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 | From Straight Talk Express to K Street Express: McCain implodes
by Weldon Berger
John McCain's campaign bus, the Straight Talk Express, has officially become a rolling punch line to the joke of the GOP presidential primaries.There has simply never been a primary for either major party as ridiculous as the 2008 GOP effort. Mitt Romney, who would easily have won the Phil Gramm award for financial futility had not Rudy Giuliani spent $50 million to earn a single delegate, is now considering reentering the race in the wake of damaging revelations about John McCain's sluttish relationships with lobbyists and his efforts to game the public election financing system. Fred Thompson, widely viewed on the right as a man of unquestionably presidential timber, left the race amid the impression that he never actually entered it. Ron Paul, the lone anti-Iraq occupation candidate on the GOP side, couldn't even grab a majority of anti-occupation Republicans. California Congressman Duncan Hunter sank without a ripple. Of all the failed Republican candidates, Coloradan Tom Tancredo was probably the most successful: he didn't get any delegates, but he did manage to instill a Pavlovian foaming of the mouth in the other candidates whenever the subject of undocumented immigrants came up. | Bill O'Reilly Introduces Plan To Have Himself Thrown Out of the U.S.
by Steve Young
"Anyone who hurts anyone should be sent to Paraguay."-- Bill O'Reilly 2/26/08 Radio FactorIn a what can only be considered a magnanimous offer on the part of the sexual harasser and talk show host, Bill O'Reilly recommended laws be changed to send anyone who "hurts anyone" out of the country. | Drudge Out to Get Hillary
by Margaret Kimberley
" 'On Nov. 25, Drudge floated the rumor she was having a lesbian affair with an aide over the teasing headline, 'Don't Go There.'On Dec. 17, as doubts about her ability to win Iowa grew, he led the site with an unflattering but attention-grabbing photo of Clinton looking tired and haggard. The headline: 'The Toll of a Campaign.' | Some thoughts on wading through the morass that is the presidential campaign
by Wagenvoord
I don’t look for perfection in politicians. Call me a cynic, if you will, but if I can achieve eighty percent on the compatibility scale, I’m happy. Nor do I put that much store in the issues, unless it’s a fringe issue like McCain’s hundred-year occupation of Iraq. I fully understand that what a politician says to get elected and what a politician does once in office is not always one in the same. | Obama, Osama, Hussein - drop a name, bait voter Arab-phobia
by Pierre Tristam
In the late 1970s, the FBI decided to test the corruptibility of congressmen. It was easy, and slightly unfair. Congressmen are moths to corruption's flame, and bribing at the time hadn't yet been entirely disguised as "campaign financing." So all the FBI had to do was hire an ex-felon to set up a rickety con and videotape congressmen taking the bait. Most Americans' sense of fair play would have taken offense, as courts did, at the sliminess of the FBI's entrapment. But the FBI's one stroke of genius was to disguise the bribers as Arabs representing a rich, oily sheik. It worked. The public would forgive "policemen's presents," as Mark Twain called kickbacks. They'd never forgive consorting with Arabs. One senator, five congressmen and a few other lesser moths were convicted in what became known as the Abscam scandal (the FBI's front company was called Abdul Enterprises). | Goin' Down Slow
by Bob Burnett
A memorable blues song goes, "I have had my fun, if I don't get well no more...my health is failing and I'm goin' down slow." The songwriter, St. Louis Jimmy Oden, probably had in mind the rough life of bluesman, but his lyrics could easily be used to describe the current state of the American economy. | Study Finds Immigrants Commit Less California Crime
by Reuters
Immigrants are far less likely than the average U.S.-born citizen to commit crime in California, the most populous state in the United States, according to a report issued late on Monday.0226 07People born outside the United States make up about 35 percent of California’s adult population but account for about 17 percent of the adult prison population, the report by the Public Policy Institute of California showed. | A Driving Force
by Bob Herbert
Maybe he can’t help himself. If William Manchester is to be believed, Ralph Nader got a fair amount of his exasperating, nonstop, take-no-prisoners-style of proselytizing from his father, Nathra, who owned a restaurant and bakery in the factory town of Winsted, Conn. | Howard Dean: McCain poses as a reformer and 'needs to obey the law'
by David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Sen. John McCain is battling the Federal Election Commission over his right to withdraw from public financing for his primary campaign, and the Democratic Party wants the matter investigated.Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean told CNN on Tuesday that McCain is trying to skirt election laws, saying, "John McCain is posing as a reformer, and it turns out reforms, as far as he's concerned, are good for everybody but him." | In Ellen interview, Hillary corrects herself: 'We already won Michigan'
by David Edwards and Nick Juliano
During an exchange with talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton mixed up two states whose delegates she desperately needs to regain her once-all-but-certain spot as her party's nominee.DeGeneres appeared via satellite from her Burbank, Calif., studio at a Clinton fundraising stop in Washington Monday. Clinton has all-but-banked her campaign on winning Ohio and Texas when they hold primaries next week. In an un-edited exchange shown on CNN.com, DeGeneres asked "what needs to happen" for Clinton to stop Obama's momentum after he's racked up victories in 11 straight votes. | CNN: Hawkish Israel supporters concerned about Obama
by David Edwards and Muriel Kane
In an effort to shore up his support among Jewish voters, Barack Obama met privately on Sunday with 100 Jewish leaders in Ohio to tamp down concerns about his Middle East views and controversial positions from a few of his supporters.The Clinton campaign has been actively wooing Jewish voters, in part by questioning Obama's commitment to the defense of Israel, and the meeting was arranged to enable Obama to address the concerns of the Jewish community. | CBS Poll: Obama Surges Ahead Nationally
by CBS
A new CBS News/New York Times poll finds Barack Obama with a 16-point lead over rival Hillary Clinton among Democratic primary voters nationwide.Obama, coming off 11 straight primary and caucus victories, had the support of 54 percent of Democratic primary voters nationally. Clinton had 38 percent support. |
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