Barack Pushes Back (with class)

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Thursday September 04, 2008 · 12:43 PM PDT

2008/09/04 · 12:43

Today - Barack Obama in York, Pennsylvania

[transcript below the jump]

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Tuesday August 19, 2008 · 10:41 AM PDT

2008/08/19 · 10:41

Yes - I'm calling out Pastor Rick Warren. Because last night, on Larry King Live, Warren dismissed as "bogus" concerns about McCain having prior knowledge of specific questions. He asserted that there's no chance that McCain could have gotten questions during his drive to the forum because "the Secret Service would have reported it". Why are Warren and many in the media assiduously ignoring very clear evidence that John McCain knew at least one of the questions ahead of time? Do they expect us to believe them or should we believe our lying eyes?

h/t to jbalazs for the excellent video

Let's make it viral.

[transcripts plus video from Warren's appearance on Larry King Live after the jump]

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Tuesday August 12, 2008 · 2:44 PM PDT

2008/08/12 · 14:44

I certainly don't want to see this diary on the rec list. I post it to keep a record of a diary which was just deleted, and another diary that may be deleted soon. The deleted diary garnered 639 recommendations and is still on the limited rec list - and that's a cryin' shame. When inconsistencies in the diary were pointed out, the diarist deleted rather than editing the diary to explain glaring, factual contradictions between the highly rec'ed diary & one that he had published last month. [Update: He later returned and discussed what had happened with numerous members of the dkos community.] I added bold to emphasize some of the contradictions, and hope to return later to work on it some more.

Please Don't Recommend This Diary

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Republican indicted for rape of minor

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Wednesday August 06, 2008 · 3:56 PM PDT

2008/08/06 · 15:56

Today a Missouri grand jury indicted Republican State Representative Scott Muschany for raping a fourteen year old girl in May of this year. The child is the daughter of a Missouri State employee with whom the married Muschany was "romantically involved".

According to the article in today's St. Louis Post Dispatch, the child's mother witnessed the assault.

The child's parents are estranged, and the father is suing for custody of his daughter.

The girl’s father told the Post-Dispatch that his daughter told a sibling about the alleged assault a few days after it happened, and the sibling told the father on May 26, the father said. He called the child abuse hotline the next day.

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The girl’s 17-year-old brother told the Post-Dispatch his mother told him she has known Muschany for about two years and that they had been seeing each other romantically for about a year.

This isn't just another Republican "sex scandal" - it's the forcible rape of a child, which the mother witnessed but did not bother to report to the police.

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Sunday May 11, 2008 · 3:34 PM PDT

2008/05/11 · 15:34

The endorsements just keep on coming - late this afternoon former Kentucky State Senator and current Lt. Governor Dan Mongiardo endorsed Barack Obama.

Kentucky's Democratic Governor (& superdelegate) Steve Beshear is still uncommitted and says he will not indicate his choice for Democratic presidential nominee until after the May 20th Kentucky primary.

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Saturday April 19, 2008 · 6:13 PM PDT

2008/04/19 · 18:13

As far as I know Hillary Clinton was not caught fibbing about her reason for declining an invitation to participate in a debate proposed for the beginning of Passover, and it pains me to see that a diary proclaiming that HRC was "caught" in such a "fib" has been sitting on the rec list. Hey, people. I thought we were smarter than this. I thought that manufactured distractions had been put "on notice"

Here's a key part of the news report on which that diary is based:

Clinton didn't agree to the date, noting that night is the beginning of the Passover observance among Jewish people.

[please follow me below the jump]

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Wednesday April 16, 2008 · 1:10 PM PDT

2008/04/16 · 13:10

Yes he will

I kept waiting for an open thread to post this video of Bryant Gumbel interviewing Barack Obama about basketball. I waited & waited & finally decided that the fourteen minute video, The Audacity of Hoops which recently aired on HBO's Real Sports is wonderful enough to merit a diary.

Enjoy!

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Thursday April 03, 2008 · 1:43 PM PDT

2008/04/03 · 13:43

[transcript below the jump]

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Monday March 31, 2008 · 11:57 AM PDT

2008/03/31 · 11:57

Not much of a visual here, folks. But it's really a treat to listen to freshman Senator Amy Klobuchar speak at length about her endorsement of Barack Obama: The recording of today's press conference call lasts for just under a half hour:

"Between Barack and a hard place, I chose Barack...The 'hard place' is a reference to being uncommitted"

— Amy Klobuchar

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Thursday March 13, 2008 · 11:35 AM PDT

2008/03/13 · 11:35

The campaign has gotten ugly. Yeah. I'm goin' with Obama.

— Wanda Sykes

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Wednesday January 16, 2008 · 11:02 PM PST

2008/01/16 · 23:02

I can't top Gil Scott-Heron.
If you want to know about Ronald Reagan, just listen to B Movie.

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Tuesday December 18, 2007 · 1:56 PM PST

2007/12/18 · 13:56

It would be difficult to find a dkoser who would not agree that Sheldon Whitehouse - our new Democratic Senator from Rhode Island - has distinguished himself as a remarkably brilliant, valuable and persuasive member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Yesterday, when he took to the floor of the Senate he made fine points about the importance of protecting the privacy rights of American citizens travelling abroad. But then he departed from his prepared remarks and argued for the Intelligence Committee version of the FISA legislation - the version that provides retroactive immunity for the telelcoms.

I'm not saying that I agree with him. I just think that it's useful to review his reasoning, because we all know that this fight is far from over.

[please follow me below the jump for a transcription of his statement]

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