Last of the great Tuesday night linkdumps.
* Daily Kos has a nice round-up post on eliminationist rhetoric and its consequences in light of last weekend's Pittsburgh shooting.
* Barack Obama as a character from a Bob Dylan song. Via TPM.
BF: You liked Barack Obama early on. Why was that?Lenin's Tomb on crisis, accumulation, Barack Obama, and neoliberalism.
BD: I’d read his book and it intrigued me.
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BF: Audacity of Hope?
BD: No it was called Dreams of My Father.
BF: What struck you about him?
BD: Well, a number of things. He’s got an interesting background. He’s like a fictional character, but he’s real. First off, his mother was a Kansas girl. Never lived in Kansas though, but with deep roots. You know, like Kansas bloody Kansas. John Brown the insurrectionist. Jesse James and Quantrill. Bushwhackers, Guerillas. Wizard of Oz Kansas. I think Barack has Jefferson Davis back there in his ancestry someplace. And then his father. An African intellectual. Bantu, Masai, Griot type heritage - cattle raiders, lion killers. I mean it’s just so incongruous that these two people would meet and fall in love. You kind of get past that though. And then you’re into his story. Like an odyssey except in reverse.
* MyDD wants you to encourage NC AG Roy Cooper to run for Senate.
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