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Barack Obama has racked up a string of primary victories since Super Tuesday last month, prompting many both within the Obama camp and across the country to all but declare him the Democratic nominee. Similarly, Hillary Clinton’s lack of victories over the past four weeks have led many to characterize her campaign as losing hope—even though her campaign issued a signed statement to the contrary. Yet even in the face of these criticisms, Clinton’s recent triumphs in Texas and Ohio last week, as well as Rhode Island have both revived...
Even once in awhile a military man achieves immortality by jumping onto a hand grenade to take the explosion and save his buddies' lives. That, essentially, is what Admiral William "Fox" Fallon, chief of U.S. Central Command, did on Tuesday. But the "grenade" that ended his 41-year military career was a fawning profile in the latest issue of Esquire magazine - an article that pitted him against President Bush, and one with whose author Fallon had cooperated. "He jumped," one Navy officer said, "on a hand grenade that he threw...
...Gates told reporters in a hastily called briefing that a public "misperception" of a gap between Fallon and the Administration on Iran policy couldn't be erased, and that its "cumulative" impact had become a "distraction" that prompted Fallon to offer his resignation on Tuesday morning. "That's why I believe he has made the right choice," Gates said. The Secretary said he couldn't explain the persistence of this "misperception," or why it couldn't be eliminated. "We have tried to put this misperception behind us over a period of months and, frankly, just have not been successful...
...explosive potential of the magazine article; he called Gates last week before the Defense Secretary had seen it and warned him to "brace himself." Fallon told the Washington Post last Thursday that the article was "poison pen stuff" and called it "really disrespectful and ugly." In a statement issued Tuesday, he said "it would be best to step aside and allow the secretary and our military leaders to move beyond this distraction...
Illinois Senator Barack Obama easily captured a majority of Mississippi's 33 Democratic delegates Tuesday as his one-on-one battle with Hillary Clinton race verged once again on deeper racial turmoil. With 90% of all precincts reporting, Obama led Clinton in Misissippi by a margin of nearly three...