Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama has surged to a 15-point lead over Republican John McCain in the latest Newsweek poll out Friday, by far the biggest margin of any recent survey.It's just one poll and it comes from a rag that is generally considered to be the most liberal of the three major news weeklies. Then too no other credible poll I've seen has Barack up by more then 5 points, so at the end of the day this is just Newsweek showcasing its biased, liberal ass. That said, in the real world it's still a close race.The magazine's poll gave Obama 51 percent to 36 percent for McCain among registered voters nationwide -- three times the margin of four to five points that other polls this week have given the Illinois senator.
Obama is enjoying a post-primary bounce after seeing off the dogged challenge of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton earlier this month, and supporters of the former first lady are flocking to his side, Newsweek said.
A group that advocates separation of church and state filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to prevent South Carolina from becoming the first state to create "I Believe" license plates.The group contends that South Carolina's government is endorsing Christianity by allowing the plates, which would include a cross superimposed on a stained glass window.
Washington-based Americans United for Separation of Church and State filed the lawsuit on behalf of two Christian pastors, a humanist pastor and a rabbi in South Carolina, along with the Hindu American Foundation.
"I do believe these 'I Believe' plates will not see the light of day because the courts, I'm confident, will see through this," said the Rev. Barry Lynn, the group's executive director.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for South Carolina, asks a judge to stop the state from making the plates and rule that the law allowing them violates the First Amendment.
The Texas Republican Party is distancing itself from a vendor who sold campaign buttons at last weekend's state convention that asked, "If Obama is president ... will we still call it The White House?"Racist attacks against Barack Obama are not only wrong and stupid, but a feast for the loony wing of the Democrat party to exploit. The GOP should immediately condemn and distance themselves from these idiots.The state GOP party said Wednesday that it will donate the $1,500 rent it collected from the vendor, Republicanmarket.com, to Midwestern flood victims.
State GOP spokesman Hans Klingler said the party does not vet the merchandise being sold, but officials plan to discuss doing so in the future. The button sales at the convention in Houston were first reported in The Dallas Morning News.
"This vendor need not apply to another Texas GOP state convention," Klingler said. "We will neither tolerate nor profit from bigotry."
As much as liberals have jumped all over conservative criticism of Michelle Obama's supposed lack of patriotism, they fail to note that the First Lady herself, Laura Bush, came to her defense earlier this month. Of course, don't expect any members of the loony wing to ever give a Bush any credit for doing something good.Now her husband’s presidential campaign is giving her image a subtle makeover, with a new speech in the works to emphasize her humble roots and a tough new chief of staff. On Wednesday, Mrs. Obama will do a guest turn on “The View,” the daytime talk show on ABC, with an eye toward softening her reputation.
Her problems seemed hard to imagine last fall and winter. Mrs. Obama, a Harvard-trained lawyer, appeared so at ease with the tactile business of campaigning and drew praise for humanizing, often with humor, a husband who could seem elusive.
Then came some rhetorical stumbles. In Madison, Wis., in February, she told voters that hope was sweeping America, adding, “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country.” Cable news programs replayed those 15 words in an endless loop of outrage.
That's 20% of Democrats who still don't support Barack Obama. Therefore it must be noted that the Billary diehards are continuing to make a name for themselves this coming election. Well, good for them.The latest ABC News-Washington Post Poll shows that Obama leads McCain nationally by small margin -- 48 percent to 42 percent -- but lurking in the numbers is the data that nearly half say they're not comfortable that Obama has enough experience to be president.
This translates to a large number of doubters.
Among two pivotal swing groups, the rivals split independents evenly, while McCain is ahead among white Catholics.
Strain from the drawn-out Democratic primaries still shows: While nearly nine in 10 Republicans back McCain, just eight in 10 Democrats support Obama.
DeMarcus Ware cradled his 3-month-old daughter, smoothing her plentiful black hair, tickling her tummy, kissing her cheeks.I never thought of this scenario before. Not because I didn't think it was possible, but only because I haven't seen it. I wonder how other people view it. And yet, somehow I get the feeling that I already know where black liberals stand on it: totally against--the argument being that in a country that still caters to racism, how could a rich, black couple ignore the needs of a black foster child and pick a Caucasian child instead? Indeed, black liberals have made their opposition to transracial adoptions well known of late, recently attempting to stop white families from adopting black kids because they feel that there should be an emphasis on race in who adopts who, yet having no problem with gays wishing to adopt black children--all the while black kids are less likely to be adopted from foster care than children in other racial and ethnic groups. But aren't liberals the ones always pushing the "love is love" creed, regardless of race, creed, color or "sexual orientation"? In the case of transracial adoptions their hypocrisy holds no bounds.On his living room couch this month, Ware looked nothing like a menacing All-Pro linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys. He made baby noises. He shook rattles. He noticed Marley jabbing fingers in her mouth, an indication she was tired.
Nothing quite compares to watching parents hold their infant. But Ware and his wife, Taniqua, believe they appreciate their daughter, Marley, more because they adopted her after three failed pregnancies.
Finally, they have a child: penetrating eyes, chin covered in drool, curious and cuddly and cute.
Indeed Chicago, which has been run by Democrats for about 70 years now, is enduring high episodes of deadly violence on a weekly basis, including this past one:In recent months there has been a string of violence, mostly gang-related, which has claimed the lives of dozens of youth in Chicago, Illinois. In a single weekend in April, 36 people were shot, and nine died of their injuries. Since last September, 24 Chicago public school students have been killed in such shootings.
The victims of these tragedies have been working class and minority youth, including many who were innocent bystanders.
Last March, for example, Chavez Clarke became the 20th Chicago public school student killed up to that point. Chavez was 18 years old and a student at the Simeon Career Academy. He had hoped either to attend an apprentice school for drafting and architecture or train as a truck driver. He was caught in gang crossfire as he walked down the street with his twin brother, Travez. Two students from Dunbar Career Academy, aged 17 and 19, were ultimately charged by police in Chavez’s murder.
The more dangerous living in Chicago becomes, the more you see an indictment of a Democratic establishment that includes Barack Obama:From Friday night through Sunday morning, nine people have been killed in acts of violence in and around Chicago.
About 11:05 p.m. Friday, a 19-year-old man was killed and a 22-year-old woman wounded in a shooting on the West Side.
The shooting happened on the 1700 block of North Linder Avenue.
Sorry Senator, but if you want to be the guy who'll dictate policy on say Iraq, Israel and Iran, you're going to have to start offering the American people more than just messages of hope.In this regard, mention must be made of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, who has pointed to the 1984 election of Harold Washington, the city’s first black mayor, as a key motivating factor for his entry into political life. Washington, like his white counterparts in the Democratic Party, was a loyal defender of the capitalist system who carried out regressive policies that contributed to the social catastrophe confronting young people and workers in the city.
Obama himself was elected state senator from Chicago and then US Senator from Illinois during a period when tens of thousands lost their jobs and social programs were being cut. He is deeply integrated into the Cook County Democratic Party, the corrupt political machine that has long dominated Chicago politics.
Obama used the recent media attention on violence in the city to bolster his “law and order” credentials, claiming that the shooting could be curtailed by restoring funding for community policing. “Additional police improves public safety,” he said. “We’ve got to help local communities put more police on the streets.” He also suggested that lack of parental guidance and moral upbringing could be responsible, saying, “Children have to be taught right and wrong and violence isn’t a way to resolve problems.”
Obama made a perfunctory reference to poor conditions facing young people in the city. However, he has made it clear that, if elected, urban policy would not involve any sharp increases in taxation on corporations and the wealthy or a massive public expenditure to eradicate poverty and provide a decent future to working class youth.
Al Gore says he is backing Barack Obama and will do whatever he can to help him get to the White House.He's so lame, thank goodness he'll never be President.In a letter to be e-mailed to Obama supporters, Gore says Obama has united a movement over the past year and a half.
The former vice president also asks for donations to help fund Obama's effort — the first time he's asked members of his Web site AlGore.com to contribute to a political campaign.
Gore is one of the most popular figures in the Democratic Party, but he kept a low profile in the primary campaign. He's planning to appear with Obama at a rally in Detroit Monday night.
You see sane people who don't bow down to the George Soros-sponsored Left, know the real deal: McCain appeals strongly to independents, he backslaps Obama on national security, conservatism still stands for something in this country and the young-uns preaching "change" in the Barack camp aren't really known for actually yunno . . . voting, as John Kerry found out in 2004.Although the margin between Obama and McCain is now similar to what it was in the last few weeks of the Democratic primary race, the structure of the race looks slightly different than at any other time this year as a result of the relatively high percentage of voters -- 15% -- not favoring either major-party candidate. This includes 7% of voters who say they are undecided and 8% who say they will not vote for either candidate (including 1% who volunteer they will vote for another specific candidate).
....As a result, the percentages of Americans now supporting Obama and McCain are near the lowest seen for either candidate since Gallup Poll Daily tracking on the Obama-McCain matchup started in early March, and well below the high of 48% achieved by each at them at various times.
Former Manson family member Susan Atkins has requested a "compassionate release" from prison because she has less than six months to live, a California prisons spokeswoman said Friday.Atkins, 60, was convicted in the 1969 slayings of actress Sharon Tate and four others. She had been incarcerated at the California Institution for Women in Corona, California.
But Atkins, the state's longest- serving female inmate, has been hospitalized since March 18 and is listed in serious condition, state corrections department spokeswoman Terry Thornton said. Because of privacy laws, Thornton would not disclose the nature of Atkins' illness.
Atkins' husband and attorney, James Whitehouse, was quoted as saying she has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, according to a blog called Manson Family Today. She also has had a leg amputated, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday, citing sources close to the case.
The compassionate release request has been approved by the prison, which conducted an evaluation, and is under corrections department review, Thornton said.
Of course, some "screw the victims, it's the criminals we care about" liberals are taking up Atkins cause arguing that she's been rehabilitated and "found God" while ignoring the heinous nature of her crimes, Atkins commuted life-in-jail sentence, the feelings of relatives to the victims and the fact that Atkins' has never showed any remorse for her brutal acts. Bottom line, no matter what her current status is, the state of California should show Susan Atkins the same amount of compassion she showed for her victims . . . none. And let her ass die there.
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