29 February 2008

News and Comments - 02/29/08

Posted by Joy Bischoff under: What's News .


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Cameron Says:

29 February 2008 at 6:03 am.

McCain is on shaky ground but we never heard about it till it was too late. Go figure!

Democrat crafts bill intended to assure McCain’s citizenship
By David Goldstein | McClatchy Newspapers

* Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2008

WASHINGTON — Sen. Claire McCaskill might be pitching for Team Obama in the presidential campaign, but she went to bat Thursday for its potential rival.

The Missouri Democrat went to the Senate floor to try to remove any cloud of constitutional doubt that Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the likely Republican nominee, is eligible to serve as the president of United States.

Some kind of strange stunt to boost Sen. Barack Obama?

McCaskill is, after all, one of his strongest and most ubiquitous backers. You can’t turn on a cable political show and not find her. And if the Illinois Democrat wins his party’s nomination, he’d probably face McCain in the fall campaign. . .

Susan Low Bloch, who teaches constitutional law at the Georgetown University Law Center, said she wasn’t sure that McCain even had a problem.

But if he did, “then I don’t think you can just fix the problem by anything short of amending the Constitution,” she said.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/election2008/story/28994.html

Mac Says:

29 February 2008 at 9:34 am.

I just saw a news clip from CNN showing McCain making a slip of the tongue. He said he was a real conservative liberal republican. Then he corrected himself but it was sure funny.

Cameron Says:

29 February 2008 at 9:46 am.

I saw that Mac, It was funny.
Here’s a piece about Hillary who once again flip-flops about the war. She’s been all over the board on this issue:

Hillary: “We’ve Got Two Wars. We’ve Got To End One, We’ve Got To Win The Other.” [Byron York]

Hillary Clinton put her views of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in pretty stark perspective during an appearance in Belpre, Ohio Wednesday night:

We’re going to inherit so many challenges from President Bush. When you think about it, we have two wars, not one. We don’t talk about Afghanistan enough. We’ve got two wars. We’ve got to end one, we’ve got to win the other.

Why not try to win both? There’s simply no military solution in Iraq, she said. But when it came to Afghanistan, she sounded tougher than anybody:

We have a war against al Qaeda and the Taliban who attacked us. And the masterminds of that attack are still at large. And we’re not winning, and I don’t think we can let that situation continue. We have to put our best resources in against those who attacked the United States. No one can attack us with impunity. They have to be brought to justice, and that means wiping them out, because until we do, we will remain at risk.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NTBhYzNiNDVhZTYxZmNlZDIzMjhmYjQ5MDUwZWFlYzI=

Mac Says:

29 February 2008 at 9:48 am.

Yeah this is a major issue to me. I have lots of friends and relatives in the military so this hits close. I can’t stand the thought that all those sacrifices get wiped out by defeat.

Angela Rogin Says:

29 February 2008 at 9:53 am.

I don’t think we are going to pull out of Iraq. I don’t even think Hillary really wants to. In my opinion she is only saying that now to try and look more liberal and win back some supporters from Obama.

Cameron Says:

29 February 2008 at 9:56 am.

I agree with you Angela. She will do what the establishment wants since she is part of it.

Cameron Says:

29 February 2008 at 10:08 am.

TRIBES RAGE AT HILL
KENYAN BIGS: COME CLEAN IN PIX SMEAR
By GEOFF EARLE Post Correspondent
DISS-ROBED Kenyan elders are demanding an apology from the United States for the controversy surrounding this photo of Barack Obama’s visit to their country.

February 29, 2008 — WASHINGTON - Angry tribal elders in Kenya are calling on Hillary Rodham Clinton to “clear her name” over any involvement in publication of photos of Barack Obama wearing a turban and African garb on a trip to his ancestral homeland.

The leaders are planning a protest in their community today, and are turning up the heat on the US government over the incident.

The photos appeared nationwide after they were published earlier this week on the Drudge Report Web site with a report that they had been circulated by Clinton staffers.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/02292008/news/nationalnews/tribes_rage_at_hill_99817.htm

Jesse Says:

29 February 2008 at 12:04 pm.

It amazes me how much attention the world pays to everything that happens here in the US.

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