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by Dominique Browning via  Moms Clean Air Force Over here at Moms Clean Air Force, I’ve been–I’ll admit it–profoundly depressed that the candidates have blown their chance to talk about the most important issue facing our planet. Climate Change. Two debates down.

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Did you hear that Barack Obama said something about wealth redistribution once? No, not that time .

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Imagine a United States with enormous and growing levels of income inequality. An America with long-term unemployment and people giving up hope for the future. An America where corporations buy politicians and ignore the desires of everyday people

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Stretching past scrubby pines and open fields where tobacco once grew, Highway 70 East guides you to a low-slung, red-roofed building where the scent of smoldering oakwood hangs thickly in the air. You have reached Wilber’s , the High Church of old-school barbecue, where whole hogs are slow-cooked over coals, doused with red-pepper vinegar and served to locals with tar-thick accents. On the wall hangs a shrine to a beloved politician, whose death has erased neither his legacy nor the fond feelings of the octogenarian owner.

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Eric Fehrnstrom’s new campaign strategy Top Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom says President Obama is being too mean to Mitt: Mitt Romney’s senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom said President Barack Obama has “lost his credibility” with a series of attacks on his Republican rival. “When you start running ads accusing you opponent of killing people, then you have lost your credibility,” Fehrnstrom told reporters at a briefing at campaign headquarters today

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I sat down this morning intending to write an article about the absurd new crush that Mitt Romney and the GOP have on Bill Clinton . It’s a flagrant re …

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Just to be clear, this is not from The Onion. It’s from a real interview with Mitt “Corporations Are People” Romney— a Bloomberg/Businessweek exclusive , no less

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Romney’s claim is utterly ridiculous. He’s referring to a memo from the Department of Health and Human Services to states encouraging them to apply for waivers to welfare rules so that they can experiment with different ways …

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Earlier this morning, Mitt Romney doubled down on his latest false attack , falsely accusing President Obama of unilaterally rescinding the work requirement from welfare: He removed the requirement of work from welfare. It is wrong to make any change that would make America more of a nation of government dependency. We must restore, and I will restore, work into welfare

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Who needs a Brooks Brothers riot when Miami Democrats are letting the fox in  the hen house? (2000 GOP Brooks Brothers riot during presidential recount) See updating story . As a Democrat, a Cuban-American and a Florida voter, I am often perplexed by the actions of my party, especially in Florida

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