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POPSMcCain's Free Air Time Why buy air time when cable news will run your ads for free? I've seen three of these ads aired on CNN today, as pundits talked about them. The irony of this is that, without the pundits discussing these things, no one would've seen them. In fact, I saw Wolf Blitzer discussing this very free media story, during which he ran McCain's ad! Liberal media my ass.
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POPSMcCain: "We were greeted as liberators" in Iraq Eeyow! Bad enough that neocons' judgment was so poor as to predict we would be greeted as liberators (I believe it was Wolfowitz), here's McCain "remembering" that we supposedly WERE greeted as liberators in Iraq. No wonder we keep getting into these wars! Don't you dare, McCain-ites, don't you dare try to spin this into truth! Also, McCain says Obama has "a pretty good timetable" on Friday, then denies he used the word "timetable" on Sunday. What's happening here?
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POPSMcCain: I Know How to Capture Bin Laden Really, well then, lets go John, let's get that bastard! You did tell the Preznit how to do it, right? And SOCOM and Central Command. I mean I am sure they would want to know, or are you keeping them out of the loop John?
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POPSObama's Supreme U-Turns The Supreme Court also looked at a Louisiana law extending the death penalty to the rape of a child. In another 5-to-4 decision, the Court ruled the Constitution doesn’t permit capital punishment for raping a child. The majority opinion argued the death penalty for that crime “poses risks of over-punishment.” Senator Obama criticized the decision: “I think that the rape of a small child, 6 or 8 years old, is a heinous crime and if a state makes a decision that under narrow, limited, well-defined circumstances the death penalty is at least potentially applicable, that that does not violate our Constitution.” Like many Americans, I agree with that. The problem is that Justices Ginsburg, Breyer and Souter don’t. All of them voted to overturn the death penalty for child rapists.
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POPSU.S. Ambassador Cites Positive Changes In Iraq
The enemy may be pushing back, the Iraqi government’s response displays intolerance for these acts and a determination to reclaim their neighborhoods from the perpetrators, the ambassador said. Leadership response to a June 24 attack in Sadr City aimed at district council members is a prime example. On June 26, the council reconvened to hold the election that had been scheduled for the day of the attack and elected one of the members who had been wounded as its new chairman. It then denounced the attackers, publicly thanked the United States for its support, and extended sympathy to those affected by the attack, Crocker said. “We’ve got more hard work in front of us,” he said. “The fighting is by no means over, but clearly we are in a different and better place than we were even six months ago.” Though work remains to be completed in Iraq, Crocker said, he is certain the climate is in place for Iraqis to build their country on all fronts -- security, political and economic.
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POPSMcClellan Would Be 'Glad To' Testify Don't get too excited, there's this : Think Progress reported this afternoon that White House spokesperson Dana Perino told reporters Friday during a press conference that the White House could possibly stop McClellan from testifying before Congress...
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POPSClinton, Obama Debate Focused On Issues Did anyone else watch the 2nd half of the LA debates in the Kodak theatre? I was so impressed with Hillary! And it really drove home how much I DO NOT like Wolf Blitzer. He is short (sorry short people, I'm being sarcastic), he seems to have a particular disdain for some women and he is overbearing and obnoxious. You were booed several times by the crowd and you deserved it Wolf!
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POPSRomney: It's not torture unless you admit it Mitt Romney apparently has not strength of character. He insists that if the president says a particular interrogation is not torture, then it is NOT torture, no matter what international law might stipulate. He uses the Jack Bauer theory of necessary torture, which indicates to me that as president he will be spending much too much time watching TV instead of governing the country. Perhaps he can make Keifer Sutherland the Director of Homeland Security.
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POPSBhutto sent Blitzer Security Email Only to be released if she was killed. Bhutto wasn't worried about al Qaeda. She could feel Musharraf breathing down her neck. I'm sure Musharraf resigned as leader of the army only after he was confident that he could win the election. A thorn by any other name is still a thorn. Bhutto was an unpredictable complication. BUT. They knew who committed the crime before it was committed. Ironic that she was on Stage. The more I see the actions of the 'leaders' today the more I'm reminded of Lady Macbeth. "Out Damned Spot" she wailed as she tried to wash the blood off her hands. The blood will never be washed off. The halls of power are becoming Stately mausoleums. "Whitewashed Tombs"
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POPS Voters Still Looking For A Candidate “A big chunk of Perot voters are 'unlikely voters.’ That is, they're so alienated from politics as usual that it takes an unusual candidate to get them to vote. If those 'unlikely voters' are going anywhere this cycle, it's to Ron Paul, because he has such a distinct message,” said Micah L. Sifry, who edited the Perot Periodical in the 1990s and is the author of “Spoiling for a Fight: Third-Party Politics in America.” Paul, who has posted surprisingly strong fundraising totals in recent months, has not ruled out a third-party run if he is not the GOP nominee. Dobbs has denied he’s running, and another independent mulling a bid, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, appeals to a different group of independents with his background in international finance and his firmly pro-immigration stance.
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POPSSpeaking Truth No matter what you thought of Carter as president, as a man he at least has the moral courage to say the truth. The same cam't be said of the whimpering little stooge in the White House now.
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POPSThe Price of War A statistic you don't see much is the cost to the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have been killed in this fiasco.
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POPSNuts to Bohener At some point, serious conservatives and Republicans of Conscience have to admit that their leaders are no longer representative of their interests or responsive to their needs.
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POPSIn Response to Michael Moore v Wolf Blitzer If you ever wanted to know "how stupid do you have to be to..." here's an example. Yeah, of COURSE Wolf Blitzer is gonna make himself look like a total ass on National TV in order to sell more copies of Michael Moore's "Sicko."