This diary refers to an article currently being circulated in wingnut email boxes around academia, written by a young fellow named Barry Caro.  Barry Caro is a senior at Princeton, Michelle Obama's alma mater, and he seems to have taken it upon himself to skew and distort her speeches, make insinuations about her thesis, and draw all sorts of false inferences about her character from quotes taken out of context.

I think it might be important to address these points head-on and immediately since these sorts of blockhead points have a funny way of finding their way into the MSM.  God knows how :)

Debunking after the flip.

Post a comment and as long as it is a positive comment, containing nothing negative about either Clinton or Obama, I will recommend it!

UPDATE: It's getting crowded in here!  Recommend this sucker and everybody mojo everybody else!  Keep it positive people, we don't want cops showing up unless they spread the love!

ATTN: This is an idea I came up with looking for a tool which might already exist.  I was unable to find it, and if it does exist here, I'll take this diary down and stand in the corner :)

UPDATED: 2:14PM Made some changes based on the feedback.  Thanks everyone.

Just browsing around checking out people who commented on my comments, I really wish DKos had an OPTIONAL  tool for users that would let them keep a list of friends.  If people wanted, then they could create their own policy papers, and platforms.  "Factions" would result (maybe this is a bad name for what I'm trying to express here) but I mean "Factions" in a good way, not in an infighting type way.  Sort of in a way that makes people more productive on the site - able to create and belong to sub-communities as well as to the larger comunity.  This is the kind of situation that evolves naturally when a group reaches a critical mass.

I mean why not?  DKos seems so huge a place with so many varieties of "progressives" that to be a DKo's reader doesn't mean much anymore.  I can't identify myself anymore, in shorthand, which makes it hard for people to get together without wasting a lot of time futzing around trying to figure out where they're coming from.

I want to share with the DKos community a video series entitled The Idea of the Writer that have just been published online (FREE!), which David Milch has done during the writer's strike, addressing issues of writers vs. bosses, as well as such diverse and varied topics.  Fair warning: expect equal measures of the sacred and profane :)

The Iraq bill was like a slap in the face to many of us, who hoped that after the 2006 elections, the Democrats which we worked so hard to elect would happily implement the will of the people instead of chickening out.  

I admit I was excited by our 2006 victories.  "It's all going to change, FINALLY" said the little voice in my head, and I walked around with a little extra strut to my step.  Not a swagger, but a strut of expectation that we were going to show the world what American values were really all about.

Then came the Iraq Supplemental fiasco.

The United States is not fighting a war in Iraq.  I've completely stopped using that formulation.

Once you allow them to define our effort as a war, there is only "winning" or "losing".  

We fought the war already, and won.  Ever since we've been there, we've been Peacekeepers.  Police.  Occupiers.  Sitting Ducks.  

Every single Democrat should be making this point over and over and over.  

The GOP's last holdouts are clinging to this unreal definition that we are fighting a war in Iraq.  Lets not reinforce the insane logic.  

"He was a loner, and we're having difficulty finding information about him," said Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker.

How often, in the wake of some apparently senseless rampage, do we hear the killer's neighbors say the cliche: "He kept to himself mostly"?  Well there is truth in cliches.

At the risk of sounding a little glib -- life's a game.

Seriously.

Like all games, life has certain components.

Come with me and let's find out what they are.

Somewhere there is a soldier in a foxhole fighting off the Arab hordes.  He reaches for another clip but finds his ammo box empty!  As he goes down under a sea of turbans his last words are: "Damn that Democrat Congress!"

Like many of you, I find watching and listening to Joe Lieberman lately so nauseating, so appalling, that I find I have to swallow repeatedly just to keep the bile level below my larynx.  

Here we have a man who has no problem being a complete traitor to his constituents, by utterly reversing his campaign promises within a few short months of his election.  Promises he made both during the primaries and the general.

But we're stuck with him, right?  Since without him, we have no majority.  But are we really?

I have faith in the netroots with regard to this question, but NOT the Democratic party as a whole.  Frankly, I fear that beltway Dems are just as likely to sell out to corporate interests as the Republicans are.  And I do NOT want the energy, money and time I put in trying to elect them going to waste.  And so I ask, will Democrats really improve the legislative process?

What will a series of netroots victories in 2006 mean for the establishment/anti-establishment conflict within the Democratic party?

Robert Greene also has a blog...

Your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as if they were irresistible. Finally, you fear blood more and more. Blood and time. -Paul Valéry

I think by now everyone has seen, or heard of, the pictures on http://www.nowthatsfuckedup.com/.  AmericaBlog recently had a big story on it.  And the more I think about this, the more disgusted I feel.  About the lack of leadership, and the way military intelligence put them up to it, yes, but also about the attitude of some of these soldiers, which frankly, turns my stomach...