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Latest Articles: (s)Elections
Race question cast doubt on Presidental polls
Post Date: 2008-08-12 14:18:16 by Zoroaster
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Race questions cast doubt on presidential polls By JESSE WASHINGTON, AP National Writer 4 minutes ago The year was 1984, and the state was Iowa. A white man who had just voted walked out of his precinct caucus and saw the Rev. Jesse Jackson standing outside. ADVERTISEMENT "I did all I could," the man told Jackson ruefully, "but I just couldn't bring myself to pull the lever and vote for you." L. Douglas Wilder laughs as he relates the story Jackson once told him, the sting eased by time and Wilder's vantage point as the nation's first elected black governor. Now it's a quarter of a century later, and the man everyone's talking about is Barack ...
FORMER GOP REP. LEACH OF IOWA ENDORSES OBAMA
Post Date: 2008-08-12 12:28:15 by rowdee
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Former U.S. Rep. Jim Leach, a leading Republican moderate with a foreign policy background, is endorsing Democrat Barack Obama for president. The former Iowa congressman's backing was announced Tuesday as part of a group of GOP activists crossing party lines this year. Leach told reporters: "I'm convinced that the national interest demands a new approach to our interaction with the world." Leach added that Obama offers the leadership to do that. Leach lost his bid for another term in office in 2006. He was a foreign service officer before being elected to Congress. Leach predicted that a lot of Republicans and independents are going to be ...
The real power behind the throne-to-be
Post Date: 2008-08-12 07:54:12 by Disgusted
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The real power behind the throne-to-be By Eric Wahlberg Jul 23, 2008, 08:01 It is hard to sort through the hype and heat of Obamania, but one thing is clear: who’s pulling the strings, argues Eric Walberg As the United States election race enters the final stretch, Barack Obama as the candidate promising change is revealing his true colours, much to the despair of anyone actually expecting any change. His recent call to declare Jerusalem the undivided capital of Israel, his denial of Palestinans’ right of return, and his support for a Bantustan Palestinian “state” which poses no threat to Israel show how completely he has caved in to the Zionist establishment on ...
Polls show more reject both McCain, Obama - Third-party candidates pulling close to 20% of total vote
Post Date: 2008-08-12 02:14:20 by Rotara
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Posted: August 11, 200810:16 pm Eastern © 2008 WorldNetDaily WASHINGTON – No question about it – somebody is going to win the U.S. presidential election Nov. 4. There's also little dispute it will be either Republican John McCain or Democrat Barack Obama. However, as the campaign goes on, more voters are running away from the two front-running candidates to other, much lesser-known, third-party candidates. An Associated TV/Zogby International poll released last week showed McCain leading Obama 42 percent to 41 percent – leaving 17 percent either undecided or leaning to third-party candidates.A recent CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll had Obama ...
Help Our Veterans Vote
Post Date: 2008-08-12 02:03:25 by bush_is_a_moonie
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WHAT is the secretary of Veterans Affairs thinking? On May 5, the department led by James B. Peake issued a directive that bans nonpartisan voter registration drives at federally financed nursing homes, rehabilitation centers and shelters for homeless veterans. As a result, too many of our most patriotic American citizens — our injured and ill military veterans — may not be able to vote this November. I have witnessed the enforcement of this policy. On June 30, I visited the Veterans Affairs Hospital in West Haven, Conn., to distribute information on the state’s new voting machines and to register veterans to vote. I was not allowed inside the hospital. Outside on the ...
Obama's Impending Pearl Harbor
Post Date: 2008-08-12 01:53:25 by Horse
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After a very productive time (working, not playing) in Hawaii, I believe that the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor is an apt metaphor for what awaits Barack Obama if he becomes the Democrat's official nominee. Michelle's "whitey" tape and the controversy over his birth certificate are the least of his concerns. Opponents of Obama and some proponents of McCain have acquired information that will rapidly erase any memory of the audacity and perfidy of John Edwards. The "surprise" attack by the Japanese should not have caught the US fleet at Pearl Harbor unawares. There were advanced warnings that people in key positions ignored or shrugged off as unimportant. Well, ...
America burning: racists say Obama must die
Post Date: 2008-08-10 21:50:16 by Jethro Tull
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Let the liberal NUTTERY begin *** ************ America burning: racists say Obama must die By CLAIRE PRENTICE AMERICAN law enforcement agencies fear Barack Obama will be the target of a violent attack by white supremacists at the Democratic convention in Denver this month. Ever since the Senator for Illinois emerged as the likely Democratic presidential candidate, neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and similar groups have been making racist threats. In an interview on Fox News, Railton Loy, Grand Wizard of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan International, said of Obama's presidential campaign: "I'm not going to have to worry about him, because somebody else down ...
Lieberman ‘on McCain short-list’
Post Date: 2008-08-10 18:33:48 by Rotara
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Joe Lieberman, the former Democratic vice-presidential nominee who has endorsed John McCain, is being vetted as a potential running mate for the Republican presidential hopeful, according to an adviser to Mr McCain’s campaign. Mr Lieberman, who has campaigned for the Arizona senator, has long been considered an unconventional but plausible choice for Mr McCain. Although Democrats have rejected Mr McCain’s image as a maverick politician, Mr Lieberman’s support for the presumptive Republican nominee has, much to the chagrin of his former colleagues, helped to boost Mr McCain’s reputation as a bi-partisan legislator with friends on both sides of the aisle. ...
‘Invasion of Georgia’ a ‘3 a.m. moment’
Post Date: 2008-08-09 16:08:44 by Rotara
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Sat Aug 9, 8:52 AM ET When the North Caucasus slid into war Thursday night, it presented John McCain and Barack Obama with a true “3 a.m. moment,” and their responses to the crisis suggested dramatic differences in how each candidate, as president, would lead America in moments of international crisis. While Obama offered a response largely in line with statements issued by democratically elected world leaders, including President Bush, first calling on both sides to negotiate, John McCain took a remarkably — and uniquely — more aggressive stance, siding clearly with Georgia’s pro-Western leaders and placing the blame for the conflict entirely on Russia. The ...
The Wit and Wisdom of Toby Keith (Obama the Magic Negro)
Post Date: 2008-08-09 12:28:51 by Rotara
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August 08, 2008 10:53 AM The country star tells Glen Beck that "black people would say" of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, that "he don’t talk, act, or carry himself as a black person." "What does that even mean?" Asks Beck. "Well, I don’t know what that means, I'm saying that's what I think that they would say," Keith responds. "Even though black society would pull for him I still think that they think in the back of their mind that the only reason he is in is because he talks, acts, and carries himself as a Caucasian." Toby Keith: Obama 'Talks, Acts, And Carries Himself' White In the back of the black ...
Charges continue piling up against Detroit mayor
Post Date: 2008-08-08 21:08:39 by Jethro Tull
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Charges continue piling up against Detroit mayor By ED WHITE and COREY WILLIAMS – 1 hour ago DETROIT (AP) — For anyone keeping score, the leader of the nation's 11th-largest city now faces 10 felony charges in two separate cases. Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was charged Friday with assaulting two investigators who were trying to deliver a subpoena to the mayor's friend last month. The two felony counts carry a maximum penalty of two years in prison and a fine of $2,000. Kilpatrick spent Thursday night in jail after violating bond conditions in the other case against him. He is accused along with a former top aide of perjury and other charges over their testimony in a ...
John McCain,The Manchurian Candidate?
Post Date: 2008-08-08 20:32:44 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Poster Comment:Is this the face of the next POTUS?
Officials say Bill Clinton to address Democrats: before an address by the as-yet-to-be-named running mate for Barack Obama
Post Date: 2008-08-08 12:22:02 by TwentyTwelve
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Officials say Bill Clinton to address Democrats Aug 8, 5:50 AM (ET) By TOM RAUM and NEDRA PICKLER CHICAGO (AP) - Party officials say former President Clinton will deliver a speech on the third night of the Democratic National Convention before an address by the as-yet-to-be-named running mate for Barack Obama. Exactly what role the former president would play at the gathering in Denver Aug. 25-28 has been the subject of speculation since his wife, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, ended her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in early June and endorsed Obama. The officials spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity before the details were formally announced. Obama ...
The McCain Plan – Homer Simpson Without The Donut
Post Date: 2008-08-07 14:21:08 by TwentyTwelve
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The McCain Plan – Homer Simpson Without The Donut By Greg Palast 8-7-8 I'm guessing it was excessive exposure to either radiation or George Bush, but Senator John McCain's comments from inside a nuclear power plant in Michigan are so cracked-brained that I fear some loose gamma rays are doing to McCain's gray matter what they did to Homer Simpson's. On Tuesday, the presumptive Republican candidate descended into the colon of a nuke to declare we need to build 45 new nuclear plants - that this is the way out of our energy crisis. Nuclear power, declared the senator, is a "safe, efficient [and] inexpensive" alternative to oil. Really? We can argue all day ...
The truth about Obama - video, text and audio
Post Date: 2008-08-07 10:29:17 by Jethro Tull
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Dig it bro, get down, anybody see Webster?
Voter Drive In Milwaukee Runs Into Problems (ACORN - Voter Registration Fraud)
Post Date: 2008-08-07 00:45:06 by Rotara
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MADISON, Wis. -- Workers registering voters for a liberal group in Milwaukee turned in hundreds of fabricated registration forms and many more that were incomplete. That's raised fears among Republican Party leaders of an election fraud repeat. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, has fired about a dozen canvassers and alerted the state election commission to most of the problem forms. Commission director Sue Edman said they'll make sure no fabricated or incomplete forms are entered into the voter database. Six of the former ACORN workers have been referred to the Milwaukee County district attorney's office for possible charges. The news ...
ACLU sues on Libertarian's behalf
Post Date: 2008-08-07 00:02:40 by freepatriot32
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts announced today it is suing the Secretary of State's office for refusing to put Libertarian Bob Barr on the presidential ballot in November. “The central issue in this case is the restriction of ballot access for third parties, which has been and continues to be a problem in Massachusetts,” John Reinstein, the state ACLU's legal director, said in a statement. “The right of political parties or candidates to a place on the ballot bears directly on the right of citizens to vote. If parties or candidates are kept off the ballot, their adherents are compelled to vote for representatives other that those of their ...
I'll see you at the debates, bitches [Celeberity Paris to McBama]
Post Date: 2008-08-06 14:27:35 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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See more Paris Hilton videos at Funny or Die
Poll: Nearly half hearing too much about Obama
Post Date: 2008-08-06 12:18:28 by CAPPSMADNESS
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama may be the fresh face in this year's presidential election, but nearly half say they're already tired of hearing about him, a poll says. With Election Day still three months away, 48 percent said they're hearing too much about the Democratic candidate, according to a poll released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. Just 26 percent said the same about his Republican rival, John McCain. Obama, the 47-year-old Illinois senator who would become the first black president, has dominated political news coverage much of the year. According to an ongoing Pew study, Obama has appeared in more news stories this year and more people say ...
Obama Muslim Coodinator Resigns (9 days into job)
Post Date: 2008-08-06 10:56:03 by CAPPSMADNESS
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Barack Obama's national Muslim outreach coordinator has resigned amid a controversy of over his connections to a man who the Justice Department named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the racketeering trial last year of several alleged Hamas fund-raisers. Mazen Ashabi, a Chicago lawyer who had been appointed to help Obama reach out to Muslims, stepped down on Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported late last night. The paper had inquired about his relationship with Jamal Said, who served on a board with Asbahi in 2000 that is a subsidiary of the North American Islamic Trust, which holds titles to mosques, Islamic centers, schools, and other real estate around the country. Said had ...
Bayh Says He Hasn't Been Asked
Post Date: 2008-08-06 09:50:11 by christine
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AUG 5 -- Bayh Says He Hasn't Been Asked The senator denies Obama's upcoming trip to Indiana involves a VP announcement. Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., told The Indianapolis Star today that Sen. Barack Obama has not asked him to be his running mate and that he's not expecting Obama to announce his vice presidential pick when Obama is in Indiana Wednesday. Asked if he will be Obama's vice presidential choice, Bayh said; "I have no idea. You'd have to ask him." JULY 29 -- Bayh Is Being Vetted: The Washington Post reports that Bayh is on Obama's shortlist. Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has told close associates that he has had "very serious" ...
Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad
Post Date: 2008-08-06 02:32:54 by mirage
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The Three Amigos
Post Date: 2008-08-05 23:27:47 by James Deffenbach
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The Three Amigos by Chuck Baldwin August 5, 2008 This column is archived at http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2008/cbarchive_20080805.html Both Republican Party Presidential candidate John McCain and Democrat Party Presidential candidate Barack Obama recently spoke at the annual convention of the National Council of La Raza. I'm sure most readers understand that "La Raza" is Spanish for "The Race." That McCain and Obama would pander before an organization such as La Raza indicates just how deeply both the Republican and Democrat parties are committed to appeasing the pro-illegal immigration forces. And mark it down: there is not a more pro-illegal alien ...
Obama touches the poor
Post Date: 2008-08-05 21:47:24 by X-15
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Washington - American poor are supporting Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama over his Republican rival, John McCain, at a rate of two to one, according to a new opinion poll made public on Monday. The survey conducted by The Washington Post, the Henry Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University showed that 92 percent of African Americans chose Obama as the candidate more concerned with their problems. Not a single black respondent said so about McCain, although one percent said "both do," The Washington Post said. Hispanics, who had displayed ambivalence about Obama during the primary election season, also favoured him by more than 40 percentage points. Even ...
Big-Dollar Donors Are Major Force in Obama Campaign
Post Date: 2008-08-05 18:42:16 by Tauzero
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Big-Dollar Donors Are Major Force in Obama Campaign By MICHAEL LUO and CHRISTOPHER DREW Published: August 5, 2008 In an effort to cast himself as independent of the influence of money on politics, Senator Barack Obama often highlights the campaign contributions of $200 or less that have amounted to fully half of the $340 million he has collected so far. But records show that one-third of his record-breaking haul has come from donations of $1,000 or more — a total of $112 million, more than Senator John McCain, Mr. Obama’s Republican rival, or Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, his opponent in the Democratic primaries, raised in contributions of that size. Behind those larger ...
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