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Jul 18, 2008 DNC Memo: Week Two of the Relaunch - More McCain Misfires Two weeks into the latest "relaunch" of his campaign and it's more of the same for John McCain: more of the same bad news, bad reviews and campaign chaos. While the elevation of Steve Schmidt was supposed to tighten McCain's message and organization, McCain was under fire from... Democratic National Committee more
Jul 18, 2008 McCain Watch: The Economy: John McCain is Not What America Signed Up For Last week, John McCain's top economic advisor, Phil Gramm, echoed McCain's comments that America's economic problems were "psychological" by saying Americans are in a "mental recession" and that America had become a "nation of whiners." While McCain... Democratic National Committee more
Jul 18, 2008 DNC to Hold Over 1,000 Platform Meetings In All 50 States Last week the Democratic National Committee and Obama for America unveiled Listening to America: The Democratic Platform for Change, a bold new initiative to involve the American people in the development of the Democratic National Platform, giving Americans the opportunity to organize and... Democratic National Committee more
Jul 17, 2008 McCain Watch: Iraq: McCain Has Been Wrong From the Start -- Just Like Bush Today, more McCain surrogates and a web video attacking Barack Obama which could have been produced on "Fantasy Island," will be trotted out in an effort to distract attention from John McCain's real record on Iraq--a record of being inconsistent and being wrong, just like President... Democratic National Committee more
Jul 17, 2008 Statement by Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman in Response to John McCain's Remarks to the NAACP The Democratic National Committee today released the following statement from Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman in response to John McCain's speech at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People:"Making education a national priority requires more than campaign speeches,... Democratic National Committee more
NPR World News
Jul 20, 2008 Obama's World Tour Stops In Afghanistan, Iraq Sen. Barack Obama visited Afghanistan before heading to Baghdad, on a road trip designed to prove the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate's foreign policy credentials. Obama will also head to Jordan this week. NPR World News more
Jul 20, 2008 U.S. And Iran Discuss Nuclear Plan in Geneva Iran has been given two weeks to agree to freeze its uranium enrichment program or face the prospect of new and tougher U.N. sanctions. The timetable stems from seven-country sessions in Geneva, where top-level U.S. and Iranian officials were present. NPR World News more
Talk of the Nation
Jul 18, 2008 Stomach Bacteria Could Prevent Asthma Several years ago, researchers proposed the provocative idea that bacteria living in the human stomach could be responsible for the development of some stomach ulcers. New research suggests, however, that those bacteria may not be all bad. Talk of the Nation more
Jul 18, 2008 Getting Solar Power For Less Thousands of megawatts of solar-generated power might not see the light of day if Congress doesn't act soon. Ira Flatow also looks at how you can bring solar to your sockets faster, without taking out a second mortgage. Talk of the Nation more
TruthOut
Jul 19, 2008 House Speaker Pelosi Calls Bush "a Total Failure" Washington - President Bush has been a "total failure" in everything from the economy to the war to energy policy, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday. In an interview on CNN, the California Democrat was asked to respond to video of the president criticizing the... TruthOut more
Jul 19, 2008 Iran Rules Out Suspending Enrichment Program Geneva - Iran and the European Union's chief negotiators agreed Saturday to resume talks on suspending uranium enrichment in two weeks, after Tehran ruled out freezing its program in talks that included the United States for the first time. EU... TruthOut more
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