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...he holds the rest of us, the average American, in contempt. He only cared about us in terms of gaining votes–he wanted to be president so badly, and only seeks the office because of the power he will wield. And what about his past? Barack Obama has not released his birth certificate, university records, or medical records. Why so much secrecy? I believe he is hiding something from us...

The Virgin One is introducing his nominees: Energy Secretary, Stephen Chu; Lisa Jackson, head of EPA: Carol Browner, Mother Earth; Nancy Sutley, White House Council on Environmental Fascism.Obama is expected to take questions from selected reporters.The Wall Street Journal is live-blogging the press conference here.

It was September 2002. (Robert Torricelli's) re- election campaign had turned into a referendum on his ethics.............. He .....pulled out his cell phone, and punched in the number of his friend Bill Clinton. He was through......Clinton tried to talk him out of it. With that, Torricelli ended his lifelong passion for climbing the political ladder. He was 51 years old. Torricelli remains a busy man. With two former Senate staffers he formed a consulting business, Rosemont Associates, that advises the government of Taiwan, along with a list of corporate clients. He invests in real estate, including a handful of apartments,...

Never let it be said that crime doesn’t pay. It surely paid for one crooked politician. You Might remember Tom D’Alessio. He was one of New Jersey’s most powerful Democrat politicians until he was caught in an extortion, bribery and embezzling scandal. Well it looks like he’s up to his old tricks. The New Jersey Star Ledger Reports: Two months after he was released from federal prison after serving time for political corruption charges in 1998, the former Essex County Executive set up a charitable foundation.D'Alessio called it the Evergreen Fund and has bankrolled it with more than $1.8 million...

Hillary Trial Starts Tuesday May 9, 2005 RUSH: Well, tomorrow is a big day in American fund-raising circles. (Story) "The trial of a key financial officer on Senator Hillary Clinton's 2000 campaign is set to open tomorrow. That trial and secretly recorded audiotape by the brother-in-law of Ted Kennedy, Raymond Reggie, is at the core of the case, and it could prove embarrassing to politicians, political operatives and wealthy donors to the Democratic Party. This is the trial of David Rosen. He faces three felony counts of causing the filing of false campaign finance reports in connection with a celebrity...

NASHVILLE - Sen. John Ford has used campaign money to pay for a wedding and thousands of dollars in payments to the mothers of his children, filings show. The Memphis Democrat has been the focus of scrutiny recently over a child support fight that raised questions about whether he lives in the district he represents and whether he failed to disclose more than $200,000 of income from a TennCare subcontractor. Now that subcontractor, the governmental affairs company Managed Care Services Group and chief executive Ronald R. Dobbins, have been fired. A Doral Dental spokesman said the firm fired Dobbins both...

I admire the courage of astronaut John Glenn. He has led our great nation into space and slipped the bounds of Earth's atmosphere as he sped off into the aether. Only this time, he neglected to suit up and travel on a rocket. John Glenn had this to say regarding the recent GOP convention. Former senator John Glenn (D-Ohio) took the defense a step further by comparing the Republicans' misleading statements to those of Nazi Germany. "You've just got to separate out fact from fiction. . . . Too often, too often, in this country, if you hear something repeated,...

(You will need a browser with Japanese font capability, and ability to comprehend written Japanese) As a FReeper Researcher, I have just come across a JAPANESE organization, based on an overseas JAPANESE website, in JAPANESE, that is encouraging foreigners to contribute money to and assist the "Campaign for American President Dennis Kucinich".The URL of the activity was located at:http://www.peace2001.org/ The organization is called "Global Peace Campaign" located in Japan. It is part of an umbrella of socialist and communist organizations opposing US efforts in Iraq, it supports North Korea, and is aligned with the usual communist movements.The website has...

CAMPAIGN CASH RACE TURNS INTERNATIONAL; MOVEON.ORG CENTER OF INTRIGUE; CLARK SEEKS CANADIAN SUPPORT, WEBSITE SHOWS Frustrated with the lack of domestic support, left-leaning website moveon.org has apparently been reaching beyond American borders to generate cash revenue over the Internet! The provocative international fundraising strategy threatens to embroil the presidential candidacy of General Wesley Clark and former Vermont Governor Howard Dean. Both men are named on international fundraising websites suggesting donations to moveon.org... Moveon.org, which has been running ads critical of the Bush Administration, has named an "International Campaigns Director." It is not clear how much money has been raised from...

Anna Marie Hartman Some county financial records declared off limits to auditor Shelby County Commissioners want to know who gave an order to ignore certain financial records of top officials. County Commissioners have taken it upon themselves to investigate the excessive credit card and travel expenses that has been making headlines for months now, particularly that of Mayor Jim Rout's former top aide Tom Jones. Today, commissioners on the finance committee met with their outside auditing firm to ask why abusive spending did not raise a red flag during their audits. Representatives from that firm say once the report gets...

Wilbun asks churches' help, cites GOP 'evil plan' By Marc Perrusquia perrusquia@gomemphis.com July 10, 2002 Cloaking himself in racial imagery, Juvenile Court Clerk Shep Wilbun is launching an early-vote effort to counter what he calls an "evil" Republican plan to defeat him in the Aug. 1 election. "I have been attacked . . . (in) an all-out effort to stop the first African-American Juvenile Court Clerk from continuing to be there for the people," Wilbun said in a letter his campaign circulated Tuesday. "This evil plan will not succeed." The letter, dated July 1, asks ministers of predominantly black churches...