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Obama Closes In On Dem Nomination
Illinois Senator Has Majority Of Pledged Delegates With Oregon Victory; Clinton Easily Wins Kentucky, But Campaign In The Red
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Play CBS Video Video Obama Returns To Iowa "CBS News RAW": Barack Obama returned to Iowa, the site of his first, highly-publicized primary win, to speak to supporters about the importance of party unity in the days ahead.
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Video Hillary Wins The Bluegrass State "CBS News RAW": After clinching a substantial victory in Kentucky, Hillary Clinton spoke to supporters in Louisville saying she is ahead of Obama in terms of the popular vote.
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Video Clinton Wins Kentucky Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is the projected winner of Kentucky's primary election but, as Jim Axelrod reports, this win may not be enough to weaken rival Barack Obama's lead.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., acknowledges supporters during her Kentucky primary election night rally Tuesday, May 20, 2008 in Louisville, Ky. (AP)
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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. poses with staff members at Lynn's Paradise Cafe during a campaign stop in Louisville, Ky. Tuesday, May 20, 2008. (AP)
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Photo Essay Barack Obama A look at the life and meteoric rise of the president-elect.
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Photo Essay Hillary Clinton A look at a life and career full of firsts.
"You have put us within reach of the Democratic nomination," he told cheering supporters in Iowa, the overwhelmingly white state that launched him, a black, first-term senator from Illinois, on his improbable path to victory last January. (Watch Obama video)
Clinton countered with a lopsided win in Kentucky, a victory with scant political value in a race moving inexorably in Obama's direction.
Finance reports filed yesterday show Clinton in the red, saddled with nearly $20 million in debts. Obama, by contrast, entered May with $37 million in the bank, while John McCain entered the month with $22 million on hand. (Read more on the candidates' finances.)
With 83 percent of the votes counted in Oregon's unique mail-in primary, Obama led Clinton 58 percent to 42 percent. With all precincts reporting in Kentucky, Clinton bested Obama 65 percent to 30 percent.
The former first lady vowed to remain in the race, telling supporters, "I'm more determined than ever to see that every vote is cast and every ballot is counted." (Watch Clinton video)Kentucky Results
Obama won enough delegates Tuesday night to claim the majority of all pledged delegates to be elected in primaries and caucuses, reports CBS News. Obama has 1,649 pledged delegates to Clinton's 1,496. That total does not include Michigan or Florida.
According to the latest CBS News count, Obama now has a total of 1,955 delegates, which leaves him less than 100 away from the 2,026 needed to capture the nomination. The former first lady has 1,773. That tally includes the nearly 800 superdelegates, the party leaders who hold the balance of power at the convention. (See the full state-by-state tally)
In Kentucky, CBS News reports Clinton will win 35 delegates and Obama will win 14, with one left to be allocated. In Oregon, Obama will win 28, Clinton will win 19 and there are five unallocated.
"To the extent that the outcome of this race is uncertain, it’s devolved into an argument over mathematical computations," said CBSNews.com senior political editor Vaughn Ververs. "But the numbers aren’t adding up for Hillary Clinton, and barring a totally unexpected and dramatic reversal of fortune, she’s not going to persuade those superdelegates that two plus two somehow equals five." (Read "Obama Pivots Toward Fall Challenges," by Ververs)
"This continues to be a tough fight, and I have fought it the only way I know how - with determination, by never giving up and never giving in," Clinton told supporters in Kentucky.
"I have done it not because I've wanted to demonstrate my toughness," she said, "but because I believe passionately that for the sake of our country, the Democrats must take back the White House and end Republican rule. ... That's why I'm still running and that's why you're still voting," she said.
Clinton claimed the popular vote lead in her speech to supporters, counting the disputed Michigan and Florida primaries. "This is one of the closest races for a party's nomination in modern history, she said.
Obama spoke before some 6,000 supporters at an outdoor rally with the Iowa Statehouse as a backdrop, celebrating in the state where his win in the opening contest of the presidential primary season helped reshape the race.
"Tonight, in the fullness of spring, with the help of those who stood up from Portland to Louisville, we have returned to Iowa with a majority of delegates elected by the American people and you have put us within reach of the Democratic nomination for president of the United States of America," Obama said.
According to CBS News exit polling, in Kentucky, 77 percent of Clinton voters said they would be dissatisfied if Obama was the Democratic nominee. Obama voters were about evenly split on whether they would be satisfied if Clinton got the nomination. (Exit Poll Data: Kentucky | Oregon)
In Kentucky, just 33 percent of Clinton voters said they would back Obama in the general election if he is the Democratic nominee - 42 percent said they will vote for Republican nominee-in-waiting McCain, and another 23 percent say they won’t vote. More Democrats also felt Clinton was the best candidate to beat McCain in the fall.
Oregon voters felt differently when asked about their feelings about the candidate they did not vote for, according to the exit poll. A majority of Clinton and Obama voters in the state would be satisfied if their opponent got the nomination. And 68 percent of Clinton voters say they will back Obama in the general election if he is the nominee and 80 percent of Obama voters say they will back Clinton in the general election. However, a majority of Oregon Democrats said they thought Obama would be a stronger general election candidate in the fall.
Democratic voters in both states said the economy was the most important issue, with 67 percent of voters in Kentucky saying that. Voters differed, however, on whether to suspend the gas tax was a good idea. In Kentucky, 59 percent thought it would be good idea and 37 percent said it would not be. In Oregon, 64 percent said they thought it would be a bad idea and 26 percent said it would be a good idea.
Since the vote is by mail in Oregon, the exit poll was taken by telephone and completed on Sunday.
In Kentucky, Clinton won among almost all key demographic groups in the state, according to the exit polls. She won 67 percent of women and 64 percent of men. She won 79 percent of blue collar whites. By wide margins, she won those earning less or more than $50,000 and those with or without a college degree.
In Oregon, Obama won most demographic groups. He won male voters 65 percent to 34 percent and women voters 51 percent to 48 percent. Obama also carried those with or without a college degree and those who made more or less than $50,000. Clinton won blue collar whites in Oregon, but by a much smaller margin than she did in Kentucky - 54 percent to 46 percent.
Clinton won among Kentucky voters who decided in the last week and those who decided in the last three days. However, Obama won those voters in Oregon.
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Dutch lawmaker planning film criticizing the Quran
A Dutch conservative lawmaker said Wednesday he is making a film to highlight what he describes as "fascist" passages in the Quran, his latest high profile criticism of Islam.
Wilders plans to depict parts of the Quran he says are used as inspiration "by bad people to do bad things."
Less than 10 minutes long, the film is expected to air in late January. It will show "the intolerant and fascist character of the Quran," said Wilders, whose anti-Islam campaign helped his Freedom Party win nine seats in parliament in last year''s election.
In the past, Wilders has said that half the Quran should be torn up and compared it with Adolf Hitler''s book "Mein Kampf." He has claimed the Netherlands is being swamped by a "tsunami" of Islamic immigrants.
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got it
Jones Captivated S.F.''''s Liberal Elite
Posted by terrorislami at 07:01 AM : May 23, 2008
It''s difficult to think straight when you are so full of hate!!
Hitler was a conservative and he captivated the German conservatives in the 1920s and 30s. Bush is a conservative who had absolutely no experience and yet he captivated the "religious right wingnuts" in 2000 and spent the next 8 years f**king up not only our nation, but the entire world. During the Bush "reign" the christian taliban made a serious attempt to inpose their will on the entire nation.
McCain is a Bush clone, to the core.
Hitler put "God be with us" on the uniforms of his army. Bush talked to god. McCain rejects the support of the right wingnuts (or so he says) but supports five more years in Iraq. It wasn''t that long ago that McCain was courting the "religious right wingnuts."
There''s little difference between the "cool aid" that Jim Jones was prescribing and the "kool aid" that Bush has been delivering and the "kool aid" that McCain will continue to deliver.
Drink up, terrorislami...
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Jones Captivated S.F.''s Liberal Elite
They were late to discover how cunningly he curried favor
With these willing workers, Jones made himself the perfect gift for the liberal machine of U.S. Representatives Phillip and John Burton, Assemblyman Willie Brown and Mayor George Moscone, which was trying to consolidate its hold on San Francisco politics.
The turning point in Jones'' drive for power came in 1975, according to Tim Reiterman''s and John Jacobs'' exhaustive study, ``Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and his People.'''' Jones'' army of volunteers saturated San Francisco neighborhoods, distributing slate cards for Moscone (running for mayor), Joseph Freitas (district attorney) and Richard Hongisto (sheriff). All three won.
``What you had here was a ready-made volunteer workforce,'''' said Agar Jaicks, who was chairman of the county Democratic Central Committee, the governing body of the Democratic Party in San Francisco. ``And you also had in Jones a man who touched a component of the consensus power forces in the city, such as labor and ethnicity groups, and he was very strong in the Western Addition. So here was a guy who could provide workers for causes progressives cared about.''''
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/11/12/MN85578.DTL
Koolaid Drinker
People who believe anything they are told. people who refuse to change there minds when confronted with facts.
a koolaid drinker is the liberal democrat who is liberal because they are told they should be. they have made no attempt to decide why they are liberal.
often a koolaid "drinker" simply wants to hate anything a republican does good or bad.
koolaid people are the vocal howard dean wing of the democrat party. the converse of rightwing loonies.
koolaid drinkers are the ones that went first when jim jones said drink.
that earth mama hippy chick is such a sixties burn out wanabe. dude she is just a "koolaid drinker" cut her a break. she listens to air american and npr.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Koolaid+Drinker
they hate the country that made them millionaires,,,
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Obama Closes In On Dem Nomination
Illinois Senator Has Majority Of Pledged Delegates With Oregon Victory; Clinton Easily Wins Kentucky, But Campaign In The Red
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So does anyone want to explain to why the nomination should be handed to Obama on a silver platter again?
The last I heard the people are suppose to Vote the president in....not hand someone the position on a Howard Dean''s silver platter!!!
And where did this Obama come from anyway....he came from nowhere...out of the wood works....no one even knew his name until a year ago. He is also too young, naive and inexperienced.
Are you people who voted for the man nuts???
Are you that desperate for change that you will take anything? Okay well, be careful what you wish for....this change you are looking for I don''t think is putting in a young, inexperience far left liberal who knows nothing about the challenges we are facing in America today as a nation.
Okay...you people are what you call "Looking for love in all the wrong places" and you are starting to scare me!
I guess no one out there in the US cares that the DNC refuses to ackowledge Florida''s vote---except Florida???? Well...I hope they never do that to any one of your states. We showed up in record numbers to vote and our vote should count. The Republicans had the same scenario and they let our votes count...why then can''t the Democrats ackowledge the Florida vote????? Is is because then the liberal''s man Obama would not have the lead after all??? We all know how much of a liberal Howard Dean is....he wants Obama to win so bad that he is willing take away Florida''s right to vote. How undemocratic and unamerican. Well....Obama does not surprise me....he and his preacher hates America...so its no surprise when they don''t actually want American voters to put him in office...obviously this guy thinks he can come in as a young pup and have everything handed to him including the presidential office.. Sorry Obama...it does not work that way...the people have to VOTE you in....Osama...oops...Obama. Osama, Obama...whatever your forgettable name is.
Bill: %u201CWell you know Jesse Jackson won SC in 86, it%u2019s not a big deal.
Bill: on Obama%u2018s campaign. : It%u2019s a %u201Cfairy tale, give me a break.%u201D
Bill: %u201CWouldn%u2019t it be nice to have TWO LOYAL AMERICANS running for president?%u201D
Hillary: %u201CYou don%u2019t get to choose your family, but you choose your pastor. (Countless times on TV) She chose Bill.
Hillary: Tons of %u201CBITTER%u201D comments.
Hillary: Elitism: "It is clear that the uneducated, hard working Americans - WHITE AMERICANS - vote for me overwhelmingly. They are my core base."
On whether Obama is a Muslim: %u201CNot as far as I know.%u201D
1.HE''S A MAN.
2.SEE NUMBER ONE.
3.SEE NUMBER TWO.
4.SEE NUMBER THREE.
5.SEE NUMBER FOUR.
6.HE CAN''T PLAY "YANKEE DOODLE" WITH HIS ARMPIT.
Someone please start a website to co-ordinate it. Post it everywhere. E-mail it everywhere.
Do it NOW!
Pick a date. Start with a week or so....see if that has an effect. Independence Day would certainly be appropriate.
Higher oil prices are causing RUNAWAY inflation. It is actually killing people in countries who can no longer pay for food and it is a portense of things to come............here.
We are in deep doo.
Who has the know-how to start the ball rolling? You would be a true patriot and a hero now, legend later.
Do it TODAY!
Posted by TawpDawg11 at 11:54 AM : May 22, 2008
1.HER CHIT DOESN''T STINK.IN FACT,SHE CRRAPS STA-PUFF MARSHMALLOWS.
2.WHEN SHE FAHTS,IT SMELLS OF ROSES.
3.SHE CAN PLAY "YANKEE DOODLE" WITH HER ARMPIT.
4.SHE''S A W0MAN.
5.SEE NUMBER FOUR.
6.SEE NUMBER FIVE.
Where is your credible source that Obama and his pastor have engaged in shared sexual activity? Oh, let me guess, Larry Sinclair''s blog. Isn''t he the $#$#@$ clown that says he saw an alien spacecraft land on the White House lawn? Didn''t he say he saw Elvis and JFK wave to him from that spaceship?
Here''s some free advice for you: bring FACTS to the table or go watch the alien spacecraft land on the White House lawn with sinclair. Don''t forget to shake Elvis or JFK''s hand. $%$#%$# %%$#$%$## $%%#$#$!!!
Obama is NOT electable. Wonder if the mainstream media is covering up Obama''''s possible closeted homosexual relationship with Pastor Wright until the general election because the media already knew about Pastor Wright''''s inflammatory and racist remarks since January 07 and didn''''t expose it until April 08? And wonder if that is the reason why Obama stayed with his Pastor Wrightor for 20 years?
Yesterday, Nancy Pelosi say a Hillary/Obama ticket is a winning ticket but she will not let it happen. As Democrat Speaker of the House, the question is why? Has the DNC and Pelosi been paid off by financiers George Soros, Felix Rohayan, George Schultz (millionaires and billionaires) to give GOP the White House this fall????
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Posted by francise223 at 09:19 AM : May 22, 2008
One word:Delegates.Get a stamp,an envelope,and send a letter to somebody that gives a sshit.
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