And here I thought Obama was supposed to be the hip candidate: Democrat Barack Obama on Monday promised Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans help with their grievances — save one. "I know it drives you nuts. But I'm not going to lower the drinking age," the presidential candidate said. Army veteran Ernest Johnson, 23, of Connecticut, said one of the things that peeved him before he turned 21 was that he couldn't come home and drink a beer — even though he was old enough to serve in the armed services and die for his coun... lire la suite
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Updated Senator Barack Obama’s campaign has confirmed that he has canceled a meeting scheduled for today with former Senator John Edwards in North Carolina. The two have been talking on the phone and will meet soon, people close to both men say, but for now the media attention has become too intense and is out of control, with stake-outs at Mr.
If you want to be president these days, it's not enough to have an appealing platform, strong public speaking skills or even to look polished on television. You also have to prove you're at least slightly cool. Blame Bill Clinton for blowing the saxophone on Arsenio Hall in 1992. It's a measure of how important this yardstick has become that both Democratic presidential candidates showed up on Colbert Report last night, plus third-place John Edwards, who has been out of the race for months.
The Republican stupid - it burns. From Kathleen Parker’s column at the WaPo: Well, at least they didn’t kiss. I was bracing myself for the lip lock Wednesday when John Edwards endorsed Barack Obama. Don’t look at me. David “Mudcat” Saunders, Edwards’s former rural adviser, came up with the idea, saying Obama should kiss Edwards on the lips [.
The Times’s Patrick Healy and Jeff Zeleny have just written an article published on our home page about the latest developments in the escalating dispute between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama about remarks made just before the New Hampshire primary. Today’s back-and-forth began with Senator Clinton’s appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.
Fox News Channel had its own "Jane You Ignorant Slut" moment Friday when anchor Chris Wallace jumped onto Fox & Friends and said the hosts were being unfair to Barack Obama. The show had, for two hours, been replaying the Democratic presidential candidate's remarks about how his grandmother was a "typical white person," according to Wallace.
Thomas Insel — director of the National Institute of Mental Health and the U. S. government’s top psychiatric researcher — said today that “the number of suicides among veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may exceed the combat death toll because of inadequate mental health care.
The New Yorker serves up a video which details how THQ’s hit strategy game Full Spectrum Warrior was modified to help Iraq War veterans deal with post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD). The video accompanies an six-page article by Sue Halpern in the May 19th issue. Halpern also narrates the video.
Yesterday, MoveOn. org launched a petition drive “calling on former White House official Scott McClellan to donate the proceeds of his book to veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The petition reads: Coming clean is great — but profiting from lying to the public isn’t.
Senator Barack Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the Cannon House Office Building on Tuesday. Photo:
On our way into St. Paul this morning, several members of ThinkProgress stopped to listen to a rally held by a group of Iraq war veterans who are opposed to the war. After denouncing Sen. John McCain’s treatment of veterans and his failure to vote for increase funding for veterans health programs, the speaker of [.
A new Department of Veterans Affairs report finds that “recently discharged veterans are having a harder time finding civilian jobs and are more likely to earn lower wages for years due partly to employer concerns about their mental health and overall skills. For example, “18 percent of the veterans who sought jobs within one to [.
Obama Warms to Wrapping Up Contest
Obama Gives Vets and Military Families the Middle Finger, Stands With Code Pink
The enchanting Dr. Susan Rice gives a breakdown of the foreign policy agenda of President Barack Obama and instantly distinguishes herself from that OTHER “Dr. Rice” by managing to combine a rapier-like intellect with such arresting beauty as to make her every such appearance the closest thing to dialectical erotica you’re likely to find anywhere in cyberspace.
You can pretty much date the end of the occupation of Iraq to July 19th, 2008 when Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki asserted his nation’s full sovereignty for the first time since Saddam Hussein was in power. His declaration that American forces were leaving “sooner rather than later” and hence Barack Obama’s 16 month timetable reflected “reality” better than someone who believed the American army would stay longer put a period on our troubling and yet ultimately (probably) successful military action in Iraq.
DENVER — Senator John McCain hammered away at his Democratic rival’s positions on the Iraq war again today, reiterating his assertions that an early surge strategy resulted in the Anbar “awakening” while painting Senator Barack Obama’s policies as the “audacity of hopelessness” that promoted defeat.
USA - ELECTION 2008: Rencontre à huis clos entre Obama et Edwards
Obama’s Cowardly New World
Stuart over at the Atlantic Community thinks there is going to be an Obama/Edwards ticket, but I doubt it. Really, who knows? It's been a whacked out year in more ways than one and I've certainly had my bad calls, so, hey, who knows? Still, there is some good video of Edwards, here.
AP - As a state senator, Democrat Barack Obama awarded $75,000 in government grants to a Chicago social service organization led by a rabbi who is also his wife's cousin, records show.