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'Dr. Death' Jack Kevorkian To Run For Michigan Congressional Seat
Post Date: 2008-03-12 17:14:49 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON -- Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian plans to run for Congress, complicating a Michigan race that is expected to be among the most competitive in the nation. The so-called "Dr. Death," who was released from prison last year and remains on parole, Jack Kevorkian will run as a candidate with no party affiliation for a congressional seat representing Detroit's suburbs, an associate said. "Jack is in great spirits, and he intends to do this. He just hopes for some honesty in government," said Ruth Holmes, Jack Kevorkian's longtime jury consultant. Jack Kevorkian plans to focus on prison reform and bringing integrity to the government, Holmes ...
Why Jim Webb Should be Obama's Running Mate
Post Date: 2008-03-12 15:57:06 by aristeides
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Why Jim Webb Should be Obama's Running Mate Posted February 15, 2008 | 08:34 AM (EST) If Barack Obama is nominated by the Democratic Party - every day that appears more and more likely - he will have an interesting dilemma in selecting a running mate. On the one hand, he will want to anchor the ticket with someone who can compliment his perceived weaknesses - age, experience, accomplishments. At the same time, having spent more than a year running on the banner of a new-kind-of-politics, Obama would be poorly served selecting a running mate who was borne out of the politics of old. The quandary Obama may find himself in is no easy feat to overcome; it seems almost entirely implausible ...
New Mexico's Corporate Media Covers Up the Coverage of GOP/Heather Wilson 'Vote Buying' Scandal
Post Date: 2008-03-12 13:23:14 by angle
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www.bradblog.com/?p=5790 After waiting nearly a week, the Albuquerque Journal on Sunday finally published a story about Laura MacCallum quitting her job as KKOB Radio’s afternoon drive time anchor. What a pathetic story it was, though. It shows why the blogosphere is daily becoming more powerful and why more and more people are turning away from traditional media sources for their news. The fact is, those traditional sources can’t be trusted to tell us what’s really going on, especially when it comes to their own industry. MaCallum quit because KKOB News Director Pat Allen pulled her stories about allegations of vote buying at the recent sate Republican Party’s ...
Ferraro's Remarks About Obama Decried [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-03-12 10:06:37 by Jethro Tull
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Ferraro's Remarks About Obama Decried Email this Story Mar 11, 4:27 PM (ET) By ANN SANNER WASHINGTON (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday she disagrees with Geraldine Ferraro, one of her fundraisers and the 1984 vice presidential candidate, for suggesting that Barack Obama only achieved his status in the presidential race because he's black. In a brief interview with The Associated Press, Clinton was questioned about Ferraro's remarks. The Obama campaign has called on the New York senator to denounce them. Ferraro told the Daily Breeze of Torrance, Calif.: "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any ...
John McCain Takes Photos With 9/11 Truthers!
Post Date: 2008-03-12 00:30:49 by TwentyTwelve
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John McCain Takes Photos With 9/11 Truthers! By Chewbacca | March 10, 2008 John McCain Takes Photos With 9/11 Truthers! www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCZ5PPeXG1o The media thinks for some reason that they can damage RP by associating him with 9/11 Truthers, well here’s McCain enthusiastically seeking to take photos with members of the 9/11 Truth Movement in Minnesota, St Paul (where the Republican Convention will be held this year I think). Will the media pick up on this and try and “tar” McCain for associating himself with 9/11 Truthers? I doubt it, but let’s spread this far and wide regardless just to embarrass the crap out of Mr “Bomb-Bomb-Bomb, ...
JOHN McCAIN THE MOST FLAWED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN HISTORY
Post Date: 2008-03-11 23:15:56 by christine
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It is now clear that what is left of the Republicon Party, after being fatally poisoned by the Bush administration, intents to commit suicide by nominating Senator John McCain (R-Hanoi) for the presidency. Where do I start? THE EARLY YEARS McCain spent his boyhood in exclusive boarding schools where staffers were paid to put up with his tirades. We all did some immature things before we matured. But with McCain, the tirades continue today. Had he not been the son and grandson of admirals, there is scant chance he would have been admitted to the U.S. Naval Academy. Given his behavior patterns and academics, had he not been the son and grandson of admirals, there is little doubt he would ...
Spitzer Spoils Clinton’s Delegate Count
Post Date: 2008-03-11 17:05:21 by robin
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March 11, 2008, 12:36 pm Spitzer Spoils Clinton’s Delegate Count Susan Davis reports on the presidential race. If New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigns, as is widely anticipated, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton will be down one superdelegate. The scandal-tainted governor and his Lt. Gov. David Paterson currently are two of the roughly 800 superdelegates who will also cast ballots at the August nominating convention. Both are public backers of Clinton. In this August 2007 photo, Hillary Clinton and Eliot Spitzer appeared at a news conference on children’s health care in New York. (Associated Press) If Spitzer resigns, New York succession laws provide ...
McCain advisers lobbied for Airbus
Post Date: 2008-03-11 16:28:31 by richard9151
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Tue Mar 11, 12:25 PM ET WASHINGTON - Top current advisers to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign last year lobbied for a European plane maker that beat Boeing to a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract, taking sides in a bidding fight that McCain has tried to referee for more than five years. Two of the advisers gave up their lobbying work when they joined McCain's campaign. A third, former Texas Rep. Tom Loeffler, lobbied for the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. while serving as McCain's national finance chairman. EADS is the parent company of Airbus, which teamed up with U.S.-based Northrop Grumman Corp. to win the lucrative aerial refueling contract on Feb. ...
McCain advsior lobbied for EAD
Post Date: 2008-03-11 14:43:23 by Rupert_Pupkin
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McCain advisers lobbied for European plane maker Story Highlights European airplane won $35 billion contract to build air refueling tankers U.S. manufacturer Boeing will appeal decision Sen. John McCain tried to referee competition for tanker Two top McCain advisers lobbied for EADS before joining campaign WASHINGTON (AP) -- Top current advisers to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign last year lobbied for a European plane maker that beat Boeing to a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract, taking sides in a bidding fight that McCain has tried to referee for more than five years. Two of the advisers gave up their lobbying work when they joined McCain's campaign. A third, ...
The Colbert Report: The Wørd - Size Matters
Post Date: 2008-03-11 11:25:57 by robin
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The Colbert Report: The Wørd - Size Matters By: Nicole Belle on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 at 6:38 AM - PDT Download | Play Download | Play Stephen Colbert finds a bit of a logic flaw in the Clinton campaign claim that what matters most in the head to head for the Democratic nomination is that she’s winning the big states. Barack Obama has a big problem here. Sure, he’s winning a lot, but they’re just little states, like Maryland, Washington and Illinois. Hillary, Hillary is winning all the big states and everybody knows that if you win the big states in the party primary, you automatically win them in the general election. For example, did you know ...
Karl Rove, Ken Mehlman Boost McCain Campaign
Post Date: 2008-03-10 20:04:32 by Brian S
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John McCain is getting much more than President Bush's endorsement and fundraising help for his campaign. He’s getting Bush's staff. It’s no secret that Steve Schmidt, Bush’s attack dog in the 2004 election, and Mark McKinnon, the president’s media strategist, are performing similar functions for McCain now. But other big-name Bushies are lining up to boost McCain, too. Ken Mehlman, who ran Bush’s 2004 campaign, is now serving as an unpaid, outside adviser to the Arizona Republican. Karl Rove, the president’s top political hand since his Texas days, recently gave money to McCain and soon after had a private conversation with the senator. A top McCain ...
Exchange bets favor Obama for Democratic nomination
Post Date: 2008-03-10 17:27:33 by Tauzero
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Exchange bets favor Obama for Democratic nomination Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:24pm EDT By David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton will win Democratic primary elections in Pennsylvania, Kentucky and West Virginia in the coming weeks, but rival Barack Obama will ultimately capture the party's presidential nomination, traders were betting on Monday. Traders on the Dublin-based Intrade prediction market also put their bets on the Democratic party to hold new primary elections before June 30 in Michigan and Florida, where earlier results were declared invalid in a fight over the date of the elections. But even that, the traders were betting, wouldn't be enough to help Clinton ...
Voters must remember the wars
Post Date: 2008-03-10 16:42:19 by richard9151
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Monday, March 10, 2008 Somehow, the improvements in security in Iraq, following the execution of Gen. David Petraeus' counterinsurgency strategy, have pushed Iraq and Afghanistan off the front pages in this country. But the policies that guide this country's wars are every bit as important today as they ever have been. The costs are real and they are immense. When you add the cost of health care for returning veterans, replacement of worn-out equipment, funding of military and civilian operations, you have a toll that amounts to about $3 trillion in Iraq alone, according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, co-author with Linda Bilmes of "The Three Trillion ...
Obama: Don't assume I'll take VP slot
Post Date: 2008-03-10 15:32:33 by richard9151
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Yeah, right...... whatever..... just keep the sheeple interested..... nothing else matters...... 48 minutes ago COLUMBUS, Miss. - Democrat Barack Obama ridiculed the idea of being Hillary Rodham Clinton's running mate Monday, saying voters must choose between the two for the top spot on the fall ticket. The Illinois senator used his first public appearance of the week to knock down the notion that he might accept the party's vice presidential nomination. He noted that he has won more states, votes and delegates than Clinton so far. "I don't know how somebody who is in second place is offering the vice presidency to the person who is first place," Obama said, ...
John McCain And The USS Forrestal Fire
Post Date: 2008-03-10 01:06:57 by TwentyTwelve
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judicial-inc.biz/82jjohn_..._and_the_uss_forresta.htm John McCain And The USS Forrestal Fire USS Forrestal In 1967 132 Dead Sailors, And Countless Wounded A Small Rocket Hit A Fuel Tank On Another Plane Where Is The Truth Here? I have heard five versions of the Forrestal fire, but this one makes sense. McCain Aviation Career McCain crashed 5 jets, plus was responsible for the Forrestal fire. Something made the plane behind McCain fired a rocket, which hit McCain's external center fuel tank, and caused a fire. McCain panicked, and dropped two bombs into the fire. Did He Start The USS Forrestal Fire? Surviving crewmen and those who investigated the Forrestal fire case reported ...
Mr. Blackledge’s Black Helicopters
Post Date: 2008-03-09 19:42:01 by richard9151
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08/03/08 "Harpers" -- -- Back in October, as the House Judiciary Committee was conducting its first hearings into the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don E. Siegelman, I spoke with Simon Heller, the legal director of a Washington-based advocacy organization called the Alliance for Justice. Heller told me he had gotten a telephone call. “It was strange. The man on the other end of the phone identified himself as a reporter. But he certainly didn’t act like one. We had put out a press release talking about Judge Mark Fuller and the role he played in the Siegelman case, and questioning how, given his many conflicts, he had failed to recuse himself. But this reporter ...
Calculate the Demo Delegates with Slate's Calculator
Post Date: 2008-03-09 12:02:51 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Poster Comment:According to my calculations, even if Hillary beats Obama in Pennsylvania by 65% to 35% she only gets 2 more delegates than Obama between today and the end of the primaries - Obama maintains his current lead over over 100 delegates, that is. If Hillary beats Obama 60%-40%, Obama takes more delegates. That's according to 'my' calculations.
Obama Woos U.S. Jews, Takes Hard Line on Iran
Post Date: 2008-03-09 09:15:11 by Jethro Tull
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Obama Woos U.S. Jews, Takes Hard Line on Iran. From:Israel FaxxDate:March 7, 2007More results for:obama and jews By IsraelNationalNews.com Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama has been campaigning for Jewish support and has taken a hard line on Iran, stating that a military option to curtail Tehran's nuclear ambitions is not out of the question. The Illinois senator made his first major Middle East policy statement to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Choosing his words carefully, he stated, "While we should take no option, including military action, off the table, sustained and aggressive diplomacy combined with tough sanctions should be ...
Monaca's boyfriend's wife lost to OBOMA in Wyoming
Post Date: 2008-03-09 07:07:23 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Hillary Comes in Second in Wyoming March 08, 2008 8:41 PM Hillary Clinton's campaign is casting her not-entirely-disastrous showing in the Wyoming caucuses as a victory. Clinton's campaign manager Maggie Williams said, "We are thrilled with this near split in delegates and are grateful to the people of Wyoming for their support. Although the Obama campaign predicted victory in Wyoming weeks ago, we worked hard to present Senator Clinton’s vision to the caucus-goers and we thank them for turning out today." Waitasec... I thought victories in red states, small-population states and caucus states were irrelevant...? I guess losses there somehow rock the house? ...
Obama declared projected winner in Wyoming
Post Date: 2008-03-08 20:08:29 by robin
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Obama takes lead in Wyoming Party strains to accommodate crowds; candidates seek boost for MississippiNBC News and news servicesupdated 3:15 p.m. PT, Sat., March. 8, 2008CASPER, Wyo. - Barack Obama was the projected winner in Wyoming's Democratic caucuses on Saturday, clinching a majority of the 12 delegates, NBC News declared.The Illinois senator led rival Hillary Rodham Clinton throughout the day in voting returns as Democrats crowded caucuses in Wyoming, the latest contest in the candidates' close, hard-fought race for the party's presidential nomination. Obama generally has outperformed the senator from New York in caucuses, which reward organization and voter passion more ...
McCain ad guru wants Obama win
Post Date: 2008-03-08 13:47:02 by TwentyTwelve
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ELECTION 2008 McCain ad guru wants Obama win Vows to abandon GOP candidate if Illinois senator gets Dem nod Posted: February 13, 2008 4:43 pm Eastern By Jerome R. Corsi © 2008 WorldNetDaily John McCain's ad guru, Mark McKinnon, is on record with his admiration of Democratic front-runner Barack Obama, and has vowed to make no television commercials which would harm Obama's campaign. Paul Weyrich, president and CEO of Free Congress Foundation, said things might have been different if information such as the revelations about McKinnon and WND's report that McCain's foundation has been funded by billionaire George Soros since 2001 had been available earlier. ...
Steve King, Republican Congressman: Al-Qaida Will Be "Dancing In The Streets" If "Hussein" Obama Wins
Post Date: 2008-03-08 13:44:16 by robin
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From the AP: An Iowa Republican congressman said Friday that terrorists would be "dancing in the streets" if Democratic candidate Barack Obama were to win the presidency. Rep. Steve King based his prediction on Obama's pledge to pull troops out of Iraq, his Kenyan heritage and his middle name, Hussein. "The radical Islamists, the al-Qaida ... would be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on Sept. 11 because they would declare victory in this war on terror," King said in an interview with the Daily Reporter in Spencer. King said his comments were not meant to demean Obama but to warn how an Obama presidency would look to the world. "His ...
McCain’s Indicted AZ Campaign Co-Chair Accused Of Defrauding Pro-Life Groups
Post Date: 2008-03-08 13:32:50 by robin
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McCain’s Indicted AZ Campaign Co-Chair Accused Of Defrauding Pro-Life Groups By: Logan Murphy on Saturday, March 8th, 2008 at 6:34 AM - PST Via ABC News: Rep. Rick Renzi, R-Ariz., allegedly defrauded dozens of pro-life organizations for hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund his first congressional bid, according to an analysis of the recent indictment against him, a state insurance claim and an interview with an insurance lawyer involved in the case. When federal prosecutors indicted Renzi, 49, on 35 felony counts two weeks ago, many reports focused on alleged crimes stemming from a complicated series of land swaps the congressman facilitated. Organizations such as ...
Nobel winner: Hillary Clinton's 'silly' Irish peace claims
Post Date: 2008-03-08 13:07:07 by robin
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Hillary Clinton had no direct role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland and is a "wee bit silly" for exaggerating the part she played, according to Lord Trimble of Lisnagarvey, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former First Minister of the province. I don’t know there was much she did apart from accompanying Bill [Clinton] going around," he said. Her recent statements about being deeply involved were merely "the sort of thing people put in their canvassing leaflets" during elections. "She visited when things were happening, saw what was going on, she can certainly say it was part of her experience. I don’t want to rain on the thing for her but being ...
The most powerful people in American politics (Superdelegates)
Post Date: 2008-03-08 12:43:18 by robin
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They are now the most sought-after people in American politics. Their phones are ringing and their email accounts are full. Some bask in the glory, others are in hiding. The "superdelegates" will now decide the Democratic nominee – and possibly the next president. It is virtually impossible now for either Senator Hillary Clinton or Senator Barack Obama to win their party's nomination outright in the remaining states left in the race. The deadlock can now only be broken by persuading Democratic party superdelegates to pick sides. That has triggered a desperate scramble to woo, bully, barter with or otherwise persuade them to make a decision. "There are ...
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