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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Democratic candidate Barack Obama criticized Republican John McCain on Tuesday for taking a page out of "the Cheney playbook" on energy, overlooking his own support of oil-friendly policies that the unpopular vice president helped to craft. ADVERTISEMENT Obama voted for a 2005 energy bill backed by President Bush that included billions in subsidies for oil and natural gas production, a measure for which Vice President Dick Cheney played a major role. McCain opposed the bill, saying at the time that it included billions in unnecessary tax breaks for the oil industry.

The race for the presidency has moved back into a statistical tie in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update of national registered voters, with Barack Obama now ahead of John McCain by just one percentage point, 45% to 44%.

Here's the You Tube link. Change that works for him! It's about time someone put together all the words this hypocrite and his cadre of followers have said regarding Iraq.

Rep. Vito Fossella (R-N.Y.) said Thursday that he had an extramarital affair that has resulted in a three-year-old daughter in a statement released through a public relations firm. “My personal failings and imperfections have caused enormous pain to the people I love and I am truly sorry,” Fossella said in the statement. “While I understand that there will be many questions, including those about my political future, making any political decisions right now are furthest from my mind,” the lawmaker, who was arrested for drunk driving last week, said. “Over the coming weeks and months, I will to continue to...

Boris Johnson has won the race to become the next mayor of London - ending Ken Livingstone's eight-year reign at City Hall.

NEW YORK In a surprisingly frank interview with Charlie Rose on his PBS show late Friday night, former President Bill Clinton declared that his wife was not only far better prepared to be president than her chief rival Sen. Barack Obama -- "it's not even close" -- but that voters who disagreed would be taking a "risk" if they picked the latter.

Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman is to announce today he will petition for a place on the November ballot as an "independent Democrat," giving him a chance to stay alive politically should he lose an Aug. 8 primary for the Democratic nomination.

The vote for cloture was 56-41, so it would seem that cloture failed, but the Us Senate website says cloture agreed to. What gives (3/5 of 97 is 58)??

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SINGAPORE (AP) - London was awarded the 2012 Olympics on Wednesday, defeating European rival Paris in the final round of voting to take the games back to the British capital for the first time since 1948. After Moscow, New York and Madrid were eliminated in the first three rounds, London beat its cross-Channel opponent on the fourth ballot of the International Olympic Committee vote - capping the most glamorous and hotly contested bid race in Olympic history.

PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus said on Wednesday deliveries of its 21st-century flagship, the double-decker A380 superjumbo, would be delayed by up to six months, taking the flourish off one of the most trumpeted aviation launches in decades. Disgruntled airlines, at least one of which intends to seek compensation, announced the delay in delivering the largest passenger jet ever built just weeks after its maiden flight.

WASHINGTON — Paul Volcker (search), the man tasked with leading the U.N.-approved investigation into the Oil-for-Food program, has told key American lawmakers that Congress cannot subpoena two of his former investigators, FOX News has learned. Volcker called the chairmen of at least three congressional committees looking into the $64 billion Oil-for-Food (search) program Thursday and told them the investigators, who resigned two weeks ago, have diplomatic immunity and therefore cannot be called to testify before their panels.

US political activist Jesse Jackson is to help motivate Britain's ethnic minority voters at a rally in London. Ethnic minority MPs and representatives from community groups will also speak at the event organised by campaign group Operation Black Vote (OBV).

ONE OF MY favourite cinematic moments is the scene in Monty Python’s Life of Brian when Reg, aka John Cleese, the leader of the People’s Front of Judea, is trying to whip up anti-Roman sentiment among his team of slightly hesitant commandos. “What have the Romans ever done for us?” he asks. “Well, there’s the aqueduct,” somebody says, thoughtfully. “The sanitation,” says another. “Public order,” offers a third. Reg reluctantly acknowledges that there may have been a couple of benefits. But then steadily, and with increasing enthusiasm, his men reel off a litany of the good things the Romans have...

In light of John Kerry comments on John Ashcroft, we have to start a new meme that only 14.7 Million of the 120 Million voted for him. That's about a quarter of the electorate. Don't let the media get away with the lie that since 56 million people voted for him, he has to have a say in any policy matters. By the way, this is how I get 14.7 Million. From those (accurate) exit polls, 97% of Bush voters voted for Bush because they wanted to, leaving 3% who voted for Bush because they disliked Kerry. That's (60M *...

Al rubs it in further....the Dummies are gonna explode..lol. Al says the Colts won it like a ZOBGY EXIT POLL!!! hahaha For those that don't follow football, the Vikings were supposed to win this one hands down...

Is it me or are you guys just as tired with all the fawning by the MSM over this guy. I'm reading TIME over the weekend and they have this section where they're covering the new senators. They devoted 2 pages to the 6 new Republicans (Burr, Demint, Matinez, Thune, Coburn, Vitter) and 3 whole pages on Obama! It seems to me that the democrats haven't learnt anything in this election. It's a party of symbolism and Obama is their new symbol...their new hero. Granted, he seems to be a able leader and speaker, but enough already! Timmy, on MTP,...

The last word on Bush’s bulge Call off the conspiracy freaks. Now it can be told: That mysterious bulge on President Bush’s back during the first presidential debate was not an electronic device feeding him answers, but a strap holding his bulletproof vest in place. Speculation about the bulge on the Internet only increased since Georges de Paris, the Washington tailor who makes Bush’s suits, told The Hill last month that it was nothing more than a pucker on the back of Bush’s coat caused when he crossed his arms. But sources in the Secret Service told The Hill that...

PARIS, France (CNN) -- Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat remained in a coma Friday at a French military hospital as concerns heightened over possibilities for his burial and the future of Palestinian leadership. Although Arafat's family wants a Jerusalem burial, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has ruled it out. Israeli Justice Minister Yosef Lapid lambasted the idea. "Jerusalem is the city where Jewish kings are buried, and not Arab terrorists," Lapid said.

The superior, condescending attitude just drips off the page. Even they admit it and they seem to be proud of it. And they wonder why they lost and no one gets them! An excerpt from the article... Dr. Joseph, a bearded, broad-shouldered man with silken gray hair, was sharing coffee and cigarettes with his fellow dog walker, Roberta Kimmel Cohn, at an outdoor table outside the hole-in-the-wall Breadsoul Cafe near Lincoln Center. The site was almost a cliché corner of cosmopolitan Manhattan, with a newsstand next door selling French and Italian newspapers and, a bit farther down, the Lincoln Plaza...