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Right-wing provocateur and well-known Clinton antagonist David Bossie says he will premiere a documentary critical of presidential candidate Barack Obama in Denver on the Sunday before the Democratic National Convention. Expected to recycle the "greatest hits" of cable TV clips that damaged Obama's candidacy, from the wailing of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to Michelle Obama's "proud of my country" gaffe, the project from Bossie's group Citizens United released an online trailer over the weekend and is being advertised on Fox News this week. It will be released on DVD nationwide Sept. 1. The film will offer new sound bites of...

Hypothetical question for liberal readers. If we oppose a candidate for his big-spending, squishy-on-America, cut-and-run, touchy-feelie, uber-liberal, hypocritical, unproud-of-her-country-wifing ways, does that make us racist? With bonus "Save Obama for your Mama" poster.

But in personality and politics, Ken Blackwell is the anti-Obama, a loud and persistent advocate for tax cuts, smaller government and a greater role for religion in daily life. With the cranky fiscal conservatism of H. Ross Perot, the saber-rattling chutzpah of Newt Gingrich and the volatile verbosity of Alan Keyes, Blackwell has already been elected statewide three times in Ohio. Now he is running for governor, aiming to be only the nation's second elected African-American governor.