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As we enter year 6 of the Iraq occupation, Democrats are proposing a responsible way to bring our involvement in Iraq to a close. What do the Republicans offer? More of the same with no end in sight. See the full plan at responsibleplan.com.

Our plan will:

• End U.S. military action in Iraq

• Use U.S. diplomatic power
• Address humanitarian concerns
• Restore our Constitution
• Restore our military
• Restore independence to the media
• Create a new, U.S.-centered energy policy

Read how...

Glenn Greenwald wonders if Americans are still capable of reasoned discourse or whether Obama is overestimating us:

There were numerous manipulative tactics which the average cynical political strategist would have urged him to employ, and none of those were found in his speech. It was as candid and sophisticated a discussion of the complexities of race in America as any individual could possibly manage in a 45-minute speech, particularly one delivered in the middle of a heated presidential campaign and a shrill political controversy. [...]

The truly distinctive and "change"-oriented aspect of Obama's campaign lies not in any new or exotic policy positions — his views on the Middle East, for instance, are often as conventional as it gets. What is distinctive is the far more consequential assumption that Americans want and are able to engage an elevated and more noble type of politics than the depressingly familiar garbage spewed from the Rush Limbaugh Show, The Drudge Report, Fox News, the cable news media stars, and all of their cooperating media and political appendages. We'll know soon enough if Obama is right.