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	<title>Comments on: Grover Norquist: Obama is &#8220;John Kerry With a Tan&#8221;</title>
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		<title>By: TAGG</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/27/grover-norquist-obama-is-john-kerry-with-a-tan/#comment-1518216</link>
		<dc:creator>TAGG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I’ve tried to put this into historical perspective. Read more….&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tagg-lines.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.tagg-lines.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I’ve tried to put this into historical perspective. Read more….<a href="http://www.tagg-lines.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.tagg-lines.com</a></p>
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		<title>By: Prairie Sunshine</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/27/grover-norquist-obama-is-john-kerry-with-a-tan/#comment-1517393</link>
		<dc:creator>Prairie Sunshine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Hey,Jane — way epu-ed on this but I’m glad to see your post!  I just did one at my homeblog this evening, because I saw KO’s report about this in his Top Story #3.  I think there’s more to the story:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This morning, I happened to tune in a local radio station in northern Minnesota and the station owner was reading selected excerpts from Michelle Obama’s college paper along with rightwing editorializing.  I have no idea who he got this stuff from, but since he’s not exactly known for his intellectual curiosity, just his rightwing politics, I’m wondering if maybe there’s an orchestrated launch of the race card overtly–like through Norquist-as well as under-the-radar in these small market radio stations.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The stench of SC campaign tactics going national?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey,Jane — way epu-ed on this but I’m glad to see your post!  I just did one at my homeblog this evening, because I saw KO’s report about this in his Top Story #3.  I think there’s more to the story:</p>
<p>This morning, I happened to tune in a local radio station in northern Minnesota and the station owner was reading selected excerpts from Michelle Obama’s college paper along with rightwing editorializing.  I have no idea who he got this stuff from, but since he’s not exactly known for his intellectual curiosity, just his rightwing politics, I’m wondering if maybe there’s an orchestrated launch of the race card overtly–like through Norquist-as well as under-the-radar in these small market radio stations.</p>
<p>The stench of SC campaign tactics going national?</p>
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		<title>By: UrbanGorilla</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/27/grover-norquist-obama-is-john-kerry-with-a-tan/#comment-1517224</link>
		<dc:creator>UrbanGorilla</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;And Malkin is Coulter with………&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;………a vagina?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>And Malkin is Coulter with………</p>
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<p>………a vagina?</p>
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		<title>By: ekunin</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/27/grover-norquist-obama-is-john-kerry-with-a-tan/#comment-1517200</link>
		<dc:creator>ekunin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;We had the same thing happen in Connecticut. Our Supreme Court decided school financing based on property taxation was unconstitutional because wealthy communities spend more on education than poor communities. The judges found rich people have more money than poor people. Only judges require proof of that proposition. The decision marked the limit of judicial power, a result so out of touch with reality no one pays attention.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As for racism and Obama, racism may play some role in the FISA controversy. I support Obama without reservation. He’s an extremely smart politician who walks the line of not being too “white” for his black supporters and too “black” for his white supporters. He does not waste himself on lost causes-some say that’s a failure of leadership.  He is versatile enough to have someone like me think he’s a closet populist, while others think him a corporate hack. Reminds me of the joke about two women arguing over which one owns a chicken. They take their dispute to the rabbi who listens to the first woman and says “You’re right, you own the chicken. The second woman says “Just a minute” and she tells her story. The  rabbi says “You’re right, you own the chicken.” A passerby who heard the whole thing asks, “Rabbi how can they both be right?” The rabbi says to him, “You’re right, too”. So far as I know, he’s still the rabbi.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We had the same thing happen in Connecticut. Our Supreme Court decided school financing based on property taxation was unconstitutional because wealthy communities spend more on education than poor communities. The judges found rich people have more money than poor people. Only judges require proof of that proposition. The decision marked the limit of judicial power, a result so out of touch with reality no one pays attention.</p>
<p>As for racism and Obama, racism may play some role in the FISA controversy. I support Obama without reservation. He’s an extremely smart politician who walks the line of not being too “white” for his black supporters and too “black” for his white supporters. He does not waste himself on lost causes-some say that’s a failure of leadership.  He is versatile enough to have someone like me think he’s a closet populist, while others think him a corporate hack. Reminds me of the joke about two women arguing over which one owns a chicken. They take their dispute to the rabbi who listens to the first woman and says “You’re right, you own the chicken. The second woman says “Just a minute” and she tells her story. The  rabbi says “You’re right, you own the chicken.” A passerby who heard the whole thing asks, “Rabbi how can they both be right?” The rabbi says to him, “You’re right, too”. So far as I know, he’s still the rabbi.</p>
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		<title>By: RevBev</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/27/grover-norquist-obama-is-john-kerry-with-a-tan/#comment-1516933</link>
		<dc:creator>RevBev</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Or against a gamed ballot box, as I recall.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Or against a gamed ballot box, as I recall.</p>
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		<title>By: Marion in Savannah</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/27/grover-norquist-obama-is-john-kerry-with-a-tan/#comment-1516910</link>
		<dc:creator>Marion in Savannah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Isn’t that all part and parcel of “I’ve got mine, screw you, and the devil take the hindmost?”&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Isn’t that all part and parcel of “I’ve got mine, screw you, and the devil take the hindmost?”</p>
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		<title>By: cinnamonape</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/27/grover-norquist-obama-is-john-kerry-with-a-tan/#comment-1516879</link>
		<dc:creator>cinnamonape</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Here’s the link on that - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-06-26-leadership_N.htm?csp=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Former Republican Senators have Warchests…but don’t help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here’s the link on that &#8211; <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-06-26-leadership_N.htm?csp=1" rel="nofollow">Former Republican Senators have Warchests…but don’t help</a></p>
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		<title>By: cinnamonape</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/27/grover-norquist-obama-is-john-kerry-with-a-tan/#comment-1516878</link>
		<dc:creator>cinnamonape</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Here’s something quite interesting. Both Frist and Santorum left the Senate in 2006…but they still have political campaign fundraising units culling prodigious amounts of money from donors (deferred kickbacks for legislation, perhaps?). What is amazing is that since their last election both of these individuals have contributed less than $20,000 total to fellow Republicans from those funds - that’s less than 3% of what they take in!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; It seems the main reason for these funds is to provide employment for the army of sycophantic staff that they accumulated through patronage for over a decade.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here’s something quite interesting. Both Frist and Santorum left the Senate in 2006…but they still have political campaign fundraising units culling prodigious amounts of money from donors (deferred kickbacks for legislation, perhaps?). What is amazing is that since their last election both of these individuals have contributed less than $20,000 total to fellow Republicans from those funds &#8211; that’s less than 3% of what they take in!</p>
<p> It seems the main reason for these funds is to provide employment for the army of sycophantic staff that they accumulated through patronage for over a decade.</p>
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		<title>By: nomolos</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/27/grover-norquist-obama-is-john-kerry-with-a-tan/#comment-1516876</link>
		<dc:creator>nomolos</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Here in NH we are funding not only the schools in our district but are sending monies to other districts that refuse to tax their properties to fund the public schools.  For instance in our town we help subsidize Exeter which has vast amounts of properties that they do not tax all their damn churches. temples and other fairyland edifices and the phillips academy a private, very well endowed school.  It is a nuts system and only because the bloody feds are feeding an oillegal war.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here in NH we are funding not only the schools in our district but are sending monies to other districts that refuse to tax their properties to fund the public schools.  For instance in our town we help subsidize Exeter which has vast amounts of properties that they do not tax all their damn churches. temples and other fairyland edifices and the phillips academy a private, very well endowed school.  It is a nuts system and only because the bloody feds are feeding an oillegal war.</p>
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		<title>By: cbl2</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2008/06/27/grover-norquist-obama-is-john-kerry-with-a-tan/#comment-1516875</link>
		<dc:creator>cbl2</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;looks like there’s a new post upstairs&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>looks like there’s a new post upstairs</p>
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