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by Ted Rall, Aspen Daily News Columnist Thursday, July 17, 2008 Every presidential candidacy relies on a myth. Reagan was a great communicator; Clinton felt your pain. Both storylines were ridiculous. But rarely are the constructs used to market a party nominee as transparent or as fictional as those we’re being asked to swallow in 2008.
On the left — OK, not — we have Barack Obama. “The best orator of his generation!” says Ed Rendell, the Democratic power broker who has a day job as governor of Pennsylvania. Full Story »
by Ted Rall, Aspen Daily News Columnist Wednesday, July 9, 2008 I believe in John McCain. Which is why I don’t believe him.
When John McCain said he wanted to stay in Iraq 100 years, he didn’t mean it. He just said it to get elected. Full Story »
by Ted Rall, Aspen Daily News Columnist Wednesday, July 2, 2008
One amendment from column A, another from column B
NEW YORK — A week ago, Justice Anthony Kennedy was a liberal hero. Joining the court’s four liberal jurists, he declared that while 9/11 may have changed everything, it didn’t change the Constitution. Despite statements by the Bush administration to the contrary, Guantánamo is not a legal no-man’s land. POWs being held at America’s Devil’s Island now have the right to challenge their detention in federal courts.
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by Ted Rall, Aspen Daily News Columnist Monday, June 30, 2008 The gas station attendant came outside. Wow, I thought, full serve!
Ignoring me, she flung a magnetic price decal on top of the
price-per-gallon. Regular unleaded had gone up 20 cents in the time it
took me to drive from the curb to the pump. Full Story »
by Ted Rall, Aspen Daily News Columnist Wednesday, June 18, 2008 A superpower of lazy slobs
NEW YORK — Tens of thousands of innocent detainees have passed through
Guantánamo, Bagram, Abu Ghraib, Diego Garcia and other U.S. torture
facilities. Thousands remain “disappeared,” possibly murdered. Some may
be on one of the Navy vessels recently revealed to have been repurposed
as prison ships. Dozens have been beaten to death or killed by willful
medical neglect. Full Story »
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