That it was the Clintons

Obama to Jimbo: I didn‘t know until this day that it was Clintons all along.

The Clintons have been bashing Senator Obama and may even won votes based on the story that Obama had publicly railed against NAFTA while a memo by a Canadian diplomat claimed that Obama‘s campaign secretly assured them his stand, quote, “Should be viewed as more about political positioning than a clear articulation of policy plans.”

Obama‘s adviser denied speaking those words and now, we learned a much higher source from Canada revealed late last month that the NAFTA promises came from a very different source—the Clinton campaign. According to an unnamed source speaking to that nation‘s equivalent of the “Associated Press”, the “Canadian Press”, it was Clinton‘s campaign that contacted the Canadian government to reassure them about Clinton‘s anti-NAFTA rhetoric.

The “Canadian Press” reporting that the source heard the chief of staff to Canada‘s prime minister saying in a room full of television journalists, quote, “Someone from Clinton‘s campaign is telling the embassy to take it with a grain of salt. Someone called us and told us not to worry.”

We need not say any more for now,
But rest assure you will not be hearing the last of this…

Bigotry Raises its Ugly Head at the FCC

Beyond The Rhetoric

A few months ago, Black and Latino advocacy groups, such as the National Black Chamber of Commerce, were shocked to learn that the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) derided us as incapable of writing articulate position papers and filing official comments to the FCC.

He did this while addressing the very conservative Aspen Institute in Colorado. He called us by name and said anything we file at the FCC must be written by White entities that pay or persuade us to lend our names and reputations to their cause. His point was that we colored groups don’t know anything about pertinent issues at the FCC and suffered from low intellect. President Bush has used the term “soft bigotry of low expectations”.

Well, it seems that he has appointed an FCC Chairman who goes well beyond the “Soft Bigotry”. This here is cold-blooded hard core bigotry. [ Read More Story...]

By Harry C. Alford | NNPA Columnist

No Hail Mary for Hillary

The final Democratic debate produces no miracles for the grouchy former front-runner.

Yes, those MSNBC moderators did seem to like Obama better, but even when she’s right she sounds wrong.

All the gripes from Hillary Clinton’s campaign about press coverage seemed to be completely, definitively validated midway through Tuesday night’s debate — at the instant when Brian Williams, intending to throw Barack Obama a hardball, instead accidentally cued up a tape of Clinton mocking him, and then asked Obama, “How were her comments about you unfair?” [ Read More Story ...]
By Mike Madden | salon.com | Posted: 27 Feb. 2008

Two studies in the charisma of hope Obama and Bill Clinton

One of the advertising posters prominently on view in New York City’s subways these days shows a man’s head in silhouette beneath a dreamy blue bubble inside of which is this caption: “If I can dream it, I can win it.”… The poster is an inducement to buy tickets for the state lottery, … They’re only a dollar apiece, and, as that subway poster says … “Hey, you never know.”… In other words, being able to dream it has nothing to do with being able to win it … needless to say, Barack Obama who has explicitly put hope way up there on the national agenda [ Read More Story...]

By Richard Bernstein | International Herald Tribune | Published: 27 February 2008

Clinton’s role in Nafta-gate

It was Clinton’s camp that downplayed its own trade bashing, reports the Canadian media

A storm of reports in the Canadian media say that the Nafta-gate flap last week involving Barack Obama was started by a key aide to Canada’s prime minister – who told journalists that Hillary Clinton’s campaign – not Obama’s – had contacted the Canadian government to play down its Nafta-bashing. [to read more]

By Richard Adams News blog/ deadlineUSA | guardian.co.uk | Published: 06 March 2008

U.S. warship stirs Lebanese fear of war

The USS Cole has deployed off the coast of Lebanon as that nation’s political crisis deepens.

Washington’s decision to deploy the USS Cole off Lebanon’s coast is kindling grim memories of a past conflict here – and fresh concerns over another war.

While the US State Department says the Cole and other warships are being sent to the eastern Mediterranean to support regional stability amid Lebanon’s political crisis, [to read more]

By Nicholas Blanford | Christian Science Monitor | 04 March 2008

Pope to host summit with Muslims

Pope Benedict XVI will host landmark Catholic-Muslim talks in November to improve ties between the two religions.

The announcement was made in a joint statement after a two-day meeting between senior Vatican and Muslim leaders in Rome.

Catholic-Muslim relations soured after a 2006 speech in Germany in which the Pope quoted a 14th Century Byzantine emperor’s criticisms of Islam.

The Regensburg speech provoked Muslim fury and triggered protests worldwide [to read more]

Story from BBC NEWS | Published: 05 March 2008

Harper meddling in U.S. primaries, Democrats say

OTTAWA — Two years after U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins was accused of meddling in Canada’s federal election, the same is being said of Stephen Harper’s Conservatives with respect to the current U.S. contest.

Democrats appearing on a nationwide U.S. political program accused the Harper government yesterday of interfering in the primary campaigns to help the Republican Party candidate … “You’ve got a right-wing government in Canada that is trying to help the Republicans [to read more]

By Brian Laghi | Globe and Mail| Published: 02 March 2008

PM widens Obama probe to include own office

OTTAWA–Prime Minister Stephen Harper resisted calls to fire his most senior official today over remarks that triggered a tempest now sweeping over the Democratic primary in the U.S. election.

The prime minister deflected demands for the head of his chief of staff, Ian Brodie, when opposition parties accused him of damaging the campaign of Barack Obama …Harper did not mount the same vigorous defense of his chief of staff …when opposition parties accused him of influencing the U.S. race. [to read more]

By Alexander Panetta | THE CANADIAN PRESS/TheStar.com | 06 March 2008

Talking to Nader

USA — Ralph Nader announced his selection of San Francisco lawyer and activist Matt Gonzalez as his running mate on February 28. Like Nader, Gonzalez–a former president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors who narrowly lost his 2003 bid to be the first Green Party mayor of a major US city–clearly wants to influence the political debate this election season. Given the chilly media climate for any independent run, [to read more]

by Laura Flanders | thenation.com | posted: 07 March 2008

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