Category: ‘Politics’
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
The New Yorker's July 21, 2008 cover illustration by Barry Blitt.
Controversy surrounds a cartoon on the cover of the latest issue of The New Yorker magazine, which portrays United States Presidential contender Barack Obama and his wife Michelle as terrorists.
In the cartoon, Obama dons a robe and turban, while Michelle ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
nyTimes: WASHINGTON — The Senate gave final approval on Wednesday to a major expansion of the government’s surveillance powers, handing President Bush one more victory in a series of hard-fought clashes with Democrats over national security issues.
The measure, approved by a vote of 69 to 28, is the biggest revamping ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
guardian.co.uk: Barack Obama should not pick Hillary Clinton as his vice-presidential nominee, former president Jimmy Carter has told the Guardian.
"I think it would be the worst mistake that could be made," said Carter. "That would just accumulate the negative aspects of both candidates."
Carter, who formally endorsed the Illinois senator last ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
yahoo news: WASHINGTON - The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday subpoenaed President Bush's former chief political adviser, Karl Rove, to testify about whether the White House improperly meddled with the Justice Department.
Accusations of politics influencing decisions at the department led to the resignation last year of Bush's attorney general, Alberto ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The House of Representatives voted to direct the Bush administration to stop filling the strategic petroleum reserve temporarily in an effort to alleviate increasing gas prices.
Both the House and Senate, which voted earlier Tuesday, exceeded the two-thirds vote required to override the president's expected veto: The House ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
rolling stone: . . . Seldom in American politics has the same side of a single party split into such distinct and acrimonious factions. As virtually identical as the two candidates are in their political positions, there is no longer any common cause left between Hillary lovers and Obama supporters. ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
yahoo news: WASHINGTON - Cindy McCain says she will never make her tax returns public even if her husband wins the White House and she becomes the first lady.
"You know, my husband and I have been married 28 years and we have filed separate tax returns for 28 years. This ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Tuesday, voters in Indiana and North Carolina of the United States cast their votes in the tightly contested presidential primaries of the Democratic Party.
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The Associated Press declared Barack Obama the winner in the North Carolina Democratic primary, based on exit-polling data, and CNN has also projected that Obama will ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
iht.com: Have Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's chances of winning the Democratic presidential nomination improved as Senator Barack Obama has struggled through his toughest month of this campaign?
After weeks in which her candidacy was seen by many party leaders as a long shot at best, Clinton's advisers argued strenuously on Thursday ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
United States presidential candidate Hillary Clinton warned Iran against an attack on Israel. "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran," the former First Lady said.
Clinton was speaking in an interview on ABC's Good Morning America television program.
"In the next 10 years, during ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
usa today: SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton kept up her attack Sunday on Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama who has been thrown on the defensive over his remarks about bitter voters in small towns which could hurt his chances in upcoming primaries.
Obama tried to quell the furor ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton leads Barack Obama by 6 points among likely Pennsylvania Democratic primary voters but he is chipping away at her lead, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Tuesday.
With two weeks to go until the state's April 22 primary, Clinton has a ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
the independent: The US commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, set himself on a collision course with the two Democratic contenders for the White House yesterday, asking for what amounted to an open-ended commitment to the war in Iraq. He warned that pulling out "too many troops too quickly" ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
chicago tribune: An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll taken this month found that former President Bill Clinton, the so-called first black president, is falling out of favor with African-Americans.
More of the poll's respondents view him negatively (45 percent) than positively (42 percent). Compare this to his ratings just last ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
the independent: With her back against the wall, Hillary Clinton has been accused of turning to the sort of smear tactics more commonly associated with Republicans, in an attempt to block her opponent Barack Obama from getting the Democratic nomination. Over the weekend her campaign allegedly circulated a photograph ...
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