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Friday, September 14 2007, 03:14 PM Obama: Democrats don't have Iraq votes Despite the Iraq war's unpopularity, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Thursday that Congress lacks the votes to force a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops and will focus instead on putting a ceiling on the number deployed. 84 News Stories, 23 Liberal Blogs, 9 Conservative Blogs Post A Comment
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The Carpetbagger Report Wait For The Transcript Yesterday, Barack Obama explained what he wants Congress to do with the next appropriations bill for Iraq. The AP offered a short summary and a two-sentence quote. Despite the Iraq war’s unpopularity, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama s
The Broad View Wes Clark Endorses Hillary Just as his new book, A Time to Lead, is hitting the bookstores, and a day after he told the Associated Press that he 'remains willing to run for office or serve as a political appointee,' Wes Clark has endorsed Hillary Clinton in her presidential bid.
MyDD Hillary Clinton's Unlikely Support Among Anti-war Democrats In The LA Times' analysis of their early state poll from earlier this week, they explored their findings that not only do Democrats at large in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina feel Hillary Clinton is the candidate most likely to end the war in Iraq
Harper's Magazine Ken Silverstein?giuliani Advisor: Raze Palestinian Villages On September 11, staffers for Barack Obama had a campaign ad taken down that had appeared as a ?sponsored link? on Amazon.com?s web page for The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, the controversial new book by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. Obama?s
Sentencing Law and Policy Lawyer-presidents And Future Sentencing Reforms Over at Law School Innovation, Anupam Chander has this new post highlighting that "the three leading candidates for President in both parties are all lawyers."  (This recent USA Today article covers similar ground.)  Of course, this f
The Carpetbagger Report The Wit And Wisdom Of Rudy Giuliani I watched the president’s White House address on Iraq online, in part so I wouldn’t have to endure the talking heads’ analysis, but apparently, as soon as the speech ended, CNN’s Larry King got reactions from Barack Obama, Rudy Giu
The Carpetbagger Report The Wit And Wisdom Of Rudy Giuliani I watched the president’s White House address on Iraq online, in part so I wouldn’t have to endure the talking heads’ analysis, but apparently, as soon as the speech ended, CNN’s Larry King got reactions from Barack Obama, Rudy Giu
feminist blogs Edwards Challenges Democratic Congress To End The Bloody War! In his rebuttal to the broken record in the oval office, John Edwards challenged the ever-spineless and cowardly Democrats to put a stop to Bush's illegal and immoral war.John Edwards' response to Stay-the-Course Bushie:Our troops are stuck between a pres
legitgov Edwards Blames Bush, Congress On War Democratic presidential candidate takes out ad after Bush speech. White House candidate John Edwards criticized President [sic] Bush in a televised response Thursday for failing to pull out of Iraq, but also spread some of the blame to the Democratic-led
Finding God in a Dog The Democratic Horse Race It's a little over three short months to the first caucuses. How are the candidates doing?Clinton is still has the dominant position according to every scientific poll out there. The fact that she's made a lot of the right noises on Iraq means that she mi
Easter Lemming Liberal News The Israel Lobby Flexes Its Muscles, Obama Gives A Massage Attacks on professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt have continued to proliferate over their book and essay. They express dismay that America has tilted too far in favor of Israel under the influence of a coalition of hawkish pro-Israeli groups and in
News Hounds Unbalanced Hannity & Colmes Analysis Of Bush Speech: Three Republicans, One Democrat. FOX News bias was blatantly on display during Hannity & Colmes? discussions of President Bush?s speech last night (9/13/07). The guest roster was grossly unbalanced. Three Republicans, one Democrat. But even with that lopsided line-up, the FOX News produ
News Hounds On Fox News, It's Ok For An Admiral To Call Petraeus An ?ass-kissing Little Chickensh**? But When Clinton Or Moveon Criticizes Him, They Hate The Military FOX News? panties are still in a twist over MoveOn.org. Besides the fact that MoveOn's latest ad criticizing General Petraeus gives the 'real journalism' network a convenient distraction from talking about the real war in Iraq, let?s not forget that FOX
Pensito Review Romney Blunders With Obama Jab Unaltered image from the Mitt Romney campaign web site page, “Defeating the Jihadists” New entry to the Mitt Romney is Possibly Even Less Intelligent than the Current Occupant file: Romney, in his mindless rhetoric, again misused a word that
Salon "in The Valley Of Elah" The first in a rush of fall films that deal with the Iraq war raises a tough question: Is it too soon to make sense of a war we're still fighting?
The Carpetbagger Report Who Should America Listen To? Rudy Giuliani probably deserves credit for his shameless cynicism. Most presidential hopefuls would probably have the sense to stay away from nonsense like this, but not the former NYC mayor. Rudy Giuliani has responded to MoveOn’s ad against Genera
The Carpetbagger Report Who Should America Listen To? Rudy Giuliani probably deserves credit for his shameless cynicism. Most presidential hopefuls would probably have the sense to stay away from nonsense like this, but not the former NYC mayor. Rudy Giuliani has responded to MoveOn’s ad against Genera
On The Media Attack Ads (on The Media: Friday, 14 September 2007) Stories this week about the Iraq War policy debate sat next to others about the anniversary of September 11th. A more deliberate attempt to link the anniversary and the war came in a series of TV spots from the conservative group Freedom?s Watch. Foundi
The Broad View I've Resigned From Moveon They asked me why. I tried to keep it simple. Here's what I said: I'm as anti-the Iraq War as you are. But I loathed the Times ad. Yes, MoveOn got a lot of attention. But so does a guy at a party who gets drunk and drops trou.
Stageleft:. Life on the [lower] left side Is He Stupid, Or Lying - You Decide Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson gave no opinion Thursday when asked about efforts by President Bush and Congress to keep Terri Schiavo alive, saying he does not remember details of the right-to-die case that stirred national debate.
the mindful mission Thoughts From Wallis The Global Church and America's War:But let's turn from politics to theology and ecclesiology. The vitriol against Christian Iraq war dissenters from the handful of neocon war promoters who regularly clog the comments to this site forget both. Both the te
On The Media Offense Taken (on The Media: Friday, 14 September 2007) This week brought the long-awaited congressional testimony from General David Patraeus. Subsequent chatter centered on Iraq War policy, but a sub-narrative emerged in the media: should Democrats condemn a MoveOn.org advertisement? MoveOn's Tom Mattzie de
On The Media September 14, 2007 (on The Media: Friday, 14 September 2007) Show Summary: The image war over the War in Iraq, the British withdrawal from Basra Palace and pop-cultural allusions to Gitmo
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