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RFFM.org NEWS CHICAGO, IL -- Do Ask, Do Tell / U.S. Military announced what founder Dan Zanoza is calling a political counterinsurgency movement to fight against homosexual activists. Do Ask, Do Tell / U.S. Military is an organization formed to fight the effort by some which would lead to homosexuals openly serving in the United States Armed Forces. "Hillary Clinton said she would strive to do away with 'Don't ask, don't tell' which was implemented by her husband and former President Bill Clinton during his first term in office," stated Zanoza. "If Hillary planned to use our Armed Forces for...

Terry McAuliffe is known for being loyal. As Hillary Clinton’s longtime friend and campaign manager, he battled on her behalf until the bitter end of her long quest for the Democratic presidential nomination. So the former Democratic Party chair made waves this week after he told a crowd of Virginia Democrats the politician he thinks Barack Obama should choose as his vice presidential running mate. It wasn’t Clinton –- a possible clue that the Senator from New York has been bumped from Obama’s list of potential VPs. If you needed a clue. Instead, according to the Falls Church News-Press, McAuliffe...

Washington - In a campaign week dominated by Barack Obama's trip abroad, the pro-John McCain camp has made headlines by complaining about coverage of Senator Obama's trip abroad. For Senator McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, crying foul on the news media represents a double-edged sword. On the plus side, he plays into the longstanding narrative that asserts reporters are rooting for Obama, the likely Democratic nominee, to win in November. Hillary Rodham Clinton played that card during the primaries, to some effect, but ultimately unsuccessfully.

In 15 years the Clintons have never been this far removed from the limelight. Im guessing that Denver will be something special to watch. Here's betting the notorious Michelle tape appears or a super delegate fight breaks out. I don't trust them a one bit! Your thoughts.

As many have been saying all along, Senator Barack Obama is only the presumed Democratic nominee. And that fact has given heart to some of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s supporters, who are investing tens of thousands of dollars to pressure the party to put her name to a binding vote at the convention next month.

Citing excessive spending, a special committee of InfoGroup Inc. trimmed founder Vin Gupta's executive powers, removed him as chairman and arranged for him to pay back the company $9 million.

A Strategy For McCain Hillary Clinton — only more so. By Rich Lowry & Ramesh Ponnuru Editor’s note: A longer version of this piece appears in the new issue of National Review. The good news for Republicans is that Obama can be beaten. The bad news is that the McCain campaign has embarked on a course that — although it has some of the right elements — seems likely to fail. McCain would be most comfortable running in accord with his particular notions of political virtue while emphasizing character, national security, and a few pet causes such as earmarks. If...

Excerpt- Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton lent her campaign another $1 million at the end of June, underscoring the difficulty she was having staying ahead of creditors and retiring a mountain of campaign debt, filings with the Federal Election Commission show. ~ snip ~

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I read and heard a lot in the news today about "Taliban regime resurgent"I wonder who would be trying to give aid and comfort to an enemy in a time of war?

I dedicated my book, What’s The Matter With California, to a retired United Airline pilot named Ray Lahr, “a true Californian and patriot”—and with good reason. Today, the tireless World War II vet and his intrepid attorney, John Clarke, are all that stand in the way of the successful execution of the single most astonishing cover-up in American peacetime history. What makes this whole event so astonishing is that TWA Flight 800 went down with 230 good souls on board in full view of literally hundreds of eyewitnesses on Long Island’s affluent south shore. Even more astonishing, although 270 of...

Just in case you happened to see the ABC News piece (if you watch ABC News) with interviews of 5 military folks in Iraq 3 planned to vote for Obama and 2 for Hillary; no mention of any McCain supporters.

The bible talks about about a time when the lion will lay down with the lamb, but that isn't supposed to happen until the very end, when evil is ultimately defeated. At that point in human history peace will reign, Michael Newdow will realize the uncomfortable truth that ACLU lawyers will not be present when God has a little chat with him about his life, and Muslims will be wondering why their 72 virgins are holding pitch forks. Until that time lions will continue to treat ungulates like beef jerky. In short, the wise man will not should not be...

New Campaign 2008 Jib Jab video/cartoon http://www.jibjab.com/

<p>An interesting and surprising little thing happened Sunday while Barack Obama was speaking (in English) to the National Council of La Raza in San Diego.</p> <p>It was, according to The Times' Louise Roug, a fairly standard Obama stump speech before the crowd of more than 2,000 members in the Convention Center, where the Republican Party nominated Sen. Bob Dole 12 years ago.</p>

TEEN “TECHNO-VIRGINS” (PART TWO) For some reason, Part One of this very mini-series resulted in quite a rise in interest. Some clarification is in order. Salon.com had published a piece by Lynn Harris, entitled, “The Rainbow Party Is Over,” http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/05/21/teens_oral_sex/, which I referenced in Part One on July 13th, 2008. I had not given the details or even an explanation of Harris’ title, and, out of delicacy, nor does she except to provide a link which obfuscates the subject even more, except to say, “rainbow parties are group oral sex parties in which each girl wears a different shade of...

Bill Clinton, once his wife's greatest political asset, is now viewed by Barack Obama as such a liability that he is likely to scupper Hillary Clinton's chances of becoming the Democratic vice-presidential candidate. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton: Bill Clinton 'problem' rules out Hillary as Barack Obama's running mate Sources close to the Obama campaign indicated that Mr Clinton's reluctance to disclose who has donated money to his presidential library and even concerns about possible extra-marital affairs mean that his wife would not pass the vetting procedure all potential running mates have to undergo. "It is absolutely standard operating procedure...

CONFER: Hillary Clinton used New Yorkers If you watched any of the Tim Russert tributes of the past few weeks, no doubt you saw a montage of his back-and-forths with politicians regarding his favorite question: “will you run for president?” One of these classic moments involved Hillary Clinton back in 2002. When asked that question she became incredibly uncomfortable, even while knowing it would be asked. Her mannerisms and body language told us an answer that was quite different from her repeated “no.” Despite her statements to the contrary, both before and after that interview, people of any political mettle...

Listening to a popular talk show on Wednesday the host briefly read an excerpt of an article that had been published by the LA Times earlier that day. After I recuperated from the shock that the LA Times actually printed an article pointing out a problem with Senator Obama, I realized that this wasn’t the first time this issue had been brought up. In the article, ...

..."NONE OF THE MONEY RAISED WILL GO TO PAY OFF HILLARY CLINTON'S DEBTS," Chandler wrote to potential givers in an e-mail obtained by Politico. "While you may have heard that Sen. Obama has asked people to make a separate donation to the Clinton campaign for that purpose, neither the law, nor the ethic of this campaign, will allow for any transfer of funds from Obama For America to Clinton."

Consider the Republican Party. Many Republicans dislike John McCain with a passion that has lasted for years. Asked to explain, they refer to the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance-reform law (which they thought, incorrectly as it turns out, would bite Republicans more than Democrats), or his opposition (since rescinded) to the Bush tax cuts, or what they regard as his tiresome and preening routine as a maverick. They resent his mutual love affair with the press (which he jokingly refers to as "my base"). They remember a lot of foolish talk a while back about how McCain might switch parties and become a...

Regardless of whether Americans elect the Republican John McCain or Democrat Barack Obama, seen here, president in November, the man who takes up residency in the White House will be a lefty -- at least in terms of the hand he favors. U.S. Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama (D-IL) is led off the stage by U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) after the two appeared together at a "Women for Obama" campaign event in New York City, July 10, 2008.

At an Obama/Clinton unity rally in New York City, the only thing missing was...unity. Here's a clip of Barack doing his thing, getting tied up in the limelight, and completely forgetting to mention that his supporters should help Hillary get out of debt...

A prominent donor to Senator Barack Obama recently sent an e-mail plea to other supporters, asking them — for the sake of Democratic unity — to write checks to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to help retire her $23 million in campaign debt. Some of the replies are unprintable, given the coarse language, the donor said. A sampling of others included: "Why would I help pay off debts that Hillary amassed simply to keep damaging Senator Obama?" "Gas prices are up, the markets are in turmoil, my kid's fall tuition bill is coming soon. Writing checks to politicians I don't like...

An abortionist who claims to have destroyed more than 20,000 unborn children and who once was Hillary Clinton's OB-GYN says he is doing "God's work" when he terminates a pregnancy. "Embryos and fetuses spontaneously aborted – most, but not all of those 'canceled' by 'God' – are ... luckless human souls," wrote William Harrison, referring to an ancient poem describing the plight of mankind. "But a few spontaneous abortions occur in desired pregnancies with no discernable abnormalities. For those girls and women and their families whose circumstances would make their babies 'luckless human souls,' I 'cancel' them before they become...

RUSH: Have you heard about this? Folks, I'm thinking, and I haven't finalized details. We've been working on the operational plans all morning here at the EIB Network. But it may be time to implement a Phase II of Operation Chaos. Donald Sutherland, who is the father, as you know, of Kiefer Sutherland, who stars in "24," posted something on the Huffington Post, and this is what he wrote. "The Democrat National Committee's Terry McAuliffe mind-set ruined the campaigns of Algore, John Kerry, and Senator Clinton, and now the legions of McAuliffe-ites who have surrounded Barack Obama are doing their...

Howard Wolfson, who was a top strategist for the presidential campaign of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, is going where some Democrats were unwilling to go during the early days of the election season: the Fox News Channel. The network is expected to announce as early as Tuesday that it has signed Mr. Wolfson as a contributor who will appear regularly on its programs. Mr. Wolfson is joining a network that Democrats shunned for a time, complaining that its coverage was unfair. But aides to Mrs. Clinton came to view Fox News as distinctly fair to her in a news media...

Sen. Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, faces dissent from dozens of top fund-raisers and other supporters of former rival Sen. Hillary Clinton, who are angry over how she was treated during their bruising primary battle and are hesitating to back Sen. Obama. ...Meanwhile, an analysis of campaign-finance records conducted for The Wall Street Journal by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics shows that in May, when Sen. Obama was widely believed to have clinched the Democratic nomination, only one Hillraiser had switched allegiance to the Obama campaign. And while 115 individuals who had donated at least $1,000 to...

WASHINGTON: In an ominous sign for Democratic nominee Barack Obama's campaign, a new survey has found that Hillary Clinton's supporters may not cast their ballot for the African American candidate in the November presidential election. A week after Clinton made a public show of unity with Obama after being trounced in a racially devisive contest for the party ticket, the survey suggests supporters of the New York senator are increasingly less likely to follow her lead. A growing number of Clinton supporters say they may stay home in November instead of casting their ballot for Obama, who hopes to be...

BELGRADE - They sit like open sores at the heart of this turbulent eastern European nation. Long before international fugitive Miladin Kovacevic revived tensions between the U.S. and Serbia, NATO bombs reduced a row of once formidable government buildings here to hulking shells. The ravaged red-brick and concrete buildings are still standing nearly 10 years after the American-led aerial assault. They represent a wound that, many Serbians say, still runs deep. "Our people look at America like it's an enemy," said Niko Percovic, 30, a reporter based in the northern city of Novi Sad. That is one of the reasons,...

Former President Bill Clinton called for Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe to step down immediately or form a power-sharing arrangement with his chief opponent. The former presidentcalled Mugabe "a puppet of the military establishment" and singled out a Washington Post story that exposed coercion, intimidation, beatings and profession killings by the ruling-party s militias. The crisis in Zimbabwe was the main focus of a public one-on-one interview tonight with Jane Wales, a former Clinton advisor and current Aspen Institute vice president of philanthropy and society, at the annual Aspen Ideas Festival.

Clinton talks about saving the worldby Andrew Travers, Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Sunday, July 6, 2008 Bill Clinton has an idea about how to solve the world’s most pressing humanitarian problems: It’s the systems, stupid. Addressing a panoply of world issues from climate change and alternative energy to food security and AIDS yesterday at the Aspen Ideas Festival, the former president argued that creatively rethinking and reorganizing current global problem-solving methods would vastly improve civilization. Clinton’s sober hour-long conversation with Jane Wales, his former White House aide who is currently vice president of philanthropy and society at the Aspen...

NYT shocked to find a politician instead of a virgin posted at 9:11 am on July 4, 2008 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | printer-friendly The New York Times editorial board went to bed with a virgin and woke up with a … well, a pro, in milder terms, or so they seem to imply in today’s unhappy missive.  The editorial castigates Obama for his replacement of just about everything he has professed from January 2007 to May 2008 with his all-new, 50%-more-”centery” agenda that rejects everything that made him attractive to the Left in the first place. ...

One week after Hillary Clinton made a public show of unity with Barack Obama, a new survey suggests supporters of the New York senator are increasingly less likely to follow her lead. A growing number of Clinton supporters say they may stay home in November instead of casting their ballot for Obama, a clear sign the party has yet to coalesce around the Illinois senator four weeks after the most prolonged and at times divisive primary race in modern American history came to a close. According to a new survey from CNN and the Opinion Research Corporation, the number of...

Obama Speech Attracts Clinton SupportersReported by: Chris Hernandez Email: hernandez@nbcactionnews.com Last Update: 6/30 10:33 pm INDEPENDENCE, Mo. --A presidential campaign swings through Missouri again Monday. Obama's big message Monday is a defense of his personal patriotism. But politically, it's significant because Missouri is a battleground state. Democratic candidate Barack Obama launched a weeklong effort to re-define himself with a speech about patriotism. He's working on party unity to get out a bigger Democratic vote in November. It's the first time he's had some prominent Hillary Clinton supporters in the crowd. Obama says "patriotism can never be defined as loyalty to...

FreeRepublic members say goodbye to the Clinton's at the White House on the evening of January 19, 2001. Bill Clinton. We have you surrounded. Drop the cigar. Step away from the intern. And come out with your pants up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2Z2igtHf6A

Sen. Barack Obama did patriotism yesterday, today it is faith and by the end of the day both speeches will have been done in back-to-back states that swing: Missouri and Ohio. The Obama campaign said the Illinois senator plans to go to Zanesville, located in eastern Ohio, to visit a church program that provides food and clothing assistance to those in need.

Who else is better qualified to negotiate a truce between Bill and Obama? And between Hillary's holdouts and Barack's backers, the Sunni and the Shia, Madonna and Guy Ritchie?

It's amazing how much the Obamas are like the Clintons -- who are now attacked by the same people who used to kiss the ground they stepped on. Carl Bernstein talks about Hillary's "dark side."  Bill, says an MSNBC blogger, is a serial liar.  Well, thanks for performing your journalistic duty to the American people.  It only took sixteen years for our media to tell us what was clear to the rest of the world before the Clintons ever got elected in 1992. This is typical of the dismal human judgment of liberals -- it takes them more than a...

As Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were kissing and making up last Friday, Bill Clinton might have had other ideas, according to a report in The (London) Telegraph. The paper reports that even as the former president and the current presumptive Democratic nominee prepare to meet to make their own amends, Bill Clinton reportedly told close friends Obama can “kiss my ass” to get his support. The paper cited an anonymous Democratic source who provided the quote. That source also said Clinton is not making the primary effort to bridge the chasm between himself and Obama. “He’s saying he’s not...

By all accounts, Barack Obama should win this election. He and his brand control the image, the message and, to a large extent, the media of this election cycle. Yes, the media. He has enough money to buy ads every day from now to election day, glossy magazines cannot wait to put his image on their covers, Hollywood types are so smitten that they wear his image on their clothing and YouTube is bursting at the seams with homages to him. It is definitely his to win -- or to lose. It all hinges on two things: likability and character.

Politico: Accuses Campaign Of "Shameful Offensive Fear-Mongering" Over Picture Calling Attention To Obama's African RootsObama campaign manager David Plouffe accused the Clinton campaign Monday of "shameful offensive fear-mongering" by circulating a photo as an attempted smear. Plouffe was reacting to a banner headline on the Drudge Report saying that aides to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) had e-mailed a photo calling attention to the African roots of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). "The photo, taken in 2006, shows the Democrat front-runner dressed as a Somali Elder, during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya," the Drudge Report said....

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton introduced former rival Sen. Barack Obama to her Hispanic supporters and fundraisers Thursday night, and he got an earful from a group that remains skeptical nearly a month after their Democratic primary battle ended. “We were offering constructive criticism that will help him in the fall,” said Ingrid Duran, a Falls Church consultant who advised Clinton on Hispanic issues. “At the end of the day, we’ll support the nominee. The question is how actively.” About 25 members of Clinton’s Hispanic Leadership Council and Hispanic Finance Council met with Obama at the Mayflower Hotel at the invitation...

District police are warning people in the Grover Park and Cleveland Park neighborhoods to make sure their doors and windows at night after investigators linked three sexual assaults in the past two months. Police say women were attacked May 16, May 25 and June 26 in Northwest. Investigators say in each incident, a woman was awakened early in the morning by a man who got into their homes by unknown methods. The first incident happened in the 2400 block of Huidekoper Place, the second in the 3000 block of Newark Street and the third happened in the 2400 block of...

Well, they did it, though it would have been quite the surprise if they hadn't after all the build up. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton shared the stage in Unity, New Hampshire, a few minutes ago and sought to put their often contentious pasts behind them and focus their supporters on the general election.

Obama and Clinton chat before boarding a plane at Ronald Reagan National Airport...

Video of Christopher Hitchens on the presidential candidates and their spouses. Key quote "If the Republican Party was a dog, it should be shot."

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has held a joint fund-raising dinner in Washington with his former rival, Hillary Clinton. The event was aimed at shoring up party unity, following the hardest-fought Democratic Party primaries in decades. Mr Obama announced that he would personally donate $2,300 (£1,160), the maximum amount allowed by law, to help cover Mrs Clinton's campaign debts. He said he would call on his top financial backers to do the same. Mr Obama received a standing ovation from a crowd of more than 200 at Washington's Mayflower Hotel when he said he would enlist his supporters to help...