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McCain: Iraq success within reach (SPEECH TO VFW YESTERDAY)
Post Date: 2008-04-08 19:00:14 by aristeides
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McCain: Iraq success within reach by Jill Zuckman Saying “we are no longer staring into the abyss of defeat,” Sen. John McCain speaks to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Kansas City this morning, laying out his vision of the situation in Iraq just one day before General David Petraeus testifies before Congress. McCain will tell his audience that the U.S. “can now look ahead to the genuine prospect of success” in Iraq. And he defines it this way: *The establishment of a generally peaceful, stable, prosperous, democratic state that poses no threat to its neighbors and contributes to the defeat of terrorists. *The advance of religious tolerance over violent radicalism. ...
Obama calls for talks with Iran over Iraq (TODAY)
Post Date: 2008-04-08 18:53:17 by aristeides
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Obama calls for talks with Iran over Iraq 08/04/2008 21:43 WASHINGTON, April 8 (AFP) Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Tuesday called for a "diplomatic surge" including talks with US foe Iran, to help stabilize the situation in Iraq. The Illinois Senator battling Hillary Clinton called for more pressure on the Iraqi government to embrace political reconciliation and a regional "diplomatic surge that includes Iran." "We should be talking to them as well," Obama told the top US General in Iraq David Petraeus and US ambassador to Baghdad Ryan Crocker. "I do not believe we are going to be able to stablize the situation without that." ...
McCain Called His Wife A C**t and a Trollop
Post Date: 2008-04-08 18:50:11 by aristeides
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McCain Called His Wife A C**t and a Trollop by davefromqueens [Subscribe] Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 02:17:10 PM PDT A new book by Cliff Schechter has the inside scoop on John McCain. And if you want to know why John McCain was called "McNasty" in high school, read this. At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain's hair and said, "You're getting a little thin up there." McCain's face reddened, and he responded, "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt." McCain's excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days. This event was witnessed by 3 reporters ...
The hidden costs of meaning well
Post Date: 2008-04-08 18:49:05 by robin
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Article published Apr 8, 2008 The hidden costs of meaning well April 8, 2008 By Wesley Pruden - Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem for Hillary: "If you can keep your head when all about you/ men are losing theirs and blaming it on you ... yours is the Earth and everything that's in it/ and which is more, you'll be a man ... . " The lady doesn't want the Earth and all that's in it — not with Bill in the bedroom (or at least somewhere on the property) and $109 million in the bank. But acquiring real estate on Pennsylvania Avenue would be nice. Alas for her, she looks about to be run down in an avalanche. Her poll numbers are cratering in Indiana and North ...
McCain's Amnesty Bill Will Destroy America (Video)
Post Date: 2008-04-07 20:55:20 by TwentyTwelve
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If leftwing John McCain is elected president, G-d forbid, he will fight obsessively to pass the evil McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill. McCain's amnesty bill will legalize 20 million illegal aliens, and then bring all of their family members to America under "family reunification". If McCain becomes president, America will become a Third World banana republic. « Click for Full Text!
Clinton's tale part truth, part errors
Post Date: 2008-04-07 19:48:09 by richard9151
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4 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has stopped telling a story of a pregnant woman's medical tragedy after an Ohio hospital challenged its accuracy last weekend. But recent accounts of the episode have omitted key details that suggest there was more truth in the essence of Clinton's tale than her critics, and even her presidential campaign, have acknowledged. Since early March, the New York senator has often told campaign audiences a heartbreaking story of a young Ohio woman who began having problems with her pregnancy. She said the woman was twice turned away by a local hospital because she had no health insurance and could not pay a $100 minimum ...
Obama's Gun Dance [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-04-07 18:34:58 by Jethro Tull
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Obama's Gun Dance by Robert Novak Posted: 04/07/2008 5var artID = "25890";var perPage = 20;var currPage = "0";getLastCommentTime();Home | Social & Domestic Issues | Robert Novak5CommentsObama's Gun Dance by Robert NovakPosted: 04/07/2008Print ThisForwardFeedbackDigg This!SubscribeSponsored By:Barack Obama, who informs campaign audiences that he taught constitutional law for 10 years, might be expected to weigh in on the historic Second Amendment case before the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices are pondering whether the 1976 District of Columbia law effectively prohibiting personal gun ownership in the nation's capital is constitutional. But Sen. ...
ARG Poll has PA tied between Obama and Clinton at 45-45 [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-04-07 17:42:11 by ghostdogtxn
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Democrats look to fatten lead in House, Senate
Post Date: 2008-04-07 17:34:58 by christine
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There's a reason House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is smiling despite a contentious Democratic presidential primary that goes on as if it will never end. The buzz is growing in Washington among election analysts, Democratic leaders and even some dispirited Republicans that Pelosi is poised to increase her majority in the House in the November election and Democrats are also seen as likely to add seats in the Senate. Republican fortunes have fallen because of a cascade of retirements by GOP lawmakers and because Democrats are outmatching their rivals in both fundraising and voter enthusiasm this year. The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan group that handicaps congressional races, predicts ...
McCain rebukes Democrats' views on Iraq withdrawal
Post Date: 2008-04-07 13:43:12 by robin
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From the Los Angeles Times McCain rebukes Democrats' views on Iraq withdrawal In advance of Gen. Petraeus' testimony before Congress, the Republican candidate challenges Clinton and Obama to be open about the consequences of leaving too soon. By Johanna Neuman Los Angeles Times Staff Writer 9:35 AM PDT, April 7, 2008 WASHINGTON — Republican John McCain, chiding his Democratic opponents for promising a hasty withdrawal from Iraq, said today that it was "imprudent and dangerous" to leave the combat zone too quickly. "I do not believe that anyone should make promises as a candidate for president that they cannot keep if elected," he said. "To promise ...
AP Fails to Reveal Mukasey's Favorite Color
Post Date: 2008-04-07 11:50:17 by ghostdogtxn
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Duped by Sen. John McCain
Post Date: 2008-04-07 10:42:47 by richard9151
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06/04/08 "Creators Syndicate" -- - I'll admit it: I used to admire John McCain. To paraphrase the UFO poster from "The X Files," I wanted to believe. Specifically, I wanted to believe the guy talking tough about campaign finance reform was committed to getting money out of politics. This was the Arizona senator who in 2002 taped a radio ad praising his state's "clean elections" system. It provides public money to candidates so they don't have to finance campaigns with corporate contributions - the kind given in exchange for legislative favors. McCain's support for clean elections, I thought, proved he wanted to end corruption. But by the time ...
Obama Has Double Digit Lead in N.C.
Post Date: 2008-04-07 09:45:29 by christine
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Raleigh, N.C. — Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama has a commanding lead over Hillary Rodham Clinton in North Carolina, but he might face greater difficulties than she against likely Republican nominee John McCain in the general election. In the latest WRAL News poll, 56 percent of likely voters said they would give Obama their support in the Democratic primary. Thirty-three percent chose Clinton, and 11 percent were unsure. A WRAL News poll in early March showed Obama with a seven-point lead. However, 57 percent thought Clinton would fare better against McCain, while less than a third gave Obama the same credit. Fifty-six percent of Clinton supporters also said they ...
Strategist: Rice eyeing VP spot on ticket
Post Date: 2008-04-06 22:51:45 by nolu_chan
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tinyurl.com/55foc3 Strategist: Rice eyeing VP spot on ticket Published: April 6, 2008 at 3:59 PM WASHINGTON, April 6 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has exhibited interest in becoming John McCain's vice presidential running mate, a Republican strategist says. Dan Senor revealed during Sunday's edition of ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" that Rice has been seeking support to be considered for the No. 2 spot on the Republican ticket this fall. "Condi Rice has been actively, actually in recent weeks, campaigning for this," Senor said. The party strategist said Rice could represent an ideal vice presidential candidate when ...
Mark Penn Resigns From Clinton Camp
Post Date: 2008-04-06 22:48:04 by nolu_chan
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tinyurl.com/59mbyg Mark Penn Resigns From Clinton Camp Huffington Post | April 6, 2008 06:38 PM Mark Penn, Sen. Hillary Clinton's chief strategist and longtime confidant stepped down from the presidential campaign late Sunday night. His resignation came after a politically embarrassing week during which it was reported that he met with Colombia's ambassador to the U.S. to discuss passage of a bilateral free-trade agreement -- a pact Clinton opposes. Howard Wolfson, a spokesman for the campaign who will now coordinate Clinton's "strategic message" told the Huffington Post that Penn offered up his resignation to the Senator on Sunday and that she accepted. ...
Senator Obama's Foreign Policy Judgment (shifting policies on Iraq)
Post Date: 2008-04-06 13:48:19 by Peppa
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Senator Obama's foreign policy views and staff of advisers has generated a degree of controversy culminating this week with the resignation of his closest foreign policy adviser, Samantha Power, in the wake of a series of shocking comments made while on a book tour overseas. Nevertheless, problems with his policies and his team of advisers remain and promise to vex him in the days ahead. Why we should focus on foreign policy Presidents have vast powers in the realm of foreign policy. Congress exercises little oversight over the President's formulation and carrying out of foreign relations. Voters prefer to see candidates with a healthy exposure to foreign affairs and with the ...
Anti-War Conservatives for Obama [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-04-06 12:05:07 by robin
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Anti-war conservatives are rallying around ultra-liberal Barack Obama. He promises to “get out of Iraq as carefully as we went in carelessly,” and that’s enough for Andrew J. Bacevich, professor of history and international relations at Boston University. Bacevich, writing in The American Conservative, says: “Barack Obama is no conservative. Yet if he wins the Democratic nomination, come November principled conservatives may well find themselves voting for the senator from Illinois. Given the alternatives—and the state of the conservative movement—they could do worse. “Granted, when it comes to defining exactly what authentic conservatism entails, ...
Bill Clinton Earned $15.4 Million From Burkle Firm
Post Date: 2008-04-05 22:44:15 by Horse
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Former President Bill Clinton has earned $15.4 million from billionaire Ron Burkle's Yucaipa Cos. investment firm since 2003, according to tax documents released by his wife, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The earnings represent 20 percent of the approximately $75 million Bill Clinton earned during the same period, according to the documents. That may raise new questions about what services he performed for Los Angeles-based Yucaipa, whose investors include the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid al- Maktoum. Tax lawyers said the Yucaipa partnership income for Bill Clinton looks to be a form of salary because it was in round numbers for most years. ``Most people who ...
Brzezinski Clan Color Revolution Vs Diebold Vote Fraud In New Hampshire
Post Date: 2008-04-05 13:42:03 by Peppa
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"The Bush operation in Iowa had all the smell of a CIA covert operation." --William Loeb, Manchester Union Leader, February 24, 1980. The New Hampshire Democratic primary was no exercise in grass roots retail politics, but rather a clash between two cynical covert operations run by contending factions of intelligence community professionals. On the one side was an attempt to replicate here in the United States on behalf of Obama the sort of "color revolution" or "CIA people power coup" which the National Endowment for Democracy and the Brzezinski intelligence faction have carried out in such countries as Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine. On the other hand, an ...
Ohio Hospital Contests a Story Clinton Tells
Post Date: 2008-04-05 12:39:08 by nolu_chan
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April 5, 2008 Ohio Hospital Contests a Story Clinton Tells The New York Times By DEBORAH SONTAG Over the last five weeks, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York has featured in her campaign stump speeches the story of a health care horror: an uninsured pregnant woman who lost her baby and died herself after being denied care by an Ohio hospital because she could not come up with a $100 fee. The woman, Trina Bachtel, did die last August, two weeks after her baby boy was stillborn at O’Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens, Ohio. But hospital administrators said Friday that Ms. Bachtel was under the care of an obstetrics practice affiliated with the hospital, that she was never ...
The writing on Clinton's wall
Post Date: 2008-04-05 01:29:37 by richard9151
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April 3, 2008 The last week in March was, with little doubt, one of the most trying for Hillary Clinton's campaign. Her quest to gain superdelegates was blunted by Bob Casey and Bill Richardson, two major party players who have clearly recognised the writing on the wall. The core of her experience rationale was called into question when it was revealed that, on multiple occasions, she had dramatically exaggerated her experience landing in war-torn Bosnia. It was also revealed that she had almost nothing to do with the S-Chip programme she claimed to have created, with a number of those involved describing her accounts as straining credulity. She still hasn't released her tax ...
UPDATE 2-Clintons made $109 million since 2000, returns show
Post Date: 2008-04-04 18:00:46 by robin
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(Updates with details) By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 4 (Reuters) - Democrat Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have made $109 million since 2000, including $51 million in speech income for Bill Clinton, according to eight years of tax information released on Friday. The couple paid taxes of more than $33 million and gave more than $10 million to charity between 2000 -- their last year in the White House -- and 2007, tax records released by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign showed. Clinton, a New York senator, had been challenged by White House rival Barack Obama to release her tax returns as the two Democrats duel ...
McCain returns $3m in checks as he considers public funding
Post Date: 2008-04-04 17:10:53 by nolu_chan
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McCain returns $3m in checks as he considers public funding By Scott Helman and Sasha Issenberg Globe Staff / April 4, 2008 In another sign that John McCain is moving toward accepting public financing this fall, the Republican's campaign is returning about $3 million in checks to contributors who have given money for his general election campaign, funds he could not use if he opts into the public system. more stories like this McCain's campaign, in letters to contributors, is asking supporters to write new checks to a special fund created to help the Arizona senator pay legal and accounting expenses related to compliance with the public funding system. The move is largely ...
Clinton Chief On Colombian Payroll Now Strategizing On Free Trade Deal
Post Date: 2008-04-04 17:06:01 by nolu_chan
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Clinton Chief On Colombian Payroll Now Strategizing On Free Trade Deal David Sirota Posted April 4, 2008 | 09:58 AM (EST) Ten months ago, I posed a very simple question right on this site: Can the Clinton machine deliver another NAFTA? I noted at the time that an army of former Clinton administration officials had been put on the Colombian government payroll to push a NAFTA-style free trade deal. These people -- many waiting to get back into government should Hillary Clinton win -- are making up to $100,000 a month from a murderous right-wing regime that is one of the worst human rights violators in the Western Hemisphere. Now, today, we see how high up the Clinton machine this corruption ...
Hillary Clinton Tax Returns: See Full Details
Post Date: 2008-04-04 17:02:26 by nolu_chan
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Hillary Clinton Tax Returns: See Full Details The Huffington Post | April 4, 2008 03:25 PM Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign has released her 2000-2006 joint tax returns, showing nearly $109.2 million in income over the last seven years. The key details from Clinton's website: TAXES PAID: $33,783,507 The Clintons paid $33,783,507 in federal taxes - 31% of their adjusted gross income. According to the most recent data available from the IRS, in 2005 taxpayers earning $10,000,000 or more paid on average 20.8% of their adjusted gross income in taxes. CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS: $10,256,741 The Clintons donated $10,256,741 to charity - 9.5% of their adjusted gross income. According ...
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