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Any politician who has taken on Bill and Hillary Clinton's national political machine and won should not be underestimated. Yet Republicans as well as many Democrats persist in underrating Barack Obama's electoral talents and, above all, his soaring political ambition. His writerly mind, professorial bearing, and effortless self-control make it difficult to take his measure as a politician. He can seem cool, detached, unusually introspective. As a wag at the Financial Times put it, if John McCain's life story is the stuff of Hollywood movies, Obama's is like an off-Broadway play—it lacks action but is full of internal monologues. Raised...

A photo essay of Barak-O-polis at the link.

"Below you will find a list of activities children 12 and under can do to get involved. To start, print out our Logo Coloring Sheet, color it in and display at your house or in your school. Write a letter or editorial to your local news paper, expressing "Why Barack Obama should become the next US President". ...Take an adult (voting age) to the polls on Election Day and encourage them to vote for you, by voting for Senator Obama. ...Host a Senator Barack Obama House Party or sleep-over. Contribute to the Kids for Obama Blog .

On site report from Kristinn at a Cindy Sheehan anti war rally being held at the Independence Mall outside the Constitution Center. , Cindy said that she is determined t not only wants to see George Bush impeached but she wants to see him tried for Crimes Against Humanity. She states is so determined to see this done she says she will live for 1000 years. She went further by saying that even if she were involved in a fiery plane crash she would walk out alive just to see this done. Kristinn yelled out to her as she was...

MEXICO CITY - Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, convinced he won't be awarded the presidency, has vowed to create a parallel leftist government and is urging Mexicans not to recognize the apparent victory of the ruling party's Felipe Calderon. .................... Both scenarios are possibilities as the former Mexico City mayor lays out plans to create his own government to rule from the streets, with the support of thousands who are already occupying protest camps throughout downtown Mexico City. ...................

Undeterred after a week of bad news for her floundering U.S. Senate campaign, Rep. Katherine Harris vowed Thursday she would win and urged supporters not to get discouraged. "We'll win, so don't listen to the prognosticators, or the pollsters - you can make a poll say anything you want," Harris told about two dozen people at a luncheon. Earlier this week, a letter from state Republican Party leaders was disclosed that said they could not support her because she can't win. Also, former campaign staff revealed that Harris didn't tell them the campaign received a subpoena as part of a...

Montezuma’s Revenge, also called by some the Aztec Two-Step, was identified for generations throughout Latin America with the diarrhea, flatulence and gastric distress that tourists suffer after drinking bad water. However, if President Hugo Chavez gets his way, the name “Montezuma” will soon be associated directly with Hugo Chavez Frias, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and self-proclaimed leader of the new 21st century revolutionary socialism. Why? Because Chavez is convinced that he is a direct blood descendant of the Emperor Montezuma, the last lord of Aztec Mexica empire before Hernan Cortes arrived with a handful of homicidal Conquistadors...

A sign promoting the separation of church and state now accompanies the many holiday decorations at the State Capitol as of Friday. The Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation posted their annual “Winter Solstice” sign in the first-floor rotunda area, which has been gracing the building for the past 10 years despite mixed reactions from those who visit the state’s seat of government. The sign declares: “At this season of the Winter Solstice may reason prevail. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that...

Dig (cough, cough, hack, hack) the cover of today's Sunday newspaper insert "Parade." Pix of "wise guys" on the cover, including Benevolent Maximum Leader (a/k/a Bill Clinton), ID'd on the cover as "World Leader." Ditto the inside back cover, article "Investing in Education Pays Off," a puffy puff about the "global education crisis" featuring -- ta da! -- Hillary! Well, at least the photo was not the best one of her highness out there (musta been picked out by "Walter Scott")... Three-and-a-half more years of this caca. I don't know if I can take it...

ALFRED E."What, me worry?" CLINTON + CRAZY HIL MAD COVER STORY THE THREAT OF TERRORISM IS AS CLOSE AS A CLINTON IS TO THE OVAL OFFICE  by Mia T, 7.13.05   THE CLINTONS--AMERICA'S BIGGEST BLUNDERHear Bush 41 Warn Us--October 19, 1992*         hear*Thanx to Cloud William for text and audio     LEHRER: President Bush, your closing statement, sir. PRESIDENT BUSH: Three weeks from now--two weeks from tomorrow, America goes to the polls and you're going to have to decide who you want to lead this country ... On foreign affairs, some think it's irrelevant. I...

How did the flower children fall for the clintons, 2 such self-evident thugs and opportunists? (FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU! FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME!) by Mia T et al., 7.11.05   The book begins with a puzzle: How did the flower children fall for such a self-evident thug and opportunist? And it offers a possible hypothetical answer, which is that ''the Night Creature'' -- Nixon -- and his heirs and assigns could not ever possibly be allowed to be right about anything. When Eszterhas writes about Nixon, and his admirers like Lucianne Goldberg, he hits an...

  KLEIN BOOK CAUSES HILLARY TO (oops!) CONFIRM "THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY"CLINTON'S REACTION EXPOSES FASCISTIC MINDSET, TEXTBOOK CASE OF PARANOIA + MEGALOMANIA an amazon.com review   by Mia T, 7.3.05 Regarding missus clinton's profound dysfunction, her textbook case of paranoia and megalomania are fast becoming impossible to conceal... even from the most casual observer. And this is the case less because of the Klein book than because of hillary clinton's realtime reaction to it. By resorting to her old standbys, absolute media control and terror, i.e., blackmailing and other threats, the clinton 'secret police,' blackballing and censoring, hillary clinton exposes...

The key to understanding Lincoln's philosophy of statesmanship is that he always sought the meeting point between what was right in theory and what could be achieved in practice. By Dinesh D'Souza Most Americans -- including most historians -- regard Abraham Lincoln as the nation's greatest president. But in recent years powerful movements have gathered, both on the political right and the left, to condemn Lincoln as a flawed and even wicked man. For both camps, the debunking of Lincoln usually begins with an exposé of the "Lincoln myth," which is well described in William Lee Miller's 2002 book Lincoln's...

Why Wesley Clark is dangerous Posted: September 19, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Gen. Wesley Clark may be the most dangerous person in the presidential race. More dangerous than Howard Dean? More dangerous than Al Sharpton? More dangerous than Dennis Kucinich? Yes, more dangerous than any of these men – because he could win the Democratic nomination and the presidential election in 2004. Mark my words: You are going to see a huge shift of support for Clark in the polls. He will become an instant front-runner in the next few days. It's as if the other nine...

Road trip to Babylon boosts troops' morale By DENNIS O'BRIEN, The Virginian-Pilot © April 23, 2003 Last updated: 3:30 AM Near the reconstructed arch of Ishtar, Navy chaplains and their escorts begin exploring ancient Babylon to gain perspective for their sermons. Photo by Dennis O'Brien / The Virginian-Pilot. More dispatches from Dennis O'Brien in Iraq BABYLON -- It wasn't the order Charlie Company had hoped for -- which would be ``You're going home'' -- but it beat spending another day camped outside Kut. The Marines were sent on a one-day road trip Tuesday, and what better place to visit...

Wed Jul 24, 5:43 PM ET Former President Bill Clinton talks to reporters at the construction site of the William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park Wednesday, July 24, 2002, near downtown Little Rock, Ark. Clinton said the library complex will be a landmark for Little Rock. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

<p>SACRAMENTO - Bedeviled by a budget crunch and besieged by fund-raising questions, Gov. Gray Davis' campaign for re-election has gone on the attack.</p> <p>But political experts question whether the first negative TV ads produced by Davis against his opponent, GOP businessman Bill Simon Jr., will do much good.</p>

<p>FIRST STRIKE: After five days of "positive" ads, Gov. Gray Davis unleashed the first in what will likely be a series of attack ads on Republican opponent Bill Simon -- and with good reason.</p> <p>There's a new poll floating around Sacramento that shows the embattled Davis trailing Simon by a whopping eight points.</p>

Davis hints he’d support reparation suits. He should think again. Should insurance company executives, employees and shareholders — not to mention people who pay the premiums — be penalized for actions of corporate forebears 15 decades ago? Advocates of slavery reparations answer yes. Logic and justice say no. Earlier this month, California officials released details on pre-Civil War insurance policies on slaves written by companies that are still in business in one form or another. Attorneys pushing class-action lawsuits on behalf of descendants of slaves claim this data will help make their case in court. They’d better be wrong —...

The Gray Davis Appreciation Thread I realize that this is a California thing and a lot of you folks could care less (except that he may run for President some day), but I need a place to save some of my favorite articles about California Governor Gray Davis. Trust me that it's not a left vs. right thing. If it was strictly about ideology, I wouldn't even bother. This isn't about a 'woman's right to choose', it's not about my 2nd amendment right to own my own missile silo, it's not about price per megawatt on some energy contract, it's...