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Learn the real story behind the WMD in Iraq:

The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
by Ron Suskind

Read Barack Obama's vision for America:

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama

DaveW recommends:

I Am a Strange Loop
by Douglas Hofstadter

Need some laughs?

I Am America (and So Can You!)
by Stephen Colbert

rae recommends:

Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
by Morris Berman.

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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Adventure Divas
by Holly Morris

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Elizabeth Gilbert:

Eat Pray Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert

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The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Wellstone

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The New Golden Age:
The Coming Revolution Against
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by Ravi Batra

A novel about contractors in Iraq from the woman that runs The Spy That Billed Me:

Outsourced: A Novel
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Featured by Keith Olbermann, New (Powell's Sale): Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower by William Blum (whose other books merit serious consideration)


"Explosive" State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
by James Risen


The book the CIA doesn't want you to read: Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander
Larry Johnson's review


BT's all-time best seller:

PERMACULTURE:
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Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History (Third Edition)


The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!


The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan


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Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists by Eleanor Mills * NYT review


Bury Me Standing: the Gypsies & Their Journey


1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus



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by Annie Proulx
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The Price of Privilege:

How Parental Pressure and
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by Madeline Levine


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The 527 was a place for donations bigger than 2300. The whole point of Obama's "reform" was to eliminate those donors from influence. He didn't force MoveOn, but asked them. Because they believe in people power, they conformed.

All this nit-picking driving me crazy. Someone above is right; some people don't have enough to do. They are posting to get attention, not to change the country!

Michaela

by michaelmt (MrMichael_t@yahoo.com) on Mon Jun 30th, 2008 at 03:38:08 PM EST
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If MoveOn thinks it can promote its message by reforming its 527, or it doesn't believe Obama will say what needs to be said about McCain, then MoveOn should do what it needs to do.

John McCain hates children
by magster on Mon Jun 30th, 2008 at 03:45:39 PM EST
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I think Obama picked a really bad time to eschew public financing if this is his game plan.  He was relying on the enthusiasm of millions of small donors, and a lot of them are not going to be there for him after these plays.  Unless, of course, Hillary's big-time donors are really, really big.
by Delia on Mon Jun 30th, 2008 at 05:47:20 PM EST
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Obama is also gonna lose the AA support too.

Here is an expression of the thinking

I wanted the Clintons gone and Obama is sure loading up on their entourage.  Same old same old. He has turned on a dime. Obama a Progressive? No, more like a small c Conservative.

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

by idredit on Mon Jun 30th, 2008 at 08:48:13 PM EST
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"middle finger"?  Don't you think that's a wee bit extreme?

"Mov(ing) to the Right"??  Oh, come on.

First of all, the thing that's got everybody (me included) all exercised is FISA, and that hasn't played out yet.  Jeez, do you keep a daily "left-o-meter" that shows how every single statement that Obama or one of his proxies makes affects his standing in the political spectrum?  That's what's knows as "being stupid" and is little different from the way the media turns the entire campaign into one big horse race, examining minutiae.

When Barack says he no longer supports universal health care, or suddenly changes his campaign theme to "borders, language, culture", then I'll worry about him "turning to the right".  Until then, I'm going to give him a little room to win the freaking election before I'm ready to kick him to the curb and vote Nader or write in Hilary.

 

by PopeRatzo (PopeRatzo AT G Mail Dot Com) on Mon Jun 30th, 2008 at 04:37:55 PM EST
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Aren't you being a bit daft?  How many times do you have to be kicked in the head before you recognize it as such?  Maybe that's part of the problem.  You've been kicked in the head so many times you lost the ability to even determine when you're being kicked in the head.

Are all Obama supporters this delusional?  Man, what a bunch of suckers.  He insults the largest grass roots anti-war advocacy group in this country and you say it's those of us on the left that are being extreme and overreacting?  That we should just take it like good liberals while Obama gives our enemies everything they want.  As he kicks us in the head?

Boy.  Obama really pulled the wool over the eyes of some of you suckers.

How does attacking MoveOn, Wes Clark, and progressives in general help Obama win the general?  Do you really have such little faith in liberal ideas?  Do you not believe the polling that shows more Americans supporting liberal ideas about war?  You buy this crap that Democrats need to move to the right to win?  Tell us your brilliant strategy and how it will work this time when it didn't work for Gore or Kerry or pretty much any other lame-ass Democrat.  Did you support Joe Lieberman for president?  Haven't we seen this play over and over again with the same painful results?

And FISA hasn't been played out yet?  Are you one of the last imbeciles in this country that is still holding on to the mistaken belief that Obama has some super secret plan but isn't sharing it with us yet?  Anyone with an ounce of political wisdom knows Obama doesn't give a flying fuck about the 4th Amendment or decided to horse trade it away for some amorphous political benefit.  There evidently are a few dead-ender Obamabots, such as yourself, that don't see the writing on the way but let me make this simple for you; Obama sold out on FISA.  It's over.  He's frittered it away.  We don' t know the exact reason, whether he agrees with it on the merits or is making some terrible political calculation.  But he's done it and most of us reality-based people see it for what it is.  

Man.  Democrats are screwed with idiots like this on their side  The end of the party can't come quick enough for me.

by SFHawkguy on Mon Jun 30th, 2008 at 05:41:00 PM EST
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Don't really see how "being a bit daft" earns a 1 rating, especially from someone who likes to call names.
by eeblet (bethbudwig at g mail) on Tue Jul 1st, 2008 at 08:12:26 PM EST
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