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Recent months have seen some dramatic events in my life, including the death of two close family members - one being my mother. As a result of these events, the time I traditionally dedicated to this blog and the quality of its content, I felt, was compromised. I am currently unable to post daily as I wish to, and I am also unable to research my posts properly. My readers deserve better, and frankly, so do I.

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Matthew J. Podoba, Editor Shadow Democracy

One of Hillary Clinton’s last lines of defense against the onslaught that is Barack Obama in her continual effort to alter her message in order to gain some traction, is the notion that she has been “vetted” and he has not. In other words, she has been through the grinder, thus her armor is thick.

All the bad stuff that can be thrown at her already has been, she argues, she is more experienced she argues, she has solutions instead of rhetoric, and that gives her the advantage. She said this past week in an interview, “One thing you know about me is that I have been vetted. I’ve been through this. I understand exactly what is coming at me, and there isn’t any new information. I mean, it’s just more of the same. It’s been recycled over and over again. I don’t think we can say that about my opponent.”

Really?

I think that may be wishful thinking.

Once you engage in ‘questionalble’ financial and legal activities in your quest to become a power broker in the is country, you must live with your decision - forever.

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The big showdown has been brewing for weeks after the Berkeley city council voted to ask the Marines Corp. to close the recruiting station downtown near the UC Berkeley campus because they are “unwelcome intruders”. The issue has been the city not wanting the Marines to recruit their young people for the Iraq War that is not supported by the majority of the people in the city.

Hundreds of people from anti-war groups like Code Pink will be met by support-the-troops groups that is sure to be interesting.

The San Francisco Chronicle has been covering the story…

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This is article #10 in a 10 part series that will appear each Sunday: Does God Have a Future?

Digest of past articles…

Link to article #1 here… Does God Have a Future? Part 1…An Introduction

Link to article #2 here…Does God Have a Future? Part 2…The Conundrum Between Spirituality, Religion, and God

Link to article #3 here…Does God have a Future?  Part 3… Has Satan Been that Bad Really?

Link to article #4 here…Does God Have a Future? Part 4…Are Mega-Churches Hurting God?

Link to article #5 here…Does God Have a Future? Part 5…Fundamentalist Atheism on the March

Link to article #6 here…Does God Have a Future? Part 6…How Christians Try to Dismiss Science When Questioning the Existence God

Link to article #7 here…Does God Have a Future? Part 7…God vs. Pop Culture…Who’s Winning the Battle for Teens?

Link to article #8 here…Does God Have a Future? Part 8…Do People only turn to Religion When They’re Desperate?

Link to article #9 here…Does God Have a Future? Part 9…Defending Creationism 

Since all of the arguments against God and religion have been widely publicized for many years, it must be upsetting for non-believers who wonder why the ‘believers’ persist.

Maybe religion and God are eradicable. Maybe a propensity toward religion is hardwired into the brain. Certainly, psychologists have documented the existence between certain psychological processes and leanings toward God.

No matter what dynamic is at work, I would argue that this relationship, whatever it is, between God and man, is becoming frayed.

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Why should he?

Another day, another win for Huckabee in Kansas. If you talk to him, it’s just another day at the office in fulfilling his goal of coming from behind, riding the back of disgruntled conservatives who simply despise McCain, and pulling even in delegates (if Romney throws him his support - and the rumor mill is turning).

Huckabee trounced McCain in Kansas 62% to 22%. And afterwards, when interviewed, he used a Superbowl analogy, “the Giants didn’t quit half way through the fourth, and neither am I.”

Remember, this is the same guy who lost Missouri by a hair, and if he had won, things would really be interesting.

His appeal? He is really likable and intelligent sounding.

I’ve been watching his campaign since he was solidly in long-shot status back in September of ‘07. Even then, after seeing him on a few cable opinion magazines, I said to myself that this guy could be the Republicans diamond-in-the-rough. And you know what…he may very well be.

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I can’t turn on any political talk show post Super Tuesday without hearing how great Ronald Reagan was, and how McCain must convince Reagan conservatives that he is one of them, and how Reagan is the Republican ideal, blah, blah, blah.

[UPDATE FOR CONSERVATIVES…]

Reagan wasn’t that great of a president, and he wasn’t that conservative either.

Let’s check the record.

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Barack Obama just won Connecticut two minutes ago and has offset Clinton’s win in Massachusetts. As I thought and predicted, Senator Obama is racking up several small states to offset Senator Clinton’s lead in larger states. So does it come down to California? It seems so.

The only thing that can push the momentum back to Hillary Clinton is a California win. As stated in a prior post, her poll numbers are spotty at best.

The real story at 10:26 EST is Mike Huckabee.

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A surge of support that has been building for over three months for Barack Obama has catapulted him into a virtual tie with Hillary Rodham Clinton in California’s Democratic presidential primary.

A Zogby poll shows Obama coming from over 30 points down to tie or even lead Clinton…and that must have the Clinton campaign worried. 

These numbers are down right shocking, considering Clinton, a longtime California favorite, saw her once-commanding lead slip to two percentage points, 36 to 34 percent, in the new survey. Of course 18 percent of Democratic voters are still undecided as of yesterday when polled, but Obama seems to be making headway with them as well. 

In fact, Obama is leading California in four major polls, including Reuters and Rasmussen.

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Don’t look for a Democrat or Republican coronation of any presidential nominees on Super Tuesday, 2008. The math doesn’t add up.

The race for delegates is extremely close in both parties - the closest in thirty years, and it is mathematically impossible for any candidate to lock up the nomination on Feb. 5. 

Here’s why:

Hillary Clinton leads the race for delegates to the Democratic National Convention this summer. She has 236, including separately chosen party and elected officials known as super-delegates, giving her a 100-delegate lead over Sen. Barack Obama.

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