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"FacebookPinterestHunger Reads Badge.jpg\n\nWhat are they spending their $$ on?: _Save Us, Soros!, David Weigel, Slate\n\n _\n\n_And what if you're a liberal who wants to primary a wimpy Democrat? Not as easy. Imagine if a liberal billionaire wanted to seed some PAC\u2014call it the \"Club for Socialism,\" maybe\u2014and hunt for prey. Maybe he could buy into Hawaii's U.S. Senate primary between the progressive Rep. Mazie Hirono and the pro-Iraq War former Rep. Ed Case. Maybe California, where Sen. Dianne Feinstein\u2014an icon of liberal betrayal ever since she was serving with Harvey Milk\u2014had $4.7 million lifted from her war chest by a con artist.\n\n But there's no big liberal money available for that. Progressive tycoons exist, but they are reluctant even to give to President Obama's network. They're not interested in purifying the Democratic Party._\n\nIt's a little hard to tell what they are interested in. Two months ago, Progressive Insurance founder Peter Lewis left the Democracy Alliance, a lefty donor coalition. Earlier this month, billionaire George Soros made his first 2012 political donations\u2014$1 million each to America Votes and American Bridge 21st Century. That's $23.5 million less than he gave to liberal groups in 2004. According to David McKay, chairman of the Democracy Alliance and board member of the Priorities USA super PAC, most big liberal money is going toward grassroots organizing. \"There's a bias towards funding infrastructure as it relates to the elections,\" he told the New York Times' Nicholas Confessore.\n\nThe Unabridged Version: The Real Story of Barack Obama, Ben Smith, Buzzfeed\n\nThe two strands of falsehood run together, in that they often serve the same narrative goal: To tell a familiar, simple, and ultimately optimistic story about race and identity in the 20th Century. The false notes in Obama's family lore include his mother's claimed experience of racism in Kansas, and incidents of colonial brutality toward his Kenyan grandfather and Indonesian step-grandfather. Obama's deliberate distortions more clearly serve a single narrative: Race. Obama presents himself through the book as \"blacker and more disaffected\" than he really was, Maraniss writes, and the narrative \"accentuates characters drawn from black acquaintances who played lesser roles his real life but could be used to advance a line of thought, while leaving out or distorting the actions of friends who happened to be white.\"\n\nThat the core narrative of Dreams could have survived this long into Obama's public life is the product in part of an inadvertent conspiracy between the president and his enemies. His memoir evokes an angry, misspent youth; a deep and lifelong obsession with race; foreign and strongly Muslim heritage; and roots in the 20th Century's self-consciously leftist anti-colonial struggle. Obama's conservative critics have, since the beginnings of his time on the national scene, taken the self-portrait at face value, and sought to deepen it to portray him as a leftist and a foreigner.\n\nRead more on Death Race 2012\n\nThe Huntsman Girls: Swing Voters?\n\nOn Romney Air, Where You Sit is Where You Stand\n\n\"I think that's a metaphor for the country: the sun is coming out!\" Spending Father's Day with Romney\n\nIn Ohio, the Perfect Romney Voter\n\nSifting Through (Glenn Beck's) Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way\n\nFollow us @GQPolitics on Twitter for more updates on the campaign trail"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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