Tag: Obama
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bush’s bankster bailout bullshit (& more)
from ap: President Bush on Wednesday warned Americans and lawmakers reluctant to pass a historic financial rescue plan that failing to act fast risks wiping out retirement savings, rising foreclosures, lost jobs, closed business and ‘a long and painful recession.’ He spoke just after inviting Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, one of whom…
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9/11 + 7: playing politics
rnc features ominous 9/11 ‘tribute’from raw replay: The three-minute video, which featured graphic, disturbing images of a plane flying into the World Trade Center and the Twin Towers’ collapse, attempts to conflate all of America’s struggles in the Middle East into a singular crusade against a uniform enemy. “The first attack occurred in Iran,” the…
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selection ’08: obama/biden herd the sheep
dems endorse ‘global war on terror’; obama ‘goes after’ osamafrom michel chossudovsky: Obama’s “American Promise” is War. Barack Obama has embraced the “Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT). The Obama-Biden campaign has endorsed the very foundations of the Bush administration’s foreign policy agenda: “Go after Osama bin Laden, take him out”. The rhetoric is softer but…
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obama: america, get ready for wars
from russia today: Barack Obama has fired a stern warning to Russia as he accepted the Democratic Presidential nomination and officially launched his campaign for the White House.
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mccain/palin ’08: and the crowd goes… huh?
alaskan governor sarah palin chosen by mccain as vpfrom wikinews: Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has been selected by United States Presidential candidate John McCain as his vice-presidential running-mate… News agencies began reporting Palin as the selection about an hour earlier, citing sources within the McCain campaign. In introducing Palin, McCain said, “I have found the…
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selection ’08: obamessiah & the dnc charade/parade
satire: portrayal of obama as elitist hailed as step forward for african americans* not satire: barack obama not a US citizen*84k+ pack invesco to hear obama’s speech*obama’s speech by numbers*obama’s risky stadium gig*mccain ‘conservatives’ attempt to paint obama as marxist bombthrower*sleepwalker mccain: will lock up pot smokers but regularly uses powerful sleeping pills*in denver, police…
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denver police investigate plot to kill obama at dnc
from wcco: CBS station KCNC-TV in Denver has learned at least four people are under arrest in connection with a possible plot to kill Barack Obama at his Thursday night acceptance speech in Denver. All are being held on either drug or weapons charges. KCNC-TV Investigator Brian Maass reported one of the suspects told authorities…
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obama/biden ’08: and the crowd goes… meh
obama selects joseph biden as his running matefrom thinkprogress: CNN’s John King is reporting that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) has selected Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) as his running mate. King said the Obama campaign will officially reveal the selection in a text message to over three million people soon. Obama is scheduled to appear with…
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selection ’08: mccain’s evacuation, nader says hillary will be obama’s vp & states abandoning touch screen voting
mccain offices evacuated over suspicious letters from washington times: Two of Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign offices were evacuated Thursday after receiving suspicious letters, one of which contained an unidentified white powder. A government official said a letter sent to the office of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee near Denver contained powder, but was being…
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key clinton ally killed at arkansas dem hq
is the death of an arkansas democratic party chairman part of an obama body count?from webster tarpley: Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney fell victim to what was evidently a political assassination. Gwatney was a major ally of Hillary and Bill Clinton, and was a leader of the strongly pro-Clinton Arkansas delegation to the upcoming…
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man held on charge of threating to kill obama
from ap: A man is being held in Florida by federal authorities on charges of threatening to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Raymond Hunter Geisel was ordered held without bail Thursday at a brief court hearing. The Secret Service says Geisel made the threat during a training class for bail bondsmen in Miami in…
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july clearinghouse
‘this is the fbi’: US agency marks 100th birthday*the real power behind the throne-to-be*video: media hails obama’s speech as call for ‘new world order’*attending physician says jimi hendrix was waterboarded to death with red wine*kucinich testifies at executive power hearing*southern governors to meet in west virginia in august*tased until dead: the epidemic of taser crazy…
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nader says obama supporters are in ‘political slavery’
from raw story: During a Sunday press conference and campaign rally attended by RAW STORY, Independent Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader claimed that liberals and Democrats who will vote for Sen. Barack Obama as the “least worst candidate” are actually trapped in “political slavery.” At the campaign stop in Austin, Texas, Nader spoke to an audience…

