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Did anyone just notice the "blurred" faces of two black McCain supporters in the background behind McCain and his family on the podium??? I KNOW I saw it, in two seperate camera shots!!! RUN THE TAPE BACK & YOU WILL SEE IT!!!!!

BOSTON — John McCain’s search for a running mate was remarkable in that it was carried out in secret, concluded with a bang and conducted in sharp contrast to the freewheeling style of his early presidential campaign or his hard-charging Navy days. The Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting spirited his ultimate choice, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, first to Arizona and then to Ohio on a pair of secret corporate jet flights. When her family joined her Thursday night, they stayed in a hotel under an assumed name. And when it came time to announce Palin’s selection on Friday morning in Dayton, Ohio,...

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On Friday, August 29, Fox & Friends reported that Palin's family departed hastily from Anchorage, Alaska aboard a Gulfstream jet that landed near Dayton, Ohio, site of McCain's planned vice presidential announcement. They cited the website Change&Experience.com, which also had correctly leaked travel details for Sen. Joseph Biden to Springfield, Illinois for Barack Obama's announcement.

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WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain has decided on his running mate, two Republican strategists in contact with Mr. McCain’s campaign said Wednesday. He is expected to reveal his choice at a rally at a basketball arena in Dayton, Ohio, at 11 a.m. Friday...

John McCain is expected to reveal his vice-presidential choice on Friday at a rally in the critical battleground state of Ohio. Mr McCain is seeking to blunt Barack Obama’s hopes of a bounce in the polls after he accepts the Democratic nomination in Denver tomorrow night. The Republican nominee’s move comes after a week in which he and his Republican surrogates have had significant success in inserting themselves aggressively into what was meant to be Mr Obama’s week. Republican guerrilla tactics and attack advertisements have forced the Democrat’s campaign to respond in kind. Mr McCain will appear at a midday...

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain may announce his choice for a running mate earlier than expected, sources told FOX News on Monday. McCain had previously said he would announce his vice presidential pick on Friday and would appear with that individual at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, following the announcement. Friday is McCain’s 72nd birthday. But sources close to McCain’s campaign told FOX News that his decision may come sooner than that — possibly on Thursday, when Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination at Invesco field in Denver, Colo.

Please join John McCain and Cindy McCain at a Road to the Convention Rally on August 29th in Dayton, OH or August 30th in Washington, PA. As the Senator and Mrs. McCain make their way across the country, they would be delighted to have you join them at the rallies leading up to accepting the Republican Nomination in Minnesota on September 4th. Please come and show your support for John McCain. Please pick up a free ticket to join us. You can reserve a ticket to pick up at one of our ticket distribution centers by following this link or...

With McCain and Obama currently tied in Ohio (according to Public Policy Polling), John McCain might make a very savvy political move by announcing his running mate in front of 10,000 people in Dayton, Ohio the day after Obama accepts his party’s nomination. Thanks to New Talk Radio WHIO 1290AM/95.7FM for this news update: DAYTON, Ohio — Republican Senator John McCain plans to hold a major rally in Dayton on Friday, Aug. 29. Local party leaders speculate that McCain may use the rally as an opportunity to announce his running mate. Hamilton County Republican Party Chairman Alex M. Triantafilou, who...

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) plans to celebrate his 72nd birthday on Aug. 29 by naming his running mate at a huge rally in the battleground state of Ohio, Republican sources said. That’s a week from Friday, and the day after his rival, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, accepts the Democratic nomination at a 70,000-person spectacular in a Denver stadium. The campaign has begun building a crowd of 10,000 for Dayton, Ohio, according to an organizer. McCain is scheduled to appear with his running mate at a large-scale event in Pennsylvania shortly thereafter. Senior Republicans are in the dark about who...

(CNN) — John McCain will hold a large rally in Ohio and possibly two other battleground states August 29 — the day after Barack Obama formally accepts the Democratic presidential nomination and the same day the Arizona senator is expected to name his running mate, Republican and McCain campaign sources tell CNN's John King. The McCain campaign is hoping to have 15,000 people at the Ohio rally — roughly 5 times the size of McCain's largest crowd to-date. Two other rallies are also in the works for that day, likely in Michigan and Pennsylvania. Campaign sources say the events are...

Where's it worst? Ohio, according to our analysis, which racked up four of the 10 cities on our list: Youngstown, Canton, Dayton and Cleveland. The runner-up is Michigan, with two cities--Detroit and Flint--making the ranking.

Photos from the Obama ralley in Dayton, OH (7/18/08) (waiting for doors to open)

BROOKLYN, Ohio -- Have you ever put a case of water or something heavy under your shopping cart and then forgotten about it? A Cleveland man did, and it landed him in jail, television station WEWS reported. Tom Sturgis has a long receipt showing the $157.20 worth of two grocery carts full of groceries that he bought at a Brooklyn supermarket Saturday night. After going through the self checkout, Sturgis said he forgot a $4 case of pop under the cart.

A Baptist church in Ohio is being accused of religious intolerance for allegedly thwarting a plan to build a mosque on nearby property. The board of zoning appeals in Sugarcreek Township, Ohio, insists its 5-0 vote against a variance request that would have permitted the Islamic Society of Greater Dayton to build the mosque was not influenced by the local First Baptist Church. The rejection, officials say, was based only on the expected sewage and traffic impact, the Dayton Daily News reported. But the senior pastor of the 1,900-member church, Barry Jude, has made his opposition to the mosque clear....

... WHIO-TV reported pilot Jim LeRoy of Billings, Montana, died on the way to the hospital after his S2S Bulldog biplane crashed at the end of a runway at Dayton International Airport in Ohio...

By now, everyone is familiar with the insensitive words uttered by Shock Jock Imus which appeared in Mary Mostert's commentary of 12 May Either Al Sharpton Should be Fired or Don Imus Should Be Re-Hired. We should also not forget what happened to comedian "Kramer," from the Seinfeld Show when he railed against two black hecklers in the audience during a performance by calling them the n-word. Just like Imus, his racist comments cost him his job. But what happens when a U.S. diplomat shows his true character when he rails against an entire race of people during war? Not...

Mack and some of his school teachers beg and plead for Dayton's chilren to be in school "especially this week" because it's "count week." Count week, for those lucky enough to be unfamiliar with the practice, is a designated week when attendance records determine how much funding a particular school district will receive. In the past, Dayton Public School have resorted to all sorts of stunts in order to lure children into the halls of state-controlled learning:

Sen. Mark Dayton, who voted to block the nomination of John Bolton as U.N. ambassador last year, said he's keeping an open mind on the re-nomination this time but still needs to be persuaded that Bolton is the right man for the job. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hold a hearing on Bolton Thursday. The committee will then decide whether to endorse the nomination before it goes to the full Senate for a possible vote. President Bush used a recess appointment to name Bolton to the post last August after Democrats blocked a vote on the nomination. That appointment...

American Military Kills al-Zarqawi in Air Raid Will Amy Klobuchar Join John Kerry and DFL in Cutting Funding for our Troops? (St. Paul, Minnesota) – Reports this morning confirm the death of the #1 terrorist in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The death of al-Zarqawi is a testament to the great work the men and women of our military are doing in Iraq to keep us safe at home and another reason why cutting off funding for our troops, as John Kerry and Democrats in Minnesota are proposing, would be a huge mistake in winning the War on Terrorism. “The death...

May 10, 2006--DFL county attorney Amy Klobuchar now leads Kennedy 45% to 43%, which is comparable to the toss-ups we've seen all year when the two are matched (see crosstabs). (The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party or DFL is the state's equivalent of the Democratic Party.) The single-term Democratic incumbent, Mark Dayton, is stepping down. Klobuchar led Kennedy 45% to 42% in our previous Minnesota election poll. The other Democrat in the competition, Ford Bell, now trails Kennedy by eleven percentage points, 44% to 33%. Bell has trailed in three of the four election polls we've conducted in the state. In February,...

Sen. Mark Dayton was the only person on the Senate Homeland Security Governmental Affairs Committee to vote against the panel's report on the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, arguing the committee should have pressed the White House for more information. "I regret the spineless decision by the committee not to subpoena the information, documents and witnesses, which the White House has refused to provide," Dayton, D-Minn., said in a statement after the hearing. Dayton faulted the committee chairwoman, Maine Republican Susan Collins, for failing to grant a request by the panel's top Democrat, Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, to subpoena White...

Minnesota Sen. Mark Dayton Thursday strongly criticized fellow Democrat Russ Feingold's resolution to censure President Bush over domestic spying. "It's an overreaching step by someone who is grandstanding and running for president at the expense of his own party and his own country," Dayton said of Feingold, a Wisconsin senator and potential 2008 presidential candidate. "I think it's a very dangerous territory for the democracy that we have in this country to be playing around with those kinds of resolutions, without any consultations from his colleagues. I think it was irresponsible." Dayton is a member of Feingold's own party from...

Bosnian Dayton Minus By M. Bozinovich Back in July of 2005, during the commemoration in Srebrenica, US ambassador to Bosnia Douglas McElhaney and Bosnian peace accords architect Richard Holbrooke were seen chatting at the field around Srebrenica, and according to the AFP report, McElhaney made the announcement that the US wants the Bosnian constitution changed. Expressing the demand euphemistically McElhaney said that "The US wishes to encourage [Bosnian] citizens to discuss the Constitution and ways in which they could change it." In November, presidents of the three ethnic groups in Bosnia were summoned in Washington to participate in ceremonies congratulatory...

In a Wellstonian type tribute today to R.F.K. one Senator by the name of Mark Dayton, a Demoncrat from MinnieSoda announced to many chortles that he had attended many Frat parties with George Bush, and had seen him in many positions which he said he couldn't describe.Can anyone backup or disprove this obviously juvenille attack on the President?If these charges are true, what was Mr. Dayton doing at these parties?

U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton announced Friday that he would vote against confirming John Roberts as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, but he predicted that the Senate will approve the appointment next week by a vote of about 70 to 30. At a State Capitol news conference, Dayton, a DFLer who is not seeking reelection in 2006, listed three reasons for his decision: •Roberts' refusal to answer even basic questions about his judicial philosophy and social views in Senate hearings. •The White House's refusal to release information on Roberts' record as a deputy solicitor general under President George H.W....

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In what peace activists call a milestone, Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., introduced legislation Thursday supporting a long-shot citizen lobbying effort to create a U.S. Department of Peace and Nonviolence.

WASHINGTON — Ask Sen. Mark Dayton, a former anti-Vietnam War activist who knows a thing or two about protests, why he believes that burning the American flag should be against the law, and the Minnesota Democrat answers with an anecdote about a visit 10 years ago to the site of the Allies' historic 1944 D-Day invasion in Normandy, France. "I stood in the American cemetery just off the beach, where there are 10,000 white crosses all in rows," Dayton said during an interview last week. "The power of the silence there is very profound. I stood on the beach there...

Rod Grams gave up his bid for a U.S. Senate seat on Saturday, according to an official in the state party, a move that would virtually ensure that U.S. Rep. Mark Kennedy will walk away with the Republican nomination in 2006. Grams did not return phone calls to his home Saturday for comment, but a party official said the former senator announced plans to drop out of the race during a speech at the Minnesota Republican Party's Eighth District Convention in Isanti, Minn. "He basically said, 'I want my friends here of the Eighth District to be the first to...

WASHINGTON - The rivalry between John Kerry and Hillary Rodham Clinton turned testy last week when the failed presidential candidate angrily chewed out fellow senator for touting the former first lady as the next American president. Kerry had `daggers in his eyes' when he approached Minneapolis Sen. Mark Dayton (D-Minn.) about an April 9 fund-raising dinner at which Dayton introduced Clinton as ``the next great president of the United States,'' according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. ``What are you doing endorsing my 2008 presidential opponent?'' Dayton recalled Kerry as saying - a recollection denied by the Kerry camp. But an adviser...

Kerry Wants A Mulligan The New York Post's Deborah Orin has an amusing account of John Kerry's anger over Senator Mark Dayton's apparent endorsement of his rival for the '08 nomination, Hillary Clinton: A fuming John Kerry had "daggers in his eyes" after a fellow Democrat promoted Hillary Rodham Clinton for president — suggesting the 2004 loser is green with envy at a potential rival. The flap was touched off two weeks ago when Clinton spoke at a Minneapolis Democratic dinner and Sen. Mark Dayton (D-Minn.) told the cheering crowd that he was introducing "the next great president of the...

Catholic University hosts sacrilegious display against the Blessed Mother, offending students, faculty and Catholics nationwide Something extremely alarming and shameful occurred at the University of Dayton, where Our Blessed Mother was depicted in an exhibit amid pictures of prostitutes and pornography.1 The sacrilegious display, "Heartlands," by Derek A. Cracco, an assistant professor of art at the University of Alabama, was on public display in the Rike Center Gallery of the University of Dayton from February 22 to March 11. Ranking among the ten largest Catholic universities in the country, the University of Dayton, founded by the Society of Mary in...

KENNEDY COUNTRYCould a "Draft Al Franken" movement be far behind? Rep. Betty McCollum, thought to be one of the stronger Democratic options to fill the seat of retiring one-term Minnesota Senator Mark Dayton, announced that she would not seek the DFL nomination in 2006. McCollum was considered one of the stronger potential challengers to Rep. Mark Kennedy, who is quickly solidifying his position as the presumptive Republican nominee. Former Sen. Rod Grams is also seeking the Republican nomination, but according to a Republican National Committee aide, there are ongoing discussions within the party of how to clear for field for...

Rochester, Minn. (AP) U.S. Rep. Gil Gutknecht said Friday he would run for re-election to the House, ending the possibility of a primary fight between two Republican congressmen for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Mark Dayton. "I love the job I have in Washington and I just feel like I fit more in the House of Representatives than I would fit in the Senate," he said. "If the voters of southern Minnesota will allow me to do this, I would like to run for re-election." Shortly after Dayton, a Democrat, announced that he would not seek a second...

WATERTOWN — In a city park in his hometown, U.S. Rep. Mark Kennedy today declared he is officially in the race for U.S. Senate in 2006. "I'm here to announce my candidacy for the United States Senate…I know the great things that can happen if we trust the people and make sure government helps rather than hinders them as they pursue their dreams,'' Kennedy said, making it official one of the worst-kept secrets in Minnesota politics. Voicing many of the same messages he has in his three congressional races, Kennedy said, "I'm the kind of guy who was taught that...

Democrats in the Senate were resigned to the news Wednesday that Minnesota Sen. Mark Dayton had decided not to run for re-election. Word coming out of Dayton's office in Washington and Minnesota was that his early polling numbers for re-election -- including favorables against a generic Republican and Independent -- as well as approval numbers were poor. A Democratic National Committee staffer disputed the poor numbers, saying that no politician worth his salt would be treating numbers this early so seriously. "Taking into account survey exhaustion, Democratic disenchantment with the national party, and the quirkiness of Minnesota, I don't see...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Minnesota Sen. Mark Dayton a first-term Democrat, has decided not to run for re-election next year, party sources said Wednesday. Dayton was expected to make a formal announcement later in the day. A retirement would make Minnesota the first open seat of the new election cycle, in a state that has become more hospitable to Republicans in recent years. The party sources familiar with the developments reported Dayton's plans on condition of anonymity, saying they did not want to pre-empt a formal announcement.

Minnesota Sens. Mark Dayton and Norm Coleman both took hits to their public images in the past year, with their job approval ratings falling below 50 percent, according to the latest Minnesota Poll. Dayton, a Democrat who's up for reelection next year, took the heaviest blow: His approval rating declined by 15 points in a year, from 58 percent to 43 percent. The approval rating for Coleman, who just began his third year in office, fell by 7 points, from 54 to 47 percent. Dayton's job approval decreased among all categories of Minnesotans, grouped by age, education, income, party and...

WASHINGTON - Sen. Mark Dayton said Tuesday he is voting against Condoleezza Rice for secretary of state as a protest against what he labeled the Bush administration's "lying" on Iraq. "My vote against this nomination is my statement that this administration's lying must stop now," Dayton said on the Senate floor, a day before the Senate is expected to vote on Rice's nomination. Dayton, a Minnesota Democrat, referred to an exchange at last week's confirmation hearing, when Rice pointedly asked Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., to question her "without impugning my credibility or my integrity." Dayton didn't take Rice's words to...

WEBB HUMBLEIt appears that the race for DNC chairman may be winnowing down to two or three candidates, with a number of elected officials urging former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb to press his candidacy harder. Webb's supporters have let it be known that everyone from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to Govs. Bill Richardson and Mark Warner has been speaking with Webb about the DNC election, and promising their support over Howard Dean and New Democrat Simon Rosenberg. Dean is thought by some DNC insiders to have an inside track for the chairmanship, though Rosenberg has been gaining a lot of...

COLORADO SPRINGS - James C. Dobson, the nation's most influential evangelical leader, is threatening to put six potentially vulnerable Democratic senators "in the 'bull's-eye' " if they block conservative appointments to the Supreme Court. In a letter his aides say is being sent to more than one million of his supporters, Dr. Dobson, the child psychologist and founder of the evangelical organization Focus on the Family, promises "a battle of enormous proportions from sea to shining sea" if President Bush fails to appoint "strict constructionist" jurists or if Democrats filibuster to block conservative nominees. Dr. Dobson recalled the conservative efforts...

U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., will depart this week for Iraq, Israel and Jordan on an official congressional visit, his office announced Monday. For security reasons, Dayton's itinerary was not released, but he said he plans to visit U.S. forces in Iraq, to assess progress in training Iraqi troops, to discuss the upcoming Iraqi elections in January and to inquire about when U.S. forces can return home. He also intends to seek out Minnesota units that have been deployed, aides said.

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Mark Dayton claimed Wednesday that Republicans left him off a fact-finding trip to Iraq because of partisan politics. Dayton, D-Minn., said he suspected he was left off the Senate Armed Services Committee trip either because Republicans were targeting him for defeat in 2006, or because of his opposition to the war in Iraq.

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On September 11, 2001, William Rodriguez, a maintenance worker at the World Trade Center in Manhattan, single-handedly rescued fifteen people. The only employee with the master key to the North Tower staircases, he led firefighters up the stairs, unlocking doors as he went, aiding in the evacuation of hundreds of additional people who, but for his efforts, might have perished. Although his job description did not include saving lives, Rodriguez re-entered the building three times after the first plane struck, and was the last person to exit the North Tower alive. He survived the collapse of the North Tower by...

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