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President Barack Obama just waged an unprecedented three-week PR campaign to sell Americans and Congress on the need to go to war — six television interviews in one night, a prime-time speech to the nation, and White House outreach to 93 senators and 375 representatives. It’s enough to make those on the left looking for his help on issues such as gun violence, climate change, racial profiling, immigration and jobs wonder whether their causes rate this kind of White House commitment. Is there an intensity gap? “I raised this issue to the president the other day,” Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.,...

Erika H. on the CBS "Early Show" Instead of attacking each other they turn on Oabama First Republican national debate / race. Is that a bad thing? It's the typical liberal psychology to phrase a good thing as "bad."

Mon April 7, 2003 THE ANTIDOTE TO LIBERAL ENVY-APPEASEMENT Jack Wheeler I began to realize how Liberal Envy-Appeasement is The Root of the Problem when I was speaking at colleges back in the 1980s about anti-Soviet resistance movements in Soviet colonies such as Nicaragua, Angola, Mozambique, and Afghanistan. Students would invariably turn a discussion of Soviet imperialism into an assertion of moral equivalence between the USA and the USSR: "How can you criticize the Soviets when we're just as bad? What about what we did to the Indians?" I would be asked. "I haven't done anything to the Indians," I...