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Obama is Smokin' — Last August, I ran into Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, outside the Senate chamber in the Capitol. — This was before the Obama surge, before he had omnipresent Secret Service agents, back when you might see him strolling solo. — We chatted for a second …
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Obama's $40 Million Haul (And What It Means) — UPDATE — 4:15 p.m.: A Clinton campaign source just confirmed to The Fix that the New York Senator collected $20 million in the month of March, roughly half the total amount collected by Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) over the same time frame.
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STATEMENT OF AIR AMERICA RADIO, FROM CHAIR CHARLIE KIREKER — New York - Air America has suspended on-air host Randi Rhodes for making inappropriate statements about prominent figures, including Senator Hillary Clinton, at a recent public appearance on behalf of Air America in San Francisco …
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Air America Host Randi Rhodes Suspended For Calling Hillary A “Big F*cking Whore” — Air America host Randi Rhodes called both Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton “whores” in a recent appearance, seen below. Rhodes, who hosts a weekday radio show on Air America, said to the cheering crowd, “What a whore Geraldine Ferraro is!
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Randi Rhodes Suspended After Calling Hillary ‘Big F***ing Whore’ — WHORE-ABLE INSULTS — Unhinged Rhodes Stand-Up Routine Results In Suspension — *** BREAKING NEWS - MORE NEW DETAILS BELOW *** — An unhinged tirade by Air America Radio host Randi Rhodes has led to an unprecedented suspension …
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GOP under fire from everywhere after 9/11 comments — WASHINGTON - The California congressman who called the Sept. 11 attacks “simply” a plane crash ran for cover Wednesday under a barrage of ridicule from fellow Republicans, first responders and victims' families.
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DownWithTyranny!, Calitics, Blue Girl, Red State, Think Progress, At-Largely and CWA-NJ Conservatives …
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Clinton backers: She must win popular vote — (CNN) — Two prominent supporters of Hillary Clinton suggested Thursday the New York senator needs to best rival Barack Obama in the total popular vote to have any chance at winning her party's presidential nomination.
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Al Qaeda #2: We'll Attack Iran — Recently, Senator John McCain has repeatedly indicated that Iran and al-Qaeda are in cahoots. The terror group's number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, would beg to differ. In a long-promised online Q&A session, Zawahiri says it would be “in the interest” …
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Shocker — Republican Pundits Now Prefer Clinton! — Noam links to an interview with Karl Rove, and notes that “Rove is pretty down on Obama, and actually somewhat sympathetic to Hillary. Though he doesn't explicitly say why.” Gee, could it be that Obama is going to be the Democratic nominee, and Clinton isn't?
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John Edwards says would not accept VP nomination — LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said on Thursday he would not accept the nomination for U.S. vice president as he did four years ago. — Edwards, a former senator from North Carolina …
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Ted Turner: Global warming could lead to cannibalism — Billionaire environmentalist says world has too many people — Failure to address global warming will have us all dead or eating each other by mid-century. — So says Ted Turner, the restaurateur, environmentalist …
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‘NY Times’ Scribe Withholds Byline on Page One Story — Then OKs It — NEW YORK If you saw Barry Bearak's Page One story in The New York Times about Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe online late Tuesday or in some early Wednesday print editions, you might not have known he wrote it.
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FIRST THOUGHTS: TWO DIFFERENT MAPS — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro — *** Two different maps: On TODAY and Morning Joe, NBC's Tim Russert took at a stab at November's electoral map. And this morning, we do the same, to show how different Clinton's and Obama's paths to 270 are.
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The Patriotism Problem — When he was really rolling in February, Barack Obama would close every speech with a peroration about the importance of hope. The setup always seemed a bit defensive to me — an attack on the pundits and party elders who thought he was too idealistic, a “hopemonger” …
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Muslims Leaving Islam in Droves — Pope Benedict's choice to publicly baptize the most prominent Muslim in Italy, Egyptian-born Magdi Allam, highlights a quiet worldwide exodus from Islam. In recent years, millions have moved on. With this high-profile action, Pope Benedict demonstratively blesses …
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McCain rejects Secret Service protection — Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) may be the presumptive GOP nominee for president, but, by his own wishes, he is not being protected by the Secret Service. — “He has not requested protection,” Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan told a congressional subcommittee this morning.
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British Muslims ‘planned to kill thousands by bombing SEVEN transatlantic airliners in one go’ — A British terror gang plotted to use liquid explosives to blow up transatlantic passenger jets in mid-flight, a court heard today. — Eight men planned to smuggle bombs disguised as soft drinks …