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Latest Articles: (s)Elections
Murtha's Republican opponent tossed off ballot
Post Date: 2008-02-27 17:41:56 by Ferret Mike
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The road to re-election for veteran U.S. Rep. John Murtha just got a good bit smoother. A state judge yesterday ruled that the lone Republican running in the primary for the Western Pennsylvania seat did not collect enough signatures to make the ballot. Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson said Republican candidate Bill Russell's nominating petition contained only 993 valid signatures, seven fewer than required. That left Mr. Murtha, 75, a Democrat, without opposition in the primary or general election. Mr. Russell, 45, left the Army two years short of retirement and moved from Washington, D.C., to Johnstown to challenge Mr. Murtha. He said yesterday that bad weather and other ...
Not so fast, Democrats tell Nader
Post Date: 2008-02-27 17:40:10 by Ferret Mike
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Pa.'s party wants him to settle legal debts before getting on the ballot. He likens the court fees to a "poll tax." HARRISBURG - Ralph Nader has jumped into the presidential race, contending that he wants to energize third-party politics. But angry Pennsylvania Democrats say Nader should first settle his legal bills from his last presidential campaign. And until he does, lawyers from Pittsburgh have persuaded a Washington judge to freeze $61,000 in Nader's personal bank accounts. Nevertheless, a defiant Nader said that this year he would once again seek a place on the Pennsylvania ballot, and in an interview he delivered a sharp dig at the state. "Pennsylvania is ...
Panetta's Lament: They Had No Plan
Post Date: 2008-02-27 17:16:42 by aristeides
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Panetta's Lament: They Had No Plan The argument that the constant carping about Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been a function of an Obama-friendly, process-obsessed media is well and good. But how, then, to explain the deeply held dissatisfaction of an old Clinton loyalist like Leon Panetta? In an interview with The Observer, Mr. Panetta compared Mrs. Clinton’s top strategist, Mark Penn, to Karl Rove, suggested that the Clinton campaign had totally underestimated Barack Obama’s appeal, and complained about the overall lack of planning that he said had characterized the former First Lady’s bid to return to the White House. Mr. Panetta, who served as chief of staff ...
Far right rejects McCain after Obama apology
Post Date: 2008-02-27 16:09:12 by aristeides
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Far right rejects McCain after Obama apology Daniel Nasaw in Washington guardian.co.uk, Wednesday February 27 2008 The conservative goodwill John McCain rallied in the wake of a critical New York Times story last week on his relationship with a lobbyist appears to have evaporated over a dust-up with a radio host. On Tuesday McCain was forced to apologise for comments made by conservative talk radio host Bill Cunningham at a campaign event in Cincinnati. In a warm-up speech, Cunningham referred to the Democratic presidential hopeful as Barack Hussein Obama, repeatedly using his middle name, and disparaged the Illinois senator as "a hack, a Chicago-style" politician. McCain ...
Larry Sinclair: Obama Accuser Fails Polygraphs
Post Date: 2008-02-27 15:56:48 by robin
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Larry Sinclair had Alleged Engaging in Sex and Drugs with Barack Obama Sinclair took three Tests: A Drug Test and Two Polygraphs He passed the Drug Test, but Showed “Deception” In both Polygraphs The Possible Motives of Larry Sinclair This seems to be the case…. The man who recently made allegations that Senator Barack Obama met him back in 1999 for sex n drugs in the back of limo has failed not one, but two polygraphs. The site, Whitehouse.com, had offered Sinclair the sum of $10,000 to take a polygraph plus another check for $100,000 if he passed. To prove they were not bi-partisan the site also offered the woman at the center of the McCain lobbyist mini-scandal, Vicki ...
McCain Retools Immigration Stance
Post Date: 2008-02-27 15:42:56 by Pern
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WASHINGTON (AP) — John McCain faces a dilemma on immigration as he works to persuade conservatives he's tough enough on the issue without erasing his historic appeal to Hispanic voters. Once a crusader for offering the nation's roughly 12 million undocumented immigrants a way to get legal status, McCain now says his first priority is fortifying U.S. borders. The metamorphosis reflects McCain's intensifying effort to consolidate his support among conservatives, who deride the Arizona senator's past proposals on immigration as offering amnesty to lawbreakers, and bitterly resent his work with Democrats, including Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, on the issue. Click ...
Democrat Upsets Republican In Key Upstate Race (DEMOCRATS 1 SEAT AWAY FROM CONTROL OF NY STATE ASSEMBLY)
Post Date: 2008-02-27 14:54:28 by aristeides
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Democrat Upsets Republican In Key Upstate Race Democrat Darrel Aubertine upset Republican Will Barclay in the special election for New York State's 48th Senate District Tuesday night – slicing the Republican majority in the State Senate to just one. With 99 percent of the precincts reporting, the Associated Press projected the victory. Aubertine had 27,532 votes, or 52 percent, to 25,001 votes for Barclay, 48 percent. Aubertine's victory cuts the GOP lead in the state Senate to 32 to 30, putting Democrats on the cusp of recapturing the Senate for the first time since 1965. Political observers predict the Democrats will now seek a Republican defector, creating a 31 to 31 ...
McCain Scrambles to Control Backers
Post Date: 2008-02-27 12:46:55 by robin
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Though John McCain vowed that attacks on Barack Obama at his campaign events “will never happen again,” the Republican presidential candidate says he’s concerned he may be unable to control all of his supporters - especially third party groups. At a rally in Cincinnati Tuesday, McCain denounced the remarks of local radio talk show host Bill Cunningham, who introduced the candidate with several attacks on Obama, including suggesting he is a “hack” who would sit down for tea with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hezbollah terror leaders. Cunningham also called Obama by his full name, Barack Hussein Obama, during the on-stage introduction. McCain immediately ...
Iraq veterans become pro-war candidates
Post Date: 2008-02-27 11:13:01 by Pern
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COLUMBUS, Ohio - Scott Radcliffe believes two tours of duty in Iraq gave him the stuff to serve in Congress. As a platoon commander, he helped spearhead economic development, built citizen coalitions and made many tough decisions, often amid enemy fire. "I would be putting all I learned in that pressure-filled environment into practice. So it really cuts through metal," said Radcliffe, 28, who seeks to unseat a newly elected Republican in northwest Ohio. He's among the dozen young Republicans from across the country helping each other campaign under the banner of Iraq Veterans for Congress, cross-promoting each other and directing donors to a shared Web site. It's a ...
Vice President Cheney Makes Mystery Visit to Dallas (election fraud problems?)
Post Date: 2008-02-27 10:57:00 by Ferret Mike
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Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, arrive at Love Field on Feb. 25, 2008. Vice President Dick Cheney was visiting Dallas on Monday for undisclosed reasons. Cheney and is wife, Lynne, arrived at Love Field airport at about 11:15 a.m. The smiling and waving couple exited Air Force One about 5 minutes. A limousine quickly escorted from them from the tarmac. No further details were available.
Poster Comment:This shows two things, something fishy is up with no details about a Cheney visit to a state that has a primary March 4th, and that the hubris is so huge with these people, they no longer much care if people talk about how bad something like this looks to Americans grown ...
Now Vietnam Veterans are against John McCain
Post Date: 2008-02-27 10:27:10 by Jethro Tull
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Sunday, February 17, 2008Now Vietnam Veterans are against John McCain I was proud to support the Vietnam Veterans against John Kerry in 2004 because I believed they were correct in identifying John Kerry as a traitor. I now feel the same is true about John McCain. Interestingly the same media that tried to cover up the truth about John Kerry is doing the same about McCain. The answer is quite simple. He is a CFR guy and they will do everything they can to protect him. The internet is not something they can control. Therefore we have this information and it does not have to be filtered by the media before we hear or never hear about it.The fact that he sponsored Shamnesty is reason enough ...
Obama's women reveal his secret
Post Date: 2008-02-27 01:36:36 by TwentyTwelve
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www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JB26Aa01.html Obama's women reveal his secret By Spengler "Cherchez la femme," advised Alexander Dumas in: "When you want to uncover an unspecified secret, look for the woman." In the case of Barack Obama, we have two: his late mother, the went-native anthropologist Ann Dunham, and his rancorous wife Michelle. Obama's women reveal his secret: he hates America. We know less about Senator Obama than about any prospective president in American history. His uplifting rhetoric is empty, as Hillary Clinton helplessly protests. His career bears no trace of his own character, not an article for the Harvard Law Review he edited, or a ...
Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
Post Date: 2008-02-26 23:39:27 by TwentyTwelve
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The Clinton Years Revisited
Post Date: 2008-02-26 21:55:11 by robin
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The Clinton Years RevisitedPhilip GiraldiAs bad as the past eight years have been, it may be fruitful to remember what U.S. national security policy was like under Bill Clinton, as it is very possible that Washington will soon be returning to that gold standard for underachievement. Under Bill, Serbia was bombed in 1999, killing more than 500 civilians in support of no identifiable U.S. national interest. The result of that bombing and its aftermath has been the forceful and quite likely illegal creation of Kosovo, a predominantly Muslim state in the heart of Europe that harbors more than its share of terrorists, drug dealers, and weapons smugglers. Clinton also arranged for a Sudanese ...
Tata, Clinton and the ghost of outsourcing
Post Date: 2008-02-26 21:36:11 by robin
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It seems outsourcing -- and her proximity to Indian business houses like the Tatas -- is going to be the litmus test for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the run-up to the 2008 United States Presidential elections. Fellow Democrat and fellow Presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama's campaign office had a go at Senator Clinton not too long ago, calling her a 'Democrat from Punjab' -- for her friendship with the New York-based Chatwals and pro-outsourcing stand. Though Obama apologised for it later, putting the blame on a campaign official, it signalled that the issue of Americans 'losing jobs' due to outsourcing was going to be an issue, just as the war in Iraq is.Now, ...
MSNBC Obama-Clinton Debate - live thread
Post Date: 2008-02-26 21:03:52 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Can this be viewed on the net? URL?
America's Ghost Story
Post Date: 2008-02-26 20:55:27 by richard9151
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26/02/08 "IHT" -- -- The unfolding political contest in the United States is a window into America's soul. The nation is arguing with itself. The candidates embody separate impulses. As voters choose sides, a red state-blue state polarity again takes shape. Within the Democratic Party, the dispute is narrower, but still sharp. Yet in truth, each citizen carries within herself or himself the structure of the conflict: hard versus soft, experience versus change, programmed versus spontaneous, self-interest versus empathy, hope in an open future versus lessons from the past. Politics, by isolating these positions and attributing them to one candidate over against another, ...
Obama Momentum Picks Up With Dodd Endorsement
Post Date: 2008-02-26 19:45:40 by Brian S
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Presidential contender Barack Obama won the endorsement of a former rival Tuesday in his battle with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party nomination. Obama also got some good news in national polls as he and Clinton prepare for a debate later Tuesday in Cleveland, Ohio. VOA national correspondent Jim Malone is following the presidential campaign from Washington. Obama was endorsed by Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut. Dodd pulled out of the presidential race shortly after a poor showing in the Iowa caucuses in early January. "I believe Barack Obama has the experience, the ability, the vision to lead this country and to make a difference for us, both at home and abroad, a ...
Bush predicts GOP will hold White House
Post Date: 2008-02-26 17:13:18 by aristeides
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Bush predicts GOP will hold White House By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer Tue Feb 26, 1:56 AM ET WASHINGTON - President Bush predicted Monday that voters will replace him with a Republican president who will "keep up the fight" in Iraq. "I'm confident we'll hold the White House in 2008," Bush told donors at the Republican Governors Association annual dinner, which raised a record $10.6 million for GOP gubernatorial candidates. "And I don't want the next Republican president to be lonely," Bush said. "And that is why we got to take the House, retake the Senate, and make sure our states are governed by Republican governors." ...
The friends of Barack Obama [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-02-26 15:08:38 by Jethro Tull
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Barack Obama When Barack Obama snagged the support of billionaire bundler George Soros just hours after he announced his bid for President, the ladies and gents of the donor-sphere (particularly the Hillary partisans) had to work hard to stifle a collective gasp. Then came the news that Orin Kramer, a well-established supporter of the Clintons, had defected to Mr. Obama’s camp. Now the Senator has begun throwing full-on fund-raisers, and the list of names he’s lined up for his host committees is impressive. There are prominent African-American business leaders and entertainment execs. There are old-time Democrats and young machers-in-training—some of whom were actually ...
Debate crucial for Clinton as poll numbers slump
Post Date: 2008-02-26 14:44:40 by robin
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CLEVELAND, Ohio (AFP) — Beset by slumping poll numbers, Hillary Clinton has a last chance in a one-on-one debate Tuesday to slow Barack Obama's roaring momentum before two pivotal nominating clashes next week. The besieged former front-runner, her hopes hanging by a thread ahead of must-win contests in Ohio and Texas on March 4, hopes to halt an Obama surge which has seen the Illinois senator snap up 11 straight electoral victories. The streak has seen Clinton's campaign, which offers the historic prospect of America's first woman president, contemplating the possibility of defeat. Obama, carving out wide leads in national Democratic polls, landed Tuesday's first ...
BREAKING: Former Texas governor endorses Obama (MARK WHITE -- HAS HILLARY GIVEN UP ON TEXAS?)
Post Date: 2008-02-26 14:28:22 by aristeides
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BREAKING: Former Texas governor endorses Obama by henryvx12 [Subscribe] Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 11:01:42 AM PST And They Just Keep coming. I do not know much about Former Texas Gov. Mark White but this cannot hurt. AP Release : HOUSTON - Former Texas Gov. Mark White endorsed Sen. Barack Obama Tuesday in his pursuit of the Democratic presidential nomination.White called Obama a visionary who has set forth a superior proposal to reform the health care system. "Barack's vision is exactly what our nation needs right now," White said in a prepared statement. "Right now, Texas has the highest rate of uninsured in the nation. I believe that Barack's health care plan is the ...
Obama calls for a cool-down
Post Date: 2008-02-26 13:05:43 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Obama calls for a cool-down Rick Bowmer / Associated Press Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Chris Dodd appear at a press conference where Dodd announced his support for Obama. As tensions between his campaign and Clinton's continue to mount, the Illinois senator strikes a conciliatory note: 'We're on the same team.' Meanwhile, he gets an endorsement by Sen. Dodd. By Johanna Neuman and Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers 9:21 AM PST, February 26, 2008 Democrat Barack Obama, preparing for tonight's last debate with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton before the crucial March 4 primaries in Ohio and Texas, sought today to turn down the heat in their increasingly bitter ...
McCain Paying Attention To Ohio (*Ron Paul mention*)
Post Date: 2008-02-26 12:04:58 by angle
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PARMA, Ohio -- The latest poll shows John McCain with a 35 point lead over Mike Huckabee in Ohio, so why is the GOP front-runner here? Because even though he almost has the Republican nomination wrapped up, a general election showdown with Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton is just around the corner. And Ohio is sure to be key battleground. No Republican has won the White House without carrying Ohio. Even though President Bush narrowly won here in 2004, the state is now in the crosshairs for the Democrats after both the governor's mansion and a senate seat changed party hands after the 2006 elections. McCain made several stops around the Cleveland area yesterday, one day before the ...
Mansion 'mistake' piles the pressure on Barack Obama
Post Date: 2008-02-26 10:33:18 by christine
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British-Iraqi billionaire lent millions of dollars to Barack Obama's fundraiser just weeks before an imprudent land deal that has returned to haunt the presidential contender, an investigation by The Times discloses. The money transfer raises the question of whether funds from Nadhmi Auchi, one of Britain’s wealthiest men, helped Mr Obama buy his mock Georgian mansion in Chicago. A company related to Mr Auchi, who has a conviction for corruption in France, registered the loan to Mr Obama's bagman Antoin "Tony" Rezko on May 23 2005. Mr Auchi says the loan, through the Panamanian company Fintrade Services SA, was for $3.5 million. Three weeks later, Mr Obama bought a ...
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