4 April 2008
News and Comments - 04/04/08
Posted by Terrie Soberg under: What's News .
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Jesse Says:
4 April 2008 at 12:40 am.
This is a pretty funny article. Cameron gets up too early for me, he must be on the east coat so I have to come on here at night to be first on the news. haha. Bet you’re asleep right now Cammy boy (as Stumpy would say).
Clinton Campaign Backpedals on Richardson Comments
BURBANK, CALIF. - In an exchange with reporters at a press conference earlier today, Hillary Clinton was asked about reports that while, she was seeking his endorsement, she told Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M., that Barack Obama could not win the general election if he were the nominee. Clinton responded, “You know we have been going back and forth in this campaign about who said what to whom and let me say this about that. I don’t talk about private conversations. But I have consistently made the case that I can win because I believe I can win. You know, sometimes people draw the conclusions that I’m saying somebody else can’t win. I can win, I know I can win. That’s why I do this everyday. I’m in it to win it.”
The reporter pressed Clinton saying, “Is that a no?” To which Clinton responded, “That’s a no.”
But later, a senior Clinton spokesman told reporters that Clinton did not mean to imply that she was not referring to what she allegedly said to Richardson about Obama. Instead, the campaign explains that Clinton took the follow up question to mean that she “does not talk about private conversations.”
Reporters pressed the aide about Clinton’s answer to which the aide maintained that Clinton’s “that’s a no” answer was aimed at the fact that Clinton does not discuss private conversations.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/04/03/politics/fromtheroad/entry3993075.shtml
Jesse Says:
4 April 2008 at 1:01 am.
Iraq’s Sadr calls million-strong march against U.S.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on Thursday for 1 million Iraqis to march against U.S. “occupation” next week after his Mehdi Army militia battled U.S. and government troops.
The government said it would not attempt to block the march if it was peaceful although Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who ordered a crackdown on militia in the southern city of Basra last week, threatened more strikes against Sadr’s strongholds.
Cameron Says:
4 April 2008 at 6:57 am.
More superdelegate nonsense.
Some superdelegates more super than rest
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press Writer 26 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Some of those presidential superdelegates Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are pursuing are more super than others.
One delegate, one vote doesn’t apply to them. These prominent Democrats can name additional superdelegates, giving them control over multiple convention votes, and that could be the difference in a race that may not be decided until the August convention.
The clout of the nearly 800 superdelegates is unprecedented in this year’s race because neither Obama nor Clinton can clinch the nomination with only the delegates won in state primaries and caucuses. Largely overlooked in the arcane process, though, is the power of a select few to complete the superdelegate ranks by naming 76 newbies, and Clinton and Obama are fighting hard over every one of those from state conventions to back rooms.
Separated by fewer than 140 delegates, both candidates are lobbying the hundreds of known superdelegates, employing family, friends and influential surrogates to woo the governors, lawmakers and other party leaders. Some are more important than others.
Consider Art Torres, chairman of the California Democratic Party. He remains uncommitted, yet he could be the most powerful superdelegate of all. Torres gets to name five additional superdelegates, giving him control over six votes at the national convention this summer.
“I am the super of supers!” Torres proclaims with a laugh.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080404/ap_on_el_pr/super_sized_delegates;_ylt=Aqk4j2qKckUT1G1MaqYpN7CyFz4D
Stumpy Says:
4 April 2008 at 11:36 am.
Hello?
Carrie Says:
4 April 2008 at 11:39 am.
haha that’s exactly what I was thinking Stumpy. Hello, anybody out there? Nice to see you alive.
Stumpy Says:
4 April 2008 at 11:47 am.
Mornin sweetheart. Hey we can flirt cause I dont think Pickles or nobody else is around. Jist got me a new shotgun. Wanna come huntin with me?
Carrie Says:
4 April 2008 at 11:50 am.
I have a class right now and I have to run or I’ll be late but I’ll blow you a kiss.
Stumpy Says:
4 April 2008 at 11:52 am.
Shoot!
Cammy
E.E. Says:
4 April 2008 at 12:29 pm.
Stumpy, Cameron said something about being really busy with work yesterday so it looks like he isn’t around much right now. Be careful where you point and shoot.
Economy sheds 80,000 jobs in March
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers cut payrolls for a third consecutive month in March and the jobless rate jumped to a 2-1/2 year high, adding more evidence that a housing downturn and credit crisis may have pushed the economy into recession.
The Labor Department on Friday said non-farm employment fell by 80,000 jobs in March, the biggest decline in five years. Financial markets saw the drop as reinforcing the need for further Federal Reserve interest rate cuts.
It was the first time the U.S. economy shed jobs for three straight months since a five-month string in 2003, when the economy was mired in a jobless recovery from the 2001 recession.
E.E. Says:
4 April 2008 at 12:41 pm.
Global warming ‘dips this year’
Global temperatures will drop slightly this year as a result of the cooling effect of the La Nina current in the Pacific, UN meteorologists have said.
The World Meteorological Organization’s secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, told the BBC it was likely that La Nina would continue into the summer.
This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory.
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