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Obama
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McCain
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Money
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Housing
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Working
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People
- Families
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Arizona
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Nevada
- 2008
Election - "Obama
Hits McCain on Closed Door Meeting with Bush." ...
"[2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama on Republican
Presidential Candidate John McCain:] "Today, John McCain is having a different
kind of meeting. He's holding a fundraiser with George Bush behind closed
doors in Arizona. No cameras. No reporters," Obama said before a town hall
in Las Vegas [Nevada], "And we all know why. Senator McCain doesn't want
to be seen, hat-in-hand, with the President whose failed policies he promises
to continue for another four years. But the question for the American people
is: do we want to continue George Bush's policies?"" ... "Watch the VIDEO
HERE." ... ""I don't think the American people want to continue the
disastrous economic policies that have helped create catastrophes like
the housing crisis that we're here to discuss today," Obama continued,
"On issue after issue, John McCain is offering more of the same policies
that have failed for the last eight years. That's the agenda that he and
the President are raising money to support later today. But I'm here in
Nevada because we know it’s time to turn the page."" ... "Obama referenced
an economic address that [Arizona] Senator McCain gave last week, characterizing
his comments as out of touch with working people, "Senator McCain is so
out of touch with the struggles of working people that he gave a speech
laying out his economic agenda last week, and he couldn't even be bothered
to talk about the foreclosure crisis that has put so many families on the
brink of financial catastrophe, and put our economy on the brink—or in—recession.""
-From Sunlen Miller -ABCNEWS.com
John
McCain - US_Debt
- Money
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Politics
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Legislator
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Military
- Families
- Housing
- 
Construction
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Iraq
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Israel
- 
Egypt
- 
Jordan
- Arizona
- 
US
- 2008
Election - Noteworthy
- "McCain's
Fantasy War on Earmarks." ... "[2008 Election Republican
Presidential Candidate] John McCain boasts that he can save $100 billion
a year "immediately" by eliminating the so-called earmarks that legislators
attach to spending bills to finance pet projects, usually in their home
state. But he has refused to say exactly which projects he would cut, and
his estimates of the amount of money that is being spent on earmarks have
been challenged by independent experts." ... "The Facts:" ... "The
Arizona senator is promising to balance the budget by the end of his first
term, while simultaneously extending the [Republican] George W. Bush tax
cuts, introducing billions of dollars of new tax cuts of his own, and remaining
in Iraq as long as is necessary to stabilize that country. Asked how this
miracle will be accomplished, McCain told George Stephanopoulos of ABC
News This Week on April 20 that he could come up with $100 billion
"tomorrow" by vetoing pork-barrel spending bills." ... "There are a number
of problems with this magical budgetary balancing act. First of all, the
suspiciously round $100 billion figure is largely a figment of the McCain
campaign's imagination. I have not been able to find a single independent
budget expert to vouch for it. McCain's economics adviser, Doug Holtz-Eakin,
will not say how the campaign arrived at the figure, other than that it
is an extrapolation from various studies, including a 2006 study by the
Congressional Research Service available
here [PDF]." ... "However, much of this money is tied to items such
as foreign aid to countries like Israel, Egypt, and Jordan, that McCain
says he will not touch." ... "By most definitions of the term, the amount
of money spent on earmarks is much lower than the CRS study. The Office
for Management and the Budget came up with a figure for $16.9 billion
in the 2008 appropriation bills. Taxpayers
for Commonsense, an independent watchdog group that focuses on wasteful
spending, identified $18.3 billion worth of earmarks in the 2008 bills,
a 23 per cent cut from a record $23.6 billion set in 2005 [when Republicans
controlled Congress]." ... "The figure includes such items as $4 billion
for the [United States] U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which could not be
eliminated without halting hundreds of construction projects around the
country. Another big chunk goes to military construction, including housing
for servicemen and their families, which McCain has also promised not to
touch." ... "McCain's talk about eliminating $100 billion a year in earmarks
is largely fantasy." ... "To use a phrase coined by [Republican] George
H.W. Bush, this is "voodoo economics," based more on wishful thinking than
on hard data or carefully considered policy proposals." [The Washington
Post gives McCain's accounting numbers four Pinochio's out of a possible
four, calling the statements by Candidate McCain "Whoppers."]
-WashingtonPost
Vito
Fossella - Politicians
- Family
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Virginia
- Law
- 
New
York
- 2008
Election - "Signs
Fossella May Run Again Unnerve G.O.P.." ... "All
signs indicate that [New York Republican Representative Vito] Mr. Fossella,
a Republican who was arrested in Virginia on May 1 on a drunken driving
charge and then admitted to fathering a child out of wedlock, is leaning
toward running for a sixth term in November [2008 Election]." ... "Mr.
Fossella, the only New York City [New York] Republican in Congress, represents
a district that includes [New York City, New York burroughs] Staten Island
and parts of southern Brooklyn. It is the most conservative-leaning district
in the city. And he has portrayed himself during his years in politics
as a Republican moderate who exemplified traditional family values." ...
"As a result, many politicians on Staten Island initially expected that
he would resign shortly after the revelations of an extramarital affair
and a daughter born from that relationship — or at least not run again."
... "Stephen A. Harrison, a Brooklyn lawyer who was Mr. Fossella’s Democratic
opponent in 2006 and hopes to challenge him again this year [2008 Election],
has stopped short of calling for Mr. Fossella to resign or step down after
his present term. In a statement, Mr. Harrison said, “If he decides to
run, the people will decide in November if his recent behavior and revelations
should disqualify him from continuing in office.”" -By
Jonathan
P. Hicks -NYTimes
California
- Gay
- People
- Parents
- Politics
- 2008
Election - "California
Supreme Court overturns gay marriage ban." ... "The
California Supreme Court struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage
Thursday in a broadly worded decision that would invalidate virtually any
law that discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation." ... "The 4-3
ruling declared that the state Constitution protects a fundamental "right
to marry" that extends equally to same-sex couples. It tossed a highly
emotional issue into the [2008] election year while opening the way for
tens of thousands of gay people to wed in California, starting as early
as mid-June." ... "The majority opinion, by Chief Justice Ronald M. George,
declared that any law that discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation
will from this point on be constitutionally suspect in California in the
same way as laws that discriminate by race or gender, making the state's
high court the first in the nation to adopt such a stringent standard."
... "The decision was a bold surprise from a moderately conservative, Republican-dominated
court that legal scholars have long dubbed "cautious," and experts said
it was likely to influence other courts around the country." ... "But the
scope of the court's decision could be thrown into question by an initiative
already heading toward the November ballot. The initiative would amend
the state Constitution to prohibit same-sex unions." ... "The court's ruling
repeatedly invoked the words "respect and dignity" and framed the marriage
question as one that deeply affected not just couples but also their children.
California has more than 100,000 households headed by gay couples, about
a quarter with children, according to 2000 census data." ... ""Our state
now recognizes that an individual's capacity to establish a loving and
long-term committed relationship with another person and responsibly to
care for and raise children does not depend upon the individual's sexual
orientation," George wrote for the majority. "An individual's sexual orientation
-- like a person's race or gender -- does not constitute a legitimate basis
upon which to deny or withhold legal rights."" (1, 2,
3)
-By Maura Dolan with contributions by Patrick McGreevy,
Rong-Gong Lin II, Jean-Paul Renaud, Francisco Vara-Orta, Molly Hennessy-Fiske,
John M. Glionna and Lee Romney -LAtimes
WATCH
- Noteworthy
- 
Terrorism
- Politics
- War
Crimes - US
- Freedom
- Iraq
- 
Intelligence
- Military
- Families
- Sports
- McCain
- 2008
Election - "Mr.
President, the war isn’t about you — or golf: Olbermann:
[Republican President] Bush's claim he gave up game to honor dead GIs is
ludicrous." ... "President Bush has resorted anew to the sleaziest fear-mongering
and mass manipulation of an administration and public life dedicated to
realizing the lowest of our expectations. And he has now applied these
poisons to the 2008 presidential election, on behalf of the party at whose
center he and [Republican Candidate] John McCain lurk." ... "Mr. Bush has
predicted that the election of a Democratic president could "eventually
lead to another attack on the United States." This ludicrous, infuriating,
holier-than-thou and most importantly bone-headedly wrong statement came
during a
May 13 interview with Politico.com and online users of Yahoo."
... "The question was phrased as follows: "If we were to pull out of Iraq
next year, what's the worst that could happen, what's the doomsday scenario?""
... "The president replied: "Doomsday scenario of course is that extremists
throughout the Middle East would be emboldened, which would eventually
lead to another attack on the United States. The biggest issue we face
is, it's bigger than Iraq, it's this ideological struggle against cold-blooded
killers who will kill people to achieve their political objectives."" ...
"Mr. Bush, at long last, has it not dawned on you that the America you
have now created, includes "cold-blooded killers who will kill people to
achieve their political objectives?" They are those in — or formerly in
— your employ, who may yet be charged some day with war crimes." ... "Through
your haze of self-congratulation and self-pity, do you still have no earthly
clue that this nation has laid waste to Iraq to achieve your political
objectives? "This ideological struggle," Mr. Bush, is taking place within
this country." ... "It is a struggle between Americans who cherish freedom,
ours and everybody else's, and Americans like you, sir, to whom freedom
is just a brand name, just like "Patriot Act" is a brand name or "Protect
America" is a brand name." ... "But wait, there's more: You also said "Iraq
is the place where al-Qaida and other extremists have made their stand
and they will be defeated." They made no "stand" in Iraq, sir, you allowed
them to assemble there!" ... "As certainly as if that were the plan, the
borders were left wide open by your government's farcical post-invasion
strategy of "they'll greet us as liberators." And as certainly as if that
were the plan, the inspiration for another generation of terrorists in
another country was provided by your government's farcical post-invasion
strategy of letting the societal infra-structure of Iraq dissolve, to be
replaced by an American viceroy, enforced by merciless mercenaries who
shoot unarmed Iraqis and then evade prosecution in any country by hiding
behind your skirts, sir." ... "Terrorism inside Iraq is your creation,
Mr. Bush!" ... "Then came Mr. Bush's final blow to our nation's solar plexus,
his last reopening of our common wounds, his last remark that makes the
rest of us question not merely his leadership or his judgment but his very
suitably to remain in office." ... ""Mr. President," he was asked, "you
haven't been golfing in recent years. Is that related to Iraq?"" ... ""Yes,"
began perhaps the most startling reply of this nightmarish blight on our
lives as Americans on our history. "It really is. I don't want some mom
whose son may have recently died to see the Commander in Chief playing
golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be as — to be in solidarity as
best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends
the wrong signal."" ... "Golf, sir? Golf sends the wrong signal to the
grieving families of our men and women butchered in Iraq? Do you think
these families, Mr. Bush, their lives blighted forever, care about you
playing golf? Do you think, sir, they care about you?" ... "You, Mr. Bush,
let their sons and daughters be killed. Sir, to show your solidarity with
them you gave up golf? Sir, to show your solidarity with them you didn't
give up your pursuit of this insurance-scam, profiteering, morally and
financially bankrupting war." ... "Sir, to show your solidarity with them
you didn't even give up talking about Iraq, a subject about which you have
incessantly proved without pause or backwards glance, that you may literally
be the least informed person in the world?" ... "Sir, to show your solidarity
with them, you didn't give up your presidency? In your own words
"solidarity as best as I can" is to stop a game? That is the "best" you
can do?" ... "Four thousand Americans give up their lives and your sacrifice
was to give up golf!" ... "The great Bushian sacrifice — an Army private
loses a leg, a Marine loses half his skull, 4,000 of their brothers and
sisters lose their lives — and you lose golf, and they have to pull you
off the golf course to get you to just do that?" ... "If it's even true."
... "... CBS News has records of you playing golf as late as [October]
Oct. 13 of that year, nearly two months later [two months after Bush claimed
that he had given up golf "in solidarity" with the families of American
troops.]." (1, 2,
3,
4)
-By
Keith Olbermann
-MSNBC
US
- Military
- Families
- Iraq
- 
Afghanistan
- Israel
- Consumer
- Business
- Terrorism
- Politics
- 
History
- "Bush
Says He's Not A Golfer In Wartime." ... "[Republican]
President Bush said yesterday that he gave up golfing in 2003 "in solidarity"
with the families of soldiers who were dying in Iraq, concluding that it
was "just not worth it anymore" to play the sport in a time of war." ...
"Democrats have criticized Bush for allegedly not requiring Americans to
sacrifice enough while waging wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and for urging
people to keep shopping as a way to fight terrorism after the [September]
Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Bush was also widely criticized in August 2002
when he decried terrorist bombings in Israel while golfing and then told
reporters: "Now watch this drive."" ... "... [Presidential historian Robert]
Dallek, who is critical of the current president's legacy, said Bush's
remarks about Iraq "speak to his shallowness." Dallek added: "That's his
idea of sacrifice, to give up golf?"" -By Dan Eggen
-WashingtonPost
WATCH:
"Now watch this drive," video of Republican President Bush golfing
immediately after explaining that "We must stop the terror. I call upon
all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers,
thank you. Now watch this drive."
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