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What is Barack to do to defend himself against the Clinton machine?

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Great support of Barack!

By Sue - Sep 10th, 2008 at 7:26 am EDT

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I am a fan of the band R.E.M., from Athens, GA. They recently did a world exclusive documentary, and in the first part of it, they talk about the presidential race, GW Bush's failures, and their support for Barack Obama.

You can view the documentary at: http://www.xfm.co.uk/artists/interviews/2008/rem-documentary-part-1

Great stuff!

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Why Chuck Hagel is DEFINITELY NOT a VP choice for Barack

By Sue - Jul 16th, 2008 at 10:27 am EDT

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From: http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/76457.html

Former voting machine exec looking to become America's next Vice President?

Posted on Sunday, July 13, 2008 - 9:57 am:

Hardly anyone seems to remember this, but in 2004, a trial balloon went up suggesting that Democrat John Kerry team up with Republican John McCain as his running mate.

Mixing Democrats and Republicans on a presidential ticket is an appalling idea. The two power-parties already have a tight fisted grip on American politics. Such semi-mergers will eliminate or manipulate such diversity of choice as we have left.

This weekend, another such merger has been testing public opinion waters. Republican Chuck Hagel is reported by the Associated Press as saying he will consider the Vice President slot with Barack Obama. This particular suggestion traces back to Hagel himself; there is no evidence that Obama has suggested this. The rumors may actually originate from the Republican Party, or could even come from one of the Democratic rivals wanting to get on the ticket with Obama.

As for the idea itself, it's great, if you are in favor of moving to a one-party system and allowing a presidential ticket with ties to the nation's largest voting machine company. Hagel was CEO of one of the nation's most problematic voting machine companies, Election Systems & Software*, before he ran for office. His votes were counted by the company he had been running, while he still had up to $5 million in ownership in it. His campaign finance manager, Michael McCarthy, owned another huge chunk through the McCarthy Group investiment firm.

*American Information Systems (AIS) changed its name to Election Systems & Software (ES&S) in 1997.

Details: http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-3.pdf

SLIPPERY SLOPE TOWARD A ONE-PARTY SYSTEM

I liked having slightly more illusion about this great nation of ours than this current trial balloon permits. The uniparty concept is perilous.

There is no doubt that this is testing the waters -- by someone. I'm fairly familiar with the characteristic media symptoms when power politics is testing a political idea. This one has been sneaking around quietly in the backwaters -- I first heard about it in May -- and there was quite a bit of talk about it around June 20. But this weekend, it was launched in full force, with three successive Associated Press stories, the last one appearing about midnight (Pacific time) Saturday night.

The story was pushed out as follows:

(Obama) "Obama has invited Chuck Hagel to accompany him to Iraq."
(He also invited a Democrat.)

(Hagel) "I will consider an offer to be Vice President for Obama"

Then, and this is always very creepy to me, these trial balloon stories were immediately set upon by the Internet political propaganda teams. These operatives are as obvious as a rhino in a tea room. After each Obama/Hagel story is posted, up pop half a dozen comment posts, all sounding very much the same. They look something like this:

Gail from Illinois: "I think Hagel would be the ideal running mate, Obama would win in 2008!
MichiganMike: Obama/Hagel 2008!
Sue from Florida: Hagel is exactly what Obama needs!
IndyJohn: Hagel has always been my hero, he'd be a perfect running mate.

Sometimes, the comments are closed off before counterbalance can appear.

CHUCK'S FAVORITE VOTING MACHINES

Hagel worked for the George H.W. Bush administration in the 1980s. Initially, he was chosen to oversee the Agent Orange program for war veterans. His actions were controversial in this program.

Cellular technology pushed into the US by selling off territories in a "lottery" type mechanism. The cushiest territory "lottery" win went to Chuck Hagel, who got to corner the cell phone market in Washington DC and surrounding Virginia and Maryland areas. When Hagel ran for office in 1996, controversies about how he won the lucrative cell phone lottery surfaced in the campaign; I was not able to get specifics.

In the late 1980s, Chuck Hagel went to Saudi Arabia where he got the cell phone network going. He then went to work for George H.W. Bush in a privatization effort.

Originally from Nebraska, he had been living in the Washington DC area all through the 1980s. He moved back to Nebraska to take the helm at ES&S, then called AIS. He headed the AIS Board of Directors while Bob Urosevich ran the company. (As you may recall, Urosevich then went to run Diebold Election Systems.)

In 1994, Bob Urosevich left AIS and Hagel become CEO. This lasted until Hagel announced his run for the US Senate. He announced his candidacy two weeks after stepping down as AIS CEO. He also held stock in AIS and also in its parent company, McCarthy Group. AIS changed its name to Election Systems & Software in 1997.

Michael McCarthy, who heads McCarthy Group, was Hagels campaign finance director. When I first broke the story about Hagel and the voting machine company in 2002, Michael McCarthy's son was working in Hagel's DC office.

Hagel was not expected to win the 1996 primary, but he did, and it was such an upset that it made national news. "Can lightening strike twice?" one headline read, referring to the even more improbable prospects for Hagel winning the general. He did win. AIS/ES&S counted 80 percent of his votes.

By 2000, he was being talked about as the potential running mate for George W. Bush. He made the "short list" but Bush chose Dick Cheney instead. Hagel stated to the press in 2003 that he would consider a run for the presidency, and that was the event that caused me to call Alexander Bolton of "The Hill" to persuade a more mainstream media outlet to run a story on Hagel's voting machine company ties.

Hagel did not disclose his ownership in the voting machine company. He did disclose up to $5 million in McCarthy Group, but failed to disclose the underlying assets of McCarthy Group as required. He did not disclose that he had been CEO of the voting machine company, even though that was clearly required. He was required to list every position held during the past two years; he listed a volunteer position with the Red Cross, but failed to mention that he was CEO of the voting machine company that counted his votes. According to Bolton, Hagel's 1996 documents have been removed from the Senate Ethics Committee repository, along with the letters from the Ethics Committee asking him for proper disclosure.

Sources tell me 2003 Ethics Chairman Victor Baird took the position that Hagel failed to properly disclose the McCarthy underlying assets. Hours before Alex Bolton was set to interview him, Baird resigned. The new ethics chairperson took the official position that Hagel had done nothing wrong.

ES&S is now the largest voting machine company in the US, and certainly one of the most heavily criticized, for miscounting elections, voting machine malfunctions and questionable billing and contract procedures -- although the "most problematic" title is one that is hotly contested by all contenders.

We all need to contact Barack Obama to let him know we will not accept Chuck Hagel as his VP!!!!!

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Ask Speaker Pelosi ....

By Sue - Jul 8th, 2008 at 6:59 pm EDT

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Go to: http://www.askthespeaker.org

and post your questions to Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

On Saturday morning (July 19, 9:00am) there will be a forum when she is asked many of the questions we submit. You can also vote up or down anyone else's questions, and add comments. Great idea!

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Obama and the FISA bill... think before you saying you won't support Obama

By Sue - Jul 5th, 2008 at 3:53 pm EDT

Although I am quite disappointed, I understand Obama's position on the FISA bill to a certain extent. I'm hoping that Feingold, Dodd and Bingaman are successful in getting this thing right before the bill is passed. If that happens, I hope Obama and the rest of the democrats will support the stronger measures against immunity and for protection of our constitutional rights.

While I, along with so many Obama supporters are feeling like Obama has in some ways abandoned what he stood for from the beginning, I will continue to support him AND vote for him. Simply saying you will vote for him but will not continue to support him, defeats the necessary goal of NOT having John McCain take office. That option would be so much worse. McCain will do nothing to help us with this, that's very obvious. McCain states that Obama has flip-flopped, but you don't hear McCain saying he's against the bill either.

At least Obama does still have the same ultimate objective of protecting our constitutional rights. Because certain electronic surveillance orders will begin to expire later this summer, Obama is looking at the larger picture, as not having anything in place could place us in great danger. Let's do whatever we can to have the Dem's get a more reasoned bill/amendments in place before those expirations. Obama did say that because of our participation, that there have been some improvements, so we must continue the cause to force Congress get it right; we must do our part. We must each believe in OUR OWN ability to change Washington. Obama definitely believes "we" have the ablity to do so.

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Edwards, Rove to face off in UB debate

By Sue - Jul 5th, 2008 at 2:30 pm EDT

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I won't be able to go... but I hope some of you will!

I have to say though, my guess is that Karl Rove (the furthest from distinguished you could ever get, should be extinguished instead) will walk around everything as always, won't give a straight answer to anything. He'd have to be subjected to waterboarding to confess to any of the crimes he's committed, and even then, he probably still wouldn't do so.

The article:

Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain might not burn up the campaign trail around Western New York this election year, but the University at Buffalo may have scheduled the next best thing.

GOP strategist Karl Rove and former Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards will debate the issues of the presidential campaign Sept. 26 as part of the university's Distinguished Speakers Series, The Buffalo News has learned.

As surrogates for the parties' standard bearers, the two also could square off more than once at other locations around the nation.

"We're working on something like that for our Distinguished Speakers Series," said Bill Regan, UB's director of special events. "We're not really sure of the format yet. But we do think they are scheduled to do it at least once together before they come to UB."

Though McCain, a Republican, is scheduled to visit Buffalo briefly for a major fundraiser July 21 in the Albright- Knox Art Gallery, most analysts already are ceding New York to the Democrats. Still, Joshua Dyck, assistant professor of political science at UB, calls such an event genuine "political theater" that could have an effect.

"It's actually good for the Democratic process," he said. "People vote because politics is a lot like sports. Rooting for your team probably doesn't affect the outcome much, but people can say 'I was there.' "

Dyck said such events heighten emotions and can encourage voters to become involved even if the race at the top of the ballot appears lopsided. The spin-off effect, he said, could spur interest in competitive races, such as selecting a successor to retiring Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds, R-Clarence.

Matching up such well-known political figures as Edwards and Rove will make the event all the more interesting, he added. Edwards, a former senator from North Carolina, is a household name because of his bids for the presidency in 2004 and this year's contest, as well as his role as Sen. John F. Kerry's vice presidential running mate in 2004.

Rove, often dubbed "Bush's brain" from his days as President Bush's chief political adviser, has become even more visible since leaving the White House as an analyst for Fox News and a frequent contributor to the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal.

Neither Rove nor Edwards was available Thursday for comment.

The 8 p. m. debate would lead off the lecture series, which has featured such major figures as former Vice President Al Gore and the late Tim Russert of NBC News.

Regan said the full schedule for the series will be announced later this month, when series subscriptions will become available. Tickets for individual programs, including the Edwards- Rove event, are expected to go on sale a short time later.

Article found at: http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/384676.html

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Barack, the DNC, and the general election

By Sue - Jun 30th, 2008 at 11:46 am EDT

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What worries me... How much control does the DNC have over Obama now that we're in the general election phase? Does he have to cow-tow to them according to what they say is going to be the democratic "platform"? If that is the case, it is so sad that they are willing to require him to dismantle so much of what he has stood for, in order to put forth what they think works, that now the campaign belongs to them and him. If he's the candidate, he should be setting the platform as the party leader, and not the other way around. Just another case I have against the two-party system. Just another reason for me to hate Washington. Let the leader lead for Pete's sake!

I'd be interested to know if anyone else suspects this may be behind his reasons for recent flexes in his positions, leaning more center?

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Congress or Tiddlywinks?

By Sue - Jun 29th, 2008 at 10:37 am EDT

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I say Congress = Tiddlywinks

There are two basic aims: to cover opponent winks, and to get one's own winks into the pot.

Names of Tiddlywink shots.

From Wikpedia:

Blitz: an attempt to pot all six winks of your own colour early in the game

Bomb: to send a wink at a pile, usually from distance, in the hope of significantly disturbing it

Boondock: to free a squopped wink by sending it a long way away, leaving the squopping wink free in the battle area

Bristol: a shot which moves a pile of two or more winks as a single unit; the shot is played by holding the squidger at right angles to its normal plane

Carnovsky(US)/Penhaligon(UK): potting a wink from the baseline (i.e. from 3 feet away)

Cracker: a simultaneous knock-off and squop, i.e. a shot which knocks one wink off the top of another while simultaneously squopping it

Crud: a forceful shot whose purpose is to destroy a pile completely

Good shot: named after John Good. The shot consists of playing a flat wink through a nearby pile in the hope of destroying it

Gromp: an attempt to jump a pile onto another wink (usually with the squidger held in a conventional rather than Bristol fashion)

John Lennon memorial shot: a simultaneous boondock and squop

Lunch: to pot a squopped wink (usually belonging to an opponent)

Scrunge: to bounce out of the pot

Squop: to play a wink so that it comes to rest above another wink

Sub: to play a wink so that it ends up under another wink

See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062703409.html

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Please sign this petition

By Sue - Jun 21st, 2008 at 1:13 pm EDT

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If anyone here is against the passing of the FISA bill HR 6304, please sign this petition. We need to let Barack Obama know how we feel. I do believe Barack is our best candidate, but I am concerned on this issue. At this time Obama is planning to vote yea, while hoping to remove the telecom amnesty provision in the bill.

I support Obama on removing the amnesty, but I also believe that although this bill will strengthen protection of our Fourth Amendment rights, I believe it does NOT FULLY protect them. I don't agree with compromising our constitutional rights in any way, shape or form. We should not be giving up a freedom for protection.

This is not the kind of bipartisanship I am in favor of, and it is contrary to what I thought Obama believes as well.

The petition is at:

http://www.petitiononline.com/bo90210/petition.html

The petition asks Barack to do two things:

1) That he speaks out against the bill in its entirety and encourage other Senators to vote against it when it comes up for a vote in the Senate next week.

2) That when called to vote on the FISA Bill, that he votes against it in its entirety.

On the House voteon Friday, 6/20, the bill passed. Republicans had 188 yeas.

Nay votes were all democrats except 1 republican and democrats had 105 yeas and 128 nays.

Former democratic presidential candidate, Dennis Kucinich, voted nay. He believes that this bill allows large corporations and big government together to violate the US constitution, to spy, to wiretap, to use large databases to collect information, that a warrant is not required as long as a foreign target is identified, that blanket wiretaps and massive and untargeted interception of communications make it impossible to know whose calls have been intercepted to be protected under the 4th amendment.

The following house reps voted against this bill: all democrats except 1 republican

Abercrombie

Allen

Andrews
Baldwin
Becerra
Blumenauer
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Capps
Capuano
Carnahan
Carson
Clarke
Clay
Cohen
Conyers
Costello
Courtney
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle
Edwards (MD)
Ellison
Eshoo
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Foster
Frank (MA)
Gonzalez
Grijalva
Hall (NY)
Hare
Hill
Hinchey
Hirono
Hodes
Holt
Honda
Hooley
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, E. B.
Jones (OH)
Kagen
Kaptur
Kennedy
Kilpatrick
Kucinich
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lee
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lynch
Maloney (NY)
Markey
Matsui
McCollum (MN)
McDermott
McGovern
McNulty
Meek (FL)
Michaud
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Mollohan
Moore (WI)
Moran (VA)
Murphy (CT)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Payne
Price (NC)
Rangel
Rothman
Roybal-Allard
Ryan (OH)
Sánchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schwartz
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Shea-Porter
Slaughter
Solis
Speier
Sutton
Thompson (CA)
Tierney
Towns
Tsongas
Udall (NM)
Van Hollen
Velázquez
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson
Watt
Waxman
Weiner
Welch (VT)
Wexler
Woolsey
Wu

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I read the news today oh boy...

By Sue - Jun 19th, 2008 at 2:08 pm EDT

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Today's news headlines are really testing my patience!

1. The Democratic-led Congress, with the support of key House leaders, is moving quickly to expand unconstitutional spying authority on Americans and reward telecoms for breaking the law.

A sham spying "compromise" similar to the one we warned you about last week could be rammed through both the Senate and House this week. It's moving that fast.

From: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-levine/dems-in-congress-moving-n_b_107722.html

Senator Obama please take time off of your campaign to fight passing of this legislation!

Go here to send a message to congress opposing this legislation:

https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&id=975&page=UserAction&JServSessionIdr009=ycv8bmlrp4.app20a

2. With gasoline topping $4 a gallon, President Bush urged Congress on Wednesday to lift its long-standing ban on offshore oil and gas drilling, saying the United States needs to increase its energy production. ... So much for clean energy... and there's no way this will lower our cost for fuel!!

3. House leaders struck a bipartisan deal on Wednesday night on a major spending measure that would provide money for the war in Iraq through the end of the Bush administration, establish a significant new education benefit for veterans, and meet Democratic demands for added unemployment benefits.

The bill, which could be voted on as early as Thursday in the House, would effectively bring to a close the two-year battle between President Bush and Congressional Democrats over war financing by allocating about $163 billion for combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan through early next year without imposing conditions like a withdrawal deadline.

The measure would entitle veterans, those who enlisted after the Sept. 11 attacks and served three years or more, to what amounts to four years of college education at a state university. To win Republican support, House leaders dropped a plan to pay the $50 billion cost of the program through a tax on affluent Americans and also agreed that some of the benefits could be transferred to immediate family members. (So just how is this going to be paid for???)

From: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/washington/19spend.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

4. General who probed Abu Ghraib says Bush officials committed war crimes

But congress won't take action on impeachment???

5. Re: Iraq Humanitarian crisis: from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hanna-ingber-win/running-on-iraq-the-ignor_b_107778.html

John McCain talks a lot about the MiddleEast and the threat of "radical Islamic terrorism." He challenged Barack Obama to take a tour with him of Iraq so McCain could educate him on the country, so Obama could get in touch with the the facts on the ground. In his celebrated tour of Iraq in March, McCain made a show of visiting an open-air market in Baghdad, saying that Americans weren't getting a full picture of the progress being made there and pointing out that he could walk freely through whole neighborhoods in the city. As it turned out McCain walked nowhere freely. He wore a bullet proof vest the entire time and in the open-air market enjoyed the company of one hundred American soldiers, three Blackhawk helicopters, and two Apache gunships.

Obama in his speech in Minnesota last week, when he effectively clinched the Democratic Party nomination, talked about Iraq, but mostly to scold Iraqi politicians for not stepping up and taking responsibility for running their country.

Thank goodness for : Barack Obama's website includes a six-page Iraq Fact Sheet , a section of which reports that he intends to "increase American investment in Iraq's refugees and internally displaced people and to the neighboring countries that house them to at least $2 billion."

6. Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP -- the original partners in the Iraq Petroleum Company -- along with Chevron and a number of smaller oil companies, are in talks with Iraq's Oil Ministry for no-bid contracts to service Iraq's largest fields, according to ministry officials, oil company officials and an American diplomat.

From: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/18/big-western-oil-companies_n_107972.html

We all knew the Iraq war was about OIL!!!

There's lots more... I'm just so weary of how our nation's government and its large corporations are operating!!!

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Karl Rove puts mud in McCain camp

By Sue - Jun 17th, 2008 at 12:23 pm EDT

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Report: Rove Talks "Fairly Regularly" With McCain Camp; Getting Six Figures From Freedom's Watch

Read the article: http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/06/8690_natl_journal_ro.html

They keep digging themselves deeper and deeper.

Bring it on... Thank you... Just what John McCain needed... a well paid common criminal trying to help elect him.

Very bright move Senator McCain!

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Give Barack Obama a Father's Day gift!

By Sue - Jun 12th, 2008 at 8:46 am EDT

Happy Father's Day Barack Obama!

Show our future president your support. He's an awesome Dad!

Please donate any amount you can.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/4gsrm

Thank you fellow supporters!

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Great video!

By Sue - Jun 11th, 2008 at 11:33 am EDT

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Here's a great pro-Obama video... 3 minutes worth watching.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=78po5ADXMsI

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MCCAIN TROLLS HAVE ARRIVED

By Sue - Jun 8th, 2008 at 10:51 pm EDT

The McCain trolls are in.... please report them to the admin!

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Sing, sing a song, McCain will be gone!

By Sue - Jun 6th, 2008 at 10:11 am EDT

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From Huffington Post:

Full article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/05/majority-of-iraqi-legisla_n_105427.html

In a letter to Congress, dovetailing with yesterday's testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight, thirty-one Iraqi legislators, representing a majority of the Iraq Parliament, have expressed "widespread disapproval of the proposed U.S.-Iraq security agreement if it does not include a specific timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. military troops."

We, the undersigned members of the council, wish to confirm your concerns that any international agreement that is not ratified by the Iraqi legislative power is considered unconstitutional and illegal, in accordance with the current rulings and laws of the Iraqi Republic. Furthermore, any treaty, agreement or "executive agreement" that is signed between Iraq and the United States will not be legal and will not enter the stage of implementation without first being ratified by the Council of Representatives, in accordance with Article 61 of Section Four of the Iraqi constitution, which gives the Iraqi government's legislative power, represented by the Council of Representatives, the exclusive right to ratify international treaties and agreements.

Likewise, we wish to inform you that the majority of Iraqi representatives strongly reject any military-security, economic, commercial, agricultural, investment or political agreement with the United States that is not linked to clear mechanisms that obligate the occupying American military forces to fully withdraw from Iraq, in accordance with a declared timetable and without leaving behind any military bases, soldiers or hired fighters.

The chorus of disapproval is of substantial consequence, as it will require a two-thirds majority of the Iraqi Council of Representatives to ratify the security agreement that is currently being hashed out by Iraq and the United States. Congressman Bill Delahunt, who impaneled yesterday's hearings, has co-sponsored a bill with Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro that "bars funding for any agreement that has not been approved by Congress."

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Barack deserved more

By Sue - Jun 6th, 2008 at 8:53 am EDT

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I've been reflecting on Barack's momentous day when he became the democratic presumptive nominee. It was truly such an amazing accomplishment for Barack, his family, and all of us in America and around the world. I'm a little sad though, and I'm hoping that Barack will sense the compassion that I'm feeling towards him. While Barack was preparing to make his speech as our presumptive nominee, he was pre-empted by a rather ungracious speech given by Hillary Clinton. What happened during her speech basically put her in the spotlight, even though she was the loser. She was announced to her crowd, as the next president of the United States of America. How unkind was that? As she proceeded in her speech, she gave Barack a small gesture of congrats, by saying what a great campaign he ran, but she did not come out and say what she should have said, congrats on being our presumptive nominee, and for being the first black presidential nominee in the history of our nation. The remainder of her speech was about her, "What does Hillary want." She spent time reinforcing her support, keeping them to herself, not letting them 'go.' Now there's still a 'job' that Barack has to do, to bring Hillary's supporters into ours. I can understand why he'll need to campaign in areas that he'd like to secure the vote, but didn't grab enough during the primaries. However, I see so many Clinton supporters with the attitude of what are we going to do to 'win them over' and keep them from not voting or voting for McCain. This is Hillary's doing. She caused this attitude amongst her supporters by her words and actions in the final months of the campaign. She's got them convinced that the presidency or vice presidency revolves around Hillary, that she must be on the ticket. Step back for just a moment. Think about how Barack Obama would have handled this had he lost and Hillary had won. Regardless of how much his supporters wanted him to win, and may have claimed they would not vote for Hillary, I know that he would have been so positive about Hillary, as he always has, and would have immediately thrown his full support behind her, and would have suggested his supporters to do the same. It would not be about "what does Barack want", not in any way shape or form. This is what has been really really bothering me. When I watched Barack and Michelle enter the stage for his speech on Tuesday night, I detected some sadness in Barack, he wasn't his usual smiley so happy self, and he should have been absolutely exuberant with enthusiasm and joy! My belief is that Hillary burst his bubble of joy with her preceding speech. It wasn't right, it wasn't gracious, it wasn't thoughtful, it was downright mean and selfish. I just wanted to get this off my chest. It's been really on my mind so much. And so Barack Obama and family, including all of his supporters here, I want to say, you deserved so much more, and I'm so very very proud of what you have accomplished, for what you have endured to accomplish what you have, and for your unrelenting consideration of others, your integrity and your grace. You deserve more!

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TRUTH TO POWER !!!

By Sue - Jun 3rd, 2008 at 9:22 am EDT

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Let's get the truth out and take on the power-monger hate spreaders before they even begin.

Everyone's out there whispering about a tape of Michelle Obama saying "whitey." Let's spread truth

to power beginning right now and nip it in the bud. What Michelle said was "Why'd he", not "whitey."

Spread this everywhere you can, get the truth out asap and as much as possible.!

Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Karl Rove, Bill O'Reilly, et al, your time is done. We're not going to take it anymore! The truth shall be told!!

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Hillary's demise

By Sue - Jun 1st, 2008 at 10:20 am EDT

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The more Hillary's site turns into a continued slug fest, the more the real democrats are going to defect and flow to Obama. We already saw that beginning in the DNC vote yesterday. I'm sure many of Hillary's supporters, though they may still think she should be the nominee, will be totally disgusted with the antics of many of her never-die supporters with their continued inability to see the loss, and will find that unity is the better option.
I don't think Obama will choose Hillary as VP. Myself, I dread the thought of him being followed around with the likes of her and Bill, and their ways of campaigning. She so represents everything that Barack is trying to change in politics. He has many other viable choices, and as I said previously, the true democrats will be coming along with us either way. Even her constituents in NY state are no longer seeing her as a positive force for them. She needs to work on taking a really good look at herself and redefining herself as a positive humble person by both action and words. Time off from being at the center of politics will hopefully be what will spur her on to do just that. Perhaps another book, and one that is self-reflecting rather than complaining about how she feels she was mistreated, would be a great new beginning for her. I wish her the best, but I definitely don't include her being VP in that wish.

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Why Hillary is the strongest candidate

By Sue - May 28th, 2008 at 11:46 am EDT

Why Hillary is the strongest candidate:

She's the strongest liar.

She's the strongest rule changer.

She's the strongest criminal. (current lawsuit for campaign finance fraud, just one example)

She's the strongest un-vetted candidate. (the repubs haven't touched her in any way, yet)

She's the strongest holder of a horribly managed campaign.

She's the strongest complainer.

She's the strongest Appalachia white working class uneducated voter con-girl.

She's the strongest Republican Karl Rovian tactics player.

She's the strongest big money holding claimer of being non-elite.

She's the strongest supporter of fighting until both she and the party die.

She's the strongest divisiveness-polarization candidate.

She's the strongest surrogate idiocy holder.

She's the strongest losing former super-delegates support holder.

She's the strongest long-time supporters defected holder.

She's the strongest proclaimed fighter of lobbyists and special interests whilst being in bed with lobbyists and special interests.

She's the stronget beneficiary of the Rush Limbaugh campaign.

The list could go on and on...

Wouldn't it be quite a fiasco to have her get the nomination, and then see what the repub's do to her? Obama and the repubs have given her a free ride. Obama has stayed away from the negative campaigning, whilst he's been given the task of taking on Karl Rovian attacks from both Hillary and the Republicans throughout the entire campaign.

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I can't wait til Hillary is out!

By Sue - May 25th, 2008 at 11:33 pm EDT

I really really really can't wait til Hillary is out of this!!!

Note to Hillary supporters....(As Hillary would say) : I regret if what I said offends you.

That should make you feel better.

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McCain, Ferraro, Dubya and many more!

By Sue - May 19th, 2008 at 6:20 pm EDT

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You need to read this! Why doesn't the media publicize this stuff?

John McCain info on campaign contributions, at the bottom of this page: http://www.opencongress.org/people/show/300071_john_mccain

Info on John McCain's TOP contributor Blank Rome LLP: http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=10750

Blank Rome has paid tons in lobbyist money for The Department of Homeland Security

These lobbyists and their clients -- through both individual donations and those of their political action committees -- have poured still more hundreds of thousands into the campaigns and PACs of powerful Republican members of Congress who control DHS appropriations and oversight.

While Blank Rome includes Democrats in its lobbying phalanx, Republicans dominate in terms of stature and fund-raising clout. Last year Girard-diCarlo moved up from Pioneer to Ranger status (meaning he had doubled the amount he raised for the Bush-Cheney campaign to $200,000), while both Holman and Buchholtz became Pioneers. Blank Rome employees were the seventh most generous contributors to the RNC in 2004, pouring in $345,000, which included contributions by Girard-diCarlo ($50,000), Buchholtz ($12,500), and partner David Norcross ($37,500), who was named to chair the arrangements committee at 2004's Republican National Convention in New York City.

Info showing Geraldine Ferraro is part of Blank Rome:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/business/01firm.html?ex=1327986000&en=ac04f0e05964cb18&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

I'm sure this is only the tip of the iceberg.

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