McCain Flubbed His Line
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We Are The Ones- New Barack Obama Video
Islamic Fund Raiser Obama?
Here is something that could possibly hurt Obama, if it is true. The World Net Daily has an article that says that Obama has helped participated in multiple pro- Palestinian fund raising efforts. It also links him to terrorists and criminals. That will not be taken well by the American people if, this is credible information. There could various reasons that he took part in these events, though people will only draw one conclusion and that conclusions is that Obama is not pro- Israel as he claimed in the debate Tuesday. Only Barack Obama knows if, these allegations are true.
JERUSALEM – Sen. Barack Obama has spoken at fundraisers for Palestinians living in what the United Nations terms refugee camps, WND has learned.
Palestinians have long demanded the “right of return” for millions of “refugees,” a formula Israeli officials across the political spectrum warn is code for Israel’s destruction by flooding the Jewish state with millions of Muslim Arabs, thereby changing its demographics.
In a conference call last month with Jewish and Israeli media aimed primarily at dispelling Internet reports he is anti-Israel, Obama stated “Palestinian refugees” belong in their own state and do not have a “literal” right of return to Israel.
“We cannot move forward until there is some confidence that the Palestinians are able to provide the security apparatus that would prevent constant attacks against Israel from taking place,” continued Obama during the conference with Jewish journalists.
But in the 1990s Obama was a speaker at events in Chicago’s large Palestinian immigrant community to raise funds for U.N. camps for the so-called Palestinian refugees.
Ali Abunimah, a Chicago-based Palestinian-American activist and co-founder of Electronic Intifada, a pro-Palestinian online publication, recalls introducing Obama at one such event, a 1999 fundraiser for the Deheisha Palestinian camp in the West Bank.
Abunimah is also a harsh critic of Israel and has protested outside pro-Israel events in the Chicago area.
“I knew Barack Obama for many years as my state senator – when he used to attend events in the Palestinian community in Chicago all the time,” stated Abuminah during an interview last month with Democracy Now!, a nationally syndicated radio and television political program.
“I remember personally introducing [Obama] onstage in 1999, when we had a major community fundraiser for the community center in Deheisha refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. And that’s just one example of how Barack Obama used to be very comfortable speaking up for and being associated with Palestinian rights and opposing the Israeli occupation,” Abunimah said.
Abunimah also was recently quoted saying that until a few years ago, Obama was “quite frank that the U.S. needed to be more evenhanded, that it leaned too much toward Israel.”
Abunimah noted Obama’s unusual stance toward Israel, commenting “these were the kind of statements I’d never heard from a U.S. politician who seemed like he was going somewhere, rather than at the end of his career.”
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Source: World Net Daily
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Mike Huckabee, who is still in the Republican Presidential contest, recently had a sit down with Tyra Banks. He discusses quite a few topics, don’t know how many votes he will gain though.
House Speaker Pelosi Asks For Bush Aides To Be Investigated
Speaker of the House-Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wants President Bush’s aides to be investigated for possible contempt of Congress. Pelosi, while may be well intentioned, comes off as someone seeking attention and she may end up hurting the democrats chances in November.
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked the Justice Department on Thursday to open a grand jury investigation into whether President Bush’s chief of staff and former counsel should be prosecuted for contempt of Congress. Pelosi, D-Calif., demanded that the department pursue misdemeanor charges against former White House counsel Harriet Miers for refusing to testify to Congress about the firings of federal prosecutors in 2006 and against chief of staff Josh Bolten for failing to turn over White House documents related to the dismissals.
She gave Attorney General Michael Mukasey one week to respond and said refusal to take the matter to a grand jury will result in the House’s filing a civil lawsuit against the Bush administration.
Neither the department nor White House had an immediate comment.
The Democratic-controlled House voted two weeks ago to hold Bolten and Miers in contempt for failing to cooperate with committee investigations.
“There is no authority by which persons may wholly ignore a subpoena and fail to appear as directed because a president unilaterally instructs them to do so,” Pelosi wrote Attorney General Michael Mukasey. She noted that Congress subpoenaed Miers to appear before the House Judiciary Committee, which is investigating the firings.
“Surely, your department would not tolerate that type of action if the witness were subpoenaed to a federal grand jury,” Pelosi wrote.
She added: “Short of a formal assertion of executive privilege, which cannot be made in this case, there is no authority that permits a president to advise anyone to ignore a duly issued congressional subpoena for documents.”
Pelosi sent an additional letter to U.S. Attorney Jeff Taylor, the chief federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia, whose office would oversee the grand jury.
The letters point to sections of federal law that require the Justice Department to bring the House contempt citations before a grand jury to investigate.
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. John Conyers, said he hoped Pelosi’s demand would spur the department to “put the partisan manipulation of our system of justice behind it” and take the issue to a grand jury. “To do otherwise would turn on its head the notion that we are all equally accountable under the law,” said Conyers, D-Mich.
The department long has resisted directing its prosecutors to enforce congressional subpoenas against White House officials.
The letter was the latest chapter in a yearlong saga that began with the firings of nine federal prosecutors and led to Alberto Gonzales’ resignation as attorney last August.
The House voted 223-32 this month to hold Miers and Bolten in contempt for failing to cooperate with an inquiry into whether the prosecutors’ firings were politically motivated. Angry Republicans boycotted the vote and staged a walkout in an unusually bitter scene even for the fractious House.
It was the first time in 25 years that a full chamber of Congress voted on a contempt of Congress citation. The White House pointed out that it was the first time that such action had been taken against top White House officials who had been instructed by the president to remain silent to preserve executive privilege.
Source: Breitbart
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Sphere: Related ContentClinton And Obama In Statistical Dead Heat In Texas
Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama are very close to each other in multiple polls in the Texas Primary. Clinton had a pretty impressive lead in Texas for sometime, but now like her lead has dwindled. The Texas Primary looms big for Clinton, and not so much for Obama. Obama can lose Texas and still stay around, though if Clinton loses Texas, she is going to be hard pressed to find justification to stay in the Presidential race.
(CNN) – Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are in a tight race in Texas, according to a “poll of polls” calculated by CNN on Thursday.
An average of three polls of likely Democratic voters has Sen. Barack Obama at 48 percent and Sen. Hillary Clinton at 45 percent. Seven percent were unsure.
The average also shows Sen. John McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee, holding a nearly 20-point lead over former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee among likely Republican primary voters. McCain has 53 percent to Huckabee’s 34 percent, and Texas Rep. Ron Paul has 9 percent. Four percent were unsure.
Texas voters will be joined by those in Ohio, Vermont and Rhode Island when they head to the polls on March 4. With Obama surging into the lead on 11 straight wins since Super Tuesday, Clinton’s supporters admit that she must do well in Texas and Ohio if she is continue to battle for the nomination.
CNN’s Texas poll of polls results were calculated using three surveys: a Belo/Public Strategies poll conducted February 24-25, an American Research Group poll conducted February 23-24, and a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll conducted February 22-24.
Earlier, an American Research Group poll of likely Democratic voters on February 13-14 showed Obama ahead, 48-42, with 10 percent undecided. A CNN poll taken between February 14-17 showed Clinton ahead, 50-48.
Source: CNN
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Ralph Nader announced on Sunday, he was running for President. Now on Wednesday, Nader held a press conference to announce that his running mate will be Matt Gonzalez of San Francisco, California. Gonzalez was a public defender and a member of the board of supervisors of San Francisco. Gonzalez stated that he shares political views with Ralph Nader. Matt Gonzalez is 42, and attended Columbia University and the Stanford Law School.
Ralph Nader has selected a former San Francisco city official as his running mate in the presidential race.
Nader announced his selection of Matt Gonzalez, who served as a public defender and a member of the board of supervisors in San Francisco, at a news conference Wednesday.
“It is an honor to run with Mr. Nader,” Gonzalez said. “I hold him in high esteem and share his politics.”
Gonzalez said his priorities in the campaign are election reform, poverty and the war in Iraq.
“I find Matt Gonzalez unwavering in his principles,” Nader said.
He announced Sunday that he will launch his fourth consecutive White House bid — fifth if his 1992 write-in campaign is included.
Many Democrats fear Nader could draw votes from whoever gets the party’s nomination, potentially helping presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain win the White House in November. Nader has long rejected accusations that he served as a spoiler in 2000, in effect helping George W. Bush beat out Al Gore.
Source: CNN
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Sphere: Related ContentMcCains Birthplace Brings Presidential Eligibility Issue
John McCain was not born in the United States, he was born in the Panama Canal Zone. Though, he was born to American parents at a U.S. military instillation. There is no reason that he shouldn’t be allowed to run, it is not like his parents were foreign or they were dissenters of the United States in a different country. There is no issue here, just the media trying to stir up trouble.
The all-but certain nomination of John McCain to be the Republican candidate for president has again raised a question nagging the Arizona senator: does his birth outside the United States prevent him from holding the nation’s highest office?
McCain, part of a storied naval family and a Vietnam War hero in his own right, was born in 1936 on a military installation in the Panama Canal Zone. The issue of his birthplace raises the question of whether it qualifies as a foreign birth and therefore violates the constitutional requirement that a commander in chief be a “natural-born citizen.”
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham told the New York Times that it would be unthinkable for McCain - or anyone born on a military installation - not to be allowed to run for president.
“[McCain’s father] was posted there on orders from the United States government,” Graham told the Times. “If that becomes a problem, we need to tell every military family that your kid can’t be president if the take an overseas assignment.
Source: Fox News
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Sphere: Related ContentObama and McCain Battle Over Al-Qaida Statement
John McCain took a stab at Barack Obama today about a statement made by Obama last night during the democratic debate. Obama stated that he would withdraw troops currently, but if Al-Qaida built a base in Iraq after our troops pulled out, he would do something about that and possibly send troops. McCain fired back on Wednesday that there is Al-Qaida in Iraq, now. Obama fired back with that he knows Al-Qaida is in Iraq and that we should attack Al-Qaida targets. That sure is a confusing stance from Barack Obama, Troops shouldn’t be there, but they should?
TYLER, Texas - Republican presidential hopeful John McCain mocked Barack Obama’s view of al-Qaida in Iraq, and the Democratic contender responded that GOP policies brought the terrorist group there.
The rapid-fire, long-distance exchange Wednesday underscored that the two consider each other likely general election rivals, even though the Democratic contest remains unresolved.
McCain criticized Obama for saying in Tuesday night’s Democratic debate that, after U.S. troops were withdrawn, as president he would act “if al-Qaida is forming a base in Iraq.”
“I have some news. Al-Qaida is in Iraq. It’s called `al-Qaida in Iraq,’” McCain told a crowd in Tyler, Texas, drawing laughter at Obama’s expense. He said Obama’s statement was “pretty remarkable,”
Obama responds
Obama quickly answered back while campaigning in Ohio. “I do know that al-Qaida is in Iraq and that’s why I have said we should continue to strike al-Qaida targets,” he told a rally at Ohio State University in Columbus.“But I have some news for John McCain,” Obama added. “There was no such thing as al-Qaida in Iraq until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq. … They took their eye off the people who were responsible for 9/11 and that would be al-Qaida in Afghanistan, that is stronger now than at any time since 2001.”
Obama said he intended to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq “so we actually start going after al-Qaida in Afghanistan and in the hills of Pakistan like we should have been doing in the first place.”
While he praised McCain as a war hero and saluted his service to the country, Obama said the Arizona Republican was “tied to the politics of the past. We are about policies of the future.”
Source: MSNBC
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William F. Buckley Jr., Dies At 82
Founder of The National Review and conservative thinker William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008) has died at his home in Stamford, Connecticut at the age of 82. Mr. Buckley has been and will still continue to be an influential conservative intellectual. His ideas will live on.
I’m devastated to report that our dear friend, mentor, leader, and founder William F. Buckley Jr., died this morning in his study in Stamford, Connecticut.
He died while at work; if he had been given a choice on how to depart this world, I suspect that would have been exactly it. At home, still devoted to the war of ideas.
As you might expect, we’ll have much more to say here and in NR in the coming days and weeks and months. For now: Thank you, Bill. God bless you, now with your dear Pat. Our deepest condolences to Christopher and the rest of the Buckley family. And our fervent prayer that we continue to do WFB’s life’s work justice.
Source: The National Review
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Mayor Carmen Kontur-Gronquist has been fired from her job as Mayor Arlingoton, Oregon for the Racy Photos that made headlines earlier in the year. The photos were put up on a myspace site for Kontur-Gonquist by a family member in hopes that she would be able to meet people on myspace and maybe even find someone to date. The photos were said to have been taken for a fitness contest that she had entered before becoming Mayor of Arlington.
Arlington voted on Kontur-Gronquist keeping the job of Mayor or not on Monday. The votes came down 142- 139 to remove her. This certainly isn’t the most scandalous thing ever to get someone in office in trouble.
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Sphere: Related ContentSenate To Debate Iraq War
Senate Republicans surprised the Senate Democrats by agree to a debate about the Iraq war. The debate comes about because of a democratic bill sponsored by Russ Feingold (WI) that has been put before the Senate that would end combat in Iraq soon. The Republicans say it is a great opportunity to talk about the success in Iraq and therefore, agreed to the debate.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Senate Republicans surprised their Democratic counterparts Tuesday by agreeing to hold a full-fledged debate on a Democratic bill that would quickly end the U.S. combat mission in Iraq.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said his members oppose the bill.
But he added they welcome the debate because it will “give us a chance to talk about the extraordinary progress that’s been made in Iraq over the last six months, not only on the military side but also with civilian reconciliation finally beginning to take hold.”
Sponsored by Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin, and supported by the Senate Democratic leadership, the measure would cut off funding for combat operations 120 days after enactment.
Democratic leaders had expected GOP senators to block debate on the bill by voting against a procedural amendment. Similar measures have failed repeatedly, and this current version is also not expected to pass.
Senate Democratic leaders complained that Republicans agreed to the lengthy debate because they want to stall the next bill scheduled for Senate action: A Democratic-authored measure to help people facing foreclosures because of the mortgage crisis.
“They’re scared to death of this housing bill, “said Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Illinois. “They don’t want to face the vote and they don’t want their presidential candidate to face the vote before the Ohio primary.”
Republicans disputed the charge, arguing they firmly oppose a provision in the housing bill that would let bankruptcy courts restructure mortgages on primary residences and want it removed from the bill.
The debate on Iraq could unfold over the next several days and could include a host of related amendments.
Democrats said they were considering amendments on troop readiness and a provision jointly sponsored by presidential rivals Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton aimed at preventing President Bush from entering into a long term agreement with the Iraqi government.
Republicans said they are considering their own amendments but don’t know if the Democratic majority will allow them.
Obama and Clinton have supported Feingold in the past. Republican presidential contender Sen. John McCain issued a statement opposing the bill.
“Should we ignore the signs of real progress in Iraq and legislate a premature end to our efforts there, the Congress would be complicit in all the terrible and predictable consequences that would ensue.”
Source: CNN
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