Bill Jefferson @ February 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Hillary Rodham Clinton will get her last, best chance Tuesday night to slow Barack Obama before the March 4 primaries in the latest debate of an increasingly contentious Democratic presidential race.
Obama has won 11 straight primaries and caucuses, and even some of Clinton’s supporters concede she must win in both Ohio and Texas next week […]
Bill Jefferson @ February 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Sen. John McCain tried again today to clarify earlier comments that it would be fine with him if U.S. troops remain in Iraq for 100 years or more, and he suggested that his own political fate is tied to success in Iraq.
At a town hall meeting in this Cleveland suburb, he again compared a long-term […]
Bill Jefferson @ February 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign told federal regulators Monday that he does not need their approval to withdraw from the public finance system for the primaries.The campaign, in a letter to Federal Election Commission Chairman David Mason, also said McCain did not encumber his potential share of public matching funds as collateral for a crucial […]
Bill Jefferson @ February 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Top Army officials told a Senate panel on Tuesday that the Army is under serious strain and must reduce the length of combat tours as soon as possible.”The cumulative effects of the last six-plus years at war have left our Army out of balance, consumed by the current fight and unable to do the things […]
Bill Jefferson @ February 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Senator Christopher J. Dodd, a leading Democrat and an early candidate for the party’s presidential nomination, announced Tuesday that he was endorsing Senator Barack Obama.
[via The New York Times]
Bill Jefferson @ February 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
“Most significantly, both men came along at exactly the right time. Carter’s peanut-farmer-from-Plains simplicity and his oft-repeated promise that he “will never lie to you” were powerful political weapons after Nixon and his wiretapping, his plumbers and his pardon from Ford. And Obama’s message of hope—and his own life story—resonates with an electorate that, after […]
Bill Jefferson @ February 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Battered by bad economic news, consumer confidence plunged while wholesale food, energy and medicine costs soared, pushing inflation up at the fastest pace in a quarter century.The Labor Department said Tuesday that wholesale inflation jumped by 1 percent in January, more than double the increase that analysts had been expecting.
Meanwhile, the New York-based Conference Board […]
Bill Jefferson @ February 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Republican John McCain quickly denounced the comments of a radio talk show host who while warming up a campaign crowd referred repeatedly to Barack Hussein Obama and called the Democratic presidential candidate a “hack, Chicago-style” politician.
Hussein is Obama’s middle name, but talk show host Bill Cunningham used it three times as he addressed the crowd […]
Bill Jefferson @ February 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Gen. George Casey, the Army’s chief of staff, said Tuesday he has no reason to doubt Barack Obama’s recent account by an Army captain that a rifle platoon in Afghanistan didn’t have enough soldiers or weapons.But he questioned the assertion that the shortages prevented the troops from doing their job.
Testifying before the Senate Armed Services […]
Bill Jefferson @ February 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
House Democrats and Republicans sparred Tuesday over elections — not who wins and loses, but who gets to vote, and how.With a week to go before a new round of critical presidential primaries, the hearing in Congress showed just how much lingering suspicion remains among Democrats over the last two presidential elections.
Democrats on the subcommittee […]