Obama ads in GOP turf; McCain says he's leftist
By Mike Glover and Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – In a bold move brimming with confidence, Democrat Barack Obama broadened his advertising campaign on Friday into two once reliably Republican states and further bedeviled rival John McCain by placing a commercial in the Republican presidential nominee's home ...
(CNN) – New England's lone House Republican appears to have publicly broken with his party's standard-bearer, saying John McCain has not run a clean campaign and is likely to lose his bid for the presidency. "I just don't see how [McCain] can win," Connecticut Rep. Chris Shays told the Yale ...
McCain targets liberals in sharpened stump speech
By Glen Johnson / Associated Press ST. CHARLES, Mo. – Republican John McCain and his supporters on Monday branded Democrat Barack Obama a liberal and criticized feminists and the media as they rallied their conservative base in Missouri, a hotly contested bellwether state, two weeks before the election. In a ...
Cpl. Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan Was an American Soldier
"I'm also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things as, 'Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim.' "Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim; he's a Christian. He's always ...
Powell endorses Obama for president
Republican ex-secretary of state calls Democrat ‘transformational figure’ msnbc.com and NBC News WASHINGTON - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., for president on Sunday, criticizing his own Republican Party for what he called its narrow focus on irrelevant personal attacks over a serious approach to ...
A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty By Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone At Fort McNair, an army base located along the Potomac River in the nation's capital, a chance reunion takes place one day between two former ...
Asked about McCain's Georgia position, Powell urges caution
(CNN) — Five former Secretaries of State from both parties told CNN Monday the Bush administration’s hard-line approach on Iran needs to be abandoned by the next president – with one GOP foreign policy heavyweight calling the current White House position “ridiculous.” "I would advise the president to fully engage ...
COLIN POWELL REMAINS UNDECIDED
From NBC's Libby Leist Colin Powell, the first African-American Secretary of State, said this afternoon that electing an African-American US president would be “electrifying” for the world, but he said he still remains undecided between McCain and Obama. Appearing today at George Washington University with four other former US Secretaries ...
Teenaged Democrats flock to Obama's side
DENVER, Colorado (AFP) — Some of them aren't even old enough to vote yet, but impassioned by the message of hope preached by Barack Obama they have flocked here to help crown their idol the Democratic standard-bearer.These students and high-school pupils are the youngest delegates to the Democratic Party convention, ...
Why some conservatives are backing Obama
By Carolyn Lochhead / San Francisco Chronicle The "Obamacans" that Sen. Barack Obama used to joke about - Republican apostates who whispered their support for his candidacy - have morphed into a new phenomenon, or syndrome, as detractors like to call it: the Obamacons. These are conservatives who have publicly ...
Powell tells B.C. crowd he might vote for Obama
By Ian Bailey / Globe and Mail VANCOUVER -- Colin Powell, the former Republican secretary of state, says he is not ruling out a vote for Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic nominee for president. While Mr. Powell served in the administrations of two Republican presidents, he suggested yesterday his support ...
ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
Kucinich.House.gov Washington, Jun 10 - Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio In the United States House of Representatives Monday, June 9th, 2008 A Resolution INDEX Article I Creating a Secret Propaganda Campaign to Manufacture a False Case for War Against Iraq. Article II Falsely, Systematically, and with Criminal Intent Conflating the ...
Citing new report, Dems rip ‘heinous’ prewar rhetoric
By J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill Democrats blasted the Bush administration’s rhetorical road to war in Iraq as “heinous” Thursday, citing a new Senate Intelligence Committee report that said the administration mishandled prewar intelligence. However, senators stopped short of pressing for criminal charges, and the White House shot back ...
Powell speech draws anti-war protesters
By Evan Goodenow / Fort Wayne News-Sentinel FORT WAYNE, IA — It was perhaps the most important motivational speech of the 21st century, but four protesters outside Memorial Coliseum said he never should have made it. Not the speech former Secretary of State Colin Powell gave Tuesday at the Get ...
Cheney, others OK'd harsh interrogations
By Lara Jakes Jordan and Pamela Hess / Associated Press WASHINGTON - Bush administration officials from Vice President Dick Cheney on down signed off on using harsh interrogation techniques against suspected terrorists after asking the Justice Department to endorse their legality, The Associated Press has learned. The officials also took ...
Sources: Top Bush Advisors Approved 'Enhanced Interrogation'
Detailed Discussions Were Held About Techniques to Use on al Qaeda Suspects By Jan Crawford Greenburg, Howard L. Rosenberg and Ariane de Vogue / ABC News In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific details of how ...
Anti-Iraq war U.S. diplomats poorer but proud
By Adam Tanner / Reuters SAN FRANCISCO - In 2003, three senior U.S. diplomats abruptly ended prestigious careers and gained international attention by noisily resigning in protest over the U.S. war in Iraq. In interviews on Tuesday on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the invasion, the three said ...
Rice heatedly defends her integrity on Iraq claims
By Arshad Mohammed / Reuters WASHINGTON, Feb 13 - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice vehemently defended her integrity on Wednesday when asked about an independent report that found she made 56 false statements on the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. At a congressional hearing, Rep. Robert Wexler, a ...
Study: False statements preceded war
By Douglass K. Daniel / Associated Press WASHINGTON - A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks. The study concluded that the ...
Our shameful Guantanamo anniversary
The appalling fact that innocents have been locked up and abused at the U.S. prison for six long years is not the only reason we must close it now. By Anthony D. Romero / Salon Today, America's Guantánamo era enters its seventh shameful year. If we are ever to regain ...
'Whose Honor?' ...by Dan DeWalt
Preparatory to General Petraeus’ testimony today, some Congress members, incensed by a Move-On.org full page ad in the NY Times referring to him as General Betray us, lashed out at that organization and the “Left” in general for daring to utter a doubting word about the General. Then they extolled ...
White House near decision to close Gitmo
By Matthew Lee / Associated Press WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is nearing a decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detainee facility and move the terror suspects there to military prisons elsewhere, The Associated Press has learned. President Bush's national security and legal advisers are expected to discuss the move ...
Ex-aide says Rice misled U.S. Congress on Iran
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice misled the U.S. Congress when she said last week that she had not seen a 2003 Iranian proposal for talks with the United States, a former senior government official said on Wednesday. Flynt Leverett, who worked on the National Security Council when ...
Ten protesters arrested in McCain's office
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Capitol Police arrested 10 anti-war protestors in Sen. John McCain's Capitol Hill office Monday, police spokeswoman Sgt. Kimberly Schneider tells CNN. The protestors, members of the anti-war organization "Code Pink," said the demonstration was one of more than two dozen similar protests held across the country ...
Washington 'snubbed Iran offer'
BBC News Iran offered the US a package of concessions in 2003, but it was rejected, a senior former US official has told the BBC's Newsnight programme. Tehran proposed ending support for Lebanese and Palestinian militant groups and helping to stabilise Iraq following the US-led invasion. Offers, including making its ...
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Thanks to everyone for bearing with me as I spend so much time on what happened to Emad Burnat. It's important to me because he's ...
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Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
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This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
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