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Tuesday, March 25,
2008
GENERAL NEWS HEADLINES with excerpts
The Obama bimbo
Worried Dems wish for 'dream team'
2008 vote could see turnout tsunami
“November could see the highest turnout of
my lifetime,” said Arizona Secretary of State Jan Brewer, 63. “Turnout
could be up to as much as 80 percent.”
Huckabee cites power of 'kingmakers'
... Huckabee said his foreign-policy views
were misunderstood by evangelical leaders who criticized him
for not comprehending the direness of the "Islamo-fascist" threat.
Their criticism and even antagonism still
leave him bemused, and he said it was "like playing the Whack-a-Mole
pizza-parlor game" in trying to shoot down their objections.
"I was the one person who talked about
this being a theological war, not just a geopolitical war [because] it
was unlike a traditional war over borders and boundaries," he says.
Congressman: don't discount Gore-led ticket
If he does go, that will mean the
Democrats still haven’t decided a nominee for the presidential
election. And if neither Sen. Hillary Clinton nor Sen. Barack Obama
has clinched the nomination by August, Mahoney says we may see a
brokered convention, meaning the nominee could emerge from a
negotiated settlement.
“If it (the nomination process) goes into
the convention, don’t be surprised if someone different is at the top
of the ticket,” Mahoney said.
A compromise candidate could be someone
such as former vice president Al Gore, Mahoney said last week ...
Report: Palestinian textbooks... Israel
does not exist, Jews subhuman enemies
“While Israeli leaders speak openly of
negotiating a two-state solution, Palestinian children are exposed to
a rigid, narrow worldview in which Israel does not exist and Jews are
considered subhuman enemies,” said AJC Executive Director David A.
Harris. “A negotiated settlement cannot succeed until Palestinian
children are taught to live in peace with their Israeli neighbors.”
A summary report,
Palestinian Textbooks: From Arafat to Abbas and Hamas, is
co-published by AJC and the Institute for Monitoring Peace and
Cultural Tolerance in School Education (formerly the Center for
Monitoring the Impact of Peace– CMIP) and is available at www.ajc.org.
It concludes a seven-year project of surveying PA schoolbooks by CMIP.
A draft version of the full report on grades 11 and 12 will be
available at www.edume.org, where the complete reports for all the
other grades also can be found.
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THE CANDIDATES:
John McCain... today's headlines
with excerpts
McCain says Dems won't acknowledge gains in Iraq
``My Democratic opponents who want to pull out of Iraq refuse to
understand what is happening,'' McCain, who has clinched the
Republican presidential nomination, told a group at a veterans town
hall in Chula Vista, California. ``We are winning in Iraq.''
see also:
McCain has tough words for Dems on Iraq, environment
Dems to hammer McCain for '100 years'
... On a recent conference call with reporters, Howard Wolfson,
Clinton’s bulldog operative, mentioned four times in two minutes that
John McCain “wants to be in Iraq for 100 years.”
McCain skips more than half the Senate's votes
Still, Mr. McCain has a long way to go to match the number of votes
Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts missed when he ran for president
in 2003-4: 72 percent. He led the entire Senate, followed by Senator
John Edwards of North Carolina, who missed nearly half the votes.
McCain's April Fools Day set for Letterman's
Show
McCain still faces funding challenge
An Arizona Republic analysis of campaign-finance reports
through the pivotal January period shows that many of McCain's largest
contributors gave more to his opponents, even Democrats. The lack of
major support suggests money could remain a concern for his
campaign...
Hillary Clinton... today's
headlines with excerpts
Clinton camp in lockdown mode
after Bosnia flap
A video from CBS News had shown that Clinton’s version of having come
under sniper fire was not correct. Her campaign chalked up the
discrepancy between her account and the video as a case of Clinton
misspeaking.
The Obama campaign seized on the story when it was splashed across the
CBS website Monday, with spokesman Tommy Vietor saying it is “part of
a troubling pattern of Sen. Clinton inflating her foreign policy
experience.”
Hillary admits Bosnia
'misstatement' - not under sniper fire
It has been disputed whether Clinton was embellishing the risk she
faced during the landing in Tuzla and the trip overall. Most recently,
Clinton said they landed in an "evasive maneuver" "under sniper fire".
Monday on a conference call with reporters, Clinton Communications
Director Howard Wolfson, defended Clinton but said that she may have
"misspoke" in her most recent description of the trip.
Hillary unveils plan to ease housing crisis
On Monday, Clinton laid out a plan in Philadelphia aimed at slowing
mounting foreclosures, renewing her call for greater lender
transparency and for $30 billion in assistance for individual
homeowners and communities to help most Americans through the credit
crunch.
Clinton used a speech at the University of Pennsylvania to argue that
the federal government should apply the same kind of resources to
assist individuals as it did in bailing out investment giant Bear
Stearns.
Obama poll collapse may be Hillary's best hope
How could that happen? First of all, Clinton not only has to win
Pennsylvania on April 22; she has to swamp Obama there.
And she has to go on and post a convincing win against Obama in
Indiana, a state where the two appear evenly matched. Results like
that would serve to underscore concerns among some Democrats that came
after Clinton beat Obama in Ohio, suggesting he was having trouble
getting blue-collar white voters into his column. That is one
constituency that aides to McCain see very much in play this fall.
Bill says no revote in Fla., Mich. a deliberate
attempt to disenfranchise voters
No Carville apology for 'Judas' remark
Hillary Clinton adviser James Carville won't apologize for comparing
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson to Judas, following his endorsement of
Barack Obama...
see also:
Carville: controversial Judas comment 'had the right effect'
'King
of Pork' Rep Murtha debuts on campaign trail for Hillary
On Monday evening in his home district, the anti-war champion and
17-term congressman campaigned with Clinton for the first time and
explained his presidential pick.
"Let me tell you something," Murtha said, taking the microphone from
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell. "I have served with seven presidents,
and they all got gray hair except for Reagan. Anybody that’s been in
the White House for eight years knows how tough it is, understands,
has the experience that you need to be president of the United
States."
Barack Obama... today's headlines with excerpts
Obama's test: can a liberal be a
unifier?
Mr. Obama, in an interview that was conducted on March 15, in the
midst of that controversy, said he was confident that Americans were
eager for a new kind of politics and were convinced that “a lot of
these old labels don’t apply anymore.”
Obama to be on "The View" this
Friday
Obama will sit down with the women of "The View" on Friday. It's his
first visit to the daytime talk show as a presidential candidate.
Obama visited "The View" in 2004 when he was promoting his memoir
"Dreams from My Father."
Obama plans 6-day Pennsylvania bus tour
Details for the "Road to Change" tour are still TBA, but Sen. Barack
Obama's campaign announced he'll be in Pennsylvania from March 28
through April 2.
Michael Barone: Damage patrol
My own answer is: both. He embraced Mr. Wright for 20 years, out of
something like idealism, and got something out of it. Now he is making
a generational pivot away from him, with notes of idealism, and is
getting something out of that, too. I'll be watching the Millennials
in the next exit poll. I suspect Democratic superdelegates will be,
too.
Ralph Nader... today's headlines with excerpts
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