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What has been distinct about Barack Obama's presidency is his inclination to operate in continuous campaign mode, to deflect attention away from his policy failures and to undermine opposition by politicizing the issues and policy responses he chooses to take up. So now with the president's attorney general Eric Holder having just announced the filing of a $5 billion Department of Justice suit against Standard & Poor's—charging that fraudulent ratings were made on risky mortgage bonds that went into default during the financial crisis of 2008—one has to wonder what the political motivation might be. First, why now? Why has...

In an unprecedented move, President Barack Obama’s vaunted political organization is being turned into a nonprofit group—funded in part by corporate money—to mobilize support behind the president’s second-term agenda. Democratic officials familiar with the plan said Thursday the tax-exempt organization will be called Organizing for Action and seek to harness the energy of the president’s re-election campaign for future legislative fights. Officials said the group will be separate from the Democratic National Committee and advocate on key policy issues such as gun control and immigration, train future leaders and devote attention to local issues around the nation. … Coming just...

***Video***Howard Dean speaking in Paris France April 5, 2009 explains how the Democrat Party uses double think to justify their contradictory position on Capitalism and the perpetual campaign of Barry Hussein Soetoro. What is double think you ask? Double think as described in the George Orwell book 1984 by Winston Smith the novel's protagonist... Dean explains how Democrat Political hierarchy no longer rejects Capitalism out of hand. No, Democrats believe that they can have the best of Capitalism and Socialism. Call it a hybrid Socitalism or Capocialism. Democrats use the Orwellian concept of double think to create the impossibility of...

<p>FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON ON NOT CAPTURING BIN LADEN: 'At least I tried. That's the difference between me and some, including all the right wingers. They ridicule me for trying. They had eight months to try, they did not try. I tried. So I tried and failed'...</p>

<p>State Finance Director Donna Arduin, usually ultra-cool and buttoned-down, was practically vibrating with excitement. Her boss, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, was about to take the stage to declare victory on his twin initiatives to refinance the state's debt with $15 billion in bonds and require a balanced state budget.</p>