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Friend: George McGovern ‘never betrayed his soul’
Written by Katie Glueck | Politico
A close friend of George McGovern on Sunday remembered the late liberal icon as a man who “never betrayed his soul or his conscience” and said that some of the former Senator’s controversial and unpopular ideas at the time have turned out to be right.
“George McGovern stood up for what he believed in,” Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) told POLITICO hours after the former Senator’s death was announced. “He had some successful elections and some not-so-successful elections, but he never betrayed his soul or his conscience.”
In the summer of 1972, when I was 15, I persuaded my parents to let me ride my bike down to the local George McGovern headquarters every morning to work on his campaign. McGovern, who died early Sunday morning in South Dakota at the age of 90, embodied the core values I had been taught to cherish.
McGovern: In defense of food stamps
Written by Jim McGovern | The MetroWest Daily News
It has become fashionable in Washington to blame poor people for our budgetary woes and diminish their struggles. President Obama has been mocked by his adversaries as being “the Food Stamp President.” Clearly, that title is not meant as a compliment.
Romney’s missteps on Libya may hurt criticism of Obama’s foreign policy
Written by Scott Wilson and Ann Gearan | The Washington Post
A series of missteps by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in criticizing President Obama’s account of the Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, might make it harder for him to continue using the incident as the heart of his wider complaint about the incumbent’s foreign policy record.
Fact checking the second presidential debate
Written by Editorial | The New York Times
We heard some oldies but goodies in Tuesday night’s feisty debate between President Obama and former governor Mitt Romney. Here are some factual highlights — or lowlights:
The winner of the presidential election will have scores of federal judgeships to fill and the chance to shape the courts — even aside from potential Supreme Court vacancies should one or more of the current justices retire.
The United States and Pakistan are by now a classic example of a dysfunctional nuclear family (with an emphasis on “nuclear”). While the two governments and their peoples become more suspicious and resentful of each other with every passing month, Washington and Islamabad are still locked in an awkward post-9/11 embrace that, at this juncture, neither can afford to let go of.
Protagonists from the student movements that have swept the hemisphere from the Chilean Winter to Quebec’s Maple Spring gathered in New York at CUNY Graduate Center on October 15 to discuss the tactics that have raised the political stakes of educational reform and to seek common ground in addressing the challenges that lie ahead.
Obama has earned another term
Nowhere has Mitt Romney’s pursuit of the presidency been more warmly welcomed or closely followed than here in Utah. The Republican nominee’s political and religious pedigrees, his adeptly bipartisan governorship of a Democratic state, and his head for business and the bottom line all inspire admiration and hope in our largely Mormon, Republican, business-friendly state.
U.S. Officials Say Iran Has Agreed to Nuclear Talks
Written by Helene Cooper and Mark Landler
WASHINGTON — The United States and Iran have agreed in principle for the first time to one-on-one negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, according to Obama administration officials, setting the stage for what could be a last-ditch diplomatic effort to avert a military strike on Iran.
Just How Hard Is It for a Navajo Elder to Get Voter ID? [VIDEO]
Written by Aura Bogado, Hillary Abe and Voting Rights Watch 2012 | The Nation![Just How Hard Is It for a Navajo Elder to Get Voter ID? [VIDEO]](/media/k2/items/cache/ac9ff722ccee9f796dea38c810f03e02_S.jpg)
Obtaining a state-issued ID is a lot harder than some people might think. Agnes Laughter, an elder from the small rural town of Chilchinbeto on the Navajo Nation, tried time and time again.
This investigation was supported by the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute and by the Puffin Foundation. Elements of it appear in Palast’s new book, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps (Seven Stories). Research assistance by Zach D. Roberts, Ari Paul, Nader Atassi and Eric Wuestewald.
Mitt Romney’s opposition to the auto bailout has haunted him on the campaign trail, especially in Rust Belt states like Ohio. There, in September, the Obama campaign launched television ads blasting Romney’s November 2008 New York Times op-ed, “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.”
Finally Liberated From Facts, Mitt Romney the Pure Bull Artist Takes Flight
Written by Matt Taibi | RollingStone
You know those Balsa wood airplanes – not the glider-types but the deluxe models, powered by rubber bands, with little propellers on the nose? I thought of those planes watching Mitt Romney debate Barack Obama the other night.
Election 2012 and the Missing Millennials
Written by Zoë Carpenter | The Nation
When Barack Obama took the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte on September 6, he spoke not of the past or his record in any detail, but of the future and the obligations that citizens have to “future generations.” Designed to cast Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan as inheritors of failed, worn-out ideas, Obama’s speech was also a direct appeal to the key constituency that propelled him to victory in 2008: the millennials.
PDA In Your State
