Wednesday, January 16, 2008 |
Mitt Romney won Michigan’s Republican presidential primary, beating Senator John McCain and gaining a victory that gives his campaign new life.
Romney becomes the third different winner in three major early-state contests, and his victory brings dramatic confusion to a GOP race that gives new meaning to the word “unsettled.”
Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, was counting on Michigan to regain momentum after losses earlier this month to Huckabee in Iowa and McCain in New Hampshire. With each of the three leading contenders having a victory under his belt, the Republican nomination race is a free-for-all going into South Carolina and the caucuses in Nevada on the same day.
“Only a week ago, a win looked like it was impossible,” Romney said at his celebration in Southfield, Michigan. “But then you got out and told America what they needed to hear.”
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 |
Oprah Winfrey will launch a new television network with Discovery Communications that will be a “natural extension” of her show, her company said Tuesday.
“The Oprah Winfrey Network” will be a multi-platform media venture “designed to entertain, inform and inspire people to live their best lives,” according to a joint statement with Discovery, which owns the Discovery Network and Animal Planet, among others.
The new channel will debut in 2009 in more than 70 million homes, on what is currently the Discovery Health Channel.
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 |
Withdraw from Iraq immediately. Eliminate the No Child Left Behind law. Legalize marijuana.
Those were just some of the goals stated by candidates at the Green Party presidential debate Sunday in San Francisco.
Source: John Bazemore / APFormer Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney who converted to the Green Party last year was, at one point during the debate, acknowledged as the front-runner. Ralph Nader, who ran on the Green ticket in 2000, spoke at the event but did not take part in the debate. Nader has not yet announced whether he will run for president again.
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Monday, January 14, 2008 |
Apparently, steroid use isn’t limited to athletes.
The Times Union of Albany cited unnamed sources in a Sunday report that R&B music star Mary J. Blige, rap musicians 50 Cent, Timbaland and Wyclef Jean, and award-winning author and producer Tyler Perry may have received or used performance enhancing drugs.
Mary J. Blige has slammed reports linking her to a steroid investigation, insisting she has never taken the performance-enhancing drug. Albany County District Attorney David Soares named the celebrities who featured in his investigation on Sunday.
The singer’s spokeswoman, Karynne Tencer, tells the New York Daily News, “Mary J. Blige has never taken any performance-enhancing illegal steroids.” [READ MORE ON THE SCANDAL]
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Sunday, January 13, 2008 |
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BET founder and Hillary Clinton supporter Bob Johnson, said Sunday he is “insulted” with the Obama campaign’s latest criticism of Clinton and appeared to take aim at the Illinois senator for his admitted drug use as a young man.
“As an African American, I’m frankly insulted that the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Bill and Hillary Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues when Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood that I won’t say what he was doing but he said it in his book,” Johnson said while campaigning with Clinton in Columbia, South Carolina.
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Saturday, January 12, 2008 |
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Bill Clinton said Friday that Barack Obama’s campaign was very impressive, and the Democratic presidential candidate “might win.”
“He’s put together a great campaign. It’s clearly not a fairy tale, it’s real,” Clinton said. “He might win.”
Clinton had called into activist Al Sharpton’s radio show to try to address the controversy over his remarks just before the New Hampshire primary that seemed to say the Illinois senator’s campaign was a “fairy tale.”
On Friday, he said that reference was meant to describe news coverage of Obama’s war vote, and of his campaign, and not the viability of his presidential run.
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Friday, January 11, 2008 |
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Senator John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, embraced the presidential candidacy of Senator Barack Obama in Charleston, S.C., saying Mr. Obama “had the greatest potential to lead a transformation, not just a transition.”
“Who better than Barack Obama to bring new credibility to America’s role in the world and help restore our moral authority?” Mr. Kerry said, speaking at a rally at the College of Charleston. “Who better than Barack Obama to turn a new page in American politics, so that Democrats, independents and Republicans alike can look to the leadership that unites to find common ground.” [ Read the article in its entirety ].
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