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Emory University professor Drew Westen predicts in The New Republic today that the 2008 presidential campaign will be the “nastiest, most racist presidential contest in modern American history.”

Westen says the only way McCain and the Republican Party can derail the Obama train is by insinuating that he’s a foreigner and reminding people that he’s black.

As evidence of how low McCain might be willing to go, Westen cites “The American President,” recent TV spots touting McCain as “The American President Americans have been waiting for.”

Westen explains:

The ad ends, “John McCain: The American President Americans have been waiting for.” Syntactically, that’s an oddly redundant conclusion. Why not, “John McCain: The President Americans have been waiting for?” Because, of course, that second rendering would not imply that his opponent is not American.

A professor of psychology and psychiatry, Westen’s most recent book is The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation.

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So far, people have felt safe moving back into the city, but if another kidnapping happens, or if worse, one is successful, those condos will become very inexpensive very quickly and Real Estate Developers will egg on an already eager legislature to punish the city.

-Bloglanta on early Sunday morning’s kidnapping of two men from an East Atlanta street. The two men were held captive in Cabbagetown while their kidnappers used their credit cards.

The victims were found unhurt and were home Sunday night.

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Throughout the debate on immigration, polls have shown that most Americans are not the raging xenophobes leaders on both sides of the aisle feared and many on the right courted and ignited. Most Americans just want an alternative story to “amnesty for dark-skinned lawbreakers who steal our jobs and want to say the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish.” They want a narrative that has the ring of truth–but comprehensive truth about comprehensive reform.

-Emory University professor of psychology Drew Westen on Huffington Post.

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In reality, the iPhone is yet another symbol of the rape of the American consumer by a plutocratic oligopoly of the big cellular providers.

-Shelbinator doesn’t like the iPhone.

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