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Bill Maher remembers George Carlin (Part 1)...

After eight years of miserable failure George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Karl Rove are attempting to whitewash history with the Bush Legacy Project. Keith Olbermann comments and interviews New York Times columnist Frank Rich....

The biggest shock, of course, is the tapping of Hillary Clinton for secretary of state. I say shock because no one expected it, including Her Imperial Highness of Appalachia. But the more you think about it, the less surprising it is. Clinton remains the biggest domestic threat to the Obama presidency. The Republicans, decimated by the feckless campaign of John McCain and the malign incompetence of Karl Rove, have become a toothless, bitter rump. The Clintons, however, retain a following in the Democratic party and the Senate, and Hillary, left to machinate on Capitol Hill, would be angling to put her stamp on healthcare reform and run against Obama in 2012. At every stage, he would have to ...

Tim Russert dies, Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann share memories. -------------------------------------------- Chris Matthews's anecdote about talking to his colleague in the run-up to the Iraq war was interpreted by several conservative blogs as an "anti-war screed," as Ed Morrissey put it. The "Hardball" host said Mr. Russert believed that the potential of nuclear weapons in Iraqi hands could justify an invasion. "Even worse," Mr. Morrissey writes, "he made Russert out to be a dupe bamboozled by the Bush administration while presenting himself as a superior journalist." http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/14/blogtalk-tim-russert-remembered/...

Keith Olbermann interviews George Carlin, slams Bill O'Reilly for being disrespectful the day after George Carlin died....

Bill Maher remembers George Carlin (Part 2)...

Legendary all-American rocker Bruce Springsteen has thrown his red bandanna into the political ring, today endorsing Barack Obama for President on his website. Wrote Bruce: Like most of you, I've been following the campaign and I have now seen and heard enough to know where I stand. Senator Obama, in my view, is head and shoulders above the rest.He has the depth, the reflectiveness, and the resilience to be our next President. He speaks to the America I've envisioned in my music for the past 35 years, a generous nation with a citizenry willing to tackle nuanced and complex problems, a country that's interested in its collective destiny and in the potential of its gathered spirit. A place whe...

A musical tribute to Barack Obama's victory in the 2008 presidential election. Video includes the announcement at 11:00 PM Eastern Time, cheering crowds around the country, and Obama's acceptance speech. Song is 'Let Go' by Frou Frou. ------------------- Chicago, IL - This victory is actually more than historic. The election of President-elect Obama marks political progress far broader than race, especially since his campaign prioritized its absence whenever possible. The tens of thousands of people cheering here in Grant Park, at one of the largest election celebrations in history, are not just heralding another barrier broken in America. They are honoring a promise fulfilled - the advancem...

The funny thing about elections is that their meaning undergoes a metamorphosis the very instant they occur. A couple weeks before the vote, a Republican member of Congress declared at a McCain rally, "This campaign in the next couple of weeks is about one thing. It's a referendum on socialism." If you said now that the election was a referendum on socialism, or even mere liberalism, you'd be taken for a left-wing maniac. Political scientists will tell you that a presidential "mandate" is just a social construct. But it's an important construct, in two ways. Morally, it matters that the president do what the public elected him to do--that, after all, is the point of democracy. And, politica...

We have been given a clear warning about the vice-presidential nominee for the Republican party. We already know she is a pathological liar. We already know she refuses even basic transparency and accountability, refusing to hold a press conference as veep nominee for the first time in modern American political history and refusing to provide even minimal documentation of her fifth pregnancy. Barely into her first year as governor, as one might expect of such a person, she abused her power as governor of Alaska to persecute a former family member http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/abuse-of-power.html#more It seems to me that in the absence of a real press conference...