10/Jul 2008 | In Case You Haven't Heard | Jesse Jackson said he wanted to cut Barack Obama 's "nuts out". As we mentioned previously , Jackson said some 'crude' stuff into a Fox News mic he didn't realize was 'on'. The nuts comment is indeed ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Democrats Dysfunctional Family | By Samantha Hayes in Washington , DC It s hard enough to find the funds to pay off your own debt. So imagine having to ask your friends to pitch in and help pay the bills of someone who used to be y... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Hispanics seek McCain's reassurance | When Sen. John McCain speaks to the nation's largest Hispanic rights group this weekend, he will face an audience increasingly confused about his immigration position and looking for a declaration tha... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Sometimes It Doesn't Work Out | The Chicago Tribune, yesterday morning, couldn't stop beating on Barack Obama. They, as a collective whole, are thinking very seriously about spending the afternoon at home on the couch watching soap ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Looks that work | Amy Gonzalez is in the midst of a most challenging process: interviewing for a job. A member of the Boston Teacher Residency program, the 30-year-old has spent several long weeks trying to land a posi... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | In her own words: Hillary Clinton on Barack Obama (and herself) | From time to time, instead of excerpts with comments and background, The Ticket publishes the full text of a statement or speech so readers can get the full flavor of the remarks for themselves. Barac... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Jackson rant revives US race debate | A lurid tirade by civil rights icon Reverend Jesse Jackson against Barack Obama has cast a spotlight on the uneasy issue of race and the election. Jackson's remark, picked up on a live television micr... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Jackson's time has passed | Jackson apologizes for disparaging Obama. Chip East/Reuters; Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesThere's jealousy and maybe a bit of bitterness underneath Jesse Jackson's disparaging remarks at Barack Obama.... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Censoring science: a few not-so-random quotes | On April 9, 2008 Howard Frumkin of the Center for Disease Control submitted the uncensored testimony to Congress of CDC Director Dr. Jule Gerberding on the consequences for human health of continued g... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | The Faith Factor in the Media's Primary Campaign Coverage | As the historic 2008 presidential primary season came to an end, the presumptive Republican and Democratic nominees faced similar dilemmas.) decided to sever ties with controversial religious figures ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | The American Presidents Series | I regard The American Presidents Series as an exciting educational opportunity, telling the history of the United States in terms of forty-two men who at one time or another led or misled the republic... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Controversy precedes Obama Germany vis | The Brandenburg Gate, once a symbol of the Cold War division of Germany, was the backdrop of one of President Ronald Reagan s best known international addresses in 1987. It was there that he famously ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Bob Ostertag: A Talk with Gail Collins | Gail Collins in her NYT op-ed today . She is directing her comments squarely at people like me: I know. You think the guy you fell in love with last spring is spending the summer flip-flopping his wa... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Comments (76 so far) | Racketeer Sizemore and Meathead Mannix form a trifecta of juicy, criminal goodness Carla Axtman. FISA: Wyden defends civil liberties; Smith caves to fear. Evicting a tax paying tenant or removing the ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | I am nobody's running mate: Jindal | Indian-American Governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal, whose name has been surfaced as a potential running mate to Republican presidential nominee John McCain . ], has said no one from the party has mad... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Sheldon Alberts: Jesse Jackson's time has passed | African-American Issues. Chip East/Reuters; Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesThere's jealousy and maybe a bit of bitterness underneath Jesse Jackson's disparaging remarks at Barack Obama. "Our Party is em... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | CNN Re-airs Two Year Old Glowing Look at Jackson, No Mention of Hymietown | Thursday s "Newsroom" program on CNN, in a report promoted to be about how "controversial comments are nothing new to Jesse Jackson," was actually a retrospective from two years ago that largely glowe... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Why Barack Obama Should Thank Jesse Jackson (It s Nuts, We Know) | Though his remark about cutting off Barack Obama's "nuts" for "talking down to black people" was dumb, Jesse Jackson was at least smart enough to get out ahead of the story. He's been apologizing prof... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Great Googly Moogly | Used by express permission from Justin Bilicki. Or at least some of it, anyway: -- Justin Bilicki, whose fine editorial cartoon graces this post, has been nominated for the Science Idol: the Scientifi... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Foreclosure Phil Gramm earlier | McCain's Economic Crony Phil "Foreclosure" Gramm (R-Enron) wants you to know that the economic pain you may think you are feeling is all in your head. "You've heard of mental depression; this is a men... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | StumperTV: The Fight for Independents | The Filter. In 2000, the insurgent spirit fueled his failed (but valorous) bid against George W. Bush for the Republican nomination, and his current campaign only found its footing after collapsing la... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama shrugs off Jackson s nuts comment | Obama shrugs off Jackson s nuts comment By Ashley M Heher, Chicago DEMOCRATIC presidential candidate Barack Obama shrugged off a crude comment aimed at him by the Reverend Jesse Jackson, accepting... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Controversy precedes Obama Germany visit | The Brandenburg Gate, once a symbol of the Cold War division of Germany, was the backdrop of one of President Ronald Reagan s best known international addresses in 1987. It was there that he famously ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Dems prepare another energy package | House Democrats are preparing a package of modest measures with the hope of boosting domestic oil production and insulating themselves from continued Republican attacks. As early as next week, Democ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Pawlenty says McCain not vetting him | Contrary to a blog report this week, Gov. Tim Pawlenty today said he is not being vetted by John McCain 's campaign as a possible running mate. "I have not been asked to provide any documents or infor... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Wolfson: Clinton not being vetted | Obama's running mate, in that she has not been asked to undergo the formal vetting process. "Not as far as I know," said Wolfson, who remains close to Clinton, in response to a question from Sean Hann... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | McCain thanks his troops in visit to St. Paul | Star Tribune Presidential Candidate for the Republican Party John McCain and his wife Cindy, right, greeted staff at his campaign headquarters accompanied by Governor Tim Pawlenty and his wife Mary. ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Raising Money: A True Test of Unity | Sen.) rally the crowd at a fund-raising event in New York. Early on the evening of July 9, a former Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter found herself standing outside the ballroom of the Grand Hyatt in ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Ironically, success of the surge in Iraq is helping Obama | WASHINGTON It is the strangest of political ironies. Every report out of Iraq suggests that John McCain's campaign to rescue that plagued country through a surge in troop strength has worked. But it... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Cam fine... blog slow... 1 outta 2 ain't too bad boyee | Jon McCain "the Not So Straight Talk Express" Mitt Romney- The Candidate of Changey More of Sam's Videos here! . Atrios Liberal Oasis Daily Kos Talking Points Memo Glenn Greenwald FireDogLake Crook... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | ABC anchors asked Obama and McCain about Obama's alleged "shifting positions," but not McCain's | Good Morning America , Diane Sawyer introduced a question to Sen. Barack Obama about Iraq by stating, "[S]ome of your core supporters have been saying that they sense that you are shifting positions, ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama- stop worrying about betrayal and elect him | Press Awards Columnist of the Year 2008, the political commentator Matthew Norman also writes The Independent s media diary. The humble gonad made another foray into the effete world of US political... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | EDITORIAL: Keep free speech free | The Constitution is clear enough. There shall be no law limiting the freedom of the press. That, of course, does not stop congressional Democrats, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , as they try to sn... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Ralph Nader Launches Attack Against Rush Limbaugh | For a desperate, aging leftist whose primary base of political support faded many years ago, what better way to revive one's street credibility than to attack an icon of the right? . That's the obvi... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Stumped by a Dumb Interview Question? | It's no surprise that recruiters like to debate the value of various interview questions. Over at Fistful of Talent , you'll find a nice range of links to opinions on stupid questions. (Stupid, as in:... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Body of missing Lawrence soldier discovered in Iraq | LAWRENCE -- The body of Alex R. Jimenez, a Lawrence-based soldier who was kidnapped more than a year ago, has been found in Iraq in a tragic ending to a family's hope for his return. Jimenez's father,... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | 19 Trackbacks | But, you know, it s us meanie conservatives who are responsible for all the race-based smears. Jesse Jackson issued an apology to Barack Obama Wednesday for making what he called a crude and hurtful ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Big News: Obama's Seen Lots of States | Twelve-hundred words in the Times on Obama's expanding horizons: "The presidential campaign has not only given the country a chance to meet Mr. Obama a chance to meet the country, taking him to large ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Phil Gramm Attacks Media-Peddled Economic Misery, NYT Lashes Back | John Broder: "Mr. Gramm, in an interview with the Washington Times, seemed to minimize the financial pain being felt by millions of American families. 4:43:28 PM In a Thursday afternoon blog post, " O... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Jackson rant revives 2008 race debate | WASHINGTON (AFP) A lurid tirade by civil rights icon Reverend Jesse Jackson against Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama on Thursday cast a fresh spotlight on the uneasy issue of race and the... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Pew Poll: Advantage Obama | The horse race number is interesting, but not surprising. The fascinating part of the poll lies elsewhere, and you get a peek at that from the above graphic (look at "strong support" for McCain vs oth... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Gramm-Flap | I m not sure this is what McCain had in mind when he suggested that Gramm might make a good ambassador to Belarus. Though given the headaches Gramm s causing him today, maybe it's exactly what McCain ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Mantiene Obama ventaja en preferencias | Washington (Notimex).- El virtual candidato presidencial dem crata Barak Obama se mantiene al frente de las preferencias electorales con un apoyo m s entusiasta del que registra su rival republicano J... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | "I want to be wrong." | It occurs to me that some people may only check into my blog from time to time and therefore not know my thoughts on 2008 as they pertain to Rudy. This post will be the one I asterisk in future posts ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Rice Travels to Bulgaria, Republic of Georgia | Russia must do more to help defuse rising tensions between neighboring Georgia and its breakaway regions, says Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. It needs to be a part of resolving the problem and ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Bush Squashes Obama's Brandenberg Speech? | The President has, apparently, decided to punt on the environment once again. The Bush administration has decided not to take any new steps to regulate greenhouse gas emissions before the president le... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama on women, economics, Gramm, FISA | Obama From NBC/NJ s Athena Jones and NBC s Katie Mulhall FAIRFAX, Va. -- Obama said McCain and one of his top economic advisers believed America s economic problems were a figment of voters imagina... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Black pro-lifers to ask NAACP to oppose taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood | African-American pastors and other leaders plans this coming Monday to ask the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to join them in demanding that over $300 million in ta... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Troubles Persist Over Politicization of DOJ Hiring | About Us. Earlier today, Lisa Brown, ACS's Executive Director, spoke out on reversing the politicization of the Justice Department's hiring process on Talking Points Memo Cafe. Mukasey's recent assura... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Venus in town fresh off Wimbledon victory | MIDDLETON -- Five days after winning Wimbledon singles and doubles titles, Venus Williams is in New England tonight to play tennis. Williams, a member of the World Team Tennis's Philadelphia Freedoms,... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Hooray for Immunity! | Kudos to the Democrats in Congress who caved yesterday to the will of President Bush and voted in favor of the new wiretapping law that provides immunity to the telecommunication companies that helped... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | State proves to be | Wisconsin voters this week have been treated to the first skirmish in the general election ad wars, dueling spots from the GOP and Democrat Barack Obama over gas prices, drilling, nuclear power and Am... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Will Obama Jump the Shark? | Conservative talk show hosts and their listeners are exasperated. They know the Obama candidacy is essentially an act a calculated, well-scripted, cinematic performance. What really gets them down is ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Congressional Ballot: Dems +15 | National Polls Democratic Nomination Republican Nomination Delegate Race Democratic Delegate Count Republican Delegate Count Popular Vote Democratic Nomination Republican Nomination Primary Cale... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Thomas Mc | Lord save the presidential candidates from their allies, Chapter Two. Last week, it was Barack Obama who saw his carefully crafted speech on patriotism overshadowed because backer Wesley Clark had mad... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama's easy "Sister Souljah moment" | A&E. I don't know what it is about my home state of Georgia. In recent decades, it has produced more than its share of unusual political figures. There was Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who came out... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | How Do We Define Political Flip-Flops? | July 10, 2008 This is the season for flip-flops the political u-turns that candidates make when they need to change their positions. The word itself has become the political epithet of the season... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama on Women, Dr. Phil, Gilligan | Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama delivered a speech today at the Women's Economic Security Town Hall, in Fairfax, VA, and his campaign held a conference call to discuss the policies. Th... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Viewsday: Soul-searching on surveillance | The Huffington Post. Hofstra University's Long Island Studies Institute. As the bill to expand presidential spying powers sailed through the Senate by a wide margin yesterday, it was trailed by some c... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Zimbabwe opposition sets conditions for talks | 10/07/2008 - 21:42:45 Zimbabwean government and opposition officials met in South Africa today to try to find a way out of their country s deadly crisis. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said he se... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Hope And Change Worth Having Without An Obama Racial Test | July 10, 2008 By Marie Jon' Let us be extremely wary when we ask for "change." The Democrat Party is guilty of injecting race into the presidential campaign. America is no longer a racist country, and... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Kondracke: Phony or pragmatist? | Mort Kondracke poses this as a rhetorical question in his Roll Call editorial , but he appears to be leaning towards phony . After all of the policy reversals and waffles Obama has served up in the p... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Hillary and Barack Hit New York | Hillary Clinton stood alongside Barack Obama at a women s fundraising breakfast for the Obama Victory Fund. This after attending a $33,000/plate Manhattan dinner together the night before. On her home... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | O'Reilly again cited Obama's | Summary: On both his radio and television shows, Bill O'Reilly again cited Sen. Barack Obama's ranking by the National Journal as the "most liberal senator" for 2007, without noting the rankings' subj... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Other candidates | National media have echoed presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain's criticism of Democratic candidate Barack Obama for failing to promise to participate in the public financing program for t... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama s Ideology | Dan Baltz writes the latest in a recent string of articles in the media which quesiton whether Obama has moved towards the center. As I ve discussed previously , often a candidate appears to be moving... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Listening to Obama | Gail Collins also comments on the question of Obama moving towards the center and what he stands for, which I discussed in the previous post . She argues that some people are surprised by his current ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama and the Progressive Base | The Audacity of Hope" is embraced during an Obama campaign rally on the eve of the Super Tuesday primaries. Supporters have long projected their hopes onto Barack Obama. A reasonably evenhanded biogra... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Rove to Congress: You Can't Touch Me | HOME. Members of the House Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law didn't even wait until the 10 a. mark to declare former presidential adviser Karl Rove a no-show this morning. The committ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | FISA and Total Online Awareness | New questions have arisen about what, exactly, the government hopes to surveil. On Monday, Kenneth Wainstein, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security spelled it out : At the breakfast yes... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | St. Joseph women take part in Michelle Obama visit | St. Joseph women take part in Michelle Obama visit Susan Montee, Linda Nolan will be Obama delegates at national convention. Joseph women joined the crowd when Michelle Obama hosted a roundtable disc... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Rev. Jesse Jackson Apologizes For Obama Remark | Reverend Caught On Microphone During Fox Interview Saying Senator 'Talking Down To Blacks, Wants To 'Cut His N--s'. Jesse Jackson is apologizing for disparaging remarks he made about Barack Obama's re... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | BLACK HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: MARY ELLEN PLEASANT | Mary Ellen Pleasant (1814-1904) was an abolitionist, businesswoman and entrepreneur during the Gold Rush . Born the illegitimate daughter of an enslaved voodoo priestess and a Virginia governor s son ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | POLITICS/NEWS: BARACK & HILARY in NYC / JESSE JACKSON APOLOGIZES | Sen. Going after the women s vote, Obama chastised Republican John McCain on Thursday over his opposition to an equal-pay Senate bill, his support for conservative-leaning Supreme Court justices and h... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Flip-flopping tag doesn't quite fit Obama | The Dispatch does not have room to publish all letters to the editor.. Until recently, one of the biggest raps against Sen. Barack Obama from conservatives was his delicate dance around any issue that... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | How about y'all sharing the | A year ago on this blog, we were all getting ready for the all-school reunion. And getting ready for the long primary season leading up to the elections of 2008. This week, the lights have dimmed on t... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Veon, state House Democratic staffers charged in bonus probe | Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett discusses the grand jury presentment at a press conference on Thursday. HARRISBURG -- Attorney General Tom Corbett today filed charges against a dozen figure... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama, Clinton Appear at NY Women's Fundraiser | In a move to unify the Democratic Party and raise his chances of winning the presidential elections, Senator Barack Obama on Thursday emphasized the importance of meeting the needs of female voters. S... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Analysis: Jackson makes Obama look good | 10 (UPI) -- The Rev. Barack Obama spilled over -- and boomeranged right back on Jackson's head. Remember Jackson's notorious reference decades ago to New York City as "Hymietown" -- "Hymie" being a de... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama shock doctrine | 13:52. First Obama started moving part of the Democratic National Committee to Chicago. Then he began pushing to prevent Clinton s name be put in nomination, contrary to all precedent. Then he arrange... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | "Justices restore sex charges in grave-digging case | Justices restore sex charges in grave-digging case; Wisconsin Supreme Court overturns lower court, saying the implied intent of statutes forbid sex with a corpse": This article appears today in The Te... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | McCain camp reassures GOP of finances | John McCain s presidential campaign is trying to ease Republican concerns that he won t be able to compete financially with Barack Obama in the general election. In a conference call with reporters, ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama focuses on women voters during Virginia campaign stops | FAIRFAX, Va. Desma Kelly has never volunteered for a political candidate. But after hearing Barack Obama speak today at Robinson Secondary School, Kelly is planning to help get him elected this fall. ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | McCain: I feel Michigan's pain | VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP -- John McCain campaigned Thursday at a Wayne County auto supplier, saying he understood the economic pain Michigan is feeling and calling his plan for tax cuts and reduced federal ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Kill: Kennedy should have listened to Goldwater re: Cuba. Goldwater had it right, don't do it. But if you are, then do it right, don't do it half asse | I have firm confirmation that Nancy Pelosi is urging the Judiciary committee NOT to go forward with contempt against Rove. Congressman John Conyers and the Judiciary staff are battling for it but this... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | 'Forclosure Phil' Gramm: How John McCain's Closest Economic Advisor Helped Engineer the Morgage Crisis | Afro-Netizen All Spin Zone Altercation Americablog And, yes, I DO take it personally Another Iranian Online August J. Pollak Baghdad Burning Barry Lando Bloggrrrlz Gallery Blondesense Bob Geiger Body ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Sowell: What are the 'Obamacons' thinking? | Opinion Columnists. A number of friends have commented on an odd phenomenon that they have observed -- conservative Republicans they know who say they are going to vote for Sen. It seemed at first to ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama accepts Jackson's apology for comments | CHICAGO Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama shrugged off a crude comment aimed at him by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, accepting an apology for a remark Jackson made as he contended that Obama ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Rusty Weiss's blog | The call to arms is emotional: We need a President who will stand up to Big Oil! The impact is nationwide: National Day of Action for an Oil Free President At gas stations across the country The... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Higher Gas Prices Means Fewer Traffic Deaths | The public is forever complaining about how the media are obsessed with bad news and rarely look for the good in what's going on, but sometimes doing so becomes just a little ridiculous. Such is the c... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Liberal Hypocrisy: Jackson's Nuttiness Funny If About Cheney | Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama's naughty bits, an interesting point was revealed at the Huffington Post: if this had been said about Vice President Cheney, the press would be laughing thei... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama, McCain turn to women's issues | Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton hold a "Women for Obama" fundraising breakfast at the Hilton Towers Hotel in New York this morning. Hillary Rodham Clinton hold a "Women for Obama" fundraising breakfast at... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Jesse Jackson s Crude Remark About Obama Creates Stir | Jesse Jackson s Crude Remark About Obama Creates Stir Black America Web. After using extraordinarily obscene language to criticize Sen. Barack Obama's proposal to expand President Bush's faith-based i... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama's Remarks at Clinton-Obama Fundraiser | Barack Obama Joint Event with Senator Hillary Clinton DNC Women's Leadership Forum New York City, NY Thank you, Hillary. And thanks to all of you for joining us here today. I want to start by saying a... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | What Obama Can Do Now On FISA | By Big Tent Democrat , Section Elections 2008 Posted on Thu Jul 10, 2008 at 08:19:48 AM EST Tags: ( all tags ) . Last night, on Countdown, Russ Feingold said we can fix it FISA if Barack Obama is ele... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Download - Rear Vision | In his battle to gain the Democratic nomination Senator Barack Obama faced increasing pressure over his relationship with his former pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright and with the ministry of the Black ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama accepts Jackson s apology for crude remark | 10:13 AMCHICAGO Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama shrugged off a crude comment aimed at him by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, accepting an apology for a remark Jackson made as he contended tha... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Jesse Jackson Preemptively Apologizing For Comments He Made About Obama | Rob Port is a conservative political commentator from North Dakota. You can read more of his writings on his blog, Say Anything , and in the Dakota Beacon. The comments haven t been made public yet, ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Jackson says Obama comments not about envy | Story Highlights. Jesse Jackson says he made "crude and hurtful" remarks. Barack Obama's campaign "represents the redemption of our country" . Jackson's son -- an Obama campaign co-chair -- criticizes... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama Call: Pay Hillary's Debts | Ronaldo Is Modern Slave'. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is asking his supporters to help pay off the debts of former rival Hillary Clinton. Illinois senator Obama narrowly defeated t... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | In N.Y., Obama Makes Late Plea To Aid Clinton on Debt | Senator Obama is sweeping through New York in an attempt to unify the Democratic Party before the general election by appearing alongside Senator Clinton at a fund-raiser this morning and encouraging ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Jesse Jackson Lifts Obama by Sinking Himself | In 1984 I voted for Jesse Jackson for president. Today Jackson is reeling from a dumb, spiteful gaffe in an off-camera interview in which he not only tried to undermine Barak Obama in the African Amer... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | ..] Sister Toldjah observed a Breck Hair Flip on John | I happily posted back in May John Edwards statement that he was in no uncertain terms not interested in a VP slot alongside Barack Obama. Unfortunately, His Royal Phoniness has backtracked : (CNN) ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Clinton Joins Obama For Another Campaign Event | Presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama and former rival Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton hosted a "Women For Senator Barack Obama" fundraiser at a Manhattan Hilton Hotel this morning. Clinton said ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Wooten: Jackson helps Obama | Jesse is Obama's Sister Souljah. Obama tries to make Georgia seem in play; it isn't. Barack Obama is either lucky, living right or the beneficiary of the proper alignment of the stars. Within a week h... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Dawn Turner Trice: What if a white man said what Jackson said? | Classified. Jesse Jackson made during an off-air moment during a Fox News Channel interview were absolutely awful. Jackson told a fellow guest that he wanted to castrate Sen. Barack Obama for talking... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Bucks Right | Slap on Wrist for Levittown Church Vandals Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:08 am Posted in Crime 0 Comments In certain circles, vandalizing a place of worship by spray-painting slogans that are antagonistic t... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Authority: 16 | IssuesPA Institute for Justice The National Review The Free Republic Rush Limbaugh Sean Hannity Bill O'Reilly Fox News Gettysburg Times Hanover Sun Pottstown Mercury York Dispatch Bucks Right Talking ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Dinosaurs are coming! | Courtesy photo) It takes a team of 150 puppeteers, performers, and other crew members to bring to life dinosaurs such as a torosaurus, a giant brachiosaurus (above), a Utaharaptor, and an ankylosaurus... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Review: SLK serves up style, sport | Mercedes has given the SLK an appropriately luxurious look that takes key elements from other, more expensive models, like the SLR and SL550. If you haven't been in the market for a convertible in a w... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Barack Obama & Abortion News | 10 Jul 2008 10:50 GMT. arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, has endorsed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama , citing his 100 percent pro- abortion rating. The pr... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Hillary Clinton Helps Obama Bring In $4.1 Million at Manhattan Fundraiser | Hillary Clinton Helps Obama, Democrats Raise Money in Manhattan By Jonathan D. Hillary Clinton is helping Barack Obama fill the coffers of his presidential campaign and the Democratic National Commit... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Bob Burnett: Obama's Southern Strategy | Barack Obama 's 2008 campaign strategy aims for more than winning the presidency. John Kerry won in 2004 and adds Ohio, Obama will have a majority of the electoral vote . But he's not satisfied with ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Sharpton & Giuliani on "Hannity & Colmes" | HANNITY: And welcome to HANNITY & COLMES, I'm Sean Hannity. We get right to our top breaking news story tonight. The Reverend Jesse Jackson has been caught making some disparaging comments about Senat... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | "Senate Approves Bill to Broaden Wiretap Powers" | Senate Approves Bill to Broaden Wiretap Powers": The New York Times contains this article today. The Washington Post reports today that " Obama Joins Fellow Senators in Passing New Wiretapping Measure... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Jesse Jackson apologises after saying he wanted to 'cut Barack Obama's nuts out' | Times Online ( Free subscription ) | 59 minutes ago The Reverend Jesse Jackson has issued an apology for disparaging and crude remarks in which he claimed Barack Obama was "speaking down to black peop... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama shrugs off Jackson smear, accepts apology | Chicago Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama shrugged off a crude comment aimed at him by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, accepting an apology for a remark Jackson made as he contended that Obama ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Blagojevich cuts $1.4 billion from new budget | UPDATED 7:20 a.4 billion from Illinois new state budget -- including hundreds of millions of dollars earmarked for social services, education and health care -- because the Legislature has failed to ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama wins by media consp | It was more than obvious, even Obama supporters should recognize the only reason he was not destroyed despite the early victories is because, since late January-early February, the media has been on O... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | The Great Migration of the Hispanic Vote | Barack Obama s speech on Tuesday before the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) was very important for several reasons. First, it signals that Obama has rebounded from his primary percept... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Jesse Jackson goes 'nuts' over Obama | Blog: why he said it The Reverend Jesse Jackson has issued an apology for disparaging and crude remarks in which he claimed Barack Obama was "speaking down to black people" by telling them they need t... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Jesse Jackson, Barack Obama | Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama shrugged off a crude comment aimed at him by the Rev. Jesse Jackson , accepting an apology for a remark Jackson made as he contended that Obama wasn't sp... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Clinton's judgment on limiting executive power = SCARY | Wed, 2008-07-09 15:54. Mile High Stadium, here we come! UPDATE When my Unity Pony comes, I m gonna name it FISA! And Uncle Harry n Uncle Barry n Aunt Nance are gonna to come by tomorrow and show me ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | DC Schools Chancellor Pleasantly Surpised by Test Scores | 10, 2008 - (Through July 13) MAMMA MIA The hit song Mamma Mia , by the Swedish pop group Abba is still undergoing a major metamorphosis. It went from a chart-topper in the 1980s to a hit Broadway musi... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama raffle: no gambling | Jim Tankersley DENVER, Colo. -- The cities hosting the Democratic and Republican national conventions buzzed this week with a mini-controversy over whether Barack Obama's presidential campaign was run... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama accepts Jackson s apology for crude remark | By ASHLEY M. HEHER Associated Press Writer Published: July 10, 2008 OCHICAGO - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama shrugged off a crude comment aimed at him by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, accep... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Jesse Jackson Sorry About Obama Comments | Interactive: Full Coverage.CHICAGO -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama shrugged off a crude comment aimed at him by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, accepting an apology for a remark Jackson made... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Senate, Led by Kennedy, Sends Bush Measure to Reverse Medicare Doctor Cuts | President George W. Bush must decide whether to deliver on a threat to veto legislation halting a cut in Medicare reimbursements to doctors, after the Senate voted to send him the measure by a veto-pr... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | "They will learn English" | They will learn English Posted by Holly Robichaud at 8:26 am Are you ashamed of your country? The statement earlier this year by Michelle Obama about finally being proud of her country can once agai... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Six types of voters to decide next president | Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama leads Republican John McCain in the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll by only single digits among registered voters, 48%-42%, at the edge of the survey's marg... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama accepts Jackson's apology for | Ashley M. Heher Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama shrugged off a crude comment aimed at him by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, accepting an apology for a remark Jackson made as he contended that ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Democrats Aim For Last Frontier | By Reid Wilson On election day the sun will rise over Alaska for just over eight hours. The days of the midnight sun will have long since passed. But the state that goes to bed last as polls close aro... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama Continues To Woo Evangelicals With Faith Speeches | Relevant, a liberal, youth-oriented publication edited by Cameron Strang, has just published a Q&A with Senator Obama on his faith-based proposal. In the introduction to his Q&A, Strang said the inter... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama shrugs off Jackson remarks | CHICAGO -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama shrugged off a crude comment aimed at him by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, accepting an apology for a remark Jackson made as he contended that Obama... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Jackson: America ready for Obama | The Rev. Jesse Jackson believes Barack Obama's nomination as the Democratic presidential nominee represents a "maturing" of Americans' feelings about race. The civil rights leader -- the featured spea... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Jesse Jackson Apologizes for Crude Obama Comments Caught on Tape | Civil right figure and former presidential candidate Reverend Jesse Jackson has been caught on tape making some vulgar comments about the current presumptive Democratic nominee for President, Barack O... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Matt Filler | Good news for politics fans! PBS to air gavel-to-gavel conventions. A John McCain win would put a spring in the step of one world leader . Fresh from its fist bump flap , Fox News is taking new fla... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama says he regrets putting daughters on TV | Jason Reed/ReutersU. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) walks with his wife Michelle and daughters Malia (L) and Sasha (R) off their chartered plane in South Bend, Indiana M... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Trouble In 'McCain Country' | Cover Story. This is part of a series looking at the swing states likely to determine the outcome of the presidential election. New Hampshire's Almanac Profile Read The Entire Series Few places ha... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Clarence Page: Warning to under-age readers | Clarence Page A WARNING TO UNDER-AGED READERS: Now that I've got your attention. Jesse Jackson has issued an apology this afternoon for a story that has not even been reported yet. "For any harm or hu... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Senate easily passes wiretap bill Obama's 'yes' vote draws charge of | Vote On Chron Comics. (07-10) 04:00 PDT Washington - -- The Senate easily approved legislation Wednesday to overhaul government eavesdropping rules in terrorism and espionage cases and effectively gra... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | He s just saying he s Number One | It is nice to know that the man who has given us such memorable G-8 moments as cursing while stuffing his gaping maw ; demonstrating the sparkling eloquence of 'Rocky Balboa'; and partaking in the occ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Planned Parenthood Action Fund endorses Obama | The Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the political arm of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, has endorsed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama, citing his 100 percent pr... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Susan B. Anthony List attacks Obama s extreme record on abortion | Susan B. Anthony List has criticized presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama s recent remarks about his stand on partial birth abortion. The pro-life group argues that he knows h... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | JESSE APOLOGIZES TO BARACK: Jackson said | The Rev. Jesse Jackson finds himself in deep you-know-what because of his now infamous comment about cutting off an extremely vital anatomical area of Barack Obama. In a video aired Wednesday night on... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama s triangulations | Political love is a dangerous undertaking, especially in America. The consoling fiction that any candidate s private virtues will ensure unwavering constancy to their putative core principles is ten... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama accepts Jackson's apology for crude remark | CHICAGO Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama shrugged off a crude comment aimed at him by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, accepting an apology for a remark Jackson made as he contended that Obama wa... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | 'Colorado is big time for us,' Obama campaign official says | Fiction fuels frivolous food fight. Barack Obama's campaign plans to blanket the state between now and Election Day, registering new voters and doing battle in even the most hostile Republican territo... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | No sectarian divide on this issue | Sistani opposes Iraq -US security deal Iraq 's Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani Iraq 's most senior cleric voices opposition to a proposed security deal with the US, saying such a deal would threaten Iraq ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Jackson apologizes for Obama slam | Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson apologized Wednesday after a brief furor over his suggestion that the man seeking to become the nation's first black president has sold out black voters. Barack Obama... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Let's see. Massachu is controlled by 90% Democrat.. Mas has one of | A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. Woodwose Landscapes Full-service landscape design/construction & lic... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Jackson Apologizes for Comments | Ashley M. Heher Barack Obama's campaign tried yet again to contain a political storm kicked up by a vocal Chicago supporter as the Rev. Jesse Jackson apologized for crude comments picked up by a live ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | How the Convention Could Hurt Obama | By Steven Stark In the modern age, America's major-party conventions are love fests, feting their preselected nominees. But that may not be the case this year for Barack Obama, which means the Democra... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Jackson sorry about Obama comment | Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks during a news conference in Chicago, Wednesday, July 9, 2008. Jackson apologized Wednesday for comments he made about Barack Obama's speeches in black churches during what he... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | The Fives: Jesse Jackson, Ronald Reagan and that woman from CNN ask, 'Is that thing on?' | There is a long-running joke in the Journal newsroom that when a certain high-profile leader for decades in western South Dakota is quoted in a story, it is said that he "must have found an unguarded ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Let's change the topic | The major presidential candidates -- obviously considering tryouts for the Olympic diving team -- are flip-flopping almost faster than the eye can see. We're starting -- with your help -- the Presiden... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | POLITICS: Jackson apologizes for comment on Obama | CHICAGO -- Barack Obama's campaign tried yet again to contain a political storm kicked up by a vocal Chicago supporter as the Rev. Jesse Jackson apologized for crude comments picked up by a live micro... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Jackson sorry | CHICAGO Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama shrugged off a crude comment aimed at him by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, accepting an apology for a remark Jackson made as he contended that Obama ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Suck It | FISA Vote on CLOTURE: Obama: Yay Clinton: Nay McCain: No show/no vote FISA FINAL BILL VOTE: Obama: Yay Clinton: Nay McCain: No show/no vote Sen. Hillary Clinton's Statement: STATEMENT OF SENATOR HILLA... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Senate gives OK to eavesdropping bill | Revised legislation takes telecoms off the hook; Obama is criticized for changing position on controversial measure . President Bush makes a statement on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Rev Jesse Jackson is forced to apologise for saying he wanted to 'cut Barack Obama's nuts out' | The Reverend Jesse Jackson apologised last night for 'regretfully crude' comments the civil rights leader made about Barack Obama's speeches in black churches. Jackson told a reporter that Obama came ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Jesse Jackson apologizes for crude comments about Obama | CHICAGO Barack Obama s campaign tried yet again to contain a political storm kicked up by a vocal Chicago supporter as the Rev. Jesse Jackson apologized for crude comments picked up by a live microp... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama's Constitutional Shift: 1st, 2nd, 4th and 8th | By Jeralyn , Section Elections 2008 Posted on Thu Jul 10, 2008 at 07:43:00 AM EST Tags: Barack Obama , 2008 ( all tags ) . Dahlia Lithwick and Doug Kendall at Slate ask a good question: Obama veers t... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Sox record Twin killing | Red Sox third base coach DeMarlo Hale talks about Boston's impressive outing in an 18-5 triumph over the Twins Wednesday that capped a three-game sweep. Globe Staff / July 10, 2008 Over the press box... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Stunning return and a vital vote | Local. Kennedy, under treatment for brain cancer, made a brief, triumphant return to the Senate yesterday, stunning fellow lawmakers with a surprise appearance to vote on a critical Medicare bill that... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama regrets allowing daughters' TV interview | The Democratic presidential candidate and his wife, Michelle, allowed the syndicated program "Access Hollywood" to interview their daughters, Malia and Sasha, as Malia celebrated her 10th birthday. Ye... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Nothing cool about trolley's upgrade | Armed with a small napkin and an icy Diet Coke, Judy Callahan waited for the Mattapan trolley yesterday, which she expected to offer little relief from the blazing afternoon sun. "You've got to have s... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Kennedy's stunning return and vital vote | Local. Kennedy, under treatment for brain cancer, made a brief, triumphant return to the Senate yesterday, stunning fellow lawmakers with a surprise appearance to vote on a critical Medicare bill that... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Open mic: Slur against Obama 'too crude' for TV | Jackson spent a considerable amount of time Wednesday and Thursday backtracking from negative remarks he thought he made in private about Sen. Jesse Jackson's apology for crude remark on Fox What's ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Ted Kennedy makes surprise appearance on Capitol Hill | WASHINGTON The Senate yesterday approved a bill to block an impending 10.6 percent cut in doctors' payments from Medicare and the Pentagon's health program for. Kennedy, battling a brain tumor, walked... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama and Calumny | Danielle Allen, the scholar from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N., has reappeared in the pages of the Washington Post, this time with an op-ed, 'Worse Than Mud,' on the dangers of sme... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | FOX Scoops All With Jesse Jackson - Obama Meltdown | Here's a scenario to make the left cringe: the FOX News Channel's ratings will be through the roof tonight, all thanks to Mr Shakedown himself , Jesse Jackson! . Yes, as a result of his bluntly cand... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Slog or skate? | DESPITE a bruising Democratic primary, his difficulty in connecting with working-class and Hispanic voters and the latest poll showing his opponent up by three points here, some of Nevada's most promi... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | President Barack W. Bush? | This is an interesting article I found from historian Victor Davis Hanson. It coincides with Senator Barack Obama s dance to the center, something he s been doing for weeks now, to try and get more in... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Turning right together | In the final stages of most battles for the presidency, the Republican candidate drifts to the left while the Democrat heads right. This year, McCain and Obama are fighting over the same conservative ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Boeing Back in Running as Defense Secretary Reopens Air Contract | Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced today he is reopening competition for a fleet of U. The decision comes three weeks after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) upheld . Gates said he was... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | EU Food Aid News | EU Food Aid News. Bush Praises Significant Progress on Climate Change 10 Jul 2008 17:33 GMT. And that's what took place today," Bush said as the G8 closed its three-day forum. The president of the Eu... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Silly Boys' Club: Steyn and CIC | HOME. In late June, the Canadian Human Rights Commission dismissed a complaint a conservative Muslim organization made against Macleans, ruling that the views expressed in a (presumably satirical?) a... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Successful strategies evade Democrats | A few times a year my faith in the two-party system is momentarily brought out of cold storage, animated by a fleeting hope that the Democrats will finally learn how to stand up to decades of Republic... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Don t hope for a better life; vote for one | The McCain campaign s new television ad is all about contrasts. The opening scenes pit the rebelliousness and free-wheeling counterculture of the summer of 1967 the Summer of Love against the wa... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | McCain receives failing grades from veterans organizations | Senator John McCain should not take for granted that veterans will support him in November. His legislative record shows that he has not been a champion for military families and veterans. Last week, ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Iran tests ballistic missiles capable of reaching Israel | Iran tested nine long- and medium-range missiles yesterday which caused a rise in tensions in the region, and yet another increase in oil prices. State Press TV reported that the missile tests were ca... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama bites the bullet on FISA | Spokesman for Barack Obama, October 2007, as reported by Greg Sargent: "To be clear: Barack will support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies." ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Betrayed by Obama | The Democrat's FISA sellout is unforgivable, but he's counting on supporters having no place else to go. And McCain's nutty neocon Iran talk helps him make his case. Obama proved to me today that he ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Deconstructing Obama's 'Shift to the Center' | The Filter. In 2000, the insurgent spirit fueled his failed (but valorous) bid against George W. Bush for the Republican nomination, and his current campaign only found its footing after collapsing la... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | The Obama Veepwatch, Vol. 6: John Edwards | The Filter. In 2000, the insurgent spirit fueled his failed (but valorous) bid against George W. Bush for the Republican nomination, and his current campaign only found its footing after collapsing la... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | A One-Front Terror War? | I don't have troops I can reach for . to send into Afghanistan until I have a reduced requirement in Iraq, said Admiral Mike Mullen on July 2. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff explained, Af... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | The Frightful Faces of Fox News | Last week, Media Matters pointed out that Fox & Friends, the Fox News program hosted by Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade, had aired doctored photos of two New York Times reporters who had dared to write... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama Votes for FISA and Immunity for Bush, Telecoms - Clinton Votes Against It | Inexplicable : More than two and a half years after the disclosure of President s Bush s domestic eavesdropping program set off a furious national debate, the Senate gave final approval on Wednesday a... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Most Germans Want a Democrat in the White House | This certainly doesn't come as a surprise: Most Germans want a Democrat in the White House. In a poll by public tv channel ARD roughly two third of respondents preferred either Hillary Clinton or Bara... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Today s Coverup of Surveillance Crimes and Barack Obama | What we learned in December, 2005 that George Bush and the telecoms were doing listening in on the private conversations of American citizens without warrants is a felony under clear U. law, punis... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Video: Jesse Jackson on Obama: Wanna Cut His Nuts Off | 8 Responses to Video: Jesse Jackson on Obama: Wanna Cut His Nuts Off . Jesse Jackson Rips His Own Nuts Off [Dan Collins] - [UPDATED WITH VIDEO - JEFF]. Posted by Dan Collins @ 5:44 pm | Trackback S... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Senator John McCain: Pseudo-Maverick of The Republican Party (1 of 2) | Parade Magazine , the slick insert found in most metropolitan Sunday newspapers, on July 6 carried a feature, "What is Patriotism?" to mark the July 4th weekend. In it presidential candidates Senators... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Rev. Jesse Jackson 'very sorry' for comments about Barack Obama | CHICAGO The Reverend Jesse Jackson apologized today for what he called "regretfully crude" comments he made about Barack Obama's recent speeches during what he he said he thought was a private conve... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Jesse Jackson Disparages Barack Obama: Caught On Tape (VIDEO) | Barack Obama , Jesse Jackson , Jesse Jackson Barack Obama , Jesse Jackson Obama , Obama African-Americans , Video , Politics . ** UPDATES BELOW: OBAMA STATEMENT, VIDEO ** CNN reports : The Rev. Jesse ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama walks the abortion minefield | For the past week, some activists in the abortion rights community have been trying to figure out why Barack Obama , a Democrat praised for his strong defense of reproductive rights, appeared to be tu... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Tanker redo might hurt McCain s bid | Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the Pentagon will accept new proposals for the competition and will also make changes to reflect flaws found by the Government Accountability Office in the way the ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | The 'Fairness Doctrine' and Multiculturalism s Monoculture | Liberals are chafing at the bit, waiting for regime change in Washington to give them the ability to reinstate the fairness doctrine; a regulation which requires talk radio stations to devote equal ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama, Clinton Head to New York With Running Mate Scout | WASHINGTON Democrat Barack Obama and his former rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton, headed to New York on Wednesday along with his vice presidential searcher Caroline Kennedy. Clinton, mentioned as a pos... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Kennedy Casts Key Vote as Medicare Bill Passes | WASHINGTON Senator Edward M. Kennedy returned to the Senate on Wednesday for the first time since being sidelined with cancer and was greeted by a bipartisan barrage of whoops, cheers and applause b... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama-Clinton meeting stokes VP speculation | EarthLink channels Air Tickets/Travel Astrology Auto Banking Blogging Books Communicate Careers Computing Credit Center Dating Games Health Insurance Kids Movies Music My Finance People.com Real Estat... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Jessie Jackson Wants To Cut Off Barack Obamas Family Jewels? | Our good friend the Rev. Alas for our good Reverent, this latest goof may result in him and Duane Dog Chapman reversing roles, with Duane offering some spiritual guidance to Jessie when in comes to ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Boyles agreed with guest that immigrants "are never gonna be able to support their families without taxpayer subsidies" | Boyles agreed with guest that immigrants "are never gonna be able to support their families without taxpayer subsidies" . Summary: Peter Boyles of 630 KHOW-AM uncritically allowed his guest, Mark Krik... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | A heartbreaking work of staggering cynicism | There have been many terrible, abhorrent, un-American, unacceptable, and unconstitutional laws passed over the last seven-and-a-half years (The Patriot Act, the AUMF, and the Military Commissions Act ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | 'My beloved Conservative party'? | Scared: Boris Johnson Embattled Boris Johnson has chickened out of an interview with The-Latest. The Mayor of London's cowardly decision comes at a time when he needs all the friends he can get. In Ma... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Holding Liberals Accountable For Energy Woes | Energy , Politics , Vox Populi , environment How long can Congressional Democrats hope to continue their anti-capitalist, anti-American agenda without facing accountability from the voting public? Cur... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | The Arab World Vs. Barack Obama | System. The command being executed was "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.exe" /noconfig /fullpaths @"C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\sw80trew.ExecWaitWithCaptureUnimpersonated(SafeUserTokenHandle userToken, String cmd, String cu... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | What Did Jesse Jackson Say On Obama | FOX Scoops All With Jesse Jackson - Obama Meltdown Tape. Jackson's Candid Obama Comments Have Politicos Buzzing. Here's a scenario to make the left cringe: the FOX News Channel's ratings will be throu... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Jeremy Siegel on the Bear Market, Sky-high Oil Prices and Other Bad News | The stock market's June swoon has carried into July, with key indicators pointing to a bear market weighed down by rising oil prices, the credit crisis and more bad news from Detroit, as the Big Three... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Jesse Jackson: I Want to Cut Obama s Nuts Off | Jesse Jackson says that Barack Obama has been talking down to black people and helpfully adds: I want to cut his nuts off. According to CNN , Jackson didn t elaborate on the context of his remarks... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama's unforgivable FISA sellout | What an interesting week: I came back from vacation to find the two presumptive presidential nominees running away from their bases. Suddenly John McCain is evading, not embracing, the media, limiting... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Late Late Nite FDL: We Are All Outlaws Now | He says he doesn t do cower. But he quakes at the thought that McCain might be better at pandering to cowards. ANyone care to explain to me why only Republicans voted against cloture before the vote... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Honeybees and Squash in DownTown Detroit: The Return of Mother Nature | In Detroit, nature is beginning to reclaim urban areas. There are pheasants roaming in some of the city s 40,000 vacant lots and even a tree rising from the roof of the fifty year old Packard auto pla... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Americas Watchdog Accuses Federal Reserve Congress of Looking the Other Way On US Banks and Mortgage Bankers Hiding A Huge | Americas Watchdog Accuses Federal Reserve Congress of Looking the Other Way On U. Americas Watchdog and its National Mortgage Complaint Center have been demanding U. Department of Housing and Urban D... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Roy Hobbs In The Bottom Of | Bishop Harry Jackson www. On a sad day for civil liberties in this country, there is one shining bright spot - Ted Kennedy is back in the Senate. Kennedy, battling a brain tumor, walked through a wall... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | They're Suing | One thing this whole FISA business has taught us is that most of our friends are very likely not in the Congress, they're in the groups doing tireless work year after year to help protect our libertie... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Damn, do I have to watch Fox tonight? | Media. Jackson on 'Ugly' and 'Demeaning' Obama Remarks Updated 7:06 p. said in a live microphone on Fox News, it was really, really bad, and none other than his own son seems to know it. "I'm deeply o... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Senate approves spying bill | 7/10/08 WASHINGTON The Senate easily approved legislation Wednesday to overhaul government eavesdropping rules in terrorism and espionage cases, and effectively granted immunity to telecommunication... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | What Did Jesse Say?CNN | What Did Jesse Say?CNN censored it; had three commentators describing how it would not hurt Obama; you had to wonder what could he have said? The LA Times printed it; maybe?Jesse Jackson apologizes fo... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | A Watershed Election? | A15Exciting as presidential elections can be, they don't often change things fundamentally. Now and then, however, they can remake the American political landscape for years to come, and the country e... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Socialists and Barack Obama | . By Malik Miah, from Against the Current, July/August 2008, No. Now that Illinois Senator Barack Obama has become the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, what does it say about U. civil so... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Reverend sorry for 'crude' Obama comments | 10/07/2008 - 07:02:10 The Rev Jesse Jackson has apologised for regretfully crude comments he made about White House contender Barack Obama s speeches in black churches during what he thought was a p... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | A U.S. Leadership to Follow | DOHA -- I was not born when, on June 21, 1963, U. Kennedy spoke those immortal words: "Ich bin ein Berliner" from the balcony of West Berlin's city hall, the Rathaus Sch nenberg. It was a notable mome... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Moyer Leaves WPNI | I do think that the quality which makes a man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and is masochistic. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama Forgets To Ask For Clinton Debt Relief | Top Secret: Military Jets. It was all part of a careful arrangement: Democrat Barack Obama would get fundraising help from his erstwhile rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in exchange for his help retirin... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama stokes veep speculation | Democratic presidential candidate Sen. 19:30:03 Location: NEW YORK Barack Obama stoked vice presidential speculation Wednesday with an unannounced stop at the Washington law firm of a search team memb... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama's N.Y. visit sparks veep hunches | NEW YORK Barack Obama stoked vice presidential speculation Wednesday with an unannounced stop at the Washington law firm of a search team member and then a flight to New York fundraisers with potent... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Levin falsely accused Obama of lying about McCain's position on immigration reform | Summary: Radio host Mark Levin aired a clip of Sen. John McCain's position on immigration reform, "[W]hen he started running for his party's nomination, he abandoned his courageous stance and said tha... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Liasson reported McCain "has begun emphasizing the importance of securing the borders," not that it's a reversal of his position | Liasson reported McCain "has begun emphasizing the importance of securing the borders," not that it's a reversal of his position. John McCain, "while never abandoning his commitment to legalization, h... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Mitchell didn't challenge McCain adviser's "stimulus package" characterization for gas-tax holiday | Summary: On MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell twice failed to challenge claims by McCain economic adviser Carly Fiorina that a summer gas-tax holiday is "the best stimulus package we can have right now." Mitchel... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Jesse Jackson is in Deep Shiz | Mayjah drama, sweeties! MAYJAH! According to new reports , Jesse Jackson didn't realize a FOX NEWS mic was 'on' when he made some comments 'critical' of presidential hopeful Barack Obama . Dayum! Of a... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Jesse Jackson Jr.: Jesse Jackson Sucks At Life | So Jesse Jackson asked Barack Obama to teabag him or something; we don t know yet. Anyway, here s a statement from Jesse Jackson Jr., a national co-chair of Barack Obama s campaign as well Jesse Jacks... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | "Jackson apologizes for Obama remarks" | The Rev. Jesse Jackson's off-mic comments about Barack Obama prompted an apology before FOX News even broadcast its report about them on The O'Reilly Factor. By John McCormick and Monique Garcia and u... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | BREAKING: Senate Backs Wiretap Bill to Shield Phone Companies. Obama voted for the bill & Clinton against | BREAKING: Senate Backs Wiretap Bill to Shield Phone Companies. Senate Backs Wiretap Bill to Shield Phone Companies. Article Tools Sponsored By By ERIC LICHTBLAU Published: July 10, 2008 WASHINGTON M... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Obama to maintain steady presence in Fairbanks with campaign office | FAIRBANKS For the first time in 20 years, a Democratic presidential hopeful is maintaining a steady presence in Fairbanks. Barack Obama, his party s presumed nominee, has opened an office at the Ala... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Attack ads don?t faze Ga. GOP member | Rep.) hasn t been in Congress very long, but already he has discovered that it can be a bruising experience. He s been accused of being soft on perverts, tough on disaster victims and stingy with fami... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | W.G.M. Cantao | Germany's Angela Merkel sets some ground rules for Barack Obama. Nomination in hand, Obama stiffs the Dem left on FISA vote . Jesse Jackson should have long ago learned the dangers of speaking too ... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Jesse Jackson Slams Obama-- Rip His Nuts Off | 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Hot Mic Catches Jesse Jackson Hammering Obama; Jackson Apologizes July 09, 2008 4:33 PM Apparently unaware of a hot microphone, Rev.... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Jackson apologizes for crude comment about Obama | I am just astounded at the lack of civility and good will here. Do any of us posting here actually talk like this in real life face to . face? I never see this kind of discourse at work or in my publi... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Clinton, Obama Combine Fundraising Forces In Midtown | Senator Hillary Clinton joined her former rival Senator Barack Obama in two of three high-profile Democratic fundraising events in Midtown Manhattan Wednesday night. The evening's first fundraiser was... Read » |
10/Jul 2008 | Tel Aviv, U.S. Vessels 'First Targets' as Iran Tests Missiles | WASHINGTON Iran 's long-range missile test yesterday will result in the country's further diplomatic isolation, the White House is saying. Click for slideshow ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images An Iranian... Read » |