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BIG SKY, Mont. – Fighting for control of the health care debate, President Barack Obama is using political tactics and rhetorical devices honed in his White House campaign to regain the upper hand over increasingly vocal critics. In person and over the Internet, Obama is trying to counter intense public skepticism that's flared nationwide in recent weeks over Democrats' plans to overhaul the nation's health care system. It's his top domestic priority and arguably his most challenging political fight yet as president, in no small part because of the vast number of diverse stake-holders involved. Familiar tools from the Obama...

The Examiner endorses McCain-Palin Examiner Editorial 9/24/08 Republican presidential candidate Arizona Sen. John McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, on the stage at a campaign event in Lancaster, Penn., on Sept. 9. ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images America is at war overseas and in an economic crisis here at home. Many of her citizens believe the country is on the wrong track. It is for times such as these that men like John McCain are made, to put country first so that it can be put right in its time of need. For this reason, The Examiner endorses McCain...

Remember the good old days? Back during the Dem primaries? When Barack Obama was such an electrifying speaker that women were regularly fainting at his rallies? Ah, how times have changed. Instead of knocking them out with his other-worldly aura, Obama's now . . . putting them to sleep. Check out the woman in the lower-right hand corner of the screencap, seen on CNN today during a live broadcast of Obama on the stump in Virginia. No, I didn't catch her in mid-blink. She actually dozed off just as Obama was ventilating on the horrors of the Bush economy. View...

BEREA, Ohio (AP) -- A man who wore press credentials and took photographs from a platform interrupted Barack Obama's town-hall meeting Tuesday by shouting complaints that the Democratic presidential candidate had not called for the audience to say the Pledge of Allegiance. Obama invited the heckler to lead the audience in the pledge, and he did.

Study: Fainting at Obama Rallies Caused by Intense Fear WASHINGTON, DC, July 18 - There have been many reports in the past year of supporters fainting at Barack Obama rallies. The press proclaims "dehydration," or "hot sun" and "long waits." Evidence of course, that their candidate is a "rock star." But with the number of down-for-the-count faithful going parabolic, serious questions are being asked. Now fainters are rushed out almost before they slap concrete. And you won't read a word about an entire row falling like dominoes. Now, a new study, Central Ischaemic Response and The Politics of Hope, reveals...

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...

Amy Winehouse was taken to hospital after fainting at her home on Monday afternoon, her spokesman said. The singer was taken to a central London hospital as a precautionary measure by her father, Mitch. Winehouse is undergoing tests at The London Clinic.

Rarely have I read a newspaper column that shocks me for its sheer breadth of nonsense, but today’s effort by Charlotte Allen in the Washington Post provides one of those I-can’t-believe-she-wrote-that moment. She starts off by scolding the women who faint at Barack Obama rallies, a phenomenon that deserves all the ridicule it gets. Allen runs off the rails, though, when she extrapolates the silliness of five women into supposedly inherent traits that come when two X chromosomes meet (via Memeorandum): I can’t help it, but reading about such episodes of screaming, gushing and swooning makes me wonder whether women...

RUSH: From the Los Angeles Times:  "They came to cheer. They got a lecture. The crowd went wild.  During a Barack Obama town-hall meeting on the economy, the topic turned to education, which, the Illinois senator said, could not be remedied by spending alone. 'It doesn't matter how much money we put in if parents don't parent,' he scolded.  The line is one the Democrat delivers often, but on Thursday in Beaumont, Texas, he struck a remarkable chord with his mostly African American audience.  'It's not good enough for you to say to your child, "Do good in school," and...

Love struck Hillary Clinton faints during debate with Barack Obama caught on tape.

Call it the Barack Obama traveling salvation show – campaign rallies and speeches that seem like the secular counterpart of tent-meeting revivals and evangelistic sermons common in the U.S. a century ago. And, in apparent similarity to the religious enthusiasm of that bygone era, some of those coming to hear the Democrat presidential candidate "preach" his message are fainting as he speaks. A video compilation by Breitbart.TV shows Obama on several occasions breaking off his speeches to address someone who has collapsed, usually close to the stage, and to call for medical personnel while he offers bottled water to the...

Cure for mysterious ailment causing women to faint at Barack Obama rallies discovered. Obamaplexy now has a cure.

James Taranto points out in the WSJ OpinionJournal that there have been a rash of faintings at Obama rallies in the last 4-5 months. (Please see the link to his article below). The following is a montage of videos collected from You Tube capturing some of these moments. Is this reality or political theater? You decide: (link to story for video)

An earlier thread commented on the growing suspicion Obama is using a trick to seem like he cares, and is in control. I thought, how about Hillary? Well,... Bridgton, Missouri Fainting at a Hillary rally Albuquerque, New Mexico, " More than 3,000 people patiently waited at Highland High for the candidate who appeared over an hour late. Former San Antonio Mayor and Clinton cabinet secretary Henry Cisneros warmed up the crowd. They were delighted when Chelsea Clinton appeared on stage with her mother. Moments after beginning her speech, a woman fainted on stage, but was fine after having a bottle...

AT 4 BARACK OBAMA RALLIES... EACH IS A WOMAN... EACH WOMAN STANDS DEAD CENTER, RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE STAGE WHERE OBAMA IS STANDING AND SPEAKING... OBAMA SAYS "GIVE HER SPACE", REFERENCES EMT, AND HANDS THE WATER BOTTLE EACH TIME!...

MEXICO CITY - Outgoing President Vicente Fox suffered a brief fainting spell on Sunday during an outing with legislators at his ranch, the president's office said. Fox's office said in a statement the leader "suffered a slight fainting spell due to overexposure to the sun." It was unclear if he actually lost consciousness or simply felt faint. Local media reported that Fox either walked or was helped into a nearby building to get out of the sun. After a medical examination, Fox rejoined the group at the ranch, located in the north-central state of Guanajuato. Fox's last day in office...

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/begin my translation N. Korea: Kim Jong-il Was Shot At By Jang's Son It is alleged that, last November, during a shooting incident by a son of Jang Sung-taek, who is Kim Jong-il's brother-in-law, Kim knocked unconscious. A source who used to be in N. Korean intelligence said on Feb. 14 that this story is making a round among high-level N. Korean security officials. According to this intelligence, between the night of Nov. 28 and the early morning of Nov. 29, there was a family gathering including Kim Jong-il, his second son Kim Jong-chol, Jang Sung-taek's son(Jang is Kim's brother-in-law),...

Aging Cuban strongman Fidel Castro, 76, suffered another fainting spell May 25 as he exited an inauguration event in Buenos Aires for the new Argentine president, Nestor Kirchner, say eyewitnesses at the event. A National Security Council source confirms having seen the report. Castro was talking to an Argentine protocol officer and an unidentified woman when one of his bodyguards rushed toward him, pushing the woman to the floor, and grabbed the Cuban leader by the arm as he began to fall to the ground, sources tell Insight. Another bodyguard reportedly grabbed Castro by the other arm, while the Argentine...

...Sitting in an office decorated with photographs of him meeting and greeting national dignitaries such as Nelson Rockefeller, George H. Bush and Richard Nixon, Crosbie said yesterday with a rueful smile, "I seem to have drawn a lot of flies" because of his remark. A television news crew had just left his office. Crosbie, 79, who has served on the bench in Tarrytown for 17 years, said the remark was prompted by Khoder's behavior in the courtroom, which he described as "berserk." He was trying to call attention to what he regarded as her unusual manner in a humorous way,...