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What are the odds that McCain and his husky daughter start trashing Sarah Palin the day after he loses his re-election bid to JD Hayworth?

January 28, 2010 White House v. the Supreme Court By DAVID KIRKPATRICK The White House is trying to back up President Obama’s side after a rare moment of dispute with Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. was captured on camera during last night’s State of the Union. Justice Alito stole a sliver of the limelight during the president’s address, when he was seen shaking his head and mouthing “No, it’s not true” as Mr. Obama criticized a recent Supreme Court campaign finance ruling. The president, a former teacher of constitutional law, had asserted that the ruling, known informally as...

Millions of undocumented people in the U.S. should be given a path to legal status after the country finds a way to stop illegal immigration, business and government leaders said in a report Wednesday. The University of Denver report argues that legalizing as many of the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants as possible could strengthen the economy and national security. But it should come with conditions, such as requiring new immigrants to learn English, pass criminal and medical background checks, and pay any taxes that they owe, the document states. The report is the product of a year of discussions...

WASHINGTON - Alcalde & Fay partner Vicki Iseman has settled her $27 million defamation lawsuit against The New York Times and several of its reporters. Iseman, a Washington lobbyist, sued the Times over a story published last February during the presidential campaign season that she claimed inaccurately depicted her as having an affair with Republican candidate Sen. John McCain. Iseman says, "I am pleased that The New York Times on behalf of its reporters, editors and company has issued a retraction and clarification." Iseman’s statement continues, "The New York Times, its reporters and editors, should and must be held accountable...

Assuming the numbers hold, McCain lost. We have our first socialist regime. So where did Mac lose it? My choice is the second question of the first debate. Both candidates were asked "Do you support the bailout?" It was a hanging curveball that McCain could have smoked into the seats with a clear statement of "Here is what I support." Then he could have laid out why we were in the mess, and how we get out of it. Instead he floundered with crap about main street and wall street and other mumbo-jumbo. I knew then he was in trouble.

Barack Obama’s campaign has confirmed that a woman living in a South Boston housing project is indeed the senator’s aunt, a little-known relationship that was only revealed this week - five days before the election. Obama spokesman Reid Cherlin confirmed to the Herald this afternoon that Zeituni Onyango, 56, who lives on Flaherty Way, is Obama’s aunt on Obama’s father’s side. Onyango, a Kenyan native is believed to be the “Aunti Zeituni” in Obama’s memoir, “Dreams From My Father.” Click here to find out more! Onyango received a small stipend over the past year working six hours a week as...

The British newspaper The Times reported Wednesday that it had tracked down Barack Obama’s aunt Zeituni Onyango. Although born in Kenya, Onyango now lives in the United States, in Boston. The report of The Times shows her living conditions are not exactly grand. Zeituni Onyango is affectionally described by Obama in his book Dreams from My Father. Today, however, it seems that Obama and Onyango have little to no contact. The latter now ‘lives in a disabled-access flat on a rundown public housing estate in South Boston.’ Another relative of Obama, whom he also affectionally described in his best-selling autobiography,...

She is the second Obama relative known to live on skid row. His own brother was found living in a cardboard shanty last month in Kenya, and now his aunt in a Boston slum just five miles from where Obama attended law school. She was found by British journalists in a dismal, run-down public housing project in a violent slum in south Boston. Details. Perhaps surprisingly, Barack Obama has apparently not reached out to help his aunt or his brother, nor does he keep in touch with his relatives. In fact, his charitable contributions for any altruistic purposes are terribly...

Barack Obama's story, spanning from his mother's roots in Kansas to his father's in Kenya and his childhood spent in Hawaii and Indonesia, has been well chronicled and a central part of his allure as a candidate who transcends national and racial lines. But one small part might have remained largely hidden from public view. In a first-floor apartment of a brick public housing complex on a side street in South Boston lives a woman who city officials believe is Obama's aunt. Her name is Zeituni Onyango, as in the "Auntie Zeituni" in one of his books, a polite and...

Zeituni Onyango, the aunt so affectionately described in Mr Obama’s best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father, lives in a disabled-access flat on a rundown public housing estate in South Boston. A second relative believed to be the long-lost “Uncle Omar” described in the book was beaten by armed robbers with a “sawed-off rifle” while working in a corner shop in the Dorchester area of the city. He was later evicted from his one-bedroom flat for failing to pay $2,324.20 (£1,488) arrears, according to the Boston Housing Court. The US press has repeatedly rehearsed Mr Obama’s extraordinary odyssey, but the other...

In his bestselling autobiography Dreams from My Father Mr Obama recalls how, during his first visit to Kenya, his cousin referred to an uncle, Omar, who had left Africa and moved to Boston, but had been “lost”. A little later in the book Mr Obama travels to the family village in western Kenya where he meets his step-grandmother, Sarah, the woman who had raised his father. On the walls of her tin-roofed hut, Mr Obama noticed photographs of the missing Omar, “the uncle who had left for America twenty-five years ago and had never come back”. The woman he calls...

October 25, 2008 -- UNLIKE four years ago, when John Kerry went down in defeat, New Yorkers, feeling sanguine about Barack Obama's chances, are planning to party on Election Night. And they aren't discriminating against John McCain supporters. Harvey Weinstein, Georgette Mosbacher, Glamour editrix Cindy Leive and GQ editor Jim Nelson are co-hosting a "bipartisan" bash at Public House on East 41st. Meanwhile, Irene and Bernard Schwartz (former head of Loral) are throwing a "nonpartisan" party to watch the returns at the Rainbow Room.

Sen. Barack Obama made him "scared for America" and that he doesn't trust the Democratic presidential candidate on taxes.

No one is better prepared than John McCain to serve as commander in chief and lead the country as it seeks successful outcomes in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and to work with Pakistan to help kill or capture the perpetrators of 9/11. McCain's actions as a POW in Vietnam were heroic. ---snip --- And McCain didn't hire as a strategist David Axelrod, who helped lead Mayor John Street's race-baiting reelection campaign. America needs an honest president with experience, common sense, sound temperament and good judgment in the Oval Office. Those qualities will make it easy for many to vote for...

John McCain won the endorsement of the Tampa Tribune Saturday, a key newspaper in the battleground state of Florida. The paper, which leans conservative but chose not to endorse a candidate in 2004 over dissatisfaction with President Bush, said the "uncertain times require McCain's tested vigilance." "McCain brings a lifetime of useful experience, including his grueling captivity in Vietnam and long Senate service. He believes in federalism, a strong defense and disciplined self-interest," the paper wrote. "McCain has been willing to cross party lines to work on tough problems. He co-authored a campaign finance law that failed to fulfill its...

LANCASTER, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Sarah Palin invoked Joe "the Plumber" once again on Saturday in Pennsylvania, needling Barack Obama for having a “staged photo-op” interrupted by a voter asking him “a simple, a straightforward question” about taxes. “So when he left Joe’s neighborhood in Toledo, our opponent didn’t look real happy,” Palin said of Obama. “Seems that the staged photo-op there got ruined by a real person’s question. So here’s a guy working—standing there in his neighborhood when a candidate for president shows up and he wanted more than just a handshake and a campaign button. He wanted some answers.”...

Obama: "Senator McCain would pay for part of his plan by making drastic cuts in Medicare -$882 billion worth." Roanoke, VA., October, 17 Senator Barack Obama's newest claim (also made in a television ad) that Senator John McCain's health care plan will cut $882 billion in Medicare health care benefits for seniors, has to rank among the biggest whoppers of the whole campaign. It's a poorly calculated estimate drawn from a suspect report, and the disputed figures in question don’t represent benefit cuts. Here are the basic facts. The essential math of McCain's health plan presumes it will raise at...

The truth is not being published people ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA...this is a socialistic grab by the anti-American Left. I have friends in the military so I know a lot about the truth! OBAMA is an empty suit with no back ground in politics, he has a manufactured back ground by the left. You all shoyld be afraid because if McCain doesn’t win you can good-bye to Capitalism and Freedom. Truth update below: Secret, Foreign Money Floods Into Obama Campaign Monday, September 29, 2008 9:23 PM By: Kenneth R. Timmerman Article Font Size More than half of the whopping $426.9...

BLUE BELL, Pa. (AP) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Tuesday proposed a $52.5 billion economic plan that would eliminate taxes on unemployment benefits and cut the capital gains tax while warning voters about taking a chance on Democratic rival Barack Obama. "Perhaps never before in history have the American people been asked to risk so much based on so little," McCain said of his opponent during a speech at a community college in this Philadelphia suburb. McCain also promised that as president he would order the Treasury Department to guarantee 100 percent of all savings for six months....

John McCain asked us at the GOP convention to stand up and fight with him. We are fighting, but why isn’t Sen. McCain?I was encouraged when I saw the news of people at his events, filled with anger and calling for Sen. McCain to fight. But then today we saw him almost endorse B. Hussein Obama. Does Sen. McCain not understand our anger? We are not mad at Sen. McCain. Even those of us who don't agree with some of his political positions share an enormous respect him for the sacrifices he has made his entire life for our country....