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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080321/ap_on_el_pr/obama_passport

The incidents raise questions as to whether the information was accessed for political purposes and why two contractors involved in the Obama search were dismissed before investigators had a chance to interview them. It recalled an incident in 1992, when a Republican political appointee at the State Department was demoted over a search of presidential candidate Bill Clinton’s passport records. At the time, Clinton was challenging President George H.W. Bush.

Oct. 19 1992:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,976769-1,00.html

Coming on the eve of the crucial first debate, the apparent aim of the Bush strategy was to sow new doubts about Clinton’s trustworthiness and rattle the Democrat into making fresh gaffes

Will the republicans now have enough ammunitions from the documents to win the elections this year ? Whatever it is..

JUNEAU, Alaska - GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is effectively turning over questions about her record as Alaska’s governor to John McCain’s political campaign, part of an ambitious Republican strategy to limit any embarrassing disclosures and carefully shape her image for voters in the rest of the country.
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Republican efforts include dispatching a former top U.S. terrorism prosecutor from New York, Ed O’Callaghan, to assist Palin’s personal lawyer WORKING TO DERAIL OR DELAY a pending ethics investigation in Alaska.

It is illegal for a private entity to interfere with a State or federally run investigation… If an individual were under investigation for say fraud, and a family member told a local newspaper that it had intended to send in a lawyer to help the defendant derail or delay the case…

the state would move the case.. plain and simple, and most likely would file for a separate investigation into that report.

Obviously Palin is on the losing end of this or the McCain camp wouldn’t be bragging about damage control.

What the hell is going on here people ?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080917/ap_on_go_pr_wh/palin_mccain_operatives

http://www.newsweek.com/id/159260
Leftist Subverter, my Koolaide is ready ?..
so I guess this means you guys know it’s a sham, but have decided to go back to having your head in the sand…
the issue isn’t weather the trooper was fired, it’s Sarah’s willingness to use her position for personal exploits…. but Raymond you must know that.

I didn’t print or write the article but here it is.. ?
They are breaking the law by stating that they intend to delay and or derail the investigation…
THAT IS ILLEGAL IN THE STATE OF ALASKA !!!!
Look it up.
if she’s not guilty..why are they trying to Derail or delay the proceedings ???????????
fantastic money

Without even consulting his own party’s Chairwoman of the Select Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein? She stated yesterday that she was caught off guard by the appointment.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090105/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_spy_agencies

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/05/leon-panetta-tapped-head-cia-sources-say/
Feinstein had put forward the name of Steven Kappes, a career officer at the CIA.

I would appreciate your opinion as to whether you think what the McCain Republican team is doing is censorship o what would you call it.
(I’m repeating this question because apparently some Republicans thought it wasn’t a real question and had it censored. It is a question. A very important quesiton because we need to define what is and is not censorship.)

…O’Callaghan is just part of a cadre of high-powered operatives patrolling Alaska as reporters and Democrats scrutinize every detail of Palin’s tenure in government, plus her family and friends. One strategy: Carefully coordinate any information that’s released. The McCain campaign is demanding that it becomes the de facto source for answers about the operations of Alaska’s government during the past 20 months.
More….much more

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080917/ap_on_go_pr_wh/palin_mccain_operatives
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061023/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq_34;_ylt=Avi7SjnKtYHxf4zRDU_iCIhX6GMA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

He even ignores his own party telling him that their strategy is not working. Why won’t this man listen to anyone?

-Oops. I accidentally asked this question in the wrong category earlier.
Michael - Who said anything about stopping a war? Read the question, idiot. It’s about changing strategy.
I’m sure all my thumbs down are from people too unintelligent to admit that they’re wrong.

They identified the person who did it. So much for her right wing conspiracy theory. I also included the link for the video at You Tube. It’s called Vote Different.

WASHINGTON - The mystery creator of the Orwellian YouTube ad against Hillary Rodham Clinton is a Democratic operative who worked for a digital consulting firm with ties to rival Sen. Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record).

Philip de Vellis, a strategist with Blue State Digital, acknowledged in an interview with The Associated Press that he was the creator of the video, which portrayed Clinton as a Big Brother figure and urged support for Obama’s presidential campaign.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070321/ap_on_el_pr/clinton_ad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3G-lMZxjo

story link…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080617/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_obama

quoting…
On his campaign plane, Obama told reporters that Osama bin Laden is still at large in part because President Bush’s strategy toward fighting terror has not succeeded.

Gee, I wonder what part Bill Clinton played in Bin Laden still being at large when he IGNORED AND FAILED TO RESPOND TO AT LEAST SIX BONAFIDE CHANCES TO CAPTURE OR KILL BIN LADEN IN SUDAN

AND WAS THAT JUST SLIGHTLY LARGER OF A PART THAN GEORGE WAS?

John Mccain’s people clearly said it best…

Senator Obama is a perfect manifestation a September 10th mind-set … He does not understand the nature of the enemies we face, McCain national security director Randy Scheunemann told reporters.

Former CIA director James Woolsey, (said) Obama has an extremely dangerous and extremely naive approach toward terrorism … and toward dealing with prisoners captured overseas who have been engaged in terrorist attacks.
hey g…IF YOU …R…E…A…D THE DETAIL IT SAYS…MCCAIN…NOT…BUSH…

THANKS.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080518/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_mideast

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070222/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq

Cheney says that when Democrats want our troops to come home, we are Al Qaeda.

In almost the same breath, the fact that the UK is pulling out troops is a good sign that the strategy is working.

Which is it? Either we pull out because the strategy is working or the British are carrying out Al Qaeda strategy. Even the dark VP of the Sith can’t have it both ways.
If they are our allies, and they are withdrawing from the safe area, why are they not redeploying where we need their help? See how that argument doesn’t fly?
7100 troops is actually a pretty substantial number. It is about a third of the proposed surge that is causing so much consternation.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070620/ap_on_el_pr/clinton_artful_dodger;_ylt=Amr2niZ9.J4HZJ2jAaw1YUCyFz4D
Sen. Hillary Clinton an artful dodger

By RON FOURNIER, Associated Press WriterWed Jun 20, 3:20 AM ET

Slick Hillary? Former President Clinton earned the nickname Slick Willy for his mastery in the political arts of ducking and dodging. He had a knack for convincing people on both sides of an issue that he agreed with them.

His wife may not be as smooth, but Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is doing a passable impression of the ever-parsing former president.

Would she pardon Scooter Libby?

No comment.

Would she nominate a union leader to be secretary of labor?

Maybe.

Would she repeal the North American Free Trade Agreement?

Can’t say.

The Democratic presidential candidate drew several rounds of applause for her appearance before the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union Tuesday. She flashed her sense of humor, displayed a deep knowledge of the issues and held her own in a forum that pitted her against other presidential rivals. But what stood out was her reluctance to address questions head-on.

This habit of hers begs a question: Will the Clintonian tactic help her in the crowded Democratic field — or hurt her in the eyes of voters who have grown coarsened by the spin and obfuscation that marred both the Clinton and Bush administrations?

It’s obviously a skill that, in the long run, served Bill Clinton well, and there’s something to say for a politician who doesn’t alienate people by taking clear positions on issues, said Charles Franklin, political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For Bill, it was certainly a useful skill for political success.

But he said the question for Hillary Clinton is whether she can pull it off, because it’s certainly not an easy thing to do successfully.

She gave AFSCME her best shot.

MSNBC host Chris Matthews asked Clinton at the labor forum whether former White House aide I. Lewis Scooter Libby should be pardoned.

Oh, I think there would be enough to be said about that without me adding to it, she replied.

That is such a political answer! complained Matthews.

The largely Democratic audience buzzed, apparently in protest of Matthews’ response. One audience member told him to ask a real question. Clinton finished the person’s sentence: … a question that’s really about the people in this audience and not what goes on inside of Washington, she said.

So we’ll leave that as a non-answer, Matthews said.

Clinton 1, Moderator 0.

Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President **** Cheney, was convicted in March of lying to investigators and obstructing Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s inquiry into the 2003 leak of a CIA operative’s identity. A federal judge said last week he will not delay a 2 1/2-year prison sentence for Libby in the case.

Most conservatives want President Bush to pardon Libby. Most Democratic activists don’t.

Indeed, Clinton’s rivals for the Democratic nomination didn’t hesitate to simply reply no when asked about a Libby pardon.

It was the same dynamic on trade. Shortly after Rep. Dennis Kucinich vowed to repeal the North American Free Trade Agreement, Clinton was asked if she would move to scuttle it.

She dodged. Like anything, Clinton said, NAFTA had some positives, but unfortunately had a lot of downsides.

Clinton can be specific when she want to be. In her non-answer on NAFTA, she identified a soon-to-be-closed car plant by the small Michigan town where it’s located, and she talked in depth about the link between outsourced jobs and health care costs.

Playing to the union crowd, Matthews asked Clinton whether she would nominate a union leader as secretary of the Labor Department. Yes or no? It’s a great idea, she said. I think we should really consider that. It wasn’t what you would call a firm commitment.

Some voters might find it refreshing that Clinton passed up three chances to pander to liberal Democrats. Being against Libby, opposed to NAFTA and in favor of giving unions a voice at the Labor Department are no-brainers in Democratic primary fights.

It may be that she’s looking beyond the nomination.

I kind of see those things as in keeping with her effort to paint herself as a more moderate Democrat than her image as first lady, Franklin said.

Until recently, Clinton distanced herself from the liberal, anti-war wing of the Democratic Party on Iraq — a position that her advisers said was true to her convictions as well as smart general-election strategy. But, under pressure from activists who dominate primary and caucus voting, she has steadily edged to the left.

She told the crowd Tuesday that she had been calling for a troop withdrawal for some time, not mentioning that her rivals have held that position for a longer period. On the other hand, she said some troops will need to remain in Iraq to contain al-Qaida, protect Kurds, keep an eye on Iran, protect the U.S. Embassy and maybe train Iraqi forces.

The answer offered a little something for everybody, for or against U.S. involvement in Iraq. Pretty slick.
US Vet- Hillary’s evasiveness is the issue diverting it as you are attempting to do is ducking responsibility!psst its from the liberal press!
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