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IT'S UNLIKELY THAT I'll get to talk to Barack Obama during this presidential campaign. Since he keeps even friendlies in the media at a distance, I probably have no chance of getting an opportunity to bend his ear.

But if I could ask Barack Obama one question, it would be this: "We haven't suffered a terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11. Are President Bush's policies at least partly responsible for this? If so, which ones? If not, to what do you attribute our run of luck?"

Okay, that's more like three questions, but you get the point. I'm not confident that even the non-loony left as personified by the very sober and thoughtful Barack Obama can honestly assess the current administration. Yes, the administration has made errors in a thousand different areas. But if you surveyed the public right after 9/11 and suggested there would be no more attacks on American soil in the next seven years, the percentage agreeing to that Mon, 30 Jun 2008 9:31:38 EST http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5481/Old_Whine_in_Old_Bottles http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5494/In_Flag_City_USA_False_Obama_Rumors_Are_Flying_washingtonpost_com I guess all some people have is making up lies and starting rumors to discredit their opposition. Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:25:04 EST http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5494/In_Flag_City_USA_False_Obama_Rumors_Are_Flying_washingtonpost_com http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5476/Newsmax_com_Obama_Tells_Hillary_Supporters_to_Get_Over_It Sen. Barack Obama is being criticized for the choice of words he used last week during a meeting with members of the Congressional Black Caucus in which he reportedly degraded senior female allies of his one-time rival Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., by telling them to "get over it.”

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 8:43:42 EST http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5476/Newsmax_com_Obama_Tells_Hillary_Supporters_to_Get_Over_It http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5498/VoteVets_org_Campaigns If this is the idea of our country being safer Dubya and his mindless supporters are talking about then you can keep it!! I certainly don't feel safe! Seems the troops don't either.

According to Votevets.org: (see article for indepth explanation and sources)

U.S. military stretched dangerously thin by war

POLL OF TROOPS AND FAMILIES SHOWS LITTLE SUPPORT FOR BUSH, IRAQ WAR

OUR OWN INTELLIGENCE IS WARNING US AL QAEDA IS PLOTTING NEW ATTACKS FROM AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN, NOT IRAQ!

GI’S MORALE DIPS AS THE WAR DRAGS ON; 45 PERCENT OF TROOPS SAY MORALE IS LOW OR VERY LOW

OFFICERS IN IRAQ, INDEPENDENT FINDINGS, SAY PROGRESS NOT MADE. SURGE IS NOT MAKING A DIFFERENCE

Two-thirds of troops and their families think things are going badly in Iraq.

Only a third of troops approve of the President’s handling of the war in Iraq, which represents crumbling support from past p Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:17:31 EST http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5498/VoteVets_org_Campaigns http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5465/McCain_s_Health_Plan_Puts_at_Least_56_Million_People_with_Chronic_Disease_at_Risk_of_Losing_Health_Coverage And the Number one best reason to vote for Obama is that his health plan doesn't look like McCains.
Hope all you McCain supporters have never been sick a day in your lives or have thousands saved for that rainy day. I sure as hell am not that lucky. Nor are my parents and my MIL. My niece would be left with no insurance and so would my son and my youngest sister.
Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:16:00 EST http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5465/McCain_s_Health_Plan_Puts_at_Least_56_Million_People_with_Chronic_Disease_at_Risk_of_Losing_Health_Coverage http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5475/BBC_NEWS_World_Asia_Pacific_When_John_McCain_was_my_captive Tran Trong Duyet - a sprightly retiree and amateur ballroom dancer - must rank as one of John McCain's more unlikely supporters.

Four decades ago, during the Vietnam war, Mr Duyet was in charge of the notorious Hoa Lo prison - the place where Mr McCain says he was brutally beaten and tortured during five-and-a-half years as an American prisoner of war.

"McCain is my friend," said 75-year-old Mr Duyet as he feeds the caged birds he now keeps in his garden in this coastal city.

"If I was American, I would vote for him."
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 8:11:04 EST http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5475/BBC_NEWS_World_Asia_Pacific_When_John_McCain_was_my_captive http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5453/The_Bush_Family_s_Best_Buddies Over the years, the Saudi Royal Family has put at least $1.4 billion into the hands of the Bush family and its friends.

That's "billion" with a "b."

Even in these days of inflation, that's real money.

Did Bush go to Saudi Arabia to ask for lower oil prices or to assure the Saudis they could keep sticking it to us as long as he and his family were given their cut?
Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:24:27 EST http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5453/The_Bush_Family_s_Best_Buddies http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5463/Pensito_Review_McFlipflop_McCain_Reverses_Stand_on_Offshore_Drilling_in_Just_18_Days Another flip-flop Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:17:48 EST http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5463/Pensito_Review_McFlipflop_McCain_Reverses_Stand_on_Offshore_Drilling_in_Just_18_Days http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5417/5_Year_Old_Saves_Sister_From_Hanging_Connecticut_News_Story_WFSB_Hartford an amazing little brother! Sat, 28 Jun 2008 9:53:46 EST http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5417/5_Year_Old_Saves_Sister_From_Hanging_Connecticut_News_Story_WFSB_Hartford http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5468/Pensito_Review_The_McCain_Love_Affair_You_Won_t_See_in_the_News Your assignment, Pensito Reviewers, is to take a quick bathroom break, grab the beverage of your choice, and then settle in and read “Loving John McCain” by Eric Alterman and George Zornick in its entirety.

Until you do, you won’t understand the media’s treatment of McCain, and the damage this love affair could do to our country if it causes us to elect another dumb, affable, incompetent, corrupt, jellyfish puppet with malevolent advisers in the shadows.

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:18:56 EST http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5468/Pensito_Review_The_McCain_Love_Affair_You_Won_t_See_in_the_News http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5484/McCain_Says_Obama_s_Word_Cannot_Be_Trusted_Update3 And here we go............... Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:30:11 EST http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5484/McCain_Says_Obama_s_Word_Cannot_Be_Trusted_Update3 http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5467/McCain_praises_Iraqi_president I definitely hear some smooching going on between these two. How in the world can you praise this man when the Iraqi govt isn't doing anything to help themselves?? Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:53:48 EST http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5467/McCain_praises_Iraqi_president http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5442/Obama_s_50_Lies_just_turnd_to_51_Lies Addressing civil rights activists in Selma, Ala., a year ago, Sen. Barack Obama traced his "very existence" to the generosity of the Kennedy family, which he said paid for his Kenyan father to travel to America on a student scholarship and thus meet his Kansan mother.

The Camelot connection has become part of the mythology surrounding Obama's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. After Caroline Kennedy endorsed his candidacy in January, Newsweek commentator Jonathan Alter reported that she had been struck by the extraordinary way in which "history replays itself" and by how "two generations of two families -- separated by distance, culture and wealth -- can intersect in strange and wonderful ways."

It is a touching story -- but the key details are either untrue or grossly oversimp
Sun, 29 Jun 2008 4:51:47 EST http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5442/Obama_s_50_Lies_just_turnd_to_51_Lies http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5447/t_r_u_t_h_o_u_t_It_Was_Oil_All_Along This is a commentary from PBS's Bill Moyers. You want the real reason why we're in Iraq? Read this. Sun, 29 Jun 2008 8:13:47 EST http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5447/t_r_u_t_h_o_u_t_It_Was_Oil_All_Along http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5486/Calif_firefighters_battle_more_than_1_400_blazes The good news in northern California is that more than a thousand wildfires aren't growing. The bad news: There's no relief in sight.
No new major fires had broken out Sunday as fire crews inched closer to getting some of the largest of 1,420 blazes surrounded, according to the state Office of Emergency Services. Some 364,600 acres—or almost 570 square miles—have burned.

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:34:26 EST http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5486/Calif_firefighters_battle_more_than_1_400_blazes http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5433/Chris_Kelly_John_McCain_Doesn_t_Know_the_Price_of_Gas_Can_t_Remember_the_Last_Time_He_Bought_Any_Politics_on_The_Huffington_Post John McCain kind of stepped in it the other day, here in California, but luckily no one noticed. He was being driven from John Wayne airport to a fundraiser, and he took a quick call from Martin Wisckol of the Orange County Register. Wisckol asked him a series of softball questions so tedious McCain's driver had to crack the window so the breeze would keep him from passing out, but then this: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:45:47 EST http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5433/Chris_Kelly_John_McCain_Doesn_t_Know_the_Price_of_Gas_Can_t_Remember_the_Last_Time_He_Bought_Any_Politics_on_The_Huffington_Post http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5427/Teen_decapitated_at_theme_park_police_say_CNN_com ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- A teenager died Saturday when he was decapitated at the Six Flags Over Georgia theme park outside Atlanta, authorities said.

The 17-year-old park visitor was killed after scaling two 6-foot fences around the Batman roller coaster, said a statement issued by park spokeswoman Hela Sheth. He was struck by the coaster and killed, she said.

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:44:14 EST http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5427/Teen_decapitated_at_theme_park_police_say_CNN_com http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5434/AT_amp_T_Whistleblower_Spy_Bill_Creates_Infrastructure_for_a_Police_State Klein saw a network monitoring room being built in AT&T's internet switching center that only NSA-approved techs had access to. He squirreled away documents and then presented them to the press and the Electronic Frontier Foundation after news of the government's warrantless wiretapping program broke... Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:54:48 EST http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5434/AT_amp_T_Whistleblower_Spy_Bill_Creates_Infrastructure_for_a_Police_State http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5414/2_Year_Old_Survives_on_Cat_Food_After_Mom_s_Death SACRAMENTO — Sacramento police say a 2-year-old boy survived on cat food for up to six days after his mother died.

A social worker heard the toddler crying while making a visit to check on the family Thursday morning. The worker called police after no one answered the door of the brick duplex where the mother and child lived.

Inside, authorities found the body of 36-year-old Lisa Gonzales. It was not immediately known how she died, but a Child Protective Services spokeswoman says the woman suffered from a chronic illness.

Sacramento police officials did not immediately respond Friday to a request for comment.

Neighbors said the woman worked as a waitress and described her as frail and quiet.

The boy, identified only as Noah, is in protective custody while social workers determine whether he can be placed with a family member.
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:47:59 EST http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5414/2_Year_Old_Survives_on_Cat_Food_After_Mom_s_Death http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5440/Muslims_do_speak_out_against_extremist_CafeMom Not all Muslims are violent, Islam is not a violent religion.Recently a mom on here ask me why Muslims were not speaking out about the radical Muslims who do harm in the name of Islam, a dear Muslim friend of mine had this in one of her post.

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 1:19:01 EST http://www.cafemom.com/hotlist/current_events/5440/Muslims_do_speak_out_against_extremist_CafeMom