Posted by Parker V on April 30, 2007 under Democrat, Elections | 
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Mike Gravel, 2008 Presidential Candidate on Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. Includes the wonderful news that Mike will be at the NH Debates.
Posted by Parker V on April 29, 2007 under Democrat, Elections, Video | Be the First to Comment
Candidates Clinton, Biden, Obama and Edwards respond to Sen. Harry Reid’s assessment that the Iraq war is lost.
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The online social networking site MySpace and reality TV producer Mark Burnett are teaming to launch the search for an independent presidential candidate.
The political reality show “Independent” comes with a $1 million cash prize and a catch: The winner can’t keep the money.
The prize can be used to finance a run for the White House or can be given to a political action committee or political cause.
Contestants on the show, set to launch in early 2008, will meet the public and interact with supporters, protesters and others. An interactive “town hall” will give MySpace users and TV viewers a chance to rate their performance.
The show does not yet have a commitment from a TV network.
Potential candidates will audition for the show by submitting a video. Once the contestants are chosen, they will set up MySpace profiles to serve as their campaign headquarters.
“Through this new network television series and the partnership of MySpace, we’re going to discover in a big way what America really thinks,” Burnett said.
The Associated Press
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Analysis of the MSNBC conversation (wasn’t a “debate” at all), mainly on the issue of Hillary vs. Obama on responding to terror attack.
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On March 19, 2007, David Ehrenstein of the LA Times wrote a column about Hollywood and politics. The headline of his column: “Obama, the ‘Magic Negro.’” Then on March 21, 2007 the Rush Limbaugh show aired a parody produced by Paul Shanklin, imitating the Rev. Al Sharpton singing, “Barack The Magic Negro.” Limbaugh has continued to illustrate, what he considers to be the absurdity of the phrase used by the LA Times as well as continuing to bait his critics while repeatedly telling his african american call screener “Mr Snerdly” that he (Limbaugh) will be “blamed” for originating the phrase. His baiting appears to have worked, as following a tip from liberal watchdog site Media Matters, many media outlets have reported with raised eyebrows the use of the phrase in the Limbaugh shows parody without mention of the origin in the LA Times (referenced in the song).
Posted by Parker V on April 27, 2007 under Democrat, Elections | Be the First to Comment
“How black are his politics?”. A racist question, but that’s okay. No one else cares, so CandidatesBlog won’t make a stink about it either. In this video, Eric Dyson defends (through attacks, not actual “defense” as the word is normally used) Barack Obama from criticism of being all flash and no substance.
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Candidates Edwards, Obama, Biden, Kucinich and Dodd debate partial-birth abortion.
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John Edwards doesn’t believe there’s a “global war on terror,” at least not in the simple-show-of-hands sense.
This is something a lot of Democrats say privately — and something mainstream pols everywhere else in the world say publicly — but it contests a Bush administration premise in a way very few American politicians have been comfortable in the last five and a half years.
His stance — though it doesn’t seem to have been all that deliberate — matches the recent comments of a prominent British politician. It’s the most direct challenge to the Bush administration’s whole worldview that I can recall from a leading Democrat.
Edwards aide David Ginsberg confirmed that the former North Carolina senator had not raised his hand in response to Brian Williams’ question,”Do you believe there is such a thing as a global war on terror?”
He also noted that Edwards elaborated later in the debate.
“I believe — and this goes to the question you asked earlier, just a few minutes ago — global war on terror. I think there are dangerous people and dangerous leaders in the world that America must deal with and deal with strongly, but we have more tools available to us than bombs. And America needs to use the tools that are available to them so that these people who are sitting on the fence, who terrorists are trying to recruit, the next generation, get pushed to our side, not to the other side. We’ve had no long-term strategy, and we need one, and I will provide one.”
This report done by the Politico based on another report by MSNBC