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I’m seeing a lot of weird comments on the internets, particularly on Twitter. The theme seems to be that Obama has somehow lost momentum, or that Clinton’s wins last night are somehow turning this race back the other way. The others are all about this Clinton/Obama ticket that even Hillary is talking about being an option as if she is now the frontrunner and needs to think about VP options…
People are entitled to their opinions of course, but I have to say that none of this is logical.
Kucinich abandons White House bid
CLEVELAND - Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich is abandoning his second bid for the White House.
In an interview with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the congressman said he was quitting the race and would made a formal announcement Friday.
“I want to continue to serve in Congress,” he told the newspaper.
Kucinich said he will not endorse another Democrat in the primary.
*sigh*
Saudi arms sale may spark Bush-Congress battle
I seriously feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Fifteen of the nineteen attackers in the largest catalyst for this Administration’s “Global War on Terror” platform hailed from Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia has been accused of funding terrorist activity, supports fundamental Islamic groups that grow and train these sorts of people, and is probably our BIGGEST concern on this issue… And we’re selling them weapons.
Meanwhile, we continue to fight a completely unnecessary and illegal war to their north, in a country that had nothing at all to do with anything before we went in and made it another breeding ground for terrorists and gave our enemies more reason to hate us. And to make it worst, our image is further tarnished and we’ve lost good allies in the process.
I guess the truth of it is though, if we’re going to sell these weapons to Israel, it’s only fair that we arm everyone else in the region, too, right? I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
*facepalm*
Descendants of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse break away from US
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders said Wednesday.
“We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us,” long-time Indian rights activist Russell Means told a handful of reporters and a delegation from the Bolivian embassy, gathered in a church in a run-down neighborhood of Washington for a news conference.
No idea how this will end. I hope it doesn’t end badly for the tribes. I don’t think it can become a larger Waco, since 1. The media are already publicizing this, so the government can’t just roll in without people knowing and 2. A lot of the people they’d use for that are overseas.
Should be interesting either way.
The Des Moines Register has excluded Dennis Kucinich from their debate tonight because his Iowa field director works from his home instead of a rented office. Their criteria simply requires a candidate have a campaign office and a full-time staff.
This is completely ridiculous, and insulting to each and every voter. Not only in the Iowa caucuses, but nationally as well. These last debates before the caucuses could be the most important media exposure for any of the candidates to get. It is entirely unacceptable to exclude a top-polling candidate, or any candidate for that matter from them based on such an asinine interpretation of the criteria.
In my opinion, this is another example of how the bigger budget wins the election. Because the Kucinich campaign isn’t being sent great gobs of money like some of the others, they have had to be frugal with their space rental options in Iowa, choosing to work from a home instead. Now due to something as simple as not spending money that doesn’t need to be spent, Kucinich has an even harder fight to get representation at the caucus. Isn’t useless spending something we discourage in our elected officials? Shouldn’t all of the candidates be encouraged to save money where possible?
I found this on Earthtimes.org, via Digg.
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