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Friday, April 18, 2008
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Obama 54, Clinton 35
AP: Time, delegate math working against Clinton
Time is running out on Hillary Rodham Clinton, the long-ago
front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination who now trails
Barack Obama in delegates, states won and popular votes.
Compounding Clinton's woes, Obama appears on track to finish the
primary campaign fewer than 100 delegates shy of the 2,025 needed to
win...
Dean: I need a decision now
“We cannot give up two or three months of active
campaigning and healing time,” the Democratic National Committee
Chairman told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “We’ve got to know who our nominee
is.”
The Dean 25 could decide Clinton's fate
If, as Hillary Rodham Clinton has suggested, her
campaign takes the fight to seat the Florida and Michigan delegations
all the way to the Democratic National Convention this summer, the
fate of her challenge is all but certain to hinge on 25 individuals
appointed to the Credentials Committee by party Chairman Howard Dean.
The Credentials Committee, which also includes 161
members selected from the states based on primary and caucus results,
is the 186-member body that will help determine whether to seat the
two rogue delegations.
USA TODAY:
Pa. primary won't sway superdelegates
Instead, they told USA TODAY and Gannett News Service,
they will choose by July 1, a deadline suggested by Democratic
National Chairman Howard Dean.
see also:
Superdelegates unswayed by Clinton's attacks
Clinton, Obama appear on Colbert Show
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Carter in Syria for talks with Hamas supremo
Carter held talks with Assad before preparing to defy
US and Israeli opposition by meeting with the Damascus-based Hamas
leader Khaled Mashaal.
Lieberman: Carter is naive for Hamas meeting
Lieberman told Fox News on Thursday that "at best,
President Carter is being naive" for reaching out to a group directly
linked to terrorism.
There is a long list of people who thought they could
reason with dictators and killers, going back to Neville Chamberlain
and Hitler in the 1930s, but it has been shown to be absolutely
wrong," Lieberman said.
see also:
Rep. Due Myrick: revoke Carter's passport
THE CANDIDATES:
John McCain... today's headlines
with excerpts
McCain releases 2006, 2007 tax
records*
Senate salary: $161,675
$161,708
*Cindy McCain will not release her tax records
see also:
McCain reports $258,000 in taxes
DNC looking for dirt on McCain
... According to one filing, Alicia McClintock, a DNC operative, wrote
DOI asking for “any and all records of communication (including but
not limited to letters, written requests, reports, telephone records,
electronic communication) between your agency and John McCain or his
offices/staff from 1999 to present during which period he has been a
United States Senator.”
Peggy Noonan: just one term for McCain?
..."It seems to me it would be a brilliant thing for [McCain] to
announce he means to be a one-term president, that he means to have a
clean, serious, one-term presidency in which he will do things those
under pressure of re-election do not and cannot do. This would be
received as a refreshment, a way out for the voters in a year they
seem to want a way out. For many in the middle it would be a twofer.
You get a good man, for only four years, and Mr. Obama gets to grow
and deepen. He'll be better older."
Washington Times editorial: John McCain's math
"Don't get us wrong. We love tax cuts. And we love promises to use the
veto to eliminate wasteful spending, especially corruption-inducing,
politically self-serving, pork-barrel earmarks. But we also understand
arithmetic, and we're concerned that Mr. McCain does not..."
see also:
McCain readies unorthodox campaign
And finally — and perhaps most importantly — McCain will rely on free
media to an unprecedented degree to get out his message in a fashion
that aims to not only minimize his financial disadvantage but also
drive a triangulated contrast among himself, the Democratic nominee
and President Bush.
Senators trying to remove doubt on McCain's
eligibility
...while opinions in the Senate about John McCain’s presidential
qualifications can definitely be mixed, Democrats and Republicans hope
to find unanimous agreement on at least one basic aspect of their
colleague’s run for the White House – that he is unequivocally
eligible to be president even though he was born in the Panama Canal
Zone...
Hillary Clinton... today's
headlines with excerpts
Noonan: next time she runs, she will wear skirts
Rasmussen: Hillary's Pa. lead down to just 3
points...
Clinton 47, Obama 44
Hillary's goal: win big in Pa., sow doubts over
Obama
...even if Sen. Clinton wins strongly, she still will remain behind in
delegates, so her goal must be to change the dynamic of the race,
raising doubts about Sen. Obama's ability to carry states like
Pennsylvania and lifting her chances of replicating the win in Indiana
on May 6.
Bill: I didn't hear Hillary 'whining'
Clinton: debate is nothing like White House
pressures
She added, “That goes with the territory, having been inside the White
House, I know the pressures inside the White House, I know how hard it
is every single day.”
see also:
Clinton attacks Obama's 'complaining'
Barack Obama... today's headlines with excerpts
Brooks: how Obama fell to earth
A few months ago, Obama was riding his talents. Clinton has ground him
down, and we are now facing an interesting phenomenon. Republicans
have long assumed they would lose because of the economy and the sad
state of their party. Now, Democrats are deeply worried their nominee
will lose in November.
Welcome to 2008. Everybody’s miserable.
Woods Fund could become Obama's 'swift boat'
The Woods Charitable Fund of Chicago is a touchstone in the latest
controversy swirling around Sen. Obama's past associations. In this
case, the association is with William Ayers, a 1970s radical turned
college professor, whose tenure as a director of the charity
overlapped with Sen. Obama's for three years ending in 2001...
Obama, post-debate, decries 'gotcha games'
Obama to Hamas: no thanks
Mr. Obama's campaign yesterday was forced to reject an unsolicited
endorsement by the Islamist terror group Hamas...
Hamas' top political adviser, Ahmed Yousef, embraced the Obama
campaign Sunday in an interview on WABC radio, saying, "We like Mr.
Obama. We hope he will [win] the election."
Obama looks to turn debate into a victory
see also:
Obama hints: you know, I'm not sure we need another debate
Robert Reich to endorse Obama - was Clinton's
1st Secty Labor
Robert Reich, Bill Clinton's first Secretary of Labor and a friend of
both the former president and his wife for four decades.... intends
formally to declare his support for Obama on
his blog.
Ralph Nader... today's headlines with excerpts
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