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All thumbs up to Senator John McCain For he has a lot to gain By his wise choice of Governor Sarah Palin The Politics Of Palin September 05, 2008 Gov. Sarah Palin stepped into the spotlight and reignited an age-old debate: can working women can have it all? Harry Smith poses that question to a roundtable of three women. Special GOP Convention Issue: The Happiest Convention by Newt Gingrich (more by this author) Posted 09/05/2008 ETUpdated 09/05/2008 ET This was the happiest convention I have attended. In seven conventions going back to 1984, I have never seen delegates as happy. I have seen them eager, energized, committed, determined but the underlying mood last night was sheer joy. There was joy that Senator McCain had had the courage to pick Governor Palin. There was joy that she and her family had come through the week of attacks smiling and eager to campaign. There was joy that Governor Palin's Wednesday night speech completely vindicated Senator McCain's choice. There wa...

3 Jun 2008 16:54 Africa/Lagos Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty to Hold Conference Call Regarding Senator Obama's Campaign Stop in St. Paul Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty will host a conference call today to discuss Senator Obama's campaign stop in Saint Paul, MN. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080519/RNCLOGO ) WHAT: Press Conference Call with MN Gov. Tim Pawlenty WHEN: Today, June 3, 2008 3:20 p.m. EDT/ 2:20 p.m. CDT CALL-IN: 888-425-9978 PASSWORD: GOP Paid for by the Republican National Committee. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. /PRNewswire-USNewswire -- June 3/ Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080519/RNCLOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ PRN Photo Desk photodesk@prnewswire.com Source: Republican National Committee CONTACT: Republican National Committee Press Office, +1-202-863-8614 Web Site: http://www.gop.com/

Before Noon EST (17:00 UTC ) Tuesday , January 20 , 2009 A fictional account of factual people, places and occurrences on the American presidential election in 2008. The titanic contest between Senators Barack Obama and John McCain in the November 4 presidential election is making headlines all over the world. The majority of Americans have had enough of the Republicans madness in the eight years of the nightmarish maladministration of Dubya . How did the American son of an African from Kenya become the most sensational Democrat in the history of America? His picturesque contrast to Senator Hillary Clinton made all the difference. I believe that if Barack Obama contested the Democratic nomination with another American woman and not Hilllary Clinton, the story would have had a different ending today. He is what I call a political smart Alec or politically correct American politician from Chicago. He fished in the troubled waters of the Clintons and turned the sharks against the...

In the May 19 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, May 12): "The O Team." Newsweek examines Barack Obama's campaign team, his management style and reports on how they're preparing to go up against the G.O.P. Plus: a memo from Newt Gingrich to Obama; interviews with Olmert, Peres and Fayyad on Israel's 60th; the drug bust at San Diego State; Penthouse Magazine diversifies; the battle between the tanning salons and dermatologists; Mormons on reality TV and family fat farms.(PRNewsFoto/NEWSWEEK) NEW YORK, NY UNITED STATES 05/11/2008 11 May 2008 16:34 Africa/Lagos NEWSWEEK Cover: The O Team Obama has Shown he can Run a Campaign. He'd Better get Ready for a War. Obama Told Campaign Aides There was to be no Drama: 'We're Going to Rise or Fall Together' Advisers Insist Race Will be About Big Issues, but are Ready for Mud War McCain Campaign Poring Over Obama Record; Want to Brand Him as 'Superduper Liberal' NEW YORK, May 11 /PRNewsw...

Abu Ayyub al-Masri also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir 9 May 2008 00:08 Africa/Lagos Iraqi Army: Al Qaeda in Iraq Leader Nabbed From CBS/The Associated Press WASHINGTON, May 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was arrested in the northern city of Mosul, the Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday. Spokesman Mohammed al-Askari said the arrest of al-Masri, also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, was confirmed to him by the Iraqi commander of the province. Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf said that Mosul police "arrested one of al Qaeda's leaders at midnight and during the primary investigations he admitted that he is Abu Hamza Al-Muhajir." If confirmed, the arrest would represent a major blow to al Qaeda in Iraq, which has been on the run for the past year following a shift in alliances by Sunni tribesmen in western Anbar province, and elsewhere, and an influx of thousands of U.S. troops. The U.S....

5 May 2008 07:57 Africa/Lagos Poll: Clinton Leads Obama in Hoosier State Suffolk University Survey Shows 38 percent Will Cast McCain Vote if their Preferred Candidate Loses Nomination BOSTON, May 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Hillary Clinton (49 percent) leads Barack Obama (43 percent) among likely Indiana Democratic voters, according to a poll released today by Suffolk University. Six percent of Democratic voters were undecided, and 2 percent refused a response. However, 38 percent of these likely Democratic voters -- which include registered Democrats, Republicans, members of other political parties and independents -- said they would vote for John McCain in November if their Democratic choice does not win the party's nomination. It's no slam-dunk, but Hillary Clinton is poised to win the Hoosier state, provided there aren't some critical turnovers late," said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center. "Although the mar...

27 Apr 2008 17:46 Africa/Lagos Obama's Sunday Waffles Why Can't Obama Keep His Story Straight On His Plans To Raise Taxes And Ignore Commanders On The Ground? WASHINGTON, April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- OBAMA IS WAFFLING ON IRAQ AND GEN. PETRAEUS Today, Obama Said That It Would Be "Stupid" Of Him To Ignore Gen. Petraeus' Recommendations On Iraq: Obama: "I will listen to General Petraeus given the experience that he's accumulated over the last several years. It would be stupid of me to ignore what he has to say." (Fox News' "Fox News Sunday," 4/27/08) But Obama Previously Said The U.S. Should Begin To Withdraw From Iraq Immediately, Just One Day After Gen. Petraeus Warned Against A Premature Withdrawal: Gen. Petraeus Testified Before The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Of Which Obama Is A Member, That A Premature Withdrawal From Iraq Would Have "Devastating Consequences." Gen. Petraeus: "In describing the recommendati...

Photo: Yahoo News "The road to 1600 Pennsylvania Road runs right through the heart of Pennsylvania." ~ Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton after winning the Pennsylvania Democratic Primary on April 22, 2008. Thank God, Senator Hillary Clinton has done it again, with another big state win in n Pennsylvania! It is an outstanding victory for Hillary Clinton who beat Barack Obama by 10 points. She won 55% of the votes, while Barack Obama won 45%. Barack Obama spent over $11 million on TV adverts and other strategies in his desperation to win the Pennsylvania Democratic Primary and lost to Hillary Clinton who spent only about $5 million. Hillary has the artillery to secure victory for the Democratic Party in the Presidential Election in November 2008. The Democratic Party will lose the Presidential Election without Hillary Clinton. Only the dream team of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton or Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama can beat John McCain and the political machine of the GOP in the...

20 Apr 2008 17:57 Africa/Lagos In Case You Missed It RNC Victory Chairwoman Carly Fiorina On Obama's Distortion and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)'s Economic Solutions WASHINGTON, April 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Fiorina: "Well, you know, Senator Obama has told us for months that words matter, and I agree with him. And his words in this regard are reckless. Just as they were reckless when he was misquoting Senator McCain on Iraq." (CNN's "Late Edition," 4/20/08) Fiorina: "So I think it would be best if we would actually argue about the facts of John McCain's plan. John McCain has been very clear that American taxpayers and homeowners are hurting, and he has laid out a very specific set of plans to help hard-working Americans in the here and now, whether it's the summer gas tax holiday, whether it is his home plan or whether it is his plan to increase the exemptions for dependents." (CNN's "Late Edition," 4/20/08) ...

14 Apr 2008 13:36 Africa/Lagos RNC: The Mask Slips, From The New York Times WASHINGTON, April 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is an op-ed by William Kristol and is being issued by the Republican National Committee: I haven't read much Karl Marx since the early 1980s... My occasion for spending a little time once again with the old Communist was Barack Obama's now-famous comment at an April 6 San Francisco fund-raiser. ... This sent me to Marx's famous statement about religion in the introduction to his "Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right": "Religious suffering is at the same time an expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of a soulless condition. It is the opium of the people." ... [I]t's one thing for a German thinker to assert that "religion is the sigh of the oppressed crea...

Breakdown of Final Primaries Shows Some Hope for Clinton ~ by Robert Novak and Timothy P. Carney (more by this author) Posted 03/25/2008 ET Updated 03/26/2008 ET Outlook The overriding question in the Democratic presidential contest is whether Sen. Barack Obama(D-Ill.) has overcome the slump resulting from the controversy about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Sen. Hillary Clinton's (D-N.Y.)supporters are hoping for further controversy to slow down the Obama express. It is clear now that the nominee will be selected by the super-delegates prior to the Denver convention late in August. They will be guided in no small part by polls to determine which candidate is more electable. It is not the happy choice between two acceptable candidates it seemed a month ago. Rejecting Obama risks alienating the vital African-American vote. Accepting him is increasingly seen among Democrats as a risk. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is benefiting from the Democratic distress, but he and his campaign are a lo...

Most readers of the Huffington Post in support of Barack Obama are ignorant of the present realities. Most of the Republicans and Independents who were voting for him are now wiser and they are now returning to the GOP. The polls have shown that John McCain is now the most popular of the three presidential candidates. If Hillary Clinton is not the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, the GOP will retain the presidency. The only way to defeat the GOP is the united front of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton should be the President and Barack Obama, the Vice President. Barack Obama boasting about his lead in pledged delegates, states and popular votes is schoolboy logic. That kind of political rationale cannot win the presidential election. Most of the supporters of Hillary Clinton will vote for John McCain if she is not the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. John McCain knows that he would be favoured by the instability in the Democratic Party, becaus...

You American supporters of Senator Barack Hussein Obama are the most naive, ignorant and unrealistic voters on planet earth. There is no way Barack Obama can win the presidential election without Hillary Clinton, but Hillary Clinton can win the presidential election without Barack Obama. The political uproar over Jeremiah Wright is enough reason for the GOP to turn all Republicans, Independents and other Americans against the election of Barack Obama. All they need to do is to keep on pressing play to repeat the video on YouTube, MySpace, and other mass media channels till November.Facts are facts.Facts do not lie.Barack Obama's speeches cannot delete the audio-video record of what his Spiritual Adviser for over 20 years said and this is the man Obama looks up to for guidance?Americans may be naive, but they are not fools. Senator John McCain is already behaving like the President-elect by going on tour of Iraq, meeting with Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain and looking ahead ...

20 Jan 2008 17:52 Africa/Lagos NEWSWEEK: COVER: 'The Party's Over' "In early 2008, by nearly every measure, the Republican Party is in trouble," says Former Bush Advisor, Michael Gerson. Newsweek on: The Future of The GOP in Bush's Shadow and an Exclusive Excerpt of Jacob Weisberg's 'The Bush Tragedy.' Michelle Obama: 'The Closer' for African-American Votes and Concern for Her Family's Safety. NEW YORK, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- "President Bush has left the GOP in a precarious state. But the party's candidates can learn much from his failures," Editor-at-Large Evan Thomas writes in the opening essay of the January 28 issue of Newsweek. "It is too late to reinvent the party's core beliefs," Thomas writes. "But the GOP candidates can embark on a more humble mission: to show, in effect, some humility. By examining Bush's hubris, his almost willful disregard for annoying counterarguments, the Republi...