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| Where the line is crossed |
| Published: July 26, 2008, 12:42 am |
| Tags: Washington |
| The Building Industry Association of Washington has no obvious counterpart as a political action organization in Oregon or Idaho. There are, of course, plenty of politically active organizations in those states on left and right, and plenty of others in Washington too, but the organization’s size, willingness to throw in serious money and |
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| Obama Volunteers Share the Power of Personal Stories |
| Published: July 26, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Obama, Volunteers, Share, The, Power, Personal, Stories, Barack Obama, Buffy Wicks, Missouri, Claire Mccaskill, Linda Carey, Elizabeth Sharpe Taylor, Matthew Aiken, Sarah Warnock, St Louis, California, Illinois, Chicago, James Wallace, Kansas City, Malcolm Cotton, Peachy My |
| ST. LOUIS -- Sen. Barack Obama's newest recruits gathered in a modern picture gallery to practice the political art of electing a president. For three days, they focused on the low-tech skills of registering voters and identifying community leaders to vouch for the Illinois Democrat and carry his... |
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| Obama Gets Royal Treatment in France |
| Published: July 26, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Obama, Gets, Royal, Treatment, France, Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy, United States, George W Bush, Europe, Paris, Afghanistan, Angela Merkel, Berlin, Gordon Brown, Iraq, Israel, Jacques Chirac, John Kerry, John Mccain, Scotland, Illinois, Middle East |
| PARIS, July 25 -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy rolled out the red carpet and more for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday, offering an effusive embrace that bordered on an endorsement, while a French media throng recorded the arrival of Europe's suddenly favorite American... |
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| Obama Campaign Cancels Visit to U.S. Service Members in Germany |
| Published: July 26, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Obama, Campaign, Cancels, Visit, U S, Service, Members, Germany, Barack Obama, The Pentagon, Bryan Whitman, John Mccain, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, United States, Berlin, J Scott Gration, Robert Gibbs, Afghanistan, Ann Scott Tyson, Brian Rogers, Iraq, Obama S Go |
| PARIS, July 25 -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama scrubbed a visit to see wounded U.S. servicemen and -women in Germany because of concerns raised by the Pentagon that the stop at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center could be seen as a political event, according to Obama's campaign. |
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| McCain's Day of Contrasts |
| Published: July 26, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Mccain S, Day, Contrasts, Barack Obama, John Mccain, Dalai Lama, China, Iraq, United States, John Ackerly, Tibet, Denver, Beijing, Bill Burton, Hillary Clinton, Nouri Al Maliki, Afghanistan, International Campaign For Tibet, Arizona, Illinois, Middle East |
| ASPEN, Colo., July 25 -- It was a Friday of war and peace for Republican presidential candidate John McCain. |
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| McCain: We won the Iraqi civil war |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 11:00 pm |
| Tags: John Mccain, Iraq, Barack Obama |
| Ever since Nouri al-Maliki endorsed Barack Obama's plan to withdraw most US troops from Iraq within about 16 months, John McCain has been agitatedly trying to find a cloud in the silver lining. He's opted to belittle Obama's judgment for opposing the "surge" - implying somehow that the US has won the sectarian civil war by placing more troops in |
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| House and Senate Roundup, 7/25 |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 10:30 pm |
| Tags: House, Senate, 2008 |
| CO-Sen: Several polls out over the past few days. Rasmussen showed the race at 47% for Udall, 44% for Republican Bob Schaffer yesterday. Previously, four polls in a row had showed a 9-10 point lead for Udall. Now, two new polls are out with contrasting results. From Frederick: Udall (D) 48 Schaffer (R) 39 And from Quinnipiac: Udall (D) 44 |
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| Road Blog: Three Hours in France |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 10:05 pm |
| The OFA Plane touched down in Paris this afternoon, where Barack Obama traveled to the Elysee Palace to meet with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Senator Obama and President Sarkozy then held a joint press conference, taking questions from both French and American journalists. Senator Obama turned to him at one point and said that he needs to |
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| Give Something, Get Something! |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 10:02 pm |
| Tags: Political Zone, Windfall Profits |
| Unlike some web sites that ask for donations (they're probably slacker liberals), The Bench is willing to work for it! We give value for your support, in the form of gutsy writing and (GET THIS!) - COOL MERCHANDISE! Yep, The Bench has it own online store, THE POLITICAL ZONE, at CafePress with some... Click headline for full story at The Bench. |
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| And why am I in this handbasket? |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 9:55 pm |
| Tags: Technical Issues |
| It’s not as though I needed to sleep anyway. The article How to steal an election by hacking the vote, by Jon Stokes, explains in seven acid pages “how one highly motivated and moderately skilled bad apple could cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to America’s private sector by unleashing a Windows |
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| Energy speculation bill fails; Inhofe gets dizzy from his own spin |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 9:50 pm |
| Tags: Energy Speculation Bill, S 3268, James Inhofe, Oil Speculators, Gas Prices |
| Lots of gnashing of GOP teeth in the Senate today: The Senate failed to advance legislation targeting oil speculators after Republicans and Democrats remained at an impasse on adding an expansion of offshore drilling to the bill. The chamber voted 50-43 — well short of the 60 votes needed to limit debate on the measure that would have |
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| Gas!!!! Oh what to do?? |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 9:49 pm |
| Tags: Conservative, Democrat, Independent, Liberal, Libertarian, Politics, Presidential Race, Race, Republican, American, Enviornmental, Gas, Indepedent, News, Oil, Vote |
| Gas, or lack there of, seems to be a huge topic of conversation in most areas of our lives. Flashback about tens years ago when one William Jefferson Clinton had the opportunity to allow drilling in Anwar and other reserve areas and vetoed it. Say what you want about hindsight, gas prices were going up then, though not as drastic |
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| Chuck Kopp resigns effective immediately |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 9:28 pm |
| Tags: Controversy, Chuck Kopp, Resign, Commissioner Of Public Safety, Press Conference |
| Per KTUU 5:00 report breaking news: Kopp resigns on his own "for the good of the Department of Public Safety." More at 6:00 PM report and the press release should be out any second...we hope... Per ADN: In a brief news conference with Gov. Sarah Palin in her Anchorage office late this afternoon, Kopp said he was stepping down effective |
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| Take it From a College Prof: Obama's 'Missing' Paper is Another Conservative Red Herring |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 9:21 pm |
| Tags: Barack Obama, Columbia Paper, 2008, Recommended, Front Paged |
| (From the diaries -- Susan) Conservative columnists have been trying to make a big deal about a paper that Barack Obama wrote when he was a student at Columbia University - they seem to think the fact that no one has a copy is a sign that Obama has something to hide. MSNBC's First Read has the whole story. Here's the reality - which I happen to |
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| 'Godless' Prof Crucifies Communion Wafer |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 8:55 pm |
| Tags: News |
| P.Z. Meyers, a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota-Morris who writes a popular science blog, kept his promise to obtain and "desecrate" a consecrated communion wafer. "Nothing must be held sacred," he wrote of his act. "Question everything. God is not great, Jesus is not your lord, you are not disciples of any |
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