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Peace Voter: Election Commentary
Palin
on Nuclear Weapons
Posted by James Lamond
One of the most challenging and dangerous
foreign policy issues today is that of nuclear weapons. On this
issue there is an incredible amount of responsibility that rests
in the hands of the president. As Jon Wolfsthal, nonproliferation
expert and senior fellow at CSIS, told Democracy Arsenal, “The
next VP must know how to handle the most awesome responsibility
at the White House’s command – the American nuclear
arsenal. Unfortunately, Governor Palin has no experience on global
security issues and showed no expertise on the content or purpose
of American nuclear weapons.” In last night’s vice presidential
debate Sarah Palin demonstrated this lack of expertise.
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Obama
Adviser Backs Missile Defenses in Europe
By Elaine M. Grossman - Global
Security Newswire
WASHINGTON — A senior
adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama
(Ill.) today expressed support for Bush administration plans to
build a missile defense system in Europe, despite Moscow’s
protests that the deployments would threaten Russia (see GSN, Sept.
12).
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Commentary: St. Paul, Minnesota --
the land of make believe
By Jack Cafferty - September 2,
2008 - CNN
Jack Cafferty says the Republican party has lost
track of what it stands for and is losing its hold on voters. This
week the Republicans gather for their convention. For four days,
they will labor under the illusion their party is still relevant.
It's not.
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Bob Barr, the Master of a
Curious Universe
By Libby Copeland - Washington
Post Staff Writer - August 18, 2008
"I still plan someday
to do a book on Bob Barr's laws of the universe," says Bob
Barr, the Libertarian candidate for president. The rules of Bob
Barr's universe are many and fascinating. Several have to do with
his libertarian principles, like "No matter how much power
government has, it never has enough." Others are more holistic,
like "The world is full of idiots." There are deeply personal
ones: "The most difficult thing about politics is dealing with
people with really bad breath."
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Troops Deployed Abroad Give
6:1 to Obama
Open Secrets - by Luke Rosiak -
August 14, 2008
During World War II, soldiers
crouching in foxholes penned letters assuring their sweethearts
that they'd be home soon. Now, between firefights in the Iraqi desert,
some infantrymen have been sending a different kind of mail stateside:
two or three hundred dollars -- or whatever they can spare -- towards
a presidential election that could very well determine just how
soon they come home.
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Republicans
for Obama (And Against McCain)
by Ari Berman - The Nation - 08/12/2008
In June the McCain campaign released
a list of "prominent Democrats and Independents" supporting
John McCain. Few of the names were prominent, and a review by the
Huffington Post found that more than half of the list had "either
obvious ties to the Republican Party or are regularly touted by
GOP politicians as Democratic defectors."
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The Entire Democratic Draft Platform
by Jonathan Tasini - Thursday 07
of August, 2008
Here, for your reading pleasure, is the draft,
as of today, of the entire Democratic Party's Platform.
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Obama
reportedly told Democrats Israel will hit Iran if sanctions fail
Filed by John Byrne - The Raw Story - 07/30/2008
Presumptive Democratic nominee Sen.
Barack Obama (D-IL) purportedly told House Democrats in a private
meeting Tuesday that Israel may strike Iran if sanctions on the
country fail to prevent development of nuclear technology.
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Bush and McCain Seem to Diverge in
Foreign Policy
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
- New York Times - July 31, 2008
WASHINGTON — President
Bush and Senator John McCain have long been in agreement on major
elements of American foreign policy, particularly in their approach
to the “axis of evil” countries of Iran and North Korea,
and their commitment to staying the course in Iraq.
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Obama, The Prince of Bait-and-Switch
By John Pilger - The New Statesman
- July 26, 2008
I interviewed a woman who had lost
eight members of her family, including six children to a US bomb
- but mass murder in Afghanistan isn’t news.
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CONGRESSIONAL CHANGE
IN THE U.S?
Looking Beyond The Presidential Race
By Hoyt Purvis - The Santiago Times
- Thursday, 31 July 2008
With so much attention focused on the intriguing
presidential race, relatively little notice has been given to the
battles for control of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
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100 days to go: The presidential
race's red-letter days
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