Hillary's Heads-Up on Terror

post from Connecting.the.Dots on 24 August 2007 11:04:00 AM. © Connecting.the.Dots

With a commanding lead for the Democratic nomination, candidate Clinton is looking ahead for land mines on her road to the White House next fall.

That would explain her out-of-the-blue comment in New Hampshire today about how a terrorist attack would boost Republican chances. She has good reason to worry.

If one 9/11 made it possible for Bush to take us into the wrong war and start chipping away at our civil liberties, what could another do? Even without one, Rudy Giuliani is playing strong man to lead the Republican field, and Fred Thompson will be along any day now to offer his country vanilla version of incipient Fascism.

Sen. Clinton?s attempt to preempt that won?t help much.

"It's a horrible prospect,? she said, ?to ask yourself, 'What if? What if?' But if certain things happen between now and the election, particularly with respect to terrorism, that will automatically give the Republicans an advantage again, no matter how badly they have mishandled it, no matter how much more dangerous they have made the world."

Not a comforting thought for the start of a late-summer weekend, but that?s the world we live in now.

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Mikes Blog Round Up

post from Crooks and Liars on 24 August 2007 11:00:41 AM. © Crooks and Liars

John Marshall blogs on Militarism and Anti-Democracy…coming to a country near you! And in related news, George W Bush hitches his wagon to revisionist dreams of Vietnam? Um, Driftglass offers him a refresher course in reality.The White House decides that the Office of Administration is exempt from FOIA, since they might just [...]

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Local Big Shot Republican Leader and Ally
Abandons John Doolittle

post from Dump Doolittle on 24 August 2007 11:00:00 AM. © Dump Doolittle

And, another GOP leader jumps the SS Doolittle:

Former Placer County Republican Party chairman Ken Campbell, a longtime financial backer of Rep. John Doolittle, said Friday that he is withdrawing his support of the nine-term Roseville Republican because he has betrayed his conservative roots.
Campbell based his conclusion on a recent Club for Growth report on votes this year on 2008 spending bills to eliminate "wasteful pork projects." Doolittle scored just 2 percent, the average score for Democrats and well under the Republican average of 43 percent.
Campbell has been a longtime supporter of Doolittle, with about $10,000 in political contributions to his reelection in the last decade. The most recent contribution was $400 in May.
But in what could be a huge blow for Doolittle, Campbell said the Club for Growth report shatters his chance for reelection next year, even if he can overcome all of the questions surrounding the federal investigation into his relationship with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
"I think when this conservative district sees how John spends their money, I think John doesn't have a chance," Campbell said.

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Local Big Shot Republican Leader Abandons John
Doolittle

post from Dump Doolittle on 24 August 2007 11:00:00 AM. © Dump Doolittle

And, another GOP leader jumps the SS Doolittle:

Former Placer County Republican Party chairman Ken Campbell, a longtime financial backer of Rep. John Doolittle, said Friday that he is withdrawing his support of the nine-term Roseville Republican because he has betrayed his conservative roots.
Campbell based his conclusion on a recent Club for Growth report on votes this year on 2008 spending bills to eliminate "wasteful pork projects." Doolittle scored just 2 percent, the average score for Democrats and well under the Republican average of 43 percent.
Campbell has been a longtime supporter of Doolittle, with about $10,000 in political contributions to his reelection in the last decade. The most recent contribution was $400 in May.
But in what could be a huge blow for Doolittle, Campbell said the Club for Growth report shatters his chance for reelection next year, even if he can overcome all of the questions surrounding the federal investigation into his relationship with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
"I think when this conservative district sees how John spends their money, I think John doesn't have a chance," Campbell said.

Added: Via FlashReport, Ken Campbell's full statement.

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A Post-Bush World

post from Open Left - Front Page on 24 August 2007 11:00:00 AM. © Open Left - Front Page

Norm Coleman is scurrying away from George Bush in Minnesota, but one of the spokespeople for the[...]

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Major news media cowardly ignores the past

post from African American Opinion on 24 August 2007 10:56:00 AM. © African American Opinion

Excerpt from Black Entertainment USA

What an interesting day so far. There is a lot of news on the floods in the mid-West, Michael Vick?s admission of holding dogfighting at his property (though he won?t admit he gambled on the outcome or gruesomely killed dogs that lost), the 82 minutes that Nicole Ritchie spent in jail (real punishment there), and the minor charges placed against Lindsey Lohan (6 felony drug charges were dropped ? you can bet neither you or I would get off that easy in the same position). A lot of news indeed, yet a rather large miscarriage of justice has gone unspoken.

Have you heard anything about James Ford Seale? No idea who he is? No idea what I?m alluding to? Perhaps you heard about a murder of 2 Black teenagers in Mississippi in 1964. The case went ?unsolved? for over 40 years, and I say ?unsolved? because local authorities knew exactly who did it as I understand.

In May 1964, the 2 men were abducted their bodies found 2 months later in the Mississippi River. James Seale was arrested for the murders and the charges were dropped. The case went cold and nothing was done about it for decades. Why? Because Seale was part of the Ku Klux Klan (allegdedly), and so were the local police and law enforcement officers. They just let him get away with murder.

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More Thoughts On The President's Comparing Iraq
To Vietnam -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser

post from BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash on 24 August 2007 10:51:51 AM. © BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash

I just love hearing Bush denote people
Who did become known as boat people

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The Daily Muck

Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ), following months of battling scandal that has prompted an FBI investigation, has decided not to seek reelection. Here are all of Renzi's highlights. (Arizona Star) U.S. House...

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Boost

No, it doesn't actually make any sense, and while it never made any sense there perhaps was a time when it would have been true. Not anymore.

Throw in some change for better Democrats.

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Toll Bridge To Democracy -- Editorial Cartoon by
Kirk Anderson

post from BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash on 24 August 2007 10:45:29 AM. © BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash

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