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<p>President Obama? Not so fast, says The New Republic’s Noam Scheiber. John McCain doesn’t need a “catastrophic external event” to defeat Obama on Election Day, Scheiber says.</p> <p>“I happen to think Obama’s chances of winning are upward of 80 percent,” he writes at The Plank, his magazine’s political blog. He later adds, “But, truth be told, I can imagine a losing scenario that doesn’t involve outside events. It goes something like this: Obama wins all the Kerry states plus Iowa and New Mexico, giving him 264 electoral votes, then narrowly loses the rest of the red states where he’s currently competitive.”</p>

From "Right Smart" http://rightsmart.blogspot.com/2007/12/more-on-case-of-wayne-dumond.html All would agree the Wayne Dumond case ended in tragedy. Unfortunately, this case has been turned into a political hatchet job by Arkansas Democrats and possibly by GOP rivals to Huckabee. Consider the following evidence... In 1997, Parole Board member Charles Chastain said Huckabee did not lobby him regarding Dumond: "Dr. Charles Chastain voted against the parole last week. Chastain said Huckabee talked to board members about Dumond last fall, but the governor's office didn't lobby him to vote for parole." Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 1/23/97 The next day, Parole Board member Deborah Suttlar concurred with Chastain...

Retired US Iraq general demands Rumsfeld resign WASHINGTON - A recently retired two-star general who just a year ago commanded a U.S. Army division in Iraq on Wednesday joined a small but growing list of former senior officers to call on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign. "I believe we need a fresh start in the Pentagon. We need a leader who understands teamwork, a leader who knows how to build teams, a leader that does it without intimidation," Maj. Gen. John Batiste, who commanded the Germany-based 1st Infantry Division in Iraq, said in an interview on CNN. In recent...