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Off the Bus: Marc Cooper on What President Obama Means
Las Vegas, Nevada - My good friend Micah Sifry framed this historic day perfectly right about noontime. “The hands that picked the cotton are the hands that are picking the next President of the United States.”
Barack Obama’s election tonight is laden with so much significance it seems an impossible task to even attempt any systematic [...]
Off the Bus: On-the-Ground in Florida Battleground
Those “community organizers” that Rudy Giuliani mocked at the Republican National Convention proved to be a uniting force here in Delray Beach this past weekend — a city that has twice been named an “All America City” by the National Civic League (1993 and 2001).
And when Sarah Palin said that small town mayors are just [...]
Off the Bus: Marc Cooper on McCain’s Own 60s Radical
The McCain campaign shows no shame in engaging in a tired guilt-by-association tactic as Sarah Palin accuses Obama of “palling around with terrorists.” This desperate calumny derives from Obama once serving on the same non-profit board as former 60’s radical Bill Ayers, one of the founders of the Weather Underground.
But what about McCain’s [...]
Off the Bus: Eric Morse Dishes Advice to Obama for Tonight
With one presidential and one vice presidential debate behind us, a pattern is emerging: each time, the Democratic candidate has come to the table armed with facts and policy proposals, while the Republican catered to pundits and the public with an amalgam of attitude and atmospherics, colloquialisms and avoidance-by-way-of-personal-anecdote.
And in tomorrow’s town hall meeting in [...]
Come on, people. Seriously.
This is some ridiculous bullshit.
The deluge of responses to the now-infamous Off The Bus article by Mayhill Fowler on The Huffington Post have been an exercise in putrid American punditry. With a few weeks of downtime in this already absurd primary process, it was like a freshman fratboy had gone [...]
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