colin powell endorses barack obama for president

I was expecting the endorsement today; I wasn’t expecting Powell would get me teary-eyed, which he did, around minute five of this clip, when he was talking about the Muslim American soldier who died in Iraq. Thank you, Mr. Powell, for repudiating the toxic strategies of the Republican Party.
 

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mccain just can’t quit W.

Frank Rich nails it. There’s no hope for GOP reform as long as the party continues to act like a victim of unfortunate circumstance rather than taking responsibility for its self-inflicted disaster.
 
As the G.O.P.’s long night of the long knives begins, myths are already setting in among the right’s storm troops and the punditocracy alike as to what [...]

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look out, sarah palin’s in the SNL house

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maureen dowd: after W., le deluge

Reader, dumbfound thyself:
 
Just when we thought executives of A.I.G., the insurance giant bailed out by taxpayers for $123 billion, had been shamed into stopping their post-bailout Marie Antoinette spa treatments, luxury sports suites, Vegas and California posh resort retreats, we were dumbfounded to learn that some A.I.G. execs were cavorting at a lavish shooting party [...]

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