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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
NY Times | Senator Barack Obama broke forcefully on Tuesday with his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., in an effort to curtail a drama of race, values, patriotism and betrayal that has enveloped his presidential candidacy at a critical juncture.
At a news conference ...
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Students Skip Class For Obama Event, Get Suspended
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
By Jason Linkins |
Joey Daniel and Colin Salter, two high school students in Dunmore, Pennsylvania, showed tremendous audacity yesterday when they skipped their gym class to attend an Obama event across the street from their school. But, upon their return, they did not KNOW HOPE because their principal suspended them for a day. The pair did manage to wrangle a ...
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Exit polls suggest Clinton win in Pennsylvania
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
By Ewen MacAskill and Suzanne Goldenberg |
Hillary Clinton is expected to keep her slim hopes of the White House alive after exit polls suggested she would beat Barack Obama in the key Pennsylvania primary. The Fox News Channel and ABC, on the basis of the exit polls, projected Clinton would emerge the winner.
This means the long, drawn-out battle ...
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Clinton on Iran Attack: ‘Obliterate Them’
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
By Jake Tapper |
One day before Pennsylvania primary voters go to the polls, Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., spent the day trying to reach undecided voters, and rally their supporters to the polls.
For the last six weeks they have battled and bickered and both have unleashed a barrage of negativity in television ads that have aired thousands of times in the ...
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Clinton pledges: I’ll end war in Iraq
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama yesterday, left Washington for the key state of Pennsylvania and promised to fix America's stumbling economy, which both Democrats say has been badly undermined by the Iraq war.They were in the US capital on Tuesday along with Republican John McCain to question the US commander in Iraq. Coming out of the session with General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, Clinton spoke at a high school ...
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Clinton urges Bush to boycott Beijing Olympics
Monday, April 7th, 2008WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton urged President George W. Bush on Monday to boycott the Beijing Olympics opening ceremonies this summer unless China improves human rights. Clinton, in a statement, cited violent clashes in Tibet and the lack of pressure by China on Sudan to stop "the genocide in Darfur." "At this time, and in light of recent events, I believe President Bush should not plan on attending the ...
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Obama and Hillary Spin a ‘Big Lie’ About Iraq
Sunday, April 6th, 2008The two Dems lie every time they discuss Iraq on the campaign trail, but the media refuse to call them on it. By Joshua Holland The cable news networks are happy to spend hours on the latest silly campaign squabble but can't bring themselves to point out the plain fact that the two Democratic nominees are lying, blatantly, to the American people about one of ...
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Clinton didn’t pay health insurance bills
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Among the debts reported this month by Hillary Rodham Clinton’s struggling presidential campaign, the $292,000 in unpaid health insurance premiums for her campaign staff stands out. Clinton, who is being pressured to end her campaign against Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination, has made her plan for universal health care a centerpiece of her agenda. The campaign provides health insurance to all its employees, their spouses, partners and children ...
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Clinton missed key policy decisions
Thursday, March 20th, 2008On the day that dozens of US cruise missiles rained down on Serbia in an attempt to punish Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic for the country's onslaught against ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo, first lady Hillary Clinton was far from the White House war room: she was touring ancient Egyptian ruins. In her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination Hillary Clinton has touted her experience in the White House as preparation to ...
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Obama: US less safe since Iraq war
Thursday, March 20th, 2008The Iraq war has left America less safe and has emboldened al Qaida, Iran, North Korea and the Taliban, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has said. The Illinois senator criticised the stance of his Republican rival John McCain and said the United States needed to end the war in order to confront the emerging national security challenges of the 21st century. He said the "central front in the war against terror is ...
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VIDEO: Clinton vs Obama on Blackwater
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008Winter Soldier: Jeremy Scahill discusses why no presidential candidate plans on fully leaving Iraq Jeremy Scahill is the author of the bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army. He is an award-winning investigative journalist and correspondent for the national radio and TV program Democracy Now!. The Real News Network
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Democrat calls for inquiry into Blackwater
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman expanded his effort yesterday to investigate private security contractor Blackwater Worldwide, calling for a wide-ranging federal inquiry into the company's employment practices. In letters to the Internal Revenue Service, the Small Business Administration, and the Labor Department, Waxman, Democrat of California, questioned Blackwater's classification of its workers as independent contractors instead of employees. That designation, which the government has questioned in the past, allowed the ...
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Clintons to face fraud trial
Friday, February 22nd, 2008Judge setting date, testimony to include ex-president, senator While Hillary Clinton battles Barack Obama on the campaign trail, a judge in Los Angeles is quietly preparing to set a trial date in a $17 million fraud suit that aims to expose an alleged culture of widespread corruption by the Clintons and the Democratic Party. At the conclusion of a hearing tomorrow morning before California Superior Court Judge Aurelio N. Munoz, lawyers ...
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How The Democrats Sold Out In Iraq
Monday, February 11th, 2008MATT TAIBBI | Rolling Stone Elected to end the war, Democrats have surrendered to Bush on Iraq and betrayed the peace movement for their own political ends Quietly, while Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been inspiring Democrats everywhere with their rolling bitchfest, congressional superduo Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have completed one of the most awesome political collapses since Neville Chamberlain. At long last, the Democratic ...
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Democratic Party complicit in CIA torture
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008Declassified letter exposes Democratic Party complicity in CIA torture By Joe Kay Last week, the CIA declassified a February 2003 letter from Democratic Representative Jane Harman of California discussing the planned destruction of videotapes depicting the interrogation and torture of prisoners held by the CIA. Harman requested that the CIA release the letter in order to show her supposed criticism of the agency’s plans to destroy the evidence. In a statement ...
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