6 March 2008
News and Comments - 03/06/08
Posted by Roy Bischoff under: What's News .
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Jesse Says:
6 March 2008 at 12:40 am.
Doesn’t look so good for Hillary.
March 5, 2008
Advisers for Clinton Plan the Endgame
By PATRICK HEALY
Advisers to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton today began plotting a ground game, advertising budgets and a confidence-brimming outreach strategy in hopes of both scoring a big victory in April’s Pennsylvania primary and accumulating enough superdelegates over time to even the nomination fight against Senator Barack Obama.
Mr. Obama, who had 11 straight primary and caucus victories in February, has enjoyed momentum lately in picking off superdelegates, the party leaders who have a vote in the nomination. Mrs. Clinton and her advisers now believe that with her victories in Texas and Ohio last night, she can convince superdelegates to stand with her after a Pennsylvania victory.
She also believes that a strong showing in Pennsylvania, which has 188 delegates at stake, could set up a powerful one-two punch two weeks later in the Indiana and North Carolina primaries, which have a combined 218 delegates. Her team believes she has an especially good shot at winning Indiana, where the state’s influential Democratic senator, Evan Bayh, a former two-term governor, was one of Mrs. Clinton’s earliest supporters.
Clinton advisers acknowledged on Wednesday that the delegate arithmetic still has them at a disadvantage; Mr. Obama has 1,456.5 delegates to Mrs. Clinton’s 1,370, and the upcoming primaries will award delegates proportionally to both the winner and the loser. That will have the effect making each candidate inch toward the 2,025 delegates needed for the nomination.
Cameron Says:
6 March 2008 at 8:51 am.
How’s this for a nightmare come true: Obama/Clinton. I could just see her playing second fiddle, NOT!
Superdelegates Ponder a Clinton/Obama Ticket
By Jonathan Allen, CQ Staff Thu Mar 6, 12:13 AM ET
A suggestion on television news programs Wednesday by Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York that she and Barack Obama of Illinois could join forces on a presidential ticket split House Democrats — all superdelegates — on whether that would be a dream or a nightmare.
“That would be the dream ticket,” said Rep. Sam Farr, a California Democrat who remains uncommitted.
“It’s hard to imagine a general election where one side is not part of the ticket,” said Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy, D-R.I., who has endorsed Obama. “We’ve got so many people so vested in both candidates that you have to find some way of vesting each candidate in the final endgame somehow.”
Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., said the pair would make “an attractive couple” atop the Democratic ticket. “I think Clinton-Obama sounds good,” he said.
But other Democrats say such a pairing is unlikely or unwise.
“I don’t think there will be an Obama-Clinton ticket,” said Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala. “Frankly, Sen. Clinton would not add anything to an Obama ticket.”
Davis said Clinton could not win the nomination without spilling “a lot of blood on the floor.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20080306/pl_cq_politics/politics2682167;_ylt=Ap3yJ6WGM472lOMLp0jJv5ayFz4D
Mac Says:
6 March 2008 at 10:49 am.
If they partner up that would be it. They would win easy.
Cameron Says:
6 March 2008 at 10:59 am.
Until reading Joy’s blog about what has happened to her, I would have thought this was great. I would have ignored the part about civil liberties as whiners. I still think it is a good idea in general but the bill of rights should have kept innocent citizens from being targeted. So we should have done this but not have changed the constitution to do it.
National Dragnet Is a Click Away
Authorities to Gain Fast and Expansive Access to Records
As federal authorities struggled to meet information-sharing mandates after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, police agencies from Alaska and California to the Washington region poured millions of criminal and investigative records into shared digital repositories called data warehouses, giving investigators and analysts new power to discern links among people, patterns of behavior and other hidden clues.
Those network efforts will begin expanding further this month, as some local and state agencies connect to a fledgling Justice Department system called the National Data Exchange, or N-DEx. Federal authorities hope N-DEx will become what one called a “one-stop shop” enabling federal law enforcement, counterterrorism and intelligence analysts to automatically examine the enormous caches of local and state records for the first time.
The expanding police systems illustrate the prominent roles that private companies play in homeland security and counterterrorism efforts. They also underscore how the use of new data — and data surveillance — technology to fight crime and terrorism is evolving faster than the public’s understanding or the laws intended to check government power and protect civil liberties, authorities said.
Three decades ago, Congress imposed limits on domestic intelligence activity after revelations that the FBI, Army, local police and others had misused their authority for years to build troves of personal dossiers and monitor political activists and other law-abiding Americans.
Since those reforms, police and federal authorities have observed a wall between law enforcement information-gathering, relating to crimes and prosecutions, and more open-ended intelligence that relates to national security and counterterrorism. That wall is fast eroding following the passage of laws expanding surveillance authorities, the push for information-sharing networks, and the expectation that local and state police will play larger roles as national security sentinels.
M.G. Says:
6 March 2008 at 11:22 am.
Cameron, you are right. This is a perfect companion piece with Joy’s blog above. Good job.
E.E. Says:
6 March 2008 at 11:36 am.
Good find, Cameron. Great article. You do a good job around here.
Carrie Says:
6 March 2008 at 12:14 pm.
Chavez has just ordered ten battalions to the Columbian border. The guy is crazy. And he is mad that the Columbians found out he is supporting FARC. I just heard this on the radio.
Cameron Says:
6 March 2008 at 12:48 pm.
Even in Victory, Clinton Team Is Battling Itself
With a flurry of phone calls and e-mail messages that began before polls closed, campaign officials made clear to friends, colleagues and reporters that they did not view the wins as validation for the candidate’s chief strategist. “A lot of people would still like to see him go,” a senior adviser said.
The depth of hostility toward Penn even in a time of triumph illustrates the combustible environment within the Clinton campaign, an operation where internal strife and warring camps have undercut a candidate once seemingly destined for the Democratic nomination. Clinton now faces the challenge of exploiting this moment of opportunity while at the same time deciding whether the squabbling at her Arlington headquarters has become a distraction that requires her intervention.
Many of her advisers are waging a two-front war, one against Sen. Barack Obama and the second against one another, but their most pressing challenge is figuring out why Clinton won in Ohio and Texas and trying to duplicate it. While Penn sees his strategy as a reason for the victories that have kept her candidacy alive, other advisers attribute the wins to her perseverance, favorable demographics and a new campaign manager. Clinton won “despite us, not because of us,” one said.
Matt Says:
6 March 2008 at 3:30 pm.
Okay what’s going on out there? One.
NEW YORK (AP) - A small bomb caused minor damage to an empty military recruiting station in Times Square early Thursday, shaking guests in hotel rooms high above “the crossroads of the world.”
The blast, which happened around 3:45 a.m., left a gaping hole in the front window and shattered a glass door, twisting and blackening its metal frame. No one was hurt. But Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the device, though unsophisticated, could have caused “injury and even death.”
A witness saw a person on a bicycle wearing a backpack and a hood and acting suspiciously, but no one saw the device being placed in front of the recruiting center, authorities said at a news conference.
“If it is something that’s directed toward American troops then it’s something that’s taken very seriously and is pretty unfortunate,” said Army Capt. Charlie Jaquillard, who is the commander of Army recruiting in Manhattan.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8V81SOO1&show_article=1
Matt Says:
6 March 2008 at 3:33 pm.
Two
Eight people were confirmed dead in a terror attack at Merkaz Harav Yeshiva, near the entrance to Jerusalem on Thursday evening. The attack was reportedly perpetrated by a resident of Jabel Mukaber in east Jerusalem.
Rescue workers evacuate wounded from the scene of Thursday’s terror attack in Merkaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem.
Magen David Adom have confirmed 10 wounded civilians, including three seriously. One terrorist was said to have been killed by a student.
Witnesses said that only one terrorist had entered the building and that he managed to fire 500-600 bullets over the course of 4-10 minutes before he was killed.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1204546422275&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Matt Says:
6 March 2008 at 3:36 pm.
Three
BAGHDAD - Two bombs went off within minutes of each other in a crowded shopping district in the capital Thursday, killing at least 53 people and wounding 130 — a reminder that deadly attacks are a daily threat even though violence is down.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080306/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_33;_ylt=AjPs53i9RLtIG0dSSZ2p6rgE1vAI
Matt Says:
6 March 2008 at 3:40 pm.
Four
Chapel Hill Police identified the victim of a shooting Tuesday near the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus as 22-year-old senior Eve Marie Carson, the student body president.
Police responding to a report of gunshots in a residential neighborhood in the college town early Tuesday found Carson’s body lying in the intersection of Hillcrest Drive and Hillcrest Circle.
This is the second murder of a female college student on a southern U.S. campus in as many days. Lauren Burk was shot near Alabama’s Auburn University campus on Tuesday night. Both Carson and Burk are Georgia
E.E. Says:
6 March 2008 at 3:46 pm.
You’re creeping me out there, Mathew. Overload. Gives me chills.
Anyway, I was coming to say Sean Hannity is going to go up to MA to interview Mitt Romney next week. He says he hasn’t spoken since he got out of the race. I can’t wait to hear what will be said in that interview.
Matt Says:
6 March 2008 at 4:07 pm.
CNN host Lou Dobbs says the U.S. economy is heading for a stagflation crisis as a result of the U.S. government’s policy of dollar depreciation and that the only solution is for the American people to restore a proper Constitutional system of government.
Dobbs told The Alex Jones Show today that the decline of the dollar was, “a clear signal as to how much trouble this economy is in,” added to a 9 trillion dollar national debt and a 6 trillion dollar trade debt.
“We have to come to terms with the amount of debt that we have allowed the elites of this country to run up,” Dobbs concluded.
“I believe very strongly that we will either take back our system of government that will function through the consent of the governed, or we will see an absolute change of direction, I don’t think it will be a violent revolution, but I think there will be a crisis that will impend and demand action on the part of the people,” said Dobbs, pointing out that the will of the working and middle class majority was being derided and spat upon by those in Washington.
Pointing out that “both parties were paid for by corporate America and special interests,” Dobbs said that the era of politicians representing the people when they went to Washington was over and that the 2008 election, no matter who became president, would change nothing whatsoever.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2008/030608_stagflation_crisis.htm
Jan W. Says:
6 March 2008 at 4:43 pm.
Lou Dobbs is a reporter I actually like. He seems more real to me than most of them do. I am amazed he has the courage to come out and stand up for his country and care more for what is right than his career. Way to go Lou.
Cavetrollhead Says:
6 March 2008 at 10:19 pm.
In a hostage situation, say, where terrorists are holding civilians captive, rescuers could deploy the water cooler cannon and minimize the risk of physical injury to captives.
Check it out.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,335801,00.html
There is a video there too.
Hank Says:
6 March 2008 at 11:16 pm.
I wish I had one of those. Good idea Cave.
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