The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Please See This Video

    By Ripper on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 8:51pm |
    THIS is how Obama needs to advertise:http://therealmccain.com/...

    The Fierce Urgency of Getting Tough Now

    By Ripper on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 6:30pm |
    Barack Obama has a message problem. If he doesn't fix his message soon, he will lose the battle to define himself, his opponent and the election itself. Such a loss would cost him the White House.With the release Friday of...

    A Top Arizona Journalist Runs Down McCain History - lots of info with some new, damning anecdotes

    By azpaull on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 10:19pm |
    Just out today is an article from one of Arizona's best journalists (two-time Press Club Journo of the Year) going over John McCain's history in AZ.   A MUST READ!!!  CHECK IT OUT: http://phoenixnewtimes.com/content/printVersion/848709 (By the way, a couple of her...

    David Broder, Getting it Wrong Again

    By AmericanDreamer on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 2:18pm |
    The mothership linked to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/06/AR200808...">David Broder's column</a> today on the recent negative tone of the presidential campaign. Does Broder ask McCain if he regrets asserting that Obama would rather lose a war and win the election?  No. Rather, he...

    My Anti-Celebrity Ad

    By Ripper on Wed, 08/06/2008 - 7:27pm |
    The truth is, I really don't know how Obama should respond, if at all, to McCain's "celebrity" charge. But I offer this as one possible answer. Make up your own appropriate visuals.VOICE 1: John McCain calling Barack Obama a celebrity?...
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    Time Out For a Laugh!

    By stillidealistic on Wed, 08/06/2008 - 2:58am |
    Was checkin' out the Paris Hilton rebuttle ad and ran across this little gem...thought you might enjoy it...it's a bit of "Republican Bashing" but in a funny way, so according to John Maverick, er, McCain, that makes it okay, right?http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/ea0b05d406...
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    Sign letter urging Obama not to waffle!

    By oleeb on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 3:27pm |
    An impressive group of well known and well respected people have written and signed an open letter to Obama warning him not to abandon the principles and positions that won him the nomination. You can add your name to the...
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    Obama's New Energy Plan (A+.) But The Energy Ads? (D-)

    By quinn esq on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 1:33am |
    Obama's new Energy Plan is an Ace - Joe Romm & T-Boone are already on-board. It took awhile, but I'd say it's about 3 giant steps forward - with a political brain installed while the plan was in the shop....
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    Why Obama MUST NOT TAKE OFFICE

    By CVille Dem on Sun, 08/03/2008 - 8:20pm |
    Why isn't Obama winning by at least 20 percentage points in the polls? My fervent HOPE is that it is because many of his supporters (the young and the newly registered voters) don't have landlines and so are not included...

    John McCain Wants A Bigger Dressing Room

    By Ripper on Sun, 08/03/2008 - 2:07am |
    John McCain never got the hero's welcome he deserved, and you can tell it still gnaws away at the back of his mind. He's jealous.The brighter Barack Obama's star shines, the more John McCain wants to reduce his opponent's substance...
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    What's the Matter

    By Barth on Sat, 08/02/2008 - 3:30pm |
    What’s the Matter with Kansas may have been an impossible book to read, but its central point is unassailable: In a country filled with the profoundly stupid, emails spreading lies and commercials arguing ridiculous things, instead of debating our future...
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    Tear Down This Wall, Senator Obama (And TPM'ers)

    By quinn esq on Thu, 07/31/2008 - 7:08pm |
    Senator Obama wants the walls to come down. All around the world. I'm with him.We've seen walls before, in Berlin Wall, in Belfast, in South Africa. And we've seen them fall. Because people MADE them fall.But new walls are...
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    Obama Trumped... By A Pair Of Two's?

    By quinn esq on Thu, 07/31/2008 - 5:00pm |
    There's something irritating me, so I might as well scratch. It's the arguments - apparently felt to be trump cards by some - that Obama is too young & inexperienced to be President. I agree we should look closely at...

    AP: McCain Eyes Dole as VP

    By Ripper on Thu, 07/31/2008 - 3:59pm |
    WASHINGTON (Assacious Press) — With an eye to stressing his youth and easygoing temperament, aides to John McCain say the presumptive Republican nominee is strongly favoring former Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas as his vice-presidential running mate."If you want to...

    Obama Fires Back at McCain

    By Ripper on Wed, 07/30/2008 - 8:49pm |
    I love that Barack Obama chose Springfield, Mo., to start firing back at John McCain. I used to live there.Speaking to supporters today in a heavily Republican area  (House Minority Whip Roy Blunt's home district), Obama took aim at McCain's...

    Come On, Ya *#@$& Pukes, Get It Out of Your Systems!

    By Ripper on Wed, 07/30/2008 - 7:28pm |
    Whether you believe commentators who engage in insults here at TPM should be ignored, sued or dissected and fried, it's obvious that nearly everyone (not quite all) her have some degree of temper from time to time (or nearly always,...

    Borger Almost Gets the Story Right (formatted)

    By Ripper on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 11:18pm |
    John McCain's increasing meltdown into jealousy and fury seems invisible to most of the mainstream media, including Katie Couric's fawning piece on tonight's "CBS Evening News," which examined none of McCain's policies and, in fact, barely quoted McCain at all.Gloria...

    Borger Almost Gets the Story Right

    By Ripper on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 11:12pm |
    John McCain's increasing meltdown into jealousy and fury seems invisible to most of the mainstream media, including Katie Couric's fawning piece on tonight's "CBS Evening News," which examined none of McCain's policies and, in fact, barely quoted McCain at all.Gloria...
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    Vicious Filth

    By stillidealistic on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 7:59pm |
    I'm still idealistic, and I'm going to do my best to stay that way, but the repubs are really pressing my buttons. (is there a REALLY derogatory word to use for Republicans that isn't actually swearing, but is really, really...
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    I Need Help!

    By stillidealistic on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 4:06am |
    Guys/Gals, I received the following e-mail that disturbs me. Somewhere in the back of my brain I think I heard something about it a few days ago...something about the original sender finding out that the info was incorrect and asked...

    On Why Obama is RIGHT About War in Afghanistan

    By Ripper on Sat, 07/26/2008 - 2:01pm |
    I must respectfully disagree with David O'Brien's recent post, wherein he argued Barack Obama is wrong about sending more troops into Afghanistan to "widen" the conflict there. Although the goal of a peaceful world free of imperialism and war is...
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    UGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

    By stillidealistic on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 11:47pm |
    LAST TIME, I PROMISE!I STILL have goose bumps on my goose bumps (well, not so much anymore...my goosebumps have given way to the frustration I am feeling over not being able to figure out why this post won't go through...
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    Please Forgive Me...

    By stillidealistic on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 11:19pm |
    I'm bound and determined to get this post through...Don't know why you would think that what I have is so important that you would put up w/ my sucky posting...but here goes again... I’ve got goose bumps on my goose...
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    In Spite Of It All...

    By stillidealistic on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 11:07pm |
    I’ve got goose bumps on my goose bumps after hearing Obama’s speech in Berlin....
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    In Spite Of It All...

    By stillidealistic on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 10:59pm |
    By now you must realize that I have goose bumps on top of goose bumps...don't know what is happening, but my entire post is not coming up...maybe 3rd time is a charm...I’ve got goose bumps on my goose bumps after...

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