“There will be scandals. There is too much money washing around in political campaigns,” says Sen. John McCain.
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Look who they are giving us now. What do they think, we’re stupid?” Scott Kanas, who works at a Chrysler truck plant in Michigan, said, talking about Mitt Romney.
“Now he’s Michigan’s son, before he told us to kiss his ass. He has no loyalty. His loyalty is to the almighty buck.
"— WARREN, Mich. | If you want a sense of the challenges Mitt Romney and the GOP have in Michigan, you could learn a lot from standing on the corner of Mound and East 9 Mile roads in suburban Detroit, Dante Chinni reports.
Posting this for two reasons:
1- to congratulate Gwen Ifill on being inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Hall of Fame.
2- so I’m not the only person with this song now stuck in my head.
(You’re welcome ^TG)
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Fun Saturday plans right there.
Weekly Poem: ‘Root’ by Terrance Hayes.
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