According to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, Sen. Barack
Obama’s ties to his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, could end up
hurting his chances of winning the White House.

So could his earlier comment that small-town Americans are “bitter”
and cling to guns and religion.

Question have also been raised over Sen. Hillary Clinton’s honesty and
trustworthiness, as well as her husband’s possible return to the White
House.

But a bigger problem appears to be John McCain's ties to President
Bush.

How much bigger? 43 percent of respondents are concerned about the 71-
year-old John McCain's close ties to George Bush.

36 percent have concerns about Clinton's political opportunism, and 27
percent are concerned about Bill Clinton being back in the White
House.

34 percent have problems with Obama's "bitter" remarks and 32 percent
give a damn about Jeremiah Wright.

"DGVREIMAN" comcast.net> wrote in message
news:LPOdnWD9cv3R_ITVnZ2dnUVZ_umdnZ2d@comcast.com...

Actually - I believe that you called the folks who testified in the so
called Winter Soldier Fiascos Liars (check your rants against John Kerry and
Winter Soldier or VVAW)

..and the US Presidential Election.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2MkODdVBuU&NR=1

Iraq's Nassriya Water Treatment Plant, the country's largest
reconstruction project, is a failure so far because it isn't
delivering sufficient water to enough people, a new audit says.

Inspectors in December and again in February found the U.S.-funded
plant 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of Baghdad was operating at
only 20 percent capacity, the Special Inspector General for Iraq
Reconstruction said in a report released today.

``Potable water is only reaching a fraction of the Iraqi people for
which it was designed and intended,'' Inspector General Stuart Bowen
said. Two of the intended five cities, Ad Diwayah and Suq Al Shoyokh,
weren't receiving water, he wrote.

The Iraqi government that has been "in charge" since the war "ended"
on May 1, 2003 hasn't been able to manage the project because of a
lack of reliable electricity, a failing water distribution system, and
general inability to rise to the day-to-day demands of maintaining a
complex system. Which is perfectly understandable, considering they're
in the middle of a civil war.

Heckuva job, Georgie.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, a former first lady who hasn't driven a car or
pumped gas in many years because of Secret Service restrictions,
joined a blue-collar worker at a filling station Wednesday to
illustrate how the high price of gasoline is squeezing consumers.

It should be noted that this photo op to show concern for the little
people's pain included "a Secret Service motorcade consisting of six
gas-guzzling Suburbans, two squad cars and a green SUV."

Republican John McCain said Wednesday that the bridge collapse in
Minnesota that killed 13 people last year would not have happened if
Congress had not wasted so much money on pork-barrel spending.

Federal investigators cite undersize steel plates as the "critical
factor" in the collapse of the bridge. Heavy loads of construction
materials on the bridge also contributed to the disaster that injured
145 people on Aug. 1, according to preliminary findings by the
National Transportation Safety Board.

"The bridge in Minneapolis didn't collapse because there wasn't enough
money," McCain told reporters while campaigning in Pennsylvania. "The
bridge in Minneapolis collapsed because so much money was spent on
wasteful, unnecessary pork-barrel projects."

I never took physics, but I'm pretty sure it collapsed because it
wasn't strong enough to hold the weight it was bearing. It probably
would have held up if some money had been spent to strengthen it, but
the Republicans neglected infrastructure investment the entire 12
years they controlled Capitol Hill, because they were more concerned
with tax cuts to the rich and war in Iraq.

Yup........Despite all the Blather by the Leftist Pukes PRAYING for a
"Recession", the Economy is ****STILL***
Growing..........Donchaknow..........Ain't That A
HOOT?.........Heehee..........

"Economy Grows By 0.6 Percent

Apr 30 11:52

WASHINGTON (AP) - The economy limped through the first quarter,
growing at just a 0.6 percent pace as housing and credit problems
forced people and businesses alike to hunker down.

The statistic did not meet what economists consider the classic
definition of a recession, which is a retraction of the economy. This
means that although the economy is still managing to grow, even if
modestly. "

Doin the yobs ('jobs') that americans don't want to do... ya know..

For educational purposes:
"Deportation likely for dog death case

Posted April 30, 2008
11:00 PM

Bristol (AP) _ A man who allegedly drilled several holes in a dog's
head plans to accept deportation rather than stand trial on animal
cruelty charges.

Severino Cruz says he attacked the pit bull at his home in Plainville
with a drill in January after the dog bit his 8-year-old son. The dog
had to be euthanized because of its injuries.

The 32-year-old Cruz has pleaded not guilty to charges of cruelty to
animals, as well as maliciously maiming or killing an animal.

A judge on Wednesday denied Cruz application for accelerated
rehabilitation, a special form of probation. Cruz's attorney, Deron
Freeman, says his client probably will be deported to Mexico in the
next two weeks or so."

http://www.wtnh.com/global/story.asp?s=8253446

I notice this article makes reference to 18.9 million Latino immigrants in this
country, up from the previous 12 million they were claiming. Guess that means we
actually are now up to about 35 million....AAC

Fewer Latino immigrants in U.S. sending money home
By Julia Preston Published: April 30, 2008

More than three million Latin American immigrants in the United States, responding to
the economic downturn and new uncertainties about their future, have stopped sending
money home to their families in the last two years, according to a survey released on
Wednesday by the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington.

Only 50 percent of some 18.9 million Latino immigrants in this country now send money
regularly to relatives in their home countries, compared with 73 percent two years
ago, the survey found.

The drop in the number of people sending remittances, as the money transfers are
known, is a sign of pressures on Latino immigrants as a result of the slump in the
low-wage job market and of the Bush administration's crackdown on illegal
immigration, the survey shows. Of the immigrants interviewed, 47 percent said they
did not have legal status. The others were American citizens and legal immigrants.

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