Posted on 05/13/2006 8:32:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Thompson: Iranian Terror Masters Make Little Distinction Between U.S. and Israel
fred08.com | October 16, 2007
Posted on 10/16/2007 10:59:00 PM EDT by daylilly
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1912273/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1912280/posts?page=34#34
Too bad that it’s too soon to say that the beeotch is toast. This suits the purposes of Hillary Clinton though.
Pelosi Says Bush Hasn’t Phoned Her About Turkey and Genocide
New York Times | 10/14/07 | brian knowlton
Posted on 10/15/2007 3:34:52 PM EDT by Dane
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911553/posts
“The House speaker, one of four Congressional leaders to appear on the Sunday talk shows, repeated her vow to move the genocide question to the full House for debate now that the House Foreign Affairs Committee has passed it. But when George Stephanopoulos asked the key question — how would she react if Mr. Bush or Defense Secretary Robert Gates called her to say that they were ‘just certain that this is going to put our military at risk’ — she replied: ‘The president hasn’t called me on it, so that’s hypothetical. He hasn’t called me on it.’”
[consider yourself ‘called on it’ now, beeotch]
Pelosi Wavering on Armenian Resolution
ABC
Posted on 10/16/2007 6:30:56 PM EDT by Republican Red
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912138/posts
“Pelosi, as recently as Sunday on ‘This Week’, has repeatedly said she would call the controversial but nonbinding resolution for a vote despite the opposition of the Bush administration and warnings that it could damage U.S. relations with Turkey... At least seven House members have withdrawn as co-sponsors of the bill and several more are expected to follow. Key Pelosi ally Rep. John Murtha, D-Penn., is also lobbying against a vote. Key House members continue to canvass members but don’t expect a vote this year.”
Democrats split on genocide resolution
The Hill | October 16, 2007 | Jim Snyder
Posted on 10/16/2007 4:49:26 PM EDT by jazusamo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912098/posts
“Reps. Alcee Hastings of Florida, John Murtha of Pennsylvania, Robert Wexler of Florida and Steve Cohen and John Tanner, both of Tennessee, will participate in the news conference... Despite the pushback, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has indicated she would bring the controversial resolution to the floor. California is home to a significant number of Armenian-Americans, including some who came to the United States after fleeing the World War I-era upheaval... During his presidency... Bill Clinton... worked to block an Armenian genocide resolution from passing the House.”
[fixed that last sentence to remove the implication that President Reagan tried to block such a resolution]
Key Democrats oppose Armenian bill (including Reps. Murtha, Skelton)
Reuters on Yahoo | 10/16/07 | Susan Cornwell
Posted on 10/16/2007 8:00:34 PM EDT by NormsRevenge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912176/posts
“Ronald Reagan, a Californian, was the only president to publicly call the killings genocide.”
Dems Withdraw Support of Armenian Genocide Resolution
Associated Press | October 16, 2007 | Unknown
Posted on 10/16/2007 8:14:04 PM EDT by decimon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912181/posts
“The loss of support is a major setback to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill, who have fiercely defended the resolution to Republicans and the Bush administration as a moral imperative in condemning the World War I-era killings of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks.”
Support Wanes in House for Genocide Vote [Turkey]
New York Times | 10/17/07 | Carl Hurlse
Posted on 10/17/2007 12:13:52 AM EDT by advance_copy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912296/posts
“House members from both parties have begun to withdraw their support from a resolution backed by the Democratic leadership that would condemn as genocide the mass killings of Armenians nearly a century ago... Until Tuesday, the measure appeared on a path to House passage, with strong support from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.”
Gep’s Lobbying Was A Turkey
(Dick Gephardt couldn’t get Pelosi to withdraw resolution support)
NY Post | 10/13/07 | Robert Novak
Posted on 10/15/2007 6:52:24 PM EDT by Libloather
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911624/posts
“Former Majority Leader Dick Gephardt, a registered lobbyist for Turkey, failed several months ago to get his successor as top House Democrat, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to withdraw her support from a long-pending resolution condemning alleged Turkish genocide of Armenians in 1915... Pelosi has pledged House action this year on the genocide resolution that in the past was blocked by Dennis Hastert, her Republican predecessor as speaker. In addition to Gephardt, the Turkish government also hired a top Republican lobbyist: Bob Livingston, former chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.”
[Just the offering of the resolution has had consequences for US relations with Turkey, and Pelosi et al need to be censured at least, and preferably expelled from Congress.]
Grandstanding Has Consequences, It’s amateur hour in Congress.
National Review Online | 19.15.07 | Michael Rubin
Posted on 10/15/2007 4:27:52 PM EDT by Dane
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911571/posts
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) pooh-poohed the episode. This was not about Turkey, she explained, but rather ‘about the Ottoman Empire.’ Unclear, though, is why congressional Democrats felt the urgent need to condemn an entity that hasn’t existed for 85 years... In an election season, Pelosi, Biden, and Murtha, may have no greater goal than to garner headlines, but U.S. servicemen fighting terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan do. Countering proliferation and fighting terrorism will dominate diplomacy regardless of who next occupies the White House... troops continue to sacrifice to defend U.S. national security, it is unfortunate that headline seeking congressmen seek to make their job that much harder.”
Turkey’s Top General: ‘The US Shot Itself in the Foot”
http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/3225.htm
Posted on 10/15/2007 8:06:41 PM EDT by cool2007
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911663/posts
“In an interview with the daily, Buyukanit said if the non-binding resolution that passed in a House committee last week was to be adopted in the House too, Turkish-US military ties would ‘never be the same again.’ The general expressed the opinion that world parliaments had no business in judging history. He said, ‘The US is a very important ally of ours, but an ally does not act like this.’ This week, General Buyukanit will visit Israel.”
Playing Politics With Genocide —
Dems ‘ devious attempt to impede our war effort in Iraq”
New York Post | October 14, 2007 | Ralph Peters
Posted on 10/16/2007 11:13:03 PM EDT by Ooh-Ah
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912280/posts
Legislation similar to this has come up repeatedly in Congress, yet it’s always been defeated - in 2000, because of pressure from the Clinton administration. But if the resolution passes the House and Senate now, the Turks plan to evict us from Incirlik airbase in southeastern Turkey, to halt our military over-flight privileges and to shut down the supply routes into northern Iraq. That’s what the Democrats are aiming at... It’s a brilliant ploy - the Dems get to stab our troops in the back, but lay the blame off on the Turks... For the Democrats in Congress, it looks like a cost-free strategy. For our troops? When did the Dems give a damn about our troops?
When Amateurs Make Foreign Policy (In Respect To Turkey)
Investor’s Business Daily | 15 October 2007 | Staff
Posted on 10/15/2007 9:06:33 PM EDT by shrinkermd
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911697/posts
How puzzling, then, that the Democrat-led House Foreign Affairs Committee would choose this time to push through a resolution recognizing as genocide the murder of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians at the end of the first World War. We hope the rest of Congress — House and Senate alike — pass on the chance to vote on it. Today’s Turkey, founded on the ashes of the Ottomans, didn’t commit these crimes. We wonder: Will Congress now also condemn our own government for genocide against the American Indians? ...By the way, this isn’t the first time Congress has done this. It voted on similar resolutions in 1975 and in 1984. We’re already on the record.
Unfit for Command
.humanevents.com/ | 10/16/2007 | Patrick J. Buchanan
Posted on 10/16/2007 1:09:34 PM EDT by duckln
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912000/posts
“That Armenian-Americans wish to have their holocaust recognized is understandable. But that Democrats could not put off that request — for Congress to officially charge Turkey with genocide, 90 years ago — is not.”
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Libertarians to Conservatives: Drop Dead
National Review Online | Aug 6, 2007 | Carol Iannone
Posted on 08/21/2007 2:41:49 PM EDT by DesScorp
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884414/posts
Anti-Thompson Site Connects to Romney Camp
Washington Post | 6:14 PM ET on Sep 10, 2007 | Michael D. Shear and Rob Pegoraro
Posted on 09/10/2007 9:24:22 PM EDT by lesser_satan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1894325/posts
Fred, Lies, and Audiotape
Hunter’s Rangers - Bar of Integrity | 9/15/07 | By Alexander J. Madison
Posted on 09/15/2007 5:46:45 PM EDT by Calpernia
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1897132/posts
no, I’m only posting this for the completeness. :’)
Newt Gingrich: The only individual worthy of the GOP and America
www.draftnewt.org | 9/24/07 | Will Haun
Posted on 09/24/2007 10:05:58 PM EDT by jageorge72
http://www.draftnewt.org/2007/09/newt_gingrich_the_only_individ.php
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1901674/posts
Thompson’s AWFUL Busy for Being So Lazy
Red State | October 8, 2007 | “Haystack”
Posted on 10/09/2007 12:08:05 AM EDT by 2ndDivisionVet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/1908487/posts
Ann Coulter Disses Fred
Youtube/Fox | 10/8/07 | AnnCoulter/Hannity
Posted on 10/09/2007 10:47:52 AM EDT by pissant
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1908670/posts
Ann Coulter Refers to Tabloid Report of John Edwards Affair;
Will MSM Pursue Story?
Newsbusters | 10/10/07 | Jason Aslinger
Posted on 10/10/2007 9:24:30 PM EDT by Kid Shelleen
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909524/posts
GOP candidate Paul calls for elimination of income tax, central bank
One News Now | October 8, 2007 | Jim Brown
Posted on 10/09/2007 10:06:32 PM EDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1908977/posts
Paul and Tancredo hint at not supporting GOP nominee
The Hill | 10/09/2007 | Klaus Marre
Posted on 10/09/2007 11:04:07 PM EDT by advance_copy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909003/posts
Attn. icwhatudo: Hillary Clinton Says “Lay off Graeme Frost”
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 | Kristinn
Posted on 10/10/2007 10:45:27 PM EDT by kristinn
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909558/posts
Democrat poster-child abuse, the nutroots’ pushback,
and the continued campaign to silence the Right
Michelle Malkin.com | 10/09/07 | Michelle Malkin
Posted on 10/10/2007 12:11:45 AM EDT by pillut48
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909031/posts
Patrick will endorse Obama,officials say(Shuns Hillary)
Boston Globe | October 17, 2007 | Frank Phillips
Posted on 10/17/2007 8:17:12 PM EDT by GQuagmire
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912761/posts
“[Massachusetts] Governor Deval Patrick is throwing his support to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, an endorsement that will give the Illinois senator a much needed boost in New Hampshire and help blunt Hillary Clinton’s courting of African-American leaders.”
Missouri’s Electoral College Votes Up for Grabs
Rasmussen Reports | October 16, 2007
Posted on 10/17/2007 3:45:37 PM EDT by Clintonfatigued
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912620/posts
“Giuliani now leads Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton by three points, 45% to 42%. Clinton and Thompson are tied at 44%. Last month, Clinton had a slight edge over all leading Republican hopefuls. Barack Obama doesn’t fare quite as well against the Republican frontrunners. He trails Giuliani by five and Thompson by nine.”
Mortgage company workers charged in scam (another Hillary donor)
Newsday | October 16, 2007 | ROCCO PARASCANDOLA
Posted on 10/16/2007 4:54:24 PM EDT by JohnLongIsland
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912100/posts
Setback For Davis Means Setback For DC Dems?
Real Clear Politics | October 14, 2007 | Reid Wilson
Posted on 10/17/2007 9:33:03 AM EDT by Clintonfatigued
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/1912419/posts
Romney-Huckabee in ‘08?
Dick Morris: Huckabee Could be the Surprise of the GOP Nomination Race
Realclearpolitics.com | 10/17/07 | Dick Morris
Posted on 10/17/2007 2:11:49 PM EDT by Mediahawk
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912568/posts
Signs Point to an Evangelical Revival for Romney...
The American Prospect | October 17, 2007 | Sarah Posner
Posted on 10/17/2007 9:43:28 PM EDT by Reaganesque
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912806/posts
“...evangelical public relations guru Mark DeMoss sending a five-page letter of support for Romney to evangelical leaders... In the letter, DeMoss invoked Falwell, suggesting that his old mentor never would have sat out an election (i.e., voted for a third-party candidate) when two, and possibly four Supreme Court appointments were on the line... Focus on the Family came under fire from its own grassroots supporters for James Dobson’s agitation for a third-party alternative to Rudy Giuliani, which they believed would amount to a Hillary Clinton victory... Mike Huckabee, who thus far has been deprived of Dobson’s stamp of approval, politely called Dobson on his ‘who, me?’ routine. He lamented in a PBS interview, ‘I think that some of them [Christian conservative leaders] frankly are more intoxicated with power than principle.’”
Romney gets some help from Bob Jones University
The CarpetBagger Report.com | October 16, 2007 | Steve Benen
Posted on 10/16/2007 4:43:49 PM EDT by Canticle_of_Deborah
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912094/posts
Bob Jones Dean Endorses Romney!
(update: chancellor Bob Jones III agrees)
Wallstreet Journal’s Washington Wire | October 15, 2007 | Michael M. Phillips
Posted on 10/16/2007 6:50:30 PM EDT by Mount Athos
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912149/posts
Mitt Romney Utters a Forbidden Word
Human Events Online / Jihad Watch | 10/16/2007 | Robert Spencer
Posted on 10/17/2007 7:45:42 AM EDT by Mount Athos
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912360/posts
“In a new TV commercial, Mitt Romney utters one of television’s new forbidden words. ‘It’s this century’s nightmare: jihadism. Violent, radical Islamic fundamentalism,’ he says. ‘”Their goal is to unite the world under a single Jihadist caliphate. To do that, they must collapse freedom-loving nations like us.’ The forbidden word? Jihadism.”
Perry endorses former New York mayor Giuliani
Houston Chronicle | Oct. 17, 2007 | PEGGY FIKAC
Posted on 10/17/2007 10:04:51 AM EDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912441/posts
“One of the most, if not the most conservative governor in Texas history endorses a pro choice, rabidly anti-2nd amendment former NY mayor? What happened to conservative principles as the first measure of who to support for any office?”
A Past Assoc. Giuliani Would Rather People Forgot
(Rudy Giuliani Joins Forces With George Soros)
National Review Online | 10-17-07 | JIm Geraghty
Posted on 10/17/2007 11:29:20 AM EDT by TitansAFC
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912491/posts
Rudy Says Fred is All Talk? (also Flip-flops on George Soros & Immigration)
Men’s News Daily | October 16, 2007 | Warner Todd Huston
Posted on 10/17/2007 3:29:47 AM EDT by 2ndDivisionVet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912326/posts
Opinion: Why Fred Thompson will win the nomination
http://www.socyberty.com/Politics/Fred-Thompson-Will-Win-the-Republican-Primary-Because-of-His-Federalist-Beliefs.52013
Posted on 10/16/2007 11:36:39 AM EDT by jaybeegee
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1911952/posts
Thompson’s plan spooks GOP backers
(plans to curb the cost of Social Security)
The Hill | 10/18/07 | Alexander Bolton
Posted on 10/17/2007 9:39:46 PM EDT by Jean S
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912802/posts
“Congressional supporters of Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) are splitting with him over his proposal to curb the cost of Social Security by cutting projected benefits by as much as 25 percent over the next 33 years, according to the estimate of one conservative think tank. The presidential candidate broached his proposal for limiting the cost of Social Security at a GOP presidential debate in Dearborn, Mich., earlier this month. Thompson reiterated his support for pegging benefits to inflation instead of wage growth, a policy that would create substantial savings because the price of goods and services grows more slowly than wages... After laughing uproariously at a question about whether it is political risky to discuss cutting Social Security benefits, Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.), a Thompson supporter, said: ‘What do you think? Take a wild guess.’”
Support Wanes in House for Genocide Vote [Turkey]
New York Times | 10/17/07 | Carl Hurlse
Posted on 10/17/2007 12:13:52 AM EDT by advance_copy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912296/posts
and a Ron Paul moment:
89 House Members Tell Bush:
No More Money for Occupation (88 dems and guess who!)
The Nation
Posted on 10/16/2007 5:33:12 PM EDT by mnehrling
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912113/posts
Obama’s transparent pandering will play well — with the straight ticket supporters of the Party of Treason.
Gay Minister Joins Obama Concert in SC
AP | October 24, 2007 | NEDRA PICKLER
Posted on 10/24/2007 8:51:27 PM PDT by bahblahbah
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1916027/posts
[snip] Gay activists had criticized Obama’s “Embrace the Change” tour in South Carolina because the performers included gospel singer Donnie McClurkin, who says homosexuality is a choice. Obama’s campaign invited Rev. Andy Sidden, a South Carolina pastor who is openly gay, to appear on Sunday in Columbia. Obama discussed Sidden’s inclusion Thursday with Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, which supports gay rights... Solmonese said he thanked Obama for including Sidden but told the Illinois senator... “There is no gospel in Donnie McClurkin’s message for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and their allies,” Solmonese said. “That’s a message that certainly doesn’t belong on any presidential candidate’s stage.” McClurkin is a Grammy Award winner who performed at the Republican National Convention in 2004. He told AP Radio in an interview that September that he was “once involved with those desires and those thoughts,” but God turned him away from them. Obama... supports civil unions for same-sex couples but not the right for gay marriage.
Thompson stirs rivals with immigration plan
The Boston Globe | October 24, 2007 | Michael Levenson
Posted on 10/24/2007 10:07:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1916042/posts
Biden Stumble over Education Question (RACIST REMARK)
www.politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com | 10/25/07 | Alexandra Mooney
Posted on 10/25/2007 8:38:22 PM EDT by personalaccts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1916532/posts
[snip] Explaining why schools in Iowa are performing better than those in Washington, D.C., Biden told the Post, “There’s less than one percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than four of five percent that are minorities. What is in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you’re dealing with. When you have children coming from dysfunctional homes, when you have children coming from homes where there’s no books, where the mother from the time they’re born doesn’t talk to them — as opposed to the mother in Iowa who’s sitting out there and talks to them, the kid starts out with a 300 word larger vocabulary at age three. Half this education gap exists before the kid steps foot in the classroom,” the Delaware Democrat added... Last February, on the same day he officially announced his presidential bid, a newspaper quoted the senator describing Sen. Barack Obama as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
In a tight race, Thompson’s got the goods (Al D’Amato—Good Read!)
Long Island Business News | October 26, 2007 | Senator Alfonse D’Amato
Posted on 10/26/2007 5:29:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1917007/posts
Fox Orders Halt to McCain Ad
NewYork Times | 26 October 2007 | Jim Rutenberg
Posted on 10/26/2007 7:13:53 AM PDT by anita
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1916757/posts
Rethinking McCain
RealClearPolitics Politics Nation Blog | 10/26/2007 | Reid Wilson
Posted on 10/26/2007 5:29:43 PM PDT by dano1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1917008/posts
FOX News Poll: Half of Voters Eye Candidates’ Abortion Stance
FOX News | Friday, October 26, 2007 | By Dana Blanton
Posted on 10/26/2007 5:10:37 PM PDT by WFTR
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1917001/posts
Miller Brewing Apologizes for ‘Last Supper’ Poster
cnsnews
Posted on 10/26/2007 4:59:54 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1916994/posts
1944 Conviction Of Black G.I.’s Is Ruled Flawed
[largest Army courts-martial of World War II]
New York Times | October 27, 2007 | William Yardley
Posted on 10/27/2007 6:57:00 AM EDT by Former Military Chick
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1917141/posts
[snip] Last year, the House, led by Mr. McDermott and Representative Duncan Hunter, Republican of California, passed a measure directing the Army to open the review after the 2005 publication of a book, “On American Soil,” by a Seattle author and journalist, Jack Hamann. The book detailed evidence from the case that had not been made public.
JOHN & LIZ ARE ‘FIRST’ COUPLE
(Poll of women considers the Clintons to be the least happy marriage)
[results of poll of men regarding the significance of this poll still pending]
NY Post | October 12, 2007 | CARL CAMPANILE
Posted on 10/27/2007 4:02:19 PM EDT by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1917301/posts
(John) Edwards tussles with journalism school
Raleigh News & Observer | October 26, 2007 | Ryan Beckwith
Posted on 10/26/2007 12:43:56 PM EDT by abb
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1916835/posts
Truth Is Out There, Gov. Believes
(Richardson to Explore Roswell Story)
Albuquerque Journal | October 27, 2007 | April Castro
Posted on 10/27/2007 11:13:41 AM EDT by greyfoxx39
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1917197/posts
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