I ran across three interesting reads in the blogosphere recently, and they turned out to make an interesting salad of conversation amongst friends.

My fellow DD'ers . . . feel free to toss these topics around:

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Andrew Sullivan humorously points out that Elton John is having trouble selling out Radio City for HRC:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/th e_daily_dish/2008/03/its-a-sad-sad-s.htm l

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Obama has a new ad out with a snazzy leather jacket, and it looks great . . . the ad looks pretty good too!

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link /bcpid1185304443/bctid1475273845

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Obama, McCain, or HRC . . . who is the fiscal conservative?

The largest entity any of them has run is . . . their campaign, so the answer may not shock you:

http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/arch ives/2008/03/7757_if_the_campaign.html

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     With the news that John McCain is now the frontrunner for the Republican nomination it is official, the social conservatives have lost again to the fiscal conservatives. This demonstrates again that money in conservative America is still trusted more than God. The question now becomes has the Republican factions split beyond repair as is widely being reported? I tend to say no. What we are witnessing is the same phenomenon that occurs every four years with conservatives, every four years a fiscal conservative will come along and pander to the social conservatives in the primaries only to desert those "family values" for the more established values of greed and selfishness.

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     As the Baptist preacher, turned governor, turned Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee continues to rise in the polls, it will be very interesting the imaginative ways the Republican establishment will use to derail his candidacy and still maintain its strangle hold on the evangelicals who are flocking to him. In just two short weeks we have been treated to new revelations concerning the "man who would be king". There was the "pardoned rapists" story, the unelectable story, and now the release of private letters written by Mr. Huckabee while in Arkansas. The Republican dirty tricks department is in full-throttle mode and as his numbers continue to increase the tricks will get dirtier and the tone is going to get meaner.

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