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...group of conservative activists led by Floyd Brown, author of the famous Willie Horton ad used so effectively against Michael Dukakis in 1988, will begin a campaign to tar Obama as weak on crime and terrorism, a strategy that aims to upend Obama's relatively strong reputation among Republican voters...
...heartening that each of the remaining presidential candidates has denounced the current administration’s position on torture. In this light, however, we are concerned with recent actions of presumptive Republican nominee John McCain, who in February voted against a bill that would have banned the use of simulated drowning and other interrogation techniques on the grounds that the bill did not leave enough wiggle room for the CIA—in his words—“to use extra measures” in interrogating detainees. (The bill passed and went on to be vetoed by President...
...administration,” and that their “honor and service deserve better from their academic tutors.” Longbrake said that Faust and Bok both had previous commitments that day and so could not attend the officer commissioning ceremony. President of the Harvard Republican Club Caleb L. Weatherl ’10, whose group has campaigned for greater recognition of ROTC from the college, said that he commended Faust for her decision to participate in the ceremony. “Her attendance this year, I believe, shows that it is important to her to honor...
...went straight for the main chance, positing Obama as a direct descendant of - yes - Karl Marx, who famously proclaimed religion to be the "opiate" of the masses. As the Marx meme fluttered across Fox News, you could almost hear the vast sigh of relief: Obama's gaffe had put Republican propagandists back in their comfort zone. Rather than fight a defensive election over the Bush debacles - the misplayed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the mortgage-market collapse and recession, the looming environmental crises - they could go on the offensive with their favorite wedge issues: God and guns. Steve Schmidt...
...Clinton's main argument was that she can beat John McCain because she's already been vetted in this culture, "having gone through 16 years on the receiving end of what the Republican Party dishes out." She's basically saying that her dirty laundry - the questionable money she made in cattle futures, the Travelgate firings, her kiss of Suha Arafat, her husband's pardons, the unpleasantries of 1998 - is no longer newsworthy, and the mere fact of her political survival shows that it's irrelevant. "I have a lot of baggage, and everyone has rummaged through it for many years...