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Why the Mad Rush to the '08 Elections?

By Steve Fraser, Tomdispatch.com. Posted February 24, 2007.


We've already been swamped by 2008 presidential madness -- by Hillary, by Obama(mania), by Fox News smears and Republican pandering to religious extremists -- which suggests that a turning-point election is on the way.
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Steve Fraser is co-founder of the American Empire Project and Editor-at-Large of the journal New Labor Forum. He is the author of Every Man a Speculator, A History of Wall Street in American Life, and most recently co-editor of Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy.

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