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Salutin's last column: The writer's cut

Globe and Mail and rabble.ca columnist Rick Salutin had his weekly column axed by the former a little over a week ago, as many readers know. What they likely won't know is that the Globe and Mail cut the final paragraph Salutin wrote for that column on the basis that they don't allow farewells. 

Below is a restored version of the column, about Rob Ford, the current frontrunner in Toronto's mayoral race, with a few final words of thanks from Salutin to his readership.

 

Rob Ford and the loss of hope

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Obama to accept super PAC funds for re-election campaign

"The president is wrong." So says one of the newly appointed co-chairs of U.S. President Barack Obama's re-election campaign.

Those four words headline the website of the organization Progressives United, founded by former U.S. Sen., and now Obama campaign adviser, Russ Feingold. He is referring to Obama's recent announcement that he will accept super PAC funds for his re-election campaign. Feingold writes: "The President is wrong to embrace the corrupt corporate politics of Citizens United through the use of Super PACs -- organizations that raise unlimited amounts of money from corporations and the richest individuals, sometimes in total secrecy. It's not just bad policy; it's also dumb strategy." And, he says, it's "dancing with the devil."

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A long train ride

It started with a train ride. Barack Obama rode to Washington, D.C., for his presidential inauguration on a whistle-stop tour. "To the children who hear the whistle of the train and dream of a better life - that's who we're fighting for," Obama said along the tour, which was compared to the train ride taken by Abraham Lincoln from Springfield, Ill., to Washington, D.C., in February 1861, en route to his first inauguration.

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