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Obama – Biden ’08
Barack Obama has chosen Joe Biden as his running mate. It’s an interesting choice, given that Obama is running a change campaign and Biden has been a Washington fixture for decades. Also because the
Read More »Barack Obama doesn’t rule out Hillary Clinton for vice president
By Peter Nicholas | Barack Obama told a potential donor to his campaign that Hillary Rodham Clinton is on his list of possible vice presidential running mates, but that her husband’s status as a
Read More »Online Activists Keep the Pressure on Obama
By Ari Melber | If Obama is lucky, he will continue to benefit from these energized, sophisticated activists who support his candidacy while they press his hand. He responded. While most Americans settled into a
Read More »Bill Clinton says Barack Obama must ‘kiss my ass’ for his support
By Tim Shipman in Washington and Philip Sherwell in New York | Mr Obama is expected to speak to Mr Clinton for the first time since he won the nomination in the next few
Read More »Dems to OK Bush War Funds Without Conditions
By ANDREW TAYLOR | Democratic and GOP leaders in the House announced agreement Wednesday on a long-overdue war funding bill they said President Bush would be willing to sign. The agreement on the war
Read More »Democrats to back down on Iraq war conditions
By Richard Cowan | Democrats in the Congress, who came to power last year on a call to end the combat in Iraq, will soon give President George W. Bush the last war-funding bill
Read More »Change, What Change?
CounterPunch | On Tuesday June 3 Barack Obama claimed the greatest prize the Democratic Party can offer, namely his nomination as its candidate for the presidency. The very next day the salesman of “change”
Read More »Democrats introduce bill to outlaw Pentagon propaganda
By Muriel Kane | Last April, the New York Times revealed that retired officers serving as military analysts on television news shows had regularly been briefed by the Pentagon and supplied with pro-war and
Read More »House Democrats Want Bush Admin Investigated for War Crimes
By Jason Leopold | House Democrats sent a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey Friday requesting that he appoint a special prosecutor to investigate whether White House officials, including President Bush, violated the War
Read More »The desperation of Hillary Clinton’s campaign
By Clarence Lusane | Sen. Hillary Clinton has disgracefully pursued a disturbing strategy of racial opportunism. Since early March, when Sen. Barack Obama racked up victory after victory in states that were, in some
Read More »Obama’s Break With Ex-Pastor Sets Sharp Shift in Tone
NY Times | Senator Barack Obama broke forcefully on Tuesday with his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., in an effort to curtail a drama of race, values, patriotism and betrayal that
Read More »Students Skip Class For Obama Event, Get Suspended
By Jason Linkins | Joey Daniel and Colin Salter, two high school students in Dunmore, Pennsylvania, showed tremendous audacity yesterday when they skipped their gym class to attend an Obama event across the street
Read More »Exit polls suggest Clinton win in Pennsylvania
By Ewen MacAskill and Suzanne Goldenberg | Hillary Clinton is expected to keep her slim hopes of the White House alive after exit polls suggested she would beat Barack Obama in the key Pennsylvania
Read More »Clinton on Iran Attack: ‘Obliterate Them’
By Jake Tapper | One day before Pennsylvania primary voters go to the polls, Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., spent the day trying to reach undecided voters, and rally their supporters to the
Read More »Clinton pledges: I’ll end war in Iraq
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama yesterday, left Washington for the key state of Pennsylvania and promised to fix America’s stumbling economy, which both Democrats say has been badly undermined by the Iraq war.They were
Read More »Clinton urges Bush to boycott Beijing Olympics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton urged President George W. Bush on Monday to boycott the Beijing Olympics opening ceremonies this summer unless China improves human rights. Clinton, in a statement, cited
Read More »Obama and Hillary Spin a ‘Big Lie’ About Iraq
The two Dems lie every time they discuss Iraq on the campaign trail, but the media refuse to call them on it. By Joshua Holland The cable news networks are happy to spend hours
Read More »Clinton didn’t pay health insurance bills
Among the debts reported this month by Hillary Rodham Clinton’s struggling presidential campaign, the $292,000 in unpaid health insurance premiums for her campaign staff stands out. Clinton, who is being pressured to end her
Read More »Clinton missed key policy decisions
On the day that dozens of US cruise missiles rained down on Serbia in an attempt to punish Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic for the country’s onslaught against ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo, first lady
Read More »Obama: US less safe since Iraq war
The Iraq war has left America less safe and has emboldened al Qaida, Iran, North Korea and the Taliban, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has said. The Illinois senator criticised the stance of his
Read More »VIDEO: Clinton vs Obama on Blackwater
Winter Soldier: Jeremy Scahill discusses why no presidential candidate plans on fully leaving Iraq Jeremy Scahill is the author of the bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. He is
Read More »Democrat calls for inquiry into Blackwater
House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman expanded his effort yesterday to investigate private security contractor Blackwater Worldwide, calling for a wide-ranging federal inquiry into the company’s employment practices. In letters to the Internal Revenue
Read More »Clintons to face fraud trial
Judge setting date, testimony to include ex-president, senator While Hillary Clinton battles Barack Obama on the campaign trail, a judge in Los Angeles is quietly preparing to set a trial date in a $17
Read More »How The Democrats Sold Out In Iraq
MATT TAIBBI | Rolling Stone Elected to end the war, Democrats have surrendered to Bush on Iraq and betrayed the peace movement for their own political ends Quietly, while Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama
Read More »Democratic Party complicit in CIA torture
Declassified letter exposes Democratic Party complicity in CIA torture By Joe Kay Last week, the CIA declassified a February 2003 letter from Democratic Representative Jane Harman of California discussing the planned destruction of videotapes
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