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OBAMA'S STRANGE BEDFELLOWS

no@spam.com (Politic Now) — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:27:17 MST

Socialist-Marxist-Communist, Say Hello to Michelle Obama

no@spam.com (Politic Now) — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:22:23 MST

Socialist-Marxist-Communist, Say Hello to Michelle Obama

The Obama File

no@spam.com (Politic Now) — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:43:13 MST

Obama Video Files

Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis?

no@spam.com (Politic Now) — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:09:52 MST

Paul Wolfowitz's Resignation

no@spam.com (Politic Now) — Fri, 18 May 2007 17:38:38 MST

The World Bank
They need a new President

And so Paul Wolfowitz has resigned as head of the World Bank. The resignation was pretty much inevitable- Wolfowitz was dripping blood politically and it was only a question of when he would decide to fall on his sword rather than take another and another blow. Originally the reason for his resignation lay in the fact that his girlfriend, Shaha Riza, had been employed by the Bank and was than transferred lucratively to the state department. Questions were asked about the President's role in her transfer and particularly in her salary deals- and those questions prompted some to suggest that Wolfowitz himself was guilty of corruption.

This came as a significant blow to a President of the Bank who had from the moment he took office prioritised the battle against corruption- the scandal involving Miss Riza looked to be exactly the type of scandal that Mr Wolfowitz would penalise a third world regime for- and therefore the argument that he had to go was strengthened.

Opinion: Leading presidential candidates stumble in polls

no@spam.com (Politic Now) — Thu, 03 May 2007 15:03:38 MST

Horserace Journalism: It's been a rough month for some of the presidential front-runners in Iowa, according to new polls of the caucus contests.

Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Edwards saw their support drop. So did Republicans Rudy Giuliani and John McCain. Among the leading contenders, only Democrat Barack Obama made gains.

Republican Mitt Romney, who has been running a good campaign in Iowa, has inched into the top tier of his party's candidates by finishing third. Potential candidate Fred Thompson is close behind.

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No Breakout Candidate at Democratic Debate

no@spam.com (Politic Now) — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:25:40 MST

April 26, 2007 — If you were looking for big fireworks or a knockout punch in the first Democratic presidential debate of the 2008 election cycle, you will no doubt be somewhat disappointed tonight. No one candidate seemed to dominate the field.

Though much of the coverage of the race thus far has been through a "Clinton vs. Obama" frame, the front runners were just two of eight candidates on the stage, and each got their chance to make their case. In fact, it was the two most unknown candidates representing the far left wing of the Democratic Party — Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, and former Sen. Mike Gravel, R-Alaska — who created the relatively little heat on the stage.

"And I got to tell you, after standing up with them, some of these people frighten me — they frighten me," said Gravel about his opponents.

Iraq dominated more time than any other single issue, as the presidential hopefuls continued to differentiate themselves on the subject in what have now become familiar ways to the Democratic activists who have been closely following the campaign.

"I am proud that I opposed this war from the start," said Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., before pivoting to his support for a phased withdrawal plan.

"If I knew then what I now know, I would not have voted that way," said Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., in her usual refrain..........

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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3086826&page=1

Obama, Clinton accuse Giuliani of stoking fears & harmful rhetoric

no@spam.com (Politic Now) — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:43:48 MST

The responses are starting to come in from the Democratic side to Rudy Giuliani's suggestion that the nation will be safer from attack if a Republican is elected to the White House in 2008:

"Rudy Giuliani today has taken the politics of fear to a new low and I believe Americans are ready to reject those kind of politics," Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., says in statement e-mailed to reporters this morning.

The Democratic presidential candidate continues: .............

Presidential Debates Get Webby

no@spam.com (Politic Now) — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:56:08 MST

Here's news guaranteed to tickle anyone who, like me, is both a geek and a presidential-campaign junkie: Yahoo, Slate, and the Huffington Post have announced that they're going to cohost the first-ever online presidential debates during the 2008 campaign. There will be one for Democratic candidates and one for the Republicans, and both will be hosted by Mr. Charlie Rose.

The press release doesn't have a lot of detail, other than that the debates will be held after Labor Day of this year, and that the Democratic one will have opening remarks by DNC Chairman Howard Dean. So I have a few questions. Such as....

Who will participate? ....

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http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/004194.html

On the Hill: A Procedural Chess Match

no@spam.com (Politic Now) — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:04:25 MST

In his Web-only column today, The Times’s Carl Hulse writes about how Republicans, in the effort to reclaim their majority next year, have been loading once mundane opposition motions with all sorts of political bombs, which they are then unleashing in press releases to local newspapers, on a special Web site and – presumably – in future 30-second campaign adds. “To hear Republicans tell it, some of the most politically vulnerable Democrats in the House have cast eye-popping votes in the opening months of their service in Congress,” writes Mr. Hulse. Go to Column.