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Barack Obama on Community Organizers
sujal 09/04/2008

One of those mocking, derisive but ultimately silly attacks made by both Giuliani and Palin yesterday had to do with mocking Obama’s time as a community organizers. I’ve read many different posts today defending the work community organizers do but Obama, as you might expect, puts the right perspective on the issue. Steve Benen has more background.

(he slightly misspeaks at the start — it was 20 years ago, not 3).

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E-mails Detail Human Cost of Shoddy Electrical Work at U.S. Bases - ProPublica
sujal 07/21/2008

One of the less reported stories is finally getting some more press. The privatization of things that used to be done by the Army hasn’t necessarily worked out so well. The shoddy workmanship and the deaths described in these articles are the result of setting up a contracting office that has no teeth to actually enforce regulations because of political interference from the administration. One more way this administration has failed to support the troops.

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ABC News: Victim: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR
sujal 12/10/2007

This is why we need oversight and shouldn’t privatize some things (law and order, for example).

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