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New FBI Guidelines: More COINTELPRO?

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Writing Corner - By Beth Wellington - Sep. 04 (Special Report) - [Disclosure: author is a NewsTrust staff member. The portion quoting Jeanne Roberts was added after her review and hence there is no reference to her relationship to the piece in her review.] At 9:30 a.m. on September 17, the Senate Judiciary Committee will be hearing from Robert S. Mueller, III, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the wake of complaints. I wait, wondering, what, if anything, will come out of this hearing--how much further will we erode our Constitution and how much further will we descend from our proclamation in our national anthem that we live in the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave."

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Consortiumnews.com

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Aug. 29 (News Report) - Over the past four decades, Republicans have dominated the outcomes of presidential races by mixing negative campaigning in public with illicit dirty tricks behind the scenes, as I've recounted in my last two books, Secrecy & Privilege and Neck Deep. As a party, the Republicans have not only refined the art of the political smear - with such memorable moments as the Willie Horton ads in 1988 and the "swift-boating" of John Kerry in 2004 - but they also have defined the concept of the October Surprise, manipulating late-breaking events to drive the electorate toward their candidate. Much of this Republican behavior traces back to their perceived victimization at the hands of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson in the razor-thin 1960 race.

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Obama's Grand Speech: Reason for hope

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Congressional Quarterly - By david corn - Aug. 29 (News Analysis) - never before had an african-american accepted the presidential nomination of a major party in the united states. and the speech of barack obama matched the moment.

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Media continue to repeat plagiarism accusation without noting that Biden had previously credited Kinnock

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - Aug. 24 (News Analysis) - Media outlets continue to report that Sen. Joe Biden was accused in 1987 of plagiarizing then-British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock without noting that while Biden did paraphrase from a Kinnock speech without attribution on at least two occasions in August 1987, he had reportedly credited Kinnock when previously using the same language.

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Efforts to Promote Clinton at Convention Heat Up

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Congressional Quarterly - By Andrew Satter - Aug. 13 (News Report) - Ever since the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee hearing in early June where Obama essentially secured the nomination, incensed Clinton supporters have mobilized online with the goal of getting the former First Lady nominated at the Democratic party convention in Denver.

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AP Tally: Obama Effectively Clinches Nomination

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - Jun. 03 (News Report) - Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates, becoming the first black candidate ever to lead his party into a fall campaign for the White House.

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Ickes At The Alamo: Clinton's Delegate Counter Warns Of Defections At DNC Meeting

Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Thomas B. Edsal - May. 29 (News Report) - The major dispute over the Florida and Michigan delegations to the Democratic convention in Denver has now boiled down to Hillary Clinton's demand for full seating with no sanctions, and an alternative proposal, likely to be backed by Obama, to seat the delegations with either half a vote granted to each delegate, or to cut each delegation in half.

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Are Democrats migrating to Obama?

Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Alex Koppelman - May. 21 (Poll) - Hillary Clinton may have drubbed Barack Obama in Kentucky's Democratic primary on Tuesday, but a Gallup poll released the same day showed Democrats may finally be coalescing around the front-runner. The poll, which was conducted before the primaries in Kentucky and Oregon, shows Obama opening a national lead of 55 percent to 39 percent over Clinton. When you dig into them, the numbers underlying the poll look bleak for Clinton.

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Hillary Please Stop - A plea for unity

Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

hillarypleasestop.com - By David Harpe - May. 20 (Other) - It is not surprising that Senator Clinton is not listening to media pundits, political consultants, or even some of her own advisors. After all, these were the same people that told her two years ago that she was the de facto nominee. But it is obvious now that the contest is over. So who will she listen to? Well, maybe us.

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Response to the New York Times on Islam

Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Religion Dispatches - By Hussein Rashid - May. 14 (News Analysis) - Edward Luttwak writes in a May 12 New York Times Op-Ed that Sen. Barack Obama is an apostate from Islam and will therefore harm our relations with the Muslim-majority world. His entire piece is predicated on an ignorance of fundamental issues of Muslim legal thought and apparent misunderstanding of how people think.

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Night lands Clinton closer to oblivion

Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Walter Shapiro - May. 07 (News Analysis) - Hillary Clinton is one day and two important primaries closer to oblivion. Her hairbreadth victory here in Indiana coupled with her double-digit defeat in North Carolina on the last big night of the 2008 primary season provided a dreams-deferred, delegate-deficit downturn in her already dispiriting fortunes. Not only is Hillary clinging to the hands of a clock in an old-time Harold Lloyd silent movie, but the clock face has begun to wobble.

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War Room

Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Alex Koppelman - May. 07 (News Analysis) - There must be very little joy in Hillary-land this morning -- the once-mighty campaign struck out Tuesday night, and now the only question being asked in the media isn't how Clinton can win the Democratic nomination but when she'll bow to what now seems inevitable and get out of the race.

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A pivotal day for the Democrats?

Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Walter Shapiro - May. 06 (News Analysis) - Would the Democratic Party nominate Barack Obama if most delegates to the convention concluded that he would be a significantly weaker candidate than Hillary Clinton in the general election? While Clinton partisans may parse poll data to reach that conclusion, there is no current evidence that would convince a neutral Democrat that Obama is a synonym for Mondale. But what if Clinton roared through the remaining dribs-and-drabs on the primary calendar? What if the conviction began to set in among Democrats that Obama cannot win in November, even as he was on the verge of wrapping up the nomination based mostly on delegates that he acquired in January and February?

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Lose-lose in Pennsylvania

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Real News - By Matt Palevsky - Apr. 24 (Other) - "I think she's too pro-war in her heart of hearts."

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The Pennsylvania Presidential Primary

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Writing Corner - By Beth Wellington - Apr. 23 (News Analysis) - Yesterday, McCain senior adviser Mark McKinnon told USA Today reporter David Jackson, We're for anything that keeps it going. Jackson added that Senior McCain adviser Mark Salter smiled while saying, we don't want to intrude on their process. We want them to carefully deliberate their choices. All this probably leaves the Republicans hopeful that either Democrat will emerge as damaged goods come the Convention. And, meanwhile, it also leaves many of us tired.

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Obama Name Games Painful to Muslims

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

National Public Radio - By Jamie Tarabay - Apr. 20 (News Report) - Barack Obama is not a Muslim, but a recent survey found that about 10 percent of Americans believe he is. That perception has been fueled by a campaign of rumors and innuendo. It's a campaign that has caused pain in many Muslim communities, including one in Pennsylvania, which holds a key presidential primary Tuesday. Obama had a Muslim stepfather. As a child, he learned about Islam and sometimes went to mosque. Nevertheless, he's a devout Christian.

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Jon Stewart Eviscerates ABC's Hacktacular Debate

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Crooks and Liars - By Jon Stewart - Apr. 18 (News Analysis) - The first hour of last night's debate was a 60 minute master class in questions that elevate out-of-context remarks and trivial, insipid miscues into subjects of natural discourse...which is my job! Stop doing my job! That's what I'm here for! I'm the silly man!

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ABC's Debate Debacle

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

FAIR - Apr. 17 (News Analysis) - The ABC-sponsored Democratic debate in Philadelphia on April 16 emphasized trivial matters of little concern to voters, while the actual policy questions were often based on misleading right-wing spin.

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Obama's Oil Spill

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Viveca Novak, Justin Bank - Apr. 01 (Special Report) - In a new ad, Obama says, "I don't take money from oil companies." Technically, that's true, since a law that has been on the books for more than a century prohibits corporations from giving money directly to any federal candidate. But that doesn't distinguish Obama from his rivals in the race. We find the statement misleading: * Obama has accepted more than $213,000 from individuals who work for companies in the oil and gas industry and their spouses. * Two of Obama's bundlers are top executives at oil companies and are listed on his Web site as raising between $50,000 and $100,000 for the presidential hopeful.

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Slouching Toward Denver

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New Republic - By Noam Scheiber - Mar. 26 (Special Report) - When Democrats contemplate the apocalypse these days, they have visions of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton slugging it out a la Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter at the 1980 convention. The campaign's current trajectory is, in fact, alarmingly similar to the one that produced that disastrous affair. Back then, Carter had built up a delegate lead with early wins in Iowa, New Hampshire, and several Southern states. But, as the primary season dragged on, Kennedy began pocketing big states and gaining momentum. Once all the voting ended and Kennedy came up short, he eyed the New York convention as a kind of Hail Mary.

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Primer: Obama vs. Clinton on the Top 10 Economic Policy Issues

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Nomi Prins - Feb. 29 (Special Report) - n the surface, based on their voting records, the media, and their own admissions, the difference in policy choices between Obama and Clinton may seem small. Mostly, they've been about health care (her plan to make it mandatory, his carrot-and-stick approach) and her vote for the Iraq War. (He wasn't around to vote--though his propensity, like Clinton's, to vote along party lines or not show up at all may say more about what he would have done than any statements to the contrary; it's hard to imagine that he would have been the sole senator voting against the war besides the late Paul Wellstone. In any case, that's history.)

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NYC voting snafu may work in Obama's favor

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Salon - Feb. 16 (News Report) - Official results are determined through a "recanvass," a process in which a Republican and a Democratic official go to each machine and collect official tallies. These tallies are then entered into a computer, which adds up the binding results. It's a system, in other words, of which Rube Goldberg would be proud. And it does little to inspire confidence in election results. Of course, for years now, we've known that voting on systems that produce no human-countable record of the ballot -- whether those machines are electronic touch-screen systems, or whether they're mechanical lever machines -- is a very bad idea. The shifting numbers in New York's election prove that.

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What Is "The Change We Can Believe In?"

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Media Channel - By Danny Schechter - Feb. 08 (News Analysis) - Who is in office is not necessarily who is in power!

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Super Tuesday Poll Dump

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Real Clear Politics - By Tom Bevan - Feb. 03 (Poll) - California - Democrats Field Poll: Clinton 36, Obama 34 Mason-Dixon: Clinton 45, Obama 36 Reuters/CSpan/Zogby: Obama 45, Clinton 41 RCP Average for California: Clinton +2.5 California - Republicans Field Poll: McCain 32, Romney 24, Huckabee 13 Mason-Dixon: McCain 40, Romney 31, Huckabee 13 Reuters/CSpan/Zogby: Romney 37, McCain 34, Huckabee 12 RCP Average for California: McCain +5.0

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South Carolina Democratic Primary Results

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Scott Galindez - Jan. 26 (News Report) - Barack Obama 291,917 55% Hillary Clinton 139,762 27% John Edwards 92,803 18% Dennis Kucinich 543 0% 99 Percent of Precincts Reporting - 10:00 PM EST

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