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The Los Angeles Times has Gov., McClintock on Same Side This Time.

The conservative state senator, who opposed Schwarzenegger in the 2003 recall election, appears in Redding to help promote initiatives.

Campaigning alongside Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday, state Sen. Tom McClintock paused and stated the obvious: “Now, you all know I ran against this governor in the recall.”

Assessing the damage, Schwarzenegger grinned and said, “Just a little bit.”

he legislator from Thousand Oaks could once have been a political liability, but the governor has brought his more conservative — and frequently — contrarian Republican colleague into the tent.

On Tuesday, during an appearance here to promote the Nov. 8 special election, the governor called the senator a “terrific, terrific partner of mine.”

McClintock, the only major Republican to challenge Schwarzenegger during the contentious recall effort in 2003, ended up getting 1.1 million votes, or 13.5%. Further frustrating Schwarzenegger, he signed the ballot arguments opposing the governor’s budget initiatives last year.

But McClintock has produced an ad for talk radio stations supporting the governor’s special election agenda. And he is expected to show up again in conservative areas, such as Redding, the seat of a county where he and Schwarzenegger received nearly 80% of the recall election votes.

Tom McClintock is a very smart yet principled politician. He observed the Republican 11th Commandment when he ran against the Governor in the recall and understands the importance of the special election reforms to California governance. He recognizes his lot is cast with Schwarzenegger’s.

McClintock wil be a good running mate next year. Flap handicaps that the Governor and McClintock will win as Team Republican.

The only question then left for McClintock will be whether in future years he will seek the Governor’s office again or returns to Thousand Oaks and runs for Congress for a one day retiring Elton Gallegly’s seat.

McClintock’s Lt. Governor website is here.

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Saddam Hussein addresses the judges at his trial held under tight security in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone in Iraq Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2005. He and other men face charges that they ordered the killing in 1982 of nearly 150 people in the mainly Shiite village of Dujail north of Baghdad after a failed attempt on the former dictator’s life.

The ASSociated Press has Saddam Goes on Trial for 1982 Massacre.

Saddam Hussein went on trial Wednesday for a massacre of his fellow Iraqis, turning immediately argumentative and challenging the legitimacy of the court trying him two years after his capture for the killings of 150 Shiites.

When the trial began, the 68-year-old ousted Iraqi leader — looking thin with a salt-and-pepper beard in a dark gray suit and open-collared white shirt — stood and asked the presiding judge: “Who are you? I want to know who you are.”

“I preserve my constitutional rights as the president of
Iraq,” Saddam said. “I do not recognize the body that has authorized you and I don’t recognize this aggression. What is based on injustice is unjust … I do not respond to this so-called court, with all due respect.”

The presiding judge, Rizgar Mohammed Amin, a Kurd, tried to get Saddam to formally identify himself, but Saddam refused. After several moments, he sat down.

Definitely in DENIAL.

He looked better crawling out of that hole where he was cowering like the RAT he is.

A needle in his arm will be too kind.

Iraqis hold a poster with pictures of people they allege were killed during Saddam Hussein’s regime during a demonstration demanding his execution in Dujail, Iraq, Wednesday Oct. 19 2005. Saddam and seven senior members of his regime are facing charges that they ordered the killing in 1982 of nearly 150 people in the mainly Shiite village of Dujail north of Baghdad after a failed attempt on the former dictator’s life. White paper in lower left corner reads ‘We demand the tyrant’s death’.

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