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Salon: Opinion Original columns and op-ed pieces from all sides of the issues. Confessions of an RNC security guard by Avi Steinberg 6 Sep 2008 at 11:37am From sushi-scarfing Secret Servicemen to drunken Sarah-Palin lust, witness the underside of the Republican shindig. Republicans, stop calling Obama elitist by Bill Maher 5 Sep 2008 at 8:27pm Because the real reason you don't like him is that he's smarter than you. John McCain's empty speech by Joe Conason 5 Sep 2008 at 5:40pm Simply saying the word "change" a lot isn't enough. What did McCain offer people that was really new? McCain to Obama: Do as I say, not as I do by Mike Madden 5 Sep 2008 at 11:40am John McCain disapproves of contests of personality and style -- unless he thinks he can win them. Sarah Palin's real soul mate by Jeff Yang 5 Sep 2008 at 10:55am McCain's veep choice is the reincarnation of George W. Bush, as channeled by Karl Rove. Quiz: Palin or Bush? by Jeff Yang 5 Sep 2008 at 10:48am See if you know your hockey mom from your Dubya. McCain's Palin pick is the epitome of tokenism by Joe Conason 30 Aug 2008 at 11:19am Suddenly all anyone needs to qualify as a potential commander in chief is to be a religious ideologue with female gender characteristics? What makes Biden Biden? by Norman Kurz 27 Aug 2008 at 1:45pm The moral backbone that led the V.P. nominee to stand up to Milosevic and pass the Violence Against Women Act was bred into him by his father. If we must discuss plagiarism, let's talk exorcism too by Joe Conason 25 Aug 2008 at 12:05pm Republicans and the press love revisiting Joe Biden's past, but everybody -- including the possible GOP vice-presidential candidates -- has one. Dixie is gone with the wind by Thomas Schaller 19 Aug 2008 at 10:58am No economic-populism-inspired revivals are going to turn the region blue. Virginia's Jim Webb is a lonely exception. How Democrats can take back the South by Bob Moser 19 Aug 2008 at 10:56am The author of "Blue Dixie" says don't give up on the region -- but don't pander to it with Clintonian centrism. The fall of Bush's man in Pakistan by Juan Cole 19 Aug 2008 at 10:52am Despite Pervez Musharraf's despotism and double-dealing with U.S. enemies, George W. Bush, John McCain and the GOP embraced him to the bitter end. The Newer Deal: The path to a Democratic supermajority by Michael Lind 15 Aug 2008 at 10:47am How Democrats can win big in 2010 and beyond -- by doing the opposite of what they're doing now. Think FDR-style liberalism, not McGovern. A pre-convention memo to Hillary Clinton by Joe Conason 15 Aug 2008 at 10:42am Ignore your sniping campaign team. Smart advisors would tell you to give Barack Obama your undivided support from now until Election Day. Illusions of victory under Bush by Andrew Bacevich 15 Aug 2008 at 9:52am How the U.S. wildly overestimated the use of military power in Bush's global war on terror. Newsfeed display by CaRP