Presidential Race
Ralph Nader claims Obama is ‘talking white’ and appealing to ‘white guilt’
Nader lets it fly with some strong comment towards Barack Obama
Nader on “talking white”:
I haven’t heard him have a strong crackdown on economic exploitation in the ghettos. Payday loans, predatory lending, asbestos, lead. What’s keeping him from doing that? Is it because he wants to talk white? He doesn’t want to appear like Jesse Jackson?
And […]
Tancredo Blast McCain on Latino meeting
By: Rick Pedraza — Newsmax
U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo blasts presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain for his secret meeting with Hispanic leaders in Chicago last week and challenges the Senator from Arizona to stand firm on border security, regardless of the audience he’s addressing.
In a letter sent to McCain on Tuesday and released by the […]
Obama invades Dixie
By Hastings Wyman
Southern Political Report
June 25, 2008 — When the Obama campaign launched its first television ads in 18 key states across the country, four of them were in the South — Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. With a combined total of 70 electoral votes, were these four states to desert the solid (Republican) […]
GOP worried over the Barr ‘factor’
From the Associated Press
ATLANTA — A fiery former GOP congressman who gained national prominence for doggedly pursuing impeachment of President Clinton has some Republicans worried he’ll play spoiler in a tight presidential contest.
Bob Barr’s Libertarian Party bid for the White House is the longest of long shots, but political experts say he may be able […]
Fred Thomspon to play key role in selecting judges for McCain administration
Human Events is all over the case.
In a McCain administration, former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson would play a dominant role in selecting Supreme Court nominees and other judicial appointments, sources close to the McCain campaign and to Thompson tell us.And why is Fred suddenly everywhere? These sources say that the agreement between McCain and Thompson […]
Obama getting into the ‘race’ game first
Barack Obama has killed the suspense for the general election. He knows exactly how the Republicans are going to run against him. They’re going to run on race and fear. Just because they haven’t yet, and couldn’t possibly hope to do so as well as his party’s primary, doesn’t mean a thing. What’s important is […]
21Jun2008 | Loozianajay | 0 comments | ContinuedHagel would consider VP offer from Obama
Should it really surprise anyone? Some gave him the benefit of the doubt during all of his criticism of the GOP and hand-holding with the Dems as being a principled bi-partisan conservative. Well it’s easy to see he is nothing more than a sale out. In the end, even Hagel will prove too conservative for […]
21Jun2008 | Loozianajay | 0 comments | Continued
Can McCain Make Obama the ‘Kerry’ of 08?
by Mosheh Oinounou
In a memo released Friday, McCain Campaign Senior Adviser Steve Schmidt paints Barack Obama as a flip-flopper to end a week that started with the campaign using some of it’s strongest language to date to cast the Democrat as weak on terror and believer in a “September 10th mentality.”“As we scrutinize Barack […]
McCain closing the gap in fundraising against Obama
Democrat Barack Obama raised $22 million in May for his presidential campaign, his weakest fundraising month this year, and ended the month with $43 million cash on hand.
McCain raised $21 million in May and ended the month with $31.6 million in the bank. Of Obama’s cash on hand, $10 million is available only for the […]
Obama flip-flops on FISA ‘Compromise’
Obama’s earlier statement
I strongly oppose retroactive immunity in the FISA bill…. No one should get a free pass to violate the basic civil liberties of the American people - not the President of the United States, and not the telecommunications companies that fell in line with his warrantless surveillance program. [My favorite part here —–> […]
Paul supporters in Montana fail in effort to secure delegates
Associated Press
MISSOULA, Mont. — Sen. John McCain may be the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, but supporters of Ron Paul in Montana refused to abandon their candidate.
The group led an impassioned fight Friday at the Montana GOP convention, shaking things up in a failed effort to secure the state’s 22 national convention delegates for Paul _ […]
How to hit Obama
By Robert Novak – Chicago Sun-Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Leaders of Sen. John McCain’s campaign are looking toward “527s” as their principal means of attacking Sen. Barack Obama because they have been given a green light by McCain.”I can’t be a referee of every spot run on television,” McCain told the Boston Herald in an interview published […]
New InsiderAdvantage Poll has McCain and Obama tied in Georgia
Ok…I have a little trouble posting this because I have stated several times in the last week that Georgia would not be an ‘open’ state. I gave my insight on why I thought McCain would safely win the state. Namely, a half a dozen polls that reflected it. However, InsiderAdvantage and Southern Political Report staff […]
19Jun2008 | Loozianajay | 2 comments | ContinuedMcCain drills home proposal
McCain Scores With Offshore Drilling Proposal – Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
John McCain has drawn first blood in the political debate following Barack Obama’s victory in the primaries. His call yesterday for offshore oil drilling — and Bush’s decision to press the issue in Congress - puts the Democrats in the position of advocating the wear-your-sweater […]
Democratic Governors meet to unite behind Obama
Dem governors unite behind Obama by GOV. JANET NAPOLITANO & GOV. MARTIN O’MALLEY
19Jun2008 | Loozianajay | 0 comments | Continued





