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TALLAHASSEE, FL -- The McCain-Palin campaign today announced the endorsement of Mexican-American actress Katie Barberi.
About as meaningful as the Powell thing.— ocjones
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How many of your deceased relatives will be voting for Obama, Will?— BlairW- Comment removed.
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- "Posted by Archimedes 11:19 PM, 10/17/2008- Attytood started our as "Campaign Extra" for the 2004 election campaign, well after the Iraq war started and was won (what has happened since is the occupation and insurrection--not really a war). However, I have known Will a long time and can assure you that he was against the Iraq War before W. started it."- I think that it's a gross example of Bunch wagging his finger at the world and now admonishing the Washington Post on not opposing the war pre-invasion, and yet Bunch has ZERO proof that he was against it. If you can't provide something more concrete than you standing around the water cooler, pontificating on whether or not you would go back to the U.N., you might not want to criticize others actually on record. You sound like Obama. He says he was against the war, yet he offered nothing in the state senate rebuking it. Then when he got to the Senate, he votes to fund the war. Arm chair quaterbacks receive no influence.— ObamaHATER
- It's not about deceased relatives Blair. You could vote in Pa 100 times, all you need to do is show NO ID to the registering agent, register 100 times, have the the registration cards sent to your house, and just hand them out to your friends, and they can use them at all of the voting booths as their NON PHOTO ID. It's sleazy easy! Only 25% percent of ACORN's registrations have been thrown out, so that means that for sure those other 75% are legit right? Why are we letting ACORN get away with this? Why aren't we shutting this Obama group down? God Bless America!— ObamaHATER
- Gotta love you republican lackeys. I knew what you're take on Powell's endorsement would be even before I logged on tonight. Even though I have seen several of you have nothing but positive things to say about Powell in the past, now that he has endorsed Obama of course now he is "irrelevant" and "meaningless". LMFAO!! You guys are so predictable it's pathetic.— Damgoodbodies
- hater, you ever complain about not having your photot ID to vote before? Bet not. Now it's some big deal. Let's see, last election, Justice Dept found only 70 cases of voter fraud...in the country. Out of a couple million votes, 70 cases. Yep, that will certainly sway an election. The only peoiple being defrauded here is ACORN. They paid people who turned in phony forms just for the cash. ACORN, by law in most states, has to turn in any registration form it receives. They tag most of the ones the believe are false. It is up to the elction boards to determine which are real or fake, just like any forms they receive from repub or Dem groups woking out of malls or schools or in court houses themselves. Tell me the next time a six-foot rodent with big ears comes to cast a vote. I would love to meet Mickey Mouse.— mike l
I still would have been reasonably content if Powell had been the first African-American US President. For a Republican, he still seems to make sense most of the time--the only exceptions being when he was being misled by the rest of the Bush Administration. Of course, he should have resigned sooner and of course Condi seems to have had more influence over the administration than Colin ever did. There is just something about Powell that remains appealing. Hope the Obama administration can find a way to use his talents.- Philadelphia Daily News January 30, 2003, Thursday Invading Iraq not a new idea for Bush clique BYLINE: By William Bunch SECTION: DOMESTIC NEWS LENGTH: 1543 words PHILADELPHIA _ It was 2:40 p.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, and rescue crews were still scouring the ravaged section of the Pentagon that hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 had destroyed just five hours earlier. On the other side of the still-smoldering Pentagon complex, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was poring through incoming intelligence reports and jotting down notes. Although most Americans were still shell-shocked, Rumsfeld's thoughts had already turned to a longstanding foe. Rumsfeld wrote, according to a later CBS News report, that he wanted "best info fast. Judge whether good enough (to) hit S.H. at the same time. Not only UBL" _ meaning Osama bin Laden. He added: "Go massive. Sweep it all up. Things related and not."— will
- "S.H.," of course, is Saddam Hussein. The White House has long insisted its strategy for a war against Saddam's Iraq _ a war that could now begin in a matter of days _ arose from the rubble of the deadly attack that day. But in reality, Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, and a small band of conservative ideologues had begun making the case for an American invasion of Iraq as early as 1997 _ nearly four years before the Sept. 11 attacks and three years before President Bush took office. An obscure, ominous-sounding right-wing policy group called Project for the New American Century, or PNAC _ affiliated with Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld's top deputy Paul Wolfowitz and Bush's brother Jeb _ even urged then-President Clinton to invade Iraq back in January 1998. "We urge you to enunciate a new strategy that would secure the interests of the U.S. and our friends and allies around the world," stated the letter to Clinton, signed by Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and others. "That strategy should aim, above all, at the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power." (For full text of the letter, see www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm)— will
- The saga of Project for the New American Century may help answer some of the questions being asked both across the nation and around the world as Bush seems increasingly likely to call for military action to remove Saddam from power. Why does the Bush administration seem hell-bent on war in the Middle East when key world powers and U.S. allies _ such as France, Germany, Russia and China _ don't support it right now? Or when most Americans say they don't want war, either, as long as the United Nations won't endorse one? Why the rush, and why now, when Saddam seems weakened by a decade of economic sanctions? The answers are complicated, but most arise from the concept _ endorsed by many of the key players in the Bush administration _ that America, as the world's lone superpower, should be putting that power to use. "The history of the 20th century should have taught us that it is important to shape circumstances before crises emerge, and to meet threats before they become dire," says the PNAC's statement of principles. "The history of this century should have taught us to embrace the cause of American leadership." Ian Lustick, a University of Pennsylvania political science professor and Middle East expert, calls the Cheney-Rumsfeld group "a cabal" _ a band of conservative ideologues whose grand notions of American unilateral military might are out of touch and dangerous.— will
- "What happened was 9/11, which had nothing to do with Iraq but produced an enormous amount of political capital which allowed the government to do anything it wanted as long as they could relate it to national security and the Middle East," Lustick said. Gary Schmitt, the executive director of PNAC, laughs at the notion that his group is a secretive force driving U.S. policy, even as he acknowledges that the current plan for ousting Saddam differs little from what the group proposed in early 1998. "We're not the puppeteer behind it all," said Schmitt, noting that before Sept. 11, 2001, the Bush administration had adopted the moderate policies on Iraq favored by Secretary of State Colin Powell. ___ Still, the most hawkish members of the Bush administration, who are clearly in the driver's seat, have ties to PNAC. Their ideas about the aggressive use of American clout and military force arose more than a decade ago, in the wake of the collapse of communism and victory in the Persian Gulf War. When the United States routed Saddam's occupying army from Kuwait in March 1991, most aides _ including Cheney _ approved of the senior Bush's decision to not push forward to Baghdad and oust Saddam.— will
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