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Obama Outlines His Foreign Policy Views

no@spam.com (Gary Porter) — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:10:20 MST

Published: April 24, 2007

CHICAGO, April 23 — Presenting himself as a presidential candidate “who can speak directly to the world,” Senator Barack Obama on Monday outlined his approach to foreign policy, vowing to double foreign aid, expand and modernize the military, and rebuild fractured alliances..............

Debates Losing a Bit of Luster in a Big Field

no@spam.com (Gary Porter) — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:47:07 MST

WASHINGTON, April 22 — The last time Jonathan Prince checked, there were nearly 40 requests for John Edwards, the Democratic presidential candidate for whom he works, to appear at a candidate debate or forum.

They came from state Democratic parties and county Democratic committees. From newspapers and television stations. From unions, advocates for the homeless, church groups, black Democrats, Hispanic Democrats, Jewish Democrats and an association of big-city mayors.

“It’s a mess,” said an exasperated-sounding Mr. Prince, Mr. Edwards’s deputy campaign manager. “Debates are important, but in these big multicandidate races they end up not being an exchange of ideas, but just an exchange of sound bites. They have become a distraction.”......

Edwards Reimburses Campaign for Haircuts

no@spam.com (Gary Porter) — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:30:25 MST

WASHINGTON
- Democrat John Edwards is trying to get out of a hairy situation, reimbursing his presidential campaign $800 for two visits with a Beverly Hills stylist.

Two $400 cuts by stylist Joseph Torrenueva, who told The Associated Press that the former North Carolina senator is a longtime client, showed up on Edwards' campaign spending reports filed this weekend. Edwards spokesman Eric Schultz said it never should have been there.

"The bill was sent to the campaign. It was inadvertently paid," Schultz said. "John Edwards will be reimbursing the campaign."

Edwards is also the subject of a popular YouTube spoof poking fun at his youthful good looks. The video shows the candidate combing his tresses to the dubbed-in tune of "I Feel Pretty."

Federal Election Commission records show Edwards' campaign also spent $250 in services from Designworks Salon in Dubuque, Iowa, and $225 in services from the Pink Sapphire in Manchester, N.H.

Schultz said those services were legitimate campaign expenditures to prepare Edwards for media appearances.

Political candidates often have hair and makeup done before media appearances. Edwards rival Hillary Rodham Clinton got some attention lasWASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has no medical problems, according to a letter from his doctor.

Edwards' doctor, W.L. Wells Edmundson, said the 2004 vice presidential nominee had a physical on April 10 that showed he is in "excellent health and free of illness."

"Mr. Edwards was found to be in superb physical shape, reflective of a healthy diet and his habit of a daily four mile run," Edmundson said in a statement released by the campaign.

The letter allows Edwards to concentrate his health concerns on his wife, Elizabeth, who is fighting a return of the breast cancer that she thought she had beat but has spread to her bones.

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Our Salt Lake City mayor is crazy

no@spam.com (Gary Porter) — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:07:27 MST

Salt Lake City Mayor calls for Bush's impeachment

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- He's a mayor in a state that President Bush carried by 46 percentage points in the 2004 election, but Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson told CNN Monday he thinks it's time the president should be impeached.

"We think if impeachment were ever justified, this certainly is the time," Anderson, a Utah Democrat, told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "This president, by engaging in such incredible abuses of power, breaches of trust with both the Congress and the American people, and misleading us into this tragic, unbelievable war, the violation of treaties, either international or our Constitution -- our own domestic law, and then his role in heinous human rights abuses, I think all of that together calls for impeachment and certainly would communicate to the rest of the world that is not who we are as the American people." (Watch video: Mayor calls for Bush's impeachment)

Anderson also accused the president of deliberately lying about intelligence findings leading up to the war.

"He had the National Intelligence Estimates where the State Department's own intelligence agency, the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, told him that they completely disagreed, as did his Department of Energy, with this whole notion that those aluminum tubes that Saddam Hussein was acquiring could be used to build up a nuclear capability," Anderson said. "And what the founders and those who engaged in the ratification debate had clearly in mind, and this was derived from the British, is that these are political crimes."

Anderson also called Congressional Democrats "timid," claiming they are withholding impeachment charges for political reasons.

"I think that they have got 2008 clearly in view," he said. "I think the Democratic Party, frankly, has been incredibly timid. And I think that there is a lot of culpability certainly with Congress and certainly with many of the Democrats in Congress."

Rocky Is An Embarrassment to Salt Lake

no@spam.com (Gary Porter) — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:57:18 MST

by Dwight J. Barrett, Salt Lake City

The more I see Rocky Anderson the more I think he is despicable individual. I am ashamed of the people who elected him. The people who voted for him should be ashamed of themselves. If the people who voted for him are not ashamed of them selves then I am ashamed for them.

Rocky has no right to use his position as Mayor to promote his personal agenda. Rocky has no right to use our money to promote impeaching President Bush. Rocky spends way too much time chasing down President Bush and not enough time taking care of the business of running Salt Lake City.

The Salt Lake City council should ask Rocky to step down. The city council should enact a city ordinance spelling out the grounds for impeachment so that if Salt Lake ever gets another despicable person in the position of Mayor they can impeach him. If there ever was a Mayor that should be impeached it is Rocky. Rocky doesn’t represent me and I hope and pray he doesn’t really represent the people of S.L.C.!

Rocky reminds me of what Hitler must have looked like when he ranted and raved. The only difference between Hitler and Rocky is that Hitler didn’t drool and slobber when he spoke. Both are as radical. Rocky is so desperate to find someone who will listen to him he must go to the parks and preach to the homeless.

I hope and pray that Rocky will go down in the history books as being the trashiest Mayor that Salt Lake City has ever had. I hope and pray the citizens of Salt Lake City will try to elect a better representative than Rocky. Rocky is an embarrassment to me and Salt Lake City.