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Gallup Poll: Many Democrats Ready to Vote McCain if Their First Choice Doesn’t Make It to November [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-03-26 11:43:54 by robin
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Many Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama supporters are ready to spurn the Democratic party and vote for John McCain in November if their candidate doesn’t win the presidential nomination, according to a new poll out Wednesday. Among people who identified themselves as Hillary Clinton supporters, 28 percent said they would vote for McCain if Obama is his opponent, the March 7-22 Gallup Poll Daily election tracking survey found. The same poll found that 19 percent of Obama supporters would switch sides and cast ballots for McCain if Clinton is the Democratic candidate. The survey interviewed 6,657 Democratic voters nationwide and had a margin of error of 2 percent. Click here to read ...
Dems Hammer McCain's "100 Years" Remark; Strategists Seek To Turn GOP Candidate's Foreign Policy Experience Into A Negative
Post Date: 2008-03-25 23:32:53 by Brian S
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John McCain is scheduled to deliver a major foreign policy speech Wednesday in Los Angeles, one with a heavy Iraq focus, but chances are Democrats won’t be listening. They’ve already distilled his views into an easy to remember formulation: 100 years of war. It is a reference to an offhand remark made by McCain in January about the possible duration of the U.S. presence in Iraq, a comment that Democrats now portray as the equivalent of the McCain Doctrine. Though it’s not exactly an accurate representation of McCain’s views, Democratic strategists view the “100 years” remark as the lynchpin of an effort to turn McCain's national security credentials ...
John McCain's Plan To Ignore The Economy
Post Date: 2008-03-25 23:29:00 by Brian S
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"I will not play election year politics with the housing crisis," declared John McCain in a "major" speech on the economy to be delivered Tuesday morning in the Republican-friendly confines of Orange County, Calif. The implication being, of course, that his opponents are engaged in doing precisely that -- taking advantage of the nation's deepening economic woes to score political points. Exhibit A: Hillary Clinton's "major" speech on the economy delivered in Philadelphia on Monday. It is instructive to compare the two speeches. Clinton's speech was larded with references to previous statements she has made concerning the housing crisis and Wall ...
Visiting Obama Middle East adviser: "He'd be great for Israel"
Post Date: 2008-03-25 17:42:44 by Jethro Tull
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Visiting Obama Middle East adviser: He'd be great for Israel From:Jerusalem PostDate:March 13, 2008Author:HERB KEINONMore results for:israel likes obama Jerusalem Post 03-13-2008 Headline: Visiting Obama Middle East adviser: He'd be great for Israel Byline: HERB KEINON Edition; Daily Section: News Page: 01 Thursday, March 13, 2008 -- Jimmy Carter's former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski is not an adviser to US presidential hopeful Barack Obama, and those saying he is are trying to besmirch the Democratic candidate among Jewish voters, Mel Levine, one of Obama's seven Middle East advisers, told The Jerusalem Post during a visit to Israel. Levine said Hillary ...
Clinton: Wright 'would not have been my pastor'
Post Date: 2008-03-25 17:40:26 by nolu_chan
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Clinton: Wright 'would not have been my pastor' By Mike Wereschagin, David Brown and Salena Zito TRIBUNE-REVIEW Tuesday, March 25, 2008 Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a wide-ranging interview today with Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporters and editors, said she would have left her church if her pastor made the sort of inflammatory remarks Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor made. "He would not have been my pastor," Clinton said. "You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend." Obama's lead in national polls had slipped since clips of the retired Rev. Jeremiah Wright began being played on national news programs, but he ...
Another Backhanded Obama Endorsement!
Post Date: 2008-03-25 17:23:54 by ghostdogtxn
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Changing Course (ON OBAMA: PAUL GOTTFRIED)
Post Date: 2008-03-25 15:53:26 by aristeides
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Changing Course Posted by Paul Gottfried on March 25, 2008 Despite the reactions generated by recent revelations about the sermons of Obama’s pastor, I see no reason to change my comments. The current Republican-neoconservative attacks on Obama have been accompanied by the arduous efforts of “movement conservative” celebrities to persuade Republican voters to change their party registration in order to back Hillary in the primaries. I suspect that what lies behind these efforts is more than the tactic of helping out the Democrat whom McCain is more likely to defeat. As one editor of the Weekly Standard explained to me in a moment of candor this January, Hillary “is ...
Nancy Reagan to Endorse McCain
Post Date: 2008-03-25 15:26:55 by robin
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SANTA ANA, Calif. — Former first lady Nancy Reagan planned to endorse John McCain for president on Tuesday, as the Arizona senator continued to collect the backing of leading Republicans who might help him win over critical conservative voters. Now certain to win the GOP nomination, McCain is on the west coast this week to raise money. He was to stop by the Southern California home of former President Ronald Reagan’s widow to accept her endorsement. In a statement before the event, Reagan said she typically waits until after the GOP convention to announce her support but she decided to do so now because it is clear the Republican Party has chosen its nominee. “John McCain ...
'Dr Death' announces run for Congress
Post Date: 2008-03-25 12:13:54 by Tauzero
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Washington - Jack Kevorkian, dubbed 'Dr Death' for his role in the assisted suicides of about 130 ill patients, announced Monday he will run for the US Congress. Kevorkian is seeking to represent Michigan in the House of Representatives. The outspoken doctor said at a press conference formally announcing his bid that he hopes to draw attention to a provision in the Constitution dealing with rights not specifically stated in the document, which he believes also includes the right to die, the Detroit Free Press newspaper reported. Kevorkian, 79, was released from prison last year after serving eight years for second-degree murder in the death of a 52-year-old Michigan man. He will ...
Endorsing Obama
Post Date: 2008-03-25 09:32:37 by iconoclast
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Today I endorse Barack Obama for president of the United States. I believe him to be a person of integrity, intelligence, and genuine good will. I take him at his word that he wants to move the nation beyond its religious and racial divides and that he wants to return the United States to that company of nations committed to human rights. I do not know if his earlier life experience is sufficient for the challenges of the presidency that lie ahead. I doubt we know this about any of the men or women we might select. It likely depends upon the serendipity of the events that cannot be foreseen. I do have confidence that the senator will cast his net widely in search of men and women of ...
Hillary's Berserker Campaign ... for 2012, Blonde Ambition
Post Date: 2008-03-25 04:59:26 by Zoroaster
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Subscribe Online March 24, 2008 Hillary's Berserker Campaign ... for 2012 Blonde Ambition By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Hillary Clinton can not win the Democratic nomination for president. The numbers tell the story. Even with robust victories in Pennsylvania, Indiana, West Virginia and Kentucky, Hillary will trail Obama in popular votes and pledged delegates as they enter the convention hall in Denver. Any other candidate would have been shamed into dropping out long ago. But these are the Clintons and they have no shame. So why does Hillary persist? Because she hasn't abandoned her aspiration for the White House. Not in 2008, but for 2012. Here's the perverse logic at work. If ...
(Financial Times) Why we should fear a McCain presidency
Post Date: 2008-03-24 23:08:09 by robin
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It may seem incredible to say this, given past experience, but a few years from now Europe and the world could be looking back at the Bush administration with nostalgia. This possibility will arise if the US elects Senator John McCain as president in November. Over the years the US has inserted itself into potential flashpoints in different parts of the world. The Republican party is now about to put forward a natural incendiary as the man to deal with those flashpoints. The problem that Mr McCain poses stems from his ideology, his policies and above all his personality. His ideology, like that of his chief advisers, is neo-conservative. In the past, Mr McCain was considered to be an ...
The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership. Zbigniew (2004)
Post Date: 2008-03-24 18:53:40 by robin
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Brzezinski, national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, has written one of the most important books on U.S. foreign policy since September 11. Among the handful of practitioners who write seriously and often about U.S. foreign policy, only Henry Kissinger (another import) can compare with Brzezinski in terms of historical knowledge and imagination. When it comes to what might be called the "philosophy" of foreign policy -- the relationship of U.S. power and policy to broader historical and cultural trends -- no statesman of Brzezinski's generation is in his league. And no Democrat of any age can match Brzezinski's grasp of the national interest and its sometimes ...
GOP State Parties Are In Dire Straits
Post Date: 2008-03-24 17:58:39 by Brian S
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Politico: A Number Of State Party Organizations Are Struggling Through Troubled Times At a time when the GOP presidential nominee will need more assistance than ever, a number of state Republican parties are struggling through troubled times, suffering from internal strife, poor fundraising, onerous debt, scandal or voting trends that are conspiring to relegate the local branches of the party to near-irrelevance. In some of the largest, smallest, reddest and bluest states in the nation, many state Republican organizations are still reeling in the aftermath of the devastating 2006 election cycle, raising questions about how much grassroots help the state parties will be able to deliver to ...
Obama Camp Scoffs at Claim Clinton "misspoke" With Bosnia Flub
Post Date: 2008-03-24 17:32:25 by ghostdogtxn
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Generation Squeeb
Post Date: 2008-03-24 17:30:40 by Tauzero
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Generation Squeeb Barack Obama’s Reverend Wright controversy, and America’s squid-heart MATT TAIBBI Posted Mar 24, 2008 8:22 AM The word "squeeb" is a crude mix of squid and dweeb, and by inventing it I mean no disrespect to the squid, which in most respects is an excellent and admirable animal. In the ocean there's almost nothing you'd rather be than a squid, one of nature's most perfect predators — fast, resilient, ruthless, more intelligent by leaps and bounds than your average fish, and able to squeeze into impossibly tiny cracks. In the ocean, there is no hiding from a squid, I tell you. But on land, a squid is about as useless as it gets. ...
The Right Choice? The conservative case for Barack Obama (ANDREW J. BACEVICH)
Post Date: 2008-03-24 16:58:11 by aristeides
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The Right Choice? The conservative case for Barack Obama by Andrew J. Bacevich 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, considerable disagreement exists even (or especially) among conservatives themselves. My own definition emphasizes the following: a commitment to individual liberty, tempered by the conviction that genuine freedom entails more than simply an absence of ...
Clinton Names Activist (LaRaza) to Campaign Post
Post Date: 2008-03-24 16:13:12 by Peppa
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Clinton Names Activist to Campaign Post Beth Fouhy / AP | April 12, 2007 COMMENT: A discerning reader has pointed out that the "activist" Raul Yzaguirre is not only a member of La Raza (NCLR), but also a co-author on the treasonous C.F.R. document "Building a North American Community." Note his brief bio on the reports page. Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton announced Thursday that Raul Yzaguirre, a prominent Hispanic activist and former president of the National Council of La Raza, would co-chair her presidential campaign and lead its outreach to Hispanic voters. "Hillary Clinton has spent more than three decades advocating on behalf of those who are invisible in ...
Two McCain Moments, Rarely Mentioned
Post Date: 2008-03-24 14:54:35 by nolu_chan
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March 24, 2008 Two McCain Moments, Rarely Mentioned By ELISABETH BUMILLER WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain never fails to call himself a conservative Republican as he campaigns as his party’s presumptive presidential nominee. He often adds that he was a “foot soldier” in the Reagan revolution and that he believes in the bedrock conservative principles of small government, low taxes and the rights of the unborn. What Mr. McCain almost never mentions are two extraordinary moments in his political past that are at odds with the candidate of the present: His discussions in 2001 with Democrats about leaving the Republican Party, and his conversations in 2004 with Senator ...
Clinton-Obama animosity dates back to '99
Post Date: 2008-03-24 14:48:11 by Peppa
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Clinton-Obama animosity dates back to '99 President endorsed opponent in first congressional race Posted: March 21, 2008 11:42 pm Eastern © 2008 WorldNetDaily Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama WASHINGTON – Animosity between Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton dates back to 1999, when then-President Clinton endorsed Obama's primary opponent in his first and unsuccessful bid for a U.S. congressional seat, WND has learned. At the time, Obama was running for a seat occupied by incumbent Rep. Bobby Rush, a former Black Panther leader. When the promising young, rising political star, then a state senator, decided to challenge the controversial Rush, many analysts ...
McCain's Brain Is Plainly On The Wane
Post Date: 2008-03-24 12:52:38 by Brian S
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Last week we finally got a clue as to why John McCain has been slavishly supporting the Bush administration policy on Iraq for all these years: He doesn't have a clue what it is. That became obvious during a press conference in Jordan Tues day. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee, who had just come from Iraq, stated that "Al Qaeda is going back into Iran and is receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran." This prompted his fellow senator and fellow neoconservative Joe Lieberman of Connecticut to whisper something in his ear. McCain promptly corrected himself. But the damage was done, forcing him to issue this elaboration later in the week. ...
New Anti-Obama Smears in Tabloids Owned by Staunch Clintonista
Post Date: 2008-03-24 12:49:39 by Horse
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Lurid Stories Claiming Obama Ties to Murder of His Chicago Church's Choir Director and Gay Sex With a Convicted Drug Dealer are Published in Scandal Rags Controlled by a Former Deputy Treasury Secretary in Bill Clinton's Administration Who's also a Top Economic Advisor to Hillary Clinton Conservative blogger and commentator Matt Drudge is credited for triggering controversy in February by posting on his DrudgeReport.com Web site a photograph of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama dressed in traditional Somali clothing while on a 2006 visit to his father's homeland in Kenya. But the photo was first published last May by Globe, a scandal-mongering celebrity ...
McCain Spiritual Guide Accused Govt. of Enabling 'Black Genocide'
Post Date: 2008-03-24 12:30:55 by Brian S
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This past week, Sen. Barack Obama's pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, has taken an exceptional amount of heat in part for comments that suggested the U.S. government had introduced AIDS into black communities. But it turns out he's not the only religious confidant to a presidential candidate who thinks the state has targeted black populations with death and disease. Reverend Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church of Columbus, Ohio -- whom Sen. John McCain hailed as a spiritual adviser -- has suggested on several occasions that the U.S. government was complicit in facilitating black genocide. In speeches that have gone largely unnoticed, Parsley (who is white) compares ...
John McCain's Money Troubles Continue Through February
Post Date: 2008-03-24 12:21:44 by Brian S
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The Republican Party's virtually certain presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain, whose campaign stalled and nearly folded last summer with more outgo than income, experienced more serious financial trouble last month. According to monthly campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission and reviewed by The Times' main money man, Dan Morain, McCain took in $11 million in February, which seems like a lot if you're not in presidential politics. The trouble for Republicans is that the leading Democrat, Sen. Barack Obama, raised fully $55 million and Sen. Hillary Clinton took in $34.6 million. As Morain reports, in the 14 months since the 22-month presidential ...
McCain's Past Ethics Breaches Haunt Him
Post Date: 2008-03-24 12:11:25 by Brian S
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Senator and U.S. presidential hopeful John McCain's ethics entanglement with a wealthy banker ultimately convicted of swindling investors was such a disturbing, formative experience in his political career that he compares the scandal in some ways to the five years he was tortured as a prisoner of war. "I faced in Vietnam, at times, very real threats to life and limb," McCain told The Associated Press. "But while my sense of honour was tested in prison, it was not questioned. During the Keating inquiry, it was, and I regretted that very much." In his early days as a senator, McCain accepted contributions from Charles Keating Jr., flew to Keating's home in the ...
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