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Breaking News CNN: Volunteer tells McCain to get new staff
It was a statement that a McCain town-hall participant said would land her on the campaign's "s**t list." A woman identified herself as a volunteer for his campaign, and said she had come to believe it was time McCain hires a new staff in the state. It was a statement that a McCain town-hall participant said would land her on the campaign's "s**t list." A woman identified herself ... more
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Attack injures several near Obama's Jerusalem hotel
The driver of an excavator was shot and killed after he drove the construction vehicle over a number of cars near the Jerusalem hotel where Barack Obama is scheduled to stay Tuesday night, according to police.
The excavator used in the attack sits behind a car near the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on Tuesday.
Israeli medical sources said two people were wounded.
An eyewitness told CNN that he saw the machine overturn two cars near the King David Hotel in downtown Jerusalem, where the U.S. presidential candidate will be staying when he arrives in Israel.
The incident comes three weeks after a similar attack in Jerusalem, in which a Palestinian construction worker rammed a front-end loader into a string of vehicles, killing at least three people before he was shot and killed by Israeli police.
The driver of an excavator was shot and killed after he drove the construction vehicle over a number of cars near the Jerusalem hotel ... more -
McCain's rejected New York Times op-ed piece
The New York Times has rejected an essay that Sen. John McCain wrote defending his Iraq war policy.
This is his actual first draft.
McCain's campaign sent out fundraising appeals based on the article.
He will be submitting a followup draft, but it will take a little while due to McCain's dependance on the typewriter and ground mail. The New York Times has rejected an essay that Sen. John McCain wrote defending his Iraq war policy. ... more -
Disaboom.com to Webcast National Forum on Disability Issues
Disaboom (OTCBB: DSBO; www.disaboom.com), the premier online community and resource for people touched by disability, today announced that it will webcast the National Forum on Disability Issues, a historic, nonpartisan forum held in Columbus, Ohio, which allows the presidential candidates to present their visions for the future of disability policy in America. The forum will be webcast live on disaboom.com Saturday, July 26, 2008, from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. EDT. To view the live webcast, prior registration is required at www.disaboom.com/AAPDSignUp.aspx. A video of the forum will also be available for download at disaboom.com following the live webcast. Disaboom (OTCBB: DSBO; www.disaboom.com), the premier online community and resource for people touched by disability, today announced ... more
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McCain owns first foreign policy gaffe during Obama's Iraq trip
As Barack Obama began his trip to the Middle East and Europe, the media was already speculating about the possibility of a gaffe. Obama's travel "carries political risk," the New York Times reported, "particularly if Mr. Obama makes a mistake."
But the only foreign policy error made in the last few days came this morning on ABC's Good Morning America, when John McCain made ANOTHER geography gaffe while trying to criticize Obama's visit to Iraq. (Just last week, McCain repeatedly referred to Czechoslovakia, a country that hasn't existed since 1993.)
Asked by Diane Sawyer whether the "the situation in Afghanistan in precarious and urgent," McCain responded: "I think it's serious. . . . It's a serious situation, but there's a lot of things we need to do. We have a lot of work to do and I'm afraid it's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border."
But as ABC's Rick Klein noted: "Iraq and Pakistan do not share a border. Afghanistan and Pakistan do."
As Barack Obama began his trip to the Middle East and Europe, the media was already speculating about the possibility of a gaffe. Obam... more -
Chavez Goes Weapons Shopping in Russia Amid Arms Race (Update2)
July 21 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez heads to Moscow today to shop for air defense systems, submarines and other weaponry as Latin America's arms race quickens amid signs that his regional influence is waning.
Past Venezuelan arms purchases from Russia have strengthened ties with Moscow as its rivalry with the U.S. intensifies over President George W. Bush's plans for an Eastern Europe missile defense system and other issues. Chavez, 53, also plans to visit Belarus, a Russian ally that the U.S. considers a dictatorship.
Chavez ``regularly refers to us as an `empire,' opposes our initiatives in the Americas and seeks out our adversaries as friends and allies,'' Assistant U.S. Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon said July 17 in testimony to a congressional committee.
Chavez will order $2 billion worth of weapons, including Project 636 diesel subs, Mi-28 combat helicopters and airplanes made by Ilyushin Co., the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported May 12, without saying how it obtained the information. The Russian Interfax news service, citing an unnamed defense ministry official, said today Chavez may order $1 billion of weapons, including three Varshavyanka subs and up to 20 Tor-M1 air-defense systems.
`Some Shock'
``What Chavez likes to do is to shock, and this will create some shock in Washington,'' said Riordan Roett, a professor of Latin American studies at Johns Hopkins University.
Chavez, who plans to meet Russian President Dmitry Medvedev tomorrow, has bought more than $4.4 billion of Russian arms since 2003. He says the hardware, including jets and submarines, is needed to counter a military threat from the U.S. and its main regional ally, Colombia.
Russia last year announced plans to build two factories to make Kalashnikov assault rifles in Venezuela.
Russia has used Venezuela to diversify its arms-selling business beyond China and India, said Dmitry Vasiliev, an analyst at the Center for the Analysis of Strategies & Technologies, a Moscow-based defense research center. Venezuela was Russia's third-biggest arms customer last year, he said.
Trade between the two countries surged to $1.13 billion in 2007 from $517 million the previous year, according to a statement published on the Venezuelan Information Ministry's Web site.
`Ideal Partner'
``Russia is trying to be good friends with Chavez because he is an ideal partner in arms trade,'' said Fyodor Lukyanov, an analyst at the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy in Moscow.
The Venezuelan president said this month he'll also discuss the creation of a joint development bank and an investment fund with Russia.
Latin American countries have gone on a military spending spree in recent years as their governments collect record income from commodities, including Venezuela's oil windfall. Regional arms spending jumped 55 percent over four years to $38.4 billion in 2007, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies
July 21 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez heads to Moscow today to shop for air defense systems, submarines and other we... more -
Obama Raises $25 Million in one day
The AP reports that Barack Obama reversed a two-month downward trend by raising more and spending less. He took in $52 million in June, more than twice the nearly $21.5 million raised by John McCain. Obama had $72 million cash on hand to McCain's $27 million.
The Politico points out that Obama raised $25 million on the last day of June alone:
His one-day haul represents nearly half of his monthly total and more than Republican rival John McCain generated for the entire month. During the month, McCain did not have a single day in which he raised a million dollars.
The AP reports that Barack Obama reversed a two-month downward trend by raising more and spending less. He took in $52 million in June... more -
Obama $52 Million Haul in June
There is a sense of elation in the Obama campaign as it was announced that their candidate raised $52 million in June. It's a massive haul for the presumptive Democratic nominee -- $3 million short of the historic mark he hit earlier in the cycle but much larger than the $22 million that John McCain brought in this past month.
The majority of donations, Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe wrote in an email to supporters, were of the small variety, with the average amount being $68.
An aide to the Senator was ecstatic when asked about the June numbers and said of an earlier Wall Street Journal report that Obama had raised "only" around $30 million: the paper is "embarrassed."
Greg Sargent at Talking Points Memo noted that the June haul puts Obama on track to achieve his goal of raising $300 million during the entirety of the general election - a total needed to match the likely loot of McCain and the RNC. And yet, Obama and his allies at the DNC still lag behind their counterparts. The Democrats have $72 million on hand, compared to the roughly $100 million brought in by the GOP.
"We remain at a massive disadvantage to our opponents," Plouffe wrote in an email before asking for additional $25 donations. "As I mentioned in my video message earlier in the week, the McCain Campaign and the Republican National Committee finished June with nearly $100 million in the bank.
We can't stop now. It's going to take everything we've got to defeat John McCain and his allies in November."
There is a sense of elation in the Obama campaign as it was announced that their candidate raised $52 million in June. It's a massive ... more -
CNN: Planned Parenthood Slams McCain's Viagra Moment!!!
Planned Parenthood Action Fund is launching a new ad Wednesday in crucial battleground states set to highlight a campaign trail moment John McCain would rather soon forget.
The 30-second spot aimed at women voters shows McCain's apparent unease when a reporter asked him last week whether it was unfair that some insurance plans covered Viagra and not birth control.
"Ever use birth control? Than you'll want to hear this," the ad's narrator states before a flustered McCain is shown saying, "I don't know enough about it to give you an informed answer." Planned Parenthood Action Fund is launching a new ad Wednesday in crucial battleground states set to highlight a campaign trail moment... more -
Another McCain co-chair resigns after he was caught lobbying on behalf of foreign ...
McCain finance co-chair and former New Jersey congressman Jim Courter, chief executive of telecom corporation IDT, is resigning from the campaign after the FCC slapped IDT with a $1.3 million fine last week for failing to disclose information about its contracts in Haiti.
McCain finance co-chair and former New Jersey congressman Jim Courter, chief executive of telecom corporation IDT, is resigning from t... more -
McCain Helps Allies Find Finance-Law Holes
Allies of Sen. John McCain have found new loopholes in the campaign-finance law he helped write -- and they're using them to reel in huge contributions to help him compete with Sen. Barack Obama. Allies of Sen. John McCain have found new loopholes in the campaign-finance law he helped write -- and they're using them to reel in h... more
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The Facebooker who friended Obama - The New York Times
“One of my fundamental beliefs from my days as a community organizer is that real change comes from the bottom up, ” Mr. Obama said in a statement. “And there’s no more powerful tool for grass-roots organizing than the Internet.” “One of my fundamental beliefs from my days as a community organizer is that real change comes from the bottom up, ” Mr. Obama said in... more
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Newsweek: A Spanish-language McCain radio ad gets nearly all its facts wrong.
McCain's new radio ad, in Spanish, aims to show Florida would benefit from the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, which he supports. But every number in the ad is wrong, except one, a prediction of job gains taken from a group favoring the trade deal. And even that number is rounded upward so generously as to flunk third-grade arithmetic.
Hmmm....Just like Bush distorted the facts in Iraq to influence public opinion of the war???
It's the McSame Sh*t McCain's new radio ad, in Spanish, aims to show Florida would benefit from the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, which he supports. But e... more -
McCain Battles a Nemesis, the Teleprompter
McCain brought in a new adviser,Greg Jenkins,former Fox News producer,who will oversee the producing and staging of Mr. McCain ’s events. Mr. Jenkins oversaw many of President Bush’s appearances.Even Peter Spaulding, the chairman of Mr. McCain’s campaign, said he recently saw a McCain speech on television that was “just atrocious.” McCain brought in a new adviser,Greg Jenkins,former Fox News producer,who will oversee the producing and staging of Mr. McCain ’s even... more
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John McCain: I graduated fifth from the bottom of my class
That's 894th of 899. This explains A LOT!
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Bringing the overseas youth vote home
After reading about the large turnout of young voters in the primaries and caucuses in the U.S. this spring, I find it very exciting that young U.S. voters abroad are similarly engaged. Let's keep this momentum going until November at home and abroad!
After reading about the large turnout of young voters in the primaries and caucuses in the U.S. this spring, I find it very exciting t... more -
FedEx, voter group hope to ease ballot shipping woes
Geting our ballots back in time to be counted is a major concern of US voters overseas especially when we receive our ballots just two days before the election! Although this new initiative by OVF and FedExExpress won't be able to help us if our ballot arrives the day of the election or later :-( -- which unfortunately does happen sometimes -- it will surely be a help to many of us to return our ballots back in time to be counted this November. For sure, it's a step in the right direction.
You can read more in the article and at https://www.overseasvotefoundation.org
Remember to make your voice heard this election year whether you live in the US or abroad! Geting our ballots back in time to be counted is a major concern of US voters overseas especially when we receive our ballots just two... more -
Overseas Vote Foundation--Americans Whom Are Overseas
This election is an epic one. So much is at stake. Those Americans whom have emigrated or are traveling can and should register to vote. Please spread the word and this resource to ensure that the populace is heard. This election is an epic one. So much is at stake. Those Americans whom have emigrated or are traveling can and should register to vot... more
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CNN: McCain again cites current events in ‘Czechoslovakia’
He did it yesterday, and he's back at it. Just a friendly reminder: This country split up in 1993. His campaign is censoring the transcripts and putting in "Czech Republic"
Damn that dementia...always seems to kick in at the wrong time!
He did it yesterday, and he's back at it. Just a friendly reminder: This country split up in 1993. His campaign is censoring the trans... more -
The truth about Obama's...
The truth about Obama's campaign - it's bigger than corporate media tells you. And, remember, 'Obama the politician' is as much a product of our frustration and dissatisfaction with politics in this country as himself.
What I'd like to know is where is the Obama Girl?
NEW YORK, NY, Apr 22 (MARKET WIRE) --
In the news release, "Barack Obama Has Most Online Video Viewers Among
Presidential Candidates, According to Nielsen Online," issued earlier today by
The Nielsen Company, we are advised by the company that "Table 3: Top 10
Brands by Video Streams for March 2008 (U.S., Home and Work)" has changed.
Complete corrected text follows.
Barack Obama Has Most Online Video Viewers Among Presidential Candidates,
According
to Nielsen Online
Unique Viewers Total Video Time Spent
Candidate Web Site (000) Streams (000) per Viewer
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Barack Obama 518 828 16 min
Hillary For President 351 551 4.8 min
JohnMcCain.com 38 66 1.5 min
Read on:
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS239286+...
Love him or hate (most of us Love him) - it's We The People who decide, and it's We The People who set the mandate for our next President - so don't waste your time crying about Hillary or mccain - focus your attention on your ability and responsibility to tell the next President what's up - and what he / she needs to do for US!
This is for real - tell whoever the next President is - what's up and what you want! Don't sit back and say 'yes sir' or 'no sir'.
Be sure to check out this vid: http://current.com/items/89096047_aquarelle_wants_you_t... The truth about Obama's campaign - it's bigger than corporate media tells you. And, remember, 'Obama the politician' is as much a pro... more
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