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<![CDATA[Questions: 1) Who said "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned"? 2) Who has taken a stronger position against assault weapons? 3) Who promised that U.S. troops would be greeted as “liberators” in Iraq? 4) Who went on a nationwide speaking tour trying to convince Americans to privatize our Social Security? 5) Even after the public and Congress rejected the idea, who is still pushing to privatize our Social Security? 6) Who said "the issue of economics is something that I’ve never really understood as well as I should"? 7) While running for president, who called himself a "different kind of Republican" and promised bipartisan cooperation? 8) After Saddam Hussein was captured in 2003, who said "Mission Accomplished"? 9) Who said the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a “second job” and skip their vacations? 10) As Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans, who took time out for a photo op with 11) Who received a zero percent rating for his environmental record from the League 12) Who opposed health care for uninsured children last year? 13) Who won the support of 7 out of 10 independent voters in his home state? 14) Who blocked a proposal to ban waterboarding torture in the U.S.? ho graduated in the bottom 1% of his college class? 15) McCain has made a big deal of acknowledging that global warming is real. On the environment, who scored higher with the League of Conservation Voters—McCain or this carrot? 16) Who has had more physical assaults and confrontations with colleagues in Congress, including a fistfight with an Arizona congressman and a scuffle with octogenarian Strom Thurmond? 17) Who has the better plan to bring home our troops from Iraq? Answers: 1) McCain. In fact, John McCain has gotten a rating of zero percent from NARAL Pro-Choice America for 6 years running. 2) Bush. He said he'd sign a ban on assault weapons. But McCain opposes the assault weapons ban 3) McCain. (Dick Cheney said that, too. In fact, McCain is more of a Bush-Cheney hybrid. Which is a pretty scary thought.) 4) Both Bush and McCain. The idea proved unpopular with, well, basically everyone in America. 5) McCain. Bush finally gave up. (And when Bush gives up on a bad idea, you know it's REALLY bad.) 6) McCain (perhaps channeling Bush?) 7) Bush. Ahh, the '90s. We were so young and naive... 8) McCain. Bush stood under a “Mission Accomplished” banner. But only McCain actually said it. 9) McCain. He should know, because he and his wife own nine houses. He must have a LOT of jobs. 10) Both Bush and McCain. It was McCain's 69th birthday, and both men cut cake and took photos with the press while Katrina was devastating New Orleans. 11) McCain. 12) Both Bush and McCain. The Children’s Defense Fund even rated John McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. 13) Bush. 73 percent of independents in Texas thought he was moderate enough to re-elect as governor in 1998 14) McCain. He was 894th (!) out of 899 graduating students 15) Both Bush and McCain. McCain has built his reputation on opposing torture, but while running for the Republican nomination, he voted against a bill to ban the torture. Then he applauded President Bush for vetoing the torture bIt's a tie! McCain received a big fat zero for his environmental record last year. That's zero, nothing, null, zip, nada. This carrot received no rating, so that one's a push. 16) John McCain. This carrot has never lost its temper and physically assaulted any elected representatives. Yet. 17) Not even close. This carrot has no plan to bring home our troops. But McCain has a policy of escalation, belligerence, and using force instead of diplomacy. He talks about staying in Iraq for 100 years. A carrot couldn't do anywhere near the damage to our country that McCain would…plus, the carrot is loaded with beta carotene. ]]>

<![CDATA[March 12, 2008 | The most important thing about the endorsements proffered to John McCain by George W. Bush and evangelist John Hagee last week was McCain's reaction to them. The freshly minted Republican nominee for president, who has had harsh words in the past for both Bush's policies and evangelical "agents of intolerance," meekly accepted their support. He knows he cannot win in November if the evangelicals and pro-war conservatives stay home. How far will McCain go in presenting himself as Son of Bush in order to energize his party's base? To date, based on his willingness to embrace the Bush agenda and to associate with religious extremists, the answer seems to be pretty far indeed. When John McCain went to the White House last week, President Bush seemed to be offering him an out. Bush "welcomed" McCain as "the Republican nominee" in his official statement, but didn't initially use the word "endorse." It was McCain who leapt for the e-word. "Well, I'm very honored and humbled," said McCain, "to have the opportunity to receive the endorsement of the President of the United States, a man who I have great admiration, respect and affection [for]." McCain's strategists, meanwhile, are said to be privately plotting how best to deploy the deeply unpopular Bush, perhaps by quietly sending him to host fundraisers deep inside red states where he would not risk alienating the general population from McCain. But McCain is hewing so faithfully to Bush's legacy he may need no help from the man himself in alienating the population. Whereas in his 2000 presidential bid, the Arizona senator sharply criticized Bush for appearing at the anti-Catholic Bob Jones University, which at that time also still banned interracial dating, he is less vocal about such matters now. He is himself behaving as Bush did then. McCain once dismissed evangelicals such as Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson as "agents of intolerance." But last week the senator embraced Hagee's endorsement. Talk about an agent of intolerance! Hagee is like Pat Robertson on steroids. The Democratic National Committee was quick to point out that Hagee said that Jews have faced persecution "right up to this very day" because they rejected Jesus and so demonstrated "disobedience and rebellion" toward Jehovah. He said that the difference between a woman with premenstrual syndrome and a terrorist is that you can negotiate with a terrorist. He said that Katrina was divine punishment on New Orleans for its sinfulness, and on gays for planning a parade there. He said that Roman Catholics were linked with Hitler "in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews," and called the Catholic Church "the Great Whore." He suggested a faux "slave auction" as a church fundraiser. He told a startled Terry Gross on "Fresh Air" that the Quran directs Muslims to kill Christians and Jews. (In fact the Quran recognizes Christians and Jews as "people of scripture" and only urges the early Muslims to fight back against the militant "infidels" or polytheists who were trying to wipe them out.) McCain reacted warmly to Hagee's endorsement, saying, "I am very proud of Pastor John Hagee's spiritual leadership to thousands of people and I am proud of his commitment to the independence and the freedom of the state of Israel." (Apparently for Hagee Israel is good, even if Jews are bad.) Pressed by Roman Catholics and others, McCain refused to distance himself from the pastor, saying only, "In no way did I intend for his endorsement to suggest that I in turn agree with all of Pastor Hagee's views, which I obviously do not." This non-disavowing disavowal has not satisfied most of the people offended by McCain's having associated himself with Hagee. Hagee's endorsement is McCain's "Bob Jones moment," taken from the W. playbook of 2000. In other respects, McCain is trying to repeat Bush's big win of 2004, when he fended off a near-upset by a weak Democratic candidate by doubling down on fear. McCain has adopted foreign policy and domestic stances similar to those of Bush's successful reelection run. In July of 2004, Bush abruptly announced that he was looking into whether Iran played a role in the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S., and accused the Shiite ayatollahs of Tehran of harboring al-Qaida operatives, who are Sunnis. The whole fantastic set of allegations was immediately denied by Bush's own intelligence officials. Hawkishness toward Iran was one way for Bush to take the focus off his failures in Iraq. Bush by his belligerence appealed to a combination of evangelical holy warriors and so-called national-security conservatives, and McCain seems poised to move in the same direction. Echoing Bush's fear-mongering about the Islamic world, which by August 2006, two years after his reelection, regularly included references to so-called Islamic fascism, McCain maintains that the "transcendent" challenge facing the United States in 2008 is "radical Islamic extremism." McCain alleges that "al-Qaida in Iraq" will "follow us home" if the U.S. withdraws from that country. McCain takes this line even though most Muslim countries are close allies of the United States and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida has been revealed to be a small fringe, now in disarray. Hagee's endorsement, meanwhile, brings more than white Protestant intolerance to the table. The organization he founded, Christians United for Israel, is lobbying for a war on Iran and dismisses last fall's National Intelligence Estimate finding that Iran has no active nuclear weapons program as "incompetent." McCain himself has joked about bombing Iran, to the tune of an old Beach Boys song. George Bush has been closely wed to Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf, even in the face of the reverses of the last year, which have seen the general's fortunes plummet as he alienated the entire electorate by sacking the supreme court and ordering a ham-fisted invasion of a militant mosque. Even after Musharraf's party lost heavily in recent parliamentary elections, McCain insisted, "We appreciate the relationship we have with President Musharraf and hope to maintain that." Musharraf's high-handed tactics have turned the whole Pakistani population against him, and he seems set to be much weakened by a new alliance of the democratically elected opposition parties. McCain, like Bush, doesn't want to let go of the dictator. Bush's signature project has been the war in Iraq, which he has managed like a veteran Las Vegas magician, with a misdirection and legerdemain that can make a whole elephant disappear. Despite nearly 4,000 U.S. soldiers killed, 30,000 wounded, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed, millions displaced internally and abroad, the creation of a new and serious terrorism problem, high fuel costs at home, and the entire lack of any obvious benefit from the whole endeavor to the American people, more than 40 percent of Americans now say the U.S. is making progress in establishing civil order in that country. McCain went to the same David Coppersmith School of Prestidigitation as Bush. He says he is dedicated to nothing less than complete military victory in Iraq and the maintenance of bases in that country for as much as a century, and his audiences do not appear to break out in derisive laughter. The bad news for McCain is that about 63 percent of Americans, a figure that has been fairly steady for the past year, continue to believe launching the war in the first place was a mistake. Surely lack of health insurance for tens of millions, loss of good jobs, blighted cities like Detroit and New Orleans, and erosion of key civil liberties are a more "transcendent challenge" than the activities of small cultlike groups that are finding it harder and harder to operate on the soil of Middle Eastern and European allies of the U.S. But that's not to say that McCain isn't pushing a domestic agenda as well. McCain does have a domestic agenda. It's George Bush's. On domestic policy, McCain's nostrums for the bad economy are job training and "tax cuts." As Paul Krugman once pointed out, "tax cuts" were Bush's response to each and every economic problem that arose, however unrealistic they were. Half of all the benefits of Bush's 2003 tax cut went to millionaires, and the sad impact on ordinary Americans of consequent lack of services and the diversion of wealth to the wealthy, has now become amply apparent. The more economically literate Republicans have caught on to Bush's "tax cut" shell game. Ironically, John McCain used to be one of them, declining to sign on to some of Bush's tax cuts. No more. By "tax cuts," Republicans such as McCain mean lowering specific federal taxes on income and capital gains. This step would harm federal income, which will fall anyway if there is an extended recession, and would mainly benefit Americans in the top income brackets. A federal government with less income will be less able to pay for the services and job training ordinary workers and middle-class people need, especially in bad times. Moreover, in a recession, you want the government to spend more money, not less, which cannot be accomplished by reducing its income. McCain, like Bush, seems firmly stuck in 1929. Bush championed the North American Free Trade Agreement, criticizing Sens. Clinton and Obama for saying they might pull out of it if Mexico and Canada declined to renegotiate some of its provisions. Bush is now pushing for a free trade agreement with Colombia, arguing it is necessary for "national security." McCain is just as committed to NAFTA as Bush. Worried about the impact on U.S.-Canadian relations of Democratic attacks on the agreement, he said, "I want to tell our Canadian friends that I will negotiate and conclude free trade agreements and I will not, after entering into solemn agreements, go and say that I will abrogate those agreements." He denounced the Democratic candidates for risking "protectionism," and added, "One of the greatest assets we have in Afghanistan today, frankly, are our Canadian friends." He noted the unpopularity of the Canadian participation in the NATO mission there, which is part of a NATO contingent, given the 78 Canadian soldiers killed so far. He concluded, "We need their continued support in Afghanistan." Some 58 percent of Canadians reject the idea of extending their country's mission in Afghanistan past February 2009. Both at home and abroad, McCain appears intent on abandoning some of his most deeply cherished personal values, including his commitment to secular values and distaste for religious bigotry, in favor of catering to the great W. coalition of white evangelicals and security-obsessed conservatives. Like Bush, his mantras are war and belligerence abroad, and at home, fear-mongering, "free trade," lower taxes on the wealthy, and "job training" for the increasingly miserable middle classes. If he is elected, it will be "Groundhog Day," the Bill Murray film about a character doomed to live through the same day over and over again. It will be the last eight years that we will suffer through again under a President McCain. Only worse, because we have already eaten so much of our seed corn. ]]>

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<![CDATA[I am a Newburyport resident who has experienced problems with nuisances that related largely to the deplorable condition of many of the city's streets and particularly its sidewalks that prompt most pedestrians into the street. I am writing to call attention to this matter and encourage efforts to begin the process of getting some new folks in office. I will not mention any names here out of concern for a libel suit but will say that the councilor for my ward was responsive in the past and promised several years ago to have the sidewalk in front of my house fixed. He has not returned my past several telephone calls, and a fax machine now picks up the line that is listed as his contact number. I have learned that the sidewalk will not be fixed for several more years. I spoke to the councilor for the neighboring ward; he agreed to look into the matter and call me back. He has never called me back or returned any of my telephone messages. The same is true regarding the one councilor-at-large who actually returned my call. I did speak to someone at the mayor's office and was told that nothing would be done and that the mayor himself would not discuss the matter. I had tried to reach a state-level elected official about a different matter; he ignored my calls until I finally got him on the telephone. All of my messages had been polite, but he yelled that I was not to call him again and that he would call the police if I did so. He still did not apologize after being called to task by higher-ups. I expect that many of you will want to respond that I am a nut and am harassing these people. Any harassing has been mild and has resulted from them not returning my calls. As I said in some messages, Management 101 says that you must return calls. I understand as well that most of these people are essentially volunteers, but they have taken responsibility for participating in running the city or the state and clearly have a duty to respond to constituent concerns. Further, their lives would be much easier if they showed the courtesy of returning calls and explaining why they are not meeting what I understand to be their role as advocates. Newburyport has already had one teenager who was walking in the road killed by a car, and I am pleasantly surprised that there have not been more people killed or injured or at least confrontations between drivers and pedestrians in the road. There have been countless times that I have been stuck driving behind people walking or pushing baby carriages in the middle of the road and been given dirty looks when I have honked as gently as possible. I am a polite and nice person who respects social conventions but recognize that I am much more task-oriented than people-oriented. Unfortunately, this seems to eliminate me from putting my money where my mouth is and running myself. I strongly advocate raising more money by charging business property a higher tax rate than residential property and do know that I could reduce the school department's need for tax money. Further, I offer my services to any candidate who promises to respond meaningfully to every constituent concern.]]>

<![CDATA[To those who might share our interests: We just started a show that mixes a lot of social satire with political overtones . . . definitely of a young / grassroots / progressive bent. As a whole, we're dedicated to a show that is both fun and provocative. We've gotten GREAT audience responses but are having trouble getting the word out. If you're 20 - 40 and a social progressive and willing to take a $10 / $7 risk on an hour of your evening (or, if you don't want to risk paying, we'll comp you if you get us your name in time), check us out. Saturdays, 7:00, ImprovBoston. NOT AN IMPROV SHOW (though it has a small amount of improv mixed in to keep it fresh) THE DETAILS: Taking the audience through songs, sketches, musical numbers, monologues, a little bit of improv and a lot of audience interaction, the cast of MOSAIC uncovers 18 social, political and personal pictures of today. With what the Boston Globe called "material that embodies the fast-paced laughs of 'Saturday Night Live' and the satirical zing of 'The Daily Show,'" MOSAIC is not just a funny show, but a memorable satire of modern trends, politics and culture. "Bunches of fun." - Stuff @ Night Come see why the Boston Globe listed MOSAIC first in its recent fringe theater article, "Five Productions That Make a Good Argument Why Smaller is Better."]]>

<![CDATA[Having failed our great nation on every front. This disease keeps telling itself, someone else is to blame. Fucking neo cunts. U.S. MILITARY DEATHS (IRAQ): 4077 U.S. MILITARY WOUNDED (IRAQ): 30004 IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS: 151000 'EXCESS' IRAQI DEATHS: 655000 U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK The Outstanding Public Debt as of 15 May 2008 at 11:30:08 PM GMT is: $ 9 , 3 6 6 , 2 1 0 , 7 4 6 , 3 8 7 . 2 4 The estimated population of the United States is 303,995,681 so each citizen's share of this debt is $30,810.34. The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $1.56 billion per day since September 28, 2007! Concerned? Then tell Congress and the White House!]]>

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<![CDATA[<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=EF292305-D4F0-4443-8CC5-BC3ECD0EE92D" rel="nofollow">http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=EF292305-D4F0-4443-8CC5-BC3ECD0EE92D</a> IF Barack Obama gets his way, the Oxford English Dictionary will update its definition of "distraction" by the end of the campaign: "Diversion of the mind, attention, etc., from any object or course that tends to advance the political interests of Barack Obama." After his blowout win in North Carolina last week, Obama turned to framing the rules of the general election ahead, warning in his victory speech of "efforts to distract us." The chief distracter happens to be the man standing between Obama and the White House, John McCain, who will "use the very same playbook that his side has used time after time in election after election." Ah, yes, the famous distractions with which Republicans fool unwitting Americans. Ronald Reagan distracted them with the Iranian hostage crisis, high inflation and unemployment, gas lines and the loss of US prestige abroad. The first George Bush distracted them with the notion of a third Reagan term, plus the issues of taxes, crime and volunteerism. After an interlude of national focus during two Clinton terms, another Bush arrived wielding the dark art of distraction. Forget "bitter," Obama must believe that most Americans suffer from an attention-deficit disorder so crippling that they can't concentrate on their own interests or values. Obama has an acute self-interest in so diagnosing the electorate. His campaign knows he's vulnerable to the charge of being an elitist liberal. Unable to argue the facts, it wants to argue the law, defining his weaknesses as off-limits. The campaign can succeed in imposing these rules on the race only if the news media cooperate. Newsweek signed up for the effort in a cover story that reads like a 3,400-word elaboration of the "distraction" passage of Obama's victory speech. "The Republican Party has been successfully scaring voters since 1968," it says, through "innuendo and code." McCain "may not be able to resist casting doubt on Obama's patriotism," and there's a question whether he can or wants to "rein in the merchants of slime and sellers of hate." Here are the Obama rules in detail: He can't be called a "liberal" ("the same names and labels they pin on everyone," as Obama puts it); his toughness on the War on Terror can't be questioned ("attempts to play on our fears"); his extreme positions on social issues can't be exposed ("the same efforts to distract us from the issues that affect our lives" and "turn us against each other"); and his Chicago background too is off-limits ("pouncing on every gaffe and association and fake controversy"). Besides that, it should be a freewheeling and spirited campaign. Democrats always want cultural issues not to matter because they're on the least-popular side of many of them; they want patriotic symbols like the Pledge of Allegiance and flag pins to be irrelevant when they can't manage to nominate presidential candidates who wholeheartedly embrace them (which shouldn't be that difficult). As for "fear" and "division," they are vaporous pejoratives that can be applied to any warning of negative consequences of a given policy or any political position that doesn't command 100 percent assent. In his North Carolina speech, Obama said the Iraq War "has not made us safer," and that McCain's ideas are "out of touch" with "American values." How fearfully divisive. We could take Obama's rules in good faith if he never calls John McCain a "conservative" or labels him in any other way. If he never criticizes him for his association with George Bush. If he doesn't jump on his gaffes (like McCain's 100-years-in-Iraq comment that Obama distorted and harped on for weeks). And if he never says anything that would tend to make Americans fearful about the future or divide them (i.e., say things that some people agree with and others don't). This is, of course, an impossible standard. Obama doesn't expect anyone to live up to it except John McCain. ]]>

<![CDATA[On the very day of a special election to fill a vacated congressional seat this week in Mississippi, The New York Times accused the Republican candidate of running racist ads against his Democratic opponent. Talk about dirty tricks! By The New York Times, that is. The Republican thus accused of racism narrowly lost the election the night the Times article appeared, so I guess the Times can proclaim: "Mission Accomplished. The ad in question, on behalf of Republican Greg Davis, pointed out that Barack Obama had endorsed Davis' opponent, Travis Childers -- another in a long line of fake-American goobers claiming to be "conservative Democrats," but who get to Congress and promptly vote to ban guns, surrender in Iraq and fund full-term abortions. These days, I guess you can call yourself a "conservative Democrat" if you refrain from being sworn into Congress with your hand on a Quran. The ad showed a clip of Obama's pastor g-damning America and mentioned Obama's recent remarks ridiculing rural folks for clinging to guns. It then concluded that Childers "took Obama's endorsement over our conservative values." The Republicans had also run ads connecting Childers with other Washington liberals, such as Nancy Pelosi and John Kerry. (Times editors are still looking for the racist angle to those ads.) To call that ad racist is a monstrous libel. Greg Davis and the Mississippi Republicans should bring a defamation action against The New York Times -- although such an action might be perceived as "racist" because some black people work at the Times. Republicans are constantly linking the local hayseed Democrat to national liberals like John Kerry. The technique goes back at least to Michael Dukakis in 1988. It is beyond outrageous for liberals to complain about the practice of linking Democrats to the national party when their calculated strategy in race after race in the red states has been to run Democratic candidates who appear to be Americans. They're not Americans. They're liberals! I don't care how much hay is sticking out of their straw hats. In the 2006 midterm elections, Sen. Chuck Schumer and erstwhile ballerina Rep. Rahm Emanuel (now there's a couple of raw-boned Americans for you!) famously rounded up yokels from the local square dance contests to run as "macho Dems" -- as the Times admiringly called them. Schumer and the ballerina were hailed for their brilliant strategy to fool the hayseeds. The phony blue-collar Democrats won their elections by driving around in pickup trucks and shooting guns, then moved to Washington and began voting against war in Iraq and in favor of taxpayer-funded abortions. One of the Democrats' paragons of regular guy-ness that year was Jon Tester of Montana, who wore cowboy boots and had a buzz cut. The crew cut absolutely transfixed liberals in places like Manhattan. Search "Jon Tester and crew cut" on Google, and you'll get more than 200,000 hits. Even this tonsorial affectation was a liberal fake-out, inasmuch as Tester has no military service. After campaigning throughout Montana in a pickup truck, Tester got to Washington and compiled a voting record more liberal than Chuck Schumer's, according to the liberal Americans for Democratic Action (Tester: 95 percent; Schumer: 90 percent). Tester also has a 100 percent rating from the pro-abortion group NARAL. There's your truck driving, gun-totin' Democrat. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. was another consumer fraud perpetrated on voters in 2006 by the Democrats. Casey ran for office on the strength of his father's name and his alleged pro-life position. It was the pro-life position of his father -- the popular Democratic governor of Pennsylvania -- that disqualified Casey Sr. from speaking at the Democratic National Convention in 1992. Despite rumors that Schumer had assured Hillary Clinton that Casey was not really pro-life, the good people of Pennsylvania made him their senator, throwing out Rick Santorum, the kind of pro-lifer who actually opposes abortion. In Casey's first year in office, he voted in favor of an amendment to a foreign appropriations bill introduced by the fanatically pro-abortion Barbara Boxer that overturned U.S. policy against providing taxpayer money to groups that perform abortions overseas. It also granted overseas abortion providers taxpayer money. There's a "pro-life Democrat" for you. In elections in the patriotic parts of the country, Democrats keep producing candidates that look like they're out of a Norman Rockwell painting but vote like Karl Marx -- which is to say, they vote like the typical member of the Democratic Party. Naturally, Republicans respond to this tactic by linking the local phonies to the national party. As soon as the Democrats stop running these mountebanks, Republicans will stop exposing them as lickspittles for their liberal masters in Washington. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ann Coulter is Legal Affairs Correspondent for HUMAN EVENTS and author of "High Crimes and Misdemeanors," "Slander," ""How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)," "Godless," and most recently, "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans." ]]>

<![CDATA[<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/meekssandygirl/amenstyxy6.jpg"> "Yuh... now them be good 'murikans" Start with yourselves, you idiots... learn the language before you start preaching about it.]]>

<![CDATA[Hey Mr. J.Hoff! Did You find those WMD?? YOU Bush Ass Licker!!!]]>

<![CDATA[Your hatred for President Bush has affected your comprehension of that statement. THOSE weapons were found not to be made in Iran. The vast MAJORITY of the other explosives captured from terrorists in Iraq are made and supplied by the Iranian government. If you're gonna slam the US government, at least get it straight.]]>

<![CDATA[I think perhaps that after making my original post i should reconsider my position about this. I thought i would receive 100's or responses from Republicans who were dissapointed with Bush and his policies......what i acatully received made me think. I got 1,076 responses from Republicans in this state who stand behind Bush, i received 2 responses from those who agreed with my original post. I then went on to email several of the people who sent a response to me and discussed this at great lenght. Bush is far from perfect, but when compared to what the democrats are putting up as a candidate, perhaps Bush isnt as bad as some make him out to be. We should be uniting behind the Republican candidate. I apologize for my original post. Remember, to maintain our way of life, we need a Republican in the White House. I will stop my divisive posts and put my full support behind McCain!!!!]]>

<![CDATA[ The current increase in the price of oil and its' effect on the American economy and our standard of living ..... with more of the same to come . No need to send those "fearsome terrorists" that Homeland Security keeps looking for ...... And all our military power, and W M D's, can't seem to do much about it - nada, neit, nothing . What a mess - thank you George Bush and Israel . ]]>

<![CDATA[ ... anonymous man-on-man sex in airport restrooms. ]]>

<![CDATA[ Quiet US Confession Weapons Were Not Made In Iran After All CASMII Press Release 12/05/08 "ICH" -- - In a sharp reversal of its longstanding accusations against Iran arming militants in Iraq , the US military has made an unprecedented albeit quiet confession: the weapons they had recently found in Iraq were not made in Iran at all. According to a report by the LA Times correspondent Tina Susman in Baghdad: "A plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was cancelled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran. A U.S. military spokesman attributed the confusion to a misunderstanding that emerged after an Iraqi Army general in Karbala erroneously reported the items were of Iranian origin. When U.S. explosives experts went to investigate, they discovered they were not Iranian after all." The US, which until two weeks ago had never provided any proof for its allegations, finally handed over its "evidence" of the Iranian origin of these weapons to the Iraqi government. Last week, an Iraqi delegation to Iran presented the US "evidence" to Iranian officials. According to Al-Abadi, a parliament member from the ruling United Iraqi Alliance who was on the delegation, the Iranian officials totally refuted "training, financing and arming" militant groups in Iraq . Consequently the Iraqi government announced that there is no hard evidence against Iran. In another extraordinary event this week, the US spokesman in Iraq, Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner, for the first time did not blame Iran for the violence in Iraq and in fact did not make any reference to Iran at all in his introductory remarks to the world media on Wednesday when he described the large arsenal of weapons found by Iraqi forces in Karbala. In contrast, the Pentagon in August 2007 admitted that it had lost track of a third of the weapons distributed to the Iraqi security forces in 2004/2005. The 190,000 assault rifles and pistols roam free in Iraqi streets today. In the past year, the US leaders have been relentless in propagating their charges of Iranian meddling and fomenting violence in Iraq and since the release of the key judgments of the US National Intelligence Estimate in December that Iran does not have a nuclear weaponisation programme, these accusations have sharply intensified. The US charges of Iranian interference in Iraq too have now collapsed. Any threat of military strike against Iran is in violation of the UN charter and the IAEA's continued supervision on Iran's uranium enrichment facilities means there is no justification for sanctions. CASMII calls on the US to change course and enter into comprehensive and unconditional negotiations with Iran. For more information or to contact CASMII please visit <a href="http://www.campaigniran.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.campaigniran.org</a> ]]>

<![CDATA[Ok....this has to go out to everyone. Just because I don't agree with Obama, DOES NOT mean i'm racist. And I believe the same goes for WV, cause if they are, so is MA, and CA, if you remember, Obama lost in those states. God you people are idiots, next time someone says I don't like black people, I'm just gonna give it to them and agree. Oh and if that works, then those people hate military vets (McCain), and women (Hillary). See how stupid that sounds. ]]>

<![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi could repair the damage to the Democratic party if she is the Vice Presidential nominee with Obama if he wins the nomination to run for president. CIRCULATE TO ALL, Friends, Blogs, News, Radio. TV, Media, Especially, Those who will attend the DNC Convention. PELOSI FOR VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE TO RUN WITH OBAMA IF HE WINS NOMINATION.]]>

<![CDATA[Hello: I have started a political action committee in Boston called Moveontherightway.org. Our primary positions are that we should be strong on defense and conservative in economic affairs. If you are interested in politics and agree that liberal positions should be resisted, I need your help! Our first big event will be held July 5. Let's take action and make a difference this election. Contact me at info@moveontherightway.org. While you're at it, visit us at www.moveontherightway.org and get involved right away! Ryan Moveontherightway.org Jamaica Plain, MA 02130]]>

<![CDATA[Meet other local Republicans who are against President Bush. Discuss the negative impact that President Bush has had on the US, the Republican Party, and what we can possibly do about it. National Banner Drop Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 7:30PM Memorial Day Weekend - National Banner Drop - Highway Blogging Delegation to House Judiciary Committee Contacting notables Republicans against Bush to join us in applying pressure to Congress New England Impeachment Benefit Concert Reach-out and How to welcome ex-Republicans (who left the party because of this Administration's policies) back into the fold. Fundraising See the full event details, including location, at <a href="http://repagainstbush.meetup.com/144/calendar/7933515/." rel="nofollow">http://repagainstbush.meetup.com/144/calendar/7933515/.</a>]]>

<![CDATA[U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK The Outstanding Public Debt as of 13 May 2008 at 07:23:07 PM GMT is: $ 9 , 3 7 1 , 4 4 5 , 5 0 8 , 4 2 2 . 1 4 The estimated population of the United States is 303,982,636 so each citizen's share of this debt is $30,828.88. The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $1.60 billion per day since September 28, 2007! Concerned? Then tell Congress and the White House! U.S. MILITARY DEATHS (IRAQ): 4076 U.S. MILITARY WOUNDED (IRAQ): 30004 IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS: 151000 'EXCESS' IRAQI DEATHS: 655000 ]]>

<![CDATA[THAT'S RIGHT. A CHALLENGE TO PROVE ONCE AND FOR ALL Obama is NOT a Muslim! If Obama refuses this challenge, you can make your own conclusions!!!! I AM THE DICTATOR OF THE WORLD AND I SAY OBAMA, eat lunch with me, a PORK sandwich, and pet my pig (my trusted assistant). Think I am kidding? I am NOT. Look at my website and see for yourself!!!!! WWW.DICTATORMOVIE.COM ]]>

<![CDATA[I recently read a very disturbing posting about Howard K. Stern. which said "He didn't attempt to get Anna into rehab, he didn't take her to the ER, and when he got a phone call from the nurse saying Anna wasn't breathing, he did not summon help for another 30 minutes until he could get back to the room." Then I thought about it. Is this true? If so, this man is qualified to represent Massachusetts in the US Senate! ]]>

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<![CDATA[John McCain A true American Hero. Obama ? This time it's a nobrainer Nobama]]>

<![CDATA[The Republican loss in the special election for Louisiana's Sixth Congressional District last Saturday should be a sharp wake up call for Republicans: Either Congressional Republicans are going to chart a bold course of real change or they are going to suffer decisive losses this November. The facts are clear and compelling. Saturday's loss was in a district that President Bush carried by 19 percentage points in 2004 and that the Republicans have held since 1975. This defeat follows on the loss of Speaker Hastert's seat in Illinois. That seat had been held by a Republican for 76 years with the single exception of the 1974 Watergate election when the Democrats held it for one term. That same seat had been carried by President Bush 55-44% in 2004. The Republican loss in the special election for Louisiana's Sixth Congressional District last Saturday should be a sharp wake up call for Republicans: Either Congressional Republicans are going to chart a bold course of real change or they are going to suffer decisive losses this November. The facts are clear and compelling. Saturday's loss was in a district that President Bush carried by 19 percentage points in 2004 and that the Republicans have held since 1975. This defeat follows on the loss of Speaker Hastert's seat in Illinois. That seat had been held by a Republican for 76 years with the single exception of the 1974 Watergate election when the Democrats held it for one term. That same seat had been carried by President Bush 55-44% in 2004. Two GOP Losses That Validate a National Pattern These two special elections validate a national polling pattern that is bad news for Republicans. According to a New York Times/CBS Poll, Americans disapprove of the President's job performance by 63 to 28 (and he has been below 40% job approval since December 2006, the longest such period for any president in the history of polling). A separate New York Times/CBS Poll shows that a full 81 percent of Americans believe the economy is on the wrong track. The current generic ballot for Congress according to the NY Times/CBS poll is 50 to 32 in favor of the Democrats. That is an 18-point margin, reminiscent of the depths of the Watergate disaster. Congressional Republicans Can't Take Comfort in McCain's Poll Numbers Senator McCain is currently running ahead of the Republican congressional ballot by about 16 percentage points. But there are two reasons that this extraordinary personal achievement should not comfort congressional Republicans. First, McCain's lead is a sign of the gap between the McCain brand of independence and the GOP brand. No regular Republican would be tying or slightly beating the Democratic candidates in this atmosphere. It is a sign of how much McCain is a non-traditional Republican that he is sustaining his personal popularity despite his party's collapse. Second, there is a grave danger for the McCain campaign that if the generic ballot stays at only 32 % for the GOP it will ultimately outweigh McCain's personal appeal and drag his candidacy into defeat. The Anti-Obama, Anti-Wright, and Anti-Clinton GOP Model Has Been Tested -- And It Failed The Republican brand has been so badly damaged that if Republicans try to run an anti-Obama, anti- Reverend Wright, or (if Senator Clinton wins), anti-Clinton campaign, they are simply going to fail. This model has already been tested with disastrous results. In 2006, there were six incumbent Republican Senators who had plenty of money, the advantage of incumbency, and traditionally successful consultants. But the voters in all six states had adopted a simple position: "Not you." No matter what the GOP Senators attacked their opponents with, the voters shrugged off the attacks and returned to, "Not you." The danger for House and Senate Republicans in 2008 is that the voters will say, "Not the Republicans." Republicans Have Lost the Advantage on Every Single-Issue Poll A February Washington Post poll shows that Republicans have lost the advantage to the Democrats on which party can handle an issue better -- on every single topic. Americans now believe that Democrats can handle the deficit better (52 to 31), taxes better (48 to 40) and even terrorism better (44 to 37). This is a catastrophic collapse of trust in Republicans built up over three generations on the deficit, two generations on taxes, and two generations on national security. House Republicans Should Call an Emergency, Members-Only Conference Faced with these election results, the House Republicans should hold an emergency members-only meeting. At the meeting, they should pose this stark choice: Real change or certain defeat. If a majority of the House Republicans vote for real change, they should instruct Republican Leader John Boehner and his team to come back with a new plan by the Wednesday before the Memorial Day recess. This plan should involve real change in legislative, communications, and campaign strategy and involve immediate, real action, including a complete overhaul of the Congressional Campaign Committee. The House Republican Conference would then vote for the plan or insist on its revision. If a majority of the House Republicans are opposed to acting then the minority who are activists should establish a parallel organization dedicated to real change. This group should focus its energies on creating the changes necessary to survive despite a conference with a minority mindset that accepts defeat rather than fights for real change (which is what we had when I entered Congress in 1978). Nine Acts of Real Change That Could Restore the GOP Brand Here are nine acts of real change that would begin to rebuild the American people's confidence that Republicans share their values, understand their worries, and are prepared to act instead of just talk. The Republicans in Congress could get a start on all nine this week if they had the will to do so. Repeal the gas tax for the summer, and pay for the repeal by cutting domestic discretionary spending so that the transportation infrastructure trust fund would not be hurt. At a time when, according to The Hill newspaper, Senator Clinton is asking for $2.3billion in earmarks, it should be possible for Republicans to establish a "government spending versus your pocketbook" fight over cutting the gas tax that would resonate with most Americans. Lower taxes and less government spending should be a battle cry most taxpayers and all conservatives could rally behind. Redirect the oil being put into the national petroleum reserve onto the open market. That oil would lower the price of gasoline an extra 5 to 6 cents per gallon, and its sale would lower the deficit. Introduce a "more energy at lower cost with less environmental damage and greater national security bill" as a replacement for the Warner-Lieberman "tax and trade" bill which is coming to the floor of the Senate in the next few weeks (see my newsletter next week for an outline of a solid pro-economy, pro-national security, pro-environment energy bill). When the American people realize how much the current energy prices are actually a "politicians' energy crisis" they will demand real change in our policies. Establish an earmark moratorium for one year and pledge to uphold the presidential veto of bills with earmarks through the end of 2009. The American people are fed up with politicians spending their money. They currently believe both parties are equally bad. This is a real opportunity to show the difference. Overhaul the census and cut its budget radically. The recent announcement that the Census Bureau could not build an effective hand-held computer for $1.3 billion and is turning instead to 600,000 temporary workers to do a paper and pencil census in 2010 is an opportunity to slash its budget, shrink its bureaucracy, and turn to entrepreneurial internet-based companies to build an information-age census. This is an absurdity that cries out for bold, decisive reform (see my YouTube video "FedEx versus federal bureaucracy" for an example of what I mean). Implement a space-based, GPS-style air traffic control system. The problems of the Federal Aviation Administration are symptoms of a union-dominated bureaucracy resisting change. If we implemented a space-based GPS-style air traffic system we would get 40% more air travel with one-half the bureaucrats. The union has stopped 200,000,000 passengers from enjoying more reliable air travel to protect 7,000 obsolete jobs. This real change would allow the millions of frustrated travelers to have champions in congress trying to help them get places better, safer, faster. Declare English the official language of government. This real change is supported by 87% of the American people including a majority of Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and Latinos. It is an issue of national unity that brings Americans together in a red, white, and blue majority. Protect the workers' right to a secret ballot. The vast majority (around 81%) of Americans believe that American workers have a right to have a secret ballot election before they are forced to join a union. Last year the House Democrats passed a bill that would strip American workers of the secret ballot. A new bill should be introduced reaffirming that right, and it should be brought up again and again until marginal Democrats are forced to vote with the American people against the union power structure. Remind Americans that judges matter. Senate Republicans should mount an ongoing fight (including a filibuster of other activities if necessary) to get the American people to realize that liberals want to block all current judicial appointments in order to maximize the number of left wing radical judges they can appoint if they win the White House. This issue has three advantages. It reminds people that judges matter and that a leftwing radical Supreme Court would be bad for the values of most (70 to 90 percent, depending on the issue) Americans. It shows the Democrats are not engaged in fair play. It arouses the activism of those who have been disappointed by Republicans and have forgotten how bad a liberal Democratic Presidency would be. What Is at Stake No Republicans should kid themselves. It's time to face up to a stark choice. Without change we could face a catastrophic election this fall. Without change the Republican Party in the House could revert to the permanent minority status it had from 1930 to 1994. Without change, the majorities of Americans who support the Republican principle of smaller, more efficient, smarter and fairer government will be in for a rude awakening. It's time for real change to avoid a real disaster. The "May Day Massacre": Can Liberals Govern in a Global Economy? Despite the poor outlook for conservatives in our elections this November, there is encouraging news from across the Atlantic. The conservative wave sweeping Europe hit England last week when the liberal Labor Party suffered its worst local election results in 40 years. Boris Johnson became the first Conservative Party member elected mayor of London when he defeated Labour candidate "Red" Ken Livingstone. In contests for more than 4,000 local seats across England, Conservatives captured 44 percent of the vote, compared to 25 percent for the Liberal Democrats and just 24 percent for Labour. This Conservative victory in England comes on the heels of a history-making rout of the Communists and the Greens in parliamentary elections Italy two weeks ago. And the Italian results follow center-right victories in France (Sarkozy) and Germany (Merkel). The countries of so-called "old" Europe are turning away from the liberal high tax, big government policies that have crippled their economies and are turning toward pro-growth, pro-competitive center-right solutions. All of which raises the question: Can the Left successfully govern in a modern, global economy? The voters of Europe seem to be saying no. Your friend, Newt Gingrich P.S. -- Father's Day is just around the corner and there are great gift ideas available at great prices at Newt.org. Just click here to order personally signed copies of my new novel, Days of Infamy, as well as Pearl Harbor and Real Change. With the purchase of either of these three personally signed books, you can get a signed copy of Gettysburg for only $5. If you buy both a personalized copy of Pearl Harbor and Days of Infamy, you will receive a signed Gettysburg for free! P.P.S. -- The Days of Infamy book tour took me to New York City last week where Callista took some great pictures of us on the set of Hannity and Colmes, The View, The Daily Show and others. You can view them here. ]]>

<![CDATA[I hold in my hand one of the most important pieces of paper in America: Table T08-0071, an analysis of candidate John McCain's tax plan. <a href="http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/numbers/Content/PDF/T08-0071.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/numbers/Content/PDF/T08-0071.pdf</a> OK, it's not really in my hand because I'm typing, but I'm looking at it carefully, and you should too. It is a table constructed by the Tax Policy Center's steely-eyed tax analysts, <a href="http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/," rel="nofollow">http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/,</a> and it reveals nothing less than McCain's secret plan to diminish the US government beyond recognition. If he gets his way, conservatives will finally be able to say they've achieved the goal set out by Grover Norquist: to get government "down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." The numbers in the table show the revenue loss to the Federal government from McCain's proposed tax cuts. In the far right corner is the 10-year total: -$5.7 trillion. People deride the Republican candidate as "McSame," implying a continuation of Bushonomics as well as the president's foreign policy. But from the perspective of domestic policy, it's much worse. Sure, McCain extends the Bush tax cuts but that's the least of it. At $1.7 trillion they amount to less than a third of the damage. Note also that the big ticket tax cuts-eliminating the alternative minimum tax and lowering the corporate tax-both follow on another Bush tradition of exacerbating market-driven (i.e., pre-tax) inequalities by cutting high-end taxes the most. As I stresshere , McCain's plans to pay for these tax cuts amount to filling a crater with a teaspoon of sand. Earmarks won't get you there, so he'll have to go after discretionary spending. In fact, he's already suggesting a freeze in such spending, excluding defense, of course. Sound inoffensive until you consider that we're talking about kids' health care, education, child care, training for displaced workers, environmental and labor protections, and dozens more programs that lots of people actually need and care about. Plus, he can't fill the hole he's dug with cuts in these programs either, which leads you to the inevitable punch line of all this: his target is the entitlements, Social Security and Medicare. Those programs have always been the big enchiladas for the Norquist shock troops and they've never recovered from their Social Security privatization defeat. Well, they're back, incognito. McCain's top economist, a number cruncher of great integrity named Doug Holtz-Eakin, responds to the Tax Policy's analysis here <a href="http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/blog/_archives/2008/4/20/3650536.html," rel="nofollow">http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/blog/_archives/2008/4/20/3650536.html,</a> and he makes a good point or two, especially regarding the way they score the AMT, but his counterpoints amount to little more than quibbles. In fact, one can't help wonder if Doug, who used to inveigh against supply-side nonsense<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/22/AR2008042202521.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/22/AR2008042202521.html</a> , has been drawn to the economic dark side. When recently asked about the extent to which these numbers fail to add up, his response was: "I think what [critics] ought to do is remember that the proposals are going to engender economic growth, which is the best thing you can do for near-term budget improvement." That's pure hand waving of the type with which the old Holtz-Eakin had no patience. This story has yet to catch the fire it should, and hopefully will, once the D's get focused on McCain and his dim vision of government. But the point born of these numbers is as simple as it is compelling: For seven long years, we've tried entrusting our government to those who discredit it, defund it, and fundamentally disbelieve in its role, except when they seek a lucrative contract or a bailout. We gone down the road-and it is a crumbling road, with potholes and failing bridges -- where the solution to every problem is a tax cut, where critical agencies are staffed with cronies at best and opposition lobbyists at worst, where secrecy trumps transparency and cynicism rules, where budget resources are never available for expanding children's health care, but always there for war. Table T08-0071 is a road map to taking us far, far deeper into this morass. We must not go there. ]]>

<![CDATA[ You decide 1.) Selma Got Me Born - LIAR, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965. 2.) Father Was A Goat Herder - LIAR, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government. so this artcal is lie also? it say he was goatheader <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=431908&in_page_id=1770" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=431908&in_page_id=1770</a> 3.) Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter - LIAR, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had. 4.) My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - LIAR, your Cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It is the first widespread violence in decades. 5.) My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian - LIAR, she does herdaily Salat prayers at 5am according to her own interviews. Not To mention, Christianity wouldn't allow her to have been one of 14 wives to 1 man. 6.) My Name is African Swahili - LIAR, your name is Arabic and 'Baraka' (from which Barack came) means 'blessed' in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama. Actually baraka is Afreican but is does mean Blessed <a href="http://jas.wondertime.go.com/babynamer?page=ShowName&name=Baraka&origin=African&meaning=blessed&middleName=&lastName=" rel="nofollow">http://jas.wondertime.go.com/babynamer?page=ShowName&name=Baraka&origin=African&meaning=blessed&middleName=&lastName=</a> and so is this web site www.kamusiproject.org 7.) I Never Practiced Islam - LIAR, you practiced it daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31 years, until your wife made you change, so you could run for office. What rock are you hiding under after Jeremiah Wright? 8.) My School In Indonesia Was Christian - LIAR, you were Registered as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making faces (check your own book). better <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt-KUUlJ81g" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt-KUUlJ81g</a> ndonesia is a Muslim country, and Obama attended a public school there, which taught a small amount of religion. CNN, the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune investigated the e-mail claims by visiting the school and interviewing former teachers and students who were there at the same time as Obama. These investigations found a public school where students wore Western clothing and prayer was a small part of the curriculum. The Chicago Tribune reported the school was “so progressive that teachers wore miniskirts and all students were encouraged to celebrate Christmas.” 9.) I Was Fluent In Indonesian - LIAR, not one teacher says you Could speak the language. 10.) Because I Lived In Indonesia, I Have More Foreign Experience - LIAR, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn't even speak the language. What did you learn, how to study the Koran and watch cartoons. wait a sec what about number 9? 11.) I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs - LIAR, except for Africa (surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never been anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with our closest allies. 12.) I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion - LIAR, you Were quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify - your classmates said You were just fine. 13.)An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office - LIAR, Ebony has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't, and Never did, exist. 14.) A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life - LIAR, Life has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't, and never did, exist. 15.) I Won't Run On A National Ticket In '08 - LIAR, here you are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough experience by then, and you are all about having experience first. 16.) Present Votes Are Common In Illinois - LIAR, they are common for YOU, but not many others have 130 NO VOTES. 17.) Oops, I Misvoted - LIAR, only when caught by church groups And democrats, did you beg to change your misvote. 18.) I Was A Professor Of Law - LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE. 19.) I Was A Constitutional Lawyer - LIAR, you were a senior Lecturer ON LEAVE. 20.) Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill - LIAR, you didn't write it, introduce it, change it, or create it. You mean the The Feingold-Obama bill improves substantially on S. 2349, the lobbying disclosure and ethics bill that the Senate passed in March 2006? 21.) The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass - LIAR, it took just 14 Days from start to finish. 22.) I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill - LIAR, your bill was rejected By your own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation - mainly because of your Nuclear Donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came. 23.) I Have Released My State Records - LIAR, as of March, 2008, state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released, exposing all the special interests pork hidden within. continued here: <a href="http://subjectseek.com/articles/1963/1/58-Obama-Lies/Page1.html" rel="nofollow">http://subjectseek.com/articles/1963/1/58-Obama-Lies/Page1.html</a> ]]>

<![CDATA[This whole “presumptive nominee” thing must be serious, because the New York Times just dumped a million-word “investigative report” on how John McCain is the sleaziest sack of scum since, uh, all the other Republicans who already dropped out of the race. Also: Did he have a Dirty Sex Affair with some lobbyist broad who looks suspiciously like his current wife? Let’s find out! Under a grainy black-and-white 1970s-looking mafia photograph of McCain as he “conferred with his lawyers before testifying in January 1991 before the Senate Ethics Committee regarding his involvement with Charles Keating and the Lincoln Savings and Loan,” the NYT samples from the rich trove of Corrupt McCain evidence and comes up with this pretty good initial batch of sleaze: * While Grandpa Straight Talk was running for the presidency in 2000, all his aides were going nuts because he was constantly traveling with a good-looking lobbyist gal who was, at the time, in her early thirties. * Whether or not McCain and Vicki Iseman were having sexytime on the corporate jets he used to fly around the country, McCain did do the bidding of Iseman’s clients. * At this point, he had barely cleared his name from the Keating Five Savings & Loan scandal. * In one of his few acknowledgments that the Arizona senator has ever been to Arizona, McCain made a point of not flying direct from National Airport to Phoenix because he had some part in opening up that commercial air route — but because he always flies in luxury private jets provided by the Corporates, it didn’t much inconvenience him. * McCain helped launch some campaign-ethics group, but the group ended up doing the exact same corrupt things it was supposedly against, so he quit in shame. * Corrupt banker/developer Charles Keating was, obviously, an immediate supporter of McCain’s long congressional career. Keating showered dirty money and fancy vacations on McCain, who loves all that shit. * Then McCain tried to get the government off the back of Keating’s failing corrupt Lincoln Savings and Loan, because McCain really wants to get government off the backs of his corrupt millionaire friends. * McCain got caught, but somehow clung to his senate seat. * But McCain can still pretend to “wince” at the memory of getting caught, so who cares if the bailout cost American taxpayers $3.4 billion? * He also got caught having a big lobbyist fund-raising deluxe luxury fancy party in 2000. So he ran and hid like a little girl. * Lobbyists control his entire miserable, corrupt life. * He loves lobbyists, both in the figurative and literal sense, because he was probably screwing that one lobbyist. * And when the lobbyists need a quick letter to the FCC or whatever to help their clients, John Maverick McCain is always quick to help, the end. League of Conservation Voters yesterday gave special-interest lackey John McCain the worst environmental record rating in the entire Congress. This is not surprising. Despite his early support for global warming (fixing it, that is), John McCain is the biggest corporate sell-out since New York City in the Giuliani years. When WALNUTS! isn’t getting his old man dentures flossed by a GE executive vice president, or cheating on his wife with any number of sexy lobbyist whores, he is finding innocent mango trees and chopping them down for bloodsport, while killing pandas. Then again, he was tortured in the war!! [The Trail] ]]>

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<![CDATA[You decide 1.) Selma Got Me Born - LIAR, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965. 2.) Father Was A Goat Herder - LIAR, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government. 3.) Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter - LIAR, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had. 4.) My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - LIAR, your Cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It is the first widespread violence in decades. 5.) My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian - LIAR, she does herdaily Salat prayers at 5am according to her own interviews. Not To mention, Christianity wouldn't allow her to have been one of 14 wives to 1 man. 6.) My Name is African Swahili - LIAR, your name is Arabic and 'Baraka' (from which Barack came) means 'blessed' in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama. 7.) I Never Practiced Islam - LIAR, you practiced it daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31 years, until your wife made you change, so you could run for office. 8.) My School In Indonesia Was Christian - LIAR, you were Registered as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making faces (check your own book). 9.) I Was Fluent In Indonesian - LIAR, not one teacher says you Could speak the language. 10.) Because I Lived In Indonesia, I Have More Foreign Experience - LIAR, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn't even speak the language. What did you learn, how to study the Koran and watch cartoons. 11.) I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs - LIAR, except for Africa (surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never been anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with our closest allies. 12.) I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion - LIAR, you Were quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify - your classmates said You were just fine. 13.)An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office - LIAR, Ebony has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't, and Never did, exist. 14.) A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life - LIAR, Life has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't, and never did, exist. 15.) I Won't Run On A National Ticket In '08 - LIAR, here you are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough experience by then, and you are all about having experience first. 16.) Present Votes Are Common In Illinois - LIAR, they are common for YOU, but not many others have 130 NO VOTES. 17.) Oops, I Misvoted - LIAR, only when caught by church groups And democrats, did you beg to change your misvote. 18.) I Was A Professor Of Law - LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE. 19.) I Was A Constitutional Lawyer - LIAR, you were a senior Lecturer ON LEAVE. 20.) Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill - LIAR, you didn't write it, introduce it, change it, or create it. 21.) The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass - LIAR, it took just 14 Days from start to finish. 22.) I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill - LIAR, your bill was rejected By your own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation - mainly because of your Nuclear Donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came. 23.) I Have Released My State Records - LIAR, as of March, 2008, state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released, exposing all the special interests pork hidden within. continued here: <a href="http://subjectseek.com/articles/1963/1/58-Obama-Lies/Page1.html" rel="nofollow">http://subjectseek.com/articles/1963/1/58-Obama-Lies/Page1.html</a>]]>

<![CDATA[Even the neocunts won't vote for him. The Republican nomination battle has been all but decided for over two months. Still, some Republicans used the April 22 Pennsylvania primary and last week's votes in Indiana and North Carolina to register their unhappiness with the de facto victor. Some vote for libertarian Texan Ron Paul, who has refused to quit the race and has racked up more than one million votes, according to his campaign. Republicans are simply a disease, that has proven to be the demise of the once great United States Of America When they speak, take them down, they are a disease, they have bankrupted our great nation, and sold it to communist China. God bless America Take The Power Back 08 U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK The Outstanding Public Debt as of 11 May 2008 at 10:24:46 PM GMT is: $ 9 , 3 6 9 , 2 0 2 , 2 9 4 , 3 9 6 . 5 0 The estimated population of the United States is 303,971,379 so each citizen's share of this debt is $30,822.65. The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $1.46 billion per day since September 29, 2006! Concerned? Then tell Congress and the White House!]]>

<![CDATA[Clinton Angers Left With Call for Unity Senator Accused of Siding With Centrists By Dan Balz Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 27, 2005; Page A03 Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's call for an ideological cease-fire in the Democratic Party drew an angry reaction yesterday from liberal bloggers and others on the left, who accused her of siding with the centrist Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) in a long-running dispute over the future of the party. Long a revered figure by many in the party's liberal wing, Clinton (D-N.Y.) unexpectedly found herself under attack after calling Monday for a cease-fire among the party's quarreling factions and for agreeing to assume the leadership of a DLC-sponsored initiative aimed at developing a more positive policy agenda for the party. The reaction highlighted the dilemma Democratic politicians face trying to satisfy energized activists on the left -- many of whom are hungering for party leaders to advance a more full-throated agenda and more aggressively confront President Bush -- while also cultivating the moderate Democrats and independents whose support is crucial to winning elections. The challenge has become more acute because of the power and importance grass-roots activists, symbolized by groups such as MoveOn.org and liberal bloggers, have assumed since the 2004 election. The most pointed critique of Clinton came in one of the most influential blogs on the left, Daily Kos out of Berkeley, Calif., which called Clinton's speech "truly disappointing" and said she should not provide cover for an organization that often has instigated conflict within the party. "If she wanted to give a speech to a centrist organization truly interested in bringing the various factions of the party together, she could've worked with NDN," the blog said in a reference to the New Democrat Network, with which Daily Kos's Markos Moulitsas is associated. "Instead, she plans on working with the DLC to come up with some common party message yadda yadda yadda. Well, that effort is dead on arrival. The DLC is not a credible vehicle for such an effort. Period." Other blogs noted that the day Clinton was calling for a truce, one DLC-sponsored blog was writing disparagingly of liberals. Marshall Wittman wrote from the DLC meeting in Columbus, "While someone from the daily kosy (misspelling intended) confines of Beserkely might utter ominous McCarthyite warnings about the 'enemy within,' here in Columbus constructive committed crusaders for progressivism are discussing ways to win back the hearts of the heartland." Roger Hickey, co-director of the liberal Campaign for America's Future, said Clinton had badly miscalculated the current politics inside the Democratic Party and argued that she could pay a price for her DLC association if she runs for president in 2008. "There has been an activist resurgence in the Democratic Party in recent years, and Hillary risks ensuring that there's a candidate to her left appealing to those activists who don't much like the DLC," he said. Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson tried to deflect the criticism. "Her point was simply to say that the goals and issues that divide us are less consequential than are the ones we share in common, and that unity is needed in the face of our shared challenge," Wolfson said. John D. Podesta, who was White House chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, said he interpreted Clinton's remarks as critical of those on both sides -- centrists as much as liberals -- who would devote more energy to internal party battles than to confronting the right . But he said Clinton may have underestimated the bad feelings within the party. "I think she was trying to push the DLC back a little bit, but she walked into a crossfire maybe she should have realized was out there," he said. Meanwhile, Jesse L. Jackson reopened his decades-old battle with the DLC by accusing the group of fronting for corporate interests while ignoring labor and civil rights leaders. "The DLC embraces CAFTA and sells admission to its conference to corporate lobbyists," he said in a speech to the AFL-CIO convention in Chicago. ]]>

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<![CDATA[Walk into any of the largest Wall Street brokerage firms today and you’ll see a self-portrait of upper management racism and sexism: women sitting at secretarial desks outside fancy offices occupied by predominantly white males. According to the EEOC as well as the recent racial discrimination class actions filed against UBS and Merrill Lynch, blacks make up between 1 per cent to 3.5 per cent of stockbrokers — this after 30 years of litigation, settlements and empty promises to do better by the largest Wall Street firms. The first clue to an entrenched white male bastion seeking a black male occupant in the oval office (having placed only five blacks in the U.S. Senate in the last two centuries) appeared in February on a chart at the Center for Responsive Politics website. It was a list of the 20 top contributors to the Barack Obama campaign, and it looked like one of those comprehension tests where you match up things that go together and eliminate those that don’t. Of the 20 top contributors, I eliminated six that didn’t compute. I was now looking at a sight only slightly less frightening to democracy than a Diebold voting machine. It was a Wall Street cartel of financial firms, their registered lobbyists, and go-to law firms that have a death grip on our federal government. Why is the “yes, we can” candidate in bed with this cartel? How can “we”, the people, make change if Obama’s money backers block our ability to be heard? continued here: <a href="http://subjectseek.com/articles/1936/1/Obamas-Money-Cartel/Page1.html" rel="nofollow">http://subjectseek.com/articles/1936/1/Obamas-Money-Cartel/Page1.html</a>]]>

<![CDATA[Hey lefty.... Would you agree Hillary is a overweight unattractive,insane,delusional,miserable,narcissistic,compulsive liar communist,misanthropist , misandric closet lesbian Hitler all rolled up in in a ugly XXXL polyester pantsuit? Your hero, the domestic terrorist Barack Obama Hussein is a limp wristed, inexperienced, confused, hypocritical, far far far far left Marxist communist America hating, white hating black supremist habitual liar. If he actually stood even a small chance of being elected he would pose the biggest threat to the soverenty of this once great nation this country has EVER faced.............Did I forget to mention he is also utterly clueless when not reading from script? Good day............ ""ahem..... Hillary isn't a liberal. I know, I know... it doesn't fit with your talking points but the things is... when you say stuff (repeated over and over from right wing media) and it isn't true, people are smart enough to catch on that you really don't have much of a command with your facts. You already discredited yourself, just want you to realize an uncomfortable fact. Carry on....""]]>

<![CDATA[If you don't smoke, you may very well feel that smokers don't deserve any break and that it perfectly fine to mandate a much more noxious product if it even slightly reduces tragic fires started by cigarettes. That is your right, but I am not addressing non-smokers, although I would hope that your concern for people extends occasionally even to us. I am talking to the people who are consuming this product. Maybe we can eventually have fire safe cigarettes that are also palatable, but we have to raise our voices as tobacco consumers and citizens of a state that both milks us and treats us with contempt. Then they kicked us out of your favorite bars. Now, mysterious "fire safe' cigarettes are forced on us that taste and smell heavily like chemicals. Sometimes, they go out unless smoked constantly. Sometimes, they burn all the way into the filter if left on an ashtray. All the paper is made by one company. On top of all that, they just spiked the sales taxes on cigarettes. There are ways for smokers to fight back against this unholy alliance of government, big tobacco and probably insurance lobbyists. If you can, quit smoking. It will extend your lifespan and increase the quality of that life. If you do not wish to do so, consider the following steps. 1. Stop playing the lottery in MA, and tell your representatives why at <a href="http://www.mass.gov/legis/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mass.gov/legis/</a> It may not shake the foundation of the legislature, but it will get attention. 2. Visit <a href="http://www.ryomagazine.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.ryomagazine.com</a> and learn about making your own tobacco blends, choices in papers, tubes, and rolling machines vs. injectors. 3. Make a fresh pack of your own high quality filter luxury cigarettes in the time it takes to drive to the store for around $1.50 a pack by going to <a href="http://www.cigarettetobacco.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.cigarettetobacco.com</a> I suggest Windsail Platinum, Two Timer Gold, Rowland Gold, and Vangeur Platinum. Use a premier excel tube injector and Veracruz elite white tubes. Tobacco is sold in big bags or 3.5 oz cups. I do not work for either of those two companies and provide this information for those who smoke to save money and take control over what goes into their cigarettes. I thank you for your time.]]>

<![CDATA[To whomever posted the Just Laugh @ The Neo Cunts, look at a calendar. It's 2008, not 2004. Did you just come out of a coma? If you can pull yourself away from watching The Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon or the professional wrestling you probably believe is real, please understand George W. Bush is not a candidate for President because there's been a two-term rule since the late 1940s. So, who's calling who a retard? Do you have any jokes about Wendell Wilkie, Thomas Dewey, Adlai Stevenson or Hubert Humphrey to share with us? Nothing like keeping things topical. ]]>

<![CDATA[ by the way can you be "commie" and still belive in democracy and freedom and capitalism and to mention a Methodist? So, this OP thinks Hillary is NOT a liberal huh, and then begins to criticize about "talking points". Looks like another blindfolded, kool-aide drinking sheep liberal fell off the DUMB WAGON!!! Perhaps you should take a course or two at the local school and re-introduce yourself the the actual modern day definition of what a liberal is.........but ill make this easy for you and use the Jeff Foxworthy approach.... Instead of you "might be a liberal" we will use "you ARE a liberal.......following? Or do i need to use smaller words... You are a liberal if you: VOTE pro-choice (yep, she does) so you saying that you can't be coservitve and pro choice? then what about www.republicansforchoice.com and www.gopchoice.org You are a liberal if you: Want to give homos special rights (yep,she does) You are a liberal if you: Believe any of the fiction about global warming(Bingo) what fiction? "" "" """ "" "" : Hate the US MIlitary, want them to lose and WILL cut their funding (no brainer) false <a href="http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4811" rel="nofollow">http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4811</a> As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Hillary has championed legislation to improve the lives of our veterans and their families. She worked to provide access to TRICARE for National Guard and Reserve members. She authored the Heroes at Home Act that will begin to help service members struggling with post traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. She worked with others in the Senate to pass legislation to increase the military survivor benefit from $12,000 to $100,000. As president, she will honor three fundamental commitments: First, every member of our armed forces will receive a fair shot at the American dream when their service is over. Second, every veteran in America will have health care. Third, every veteran will receive the benefits they have earned and the assistance they need - right from the start. "" "" "" : want terrorists to have the same rights as American Citizens (yep) huh? "" '' '' : still think the wealthy dont pay enough taxes (once again) you mean those over 250 k, jsut look at cwah ttaxes cuts have given us in the last 7 yrs? record deficts "" "" "" : believe in freedom of speech unless someone says something you dont agree with (typical) Middle-class and working families are paying a much higher percentage of their income. [Billionaires like] Warren Buffett pay about 17%, because don't forget, it's the payroll tax plus the income tax. And when you cut off the contribution at $95,000, that's a lot of money between $95,000 and the $46 million that Warren Buffett made last year. We've got to get back to having those with the most contribute to this country "" "" "" : think legit American Citizens should have to work hard and pay taxes so that illegal immigrants can have a free ride "" "" "" : think that just talking to terrorists will solve all the problems and that diplomacy is the best way to go with these people, because they are so understanding (wow) huh? come again? In November, Clinton gave a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on the need for the United States to take an actively internationalist, rather than isolationist stance. By supporting "internationalism," Clinton indicated her support for working with other countries to solve problems such as terrorism, rather than seeking to solve them alone or retreating from foreign entanglements. Clinton has argued that in order to win the war on terrorism, a concerted effort to prepare the entire country for interactions with foreign cultures must be made. She has advocated an increase in "civilian capacity" through global education and the creation of a public service academy --"a West Point for public service"—to create a more prepared civilian population. Oh ya, i could go on for hours with this, but i have to do what most Republicans do so well, EARN a good living!!! Hillary is all about these FACTS, she is a LIBERAL as much as B. HUSSEIN OBAMA is (hes a little worse). They are BOTH American born terrorists and must be defeated at ALL cost!!!! ]]>

<![CDATA[So, this OP thinks Hillary is NOT a liberal huh, and then begins to criticize about "talking points". Looks like another blindfolded, kool-aide drinking sheep liberal fell off the DUMB WAGON!!! Perhaps you should take a course or two at the local school and re-introduce yourself the the actual modern day definition of what a liberal is.........but ill make this easy for you and use the Jeff Foxworthy approach.... Instead of you "might be a liberal" we will use "you ARE a liberal.......following? Or do i need to use smaller words... You are a liberal if you: VOTE pro-choice (yep, she does) You are a liberal if you: Want to give homos special rights (yep,she does) You are a liberal if you: Believe any of the fiction about global warming(Bingo) "" "" """ "" "" : Hate the US MIlitary, want them to lose and WILL cut their funding (no brainer) "" "" "" : want terrorists to have the same rights as American Citizens (yep) "" '' '' : still think the wealthy dont pay enough taxes (once again) "" "" "" : believe in freedom of speech unless someone says something you dont agree with (typical) "" "" "" : think legit American Citizens should have to work hard and pay taxes so that illegal immigrants can have a free ride "" "" "" : think that just talking to terrorists will solve all the problems and that diplomacy is the best way to go with these people, because they are so understanding (wow) Oh ya, i could go on for hours with this, but i have to do what most Republicans do so well, EARN a good living!!! Hillary is all about these FACTS, she is a LIBERAL as much as B. HUSSEIN OBAMA is (hes a little worse). They are BOTH American born terrorists and must be defeated at ALL cost!!!!]]>

<![CDATA[ahem..... Hillary isn't a liberal. I know, I know... it doesn't fit with your talking points but the things is... when you say stuff (repeated over and over from right wing media) and it isn't true, people are smart enough to catch on that you really don't have much of a command with your facts. You already discredited yourself, just want you to realize an uncomfortable fact. Carry on....]]>

<![CDATA[Remember all the 'WMD programs' the Bushites told us there were in Iraq, pre-2003? So more recently, they've been telling us about the "Iranian arms" that have been flowing in to non-governmental or anti-governmental forces inside Iraq. Last week, the US commanders in Iraq even planned a big "show and tell" event in Karbala at which thousands of Iranian-supplied arms that had been seized by the US and their Iraqi allies would be shown off to the media before being destroyed. ********************* But guess what. The LA Times's Tina Sussman tells us that the event <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/05/i..." rel="nofollow">http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/05/i...</a> was canceled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran... Iran... continues to seethe after an Iraqi delegation went to Tehran last week to confront it with the (arms-supply) accusations. It has denied the accusations, and it says as long as U.S. forces continue to take part in military action in Iraq's Shiite strongholds, it won't consider holding further talks with Washington on how to stabilize Iraq. ****************************** This administration seems to have a just about unique capacity for both belligerence and incompetence. This is an extremely dangerous combination. <a href="http://justworldnews.org/archives/002898.html" rel="nofollow">http://justworldnews.org/archives/002898.html</a>]]>

<![CDATA[What was he thinking? Doesn't our vote count? His brothers are rolling over in their graves!]]>

<![CDATA[Obama Unlikely to Pick Clinton as Running Mate, Kennedy Says Kristin Jensen Fri May 9, 12:29 PM ET May 9 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama isn't likely to pick rival Hillary Clinton as a running mate, according to one of his most prominent supporters. ADVERTISEMENT ``I don't think it's possible,'' Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy said in an interview on Bloomberg Television's ``Political Capital With Al Hunt,'' airing this weekend. Kennedy, 76, without naming names, said Obama should pick someone who ``is in tune with his appeal for the nobler aspirations of the American people.'' ``If we had real leadership -- as we do with Barack Obama -- in the No. 2 spot as well, it'd be enormously helpful,'' Kennedy said. A vice presidential candidate with national security credentials would be ``useful'' though not necessary because Obama, an Illinois senator, has a good understanding of foreign policy, Kennedy said. ``I think he's been eloquent; I think he's been incisive; and I think he's been right,'' he said. Kennedy, chairman of the Senate committee that oversees health, education and labor, criticized presumptive Republican nominee John McCain's health-care plan. The proposal, which includes a tax credit and federal assistance to states, doesn't do enough to fix the U.S. system, he said. Health-Care Costs Kennedy said the McCain plan wouldn't do enough to reduce costs and expand coverage. He also said McCain failed to plan for the use of new technologies and preventive care. ``It's a marvelous plan for the insurance industry,'' Kennedy said. ``They just love it.'' Obama, 46, has built a virtually insurmountable lead over Clinton, 60, a New York senator. Earlier this week, Obama solidified his advantage by winning North Carolina's primary by 14 percentage points. He has 1,854 delegates to the August nominating convention and Clinton has 1,697, according to an unofficial Associated Press tally. He needs 2,025 to win. The prolonged battle between Obama and Clinton probably won't hurt the Democratic Party, Kennedy said. ``It's basically the divisions in terms of race and gender, and these involve people's emotions deeply,'' he said. ``Ultimately, the party is going to come together because they are so thirsty for victory.'' Traditional Democrats Clinton has argued that she is better at bringing out traditional Democrats such as non-college-educated white voters. Her appeal has much to do with the history that she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have with voters, Kennedy said. ``Many of those groups have great confidence in the Clinton brand,'' he said. ``They're more familiar with her.'' Obama will win over voters as they become more familiar with his message, Kennedy said. Catholics, for instance, should see that Obama is talking about the ``social gospels'' on issues such as poverty, he said. ``He'll do very well,'' Kennedy said. On the economy, Kennedy said one of the most pressing issues for Americans right now is the need for a new economic stimulus package. The government should do more with food stamps, assistance to states for health care and community grants, he said. Supplemental Funding A vehicle for passing a second package might be the supplemental funding measure for Iraq, Kennedy said. ``This ought to be a part of that whole program,'' he said. House Democrats omitted economic stimulus from a proposed supplemental spending bill because President George W. Bush threatened to veto any measure that is too expensive. The Senate could add stimulus provisions when it debates the legislation later this month, though Republicans probably would oppose any extra spending linked to the war funds measure. ``The time is now'' for action on economic stimulus, Kennedy said. ``The need is great now.'' Clinton and Obama have both made the faltering economy a central theme in their race. Kennedy's January endorsement of Obama was a blow to Clinton and her husband. Asked if he had spoken with Bill Clinton since that endorsement, Kennedy said he had talked with Hillary Clinton ``on a number of occasions.'' As for the former president: ``I haven't had that opportunity.'' To contact the reporter on this story: Kristin Jensen in Washington at kjensen@bloomberg.net ; ]]>

<![CDATA[ Michelle Vetoes Hillary By Robert D. Novak Saturday, May 10, 2008 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Close-in supporters of Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign are convinced he never will offer the vice presidential nomination to Sen. Hillary Clinton for one overriding reason: Michelle Obama. The Democratic front-runner's wife did not comment on other rival candidates for the party's nomination, but she has been sniping at Clinton since last summer. According to Obama sources, those public utterances do not reveal the extent of her hostility. Michelle Obama, wife of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) applauds him during a Hamilton County family picnic in Noblesville, Indiana May 3, 2008. The Indiana Presidential Primary will be held on May 6. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA) Related Media: VIDEO: Michelle Obama: U.S. Has 'empathy Deficit' ]]>

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.jedreport.com/pics/mccainmicrophone260w.jpg"> Don't believe it? Look at the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dIQCoDnzrc" rel="nofollow">video</a>... an act to dupe more idiot voters, or just plain over-medicated? I don't really care... disengenous hackery doesn't suit the office of the President and supposed ex-drug addict-dry-drunks have been tested. Time to evolve. Come on now... this guy is actually running for president.......? It would also help if the next president knew the difference between a Shiite and a Sunni. Dumb acts don't impress me. Besides our current president tends to use it a bit too much already as a cop-out and it's responsible for the shit we are currently in together as a nation... verrry expensive to life, labor, and the overall economy sucks with a falling dollar looking like a broken parachute. People shouldn't be allowed to drive if they are dumb-enough to vote for this empty-has-been. That's a joke, but you get the point. ]]>

<![CDATA[Bush has his warts but he's outta here and Obama has NOTHING to offer. The Lottery offers more hope and the only change he has to offer is to a Soviet style Marxism. ]]>

<![CDATA[The Other Obama By Michael Reagan Here we go again. After being subjected to eight years of the collegial presidency of Bill and Hillary, when we were told that when we got Bill we got Hillary as a bonus, it looks as if we are facing another twofer: Barack and Michelle. Effete liberal Democrats are all but canonizing Barack Obama, who they see as one of their own -- cool, detached, impressively intellectual -- all in all what Pat Buchanan described as something fresh out of the faculty lounge, where lofty thoughts abound and contempt for the great unwashed is hardly concealed. Michelle Obama, wife of US Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), speaks to a crowd of supporters at the Wunderlay Gymnasium at the Penn State campus in McKeesport, Pennsylvania April 21, 2008. REUTERS/Jason Cohn (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA) Related Media: VIDEO: Michelle Obama: U.S. Has 'empathy Deficit' VIDEO: Tolman and Gray: Presidential Primaries, Obama's Wife and Finneran That may be an apt description, implying that the Barack Obama who scorned ordinary folks in small towns who, he sneered, cling to such lower-class crutches as religion and guns, is above the distractions of the madding crowd. It does not, however, fit the other half of the new twofer, Michelle Obama, who far from being above it all is down there in the trenches acting like the flame-throwing liberal activist she is. To know her is to know what her husband really believes. As I have told my listeners of my radio show, if you want to understand how Barack Obama uncomplainingly sat through all those fire-breathing sermons without so much as stirring uncomfortably you need to understand the way husbands and wives practice their religion these days. The men in the pews for the most part are passive, while the wives tend to be passionate. In most cases husbands are there because their wives have dragged them there. Chances are that while the women sit in rapt attention to the words of their pastor, the husbands are snoozing, blissfully unaware of what the reverend is preaching. From what we’ve heard from Mrs. Obama she was paying close attention to the Reverend Mr. Wright, eating up his fiery words and probably enthusiastically nodding agreement as he blamed whitey for inventing AIDS to kill blacks as Barack dozed beside her, wondering when the Reverend Wright was going to shut up. Barack is now wide awake, and for the next seven months he’s going to continue to be faced with explaining why he remained silent while his pastor ranted in the pulpit. And insisting that during his presence in the pews the Reverend Wright never once acted like Reverend Wright just won’t wash. Poor Barack, how can he admit that he didn’t hear any of that rabble-rousing rhetoric because he slept through all 20 years of it? If you want to find the culprit here, turn to Michelle. I’m willing to bet she heard every word of the Reverend Wright’s inflammatory sermons, swallowed them whole, and seethed in anger over White America’s wretched mistreatment of her fellow black Americans as described by her pastor. Nowadays she’s playing the role of dutiful wife and doting mother, but every once in a while her anger surfaces as it did most famously when she told a group in Milwaukee, “For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is making a comeback.” Just what is hope in Michelle Obama’s lexicon? Why it’s nobody other than the man she shared a pew with for 20 years, her husband, who she brags “is one of the smartest people you will ever encounter who will deign [i.e. “lower himself”] to enter this messy thing called politics.” “We have lost the understandi