Another top McCain official resigns
May 18, 2008
Former Rep. Thomas G. Loeffler resigns over lobbying entanglements, a GOP source says.
Israel, Palestine discuss peace in private: Rice
May 18, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are privately discussing a peace agreement and the talks should intensify in the next several months, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday.
McCain woos some Hispanics, others see baggage
May 18, 2008
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Arturo Leyva has voted Democratic in the past, like many U.S. Hispanics. This year, the candidate catching his eye happens to be a Republican: John McCain.
Clinton continues her impossible quest
May 18, 2008
The day of campaigning had barely begun and Hillary Rodham Clinton was already eyeing the whiskey.
Clinton’s women wonder ‘if’ and ‘when?’
May 18, 2008
Philipina Heintzman, 81, drove 80 miles across the South Dakota prairie to experience history in the making: a woman running for president, something she never dreamed as a child that she would live to see.
That event, a Hillary Rodham Clinton rally in Bath on Thursday, also marked history unraveling.
Sen. Kennedy recovering after seizure
May 18, 2008
Out of immediate danger, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy remained hospitalized as doctors worked to determine what caused one of the nation’s best-known senators to suffer a seizure in his Cape Cod home.
Kennedy, 76, the lone surviving son in a famed political family, was flown Saturday morning to a Boston hospital after becoming ill and being treated at the emergency room of Cape Cod Hospital.
Obama heads for the finish line
May 18, 2008
Attempting to lay a symbolic claim to his party’s presidential nomination, Democrat Barack Obama will mark the latest round of primary voting with a rally in Iowa, where his solid win in January caucuses propelled him to his status as the front-runner.
GOP turns to McCain to reinvent party
May 18, 2008
Instead of offering stark contrasts from the current prez, McCain has stuck to conventional conservative dogma.
Bush is not an American
May 18, 2008
Some of the die-hard, rabid right-wingers who still support George W.
Bush’s immoral and illegal actions tried recently to overload my email
system by flooding it with bitches and moans about recent columns about
their poster boy for destruction of the constitution.