POLITICS: MS DEMOCRATIC RECAP

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

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Sen. Barack Obama claimed his 30th win with the Mississippi Democratic primary on Tuesday, adding to his delegate lead over Sen. Hillary Clinton in the last contest before the Pennsylvania primary, which will offer 188 delegates on April 22.

“It’s just another win in our column, and we are getting more delegates,” Obama said in declaring victory in an interview on CNN Tuesday evening. “I am grateful to the people of Mississippi for the wonderful support. What we’ve tried to do is steadily make sure that in each state we are making the case about the need for change in this country.”
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At a campaign event in Wyoming on Friday, Obama made it known: he has no intent in running for vice president. Check out the video below.

“Now first of all, with all due respect, with all due respect,” Obama began, “I have won twice as many states as Sen. Clinton. I have won more of the popular vote than Senator Clinton. I have more delegates than Senator Clinton. So I don’t know how somebody who is in second place, is offering the vice presidency to the person who is in first place.

Earlier this week, former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro commented that Obama is where he is because of his race.

“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position,” she said. “And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.”

On Wednesday, in an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America”, Ferraro defended her remarks and said:

“My comments have been taken so out of context and have been spun by the Obama campaign as racist that it’s doing precisely what they don’t want done — it’s going to the Democratic Party and dividing us even more.”

When asked about Ferraro’s remarks, Obama stated that being an “African American man named Barack Obama” was not the quickest path to becoming president.

“Anybody who knows the history of this country I think would not take too seriously the notion that this has been a huge advantage, but I don’t think it’s disadvantaged either,” Obama said.

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Sharon

Thursday, March 13, 2008 /

Has anyone else seen the FACTCHECK done on what Hillary has been telling everyone is her foreign policy experience. They have shown that she has lied, lied, lied, and lied.

- Clinton claims to have “negotiated open borders” in Macedonia to fleeing Kosovar refugees. But the Macedonian border opened a full day before she arrived, and her meetings with Macedonian officials were too brief to allow for much serious negotiating.
- Clinton’s claims her activities “helped bring peace to Northern Ireland.” Irish officials are divided as to how helpful Clinton’s actions were, and key players agree that she was not directly involved in any actual negotiations.
- Clinton has repeatedly referenced her “dangerous” trip to Bosnia. She fails to mention, however, that the Bosnian war had officially ended three months before her visit – or that she made the trip with her 16-year-old daughter and two entertainers.
- Both Bill and Hillary Clinton claim that Hillary privately championed the use of U.S. troops to stop the genocide in Rwanda. That conversation left no public record, however, as U.S. policy was explicitly to stay out of Rwanda, and officials say that the use of U.S. troops was never considered.

SEE FOR YOURSELF AT: http://www.factcheck.org/...ys_adventures_abroad.html

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RON PAUL 2008'

Thursday, March 13, 2008 /

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