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Latest Articles: (s)Elections
The War Party
Post Date: 2007-09-22 00:17:34 by Zipporah
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Watch Matt Taibbi takes a video camera on the Republican campaign trail, documenting everything from Mitt Romney’s veiled racism to Tom Tancredo’s shockingly long nose hair. The quality these candidates have in common: their adeptness at avoiding discussion of the war in Iraq. Taibbi captures the candidates in prime spin-mode as well as the people who believe their bullshit. Check it out.
Poster Comment:..too funny
James Dobson Trashes Fred Thompson
Post Date: 2007-09-22 00:12:07 by Zipporah
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James Dobson Trashes Fred Thompson An email leaked from James Dobson simply trashes The Great Right Hope: “Isn’t Thompson the candidate who is opposed to a Constitutional amendment to protect marriage, believes there should be 50 different definitions of marriage in the U.S., favors McCain-Feingold, won’t talk at all about what he believes, and can’t speak his way out of a paper bag on the campaign trail?”He has no passion, no zeal, and no apparent ‘want to.’ And yet he is apparently the Great Hope that burns in the breasts of many conservative Christians? Well, not for me, my brothers. Not for me!” -- Tim Dickinson
Rudy, it's Judi
Post Date: 2007-09-22 00:11:12 by kiki
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Bush "Rangers," CEOs switch sides
Post Date: 2007-09-21 16:18:10 by Mekons4
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CEOs, Bush Rangers Rebuff Republicans on War, Widening Deficit By Michael Janofsky Enlarge Image/Details Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Dozens of corporate executives who backed President George W. Bush for re-election in 2004, including some of his top fund-raisers, are now helping Democrats running for president. John Mack, chief executive officer of Morgan Stanley, Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp., and Terry Semel, chairman of Yahoo! Inc., are among some 60 executives writing checks to Democrats such as Senators Hillary Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois, a review of U.S. Federal Election Commission records shows. While the vast majority of business leaders still back ...
Jack Cafferty: Why a third party presidential candidate can't win
Post Date: 2007-09-21 06:46:04 by Ada
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Jack Cafferty reported on his CNN special, "It's Getting Ugly Out There," that even though 70% of Americans believe the country is going in the wrong directions and are fed up with both the Democrats and the Republicans, nothing is likely to change. "There's a big appetite for something different out there,' said Cafferty, "but it ain't going to happen any time soon." Candy Crowley listed for Cafferty the many ways in which "the system is stacked" against third party presidential candidates. They have to spend months collecting petitions in each of the 50 states just to get on the ballot, and then their names may not be printed as ...
Ron Paul Debates the Frankenstein Monster
Post Date: 2007-09-20 09:41:53 by ghostdogtxn
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Ron Paul and the Role of Ideas in Class Conflict
Post Date: 2007-09-20 09:34:04 by ghostdogtxn
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Neocon hawks go all-out for Giuliani
Post Date: 2007-09-17 12:51:21 by Brian S
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They are officially known as Rudy Giuliani's senior foreign policy advisory board, but they also could be dubbed something else: Neocons For Rudy. As in neoconservatives, the Republican faction that many see as among the most potent forces of Bush-era Washington - a well-funded, sharply analytical bunch that provided the ideological basis for invading Iraq and is now training its cross hairs on Iran. Many of its leaders now see Giuliani as the made-to-order candidate, or at least the best chance to perpetuate their influence, experts say. "Everything is still fluid. But I do think Giuliani is picking up a good bit of neoconservative support," said Peter Steinfels, ...
McCain Says He's Been Baptist for Years (snicker, what a shameless panderer)
Post Date: 2007-09-17 10:51:06 by christine
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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has long identified himself as an Episcopalian, said this weekend that he is a Baptist and has been for years. Campaigning in this conservative, predominantly Baptist state, McCain called himself a Baptist when speaking to reporters Sunday and noted that he and his family have been members of the North Phoenix Baptist Church in his home state of Arizona for more than 15 years. "It's well known because I'm an active member of the church," the Arizona senator said. While McCain has long talked about his family's and his own attendance at the Arizona church, he appears to have ...
Petraeus the Politician
Post Date: 2007-09-17 06:34:49 by Ada
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Gen. David Petraeus proved my point. He's a political general. Worse than that, he said something in his Senate testimony that should infuriate the loved ones of every man and woman fighting in Iraq. "Is everything you are doing over there making America safer?" Sen. John Warner asked. Petraeus tried to evade the question, but Warner wouldn't let him off the hook. "Is it making America safer?" he persisted. "I don't know," Petraeus replied. In other words, maybe these nearly 4,000 young people who died and the 27,000 who have suffered wounds simply died and suffered for nothing. After all, their own commanding officer has now gone on record that ...
The General Came to Washington
Post Date: 2007-09-17 05:58:09 by Ada
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Blend a war and a presidential campaign and you have a recipe for 200 proof mendacity, as the Petraeus hearings at the start of the week triumphantly proved. Take the war first. Into the witness chair in the Senate chamber marched General Petraeus, the blaze of ribbons on his chest suggesting actual combat experience somewhat longer than the modest four years his record discloses. He was once shot in he chest, it’s true, but that was in a military exercise in the U.S. when a soldier’s gun went off by accident. Many senior army and navy officers loathe the toadying Petraeus. According to an amusing column by Gareth Porter of IPS, Admiral William Fallon, chief of the Central ...
Kentucky at War
Post Date: 2007-09-16 07:26:28 by Zipporah
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Louisville Carol Trainer could hardly process what was happening. To her, a 60-year-old grandmother and Vietnam veteran, of all people. On Memorial Day, of all times. Arrested for protesting the war at, of all places, Abbey Road on the River, an annual five-day Beatles tribute that had adopted a fortieth-anniversary Summer of Love theme for 2007. Forty years ago, when the Louisville native married Air Force officer Harold Trainer, Carol wouldn't have gone near anything associated with the Summer of Love. "I wasn't an activist; just the opposite, in fact." But since 2002, when the Trainers--he retired from twenty-three years in the Force, she from eleven years as a ...
The GOP’s savior? ("expect insane rhetoric from Keyes that would make a Freeper blush")
Post Date: 2007-09-15 17:51:34 by Zipporah
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Rank-and-file Republicans clearly aren’t satisfied with their already-enormous presidential field. Shortly after Fred Thompson’s announcement, activists started wondering whether David Petraeus might be available. Or maybe Jeb. Or even Newt. Well, wait no more. The savior of the Republican Party has arrived. After two previous runs for U.S. president, former Reagan diplomat Alan Keyes has announced he’s again seeking the White House in the 2008 election, and he’ll take part in Monday night’s Republican presidential debate here. Keyes told syndicated radio host Janet Parshall he’s “unmoved” by the lack of moral courage shown by the other candidates, ...
Thursday polling fun - (Presidental Poll)
Post Date: 2007-09-15 14:32:37 by Zipporah
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Choose your poison or Ron Paul :P http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/09/thursday_polling_fun.php
Military Donors Sending Less Money GOP's Way
Post Date: 2007-09-15 12:23:16 by Brian S
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The war in Iraq has been increasingly unpopular with the public, but we rarely hear about it being unpopular with the military. Military personnel generally have stayed out of politics. But yesterday The Center for Responsive Politics issued a report outlining a shift in which presidential candidates the military supports and how that might affect the election. CRP points out that members of the military historically have strongly favored Republicans, with 75% of their contributions. The number has fallen to 59% since 2004. Does this change indicate eroding support for the war in Iraq? With $27,000 to date, Sen. Barack Obama (D., Ill.) leads all candidates, Democrats and Republicans, in ...
Alan Keyes announces for President! [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-09-15 12:07:35 by Brian S
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On Friday, Sept. 14, Alan Keyes filed a Statement of Candidacy (Form 2) with the Federal Election Commission--thus officially announcing as a Republican candidate for President of the United States. Keyes told Janet Parshall, host of a nationally syndicated radio show, that he's "unmoved" by the lack of moral courage shown by the other candidates, among whom he sees no standout who articulates the "key kernel of truth that must, with courage, be presented to our people." He added, "The one thing I've always been called to do is to raise the standard . . . of our allegiance to God and His authority that has been the foundation stone of our nation's ...
Mike Gravel: "Americans fatter, dumber..."
Post Date: 2007-09-14 14:16:01 by Rupert_Pupkin
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WASHINGTON (CNN) — Trying to be a "friend" to the American people, Democratic White House hopeful Mike Gravel gave his honest assessment to potential voters during an online Democratic candidate forum Thursday. "I'm prepared to tell you that Americans are getting fatter and dumber," the former Alaska senator told comedian Bill Maher, one of the debate's moderators. "I have no problem saying that." Maher asked a question to each of the eight Democratic candidates during the forum, which was sponsored by Slate, Yahoo! and the Huffington Post. Maher told Gravel that obesity rates are up and reading levels are down and added that the ...
[poll] Which of the following Republican candidates has the best conservative credentials?
Post Date: 2007-09-13 16:11:51 by catcher
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Live Vote Poll Which of the following Republican candidates has the best conservative credentials?
Paul Poses Serious Threat to Hillary Clinton in a General Election Match up
Post Date: 2007-09-13 13:21:20 by Eoghan
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Analysis: The antiwar Republican congressman from Texas poses a serious threat to Hillary Clinton and potential Democratic rivals in the general election.
The presidential race has to a great extent turned into a two issue campaign, immigration and the war in Iraq. Democratic candidates are capitalizing on popular antiwar sentiments among the public but are swimming up stream by apparently supporting President Bush's policy of turning a blind eye toward illegal immigration and unsecured borders.
Republicans running for president, unless sentiments change, are generally positioned against public opinion with their support for the war, however, they are riding the tide of public ...
Gonzo Boogie - Easy as ABC
Post Date: 2007-09-13 01:41:06 by richard9151
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09/12/07 "ICH" -- -- Speculation is swirling about who will replace Attorney General Alberto Gonzales -- everyone from Utah's Senator Orrin Hatch to former Solicitor General and Clinton stalker Theodore Olsen. Until last week, the name most bandied about was Secretary of Homeland Security and USAPATRIOT Act co-author Michael Chertoff. You'd think selecting Chertoff in light of the New Orleans debacle would be a stupid thing to do since Chertoff's continued ideological mishandling of the Katrina disaster borders on the criminally insane. Oh. Yeah. I forgot. Stupid bungling and destructive, criminal assaults on the less fortunate seem to be the criteria for serving at ...
'60s Figure Says He Financed Donor Hsu
Post Date: 2007-09-12 04:03:43 by Horse
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Where did Norman Hsu get his money? That has been one of the big questions hanging over the prominent Democratic fund-raiser, as reports have surfaced about hundreds of thousands of dollars he made in political donations, plus lavish parties, fancy apartments and a $2 million bond he posted to get out of jail earlier this month. New documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal may help point to an answer: A company controlled by Mr. Hsu recently received $40 million from a Madison Avenue investment fund run by Joel Rosenman, who was one of the creators of the Woodstock rock ...
Poster Comment:Hsu's donations to the Dems and to Hillary seem to me to be investments on a front that ...
Romney Didn't Approve Anti-Thompson Site
Post Date: 2007-09-11 16:11:58 by Eoghan
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A spokesman for Republican Mitt Romney said Tuesday that the presidential candidate did not approve the creation of a Web site severely critical of the personal and political life of his GOP rival, Fred Thompson. The Web site, http://PhoneyFred.org, was created by Wesley Donehue, a business associate of Warren Tompkins, a South Carolina political operative on the Romney payroll and the candidate's top adviser in the early voting state. The site was created without the knowledge of Tompkins or Romney, said Romney spokesman Kevin Madden. After the campaign received media inquiries about it, Romney aides traced the site to Donehue and complained. ``We made it clear that we did not ...
Ron Paul 60 Minutes and Bill O'Reilly Appearances Could Slash Odds Further
Post Date: 2007-09-10 17:18:53 by ghostdogtxn
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The Man That The Media Fears
Post Date: 2007-09-10 12:43:27 by ghostdogtxn
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Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Gains Popularity on the Internet
Post Date: 2007-09-10 07:17:18 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Gains Popularity on the Internet Associated Content ^ | May 30, 2007 | C. M. Paulson Posted on 05/31/2007 12:11:35 AM PDT by The_Eaglet Dr. Ron Paul has become an internet sensation, according to his website http://www.RonPaul2008.com. The Ron Paul 2008 site states that he is the most requested Republican candidate on http://Eventful.com, a site which allows users to request that a person (usually an entertainer) visit their area. In addition, the Ron Paul 2008 site reports that Dr. Paul has twice as many You Tube subscribers as all of the other Republican candidates combined. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1842327/posts (Excerpt) Read more ...
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