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Washington governor and 2020 candidate Jay Inslee (D.) said on Sunday he thinks he has humility about being a straight white male, saying he recognizes the advantages he's received as a result of that identity. "Our new CNN/Des Moines Register poll shows only 38 percent of likely Democratic caucus-goers in Iowa say they would be satisfied with a straight white male nominee," CNN anchor Jake Tapper said. "So why are you as a straight white male the right person to lead the Democratic party if there's so much skepticism from Democrats in Iowa?"

Today, CanadaFreePress writer JB Williams posted a column discussing the two legally different documents that the Democratic National Committee produced to serve to the several Secretaries of State, in theory, certifying their presidential and vice-presidential candidates. The punchline? The one actually received by the States did not include language specifically referring to constitutional eligibility. Here’s AmericanDaughter.com’s take on the above-referenced article: Barack Obama and Joe Biden were not certified as legally eligible in the affidavits sent to the states by the Democratic National Committee. The tireless research of political writer J.B. Williams has uncovered the discrepancy. His bombshell article appears...

< High-level sources in a number of governments friendly to the United States have expressed concern over what now appears to be a fundamental ideological rift between the key leadership of the US Bush Administration and US Secretary of State Colin Powell. This has been exacerbated by reports that Secretary Powell has been actively considering pursuing the Democratic Party nomination for the US Presidency in the 2004 election, with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton as his running mate.(....hmmmm..anyone else heard of this?) This would place Sec. Powell directly at odds with Pres. Bush, and the fact that the split is so...