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confluence of all the current toxic elements of the GOP: Sacramento County Republican leaders Tuesday took down offensive material on their official party Web site that sought to link Sen. Barack Obama to Osama bin Laden and encouraged people to "Waterboard Barack Obama" - material that offended even state GOP leaders. On the official Republican website in the state capitol of the most populous state in the Union.
hypocrisy here too: When reached for comment Tuesday, Craig MacGlashan - head of the Sacramento County Republican Party - owned up to these and other characterizations of Obama. A few weeks ago, MacGlashan spoke out publicly against anti-Obama vandalism around town. Maybe if someone had painted "Waterboard Barack Obama" on the side of a building, MacGlashan would be outraged.
The Republican sickness Excerpt: From the official, Sacramento County, California, GOP Web site: Not the Web site of some lone, disaffected freak. The official Web site of the Sacramento County, California GOP.
Live-Blogging Hofstra Obama won this for the third time. A small prediction: there will be YouTube mash-ups of McCain's facial reactions on the split screen. And they will have a longer life, for good or ill, than many of the substantive exchanges.
Nate Adjusts The Model The reason the economy is playing differently among Southern Baptists may surely be that many are voting primarily on religious, cultural and theological grounds.
No Press Conference For Palin Before The Election It seems to me that in the absence of a real press conference, the networks and cable news networks should simply cease broadcasting her speeches live and demand of every Republican guest that they explain this descent into anti-democratic territory.
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