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BING-O IS HIS NAME
Posted, July 2, 2008,  12:01 p.m. est

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I warned you all.

He was too good to be true.

But all you wounded political puppies out there feeling so pooped upon by Tush and his gang of Neocons fell for the man with the chocolate dog bone. With a knick-knack patty whack give the dog the bone, there was a farmer had a dog and Bing-O was his name – O-Bama is now your candidate, and he’s showing his true colors.

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TREES BEND
Posted, July 7, 2008,  12:01 p.m. est

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The surge is working.

In the month of July only one serviceperson has been reported killed in the line of duty.

While one death is one too many, it is obvious that General Petraeus has turned the abominable situation in Iraq around. The Maliki government has begun to meet some of its American imposed goals. Oil contracts are being negotiated because the country appears stable enough to support international commerce.

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MARY POPPINS POLITICS
Posted, July 9, 2008,  12:01 p.m. est

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That purveyor of truth, one Miss Mary Poppins, liked to sing her wisdom as she did so loquaciously in the song “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

When trying to express oneself, it's frankly quite absurd, to leaf through lengthy lexicons to find the perfect word. A little spontaneity keeps conversation keen, You need to find a way to say, precisely what you mean...

Tell that to politicians who have mastered the art of saying nothing.

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GRAMM CRACKER CRUST
Posted, July 11, 2008,  12:01 p.m. est

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Are we a nation of whiners?

Former Senator Phil Gramm is a crusty old coot. The Georgia-born-cracker, Texas transplant with his Southern twang and silver tongue calls ‘em like he sees ‘em.

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SATIRE AND THE COUNTRY
Posted, July 14, 2008,  12:01 p.m. est

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There’s a wonderful episode of Sex and the City, when vainglorious writer, that aficionado of sex and the New York City life, Carrie Bradshaw, finds herself on the cover of New York Magazine looking worn and anything but glorious the words: ”Single and Fabulous?” plastered above the thirty-something’s shop-worn face.

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TIPTOEING THROUGH THE ROSE GARDEN
Posted, July 16, 2008,  12:01 p.m. est

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Move over Osama Bin Laden (used as satire, which Obama doesn't understand). We have a new terrorist on the block and his name is Barack Bin Obama, the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, the first African-American to possibly become the president of the United States.

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OUR MR. BIG
Posted, July 18, 2008,  12:01 p.m. est

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Just as we’re about to get rid of our big Texas-sized a**hole of a president, George W. Bush, it appears that America is about to elect a new president big on hopes, big on dreams, a man who looms larger than life itself.

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TELEPHONE
Posted, July 21, 2008,  12:01 p.m. est

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As Barack Obama embarked on what his campaign is billing as Barack Obama’s "listening" overseas tour and I was wondering why if Obama’s world tour was simply to listen he couldn’t have foregone the outrageously expensive trip that he says is not a political tour and telephoned world leaders and American generals (United States Senators have unlimited long distance, no?) my friend Myrtle was more interested in talking with me about another matter.

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GRAY MATTERS
Posted, July 23, 2008,  12:01 p.m. est

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This morning, though fully-awake, I had to blink my eyes when I read the Washington Post’s editorial “Mr. Obama in Iraq.” I thought I must be having a hallucination. Impossible, an honest assessment of Barack Obama in a traditional newspaper? Can't be! I blinked my eyes again and reread. OMG! Truth...finally...the American Way!

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THE VEEP STEAKS
Posted, July 27, 2008,  12:01 p.m. est

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Yesterday on Meet the Press Barack Obama, Mr. Smoothie, was out there once again, dangling his carrot to the thousands of Hillary Clinton supporters still enraged over the outcome of the Democratic Party’s primary. 

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THE AUDACITY FACTOR
Posted, July 30, 2008,  12:01 p.m. est

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There is nothing like an African sunset.

If ever you questioned the possibility of the divine, that moment when the sun and the horizon meet as night captures the African sky and the world briefly glows audacious red, it is at that precious moment that you realize possibility exists.

Not too long ago I was sitting beneath the African sky with my dear British friends now American citizens, partners in a project to build a technical training school in the underdeveloped region of Nyamarwa in Central Uganda. The Okusoboka Fund. It was at that moment just before the moon and the sun were to kiss, that precious moment when night meets day when I met audacity face on.

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