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Jesse Ventura on Larry King talking about running for Pres
Post Date: 2008-04-01 21:41:54 by Jethro Tull
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De-Marginalizing Jeremiah Wright
Post Date: 2008-04-01 18:57:28 by aristeides
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De-Marginalizing Jeremiah Wright Call me biased, I don't think the Rev. Wright story is going to be that damaging. Wright represents a mainstream black church, and blacks are getting mainstreamed in this campaign. As I've argued before, even his extreme statements are in the continuum of leftwing critique re the U.S. and the world; and the great news is that the leftwing is coming in thru Obama. That's what the Obama movement is all about, dummy: an insurgency by leftwingers and centrists over the fact that leftwing ideas have been marginalized--much in the way that Wright has now been marginalized. An interesting parallel from the news. In 1963 (two years after Obama's ...

Limbaugh's system-gaming could give us a new Democratic congressman
Post Date: 2008-04-01 13:49:32 by aristeides
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Limbaugh's system-gaming could give us a new Democratic congressman by Phoenix Woman [Subscribe] Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 10:38:52 AM PDT Oooopsie! Looks like Rush's shenanigans may have cost the GOP their seat in Mississippi's First Congressional District: As part of his self-described "Operation Chaos," the conservative talk-show host urged his listeners to vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primary in order to draw out the presidential nomination process as long as possible. But in Mississippi, those party-switchers may not have realized the implications of their decision: The Republicans who voted in last month’s Democratic primary now are not ...

Not Until the Fat Lady Sings
Post Date: 2008-04-01 10:50:20 by nolu_chan
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Not Until the Fat Lady Sings Jon Robin Baitz Posted March 31, 2008 | 11:20 PM (EST) As an ardent Obama supporter, I am calling on the Senator from New York to stay in the race for as long as she can stand it. Longer even. I think the calls for her withdrawal are deeply troubling, and even hysterical. Anti-democratic even. This is how an election works. And even though this particular one seems to be poorly designed at best, we are in the midst of the process. Voting: A right, may I remind Mr Leahy, et al -- for which people have fought hard and died. Let me be clear: I believe that the Clinton campaign has been simply tragic. It is an object lesson in failed promise and panicked, ...

Hooked on Hillary
Post Date: 2008-04-01 10:48:01 by nolu_chan
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Hooked on Hillary Nora Ephron Posted March 30, 2008 | 02:57 PM (EST) I would like to put myself among the growing chorus of people demanding that Hillary Clinton withdraw from the election. I don't really think it's fair to ask her to withdraw, and I certainly don't believe she's going to; she'll hang in there till the last dog dies, or till she runs out of money, whichever comes first. I'm not asking her to withdraw because I prefer Obama, and I don't think she should withdraw "for the sake of party unity," or whatever current bromide is being flung at her to get her to pull out. I think she should withdraw because I'm losing my mind. Don't ...

Top 10 Myths Keeping Hillary in the Race
Post Date: 2008-04-01 10:45:34 by nolu_chan
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Top 10 Myths Keeping Hillary in the Race Chip Collis Posted March 31, 2008 | 08:49 AM (EST) I have noted a number of myths amongst the comments here as to why Hillary should stay in the race. Here are ten enduring, kudzu-like myths, with the debunking they sorely need. Myth: This race is tied. No, actually, it's not. Obama has the lead in number of states won, in pledged delegates and in overall delegates. Nothing will happen in the remaining primaries to substantially change that. As to the one thing Hillary does lead in, superdelegates, her quickly shrinking margin is among DNC personnel only. When you look at the elected superdelegates, Congressman, Senators and Governors (i.e. ...

Obama's past, right at him
Post Date: 2008-04-01 09:27:49 by christine
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The dilemma of the Democrats is not whether the bloom is coming off the rose, but whether events will wilt it. The past that will not die commands a lot of wilting power. Demands that Hillary die at once have gone unheeded. The size of crowds is often misleading, but hers are growing larger and more spirited. Some Democrats who only a few days ago were lining up to kick the corpse are taking due note. "I think the race should continue," says Bill Richardson, the governor of New Mexico who was enthusiastically grooving on the Clinton death rattle. "She has every right to stay in the race," he says now. "She's run a very good campaign." Bill Clinton, ...

Barr To Announce Presidential Bid Next Week
Post Date: 2008-04-01 07:37:27 by Old Friend
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FITSNews - March 31, 2008 - Feeding off of conservative discontent with Republican presidential nominee John McCain, former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr will announce a third party bid for the White House next week, sources tell FITSNews. Barr, who will run as a Libertarian, is also slated to receive the the endorsement of Texas Congressman Ron Paul, the only Republican presidential candidate who has yet to cease campaign operations and jump on the McCain bandwagon. Just last week, Paul threw more cold water on the notion of his supporters backing McCain, telling Newsweek, “I’m not going to tell them what to do, but I honestly can’t imagine any of them supporting him. That ...

Rove turns his attention to Obama
Post Date: 2008-04-01 00:23:39 by christine
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WASHINGTON (CNN) — On the sidelines during presidential campaign season for the first time this decade, former presidential adviser Karl Rove couldn't resist taking shots at Democratic frontrunner Sen. Barack Obama. Rove focused his firepower on the Illinois senator at a speech to the Young America's Foundation in Washington, D.C. Friday night, barely mentioning his Democratic rival, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton. President Bush's former chief strategist, who left the White House in 2007, pegged Obama as a do-nothing senator who talked big and achieved little. "What bills has he sponsored?" Rove asked. The fact that some Democrats are still hoping that former ...

Andy Martin discloses Barack Obama's flirtation with the Nation of Islam in Chicago
Post Date: 2008-03-31 20:12:07 by FOH
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(WASHINGTON, DC)(March 28, 2008) Barack Obama expert and Internet columnist Andy Martin told a Washington, DC news conference Friday, March 28th, that Barack Obama flirted with joining the Nation of Islam ("NOI") in Chicago before affiliating with Trinity United Church of Christ in the 1980's. "Barack Obama's mid-1980's were a 'lost' period in his life," Martin told media. "Obama's 'wander years' lacked any spiritual or familial roots in Chicago. He eventually joined a Christian church, after abandoning the Islam/Atheism of his parents. But before formally committing to Trinity UCC, Obama 'church shopped' among other ...

Obama: I don't carry a Council on Foreign Relations card or know any 'special handshake' [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-03-31 18:47:26 by robin
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Worries about One World Order and a North American Union have been "ginned up by the blogs and the Internet," Sen. Barack Obama told a Lancaster, Pennsylvania audience in a stump speech as he continued his tour through the battleground state. The Illinois senator also defended the recently re-authorized Patriot Act. Responding to a question from the audience, asking whether he was a member for the Council on Foreign Relations, a group many allege is leading a move toward one world government, Obama said: "I don’t know if I’m an official member. I’ve spoken there before. It basically is a forum where people talk about foreign policy. There is no official ...

Can I have my change back
Post Date: 2008-03-31 18:07:47 by Tauzero
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Can I have my change back The only way to positively impact the U.S. policy toward the Arab world is to invest in ourselves. By Remi Kanazi Arab-Americans and Obama’s false hope At what point does an individual stop supporting the lesser of two evils? The question became particularly important this primary race, as one man ascended to political stardom ostensibly breaking free from the evils of mainstream politics and creating a platform based on hope and change. This transcendent figure is presidential hopeful Barack Obama. Searching for substantive policy, I began to chip away at Obama’s political posturing, and came to a daunting conclusion: there are a multitude of ...

50 Cent no longer supports Clinton
Post Date: 2008-03-31 17:28:40 by Tauzero
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50 Cent no longer supports Clinton (CNN) – Hillary Clinton appears to have lost a high-profile backer to rival Barack Obama. Rapper 50 Cent, who told Time magazine last September he was supporting the New York senator's White House bid, now says he has decided to shift his allegiance to Obama. The multi-platinum star, born Curtis Jackson, told MTV News Friday that Obama's recent speech on race was the deciding factor for his decision. "I heard Obama speak," he said. "He hit me with that he-just-got-done-watching-'Malcolm X,' and I swear to God, I'm like, 'Yo, Obama!' "I'm Obama to the end now, baby!" But the musician also ...

March of the Obamacons [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-03-31 15:04:14 by robin
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March of the Obamacons—The New York Sun notes that the “surge” is working ... that is, the surge of support for Obama among antiwar Republicans. Lincoln Chafee, Douglas Kmiec, Susan Eisenhower, and, perhaps, Senator Chuck Hagel. As the Sun notes: “Asked yesterday on CNN whether he would endorse his party’s presumptive nominee, Mr. Hagel said he would base his support on the candidates’ positions on withdrawing from Iraq.” While neocon hacks of the Rush Limbaugh variety are calling out the thinning ranks of the GOP troops to switch parties for a day and support Hillary, antiwar Republicans are switching and supporting Obama all without prompting from anyone, and the numbers are ...

Senator's Supporters Are Invited to Lunch With a Lord (LORD ROTHSCHILD HOLDS LONDON FUNDRAISER FOR MCCAIN)
Post Date: 2008-03-31 14:26:42 by aristeides
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Senator's Supporters Are Invited to Lunch With a Lord Saturday, March 15, 2008; Page A06 Sen. John McCain plans at least one campaign event on his week-long congressional trip to Europe and the Middle East: a March 20 fundraiser in London. An invitation sent out by the campaign says the luncheon will be held at Spencer House, St. James's Place, "by kind permission of Lord Rothschild OM GBE and the Hon Nathaniel Rothschild." Tickets to the invitation-only event cost $1,000 to $2,300. Attire is listed as "lounge suits." The fundraiser will be limited to Americans, as foreigners are not permitted to donate to presidential candidates. McCain spokeswoman Jill ...

Cash-strapped Clinton fails to pay bills
Post Date: 2008-03-31 12:09:49 by nolu_chan
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Cash-strapped Clinton fails to pay bills By: Kenneth P. Vogel March 31, 2008 06:04 AM EST Hillary Rodham Clinton’s cash-strapped presidential campaign has been putting off paying hundreds of bills for months — freeing up cash for critical media buys but also earning the campaign a reputation as something of a deadbeat in some small-business circles. A pair of Ohio companies owed more than $25,000 by Clinton for staging events for her campaign are warning others in the tight-knit event production community — and anyone else who will listen — to get their cash upfront when doing business with her. Her campaign, say representatives of the two companies, has stopped ...

From Bad to Verse for Hill
Post Date: 2008-03-31 12:07:34 by nolu_chan
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FROM BAD TO VERSE FOR HILL By SELIM ALGAR, NY Post Correspondent March 31, 2008 -- SARAJEVO, Bosnia - The Bosnian girl who famously read a poem to Hillary Rodham Clinton during her 1996 visit to the war-torn country is shocked - and her countrymen infuriated - that the former first lady claimed to have dodged sniper fire that day. Emina Bicakcic, now 20 and studying to become a doctor, told The Post she stood on the tarmac at the air base in Tuzla, greeted Clinton and even had time to share the lines of verse she'd written - all without fear of attack from an unseen enemy. "I was surprised when I heard this," Bicakcic said, referring to Clinton's assertion that she ...

Obama's Views Have Changed With Time (more gun news)
Post Date: 2008-03-31 10:02:23 by Jethro Tull
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Obama's Views Have Changed With Time From:AP OnlineDate:December 22, 2007Author:CHRISTOPHER WILLSMore results for:obama ban on handguns If he wanted, the Barack Obama of today could have a pretty good debate with the Barack Obama of yesterday. They could argue about whether the death penalty is ever appropriate. Whether it makes sense to ban handguns. They might explore their differences on the Patriot Act or parental notification of abortion. And they could debate whether Obama has flip-flopped, changed some of his views as he learned more over the years or is simply answering questions with more detail and nuance now that he is running for president. The Democratic senator from ...

Vote McCain in 2008 (if you think Bush deserves a third term)
Post Date: 2008-03-31 07:09:35 by graindrops
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Why would Americans want to give a third term to the most unpopular administration in American history? While many Americans still envision John McCain as the straight-talking, special interest-disdaining maverick candidate of the 2000 election, the fact is that he's never really been any of those things. Make no mistake about it. A vote for John McCain is a vote for George W. Bush and a McCain win is akin to giving our current imperial president an undeserved third term. r Marching in step with the Bush war doctrine: McCain is a full-fledged "hawk" and a staunch supporter of President Bush's war effort. Not only does he think that the surge is "working," but ...

Some Republicans Emerge To Endorse Barack Obama
Post Date: 2008-03-31 06:55:45 by Ada
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WASHINGTON — With an eye to the general election and the Pennsylvania primary, some Republicans who oppose President Bush's war policy are endorsing Senator Obama. Call them the Obamacans: They are against continuing the Iraq war and reject what they see as Mr. Bush's unconstitutional buildup of executive power. While the conservative Republican base rejected Senator McCain in the early primaries for his push for bipartisan campaign finance regulation and amnesty for illegal immigrants, the Arizona senator's hawkish support for the Iraq war has alienated what was once his national constituency, anti-Bush Republicans. The Obamacans include a former senator of Rhode Island, ...

Making Saints Out Monsters
Post Date: 2008-03-31 06:23:11 by Ada
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In response to an LRC review of a (Distortion of) History Channel "documentary" on Sherman’s march to the sea by Clyde Wilson, Valerie Protopapas of Huntington Station, New York, took it upon herself to go to the library and research Sherman herself. Sherman’s History Channel image of a heroic and benevolent egalitarian just sounded like, well, like a lie to her. So out of the blue she wrote Professor Wilson (who now describes himself as a recovering academic historian) that "the truth about Sherman and his genocidal beliefs (and tactics) is, like Lincoln’s views on race and slavery, well reported but ignored." That is, one can find the facts of history ...

Hillary Clinton flings the dirt but its sticking to her
Post Date: 2008-03-30 23:00:51 by nolu_chan
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March 30, 2008 Hillary Clinton flings the dirt but it’s sticking to her Andrew Sullivan A golden rule in the game of American (or any modern professional) politics is that if you are behind in a campaign and you’re running out of time, you “go negative”. Twenty years ago I actually took a class in professional campaign tactics at Harvard University’s John F Kennedy School of Government. We examined case studies of campaigns in recent years and saw the very precise metrics that the professionals use to gauge how much you lose if you throw mud at someone – because you look like a sleazebag – compared with how much damage you can inflict. The general ...

At Last, a Caucus Result (of Sorts) From Texas (Obama takes TX)
Post Date: 2008-03-30 22:52:40 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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At Last, a Caucus Result (of Sorts) From Texas By Eli Saslow For all of you Trail readers who, desperate for a Texas caucus update, have been frantically hitting your browser's refresh button for the last 26 days, this is your moment: In district conventions held across the state last weekend, Obama appears to have secured about 60 percent of the state's 67 caucus delegates. If that total holds, he might actually end up with more pledged delegates from Texas than Hillary Clinton, who won the March 4 primary by four delegates, 65 to 61, and has trumpeted that win ever since. But, really, does anybody care anymore? The campaign has long since moved on from Texas -- on to Jeremiah ...

Gallup: Obama lead over Clinton largest this year
Post Date: 2008-03-30 22:24:49 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Gallup: Obama lead over Clinton largest this year by Mike Dorning UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Barack Obama now has a 10-percentage point lead over Hillary Clinton in a national tracking poll conducted by Gallup, the largest lead he has posted in the poll this year. Gallup reported Obama now leads among Democrats 52 percent against 42 percent for Hillary Clinton, the third day in a row he has held a statistically significant lead against Clinton in the poll. The movement in the national poll follows a week in which Clinton was widely lampooned for exaggerated accounts she gave of a visit to Bosnia in which she claimed she ran for cover under sniper fire. After the pilot of her plane and ...

THE REPUBLIC'S NEMESIS: 2-PARTY ADDICTION
Post Date: 2008-03-30 19:56:59 by christine
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If you hate Democrats for being Democrats or Republicans for being Republicans, and then vote based upon such loyalty, you’ve ended every possibility for the survival of this nation. I could end here, with this statement, but for the sake of bitter truth, onward we go. At the heads of both parties are very primary and influential families with very long histories in power, politics, and financial influence. These families of both political persuasions have been dedicated to the Council on Foreign Relations, to the United Nations, to World Banksters, to World Trade and corporatism, to a one-world political order, and to the nationwide implementation of Kyoto-style ...

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