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By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(June 18) -- Summer is about to begin, and if recent news stories are any indication, it's going to be a long, hot one filled with viral videos, apologies and an unstoppable torrent of talk about the BP oil disaster. Those familiar themes ran together over and over again this week in on-camera performances by a variety of public figures. Let's review some of the sorriest. Rep. Bob 'Who Are You?' Etheridge North Carolina Democrat Bob Etheridge started the week by apologizing for roughing up a mysterious guy who approached him on a Washington street. A video of the incident -- shot by two ...
Can Artur Davis Win in Alabama?
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyOne city block in Montgomery, Ala., tells almost everything there is to know about the challenge facing Rep. Artur Davis in his bid to become the state's governor in 2010.On one corner of Dexter Avenue stands a monument to Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America. On another stands Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, home of the pulpit where Martin Luther King Jr. ministered for nearly six years. Casting a shadow over both is the state capitol, an enormous white Greek-revival building where Davis assumed the presidency of the Confederacy, where Gov. George Wallace took the ...
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