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Title: Specter says he's switching from GOP to Democrats - Obama: "Thrilled to have you."
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URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97RJ5B01&show_article=1
Published: Apr 28, 2009
Author: By DAVID ESPO
Post Date: 2009-04-28 13:03:44 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Views: 4634
Comments: 124
"I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans," Specter said in a statement posted on a Web site devoted to Pennsylvania politics and confirmed by his office. Several Senate officials said a formal announcement could come later in the day or Wednesday. Specter, 79 and in his fifth term, is one of a handful of Republican moderates remaining in Congress in a party now dominated by conservatives. Several officials said the White House as well as leaders in both parties had been involved in discussions leading to his move. With Specter, Democrats would have 59 Senate seats. Al Franken is ahead in a marathon recount in Minnesota, and if he ultimately wins his race against Republican Norm Coleman, he would become the party's 60th vote. That is the number needed to overcome a filibuster. Specter faced an extraordinarily difficult re-election challenge in his home state in 2010, having first to confront a challenge from his right in the Republican primary before pivoting to a general election campaign against a Democrat. "I am unwilling to have my twenty-nine year Senate record judged by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate," he said in the statement. "I don't have to say anything to them. They said it to me," Specter said, when asked in a Capitol corridor about abandoning the GOP. A senior White House official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because no announcement has yet been made, said at 10:25 a.m. EDT Tuesday President Barack Obama was handed a note while in the Oval Office during his daily economic briefing. The note said: "Specter is announcing he is changing parties." At 10:32, Obama reached Specter by phone and told him "you have my full support" and that the Democratic Party is "thrilled to have you." Specter had publicly acknowledged that to win in 2010, he would need thousands of Pennsylvania voters who switched from Republican to Democrat last year to vote for Obama to flip back to the GOP to cast ballots for him. Specter says he's switching from GOP to Democrats 
Apr 28 12:45 PM US/Eastern
By DAVID ESPO
AP Special Correspondent
(3 images) WASHINGTON (AP) - Veteran Republican Sen. Arlen Specter disclosed plans Tuesday to switch parties, a move intended to boost his chances of winning re-election next year that will also push Democrats closer to a 60-vote filibuster-resistant majority.
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#98. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
Fuck that jewish piece-of-shit, I wish Hitler had slaughtered EVERY fucking jew on the planet, including him and his parents so that we would be rid of that filthy race.
=================================== Hitler was himself, the son of a Jew.
Hitler did the right thing in the end by committing suicide and not procreating.
Hitler stated that had he won the war, he would "purge" the races of the world every 25 years in order to grow his Aryan Race. I do NOT agree with or subscribe to his tyrannical oppression - it would have thrown the entire world into endless war, needlessly killing hundreds of millions of completely innocent children, women, and men. However . . To those of you who do not know who Jacob Schiff was: Schiff worked for the Rothschilds, or maybe even was a Rothschild, and financed the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. That's right, the Capitalist Jew paid for the birth of Communism to the World! That 20 million, brought untold misery to millions, and would've been equivalent to hundreds of millions of dollars today. Supposedly, Leon Trotsky, (a Jew, actually named Lev Bronstein) accompanied it to Russia. Only 13 members of the 384 members of the top governing body were ethnic, Gentile Russians. The leading administrators of the Gulag, where many people met horrible fates, were all Jews. Yagoda (Jew name: Ieguda or Judah) presided over the killing of millions of white gentiles.
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#100. To: X-15 (#98)
Hitler had slaughtered EVERY fucking jew on the planet . .
#102. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#100)
Hitler was himself, the son of a Jew.
#104. To: X-15 (#102)
The Rabi Marvin S. Andelman, in his book To Eliminate the Opiate, said that Jacob Schiff is credited with giving 20 million dollars to the Bolshevik Revolution. A year after his death the Bolsheviks deposited 600 million rubles to Schiff's banking firm Kuhn & Loeb Co. (which still exists to this day and with Schiffs on board).
The Jew, Leon Trotsky, addressing the Commie Hordes.
Talk about Holocausts!
Also, Jacob Schiff is supposed to have given the order for the founding of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR), those that are behind the North American Union and the end to the concept of the United States of America. 
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