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Latest Articles: (s)Elections Search:     on:   Titles/Articles Titles only Keywords   order by:   Post Date Relevancy   Note: Keyword search results are always sorted from Newest to Oldest Postings SEN. OBAMA SPEAKS ON AIPAC POLICY FORUM Post Date: 2008-04-04 14:59:46 by Jethro Tull 0 Comments SEN. OBAMA SPEAKS ON AIPAC POLICY FORUM From:US Fed News Service, Including US State NewsDate:March 2, 2007More results for:obama threatens Iran The office of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., issued the following speech: AIPAC Policy Forum Remarks AIPAC Policy Forum CHICAGO Thank you so much for your kind introduction and the invitation to meet with you this morning. Last week, this event was described to me as a small gathering of friends. Looking at all of you here today; seeing so many of you who care about peace in this world; who care about a strong and lasting friendship between Israel and the United States, and who care about what's on the next page of our shared ... Obama’s Support Softens in Poll, Suggesting a Peak Has Passed Post Date: 2008-04-04 13:39:48 by christine 12 Comments WASHINGTON — Senator Barack Obama’s support among Democrats nationally has softened over the last month, particularly among men and upper-income voters, as voters have taken a slightly less positive view of him than they did after his burst of victories in February, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. The survey suggests that Mr. Obama, Democrat of Illinois, may have been at something of a peak in February, propelled by a string of primary and caucus victories over Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, and that perceptions of him are settling down. Mr. Obama’s favorability rating among Democratic primary voters has dropped seven percentage points, to ... Lawmaker fears state not ready for election (Translation: Get ready for a "surprise" Hillary landslide!) Post Date: 2008-04-04 13:20:59 by Horse 0 Comments Workers ready to help voters with ID, other questions, official says. Despite assurances from the state's chief election official that counties are prepared for a record turnout for the April 22 primary, at least one lawmaker remains worried about disenfranchised voters and partisan vote-counting sullying the outcome. "I'm concerned whether we are ready to take care of all these voters," said Rep. Babette Josephs, who leads the House State Government Committee, which met to discuss the state's primary readiness. "I want every voter who turns out to have the opportunity to vote, and I want to make sure every vote is counted accurately." Secretary of State ... McCain delays releasing medical records again, raising suspicion Post Date: 2008-04-04 12:16:49 by robin 1 Comments Declined to provide files three times to New York Times A little noticed remark in the press is generating heat for McCain's presidential campaign. On Wednesday, McCain's campaign told CNN that the Arizona senator's medical file would be produced May 15. Trouble is, they previously said they'd be released April 15, and they've refused to turn the records over to the New York Times on at least three occasions. This has led some on the left to question, "What's he hiding?" -- as is the banner headline on the politics section of liberal blog, The Huffington Post. "Mr. McCain has yet to make his full medical records or his physicians available to ... Obama Adviser Calls for 60,000-80,000 U.S. Troops To Stay in Iraq Through 2010 [Full Thread] Post Date: 2008-04-04 10:26:15 by christine 86 Comments WASHINGTON — A key adviser to Senator Obama's campaign is recommending in a confidential paper that America keep between 60,000 and 80,000 troops in Iraq as of late 2010, a plan at odds with the public pledge of the Illinois senator to withdraw combat forces from Iraq within 16 months of taking office. The paper, obtained by The New York Sun, was written by Colin Kahl for the center-left Center for a New American Security. In "Stay on Success: A Policy of Conditional Engagement," Mr. Kahl writes that through negotiations with the Iraqi government "the U.S. should aim to transition to a sustainable over-watch posture (of perhaps 60,000–80,000 forces) by the end ... ( McCain's ) Wife's beer earnings have afforded GOP presidential nominee a wealthy lifestyle Post Date: 2008-04-03 20:40:08 by robin 0 Comments On a spring day at a speedway in the South, John McCain posed with his wife, Cindy, and racing star Dale Earnhardt Jr., highlighting the couple's political and business interests in a single snapshot. McCain served as honorary starter of the NASCAR race that weekend in Charlotte, N.C. Earnhardt drove the Budweiser car, painted military camouflage, rather than its trademark red, to honor the troops. Budweiser, then NASCAR's official beer, is brewed by Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc., whose products have made Cindy McCain and her family a fortune. The brewer sold toy replicas of its race car to aid the Special Operations Warrior Foundation and publicized its support for the group, on ... Barr None Post Date: 2008-04-03 17:18:02 by aristeides 4 Comments Barr None Posted by W. James Antle III on April 02, 2008 Before the Gravelanche, word began to circulate that another more promising major-party defector might seek the Libertarian presidential nomination: former Republican Congressman Bob Barr. Gravel may be a better showman and rapper but Barr stands a better chance of giving the grassroots movement started by Ron Paul a second act. In an interview with Antiwar Radio, Barr acknowledged there was a “great deal of dissatisfaction with the current candidates and the current two-party system.” “Ron Paul tapped into a great deal of that dissatisfaction and that awareness,” he continued. “Unfortunately, working ... Barr bid could hurt McCain Post Date: 2008-04-03 15:00:38 by _______ 10 Comments Can a conservative former congressman who helped impeach President Clinton, is a board member of the National Rifle Association and has done contract work with the ACLU dent Sen. John McCain's presidential bid? That's exactly what Mr. McCain would face if Bob Barr, the former Republican who joined the Libertarian Party two years ago, wins his adopted party's presidential nomination. "Barr obviously is dangerous. At least he negates any possible Nader benefit," said David Norcross, a New Jersey member of the Republican National Committee and its Rules Committee chairman, arguing Mr. Barr would hurt Republicans at least as much as Ralph Nader, who has announced his ... Obama raises $40 million in March Post Date: 2008-04-03 12:04:05 by robin 0 Comments Barack Obama raised $40 million last month, his campaign announced Thursday. The average contribution, it said, was $96. More than 442,000 people donated to the campaign last month, and nearly half of those were first-time contributors. “Senator Obama has always said that this campaign would rise or fall on the willingness of the American people to become partners in an effort to change our politics and start a new chapter in our history,” campaign manager David Plouffe said in an e-mailed statement. “Today we’re seeing the American people’s extraordinary desire to change Washington, as tens of thousands of new contributors joined the more than a million ... McCain's Foreign Policy Vision: Style Over Substance Post Date: 2008-04-03 11:22:14 by robin 0 Comments In a speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, John McCain outlined his vision for U.S. foreign policy if he were elected president. As portrayed by much of the so-called mainstream media, one might be led to believe the McCain's vision is fundamentally different than the current U.S. foreign policy practiced by the Bush administration, as evidenced by the sampling of titles of these newspaper articles: New York Times – "McCain, in Foreign Policy Talk, Turns His Back on Unilateralism" Washington Post – "McCain Outlines Foreign Policy: In Speech, He Vows Collaborative Approach" USA Today – "McCain Foreign Policy Speech Calls for ... Rolling back history (on McCain's Joe Lieberman) Post Date: 2008-04-03 11:17:45 by robin 0 Comments Rolling back history Joe Lieberman's smears against the American left for not supporting the Iraq war fail to recognise the true record of the Democratic party Like a pestilential raccoon who keeps figuring out how to get into your garbage at night even after you've tied down the lids, Joe Lieberman emerges anew every so often to knock over liberals and remind us of his moral superiority. This time he appeared on This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday and sniffed: "Well, I say that the Democratic party changed. The Democratic party today was not the party it was in 2000. It's not the Bill Clinton-Al Gore party, which was strong internationalists, strong on ... Buying Into McCain's Message: "I'm different from Bush, (if you ignore the past seven years.)" Post Date: 2008-04-03 11:14:07 by robin 2 Comments McCain gave a foreign policy speech and then, right on cue, David Brooks and David Broder wrote identical op-ed columns to announce the slate had been wiped clean. To drive the point home, Brooks appeared on The NewsHour and Meet the Press and repeated himself. Further down the MSM food chain, a columnist for Cox Newspapers wrote the same thing, as did editorial boards in local newspapers. And in case you missed it, McCain's message was echoed in the opening paragraph of a Newsweek profile: "'We need to listen,' John McCain was saying, 'to the views ... of our democratic allies' Then, though the words weren't in the script, the Arizona senator repeated ... ‘Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran’ Post Date: 2008-04-03 11:11:04 by robin 8 Comments Events recently have made John McCain’s boneheaded interpretation of the Beach Boys’ Barbara Ann seem far less inconsequential than he claimed it was, this time last year, while campaigning in South Carolina. His belligerence was, you may recall, prompted by a question from a war veteran on when he thought the US military might “send an air-mail message to Tehran”. It’s interesting to note, incidentally, that about a month or so before the now Republican presidential candidate’s so-called joke, there were a number of reports about a military build-up in anticipation of an attack planned for this coming spring. The Guardian quoted at the time a Washington-based ... OKAY, OBAMA. LET'S TALK ISSUES (Pt 1) Post Date: 2008-04-03 09:39:22 by christine 9 Comments Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." --Henry David Thoreau Democratic presidential hopeful, Barack Hussein Obama, spent a considerable amount of time last week trying to deflect the American people away from his 20-year association with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Of course, none of the lame stream media will confront or challenge his communist affilations, terrorist ties and the true history of his Muslim upbringing. Obama constantly repeated the mantra during his campaign stops that we should move on and discuss the issues that are important to the American people. Fine. Let's do that and see if Obama's slick word smithing has any basis in reality. ... Hillary Is F**king Obama Post Date: 2008-04-03 03:02:43 by nolu_chan 1 Comments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skIlZflDs9Y Hillary Is F**king Obama Why Hillary Won't Quit Post Date: 2008-04-03 00:24:09 by nolu_chan 28 Comments WHY HILLARY WON’T QUIT By Dick Morris 04.2.2008 Hillary Clinton’s campaign currently owes vendors $8 million, exclusive of the $5 million she owes herself. She cannot use general election money to pay for this debt. If she begins to be anything less than certain that she will stay in up to the convention, she won’t raise any money and will be stuck with the debt. She also realizes that it is only by projecting an almost manic air of certainty that she has any chance at all of hanging onto super delegates. The first whiff they get of a withdrawal, they will all run screaming to Obama to get on the late train. Don’t think that Hillary is delusional. She knows she’s ... The USS Liberty and the McCain Presidential Bid Post Date: 2008-04-02 23:18:00 by X-15 4 Comments Could the USS Liberty surface as a campaign issue? The latest news on the Liberty, the Navy spook ship attacked by Israel on June 8, 1967, during the Six-Day War, is that recently released National Security Agency documents are backing up what many -- including the survivors of Liberty -- have been saying for 40 years: that Israel knew full well that it was attacking -- with aerial strafing, napalm and torpedoes -- an American vessel. You may have read it on Military.com, one of the few news sites to run the piece in total. Other than The Chicago Tribune, which came out with the story, only The Baltimore Sun picked up the piece, according to a Google search. It will be interesting to see ... Candidate Clinton to Richardson: 'Barack Obama Can't Win' Post Date: 2008-04-02 22:17:58 by robin 17 Comments ABC News' George Stephanopoulos Reports: Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and former President Bill Clinton are making very direct arguments to Democratic superdelegates, starkly insisting Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., cannot win a general election against presumptive Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. Sources with direct knowledge of the conversation between Sen. Clinton and Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M., prior to the Governor's endorsement of Obama say she told him flatly, "He cannot win, Bill. He cannot win."Richardson, who served in President Clinton's cabinet, disagreed.At a rally in Oregon, standing next to Obama, Richardson insisted, "My great affection ... McCain Compiles List of Possible Veeps Post Date: 2008-04-02 22:12:28 by Dakmar 8 Comments PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — Sen. John McCain disclosed Wednesday he is in the "embryonic stages" of selecting a vice presidential running mate and hopes to unveil his choice before the Republican National Convention to avoid the type of problems that plagued Dan Quayle's debut two decades ago. "It's every name imaginable" he said of his list-in-the-making, about 20 in all. He disclosed none of them and declined even to identify the individuals he has approached to supervise the vetting that will inevitably winnow the field. In expressing his hope to announce his choice before the convention opens in September, McCain added, "I'm aware of enhanced ... Stay-the-Course Plus; Obama, Romney and Foreign Engagement on Steroids [Full Thread] Post Date: 2008-04-02 20:09:07 by Jethro Tull 52 Comments Stay-the-Course Plus; Obama, Romney and Foreign Engagement on Steroids From:The Washington PostDate:June 4, 2007Author:Fred HiattMore results for:obama stay the course You might expect the candidates in this presidential election to want to lead the nation in radically new foreign policy directions. The incumbent, after all, is widely perceived to have driven the country off a cliff. You might expect a retreat to humility and pragmatism after George Bush's wildly ambitious, and thus far stymied, freedom agenda. You might also think, given the bitter partisan divisions in Washington, that the two parties would offer programs differing radically from each other. And you might figure ... Clinton 'death watch' puts her chances below 10% Post Date: 2008-04-02 18:10:00 by robin 3 Comments Is Hillary Clinton's candidacy dead? It's a question that's cropping up more and more. She was a shoe-in last summer. Now she's the underdog. She won Texas. Then she lost Texas. Slate has hooked up a heart monitor and begun the bedside vigil to keep bookmakers and voters abreast of her odds. A feature on the organization's web site rates Clinton's chances of capturing the nomination. Today her odds were up slightly from 9.7 percent to 9.9 percent. "When you've got a 1-in-10 shot of winning the Democratic nomination, a day without any major screw-ups is a good one," declared Slate. Her odds today were down from last week when Slate kicked off its ... Accepting That You Have “Nowhere To Go” Is To Go Nowhere Post Date: 2008-04-02 14:30:35 by aristeides 1 Comments Accepting That You Have “Nowhere To Go” Is To Go Nowhere Posted on March 28th, 2008 by Daniel Larison Ross talks about the Bacevich and Kmiec endorsements of Obama, which I am likewise inclined to see mainly as statements of how utterly unacceptable they find McCain and the modern GOP, at The Current and also here. It seems clear to me that both endorsements hinge on foreign policy disagreements with the Bush administration, and both see Obama as a possible improvement over the status quo and in any case much to be preferred to McCain’s promise of more of the same. On anything else, especially domestic social policy, the problem is fundamentally one of trust: the GOP could ... Obama Would Consider Gore for Major Post [Full Thread] Post Date: 2008-04-02 13:57:38 by Jethro Tull 109 Comments WALLINGFORD, Pa. (AP) - Democrat Barack Obama says as president he would consider putting Al Gore in a Cabinet-level position—or higher. A woman at a town hall asked the Illinois senator if elected president would he consider tapping the former vice president for his Cabinet, or an even higher level office, to address global warming. "I would," Obama said. "Not only will I, but I will make a commitment that Al Gore will be at the table and play a central part in us figuring out how we solve this problem. He's somebody I talk to on a regular basis. I'm already consulting with him in terms of these issues but climate change is real." -Snip Poster ... Pro-life groups slam Obama Post Date: 2008-04-02 10:01:08 by christine 6 Comments Pro-life activists say Sen. Barack Obama's abysmal record on abortion issues is reflected by his remark that he would not want his daughters to be "punished with a baby" if they were to make a "mistake" as teenagers. "He would want his own grandchild aborted. It shows a real callous disregard for human life," said David Osteen, executive director of National Right to Life. "This is a window into his soul." The criticism follows continued scrutiny of Mr. Obama's longtime relationship with a pastor known for racially incendiary sermons, as national polls show him in a neck-and-neck race with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic ... Jesse Ventura VS Bob Barr Post Date: 2008-04-02 08:15:19 by Old Friend 7 Comments Who would make a better President. Ventura or Barr. And why? Latest [Newer] 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 [Older]

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