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We're still not sure what Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's era of "post-partisanship" actually is, but maybe this is it. The Republican governor, who has not demonstrated much enthusiasm about any of the Republican presidential candidates, just issued a statement heaping praise on Democrat Barack Obama for introducing a global warming bill in the Senate. "I applaud Senator Obama for introducing legislation to establish a national version of California's groundbreaking Low Carbon Fuel Standard. By adopting our approach of employing enforceable standards and market competition to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Senator Obama's legislation, like the bipartisan legislation proposed by California Senator Dianne...

Why not Obama? Millions of people are inspired by him; witness the polls, the stunning breadth of his financial support, the rapture over his way of speaking. He is the first black candidate to have a serious chance of winning his party's nomination and the presidency. That is a remarkable statement of how far America has come on race-but it also reflects Barack Obama's ability to present himself as a politician for all Americans, just somebody who happens to be black. America seems to yearn for a post-partisan consensus builder who is undeniably brilliant, rather than an ideological rabble-rouser, despite...

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) on Monday faulted U.S. automakers for failing to do what foreign manufacturers have accomplished in producing fuel-efficient vehicles. Uttering words not often spoken in Detroit, Obama said U.S. energy policy must change in order to help domestic automakers answer the rising global demand for efficient autos. "For years, while foreign competitors were investing in more fuel-efficient technology for their vehicles, American automakers were spending their time investing in bigger, faster cars," the Illinois senator told business and political leaders. Obama said his plan encourages domestic automakers to make fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles...

Supporters of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama argue the merits of each others candidate. From MADtv. http://www.devilducky.com/media/61552/ Watch til the end....

The following is an editorial from DVRepublic, “The liberated zone of cyberspace.” Movies' "Magic Negro" Saves The Day -- But At The Cost Of His Soul by Rita Kempley Morgan Freeman plays God in "Bruce Almighty;" Laurence Fishburne a demigod in "The Matrix Reloaded," and Queen Latifah a ghetto goddess in "Bringing Down the House. " What's the deal with the holy roles? Every one of the actors has to help a white guy find his soul or there won't be a happy ending. Bruce (Jim Carrey) won't get the girl. Neo (Keanu Reeves) won't become the next Messiah. And...

DISILLUSIONED supporters of President George W Bush are defecting to Barack Obama, the Democratic senator for Illinois, as the White House candidate with the best chance of uniting a divided nation. Tom Bernstein went to Yale University with Bush and co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team with him. In 2004 he donated the maximum $2,000 to the president’s reelection campaign and gave $50,000 to the Republican National Committee. This year he is switching his support to Obama. He is one of many former Bush admirers who find the Democrat newcomer appealing. Matthew Dowd, Bush’s chief campaign strategist in 2004, announced...

HERE IS THE THREAD FOR THE STORY MIDI - THIS MAGIC MOMENT "This Magic Negro" was in the L.A. Times Not started by Limbaugh, he's the one they slime He's very good at the biting parody They chose the wrong guy this time...SeeBS will soon see SeeBS is warned...on his show they're really scorned Rush got right up in their face...they really are some disgrace "This Magic Negro"...another big faux pas The mainstream is grasping...as they are flushed they're grasping for a straw "This Magic Negro"...is that the best they've got Once more they have blown it...Limbaugh's really hot...

CBS13 Sacramento, CA is trying to claim Rush Limbaugh's parity of the LA Times "Magic Negro" comment is racist. Go there and free them poll. It's on the right hand sidebar. It asks: Is Rush Limbaugh's "Barack The Magic Negro" song racist? http://cbs13.com/ You can also watch their story on this at their website. It's at the top of the page.

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When you have the amount of supporters connected and web savvy like the Obama camp it will be hard to contain all of their motives. What is going on with Obama is yet the beginning of things when so many people know about the potential of the web.

For Barack Obama Winning the White House Would Mean Bridging The Biggest Gap Of All They watch him. They listen to him talk. Is he the kind of person they think he is? The kind of black man? The stakes are oh so high. It's the presidency he's after, the breaking down of a historic barrier. Can he transcend racial divisions? Is it safe to support him? Is he safe from harm while running for president in a nation of such abiding racial tension? For Sen. Barack Obama's white supporters, this is the dialogue of race, the parsing of perceptions...

Taking a break from its thorough, in-depth analyses of the candidates’ positions on the pressing and seemingly intractable issues of the day, The Associated Press is asking the presidential hopefuls "questions about their personal tastes, habits and backgrounds." Here’s what the candidates from both parties chose as "your desert island necessity": † My wife: Joe Biden, Duncan Hunter, Dennis Kucinich and Mitt Romney.† A good book: Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama. Rudy Giuliani also wants music and John McCain also wants SPF 45 sunscreen.† Coffee with cream and sugar: Chris Dodd.† A tarp: Sam Brownback.† Laptop with satellite...

Posted by the Washington Bureau at 8:50 am CDT As anyone who has spent any time reading news Weblogs such as the Swamp knows, reader comments are central to the lines of communication that are opened by debate over the issues -- or sometimes quirky stories -- of the day. But in the interest of civil debate, comments sometimes are not accepted. At CBSNews.com, they have found so many offensive comments about Sen. Barack Obama that are objectionable for their racial bias or other prejudice that they are no longer accepting comments on their stories posted about the senator who...

RAISING THE NEGATIVES: The Democrats Plan to Win in ‘08 By MHGinTN and grey_foxx39 In the 2006 election, Limbaugh and even the President thought that the base was going to be there supporting like they always do. But, that didn’t happen. WHY? Because the power rests with the people who vote. posted by Pan_Yans Wife Let’s take a moment to address that simple truth. What platform issues encourage people so they make the effort to vote and be counted in the determination of our future leadership? … Oh, wait! That’s not how elections are won or lost in this era...

anti-Semitic riots in Brooklyn's Crown Heights section erupted after 7-year old Gavin Cato, a black child, was accidentally killed by an out-of-control car driven by a Hasidic Jew. Within three hours, a black mob had hunted down and killed an innocent rabbinical student, Yankel Rosenbaum. Sharpton fanned the flames of racial hatred by publicly announcing that it was not merely a car accident that had killed Gavin Cato, but rather "the social accident of apartheid." He organized angry demonstrations and challenged local Jews -- who he derisively called "diamond merchants" -- to "pin their yarmulkes back and come over to...

DISILLUSIONED supporters of President George W Bush are defecting to Barack Obama, the Democratic senator for Illinois, as the White House candidate with the best chance of uniting a divided nation. Tom Bernstein went to Yale University with Bush and co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team with him. In 2004 he donated the maximum $2,000 to the president’s reelection campaign and gave $50,000 to the Republican National Committee. This year he is switching his support to Obama. He is one of many former Bush admirers who find the Democrat newcomer appealing. Matthew Dowd, Bush’s chief campaign strategist in 2004, announced...

America is not purple. It is very red and it is very blue. For those of us who have been arguing that there is little difference between Republicans and Democrats, last night was a reminder of the stark differences that still divide our country. The GOP contenders were so much more conservative in tone and content than last week’s Democratic pack that we should all expect another divisive general election. Republicans were so much more hawkish on matters of war and peace. Last week, Hillary Clinton got praised from pundits for promising “retaliation” against any power that nukes two American...

Barack Lieberman? Democratic NeoconsPresident Kennedy once described his gift for rhetoric as the ability to "mobilize the English language and send it into battle." In a speech to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations Senator Barack Obama employed the same language of American value promotion that Kennedy used to inspire a generation to government service. His rejection of the "notion that the American moment has passed" along with belief that "America is the last, best hope of Earth," stands in stark contrast to the defeatism prevalent in the modern Democratic Party.Obama's Monday night foreign policy speech is more than just...

For a candidate intent on courting the Jewish vote, some of the headlines for Sen. Barack Obama in recent weeks have been less than heartening. "Obama comment draws fire from Jews," the Des Moines Register declared after the senator's unscripted remark at an Iowa campaign stop in March that "nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people" from stalled peace efforts with the Israelis. Even in that short span, his remarks have undergone a subtle evolution. In March, he spoke of relaxing restrictions on aid to the Palestinians and said "both the Israeli and Palestinian people have suffered from the...

Democrats: Dangerous, not dumb Posted: May 4, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern One of the reasons that I've been so patient with President Bush and his handling of the war on terrorism is because he is tackling a problem his predecessors have ignored for a quarter-century. The reason there are no "easy" answers or fixes to the problems in the Middle East is in large part because we've allowed the problem of Islamic jihadism to go unchecked for far too long. We watched as Jimmy Carter allowed radical Islamists to seize power in Iran; we watched al-Qaida set up shop in...