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Latest Articles: (s)Elections
Barack Obama and Israel (Source Our Jerusalem)
Post Date: 2008-03-16 17:24:23 by christine
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The ascent of Barack Obama from state senator in Illinois to a leading contender for the Presidential nomination in the span of just a few years is remarkable. Especially in light of a noticeably unremarkable record — a near-blank slate of few accomplishments and numerous missed votes. However, in one area of foreign policy that concerns millions of Americans, he does have a record and it is a particularly troubling one. For all supporters of the America-Israel relationship there is enough information beyond the glare of the klieg lights to give one pause. In contrast to his canned speeches filled with “poetry” and uplifting aphorisms and delivered in a commanding way, ...
McCain pays surprise Iraq visit
Post Date: 2008-03-16 16:57:56 by robin
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McCain pays surprise Iraq visit Senator McCain is a strong supporter of the "surge" US Senator John McCain has gone to Baghdad in a previously unannounced visit to the Iraqi capital. Mr McCain - set to be the Republican's presidential candidate in November - will meet with US and Iraqi officials during his trip. Mr McCain is also scheduled to visit London, Paris and Israel this week. The senator is known for his strong support of current US policy in Iraq, and was one of the most prominent proponents of the "surge" strategy. Eighth visit This will be Mr McCain's eighth visit to the country since the US-led invasion began in 2003. He ...
McCain, delegation visit Baghdad
Post Date: 2008-03-16 16:50:17 by richard9151
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When the president of Iran visited Iraq, he walked in Baghdad almost alone. any bets on McCain doing the same? 1 hour, 19 minutes ago BAGHDAD - Sen. John McCain, the likely Republican presidential nominee, arrived in Baghdad on Sunday for a visit with Iraqi and U.S. diplomatic and military officials. The trip by McCain, who has linked his political future to U.S. military success in the nearly five-year-old war, coincided with the 20th anniversary of a horrific chemical weapons attack in northern Iraq. McCain met with Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh and planned to meet with Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, according to the U.S. Embassy. Further details of ...
Obama expands delegate lead
Post Date: 2008-03-16 06:28:36 by Ada
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Obama Picks Up Delegates in Iowa Thanks to Edwards Switches Democrat Barack Obama expanded his fragile lead in delegates over rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday, picking up at least seven delegates as Iowa activists took the next step in picking delegates to the national convention. Half the 14 delegates allocated to John Edwards on the basis of caucus night projections switched Saturday and Obama got most, if not all, of them. Iowa Democratic Party officials said that with more than 86 percent of the delegates picked, Obama claimed 52 percent of the delegates elected at county conventions on Saturday, compared with 32 percent for Clinton. About 16 percent of the delegates picked ...
McCain says al Qaeda might try to tip U.S. election
Post Date: 2008-03-15 11:27:03 by robin
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McCain says al Qaeda might try to tip U.S. electionFri Mar 14, 2008 1:11pm EDT By Steve Holland SPRINGFIELD, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Friday he fears that al Qaeda or another extremist group might attempt spectacular attacks in Iraq to try to tilt the U.S. election against him. McCain, at a town hall meeting in this Philadelphia suburb, was asked if he had concerns that anti-American militants in Iraq might ratchet up their activities in Iraq to try to increase casualties in September or October and tip the November election against him. "Yes, I worry about it," McCain said. "And I know they pay attention because of ...
OLD DOGS DON'T WANT TO LEARN NEW TRICKS
Post Date: 2008-03-15 10:27:14 by christine
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It would seem the slick has come off “Slick Willie” Clinton. Way back in Iowa, his stump speeches for his wife were oft times concerned with...well...him. Lots of “I's” rather than “she's,” mentions of his legacy, his polls. Shortly after that, he took a little center-stage snooze at a gathering commemorating Martin Luther King at the Covenant Baptist Church in Harlem. While the great champion of Civil Rights was being honored, the ex-Prez caught a little shut-eye right. In South Carolina, with his wife already playing catch-up, Bill threw out the Jesse Jackson/Barack Obama comparison. Maybe the former Chief Executive forgot how racially charged ...
Cuckoo in the Nest: How the War Party Pervails
Post Date: 2008-03-15 07:04:15 by Zoroaster
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March 15, 2008 Cuckoo in the Nest How the War Party Prevails by Werther Readers of these screeds will have noticed that we have been maintaining a discreet silence of late. The news, such as it is, has concentrated heavily on the presidential horse race: who, when the day after the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November dawns, will occupy the glittering alabaster throne of the American imperator? We, who have been scoffing at political hacks since Sherman Adams donned his Vicuna coat, have declined to be drawn into this unseemly business. The course of empire makes its way; to comment is tautological. The saturation coverage afforded the presidential horse race, with all its ...
Iraq War Could Help GOP, McCain Win In November
Post Date: 2008-03-14 19:25:17 by richard9151
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A funny thing happened on the way to the election: Many Americans had a change of heart about the war in Iraq. No, I'm not talking about the large numbers of Americans who now think that the United States should never have gone to war in the first place, or those who want the troops brought home immediately. To the contrary, two recent Pew Research Center polls show that Americans are more upbeat in their assessment of the Iraq War than at any time in the last couple of years and less focused on American casualties there. Responses to a number of the surveys' questions suggest problems ahead for the Democrats, no matter which candidate the party nominates. The findings from the ...
June 3 Is Target for Mich Do-Over
Post Date: 2008-03-14 16:49:26 by robin
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June 3 Is Target for Mich Do-Over By KEN THOMAS – 1 hour ago WASHINGTON (AP) — Michigan Democrats agreed Friday to push a do-over primary in early June to give them a say in the close presidential race between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama. Amid talks with the two campaigns, the four Michigan Democrats said in a statement they were "focusing on the possibility of a state-run primary in early June which would not use any state funding." Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, one of the Democratic participants, said a likely date is June 3. "This option would require the passage of legislation by the state legislature, and we look forward to working with ...
CLINTON BODY COUNT
Post Date: 2008-03-14 12:59:50 by richard9151
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Here is the latest body count that we have. All of these people have been connected with the Clintons in some form or another. We have not included any deaths that could not be verified or connected to the Clinton scandals. All deaths are listed chronologically by date. This list is current and accurate to the best of our knowledge as of January 13, 1999 August 1, 2000. Susan Coleman: Rumors were circulating in Arkansas of an affair with Bill Clinton. She was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head at 7 1/2 months pregnant. Death was an apparent suicide. Larry Guerrin: Was killed in February 1987 while investigating the INSLAW case. Kevin Ives & Don Henry: Initial cause of death ...
Obama’s Spiritual Adviser Questioned U.S. Role in Spread of HIV, Sept. 11 Attacks
Post Date: 2008-03-14 12:35:30 by christine
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Barack Obama’s longtime pastor once questioned America’s role in the spread of the AIDS virus and suggested that the United States bore some responsibility for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Confronted with the content of some of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.’s sermons, parts of which have been aired this week on FOX News, the Obama campaign continues to pull away from the pastor’s rhetoric, but is stopping short of a full repudiation. Wright has retired as leader of Trinity United Church in Chicago; he delivered his last sermon there in February. Obama has attended the church for 20 years and calls Wright his spiritual adviser. Wright’s supporters say his ...
Hillary's New Conservative Friends
Post Date: 2008-03-14 10:46:15 by aristeides
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Hillary's New Conservative Friends On a hot August night in the Astrodome 16 years ago, Pat Buchanan stood before the Republican National Convention and declared that America was in the throes of a religious and cultural war, with the opposition party pushing an “amoral” agenda of unregulated abortion, rampant homosexuality and unrestricted pornography. In particular, he singled out the “lawyer-spouse” of the Democratic presidential nominee, gravely warning that Hillary Clinton “believes that 12-year-olds should have the right to sue their parents, and she has compared marriage as an institution to slavery and life on an Indian reservation.” ...
Libertarian throws hat in governor’s race (Andrew Horning)
Post Date: 2008-03-13 21:47:12 by christine
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Andrew Horning hates politics. So he writes on his MySpace page, which he named “Liberty or Bust.” So why has this medical product development consultant and frequent columnist for the Indiana Policy Review Foundation and talk radio host and guest decided to run for governor of Indiana as a Libertarian? “Have you ever hated something so bad you want to find out where it lives and beat it with a stick?” he asked. “It’s like when you have something messing up your life, causing you a lot of grief, and you just figure it’s time to roll up your sleeves and do something about it. Even if it’s a really ugly thing like running for public office.” ...
Cluster Bombs Are Not Good for Children, Hillary -- (Ditto for Landmines and Sanctions)
Post Date: 2008-03-13 21:46:42 by richard9151
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13/03/08 "Commondreams" -- - The human soul is difficult to fathom. One person alone is capable of both compassion and cruelty. In her autobiography, Living History, Senator Hillary Clinton portrays herself as an advocate for children, a defender of women and human rights. In fact, the Clintons have a long history of sacrificing the rights, even the lives of children, for political expediency. It is time to set the record straight. On September 6, 2006, a Senate bill–a simple amendment to ban the use of cluster bombs in civilian areas–presented Senator Clinton with a timely opportunity to protect the lives of children throughout the world. The cluster bomb is one of ...
More Bellicose Than Bush?
Post Date: 2008-03-13 21:34:46 by richard9151
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Given how often we are told that McCain has "credibility" and "experience" on matters of foreign policy and national security, it's worth asking what effect all that alleged experience has had on him. 13/03/08 "American Prospect" -- - In May of 2006, as Iraq spiraled down into an orgy of sectarian bloodletting, John McCain had a solution. "One of the things I would do if I were president," McCain told a group of wealthy contributors, "would be to sit the Shiites and the Sunnis down and say, 'Stop the bullshit.'" If only someone had thought of that before. This is the man Brian Williams of NBC News recently referred to as ...
McCain's Spiritual Guide -- Destroy Islam
Post Date: 2008-03-13 21:28:43 by richard9151
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Televangelist Rod Parsley, a key McCain ally in Ohio, has called for eradicating the "false religion." Will the GOP presidential candidate renounce him? 13/03/08 "Mother Jones" -- -- Senator John McCain hailed as a spiritual adviser an Ohio megachurch pastor who has called upon Christians to wage a "war" against the "false religion" of Islam with the aim of destroying it. On February 26, McCain appeared at a campaign rally in Cincinnati with the Reverend Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church of Columbus, a supersize Pentecostal institution that features a 5,200-seat sanctuary, a television studio (where Parsley tapes a weekly show), and a 122,000 ...
What’s the Real Racial Divide? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-03-13 20:53:03 by robin
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March 16, 2008The Way We Live Now What’s the Real Racial Divide? By MATT BAI This article will appear in this Sunday's Times Magazine. When old-time Democrats in Washington reminisce about the days of brokered conventions floor fights and frantic early-morning calls, deals cut under the haze of cigar smoke they talk about them the way a paleontologist might describe the hurtling stride of a velociraptor: an awesome spectacle, to be sure, but not one you would really want to see up close. Last week, Democrats woke up to find that the unthinkable may be upon them. There might still be an unforeseen turn in the titanic clash between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, but ...
Candidates Return to Senate Day Jobs
Post Date: 2008-03-13 20:48:11 by robin
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Suddenly, unexpectedly, they were together, in a place where aides dare not follow. Eager to talk? Perhaps. Or maybe nowhere else to turn. Whatever, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton sat down for a quiet little chat Thursday on the Senate floor, colleagues, as well as rivals in a historic race for the Democratic presidential nomination. She spoke animatedly, gesturing with her hands. He leaned in to listen, occasionally nodding his head and replying briefly. Her cell phone rang. But because life does not imitate campaign commercials, it is not red, and on this occasion, evidently conveyed no news of a crisis. She silenced it and slipped it back into her ...
ABC: No question McCain intervention helped Airbus (cost American jobs)
Post Date: 2008-03-13 20:41:55 by robin
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ABC: No question McCain intervention helped Airbus03/13/2008 @ 2:00 pm Filed by David Edwards and Nick Juliano Republican presidential candidate John McCain might be glad that he hasn't received a whole lot of attention since he officially locked up his party's nomination earlier this month, because most eyes are on the still-ongoing Democratic race. But critics of the Arizona senator are starting to make waves about the Arizona senator's relationships with lobbyists with a European company, by charging that the results cost Americans jobs, according to ABC News. European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. and Northop Grumman Corp. were awarded a $35 billion Pentagon ...
She Stoops to Conquer
Post Date: 2008-03-13 16:55:45 by ghostdogtxn
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Obama's Krazy Kolored pastor [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-03-13 12:49:08 by Jethro Tull
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Poster Comment:This man married Michelle and Barack (both people of privilege - Yale - Princeton) 20 years ago. Welcome to change.....the same as it ever was.
The NY Times is Appalled!
Post Date: 2008-03-13 11:01:54 by ghostdogtxn
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Obama Camp Leaves Pennsylvania to Clinton, Downplays Keystone Importance
Post Date: 2008-03-12 22:14:21 by robin
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Tuesday: Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally at Temple University in Philadelphia. Clinton is making a big push in Pennsylvania while Barack Obama is focusing on other remaining Democratic primary states. (AP Photo) Barack Obama’s campaign is playing down expectations for the Pennsylvania primary on April 22, claiming Wednesday that the Illinois senator’s back-to-back wins in Mississippi and Wyoming put him in safe enough territory to look beyond the Keystone State in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Pennsylvania offers 156 delegates, and is the biggest prize left on the primary calendar. Early polls show Hillary Clinton well ahead — but where Obama has ...
SOME RP CAMPAIGN INFO FOR Y'ALL [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-03-12 21:52:33 by rowdee
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More than a couple of times different people have made comments regarding finances in the Ron Paul campaign. Even my friend, Peppa, one of RP's staunchest supporters, commented something to the effect that she wished he had spent more on advertising.Having been a candidate for a state house office, raised finances, and approved spending (though on nowhere near the grand scale of a presidential campaign), my interest was piqued.I am a bookkeeper by training and by major work experience, so my interest was tweaked at the same time.Thus with my interest being both piqued and tweaked, I took a look at one of his financial reports just to see what was going on.The report used in my research ...
Ferraro Quits Clinton Campaign
Post Date: 2008-03-12 18:40:06 by robin
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Former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro is stepping down from Hillary Clinton’s finance team after remarks she made to a California newspaper suggested Barack Obama is getting favorable treatment in the media because he’s black. FOX News confirmed Wednesday that Ferraro, who has been a fundraiser for Clinton, is leaving the campaign after calls from Obama’s team to restore civility by not letting the debate devolve into race-based arguments. Speaking to reporters in Chicago, Obama said he didn’t think the comments were racist, but he did call them “ridiculous” and “wrong-headed.” “The notion that it is a great advantage to me to ...
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