09/Jul 2008 | McCain's Iraq Flip-Flop? | 50 minutes ago It will be interesting to see how--and if--the candidates adapt their policies on Iraq to take into account Iraq i Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki 's announcement this week that his gove... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Security firms lose immunity in Iraq deal | The Iraqi armed services are likely to target widely-hated American security contractors when they lose their immunity to Iraqi law under a new agreement between the US and the Iraq. The main American... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | McCain Wraps Up Southwestern Pa. Tour | Candidate Tracker & More Interactives. SOUTH PARK (KDKA) Republican presidential candidate John McCain was in Western Pennsylvania today for the second consecutive day. He visited the Consol Energy... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Local leaders pull no punches about Jesse Helms' legacy | At U. Jesse Helms' funeral Tuesday, approximately 1,000 people friends, family, neighbors and public figures gathered to honor the former congressman who died on the Fourth of July. In their summer dr... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Rev. Jesse Jackson Apologizes For Barack Obama Comments, Remarks | Atlanta, GA 7/09/2008 11:03 PM GMT (TransWorldNews) Rev. Jesse Jackson apologized for his "crude and hurtful" comments against Sen. the remarks were "a side light in a broader conversation about urban... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Obama, McCain debate Iran solutions | Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says Iran's missile tests have proved a need for direct US talks with Tehran while Republican John McCain has emphasized sanctions and an anti-missile sh... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Bush calls on Congress to reject FISA bill amendments denying telecom immunity | Senate approves telecom immunity for NSA wiretap cooperation Mike Rosen-Molina at 11:15 AM ET [JURIST] The US Senate Wednesday voted 69-28 [roll call] to approve a bill amending the Foreign Intelligen... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Terry Santiago, Bronx, NY | How real a phenomenon is the Obamacon? This phrase, coined (I think) by Robert Novak is gaining currency in the US. It is the new title for conservatives who back Obama. The San Francisco Chronicle is... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | FISA: Legal immunity for telecom companies who facilitated post 9-11 wiretapping | Chicago Tribune: Obama's Online Muscle Flexes Against Him (July 8, 2008).Electronic Frontier Foundation: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act FAQ's ..FLETC: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FIS... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | McCain: "Meaningful" Action On Iran Needed | Couric & Co. Republican presidential contender John McCain drew a hard line against Iran in an interview with Katie Couric to be broadcast Wednesday night, saying "we cannot ever allow a second Holoc... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Jesse Jackson apologizes to Obama | 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 » |
09/Jul 2008 | Jackson Sorry for Obama Remarks | Home. Jesse Jackson apologized Wednesday for saying Obama is talking down to black people during what he thought was a private conversation with a FOX News reporter Sunday. Jackson also made an off-... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Jackson Caught On Tape Disparaging Obama | 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 » |
09/Jul 2008 | Strickland criticizes McCain's energy policy | PORTSMOUTH Ohio Governor Ted Strickland says Republican presidential candidate John McCain doesn t understand the problem the energy crisis is causing ordinary Americans. Strickland said at a town ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Obama boosters to rally against McCain at gas station | ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | What about Bob? GOP mum on Barr | The GOP has no plans to follow the time-honored method of dealing with pesky third-party candidates by knocking Bob Barr off state ballots. If Republicans are worried about the third-party presidentia... Read » |
09/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 » |
09/Jul 2008 | Obama Disqualified | Presumptive Democrat Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama has disqualified himself from holding his current elected office and disqualified himself from ever holding the office of President of ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | House Democrats suspend spending bills | Sidestepping battles with Republicans over offshore oil drilling and pork barrel projects, Democrats controlling the House have called a halt to efforts to pass the 12 annual bills that fund Cabinet a... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Complaints filed over Obama s sweetheart mortgage deal | The Hill reports complaints were filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and the Senate Ethics Committee against the Democrats' presidential candidate over Obama's Countrywide-like sweetheart... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Thune Not Campaigning For VP Position | Some national political analysts are listing South Dakota Senator John Thune as a possible running mate of John McCain. While John Thune says it's unlikely that he'll be named as a running mate, he is... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Castor: McCain, not Social Security, is real 'disgrace' | U. Kathy Castor of Tampa, co-chairwoman of Democrat Barack Obama's campaign in Florida, accused Republican John McCain of tripping on the so-called "third rail" of American politics: Social Security. ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | McCain: Offshore drilling could effect gas prices "immediately" | John McCain tells Katie Couric on CBS tonight that the US should start offshore drilling "quickly." Asked about what he's proposing other than a "summer gas tax holiday that no one thinks will pass," ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Obama Moves To Evangelical Voters | While everyone is focusing on Barack Obama's shifting positions on issues such as campaign finance, NAFTA, telecom immunity and Iraq, we're missing his incursion into enemy territory to capture those ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Jesse Jackson Apologizes for Obama Remarks | The Rev. Jesse Jackson apologized Wednesday for saying Obama is talking down to black people during what he thought was a private conversation with a FOX News reporter Sunday. Jackson also made an o... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | McCain for free trade to revive economy | Republican presidential nominee John McCain has unveiled his plans for reviving the sinking US economy that include free trade and unemployment insurance. The effort is seen as an apparent attempt to ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | McCain: 'Time for change in America' | McCain From NBC/NJ's Matthew E. Berger PORTSMOUTH, Ohio -- McCain was asked by a questioner at a town hall meeting Wednesday, "When you gonna come out and say, 'Read my lips, I am not the third term o... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | I Don't Buy The War As The Reason | 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 the secret place... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Educated Evolution | 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 » |
09/Jul 2008 | Progressives for Obama Fool Themselves | Glen Ford / July 9th, 2008 The Progressives for Obama project was always doomed, largely because the candidate was determined to pull the rug from under it at his earliest opportunity. That time h... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | A couple threads back...super toniD posts,,,lead me to conclude | Flummoxed By Vietnam Vet, Submitted by toniD on Tue, 07/08/2008 - 8:44pm. Flummoxed By Vietnam Vet, McCain Falsely Claims He Received Every Award From Every Vets Organization Posing the first questi... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | McCain visits Southern Ohio | Sen. John McCain conducted a town hall meeting in Portsmouth today with a focus on jobs and a strong economy. "More than 400,000 Americans have lost their jobs since December and the cost of gasoline... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Women (Scorned) Gone Wild | I never thought I could dislike anyone as much as I've come to detest George W." I am speaking of Hillary Clinton's deep-pocketed contributors, the "Hillraisers." This group of women is still fuming o... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | McCain s Econ Brain : America Has Become A Nation Of Whiners And Is Just In A Mental Recession | McCain s Econ Brain : America Has Become A Nation Of Whiners And Is Just In A Mental Recession . In an interview with the Washington Times today, former senator Phil Gramm, who is Sen. John M... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Barack Obama: A Liberal For All Seasons | Wednesday, July 9, 2008 With the November presidential election just months away, it s time to examine the views of the two major candidates. In this article, we re taking an in depth look at the opin... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Dem pollster finds McCain winning the positive economic debate | A new strategy memo on the presidential campaign released today by Democracy Corps and the polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner finds that Republican John McCain beats Democrat Barack Obama when the ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Traveling Man | In May, more than 10 weeks after he sewed up the nomination of the Republican Party, John McCain cheerfully offered Democrats some tongue-in-cheek advice during an appearance on " Saturday Night Live ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Analysis: Obama's turn to middle on surveillance | Sen. Barack Obama's vote in favor of anti-terrorist surveillance legislation on Wednesday marked an about-face on the issue that left him comfortably in the bipartisan middle, no matter the criticism ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | McCain sits out FISA vote | 6:58 PM by James Oliphant The long-debated bill that modifies the government's surveillance powers and ostensibly grants large telecommunication companies immunity from civil suits for helping the gov... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Pentagon will reopen $35B tanker bid | Boeing Co. will submit new offers for a disputed $35 billion Air Force tanker contract, and the Pentagon will pick a winner by the end of the year. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday that h... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Giant among us | BAR executive editor Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report The "Progressives for Obama" project was always doomed, largely because the candidate was determined to pull the rug from under it at his earliest o... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Kennedy makes surprise appearance, casts key vote for measure that faces White House veto | Senate Prepares Medicare Premium Protection Vote. Edward Kennedy, Senate Democrats pushed through a long-delayed bill that prevents a 10.6 percent cut in fees for doctors serving Medicare patients. Ke... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Leimert Park Bookstore Devotes Section to Barack Obama | Black-owned independent retailer Eso Won Books in South Los Angeles is devoting space this election year to books by and about presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. KPCC's Patricia... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | McCain: Social Security funding now `a disgrace (Miami Herald) | The system for funding Social Security is a disgrace because it forces young workers to pay into a program that is unlikely to benefit them in its current form, Republican presidential candidate Joh... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Attack & Comments | MIchele - America Sucks - Obama is coming to KC, well, whoop-de-frigging-doo! That news does not even jiggle the needle of my give-a-crap-a-meter. I am sure she will take this opportunity to echo her ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | German politicians feud over possible Obama visit | Tags: Tales from the Trail: 2008 , Angela Merkel , Barack Obama , Berlin , democratic presidential candidate , Germany . BERLIN - Barack Obama may be itching to tell the world Ich bin ein Berliner ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Senate passes | Clears jonbenet Dark knight Data plan Deal Fisa Force unleashed Google Hurricane bertha Interview Iphone Iphone apps Iran Los angeles Mccain Media Microsoft Missile test Obama Open caption Problem Rep... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Bush wins passage of US spy bill to protect telecoms | Bush won final congressional approval on Wednesday of a bill granting liability protection to telecommunication companies that took part in the warrantless domestic spying program he began after the S... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Fox News Changes: Anchor E.D. Hill Loses | Fox News Changes: Anchor E. Hill Loses Her Show, Laura Ingraham In At 5PM By Albert N.com Fox News having editing difficulties with the new Host for the 5 pm. segment called, " target="_blank"Just in"... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | McCain Campaigns in Western Pennsylvania | SOUTH PARK, ALLEGHENY COUNTY - Presidential hopeful John McCain was in the Western part of Pennsylvania on this Wednesday talking about coal production and energy independence. While Senator McCain us... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | The FCC, congressmen and AGs should be ashamed of themselves for wasting the public's | Washington Attorneys General from over a dozen states asked for curbs on the proposed Sirius XM merger, if not its rejection, in a meeting with Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate of the Federal Commun... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Muzzle mania | Giving a Muzzle Award to the Boston Police Department for its handling of Veterans Day protesters is in keeping with widespread media complicity that allows lower ranks to be court-martialed while war... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | US Senate backs increased spying powers | US senators voted 69 to 28 in favor of a bill increasing electronic surveillance authority for intelligence agencies, and shielding telecommunication companies that took part in unwarranted domestic s... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | ENPR: Ranking Vice Presidential Contenders | Presidential Running Mates : A look at the vice presidential prospects in both parties in a rough order of how their chances rank: Democratic:. Tim Kaine: The logical choice is a moderate Southern go... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Obama Name-Checks Lil Wayne, Crushes Dreams | While presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain has made no secret of his profound appreciation for the cheerless, nihilistic coke rap of Young Jeezy, his Democratic rival, Barack Obama,... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | The New McCain Message Machine? | Is it a change in strategy? Or just a sign that there are some kinks in the system to be worked out? The candidate's just-completed trip to Pennsylvania--a more-than-crucial state in this fall's elect... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Roy Hobbs In The Bottom Of The | 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 of applause into the Sena... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Jackson apologizes to Obama | CHICAGO - The Rev. Jesse Jackson apologized Wednesday for "regretfully crude" comments he made about Barack Obama's speeches in black churches during what he thought was a private conversation with a ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Telco Immunity Approved | A telco immunity bill gets a vote in the Senate. Barrack Obama approves three failed amendments to hold carriers responsible, but approves the final bill. Senate voted July 9 to grant retroactive immu... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Renewables, clean coal win in Senate spending bill | Balaenoptera musculus, is the largest known animal ever to have lived on sea or land. Individuals can reach more than 110 feet and weigh nearly 200 tons, more than the weight of 50 adult elephants. Th... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | US troops withdrawal from Iraq | WASHINGTON: Iraq s hardening demand for a pullout deadline for US troops on Tuesday reignited the sharp campaign quarrel over the war between White House rivals John McCain and Barack Obama. Republica... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Obama Strikes Right Notes at LULAC | Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama struck the right themes when he spoke Wednesday to the League of United Latin American Citizens convention in Washington. Referencing past struggles and ... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Obama Votes to Silence Debate and Pass FISA | Arizona Senator John McCain did not bother to show up for Wednesday's Senate votes on whether to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to absolve George Bush of responsibility for initiating... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Jackson makes crude | McKinney expected to get Green Party nomination this week. Georgia politics page Presidential campaign news The civil rights leader said Wednesday he felt there were other important issues to be a... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | PAC ads label Congressman Barrow as Bush supporter | President Bush's war and economic policies. ads that call Barrow "George Bush's Rubber Stamp" in large red letters. The first ad appeared Wednesday in The Savannah Tribune, a weekly newspaper targetin... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | What Else Can I Do With All This Spin? | The Boston Globe s Brian Mooney shows how the spin flows with a minute-by-minute chronology of A Day of Campaign Spin (in this case, yesterday, when both campaigns were frantically spinning reporters... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | McCain vs. Accuracy, Round 17 | Amid all the misplaced hand-wringing over whether Barack Obama has changed his position on Iraq (he hasn t, though both candidates have shifted their emphasis in response to changing facts on the grou... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Liberals fighting liberals | In addition to healing rifts within his party after a bruising primary battle, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee , as some liberal supporters look to recent comments the Illinois senator mad... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Obamawitz? | GOT ANY CHANGE?: Political novice (and Yiddish speaker) Paul Newell is hoping to capitalize on desire for change in his longshot bid to unseat New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver going so... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Senate Passes Wiretap Bill With Telco Immunity | Updates with reaction from President Bush.) By Corey Boles Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The U. Senate Wednesday voted to approve final passage of legislation overhauling the Foreign... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | Ailing Kennedy returns to the Senate | Massachusetts Sen. Kennedy, battling a brain tumor, walked through a wall of applause and into the Senate today and cast a dramatic, decisive vote on long-stalled Medicare legislation. "Aye," the 76-... Read » |
09/Jul 2008 | The US Congress grants retroactive immunity to telcos for their role in conducting warrantless wiretaps | U. carriers can breathe a little easier today knowing that the wiretapping they helped conduct after September |