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Barack Obama hails the city that fought back from Katrina
Five years after the ravaging storm, Barack Obama celebrated New Orleans’s recovery from Hurricane Katrina yesterday and pledged to continue to help residents in the conti
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Obama says he isn’t worried about Muslim rumors
President Barack Obama said Sunday he isn’t worried about a recent poll showing that nearly one-fifth of Americans believe he is a Muslim. “The facts are the facts,” said Obama, who is a Christian. In an interview broadcast on “NBC Nightly News,” the… Barack Obama – United States – NBC Nightly News – Muslim – President
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What song would you like to see Barack (me) do next?! Leave your comment. below. Featuring: Lisa Lavie subscribe to her! www.youtube.com Please check out my other channel: www.youtube.com Original Spoof Music Courtesy of: www.youtube.com DOWNLOAD this song: www.megaupload.com
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Democrats and Republicans
I’m ready for something other than a Donkey or an Elephant. What would be a Michael Bloomberg, 3rd party, symbol anyway? Does he need one? The bottom line is that we know all too well how the four leading candidates for the two positions fare in the public eye. Each of the four candidates left standing are just too predictable and only one (Obama) seems to have any chance at uniting the masses.
The Republicans go through the primary season letting whomever wins the majority of the votes, get the spoils. The Democrats go through the priamry season spending tens of millions of dollars only to allow all that to be offset by the Super Delegates who are back room play-makers, and political croonies that can flaunt the will of the people and do whatever they please.
The Democrats are split on demographic lines, between blacks and Latinos, old and young, upscale and downscale. The Republicans are split over attitudinal lines: conservatives vs. liberals. Huckabee caters to the fundamentalist-evangelical crowd. McCain caters to the patriotic and war-oriented. Hillary caters to the “establishment”- the down-n-dirty let’s win at any cost crowd. Obama caters to those that are tired of business as usual.
What would Bloomberg bring to the table?
Harold Ickes was all for kicking Florida and Michigan out of having any delegates (9 months ago). Now that his candidate is behind (Hilalry), he wants them in. It’s hard to find any integrity in politics. The current rules came out of the 1988 contest, in which Jesse Jackson felt his voters were underrepresented. The problem is that the contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has been so close that neither has built a significant lead — or is likely to do so in the contests still to come.
You can hear the cries now, echoing the Florida controversy of 2000. “Count every vote” will be Clinton’s cry — the argument Al Gore’s forces made. “Don’t change the rules after the game is played” will be Obama’s cry — the argument of the Republican lawyers. The Florida fiasco polarized the nation because the arguments that each side made were in line with its basic ideas of fairness. A brokered democratic convention is just what this nation needs. NOT!
Are we ready to do this all over again?
Obama fans will see this as an attempt to steal the nomination from the people’s choice. Clinton fans will argue that denying representation to the nation’s fourth and eighth largest states, both closely divided in the last two elections, would be political suicide. The Democrats’ determination to design a system all their constituencies would consider fair threatens to produce a confrontation whose result, whatever it is, will be bitterly regarded by large and important party constituencies as profoundly unfair.
Ah the best laid plans of mice and men, donkeys and elephants, Democrats and Republicans!
ernie@lrchouston.com
Election 2010 Day 9 – Nick Clegg & Vince Cable Launch the 2010 Liberal Democrat Manifesto
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CFTC issues final forex exchange market rule
The U.S. futures regulator issued a final rule late Monday for the retail foreign exchange market, which included relaxing an earlier proposal that would slash leverage available to investors participating in these transactions.
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Stimulus Act CostMore Than Iraq War
As Obama preps for tonight’s major speech on U.S. combat operations in Iraq, CBO numbers show that the total cost of the eight-year war was less than the stimulus bill passed by the Democratic-led Congress | DEFICIT CHART Biden, Iraq Leaders Address End of War | VIDEO Boehner Takes on Obama Twice in 2 Weeks Aide: Texas Gov Denied Meeting With Obama at Ft. Bliss
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New U.S. Sanctions Aim at North Korean Elite
The Obama administration is trying to choke off the flow of luxury goods for cronies of Kim Jong-il.
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Hill visits NP on campaign trail
The North Platte Telegraph Dan Hill of Grand Island announced his candidacy as an independent candidate for Congress last month. Hill resigned his position as an active duty instruction pilot with the Army National Guard to devote his time to defeating incumbent Adrian Smith in November.
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Pantano responds to McIntyre’s latest ad
Submitted by Scott Pickey on Mon, 08/30/2010 – 3:29pm. READ MORE: After 14 years in Congress, Congressman McIntyre cannot defend his voting record of support for Nancy Pelosi and must resort to attacking me. But his attack on me is an example of why he is in trouble.
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