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McCain Still Trying to Find Spectators
According to the Dayton Daily News, Sen. John McCain is still giving away tickets to his Friday rally where he will unveil his running mate. He's having trouble filling a 10,000 seat arena.
The contrast with Sen. Barack Obama giving a speech before 75,000 people tonight is striking and speaks to the excitement factor between the candidates. Obama tickets have been sold out for weeks.
According to the Dayton Daily News, Sen. John McCain is still giving aw...
Not only does John McCain have at least 10 properties he can't remember, but he also owns a parking lot in Phoenix Arizona worth between $1.4 and $2.4 million. That's over $1 million more than the average American home!
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Halliburton sued for human trafficking
John Byrne
Published: Thursday August 28, 2008
Twelve men recruited in Nepal died after forced transfer to Iraq, lawfirm says
Thirteen Nepali men were recruited and held against their will for thirteen months in a human trafficking scheme engineered and perpetrated by Halliburton and its Jordanian contractor, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday in California federal court.
The Nepali men, each between the ages of 18 and 27, were allegedly hired as kit...
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Harry Reid on John McCain: "I just think he doesn't have the temperament to be president" -- and GOP Senators think that, too
Joe Sudbay (DC) · 8/28/2008 10:33:00 AM ET ·
Harry Reid was his usual blunt self talking about John McCain with Nevada reporter Jon Ralston. Reid has worked with John McCain for 26 years, so he speaks with experience. This is why we like Harry Reid. He says it like it is:
"I just think he doesn't have the temperament to be president," Rei...
There's a theme that recurs in your books and your speeches, both about putting country first but also about honor. I wonder if you could define honor for us?
McCAIN: Read it in my books.
I've read your books.
McCAIN: No, I'm not going to define it.
But honor in politics?
McCAIN: I defined it in five books. Read my books.
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Headlined on 8/28/08:
Howard Zinn's Advice to Obama
by Rob Kall
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H.Z. -Yes. I have advice for Obama. You want to win? - Speak boldly to the American people, the American people want to get out of Iraq. Speak boldly and say, "I'm going to withdraw from Iraq as fast as ships and planes can carry them"- , and I think that Obama will have a much better chance of winning the election because he will be speaking to the hearts of the American people, who really are sick of ...
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Associated Press reprints GOP talking points as "news" about Biden
John Aravosis (DC) · 8/28/2008 08:30:00 AM ET ·
Seriously, guys, why don't you just hire Jeff Gannon and save a lot of money. I mean, you're both clearly in the same profession. And I'm not talking journalism. And remember, this is hardly the first time AP has shown its true color:
Biden hasn't always had kind words for runningmate
By The Associated Press – 13 hours ago
Sen. Joe Biden was going bef...
Then we saw what would happen to America if the policies they had talked about for decades actually were implemented. And look what happened.
They took us from record surpluses to an exploding debt; from over 22 million new jobs to just 5 million; from increasing working families’ incomes to nearly $7,500 a year to a decline of more than $2,000 a year; from almost 8 million Americans lifted out of poverty to more than 5.5 million driven into poverty; and millions more losing their health insura...
McCain Advisor: There are no uninsured Americans
by TexasTom
Wed Aug 27, 2008 at 07:14:53 PM PDT
How's this for another kick to working Americans who are struggling to get by? According to the guy that helped develop McCain's health care plan, no Americans should be considered uninsured.
His logic? Anyone who can get into a hospital emergency room is able to access health care, and therefore shouldn't be considered uninsured. His solution to the health insurance crisis is simply to define ...
Flashback: Biden on 9/10/01 warned the ‘real threat’ may come in ‘the belly of a plane’
Before 9/11, the Bush administration’s national security focus was on missile defense, not terrorism. In fact, on 9/11, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was set to deliver a speech that focused “largely on missile defense.” Writing at the Huffington Post, Joe Cirincione — president of the Ploughshares Fund — this quote from Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) on Sept. 10, 2001, warning against the Bush ...
Welcome back, Big Dog:
"The power of our example"
rather then
"The example of our power"
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The Litany of failures!
DAMN RIGHT WE CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT!!!
Yes we can!!!
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Clinton:
'Obama is ready to be president'
"He is ready to lead"
Text of speech:
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"Shallow Throat": McCain Is a "Catastrophe Waiting to Happen" PDF
Written by Bernie Weiner
Wednesday, 27 August 2008
From crisispapers.org :
August 26, 2008 – San Francisco (crisispapers.org) – The race between McCain and Obama is tighter than one would think should be the case. I needed some help in figuring out why, so I got a coded message to "Shallow Throat "-- the high-ranking GOP mole in the Bush Administration with whom I've consulted often.** We met under some shade trees ...
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Giuliani: McCain isn't qualified to be president
John Aravosis (DC) · 8/27/2008
In an interview with Brian Williams on MSNBC earlier today, former GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani disqualified his primary opponent John McCain’s candidacy saying, “this is not the time to have somebody with no executive experience as President of the United States.” Uh, McCain has no executive experience. Though, why do I have a feeling that somehow we're going to hear about M...
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
It's the Ritz, stupid
Joe Sudbay (DC) · 8/27/2008 04:00:00 PM ET
I want Barack Obama to be president. And, I'll be honest, there are some things I personally want: An end to the war; action on global warming; better health care coverage; and true LGBT equality. That's basically it. I don't want a job or a federal contract or a room at the Ritz. Because, apparently for many of Hillary's donors, the room at the Ritz matters. This article in today's NY Times actually c...
August 27th, 2008
Cheney defends Torture - AGAIN!
PHOENIX, Arizona (CNN) — Vice President Dick Cheney defended the Bush administration’s record in the battle against terrorism Wednesday, telling a veterans’ group that its use of “alternative” interrogation techniques against suspects was legal and proper.
“No nation in the world takes human rights more seriously than the United States,” Cheney said at the American Legion’s annual convention. “The policies of our country comply with our law, ...
Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole
By Kim Zetter EmailAugust 26, 2008 | 8:00:00 PM
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Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency.
The tactic exploits the internet routing protocol BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) to let an attacker surreptitiously monitor unencrypted internet traffic any...
Novak: Lieberman Warns McCain Against Picking Him
Robert Novak, who retired after being diagnosed with a brain tumor, is back writing occasional columns throughout the election season.
"Reports of strong support within John McCain's presidential campaign for Independent Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman as the Republican candidate for vice president are not a fairy tale. Influential McCain backers, plus McCain himself, would pick the pro-choice liberal from Connecticut if they thought they could...
Out of Slammer, Ney Slams Bush Admin: "They've Taken Bloodsport to a Whole New Level
By Kate Klonick - August 27, 2008, 11:39AM
Freshly released from prison, former Ohio Republican Rep. Bob Ney is ripping into the administration, leveling charges that they were behind his prosecution.
Ney, who has taken to the airwaves as a radio commentator, recently appeared on the Thom Hartmann show to talk about the Bush administration's role in his prosecution and his past life as a felon.
"I made the bu...
Bush steps up fight over congressional authority
Associated Press
Published: Wednesday August 27, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration is raising the stakes in a court fight that could change the balance of power between the White House and Congress.
Justice Department lawyers said Wednesday that they will soon ask a federal appeals court not to force the president's top advisers to comply with congressional subpoenas next month. President Bush argues Congress doesn't have the aut...
And here's what Obama actually said, back in May:
"Strong countries and strong Presidents talk to their adversaries. That's what Kennedy did with Khrushchev. That's what Reagan did with Gorbachev. That's what Nixon did with Mao. I mean, think about it: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela -- these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us. And yet we were willing to talk to the Soviet Union at the time when they we...
August 27, 2008
Categories: John McCain
McCain's slips, and Reagan's
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Leahy told Vogel yesterday the media has given McCain a free pass on flubs including mixing up Middle East geography, Shiite and Sunni Muslims, and referring to Russia's relationship Czechoslovakia — a country that hasn't existed for 15 years.
"It was the same way with Ronald Reagan in the last few years he was president," Leahy said, referring to the belief that Reagan experienced early signs of Al...
C-span just now
Tweety - "Wolf Blitzer - now there's a street-corner guy"
funny, great National Journal panel with Charlie Cook
more TWEETY:
"these guys tell you the truth on tv and then they get in trouble for it"
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"we were McCain's base when he was taking on Bush"
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"what Hillary did was "post-political"
"you fall in love and then you fall in line"
"Hillary Clinton was UNBELIEVABLE"
The white supremacist plot to kill Barack Obama
Three men were arrested near Denver early Sunday for allegedly plotting to assasinate Barack Obama. Police found rifles, a bulletproof vest, walkie-talkies, ammunition and various disguises.
The three had uttered racist threats against Obama.
The authorities are downplaying the threat the three men posed to the candidate. They're spinning their utterances as the rantings of drug addicts. The men were high on methamphetamine when they were appreh...
That's a negative
August 27, 2008
DENVER
THE BEST way to watch a political convention is on C-Span. That way Americans can make their own judgments unfiltered, without being told what to think by the nattering nabobs of TV commentary. The latest "narrative" making its way around the Democratic convention here is that the Obama campaign hasn't learned the lesson of John Kerry's 2004 convention, in which the nominee failed to directly attack President Bush. CNN commentator Soledad O'Brien even ...
Shuster stumps Giuliani: Why are Republicans sticking Bush on the first night of the convention?
In an appearance on Morning Joe, Rudy Giuliani tried to stir a fake controversy over former President Bill Clinton’s speech tonight at the Democratic National Convention. “Are they gonna have him on in prime-time?” Giuliani asked, “or are they gonna do to him what they did to Governor Warner and stick him in two slots earlier.” (Clinton will speak in the 9-10 pm hour ET.) MSNBC analyst David Shuster...
Rachel Maddow Calls McCain Out on Playing POW Card
By The Seminal
Not surprisingly, Rachel Maddow found precisely the right words to expose what McCain has done by using his military experience as a trump card to excuse every gaffe he makes (he did this most recently on Jay Leno’s show last night). Maddow said that there was only one way McCain’s military record could be diminished–if McCain, himself, cheapened it by using it to score political points, which is exactly what he and his surrog...
Former Gitmo Prisoners Seeking Religious Rights and Protection from Torture for Prisoners Who Remain
Posted by Devin Montgomery, Jurist Legal News and Research at 6:15 AM on August 27, 2008.
British nationals and former Guantanamo Bay detainees Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal, Rhuhel Ahmed and Jamal Al-Harith have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a lawsuit in which they seek religious rights and protection from torture for those still at the facility. In the petition, docketed Monday, the m...
"A U.S. Army sergeant described as a murderer in today's NYT seems to be the same one that led the unit involved in last years New Republic / Beauchamp controversy."
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In July 2007 a U.S. soldier under the pseudonym Scott Thomas wrote about the war in Iraq at the The New Republic's Shock Troops blog. Scott Thomas described some disgusting behavior by his fellow soldiers. Such included running over dogs with Bradley fighting vehicles and playing with a child's scull fou...
Rachel Maddow, MSNBC's Newest Left Hand
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"I'm a liberal. I'm not a partisan," says Maddow, whose nightly show will air at 9. (By Lauren Victoria Burke)
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 27, 2008; Page A20
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When Maddow was 19, two years after she came out of the closet, she watched with horror as Pat Buchanan took the podium at the 1992 Republican convention and called for a culture war against such liberal notions as "homosexu...
Bush administration sought to extend troop presence in Iraq through 2015.
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Reuters reports that Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has said the United States asked the Iraqi government for permission to maintain a troop presence there to 2015 before negotiators finally agreed on a compromise to limit the authorization to 2011. “It was a U.S. proposal for the date which is 2015, and an Iraqi one which is 2010, then we agreed to make it 2011. Iraq has the right, if necessary, to extend the pres...
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You can reach my art gallery at http://www.kpetestudio.com I long for meaningful discussion of our shared values as Americans; I fear only the sound of silence. In the spirit of progressive hope, and while honoring tradition, I poured out my life, heart and soul into the hope of showing the spark of democracy within the paint. I submit my deep longing for the fireworks of a greater democratic deliberation, one that serves us all, as the hoped for result of the sparks in "Freedom in Love." Before putting paint to canvas for this latest series on the outer path, my preparatory process included: (1) four intense years of research, (2) posting tens of millions of lines of political discourse and images among over 12,000 blog posts, and (3) actively listening to the opinions of others contained in the responses to my posts. I learned much, and the core of this is present in "Freedom in Love." Notable similarities emerge between my earlier work on the path of the soul and my present work on the path of freedom and democracy. In both, windows represent seeing, or ways out, and pathways symbolize journey. Trees traditionally represent soul, their gnarled qualities a reflection of the forces that buffet them. Birds are wildness, but also observers, the "nonvoters" of nature who still see with dignity and a worthy opinion. Stars and moons are elemental forces of nature and soul-guides. In democracy they are the guide-stars of ideals or principles, lighting the way down the path of democracy. I feel this series of paintings reveals both inner and outer paths as the same journey. kpete Greatest Threads
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