Subscribe"Bob Geiger, who is a veteran, examined the major speeches at the GOP convention for any references to the men and women who are fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nothing. The top GOPers were too busy fomenting fear to actually say anything about the troops or their families:'What did not one member of the faux, support-the-troops line-up mention -- not even one time?
The sacrifice of our military families, the number of troops who have returned home in coffins since Bush lied us into the Iraq disaster and the trials of Iraq war Veterans.
To steal from the shrill Rudy Giuliani's speech on Wednesday, they said 'nada, nothing.'
For a party that wants to convince Americans that the entire Iraq debacle can somehow be reduced to the small amount of time spent on the 'surge,' every major speech was missing any acknowledgement whatsoever of the troops who have died and those still serving on the ground in Iraq -- except the couple of instances where they used the troops to lie about Barack Obama's record.
Even Veteran John McCain who had run the entire Republican convention under the 'Country First' marketing label, spent much of his acceptance speech focusing on himself and his POW resume, without one word for the troops still serving in a war of his party's making. He also said nothing about the nearly 4,200 troops who have died or the Veterans who have come back to neglect and mistreatment under the Bush administration.'"
And McCain is a 'mavrick!'
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1. An unbranded range animal, especially a calf that has become separated from its mother, traditionally considered the property of the first person who brands it.
"A senior McCain campaign official advises that, despite the gaggle of requests and pressure from the media, Gov. Sarah Palin won't submit to a formal interview anytime soon. She may take some questions from local news entities in Alaska, but until she's ready -- and until she's comfortable -- which might not be for a long while -- the media will have to wait. The campaign believes it can effectively deal with the media's complaints, and their on-the-record response to all this will be: 'Sarah Palin needs to spend time with the voters.'In July, McCain Promised His VP Pick Would Appear On Larry King Live.
Not out of the question are appearances on lighter, fluffier television shows. But -- not for a while."
Sarah Palin -- 909
John Stein -- 292
Cliff Silvers -- 32
For example, in Alabama, 78 percent of GOP primary voters said they are evangelical Christians, and 48 percent of them supported Huckabee, an ordained Baptist minister. Their votes helped Huckabee win the state, reviving his struggling campaign.She immediately and permanently shores up the weakness McCain had among the fundies.
After my interview with Dean and his wife in which I played the tape again — in fact played it to them — I noticed that on that tape he’s holding a hand-held microphone. One designed to filter out the background noise. It isolates your voice, just like it does to Charlie Gibson and me when we have big crowds in the morning. The crowds are deafening to us standing there. But the viewer at home hears only our voice.
So, we collected some other tapes from Dean’s speech including one from a documentary filmmaker, tapes that do carry the sound of the crowd, not just the microphone he held on stage. […] Dean’s boisterous countdown of the upcoming primaries as we all heard it on TV was isolated, when in fact he was shouting over the roaring crowd. And what about the scream as we all heard it? In the room, the so-called scream couldn’t really be heard at all. Again, he was yelling along with the crowd.
--Rudy von BismarckGermanyThe world is not looking toPrussia'sAmerica's liberalism, but to its power;Bavaria, Württemberg, BadenFrance, Denmark, Belgium may indulge liberalism, and yet no one will assign themPrussia'sAmerica's role;PrussiaThe United States has to coalesce and concentrate its power for the opportune moment [to attack terrorism in Iran]... it is not by speeches and majority resolutions that the great questions of the time are decided – that was the big mistake of1848 and 1849the Clinton Administration – but by iron and blood.
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The pastor predicted 3 million to 5 million more Christian conservative voters would turn out for McCain because of Palin.
Since the last federal election in 2006, volunteers like Graham combined with the enthusiasm generated by the Obama-Clinton struggle to add more than 2 million Democrats to voter rolls in the 28 states that register voters according to party affiliation. The Republicans have lost nearly 344,000 thousand voters in the same states.
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Nationwide, there are about 42 million registered Democrats and about 31 million Republicans, according to statistics compiled by The Associated Press.
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