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Thursday, June 19, 2008

To Finish

Otis Redding - The Dock of the Bay
Wilson Pickett - The Very Best of
Van Morrison - His Band and the Street Choir (see comment from the day before!)
Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes - Havin' a Party
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
Bruce - The Wild, Innocent & the E Street Shuffle


Today, the Obama campaign is catching flack for rejecting public funding of his campaign, $85 million that would theoretically set a structure and guideline to collected and spent monies. I'm torn on this but in politics, principle and reality will always differ. Could or should a candidate reject public monies though she/he had previously promised not to do so? Will this hurt the candidate? What about
527s that will come out of the woodwork for your opponent that will do the dirty work against you but not count against your opponent? By running your own campaign and rejecting public financing, a candidate can raise far above the set amount. Does Obama need it? This time around, I see the need to defend yourself from the GOP hellhounds. Even ABC News was using terms like "flip-flop" and "contradict" like Obama just screwed his mom after preaching about abstinence. I need to continue this but my boy's crying.

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