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McCain’s Vietnam Lessons Unlearned?
by Ali Gharib
Throughout a long career in politics, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain has had his foreign policy shaped by his and the United States’ experience in the Vietnam War.0417 07But that shaping has been very dynamic — not beholden to any one particular lesson of the conflict, but rather taking each political situation presented to him and viewing it through the lens of Vietnam, often with mixed results. | New poll: Obama more electable than Clinton
by CapitolHillBlue.com
In a dramatic reversal, an Associated Press-Yahoo! News poll found that a clear majority of Democratic voters now say Sen. Barack Obama has a better chance of defeating Republican Sen. John McCain in November than Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.While Obama and Clinton are both sustaining dents and dings from their lengthy presidential fight, the former first lady is clearly suffering more. Democratic voters no longer see her as the party's strongest contender for the White House. | For Chris Matthews, misogyny pays
by Eric Boehlert
Tongues are still wagging over The New York Times Magazine's cringe-inducing [1] cover story [2] about MSNBC talker Chris Matthews. The cringes came courtesy of the name-dropping Matthews, whose raging insecurities danced across nearly every page of the piece. As Digby noted [3] after reading the opus, "He fulfills every single Village media cliche: obsessive social climbing, deep personal insecurity, primitively sexist and racist and just plain dumb." | Misfiring
by Brian Morton
Perhaps it's just as well that right when the coroner finished prying the gun from Charlton Heston's cold, dead hands the issue of guns comes up in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Unfortunately, it also comes right around today, one year after Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people in a rampage at Virginia Tech, after he had been diagnosed with mental disorders and still been able to purchase his guns. | The done deal: Can Obama shatter the tacit covenant of American politics?
by Robert C. Koehler
If politics is the art of saying nothing, then Barack Obama is sure blowing it, isn't he?His latest "gaffe," to proclaim at a private fundraiser in San Francisco (of all places) that small-town Americans are bitter and cling to guns and God in lieu of financial security -- these words purveyed to the American public by way of a scratchy, Osama-quality recording -- triggered such heartfelt hypocrisy from his opponents. | The "What He Said" Game
by Cenk Uygur
Every election cycle the Republicans play the same game of distraction. They want to distract people from what they have done, so they turn the focus on to what their opponents said, or what someone who can nominally be linked to their opponents said. | Bush Regime Normalcy: Arrogant Lies
by Brian Cloughley
Last month: "an Egyptian citizen was killed when a [US] Navy-contracted ship fired warning shots at approaching motorboats in the Suez Canal. The United States Embassy in Cairo and the Navy initially maintained that, according to the security team aboard the ship, there had been no casualties. But on Wednesday, an embassy statement said it "appears that an Egyptian in the boat was killed by one of the warning shots." - Associated Press, March 27. | 51 to 11: The Odds That ABC Knows How To Run A Presidential Debate
by Steve Young
I sat at my press seat at the Philadelphia Kimmel Center checking my watch. It was either running fast or I had been swept into a space time-continuum that was about to swallow up any semblance of a learning experience.Unfortunately, it was the latter. | On disbelieving atrocities: The world is divided between screamers and dreamers
by Alan Bisbort
This week we officially learned what we already knew: Bush and his posse authorized torture of terrorist suspects. Last Friday, Bush told ABC News, "I'm aware our national security team met on this issue, and I approved." The following people signed off on the torture and, henceforth, can't pretend otherwise in an effort to airbrush their memoirs: Powell, Rice, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Tenet and Cheney. These people conspired to approve of behavior that constitutes war crimes under international law. | Oh.. you're mad at the TV people? It's about Damned Time.
by xxdr_zombiexx
There was a debate on ABC?With Hillary and Barack and a couple talking TV heads?What's that? They didn't ask good questions?You're all pissed off at the TV people now because they asked lame and stupid questions of your favorite Wall Street-approved candidate? | Clinging to a Stereotype
by Paul Krugman
Will Barack Obama’s now famous “bitter” quote turn out to have been a big deal politically? Frankly, I have no idea.But here’s a different question: was Mr. Obama right?Mr. Obama’s comments combined assertions about economics, sociology and voting behavior. In each case, his assertion was mostly if not entirely wrong. | Obama: Let's campaign, not have more debates
by CNN
Sen. Barack Obama suggested Thursday that he doesn't see any point in having another debate with Democratic rival Sen. Hillary Clinton. Clinton has agreed to a debate next week, but Obama has not accepted the invitation.At an appearance in Raleigh, North Carolina, Obama said he has a lot of campaigning to do in a limited amount of time. | Bowling for Pennsylvania
by Gaiutra Bahadur
When Barack Obama went bowling in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on March 29, his opponent was Senator Bob Casey Jr., the son and namesake of a popular former governor whose coal-mining pedigree had made him a hero of the white working class. Casey Junior had just endorsed Obama, and the presidential candidate, wearing blue-and-white Velcro shoes and a tie, bowled gutter ball after gutter ball and lost the game. But Obama wasn't at Pleasant Valley Lanes to knock down pins; he was there to win over white blue-collar voters and thus prove to Democrats that he is "electable" in November. | Suicide bombings at highest numbers in history since Iraq invasion
by Raw Story
Suicide bombings have risen to their highest levels in recorded history since the invasion of Iraq, according to a new report buried on page A18 of Friday's Washington Post.Of the 1840 suicide bombings since 1983, the year a suicide bomber attacked the US Embassy in Lebanon, 920 -- or 50 percent -- of suicide bombings have occurred since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003. | Praying passenger removed from plane at NY airport
by AP
A passenger who left his seat to pray in the back of a plane before it took off, ignoring flight attendants' orders to return, was removed by an airport security guard, a witness and the airline said.The Orthodox Jewish man, who wore a full beard, a black hat and a long black coat, stood near the lavatories and began saying his prayers while the United Airlines jet was being boarded at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday night, said Ori Brafman, a fellow passenger who spoke about the incident by phone from San Francisco, where he lives. | Rumsfeld ex-aide calls Iraq war 'major debacle' whose outcome is 'in doubt'
by Raw Story
A 48-page report written by a former aide to Donald Rumsfeld and issued by the Pentagon's premier military educational institute has called the Iraq war a "major debacle" whose outcome is "in doubt.""Measured in blood and treasure, the war in Iraq has achieved the status of a major war and a major debacle," the report's opening line reads. "As of fall 2007, this conflict has cost the United States over 3,800 dead and over 28,000 wounded. Allied casualties accounted for another 300 dead." | Nalgene to phase out hard-plastic bottles
by AP
Hard-plastic Nalgene water bottles made with bisphenol A will be pulled from stores over the next few months because of growing consumer concern over whether the chemical poses a health risk.Nalge Nunc International, a division of Waltham, Mass.-based Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., said Friday it will substitute its Nalgene Outdoor line of polycarbonate plastic containers with BPA-free alternatives. |
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