The six Republicans in the debate, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Fred Thompson and Rudy Giuliani, were greeted by a Mount Rushmore-like giant sand sculpture of their heads.
The debate is sponsored by the South Carolina Republican Party and FOX News. Brit Hume will be the moderator.
To be invited, candidates had to finish in the top five positions in the New Hampshire primary, or have at least five percent support in national polls.
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yankee-in-francePosted:
Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:14 pm
Brit Hume, you mean Mr. Objectivity himself. Wow. I hope that his voice doesn't put the candidates to sleep.
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apodixisPosted:
Fri Jan 11, 2008 1:23 am
Ron Paul's best performance in the debates so far:
Fox News text message poll: Who won debate?
Ron Paul 32%; Thompson 22%; Huckabee 18%
There has been a concerted effort to smear both Paul and Obama through "guilt by association" tactics.
Ron Paul did a great job in turning that attack by the Fox moderators aside tonight, by countering Romney's cheap shot, and by blowing them out of the water on foreign policy tonight.
Example: his answer on Israel was excellent: If we support her so much, why are we funding the Arab states, her enemies, 3x more than her? Israel can handle herself just fine if we back off from trying to control all of the peace negotiations.
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SchmertyPosted:
Fri Jan 11, 2008 1:53 am
I Ville decide after consultation wiv BORAT, Mine Friend!!!
Skipping along my own path.
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apodixisPosted:
Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:21 pm
Dirty Politics?
Smear campaign against Obama on 3 fronts: That his politics reflect beliefs of an Afrocentric Christian church http://tucc.org/about.htm ; That he is a muslim sympathizer, who was sworn into office on the Koran; And that he is unpatriotic, refusing to salute the American flag, etc.
Kucinich, who won 3,901 votes, 1.4 percent of the New Hampshire primary vote total, paid a $2,000 fee to start a recount. Kucinich is a congressman from Ohio who campaigns on the need for campaign finance reform and paper ballots.
Questions surround how, based on pre-election polling results, Clinton’s went from 30% to a 39% vote overnight.
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paxPosted:
Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:35 pm
Schmerty wrote:
I Ville decide after consultation wiv BORAT, Mine Friend!!!
Borat consultate wiv many famoos leaders, the Pamela Andersons, Georges Washingtons and David Hasselhoofs. He proclaim it time to let children rides inside bus, not just on outsides!
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apodixisPosted:
Sat Jan 12, 2008 12:27 am
Dutch political quiz on American presidential politics:
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HanniePosted:
Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:44 am
Here it is, apo;
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apodixisPosted:
Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:43 am
Hillary- The Movie
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HanniePosted:
Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:18 pm
li'l Shango's Mommy
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apodixisPosted:
Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:16 am
Hillary runs unopposed in Michigan due to DNC decision, yet 40% of local Democrats vote against her ( They voted for uncommitted delegates in protest ).
Meanwhile the efforts to legally suppress both free speech and voter participation:
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yankee-in-francePosted:
Wed Jan 16, 2008 3:50 am
Thanks, Appy, for the primary updates.
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flibberdeejibbetPosted:
Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:04 am
DocTar wrote:
Here in the midwest in the Bible belt, there are very wicked emails circulating from well meaning Christians that caution against Obama cause he's supposedly a radical muslim, cause he supposedly would not be sworn in to office on a Bible, cause he supposedly did not put his hand over his heart during the Nat. Anthem....snopes.com says those things are patently false.
The emails are all over the country. I got one a year ago. Got another last week with minor updates. Spot on about Snopes. Truthorfiction.com is another one that debunks the email. Snopes always backs themselves with a list of sources. I do like to check those sources out myself.
Obama also debunks these on his web site. Glad to see he got to address those on tv recently in a major interview. Showed how stupid the claims are.
Emails like this burn me up. Propagandists count on us all being too lazy to think for ourselves. To check for the truth ourselves.
After 8 years of lies, sad to see we still have so many damn sheep.
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apodixisPosted:
Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:19 am
Hillary Clinton likens White House to prison
She says on the Tyra Banks program tomorrow:
( Obama got Oprah's support, so Clinton is trying to reach the same type of women's audience on the Tyra program ).
Polls show Clinton and Obama in dead heat for delegates in Saturday’s Nevada Caucus.
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apodixisPosted:
Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:58 pm
What’s wrong with our government school system?
BREAKING NEWS: Nevada State Teacher’s Union legal action to limit Democratic caucus sites just rejected by judge on First amendment right to associate grounds.
The Dems select their presidential candidates through a plurality super-delegate process, which is a way for the party bosses to keep political control, while maintaining the facade of a popular vote democratic process.
There is an on line book titled “The Presidential Nominating Process: A Place for Us?” which examines the need for reform of this and other parts of the political process. You can link to it through reference 5 here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdelegate
GOPher debate tonight in Florida on MSNBC, ahead of Tuesday, Jan. 29 winner-take-all primary.
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apodixisPosted:
Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:06 pm
John McCain won the Florida primary with an unexpectedly large numbers of votes. This was surprising because exit polls reported that voters thought the economy was far more important than national security. ( Romney, with his business background is supposed to be the economy candidate, while McCain is supposed to be the military/national security candidate ).
It may be that Republican voters went with who they thought was the most electable. Polls currently show that McCain is the only Republican candidate who can beat Clinton.
Rudy Giuliani is expected to drop out of the debate Wed. from California and throw his support to McCain.
There will be a Republican presidential candidate debate on CNN Wed. night, moderated by Anderson Cooper, before the 22 state primaries on "Super Tuesday", February 5th.
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AlexandriaPosted:
Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:05 am
Oprah, Kerry and now the Kennedys throwing their support behind Obama.
Interesting.
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yankee-in-francePosted:
Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:41 am
It is interesting, Alexandria. What are your thoughts? If you tell me yours, I'll tell you mine.
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apodixisPosted:
Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:14 am
John Edwards is dropping out of the presidential race today ( Wed. ) but so far he is not announcing whom he will endorse.
There will be a last Democratic debate before the 22 Feb. 5 Super Tuesday primaries, on This thursday, CNN at 8 PM ET.
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