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YouTube - President Obama Speaks to the Muslim World from Cairo, Egypt
"A New Beginning"The President gives a speech in Cairo, Egypt, outlining his personal commitment to engagement with the Muslim world, based upon mu...
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New and worse secrecy and immunity claims from the Obama DOJ - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
But the Obama DOJ demanded dismissal of the entire lawsuit based on (1) its Bush-mimicking claim that the "state secrets" privilege bars any lawsuits against the Bush administration for illegal spying, and (2) a brand new "sovereign immunity" claim of breathtaking scope -- never before advanced even by the Bush administration -- that the Patriot Act bars any lawsuits of any kind for illegal government surveillance unless there is "willful disclosure" of the illegally intercepted communications.
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Obama Sides With RIAA, Supports $150,000 Fine per Music Track | Threat Level from Wired.com
This is B.S. "The Obama administration for the first time is weighing in on a Recording Industry Association of America file sharing lawsuit and is supporting hefty awards of as much as $150,000 per purloined music track. "
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Op-Ed Columnist - Forgive and Forget? - NYTimes.com
if we don’t have an inquest into what happened during the Bush years — and nearly everyone has taken Mr. Obama’s remarks to mean that we won’t — this means that those who hold power are indeed above the law because they don’t face any consequences if they abuse their power.
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Op-Ed Columnist - Forgive and Forget? - NYTimes.com
if we don’t have an inquest into what happened during the Bush years — and nearly everyone has taken Mr. Obama’s remarks to mean that we won’t — this means that those who hold power are indeed above the law because they don’t face any consequences if they abuse their power.
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President-elect Barack Obama is to issue an order to close the Guantánamo detention centre in his first week in office, according to his advisers
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Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team | Open for Questions
Official Web Site of The Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team
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Michael Pollan for Secretary of Agriculture - Signatures
Signatures on the Michael Pollan for Secretary of Agriculture Petition to President-Elect Barack Obama.
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AP: Palin's Ayers Attack "Racially Tinged"
Whether intended or not by the McCain campaign, portraying Obama as "not like us" is another potential appeal to racism. It suggests that the Hawaiian-born Christian is, at heart, un-American.
The fact is that when racism creeps into the discussion serves a purpose for McCain. As the fallout from Wright's sermons showed earlier this year, forcing Obama to abandon issues to talk about race leads to unresolved arguments about America's promise to treat all people equally.
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Op-Ed Columnist - McCain - Bearish on Debates - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
“John, you like to pretend like the war started in 2007,” he said. “You talk about the surge. The war started in 2003. And at the time, when the war started, you said it was going to be quick and easy. You said we knew where the weapons of mass destruction were. You were wrong.” Although this is a very old argument, it sounded remarkably fresh, like revisiting semiforgotten territory.
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