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How To Win The Campaign Ad War: Planet Republican vs. Down-To-Earth Democrats

[ Posted Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 – 11:50 UTC ]

"On Planet Republican, the Iraq war is in its 'last throes'... meanwhile back on Earth, the insurgency is on the brink of full-scale civil war."

"Five years ago, on Planet Republican, George Bush said he'd get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive'... but it took Democrats in Congress to bring him back to Earth and force him not to disband the CIA's Bin Laden unit."

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Good Democratic Campaign Tactics: Bush And Gas Prices

[ Posted Wednesday, August 30th, 2006 – 11:48 UTC ]

Demonstrate your dedication to fighting for middleclass families by clearly explaining how you will work to keep down the price of gas if elected to Congress. Hold an event at a gas station or other logical location where you call for a real commitment to bringing down gas prices and pledge that, as a member of Congress, you will fight for families in your district, not the oil and gas executives for which this Republican Congress has fought so hard.

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Take Jimmy Carter's Advice On The Primary Calendar

[ Posted Wednesday, July 26th, 2006 – 18:58 UTC ]

We can do better than this. The ideas are already out there. Letting Nevada and South Carolina participate in early primaries and caucuses is a good idea, and I hope it is given a chance to work. But I can't help feeling it's a baby step when it should have been a giant leap.

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Rape And Murder Should Not Be A Cartoon

[ Posted Thursday, July 20th, 2006 – 17:16 UTC ]

This reduction of war to the level of a video game is disrespectful and demeaning for all concerned: soldiers who fight and die on the battlefield; relatives of soldiers who watch their loved ones' deaths reduced to a cartoon; the news media for sanitizing the brutality and reality of war to the level of a bloodless video game; and finally the viewing public for being essentially told they are children who can't handle adult images of combat wounds and death.

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