29 May 2008
News and Comments - 05/29/08
Posted by Joy Bischoff under: What's News .
One nice thing about egotists…they don’t talk about other people.
12 Comments so far...
Cameron Says:
29 May 2008 at 5:57 am.
Is it just me or is this the first year anyone has cared about SD?
Obama, Clinton in close battle for South Dakota
By CHET BROKAW, Associated Press Writer 23 minutes ago
PIERRE, S.D. - The voters of South Dakota look a lot like those who have favored Hillary Rodham Clinton in presidential primaries this year, but her rival, front-runner Barack Obama, has plenty of friends in high places in this rural state.
Not quite the stone faces atop Mount Rushmore. But most Democrats who’ve won statewide elections, past and present, in predominantly Republican South Dakota have endorsed Obama. These include former Sens. George McGovern, himself the Democratic presidential nominee in 1972, and Tom Daschle, the ex-Senate majority leader, and both Democrats now in Congress, Sen. Tim Johnson and Rep. Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin.
In addition, the Illinois senator has used his substantial fundraising edge over Clinton to field a larger ground organization in this sparsely populated state, which allocates only 15 national convention delegates in its June 3 primary but offers a larger psychological prize.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080529/ap_on_el_pr/south_dakota_primary
Cameron Says:
29 May 2008 at 8:26 am.
I use to be a Bush supporter but I have learned too much about the SPP and international treaties to feel very good about what he has done. I still agree that he is a nice man and sincere about what he is trying to do but I don’t agree with a lot of it any more. Some things I do but not as much as I did.
Ex-Colleagues Ask, ‘What Happened?’
Former Bush Aide Stuns Many With Critical New Book
By Dan Eggen
Scott McClellan was the ultimate Bush loyalist. He went to work for George W. Bush when he was Texas governor in 1999, helped Bush gain the White House in 2000, and then came to Washington to defend the president for the next six years on such issues as the war in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina.
But McClellan’s explosive new book, which alleges that the Bush administration waged a “political propaganda campaign” in favor of the Iraq war and bungled the response to the storm that devastated the Gulf Coast, prompted a counterattack yesterday from some of his oldest political colleagues, who accused him of disloyalty and questioned his credibility.
Dana Perino, the current White House press secretary, said the president was “surprised” by McClellan’s assertions. “He is puzzled, and he doesn’t recognize this as the Scott McClellan that he hired and confided in and worked with for so many years,” Perino said, adding that Bush was “disappointed that if he had these concerns and these thoughts, he never came to him or anyone else on the staff.”
Cameron Says:
29 May 2008 at 8:42 am.
Putin Upstages Medvedev’s EU Debut by Meeting Sarkozy (Update1)
By Henry Meyer
May 29 (Bloomberg) — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will upstage his hand-picked president today by meeting with France’s Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris on long-delayed European Union trade negotiations.
Putin’s visit to the Elysee Palace — a month before France assumes the EU’s rotating presidency — signals his continued dominance of foreign affairs a week before Dmitry Medvedev meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel on his first Western European trip as Russia’s head of state.
President Sarkozy’s decision to meet Putin breaks with the past practice of Group of Eight leaders of dealing with Russia at the presidential level.
It’s a recognition that Putin “remains the pre-eminent power” in Russia, said Michael Emerson, a former EU ambassador to Moscow and an analyst at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. “The EU has to deal with the people who are there, both of them.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aANzT8ArU6h0&refer=home
Mac Says:
29 May 2008 at 9:10 am.
In my opinion there is a little to much Bush bashing. I don’t like focusing on his mistakes so much because that plays into the hands of the democrats. I still think we need to win the war and show strength to our enemies. I like Bush as a person and I believe he has integrity. I know he loves the troops. The MSM hardly ever shows he concerned he is about them and that is wrong.
Anon88 Says:
29 May 2008 at 9:20 am.
Mac, I can understand your feelings but it is important for others to express theirs also. We can’t help to try and get our country back on the straight and narrow if we blindly follow our leaders and don’t hold them to a high set of standards. As nice as the president seems as a person, he still needs to be scrutinized to see if the needs of the country are being met.
I haven’t been on here in a long time. I got caught up with term papers and grades then jumped into the summer session. I was supposed to give my take on Ben Stein’s movie, Expelled. I loved it. The liberal critics hated it and made fun of the fact that the movie intimated that our social decline was in part due to the loss of religion and the teachings of Darwinism. I thought the movie showed a clear and logical progression of losing moral ground. It did a good job of showing the pressure that people like me are under. I’ll have to buy the DVD and hide it in the towel closet. 
Matt Says:
29 May 2008 at 9:37 am.
Anon88, glad to see you back around. I need to see that movie.
You Can’t Appease Everybody
By Ann Coulter Comments
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After decades of comparing Nixon to Hitler, Reagan to Hitler and Bush to Hitler, liberals have finally decided it is wrong to make comparisons to Hitler. But the only leader to whom they have applied their newfound rule of thumb is: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
While Ahmadinejad has not done anything as starkly evil as cut the capital gains tax, he does deny the Holocaust, call for the destruction of Israel, deny the existence of gays in Iran and refuses to abandon his nuclear program despite protests from the United Nations. That’s the only world leader we’re not allowed to compare to Hitler.
T. Fan Says:
29 May 2008 at 12:03 pm.
Anon88, I agree with you. If we keep our mouths shut about a politician because we want to be nice and only see the bright side, then how much can they get away with? It’s only suppose to be in dictatorships that the people are expected to never scrutinize the leader.
Same idea with Ahmadinejad. Even a lot of the Americans who do think it is okay to criticize Bush (and I think a lot of them go overboard with hatred and suspicion) those same people will say it is wrong to criticize the lunatic from Iran. What’s the deal with that?
E.E. Says:
29 May 2008 at 12:23 pm.
CNN’s Yellin: Network execs killed critical White House stories
On Wednesday night, CNN’s Jessica Yellin talked to Anderson Cooper about Scott McClellan’s tell-all memoir and agreed with the former press secretary that White House reporters “dropped the ball” during the run-up to war.
But Yellin went much further, revealing that news executives — presumably at ABC News, where she’d worked from July 2003 to August 2007 — actively pushed her not do hard-hitting pieces on the Bush administration.
“The press corps was under enormous pressure from corporate executives, frankly, to make sure that this was a war presented in a way that was consistent with the patriotic fever in the nation and the president’s high approval ratings,” Yellin said.
“And my own experience at the White House was that the higher the president’s approval ratings, the more pressure I had from news executives — and I was not at this network at the time — but the more pressure I had from news executives to put on positive stories about the president, I think over time….”
But then a shocked Cooper jumped in, asking, “You had pressure from news executives to put on positive stories about the president?”
“Not in that exact…. They wouldn’t say it in that way, but they would edit my pieces,” Yellin said. “They would push me in different directions. They would turn down stories that were more critical, and try to put on pieces that were more positive. Yes, that was my experience.”
E.E. Says:
29 May 2008 at 12:30 pm.
After reading this article I think it is probably best for the democrats to win the presidency and all these elections because the recession is going to be bad and they will get the blame. Then we can come in and clean up. If McCain wins, it could finish the party as far as any real influence goes for a very long time.
Rupert Murdoch predicts landslide for Democrats
By Eric Auchard
CARLSBAD, California (Reuters) - News Corp Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch on Wednesday predicted a Democratic landslide in the U.S. presidential election against a gloomy economic backdrop over the next 18 months.
Murdoch has yet to endorse a U.S. presidential candidate but considers Barack Obama very promising, the media magnate said in an interview by two Wall Street Journal reporters at an annual conference for high-tech industry insiders.
News Corp recently acquired ownership of the Journal and its parent company Dow Jones & Co.
“You have got the Obama phenomenon. You have got, undoubtedly, a recession … The average American is really getting hurt financially and that all bodes well for him (Obama), Murdoch said.
“You have probably the making of a complete phenomenon in this country,” Murdoch said in describing what he predicted will be a sweeping victory for Democrats in November.
Pickles Says:
29 May 2008 at 3:16 pm.
Maybe McClellen’s book will embarrass the white house enough so that they will try and hurry and win the war. But I doubt it.
SGS Says:
29 May 2008 at 3:23 pm.
Cameron, I too do not like Bush, only because he has failed to bull from the pulpit, and he has failed to stand up for conservative principles (for example, he has not say one word about Social Security since his fifth year; It has been sweeped under rug!) But we also need to be careful about listening to a claim like McClellan’s. American Thinker (like NRO - very conservative site!) pointed out:
Scott McClellan’s payback for zero support from Bush when his mother ran for Texas Governorship at last election.
and…
McClellan Book Published by Soros Front Company (self-explanatory)
Cameron Says:
29 May 2008 at 4:02 pm.
SGS, good point. The problem is with me that I am starting to question whether we should have gone into Iraq at all. The old reasons don’t seem to be standing up as well.
Dem delegates face fate
Obscure party rules panel will consider convention status of Michigan, Florida representatives on Saturday.
Gordon Trowbridge / Detroit News Washington Bureau
Thirty Democratic Party officials — mostly obscure party operatives — will gather in a Washington hotel conference room this weekend to consider disputed convention delegates from Michigan and Florida, the most closely watched group of people yet to weigh in on the close Democratic presidential campaign.
But many of the members of the Democratic National Committee’s Rules & Bylaws Committee say they’re focused less on Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama than on a set of rules they argue are vital to maintaining fairness and order in future elections.
The little-known panel meets Saturday to determine, for now at least, the fates of the Michigan and Florida delegations — and, by extension, the votes of nearly 600,000 Michiganians and 1.75 million Floridians who participated in Democratic primaries in January.
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080529/POLITICS01/805290341/1022/POLITICS
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