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frican-American political leaders rallied around former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun on Saturday as a unity candidate best qualified to be Chicago mayor, capping a holiday week of private negotiations that left her the only major black politician in the campaign. Flanked by prominent black elected officials who dropped out and endorsed her bid, Braun told a crowd at the weekly Rainbow/PUSH Coalition meeting on the South Side that she has "the most credentials and the most qualifications and experience of all of the candidates running" to replace retiring Mayor Richard Daley. "And so they just chose the most qualified...

Susan Lindauer, a former reporter for U.S. News & World Report, whose byline appeared over some 1991 stories about the "Air Sununu" scandal, was arrested and arraigned in federal court in Baltimore on Thursday, charged with various counts related to working for and accepting payments from the Saddam Hussein regime, in violation of working with a terrorist state. In the late 1980s and early 1990s she worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Fortune before jumping to U.S. News in 1990 and then, by 1993, moving into a career as Press Secretary to a series of liberal Democrats: Then Congressmen Peter...

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS A BIG PROBLEM named Susan Lindauer, but you would never know this from the reporting by America’s dominant Left-leaning news media. Last Thursday Ms. Lindauer, 41, was arrested in her suburban Washington, D.C. home and charged with “prohibited financial transactions” from, acting as “an unregistered agent of,” and “conspiring” to act as a spy, both before and after the incursion a year ago, for Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS). Known in Arabic as the Mukhabbarat, the IIS has reportedly been involved in terrorist operations, intimidating and killing Iraqi defectors and dissidents, and according to Anwar...

We all know what it is that politicians talk a lot of. But it's worthwhile, especially in a presidential-election cycle, to examine stool specimens. George Bush says, "Our Founders dedicated this country to the cause of human dignity, the rights of every person, and the possibilities of every life." The job is to find the disclaimer: "See Alien and Sedition Acts for further details. Offer not valid for slaves, Indians, women, and persons without property in the following thirteen states." Howard Dean says, "The idea of America using its power solely for its own ends is not consistent with the...

Election time is quickly approaching. As we pass the threshold of December, we are reminded that the election is only 11 months away, and already, our noble candidates for office are hard at work. It is odd that the average president during his four-year term spends at least one full year campaigning for re-election. That’s 25 percent of his time in office; odd, yes, but when you look at the caliber of the candidates challenging George W. Bush for the presidency, one realizes that he doesn’t need to begin campaigning until at least October. The Democratic Party has produced nine...

WASHINGTON - In a boost to her flagging campaign, Democratic presidential candidate Carol Moseley Braun is expected to pick up her first major endorsements next week from the National Organization for Women and the National Women's Political Caucus. The endorsements, first reported in Friday's editions of the Chicago Sun-Times, will be announced Tuesday in Washington by leaders of the groups, according to a source with Braun's campaign. Spokeswomen for the organizations confirmed they would be endorsing a candidate on Tuesday but declined to say who it would be. Braun has played up her support for women's issues on the campaign...

Mimi ’n’ Monica, Moseley Braun and Sharpton, Vijay ’n’ Annika, and more By now, you've probably read about the 19-year-old intern who had an affair with President Kennedy. She was — is, rather — Marion "Mimi" Fahnestock, and she works at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in Manhattan. (That "Marion" is probably Marian, I would think.) Her story was told yesterday in the New York Daily News. Democrats must take some comfort in this: See, all their favorite presidents do it! I had a memory — maybe you did, too. It's September 1998, and Clinton is conducting a cabinet meeting....

Released: April 29, 2003 Gephardt Widens Iowa Caucus Lead, Kerry Second, Lieberman Slips to Third; 61% of Dems Say Bush Re-election Likely, According to New Zogby International Poll Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt has widened his lead in a poll of likely voters in the January 2004 Iowa Democratic presidential caucus. The poll of 387 likely caucus voters was conducted by Zogby International on April 25 - 27, 2003. The margin of error is +/- 5.1%, and margins are higher in sub-groups.Gephardt received the support of one-in four (25%), compared to 13% who said they would support Massachusetts Senator John Kerry....

<p>The Rev. Al Sharpton's presidential bid is sending shudders through the Democrats' rank and file, who fear that his fiery, racial rhetoric could divide their party and lead to defeat in 2004. Almost 10 months before the presidential primary contests begin, the black civil rights activist is coming under surprisingly sharp attack from Democratic-leaning journals and party activists, who say his agenda is rooted in racial polarization that poses a "nightmarish" scenario for Democrats next year.</p>

MIDI - 500 MILES She would speak…oh, what a freak…all her hopes were turning bleak Moseley-Braun was disappointed at the small crowd Five hundred chairs…five hundred chairs…although there's just one person there Carol's staff thought that she needed five hundred chairs The scene was quite a joke…to just one person she spoke It was someone who had known her way back in school Five hundred chairs…five hundred chairs…although there's just one person there Carol's staff thought that she needed five hundred chairs Moseley-Braun's in her prime…wins one voter at a time In about six thousand thirty, she'll stand a...

<p>If Carol Moseley-Braun means what she says about campaigning for president in Iowa one voter at a time, Tom Hanson had all of her attention Saturday.</p> <p>Hanson was the only soul - besides a dozen members of the local news media and half as many event coordinators - to brave a foot of fresh snow to hear the former U.S. senator from Illinois speak in Des Moines on Saturday afternoon.</p>

Eyes on the presidency Moseley-Braun encouraged to run for White House By Jeff Zeleny Washington Bureau Published January 17, 2003 WASHINGTON -- In a phone call Thursday, former Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun of Illinois told Democratic Party Chairman Terry McAuliffe she is taking her eye off another Senate bid so she can focus on a bigger prize: exploring a run for president. Leading Democrats here said they were not discouraging the ambitious move because the party must improve its appeal to African-Americans and women. A national campaign by Moseley-Braun also could dilute the presidential candidacy of civil rights activist Al Sharpton,...