda (The Wedding). Reminds me of Westchester, I used to play this album on my iPod Mini while I rode the...

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Richardson Endorses Obama for President

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EVEN AFTER Chilling with Bill. Ouch!...

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The Drunken Dealer

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I HONESTLY AM BAFFLED by the phrase used again and again by certain "liberal left wing" bloggers as of late. "Race card." As if just spitting out the phrase somehow destroys a person's points. If anything can be called "Pulling the Race Card"—i.e., using a fiction-based argument that relies...

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19 de Marzo, 2008

Liveblogging My Recollections and Musings to the Obama Speech

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19:47 ...going from wbush, who sneerhunches talksdown to ya as if you are a stupid child to an intelligent and groundbreaking speech by obama on the nuances of the human condition and american history and racial tensions...it's a beautiful sort of whiplash, if nothing else...wow...you mean i don't have...

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18 de Marzo, 2008

257,000

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EVEN IF you are for another Clinton presidency (that is to say you are a ShrillHillShill vs. an Obamatonatronic in this year's DeathMatchSuperCelebrity American MegaIdol PrezFight), doesn't this scare you? I don't know. It seems to say a lot. The GOP-orcs are on the march, and it seems they have...

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17 de Marzo, 2008

Hillary Clinton, Victim-Warrior Extraordinaire.

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I am throwing the "kitchen sink" at my opponent, but dammit, I want him to stop being mean to me while I do it! I'm very strong and being picked on by everyone! Obama is an inexperienced possibly Muslim man made of nothing more than a speech, but I...

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16 de Marzo, 2008

With Support Like That

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SO TELL ME. How does having a black man who supports Obama coming on SNL and calling Tiny Fey "bitch" in response to her statement "bitch is the new black" (he responded "black is the new president, bitch") "support Obama"? Hmm? Because I can't imagine the Clinton team being...

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13 de Marzo, 2008

whtmlk and the hardcoldtruth

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MOST INSANEST Comment of The Year. That's right. It's only March, so you have nine full months to beat this. You may need the headstart. THE HARD COLD TRUTH THAT WE AS A NATION MUST FACE IS BLACKS ARE VOTING OBAMA AT 90% THESE FIGURES ARE A STRONG INDICATION THAT...

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Four Days in the Hole

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A STORY that makes you cringe. And really, only the tiniest sampling of how inhumanely those inside the "justice" system can be treated every day. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - A woman being held as an illegal immigrant spent four days forgotten in an isolated holding cell at a courthouse with...

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11 de Marzo, 2008

Lucky Boy

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An Obama aide has struck back at the Clinton campaign over comments made last week by Geraldine Ferraro, calling them “outrageous and offensive.” Susan Rice, a senior adviser to Mr. Obama, was responding to Ms. Ferraro’s remarks on MSNBC Tuesday morning. Ms. Ferraro told a Los Angeles newspaper that the...

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9 de Marzo, 2008

The 'Nice' ICE? [Van Nuys ICE Raid]

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THIS VIDEO of the ICE raid in Van Nuys, California was given to a few of us here on the Latino (-issues focused) side of the blogosphere with a little advance notice before it hits the rest of the webworld. From amiga Anike: Exactly one month ago ICE called the...

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Felons for Clinton?

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I KNOW SOME Democrats who get upset about appeal that Obama has for Independents and even some Republicans. One of the choices of attack they wield against the idea of his run is that "it should be Democrats who choose the Democratic nominee." Without resorting to more loaded adjectives, is...

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Someone Said Something About Banality?

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IT'S SO DARN CUTE when he pretends to be a good ole shucksy kinda loony! Bush surprised cabinet secretaries, diplomatic officials and journalists at the annual Gridiron dinner by taking the stage and giving the first public singing performance of his eight-year presidency, which ends in January 2009. To...

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Whoops, Wrong Number!

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IT'S JUST kind of funny. The so-called "red-phone ad" was played all over the country and helped turn the tide for Hillary Clinton leading up to her big win in Ohio. The ad shows a sleeping child and asks voters who they would want to see answering a 3 a.m....

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8 de Marzo, 2008

Who Would Yanni Bomb?

Categorized under Guerra , Iran , Iraq the Casbah , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: ,


HAVE YOU EVER put on some new agey music, sat back and thought about deep azure skies and exactly how you might sear that blue stretch of beauty into a turmoiled, agent-orange streaked, phosphorus misted, IED-spattered eternal war-o-rama-scape? Rage McCain sure has. And then he set it to video! Snuggle...

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Dear Barack (and Kevin),

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DEAR SENATOR OBAMA, I know that someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows Kevin Bacon will read this. So I hope you talk to Mr. Bacon and he conveys these thoughts to you. It's not that I think I'm savvier on the political scene...

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7 de Marzo, 2008

MALVERDE - La Marcha

Categorized under Artivism , Cultura , Frontera , Música , Política Estados Unidos , Política México , Raza | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,


I KNOW you been bumpin' this. For when gente feel like they've had enough Flamenco for the evening. Some rhythm and flow from Mexican American Hip Hop artist Malverde....

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News From Nezua #1 [MTV Vlog]

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COME WATCH ME change my clothes. On MTV's dime. The newest vlog titled News From Nezua [1] is freshly-shorn and waiting to entertain you with nifty editing and news of Oregon. True, a volatile mix, but Creosote is my middle name, chula. Either that or Pine Cone...it's hard to...

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6 de Marzo, 2008

candles on every corner

Categorized under Corazón , Once de Septiembre , Política Estados Unidos , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: , , ,


IT'S SO EASY for me to begin to get crazy. All I have to do is listen more to the news than I do to the earth and the wind and my own body and my own heart. It's a simple recipe, and there you have the makings of many...

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We Give Much for Little

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WHY DO WE excuse the nastiest, ugliest, least ethical behaviors when candidates run for office? It's sad how easily we do it. I suppose we have given up on fair campaigning. We've never seen it. But see how we can write off deception and trickery and maligning and just about...

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2 de Marzo, 2008

State of the Black Union, Pt. 1

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BEST WORDS on george w bush EVER: If that man was alive, he'd be a sick, sick man. —Dick Gregory This guy just blows me away. So much heart....

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24 de Febrero, 2008

You Say Spoiler, I Say Candidate

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(NOTE: this post actually written and blogged by Carmen D. before templates and code and logins were arranged so that guest bloggers could have their own sign-ins.) Ralph Nader has announced that he will run for president as a third party candidate. Nader, 73, said most people are disenchanted with...

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23 de Febrero, 2008

Sí Se Puede Cambiar

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A beautiful and thoughtful song by Andrés Useche, performed in Spanish with English subtitles. I find it very difficult to side with the skeptics against the deluge of inspirational art and music this election has generated. If loving these songs is wrong, I don't want to be right. Hat-tip to...

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21 de Febrero, 2008

Zombified Crowd Chases Pipe Dream of Hope

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Early voting starts today in Texas. In Waller County, a primarily rural county about 60 miles outside Houston, the county made the decision to offer only one early voting location: at the County Courthouse in Hempstead, TX, the county seat. Prairie View A&M students organized to protest the decision,...

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20 de Febrero, 2008

Ten for Ten

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OBAMA wins Hawaii and Wisconsin. MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Barack Obama has surged past Hillary Clinton to open a big national lead in the Democratic presidential race, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday. Obama also leads Republican front-runner John McCain in a potential November election match-up while Clinton...

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13 de Febrero, 2008

Symbol and Essence: The Power of Naming

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ANOTHER BLOG POST exclusive to MTV, as it is part of my Street Team 08 duties! This one delves more into one of my favorite paradigms, Symbol and Essence. Words that came to me while thinking on our many forms of warring with the Other....

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12 de Febrero, 2008

Not a Republic, but a Corporatocracy

Categorized under Ley , Política Estados Unidos , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: , , , , , , ,


WHEN IT DOES APPEAR that our government is useless at operating in a way that is in our best interests; when those times arrive that remind us that U.S. "justice" and "law" and government observance of those laws (the ones they purport to defend and protect) is but a...

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9 de Febrero, 2008

94,000 Humans Don't Count

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I AM SURPRISED, in all honesty, that this is not linked in more places. In my opinion, people who believe in the Democratic process (and I'm not even sure how much I do, anymore, especially given events like this which seem to happen over and over) would be incensed...

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6 de Febrero, 2008

Symbol and Essence, Part 3 [MTV Mix]

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A BLOG POST exclusive to MTV (as it must be, contractually) can be read by clicking the image above. No video this week. But a specially-crafted Non-Super Wednesday message instead....

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5 de Febrero, 2008

MTV Street Team '08 Reports on Super Tuesday

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YOUR FAITHFUL OREGON representative for the MTV Street Team '08 (ahem, yours truly) is invisible on this day, because Oregon doesn't exist when it comes to Super Tuesday. But my Street Team peeps are LIVE on the scene in each Super Tuesday state. It's a pretty cool idea, they'll...

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3 de Febrero, 2008

Yes We Can. Sí Se Puede.

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I KNOW that the Committee Yearning for the Next Installment of Clintons (CYNICS) will surely shrink from this vibe like slugs from salt (or, you know, like kings from carpentry work to employ a less hostile metaphor although it lacks the needed element of revulsion and horror), and I will...

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30 de Enero, 2008

MAPA for Obama

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From Nativo. V. Lopez, National President of the Mexican American Political Association (MAPA) "the oldest political-civic organization of Mexican Americans and Latinos in the U.S." January 29, 2008 SI SE PUEDE WITH OBAMA In various previous bulletins we have pointed out numerous contradictions and challenges facing us during this presidential...

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29 de Enero, 2008

My Morality, Your Body, Our Plates.

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I GUESS I just don't get it. Firstly, If women are against abortions...can't they just not have one? It seems to be something like those against gay marriage. Don't marry someone of your own sex if the idea repulses you. And really, what good is it doing to anyone...

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Bendixen for Obama!

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I'M BEGINNING TO GET ANNOYED as I keep hearing what a rift exists between Latinos and Blacks, or how Latinos won't vote for blacks. Specifically, that Obama will be hurt by this "fact." A few weeks ago, Sergio Bendixen, a Clinton pollster and Latino expert, publicly articulated what campaign officials...

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25 de Enero, 2008

More FairNBalanced® News

Categorized under Guerra , Hipnotismo , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , Terrorizing la Gente , Violencia | Tags: , , ,


WITH ALL THE CASES of soldiers returning home and acting out on damaged souls and wartorn minds (a crime we must lay at the feet of our government which not only chose this war, but SOLD it, rammmmed it down our throats, and planned for it long ago), why...

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17 de Enero, 2008

There's No Such Thing As (Horse) Race!

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MAN, the more I hear these candidates speak and the more I learn about them the more depressed I feel. (And definitely stay away from this place). I know, I know! Beat the Other Team. I'm all for it. Yes, they are far worse. Agreed. But eh. Lately I've...

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An Intro by Citizen N.

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NOT BAD for a sick man working all gear and angles himself! Just a little intro vlog for my MTV gig. And hey, I only look a little bleary. Which is actually what impressed me. Aside from the fact that gettting through the entire approval process (for Street Team...

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'supdate

Categorized under Closing in on Bush , Política Estados Unidos , Race for '08 | Tags: , , , , ,


WOW. What a fantastic cold I caught in the city. I've been sick for a week and last night it morphed into a lung-drowning cough that made me have to sit up to fall asleep. Of course, it may not have helped that I was editing until four in...

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4 de Enero, 2008

Obama and Huckleberry Dominate Iowa Caucus

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THE SEXY AND CONCILIATORY OBAMA and the most decidely unpresidential and extremely-religious Mike Huckabee come away from the Iowa caucus with the highest numbers. Biden and Dodd fall away, Richardson and Clinton stubbornly hang in there. (The Nezua Caucus numbers show that Clinton is out of the race, however....

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3 de Enero, 2008

The Lying Tribe

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THOUGH AT HEART, when pressed, I must admit that I inevitably return to the Bukowski doctrine of political thought, it's always good to remember how much the US Presidential products are marketed and trumpeted...or not. Bill Richardson is a tested and proven leader. And it is not as if this...

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1 de Enero, 2008

President Overlord II?

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THERE'S SOME TALK lately about Michael Bloomberg running for President, and I've got four words for that thought. Hell no. and...

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31 de Diciembre, 2007

A Taste of Mittocrisy

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Raza , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: , , , , , , ,


DEAR MISTER ROMNEY, I really appreciate your steadfast commitment to your faith. I've heard people choose these types of ideologies because it grounds a person in morality and integrity and human values. And of course I can admire that. With all the hate- and fear-mongering filling the public square today,...

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20 de Diciembre, 2007

Nezua Named MTV's Street Team '08 Rep for Oregon!

Categorized under Artivism , Blogando , Chronicles of Nezua , Medios , Palabras , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , , , , , , ,


SOME OF MY regular readers (I do not, at this point, necessarily refer to the bran-eating amongst us, though they are a well-stirred crew, I'm sure) remember the day back in August I casually (you should have seen me, I was sipping a mint julep as I typed) posted...

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18 de Diciembre, 2007

David and Goliath. And Obama.

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As health care goes, so goes the rest of the progressive agenda. Anyone who thinks that the next president can achieve real change without bitter confrontation is living in a fantasy world. —Paul Krugman, Big Table Fantasies IT'S AN EDWARDS OVER OBAMA ARTICLE that makes sense in its particular...

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17 de Diciembre, 2007

La Migra Trying to Start War With México

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Frontera , Gobierno , Planeta , Política Estados Unidos , Violencia | Tags: , ,


SAN DIEGO - The Border Patrol says its agents were attacked nearly 1,000 times during a one-year period along the Mexican border, typically by assailants hurling rocks, bottles and bricks. Now the agency is responding with tear gas and powerful, pepper-spray weapons, including firing into Mexico. The counteroffensive has...

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16 de Diciembre, 2007

KBR/Halliburton Rapeland Fest Interrupted by Scrutiny. Again.

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , Terrorizing la Gente , Violencia | Tags: , , , ,


Congress is asking questions about another ex-employee of government contracting firm KBR who claims she was raped in Iraq. Letters to the Pentagon and the Justice Department today from Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. underscore congressional concern about a second alleged assault, this time of a woman from Florida who...

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14 de Diciembre, 2007

Code Switching for the Masses

Categorized under Frontera , Ley , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , , , ,


THE USA'S selective loathing of foreign elements has always disturbed me. Almost 100% of our products are made elsewhere, (even the traditionally AMERICAN products, hola Chrysler users!), massive corporations join hands with no regard to politics or who our "enemy" is on any given day, and then here on...

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9 de Diciembre, 2007

Politician, Impeach Thyself

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In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a...

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8 de Diciembre, 2007

Tom Perpetuates His Pain

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , , , ,


TOM "POOR TOM" TANCREDO boycotts Univision Debate. I appreciate John Amato's disgust at Tancredo's idiotic hostility toward all things Spanish-flavored. And on the other hand...I understand. Tancredo is giving back what the USA gives those of us who here who have any kind of Otherlyness to us. In his...

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3 de Diciembre, 2007

reJECTED

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OUCH....

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2 de Diciembre, 2007

Blast from the Past

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30 de Noviembre, 2007

Over There, Over Here

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Violencia | Tags: ,


BOMB-STRAPPED man holds Clinton campaign HQ hostage. Live video....

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27 de Noviembre, 2007

Hurricane of HIV

Categorized under Ciencia , Derechos Humanos , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , , , , , , , ,


AND WILL THEY SAY nobody could have foreseen the weakness of the levees? For the first time, Washington D.C. has collected data on H.I.V. and found that in the nation's capital, the "modern epidemic"—as the Washington Post calls it—is now primarily one affecting blacks. The numbers most starkly illustrate...

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25 de Noviembre, 2007

Spies Dousing Fires

Categorized under Política Estados Unidos , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags: , , ,


THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY is now training firefighters to inspect your home and your behavior when you are visited by them, even for emergency purposes. According to FOX "News," aside from blueprints, chemicals, flight manuals, and bomb-making books, one of the things they are going to be on...

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23 de Noviembre, 2007

The Inforvasion Era

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17 de Noviembre, 2007

Kucinich Wins "Debate" in Under 9 Minutes

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AS DENZEL WASHINGTON SAID (repeatedly) through the character of Frank Lucas in the film American Gangster, "My man."...

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16 de Noviembre, 2007

Them Belly Full And They Laughing

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Really, what an offensive statement Clinton made to the millions of American and Mexican workers who lost their jobs and saw their wages destroyed thanks to NAFTA - a deal pushed by the Clinton administration (for some more data on NAFTA, see this report from the Economic Policy Institute)....

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14 de Noviembre, 2007

Her Back Pages

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... AND THEN THERE'S Ava from Alabama, who could serve as a much better inspiration to mijas than previously-mentioned equivocators. After all, this young lady is willing to lose support while she chases down what she believes true and important. ¡Que Viva La Rebelde!...

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"I Stand Firm on Some Things. Sometimes."

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SPEAKING OF CONCRETE REASONS to be extremely wary of Clinton's Presidential ambitions. You remember the spot of reason that Eliott Spitzer announced over New York way, when it came to keeping records of who was driving and of those who need to drive to make their way through their...

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Hillogynists Take Note

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HILLARY RUNNING for President of the United States of America is a great thing, no matter what. This ain't a cigarette ad. Mujeres have come a long way. And I, for one, am excited to see it. Sadly, one of the main reasons I thought I'd want a female President...

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13 de Noviembre, 2007

Bloody Kisses on la Frontera

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I HAVE TO SAY, the cross-border Kissing Booth just about cracked me up. Though I am not often capable of such things, meeting antagonism and violence and hostility with a sense of humor and love is probably the most satisfying way to engage negativity and destructive energy. Though la migra...

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10 de Noviembre, 2007

Calculator

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MORE of the same. The Clinton campaign has admitted to planting questions in Iowa. —Clinton Camp Admits To Planting Questions No more fake town halls. No more fake sincerity. No more well-maneuvered dynasties....

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8 de Noviembre, 2007

If Someone Finds Out Who They Love

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REP BARNEY FRANK: I want to address the motion to delay. Mr. Speaker, we say here that we don’t take things personally, and usually that’s true. Members, Mr. Speaker, will have to forgive me — I take it personally. 35 years ago, I filed a bill that tried to...

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7 de Noviembre, 2007

Alienz Unite!

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QUOTE OF THE MONTH: Let me tell you something. In Washington, the truth is an unidentified flying object. And it's time that someone stood for the truth." —Dennis Kucinich...

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Mark Klein is an American Patriot

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AND WE MUST RECOGNIZE as much. In this day and age where White House criminals are lauded or pardoned, and truthtellers, journalists, and gadflies blacklisted, exposed, shot, or otherwise discouraged from facing down this behemoth of a lunatic administration, a man like Mark Klein is a huge part of what...

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6 de Noviembre, 2007

A New Record for Bush!

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AND FOR GALLUP polls. Our very own George W. Bush finally breaks Nixon's record of 48% who "strongly disapprove" with a solid 2% mandate. A new record! Pick it up on the way to your nearest impeachment party. We'll spin it ALL night long....

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General Busharraf

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A Bush administration official who works on Pakistan issues acknowledged that with the United States having already invested so much in General Musharraf, there was little Washington could do in response to the Pakistani president’s actions that did not have the potential to undermine American goals. [...] A senior administration...

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5 de Noviembre, 2007

Kucinich Takes Giant Step Toward Healing the USA

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IT'S TIME TO IMPEACH CHENEY By Congressman Dennis Kucinich, special to www.ImpeachCheney.org As a member of Congress, I have sworn an oath to defend the Constitution and the laws of our nation, and I have pledged to represent the views of my constituents and of all Americans. That’s why I...

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29 de Octubre, 2007

¡Viva Presidenta Cristina!

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ARGENTINA HAS ELECTED its first woman President. BUENOS AIRES — First Lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner appeared to win a sweeping victory Sunday to become Argentina's first elected female president, according to exit polls and early official results. [...] Fernandez vowed to reach out to all her compatriots 'without rancor,...

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American Bullets, Mexican Blood

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MANY PEOPLE, when arguing me and trying to convince me of how evil and ugly and degraded Mexico is, like to minus part of the equation from their awareness. Talk about crime in Tijuana, but don't talk about the culture of criminality that a border creates with its unnatural...

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28 de Octubre, 2007

Ex-Concert Pianist Murdered by Federal Kindness

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THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. It's not just a bar in Liberty, NY. It's supposedly what you and I are entitled to by the government. Isn't that sweet? Isn't it so understanding of the human condition? Robin Prosser, a Missoula woman who struggled for a quarter century to live with...

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25 de Octubre, 2007

Rudy Wants

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JOSH MARSHALL, at Talking Points Memo, discusses Rudy Giuilani and zeroes in on the fashion of fascism: My point of comparison would be Benito Mussolini. You've got the extreme hostility to civil liberites [sic] and the foreign policy adventurism. But I'm not thinking so much of the harder and sinister...

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24 de Octubre, 2007

Dream on

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DREAM ACT fails to pass. (52-44 as mariachi mama and my email lists tell me)....

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23 de Octubre, 2007

OBAMA CAUGHT FONDLING SELF

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HERE, Barack Obama takes a moment to send a secret signal to his terrorist buddies using the "I cup my package for thee" salute and delivered during the National Anthem!!!1!!11!!1!! Luckily, ABC news corp. caught it on tape, and the respectable Raw Story is patriotic enough to host the...

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13 de Octubre, 2007

Maybe we need more Gore on TV

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AL GORE wins the Nobel Peace Prize! Felicidades, Mista Gore. You shame that tiny man who bumped you out of line for la casa blanca yet again by working hard and seeing far, and being rewarded for it—rather than having everything from ideology to office stolen for you or handed...

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10 de Octubre, 2007

Sides

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I HAVE A FRIEND, he's ten, twelve, maybe even fifteen years younger than me. He is a hardcore "Democrat," though he grew up in a Republican family, and used to be a Republican. Now he has switched sides and is all about the Dems. When I bring up NAFTA,...

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6 de Octubre, 2007

The Secrets of Liberty

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WELL, that's pretty interesting. I never knew that Israel knowingly attacked a US ship and the US Government hid it for years. My worldview is not exactly shaken, but it is quite a revelation. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee brags that it is the most influential foreign policy...

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4 de Octubre, 2007

One More Moment Before We Bomb—

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LET'S TAKE A WALK THROUGH IRAN. Here are images, I wanted to lay them out. As glimpses. Isolated glimpses into another country, one that mostly exists for us in scary soundbytes and media-approved shots of hangings and flame and the dark dark chador and the obscuring burqa. We pump the...

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3 de Octubre, 2007

A Moment, Before We Bomb—

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CHANCES ARE GOOD, given what we do know and have seen and have heard from those with control of the money and the guns in these here United States of America, that we will soon initiate some kind of massive violence upon Iran. Whether it be part of the USA's...

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29 de Septiembre, 2007

Hillarious Clinton and the Air Raid Siren

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CLEARLY, someone has recently advised Hillary Clinton that she was coming across as too dour, to grim, too "shrill," perhaps, and too heavy. So, true to the Rovian/GOP handbook, she is changing the packaging (her reactions), while the content continues to veer into the most grim and cynical terrain...

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28 de Septiembre, 2007

George Washington, Terrorist

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The classic definition of terrorism is violence directed against civilians to make a political point. The term shouldn't be applied to an indigenous population fighting an irregular war against a foreign occupying army, since that would have made everyone from George Washington to the French Resistance to the Afghanis confronting...

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26 de Septiembre, 2007

In Which We Find Out What We Already Knew

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OVER TIME, I HAVE NOTICED from checking out news sources in Español vs. English that politicians and media pundits often take gross and blatant advantage of the fact that so many US citizens cannot read/speak anything other than English, as in YEAH, AMERICA NUMBER ONE! ENGLISH ONLY!!!!! WOOOO! USE...

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24 de Septiembre, 2007

Snore.

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SO HILLARY CLINTON begins to hint more and more that the Iraq Occupation won't be ended under her (hypothetical) watch—ooooh, but WAIT she says "When I'm president," instead of "if," and doesn't let herself get interrupted, and just like that, all the pundits are falling all over themselves. Even David...

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