Bob Herbert: The Rev. Jeremiah Wright went to Washington on Monday not to praise Barack Obama, but to bury him. Smiling, cracking corny jokes, mugging it up for the big-time news media - this reverend is never going away. He’s found himself a national platform, and he’s loving it. It’s a twofer. Feeling dissed by Senato…
Sphere: Related ContentRight now, the Democratic nomination is Sen. Barack Obama’s to lose - and then, only through an act of superhuman self-sabotage. He will go into the Democratic National Convention in Denver with the most primary votes cast and the most committed delegates; he will need only the blessing of the party’s unelected superdelegates.
Sphere: Related ContentU of Wisconsin. 4/15-24. Likely votes. MoE 5.3% (No trend lines) McCain (R) 43 Obama (D) 47 McCain (R) 47 Clinton (D) 41 That’s a 9-point advantage for Obama over Clinton in Wisconsin. Clinton consistently scores weak numbers in traditionally Blue states Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Hawaii, Connecticut, Washington and Oregon — all states…
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"Finally, I want to say a word about the basic decency I have seen in Mr. Obama. Mrs. Clinton continues to throw the Rev. Wright up in his face as part of her mission to keep stoking the fears of White America. Every time she does this, I shout at the TV, "Say it, Obama! Say that when she and her husband were having marital difficulties regarding Monica Lewinsky, who did she and Bill bring to the White House for ’spiritual counseling’?
Sphere: Related ContentI don t want to alarm anybody, but maybe it s time for Americans to start stockpiling food. No, this is not a drill.
Sphere: Related ContentThe Obama campaign today announced the endorsement of 49 prominent supporters of John Edwards - including Ed Turlington, Edwards’ former National General Chairman. These North Carolina leaders - ranging from Members of Congress to a former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court to former law partners and longtime friends of John Edwards - cite Barack Obama’s commitment to fighting for change on behalf of working Americans and taking on the special interests in Washington.
Sphere: Related ContentSenator Barack Obama has gotten much heat for suggesting that when people lose faith in Washington, they "end up voting on issues like guns and are they going to have the right to bear arms [and] gay marriage." How strange then that during his questioning last week of the two most senior American officials in Iraq, General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Obama took a minimalist view of what America could do to help Iraqi citizens regain faith in their government. Instead, the Illinois senator lowered the criterion for American "success" in Iraq, declaring that he could live with "a messy, sloppy status quo" in the country.
Sphere: Related ContentThe idea that the on-going Iraq War is substantively an anti-terrorist operation which is designed to turn Iraq into a democracy, and bring security to Americans and the world, is propaganda, along with professed statements of "success" in this region.
Sphere: Related ContentIn September of 2007, the city of Windsor, which borders the United States, officially asked for financial assistance from Ottawa to deal with American refugees flooding into Canada. The U.S. refugee phenomenon was reported in the local daily newspaper, the Windsor Star. LINK This is proving to be the tip of the iceberg, and only the first wave of economic refugees that have been created in the United States.
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