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Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a litttle salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don’t say you weren’t warned. By the way, this blog’s name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, “All politics is applesauce.”

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Hillary says Karl Rove likes her chances

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How desperate is this?

Hillary Clinton’s latest justification for staying in the Democratic presidential race is that her good buddy Karl Rove, the political genius who helped steer the Bush administration into historic ignominy, says she’d do better than Barack Obama against John McCain.

Read about it HERE, and check the video below:

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Republican senator disowns a bit of GOP slime

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bcorker4.jpg                                   U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, a Republican from Tennessee, has chastised his state party organization for its stupid effort to impugn the patriotism of Michelle Obama.

Corker makes the practical point that Republicans, who by their own admission are facing prospects of a bloodbath in November, would do better to avoid “negative personal campaigning.”

HERE’s the story.

Bush-McCain “appeasement” roundup

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Another post-mortem on Hillary’s campaign

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Adam Nagourney of The New York Times NOTES that Hillary Clinton’s unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination suffered from a combination of bad breaks and bad decisions.

Again, McCain debates himself — and loses

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Three months ago, we showed you this earlier chapter of McCain’s debates with himself:

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Hey, Hillary! Look! There probably are some hard-working white folks in this crowd

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This is the throng of more than 75,000 people who turned out Sunday afternoon to hear Barack Obama speak in Portland, Ore.

(Associated Press photo)


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