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submitted by Ari for team Bushwhackers... dissent ala mode 213 weeks 18 hours 52 minutes ago
John McCain has an inherent problem -- he'll say anything to satisfy the immediate audience. He is anything but straight talk.
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John McCain’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination looks desperate. But rivals’ weaknesses may give him a chance to bounce back
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For weeks, Army Gen. Ray Odierno had passionately pressed his point with Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates: President Obama's plan to release photographs depicting the alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners would be a costly mistake.
Last week, when Odierno was in Washington for a meeting with the...(more)
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submitted by Ari 207 weeks 1 day 20 hours 5 minutes ago
Now that it’s obvious Barack Obama will be the Democratic candidate for president, GOP nominee apparent John McCain and the Republican attack machine predictably have started in on the Illinois senator as a callow youth with scant foreign policy experience and a resultant naive view of...(more)
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submitted by Ari 208 weeks 2 days 20 minutes ago
The record-shattering fundraising by Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton has reshaped the financing of presidential elections and generated breathless coverage and analysis of the otherwise arcane area of campaign finance.
Yet it’s had another consequence that has gone all but unnoticed. The campaign finance...(more)
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous....
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Former South Dakota Sen. George McGovern, the Democratic Party's 1972 presidential standard bearer, urged Hillary Rodham Clinton today to drop out of the race.
McGovern, who had backed Clinton, told the Associated Press that after watching the returns from the North Carolina and Indiana primaries Tuesday night,...(more)
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Kwabena Sam-Brew, a 38-year-old immigrant from Ghana, doubted that Nana, his 5-year-old American-born daughter, would remember the rally that effectively crowned Senator Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee Tuesday night.
But Mr. Sam-Brew said he would describe it to her: “I will tell her, ‘Tonight is the...(more)
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The steady disclosures of past lobbying activity by campaign aides, and the struggle to minimize firings, continue to plague John McCain's presidential campaign -- but the reality is that these problems only get worse the deeper anyone digs. There you'll find an anti-cigarette tax campaign in...(more)
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submitted by Ari 209 weeks 1 day 21 hours 29 minutes ago
Arianna Huffington has written an insightful and moving commentary on the real meaning of Hillary's loss. It's really worth a read:
"A front page story in today's New York Times wonders whether Hillary Clinton's flagging run for the presidency is "a historic if incomplete triumph or a...(more)
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submitted by Ari for team Bushwhackers... dissent ala mode 196 weeks 6 days 18 hours 58 minutes ago
John McCain's chief foreign policy adviser and his business partner lobbied the senator or his staff on 49 occasions in a 3 1/2-year span while being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the government of the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
The payments raise ethical questions...(more)
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submitted by Ari 263 weeks 3 days 22 hours 26 minutes ago
Reuters - Right-wing French presidential frontrunner Nicolas Sarkozy has attacked Socialist rival Segolene Royal for making "warlike" remarks that his election in a run-off ballot on Sunday could trigger riots.
