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President Obama made clear during five wide-ranging television interviews Sunday that he had firmly turned the page on the George W. Bush administration's foreign policy, which he described as unfocused and "adrift" in Afghanistan as well as outdated in its approach to a possible Iranian missile threat. Continues...============================================================== All we are saying is give surrender an umpteenth chance The world seems shocked, stunned and dismayed that the chap who palled around with terrorists, lawyered for ACORN, hung around Jeremiah Wright's "church" for twenty years and currently fancies himself as maker of Czars would cave in to an actual Czar, Russia's...

Long-shot presidential candidate's event dwarfed by competitors' The steamroller that is Dennis Kucinich's presidential campaign rolled into Las Vegas on Saturday night for a fundraising dinner. The exclusive $25-per-plate dinner for the long shot Democratic aspirant, at Tipps Thai Cuisine on Spring Mountain Road, had the potential, what with the silent auction and all, to raise thousands of dollars for the elfin peace candidate. Thousands. Probably not five figures, but definitely thousands. The math: About 70 true-blue Kucinichites showed. For various reasons, two or three more people ate, and those guys count on the expenses side of the event, even...

Presidential hopeful John Edwards said Monday that Americans should speak out against the war in Iraq this Memorial Day weekend, renewing an anti-war call that has been criticized by the leader of the American Legion. Edwards also said all young people should serve their country, "not just poor kids who get sent to war." The former U.S. senator from North Carolina and 2004 vice presidential nominee said the most patriotic position now is to end the war, and the best way to honor veterans this Memorial Day weekend is to bring the troops home from Iraq. "There's another thing we...

Four members of ImpeachforPeace.org met with the Honorable Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN 5th) in his Minneapolis offices on Saturday morning, April 22, to discuss the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Early in the meeting, Ellison made clear that his opinion hasn't changed since he introduced a resolution for the impeachment of President Bush as a Minnesota State Legislator by saying, "Impeachment should be on the table." In Washington D.C. attending sessions of Congress during the week, Ellison regularly travels home to be with his wife Kim and four children each weekend, taking some time...

Marine Corporal From A Bunker In Ramadi: "I Got A Message For That Douche Harry Reid" This Email To Me, Harry, And America, Direct From A Grunt On The Front Lines Of Ramadi, Is Just Hours Old. Corporal Tyler Rock, 1/6 Charlie Company, on the left, at my old home, Camp Hurricane Point, Ramadi. A view from OP Horea, "Most Dangerous Spot On Earth", Downtown Ramadi. I no shit watched several terrorists die, on several different days, on this small strip of asphalt. We also took many IED strikes on it. This photo is from Corporal Rock. Today, from Corporal...

Party Of Retreat: The Senate's top Democrat has announced to terrorists a U.S. surrender in Iraq. Considering our new strategy's documented successes, Harry Reid's determination to lose is practically treasonous. In a week that saw the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, and a Senate committee subject the attorney general to a modern-day Salem witch trial, the Senate majority leader managed to say something that made headlines: "This war is lost," the Nevada Democrat told reporters Thursday, "and this surge is not accomplishing anything." That's odd. According to the Pentagon, the influx of tens of thousands of troops, accompanied by...

Dear Rush: Pardon my French, but you’re full of s***! As I listened to your show last week, you chose to criticize and attack conservative Americans like myself who feel the Republican Party does not deserve to win in November. Rush, since when did you become such a shill for the GOP? Choosing the party over the base is a very disappointing move to this long time listener. I’m very disappointed in you, Rush Limbaugh, you’ve lost touch with the reality that is life for the common man in America. I heartily recommend you take pause and reconsider your programming...

IREY TO MURTHA: 'DEFEATOCRAT?' YOU SAID IT, NOT ME Monday, October 16, 2006 (MONONGAHELA, October 16) -- Washington County Commissioner and Pennsylvania 12th district Republican Congressional nominee Diana Irey -- responding to Jack Murtha's op-ed piece, "Confessions of a 'Defeatocrat,' in yesterday's Washington Post -- today released this statement: "Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of 10 million Iraqis going to the polls to cast their ballots to approve the Iraqi Constitution. And how did Jack Murtha respond? By penning an op-ed piece in the Washington Post in which he whined about how his political opponents are engaged in what he...

Rep. John Murtha, a decorated Marine veteran who favors withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, wrote an essay for Sunday's Washington Post blasting Republicans for referring to him and other Iraq war opponents as "Defeatocrats." In his opinion piece, first published on the Post's Web site Saturday night, Murtha, D-Pa., said Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and others in the White House have called Iraq war opponents appeasers and pessimists and labeled Democrats the "cut and run" party. "It's all baseless name-calling, and it's all wrong," Murtha wrote. "Unless, of course, being a Defeatocrat means taking a...