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Latest Articles: (s)Elections
Ron Paul followers pose danger for McCain in West
Post Date: 2008-07-31 09:36:12 by Jethro Tull
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Ron Paul followers pose danger for McCain in West By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY, Associated Press Writer Thu Jul 31, 3:06 AM ET LAS VEGAS - Dueling delegations pitting Ron Paul's Nevada supporters against those of John McCain vow to take their fight to the Republican National Convention. That's just one sign that the outsider, Internet-fueled movement led by the feisty Republican congressman from Texas remains afloat in the wake of McCain's victory in the GOP primaries. In the libertarian-leaning West, where Paul's message of distrust of the federal government and ardent individualism played particularly well, there is talk of Republicans straying from McCain. Libertarian ...
Catholics Fear Obama Considering Pro-Abortion Catholic Veep
Post Date: 2008-07-31 02:21:45 by Rotara
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Tue Jul 29, 6:15 PM ET To: RELIGION EDITORS Contact: Joshua Mercer of Fidelis, +1-312-276-5119, jmercer@fidelis.org Kaine, Biden, Dodd or Sebelius Could Prompt Backlash CHICAGO, July 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Catholic voters attuned to speculation over possible vice presidential candidates are expressing concern over reports that Senator Barack Obama is seriously considering a pro-abortion Catholic as his running mate. According to Fidelis, a national Catholic based advocacy group, such a choice would represent a major insult to Catholic voters who are still evaluating his candidacy. The choice of a pro-abortion Catholic for vice president would deal a major blow to any efforts by ...
Celeb Ad (McCain Ad)
Post Date: 2008-07-31 01:28:20 by Horse
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Poster Comment:Obama was ahead in the polls until people learned that Obama was opposed to offshore drilling. This ad is supposed to be controversial. I don't see it.
Time to lay down your bets/picks for the Veep race
Post Date: 2008-07-30 12:22:36 by X-15
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Who are the bozo's going to choose to assist them in the national circus?? McCain - Romney Obama - Bill Richardson
Obama: I'm a Symbol of 'America's Best Traditions'
Post Date: 2008-07-30 10:14:00 by Peppa
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Jonathan Weisman is reporting on his "The Trail" blog that presumptuous Democratic nominee Barack Obama told House Democrats that he believes himself to be the symbol of all that is good in America. It appears that he is beginning to believe the over-the-top hype that he really is the Obamessiah for America. So, will this little Washington Post blog post make waves in the media? Will Barack's increasingly out-of-control ego become the talk of the day? Weisman reports that candidate Obama met in a closed door meeting with House Democrats and he let loose with a "real zinger," as Weisman put it. He told the rapt audience of House members that his candidacy was the ...
McCain's biopsy shows no cancer
Post Date: 2008-07-29 20:40:08 by christine
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WASHINGTON — A biopsy of a small patch of skin removed from Republican Sen. John McCain's right cheek showed no evidence of skin cancer, doctors said Tuesday. "No further treatment is necessary," Michael Yardley, a spokesman for the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz., said in a statement released through McCain's presidential campaign. The GOP nominee-in-waiting had the skin removed Monday as a precaution during a regular checkup with his dermatologist near Phoenix. The Arizona senator, who suffered severe sun damage from his 5 1/2 years in Vietnamese prison camps, gets an in-depth skin cancer check every few months because of a medical history of dangerous ...
Obama and McCain's Lobbyist Ties
Post Date: 2008-07-29 16:17:42 by Rupert_Pupkin
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Analysis: Obama, McCain both have lobbyist ties Story Highlights John McCain, Barack Obama both speak out against lobbyists' influence Obama vowed to not accept money from Washington lobbyists Obama campaign says it does get money from state, local lobbyists Candidates can avoid lobbyists but still rake in millions from bundlers From David Mattingly and Joe Johns CNN (CNN) -- Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama like to portray themselves as Washington outsiders, but neither candidate is completely clean of the influence of lobbyists. Politicians know that tough talk on lobbyists sounds good to the public, but the reality is that top level candidates can't live without them, ...
Obama seeks Latino vote with $20 million effort
Post Date: 2008-07-29 15:34:38 by Rotara
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By ANN SANNER, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 59 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee are setting aside $20 million to target and mobilize Hispanic voters in the presidential election this fall, the Obama campaign said Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT The campaign plans to spread the money in all 50 states but will emphasize their efforts in swing states such as Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada and Florida, Temo Figueroa, the Latino vote director for the Obama campaign, said at a news conference. Figueroa said the four states were picked based on their Hispanic electorate, the closeness of the states in previous elections and the operations the campaign has ...
OBAMA, McCAIN: TWEEDLEDUM(B) TWEEDLEDUM(BER)
Post Date: 2008-07-29 13:56:22 by Rotara
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Senator Obama is definitely proving that he stands for “change.” He has “changed” his position on campaign financing, the D.C. gun ban, etc. When he was young, Obama, no doubt protested American relations with right-wing Central American dictators who oppressed their people. But as a presidential candidate today, he has hypocritically “changed” and hasn’t threatened to cut off relations with Communist Chinese dictators who oppress their people. I predict Obama will also “change” his 16-month timetable for withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Iraq. It’s logistically not possible to get all American troops and their equipment out of Iraq in ...
Kaine in 'Serious' Talks With Obama
Post Date: 2008-07-29 11:58:59 by christine
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Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has told close associates that he has had "very serious" conversations with Sen. Barack Obama about joining the Democratic presidential ticket and has provided documents to the campaign as it combs through his background, according to several sources close to Kaine. Sens. Evan Bayh (Ind.) and Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Del.) are also being seriously vetted by the campaign staff, according to sources with knowledge of the process. Obama has revealed little about which way he is leaning. And despite rising anticipation that a decision is imminent, campaign officials said an announcement is likely in mid-August, shortly before the Democratic National ...
Obama To Meet Bernanke
Post Date: 2008-07-29 11:50:14 by christine
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As part of a week-long shift back to economic issues, Barack Obama will meet with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday, his campaign confirmed. The two are expected to discuss the current credit crisis and Sen. Obama's plans to enforce tougher oversight of financial institutions if elected president. The likely Democratic nominee is also scheduled to speak to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson by phone Tuesday, campaign officials said. Associated Press Barack Obama after a meeting with some of his top economic advisers in Washington Monday. He said that ballooning debt 'was not an accident or a normal part of the business cycle that led us to this situation. There were ...
Obama's private prayer published in Israeli paper
Post Date: 2008-07-29 01:09:59 by mirage
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JERUSALEM — Barack Obama's visit to the Western Wall was a public event. The handwritten prayer the presidential candidate left there was meant to be private. But as soon as he left, a snoop pulled a folded piece of paper from a crevice in the ancient wall and offered it to the mass-circulation newspaper Maariv. The newspaper's decision to publish it Friday, under the headline "Obama's note," provoked criticism in Israel over an intrusion into his relationship with God. "Lord — Protect my family and me," the unsigned note said. "Forgive me my sins, and help me guard against pride and despair. Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just. ...
Obama's Trip Backfires; McCain Surges to 4-Point Lead in USA Today/Gallup Poll
Post Date: 2008-07-29 00:27:23 by TwentyTwelve
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Headline Story Obama's Trip Backfires; McCain Surges to 4-Point Lead in USA Today/Gallup Poll Monday, July 28, 2008 9:35 PM A surprising poll released Monday confirms Sen. Barack Obama's worst nightmare: he actually lost ground to Sen. John McCain after a global trip meant to buck up his sagging credentials in foreign and military policy. The USA Today/Gallup poll has McCain leading Obama by four points, 49 percent to Obama's 45 percent, among likely voters. Just last month, the same poll had McCain trailing by six points to the neophyte U.S. senator. Among registered voters, McCain was just three points behind Obama -- a statistical dead heat. The USA Today/Gallup poll ...
Why Obama Will Win [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-07-28 16:04:27 by Tauzero
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Why Obama Will Win Jared Taylor, Special to American Renaissance, July 25, 2008 It is time to get used to the idea that the next president of the United States will be black. Why will a nation we are so often assured is “racist” elect a black president? And will it make a difference? Ever since Hillary Clinton dropped out of the race, the polls have reported consistently that Barack Obama will beat John McCain. The media love to tell us that whites say they support the black candidate and then vote for the white, but there is no reason for whites to lie in this campaign. Mr. Obama will not get a majority of the white vote but he will get enough to beat Mr. McCain. Why will so ...
Stop Voting!
Post Date: 2008-07-28 06:46:26 by Ada
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This election cycle has become interminably long and boring. The worst possible candidates from the Republican and Democrat parties have floated to the top, much like what you see when you glance down into a toilet bowl. This situation in which the nation finds itself is not uncommon. The state primaries, caucuses and major party conventions have a long and checkered history of corruption. Primaries, caucuses and conventions have been occurring for scores of decades. The "political system" virtually guarantees that the most corrupt, the best liars, the most compromising, becomes the presumptive candidate. Both candidates are also the politician of their party most willing to ...
STRATCOM Cancels Controversial Preemption Strike Plan
Post Date: 2008-07-28 05:51:59 by Ada
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The controversial preemption strike plan CONPLAN 8022 has been canceled and the mission instead merged with the main U.S. strategic war plan. The U.S. military has canceled a controversial war plan designed to strike adversaries promptly - even preemptively - with conventional and nuclear weapons. The strike plan was known as Concept Plan (CONPLAN) 8022 and first entered into effect in the summer of 2004 to provide the president with a prompt, global strike capability against time-urgent and mobile targets. CONPLAN 8022 was the first attempt to operationalize the “Global Strike” mission assigned to U.S. Strategic Command in January 2003. The mission was triggered by new White ...
Obama looks for VP who will say when he's wrong
Post Date: 2008-07-28 01:49:17 by TwentyTwelve
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Obama looks for VP who says more than 'Yes, sir' By KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press Writer Sun Jul 27, 8:28 PM ET WASHINGTON - Funeral duty is not something that Barack Obama's vice president need worry much about, the presumptive Democratic nominee says. Obama refused again and again during an interview that aired Sunday to give hints on whom he might pick for a running mate, but he did describe the qualities he's looking for. Shyness and blind loyalty are not among them. "I'm going to want somebody with independence, who's willing to tell me where he thinks or she thinks I'm wrong," Obama said in an interview that aired Sunday on NBC's ...
GALLUP: Obama 9-POINT LEAD AFTER WORLD TOUR
Post Date: 2008-07-27 21:57:58 by TwentyTwelve
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Gallup Daily: Obama 49%, McCain 40% Third day with Obama holding a significant lead over McCain PRINCETON, NJ -- Barack Obama now leads John McCain among national registered voters by a 49% to 40% margin in Gallup Poll Daily tracking conducted July 24-26. This represents a continuation of Obama's front-runner position evident in the last three Gallup Poll Daily tracking updates. The margin, coincident with the extensive U.S. news coverage of Obama's foreign tour, is the largest for Obama over McCain measured since Gallup began tracking the general election horserace in March. (To view the complete trend since March 7, 2008, click here.) A key question remains as to whether this ...
Obama not basing VP pick on geography
Post Date: 2008-07-27 15:56:38 by Rotara
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Barack Obama said he’ll give his vice president substantive work and will choose his running mate based on ability to govern, not to help win a state in Obama listed the qualities he’ll be looking for: “I’m going to want somebody with integrity. I’m going to want somebody with independence — who’s willing to tell me where he thinks, or she thinks, I’m wrong. And I’m going to want somebody who shares a vision of the country: where we need to go — that we’ve got to fundamentally change not only our policies, but how politics work, how business is done in Washington.” In an interview taped in London for NBC’s “Meet the ...
Oil Industry Floods McCain With Cash After Offshore Drilling Reversal
Post Date: 2008-07-27 11:37:37 by christine
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Campaign contributions from oil industry executives to Sen. John McCain rose dramatically in the last half of June, after the senator from Arizona made a high-profile split with environmentalists and reversed his opposition to the federal ban on offshore drilling. Oil and gas industry executives and employees donated $1.1 million to McCain last month -- three-quarters of which came after his June 16 speech calling for an end to the ban -- compared with $116,000 in March, $283,000 in April and $208,000 in May. McCain said the policy reversal came as a response to rising voter anger over soaring energy prices. At the time, about three-quarters of voters responding to a Washington Post-ABC ...
Sen. John McCain's former Phoenix house is on the market for $12 million
Post Date: 2008-07-26 16:57:20 by TwentyTwelve
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A homeowner has listed the former Phoenix house of presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain for $12 million, close to four times what the owner paid Cindy McCain for it in December 2006.
Candidates Narrow Lists of V.P. Prospects
Post Date: 2008-07-26 16:43:27 by TwentyTwelve
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Wall Street Journal Article Candidates Narrow Lists of V.P. Prospects By MONICA LANGLEY July 26, 2008; Page A10 Both presidential candidates are closing in on their selections of running mates -- with the timing and atmospherics of their announcements complicated by the opening next month of the Olympic Games. Before leaving on his overseas trip, Sen. Barack Obama reviewed information on several prospects and narrowed the field. His focus now includes five colleagues in the U.S. Senate -- Joseph Biden, Evan Bayh, Chris Dodd, Hillary Clinton and Jack Reed -- and two governors, Tim Kaine of Virginia and Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas, according to Democratic operatives, though he could ...
HYPE The Obama Effect (DVD movie trailer)
Post Date: 2008-07-26 08:55:09 by Peppa
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A movement is sweeping the nation. Frenzied crowds gather in every state. Young people chant and sing. Women swoon. The result is record voter turn out and a rare political enthusiasm. At the head of this unprecedented phenomenon stands a charismatic figure intent on becoming the President of the United States. "I'm asking you to believe." "We are the ones we have been waiting for." "Yes, we can!" "Change." "Hope." These words, from Barack Obama, have inspired everything from outrageous videos to the largest campaign fundraising success in history. He has taken what was considered a sure bet Clinton machine and turned it on its head. ...
McCain struggles to overcome econ gap
Post Date: 2008-07-25 22:40:02 by TwentyTwelve
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McCain struggles to overcome econ gap By DAVID PAUL KUHN | 7/25/08 4:37 AM EST Uncertain economic times have returned Americans to a pre-Sept. 11mind-set, according to recent polling, placing John McCain at a disadvantage on pocketbook issues reminiscent of the failed reelection campaigns of Presidents George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter. At a time when American financial insecurity is at record levels and national security issues have taken a back seat to economic worries, McCain’s Washington experience has failed to convince voters that he is more qualified to handle the economy. Only 31 percent of Americans say McCain is the candidate "better able to improve economic ...
Market WrapUp (7-25-2008) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-07-25 18:35:45 by orangedog
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Financial Sense Online Market WrapUp with Tim W. Wood 07/25/2008 topmargin="0" leftmargin="0"> Financial Sense ® Home l Market Monitor l Market WrapUp l Storm Watch l About Us l Contact Us Today's Market WrapUp 07.25.2008 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Wood ArchiveAnother Look at Crude Oil, the Dow Theory Double Non-Confirmation and GoldBY TIM W. WOOD In the June 27th WrapUp I explained that Crude Oil was in an unsustainable parabolic spike. Then, on July 15th I had a short-term sell signal that immediately evolved into a sell signal of intermediate degree. The question now is whether or not this intermediate-term sell signal further evolves into ...
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