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Iran President Ahmadinejad to Visit New York for United Nations General Assembly
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is reportedly planning to visit New York again this Fall for the United Nations General Assembly meeting.
Iran and the Mullahs who pull President Ahmadinejad’s strings just love to screw with the United States -especially at Presidential election time.
Flap wonders if Barack Obama will agree to meet with Ahamdinejad – you know without preconditions?
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Joe Lieberman Watch: Democrat Divorce?
Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman
A trial balloon for the Lieberman-Democrat Party divorce and switch to the GOP caucus?The Democrats know the divorce is coming and some on the LEFT want to press the issue before the September GOP convention. But, Joe Lieberman will be patient and will make a choice of his own choosing.
Lieberman may be more effective for John McCain if he remains in the Democrat Caucus – at least for now.
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John McCain Watch: Is Mike Murphy In?
GOP Campaign Strategist Mike Murphy on Meet The Press
Bill Kristol asks the question: So Where’s Murphy?The answer: Traveling with Senator McCain by the end of the week.
Technorati Tags: John McCain, Mike Murphy
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Team McCain Now Puzzled Over Obama’s Iraq War Policy
Barack Obama’s shifting or “REFINED†Iraq War PolicyBarack Obama on Saturday said he was “puzzled” over the reaction to his statement this week that he might “refine” his timetale for withdrawing U.S. combat troops.Now, Team McCain is questioning Obama’s words as to what he exactly means on Iraq War policy.
Sen. John McCain’s campaign said Sunday that Barack Obama’s remarks on Iraq “have left a significant question as to exactly what he intends.”
“He has held almost every conceivable position in the course of his relatively brief career in the Senate,” said Randy Scheunemann, McCain’s foreign policy adviser.
McCain’s campaign suggested Obama’s views could be becoming more in line with McCain’s Iraq policy.
“The position of [McCain’s] campaign is that words do matter, and Sen. Obama’s words have left a significant question as to exactly what he intends. If he is now joining Sen. McCain’s position and saying that the need to maintain peace and stability in Iraq is a prerequisite before responsible withdrawal, which is Sen. McCain’s position, we welcome his conversion to that position,” Scheunemann said Sunday in a conference call with reporters.
Barack Obama HAS flip flopped on his Iraq War position in moving away from his radical LEFT anti-war position. The LEFT WING of the Democrat Party may not like the change but it is change you can count on, no?
Maybe Obama will be able to clear up his ambiguous statements when he campaigns with Hillary Clinton to retire her campaign debt later this week.
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Barack Obama Says He is “PUZZLED†Over Iraq War Flip Flop
Barack Obama Watch: New and NOT Improved
Barack Obama Watch: In A Shocker Obama Flip Flops on Iraq War – Now Wants to Clarify His RemarksBarack Obama Watch: In A Shocker Obama Flip Flops on Iraq War
Technorati Tags: Barack Obama, John McCain, Iraq War
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Why Sarah Palin Would Be the Best John McCain Vice President
Governor Sarah Palin prepares to sign two bills into law – SB 214 and HB 326 – which will benefit Alaska Guard members
This piece pretty much says it all – even without mentioning Palin. All of the other candidates in the GOP Veepstakes are flawed in some way or another.Let’s see. Governor Palin is:
- Young and energetic
- Conservative
- Pro-Life Woman with a family
- Experienced in Executive Government
Will Palin be a default McCain choice for Vice President or simply the BEST choice?
Technorati Tags: Sarah Palin, John McCain
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Barack Obama Watch: The Problem is Still Hillary
Hillary Clinton I Spies Barack Obama at You Tube Debate last July
Barack Obama continues to struggle with supporters of Hillary Clinton for President according to a new CNN poll.One week after Sen. Hillary Clinton made a public show of unity with Sen. Barack Obama, a new survey suggests supporters of the New York senator are increasingly less likely to follow her lead.
A growing number of Clinton supporters polled say they may stay home in November instead of casting their ballot for Obama, an indication the party has yet to coalesce around the Illinois senator four weeks after the most prolonged and at times divisive primary race in modern American history came to a close.
According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Friday, the number of Clinton supporters who plan to defect to Republican Sen. John McCain’s camp is down from one month ago, but — in what could be an ominous sign for Obama as he seeks to unify the party — the number of them who say they plan to vote for Obama is also down, and a growing number say they may not vote at all.
In a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey completed in early June before the New York senator ended her White House bid, 60 percent of Clinton backers polled said they planned on voting for Obama. In the latest poll, that number has dropped to 54 percent.
In early June, 22 percent of Clinton supporters polled said they would not vote at all if Obama were the party’s nominee, now close to a third say they will stay home.
And, as Obama veers his candidacy toward the center of the political spectrum like his Iraq policy flip-flop, public financing change and FISA reversal, he faces a challenge from Ralph Nader on the far left.
Will this poling data force Obama to name Hillary as Vice President?
Or, is this the type of data that will reinforce a Hillary decision to stay off the ticket, let Obama lose and then run again after a four year John McCain term of office?
Probably the latter.
Watch the Clinton cabal push Howard Dean and Team Obama to allow her a speaking role at the Denver convention. Will Obama let her speak in the stadium?
Stay tuned……..
Technorati Tags: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama
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Florida Governor Charlie Crist Engaged to Be Married
Fiancee Carole Rome and Florida Govenor Charlie Crist in April 2008
Florida Governr Charlie Crist has announced that he is engaged to be married.Florida’s most powerful bachelor is getting hitched.
Gov. Charlie Crist, single for nearly three decades, on Thursday morning became engaged to his girlfriend of nine months, Carole Rome.
“She’s special in every way. She’s brilliant, beautiful and sweet. I’m very, very lucky,” Crist told the St. Petersburg Times in an exclusive interview.
Crist said he picked out the sapphire and diamond ring on Wednesday at the Gold and Diamond Center in St. Petersburg’s Northeast Shopping Center.
No date has been set for the wedding, but Crist, 51, said it would be in St. Petersburg, where he is a member of First United Methodist Church. There probably also will be a reception in Tallahassee.
Speculation has been rampant for months about Crist and Rome’s future, as the two have been steady companions. Two weeks ago Crist tamped down a rumor that the engagement already had happened, saying “Not yet. … Stay tuned.”
This is an interesting development, particularly in the Veepstakes for John McCain’s running mate. Crist has been rumored to be at the top of McCain’s Vice Presidential selection list but the thirty years of bachelorhood for Crist led to speculation that he was gay.
Congrats to the Governor and many happy times with your new family.
Flap continues to believe that Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska would be the best Vice Presidential pick for McCain.
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Rudy Giuliani Watch: Still a Better Choice for President than John McCain
Rudy Giuliani campaigning for President in Santa Barbara, California September 2007
Former New York Mayor and GOP Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani while speaking as a John McCain “SURROGATE” on CNN yesterday let it slip that he still thinks HE is the best choice to be President.When asked by interviewer John Roberts whether he thought he was better qualified than McCain to run the country, Giuliani said, “I thought I was best-qualified to be president.” (The video is here, and this exchange comes around the 3:12 mark).
Rudy had his chance and could have made this EXACT point while running against John McCain in New Hampshire, but he didn’t. Giuliani declined to run tough contrast ads and paid the price in a disastrous, failed campaign.
You gotta want it, Rudy, when it presents itself.
Flap doubts Team McCain will be calling on Giuliani in the near future for more surrogate work.
Technorati Tags: Rudy Giuliani, John McCain
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Barack Obama Watch: Colin Powell to Endorse Obama?
Former Bush Administration Secretary of State Colin Powell and Senator Barack Obama
The buzz the past few days since it was released that Barack Obama had met with former Bush Administration Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Colin Powell, has been that an endorsement of Obama for President was imminent.Robert Novak, the conservative pundit has written and was interviewed on Fox News repeating the mantra of an Obama endorsement by Powell.
Jim Geraghty, too, writes that it is almost a done deal and that it matters.
I’ll be stunned if Colin Powell does not endorse Barack Obama. (Today brings word that they met June 18.) Right now, Powell’s going to be largely, if not primarily, remembered as the man who sold the Iraq war at the United Nations. When Powell passes on, a reference to “showcasing erroneous intelligence about weapons of mass destruction that were not found in Iraq” will crop up no later than the third sentence in his obituary.
It’s hard to believe that’s how he wants to be remembered, demonized by nearly half the country and most of the world’s elites as “Bush’s enabler.”
But if Powell endorses Obama, it will not only be a PR and momentum bonanza for the Democratic nominee, but the retired general will be touted as the man who put his credibility on the line for Obama. The questions surrounding Obama – experience, accomplishments, familiarity with the military and national security issues, connection to middle-American values – are all Powell’s strengths. If the retired general and former Secretary of State says Obama will do okay as commander-in-chief, a lot of Americans will exhale with relief.
Flap disagrees. If Colin Powell endorses Obama it will mean little in the campaign. Why?
1. Colin Powell is African American and race will matter in this Presidential campaign. Name one African American that is NOT endorsing Obama. Really….name one.
2. The Left wing of the Democrat Party will NEVER forgive Powell for being George Bush’s enabler for the Iraq War and that he worked in the Bush I and Reagan Administrations.
Powell has already contributed the maximum to John McCain’s campaign and will be questioned as a hypocritical flip-flopper should he do likewise for Obama.
There is too much downside for Powell to be involved in this race. But, should he throw his support behind Obama he will be beaten up by the left and right – neutralizing any gain for Obama or Powell.
Technorati Tags: Colin Powell, Barack Obama
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Day By Day by Chris Muir July 2, 2008
Day By Day by Chris MuirThe Democrats do not wish any 1968 type protests at their Denver National Convention this summer, so why not keep the rift raft behind chicken wire barriers?But, where will the party leaders be keeping Bill Clinton? What sort of “CAGE” will contain him?
And, what about Hillary? Will she be delivering a keynote speech during prime television time? Or is paying off her $20 million campaign debt enough for Obama to give her?
Flap wants to see that chicken wire restrain the Code Pink folks. Wait, you say that they are Obama delegates and wil be on the convention floor.
Oh…..
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