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  • W.H.: TR, Obama not communist

    12/06/2011 12:31:15 PM PST · by ColdOne · 21 replies
    Politico44 ^ | 12/6/11 | BYRON TAU
    From today’s briefing, the White House insists that they’re not worried about President Obama being labeled a socialist or a communist -- as Theodore Roosevelt was in 1910: Q: Teddy Roosevelt was called a socialist and a communist after he gave this speech. Is the President mindful of that, and keeping that in part of his target? MR. CARNEY: No, I think -- I think that is an irony, because I don’t think -- I would assume that this President’s critics share in his admiration for Teddy Roosevelt as a titan in American history and a hugely important and progressive...
  • Hillary’s Summer Cruise: It’s all coming up roses for the once and future frontrunner

    06/13/2007 5:12:34 PM PDT · by Utah Girl · 26 replies · 738+ views
    National Review Online ^ | 6/13/2007 | Jim Geraghty
    Sometimes it’s the little things that suggest a campaign has, at least for now, weathered the Obama storm and is moving smoothly into the summer. Hillary Clinton’s Tuesday morning press conference, announcing her endorsement by Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, had a multitude of those little omens. 1. Few if any defections of consequence. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and opportunism hath no representative like a New Jersey politician. (Think of former Sen. Bob Torricelli, creator of the Torricelli rule that limited the use of CIA sources with checkered human-rights records, ripping into the Central Intelligence...
  • Venezuela 'landslide' for Chavez [ EU verified ]

    12/04/2005 8:29:38 PM PST · by minus_273 · 30 replies · 959+ views
    BBCnews ^ | 12/5/05 | BBC
    Parties allied to President Hugo Chavez say they have won all 167 seats in the country's parliament, after elections boycotted by the opposition. None of the five main opposition parties took part, accusing the electoral body of bias. Only about 25% of registered voters cast a ballot. A two-thirds majority in parliament will allow Mr Chavez to remove the current constitutional limit of two presidential terms in office. But the opposition says the low turnout deprives the election of legitimacy. "Venezuela is speaking with its silence," said Julio Borges, a prominent opposition member. 'Resisting death' The Fifth Republic Movement, Mr...