Romney Portrays Huckabee as a Bill Clinton Clone

It’s almost too easy. Mike Huckabee and Bill Clinton. Two former governors both from the tiny town of Hope, Ark. One, the hottest thing in the Republican presidential race, thanks in large part to his support from social conservatives; the other, a former Democratic president loathed by those same…
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Bush Appeals to Congress for Iraq Funds

WASHINGTON — President Bush appealed to Congress on Saturday to give him real cash for the war, not just a pledge to fund the troops.
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Pledging Allegiance

New York was warm on that spring day in 1961, remembers Jack O’Leary, a teacher and role model for 17-year-old Rudy Giuliani, and a confidant for the boy’s father, Harold Giuliani. Harold had asked O’Leary, then a member of the De La Salle Christian Brothers, to Sunday afternoon dinner at the…
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Posted in Politics No Comments 16.12.2007 on 01:12.


McCain Advocates New Tactics

COLUMBIA, S.C., Dec. 15 — Republican White House hopeful John McCain said he wants “a crash program” in civilian and military schools that emphasizes language and creates a “new specialty in strategic interrogation” so the nation never feels the need for torture.
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Rep. Julia Carson; Indiana Democrat Opposed Iraq War

U.S. Rep. Julia Carson, the first African American and the first woman to represent Indianapolis in Congress, died Dec. 15 of lung cancer at her home in Indianapolis. She was 69.
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Questions About Past Don’t Surprise Obama

WATERLOO, Iowa — Sen. Barack Obama said Saturday that questions about his past and his political experience, raised in recent days by the Clinton campaign and its surrogates, are a predictable turn of events as the race for the Democratic nomination tightens.
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Bush: Use of Steroids Has ‘Sullied’ Baseball

President Bush said yesterday that steroids have “sullied” baseball but cautioned fans not to jump to conclusions about individual players identified as abusers in the report this week from a commission headed by former Senate majority leader George J. Mitchell.
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Posted in Politics No Comments 15.12.2007 on 03:12.


Clinton Library Got Funds From Abroad

Bill Clinton’s presidential library raised more than 10 percent of the cost of its $165 million facility from foreign sources, with the most generous overseas donation coming from Saudi Arabia, according to interviews yesterday.
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So Many Candidates, So Little Time Left

DES MOINES, Dec. 14 — With both parties lacking clear front-runners in the race for the White House, several of the undecided Iowa voters assembled by The Washington Post this week to talk in-depth about the contenders are still weighing as many as four candidates just weeks before the state’s f…
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Now, a Word From Our Candidates

400 political messages run in state each day but many voters are not listening
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