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The policy of justice Nicko.

America and Europe are the moral police in the world:laugh3:. I don't know from where you get all these jokes. Now the most countries who launched wars and occupied the most of the world the most moral police in the world. It's like you let a thief to put a defination for the who called a thief.

Most countries breaking International Law on a bigger scale, what a hell is that?:thinking:. Dude if there any country breach the International Law, that's because they seeing one country breach the International Law several ten times {I think you know this country}. About the mass genocides, Guess who is responsible for this, the same country {I'm not make the things up, it's the real history}

McCain's Holy Land Pilgrimage By TIM MCGIRK/JERUSALEM U.S. Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain visits the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City, March 19, 2008. Ronen Zvulun / Reuters John McCain, the Arizona Senator and Republican Presidential hopeful, was doing his best to look statesmanlike during a tour of Jerusalem's Western Wall, but it wasn't easy. As McCain approached Judaism's holiest site, a Rabbi in a Moses-like beard, all draped in flowing white robes — a publicity-seeker posing as soothsayer — called out: "Ladies and Gentlemen, John McCain, the next President of the United States." Meanwhile, a cheeky kid had wormed his way into the media mob, held up his camera-cellphone to McCain and yelled: "Say cheese." On his way out, weaving past Japanese tourists having their photos snapped with Israeli soldier girls, McCain was accosted by a gaunt, Jewish ex-settler, one of 7,000 removed from Gaza in 2005, who pleaded with the Senator for money since he wasn't getting any from the Israeli government. He was quickly pushed away by McCain's American and Israeli security guards. Israel is just one stop on the future Republican candidate's tour as part of the Senate Armed Services Committee. After Israel, where he met with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert — and to the chagrin of the Palestinians, only spoke on the telephone to President Mahmoud Abbas — he flies on to the United Kingdom and France. But a stopover in Israel suits McCain politically. His pro-Israel stance, which he has long maintained, is bound to help his electoral prospects back home with American Jews and, more crucially, with Evangelical Christians who are a large part of the Republican party base, and who, until now, have regarded the twice-married McCain as too liberal and hard to pigeonhole. A recent Pew Poll says that 65% of Evangelicals believe that the state of Israeli fulfills a biblical prophecy about Jesus' Second Coming. When it comes to voting, these right-wing Christians will probably cast their ballot depending on other factors — a candidate's views on the failing economy or the Iraq war — but McCain's support of Israel may tip the balanced in his favor. Recently, McCain sought and obtained a controversial endorsement from Texas televangelist, Pastor John Hagee, a key figure in the Christian Zionist movement backing Israel and its expansion of settlements in Palestinian territories. Hagee is instrumental in drumming up funds and political support in Washington for Israel. McCain pleased his Israeli hosts by pledging support, if elected President, to help Israel in its struggle against Islamic militants Hamas and Hizballah and Iran. "If Hamas and Hizballah succeed here, they are going to succeed everywhere," McCain told reporters after meeting with Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni. "They are dedicated to the extinction of everything that the U.S., Israel and the West believe and stand for." He also met President Shimon Peres and was supposed to tour Sderot, a southern Israeli town often targeted by rockets from Gaza militants. Accompanied by two other members of the Senate Armed Services Committee — Independent Senator Joe Lieberman from Connecticut (a possible McCain V.P. candidate), and Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina — McCain visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum on Tuesday where he wrote in the guestbook: "I am deeply moved. Never again." Many right-wing Israelis see Iran as posing an existential threat to the Jewish state, and they embrace McCain's hawkish "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" stance. But as Yossi Beilin, a leftwing politician, told reporters: "A real friend [of Israel] is someone who will make an effort to bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The question is if McCain is that guy."

Serie A of course

Clinton says Obama blocking re-vote in Michigan Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor March 19, 2008 11:29 AM As Hillary Clinton holds a rally in Michigan this morning to press for a do-over nomination contest, the Democratic National Committee's rules committee has issued an opinion that the working plan could pass muster. "Our review of this legislation indicates that it would, in fact, fit within the framework of the Rules if, it were, passed by the state legislature and used by the Michigan State Democratic Party as the basis of drafting a formal Delegate Selection Plan," the memo says. But Barack Obama's campaign issued a memo of its own this morning that lays out all the problems with a re-vote. The proposal in play for a June 3 primary would unconstitutionally disqualify voters who cast ballots in the Republican primary in January, which unlike the Democratic primary, officially counted. The plan would never win approval in time from the Justice Department under the Voting Rights Act, the memo says. There's no way an election can be fairly and adequately prepared in time. And the idea that private donors, or the campaigns themselves, would pay for the primary could be legally problematic. "It is therefore well within the realm of possibility that such a case will be made, subjecting the party and its candidates to potential liability," the memo says. The Clinton campaign is accusing Obama of being the lone roadblock to a re-vote. "On February 8, 2008, Barack Obama stood in the aisle of his airplane and told reporters that he would be 'fine' with a new primary in Michigan if it could be done in a way that gave him and Senator Clinton time to make their respective cases and the DNC signed off. Since then, such a plan has garnered broad support from top Michigan lawmakers and the DNC has given its blessing," the Clinton camp said in a memo. "So Barack Obama is on board, right? Guess again. It turns out that his comments about being fine with a re-vote if the above conditions were met were just words." Clinton won the Michigan primary, but Obama's name wasn't on the ballot because Democrats had agreed not to campaign in the state after the DNC penalized the state party for holding the primary earlier than allowed. The DNC also punished Florida, which Clinton also won, for the same reason. Clinton badly needs the delegates from Florida and Michigan to have any hope of catching Obama in the delegate count. UPDATE: At the Detroit rally, Clinton said millions of Democrats would be disenfranchised if the two states' delegates aren't seated. "I think that's wrong and frankly un-American," she said. "We can't let that continue. Every voice should have the chance to be heard, and every vote counted." Clinton sought to compare the dispute to the fight for voting rights during the 1960s. She said one reason that Democrats will have a historic nominee -- either the first woman or the first African-American -- is because that struggle was successful.

Analysis: Obama goes beyond generalities on race Posted by James F. Smith March 18, 2008 03:08 PM By Peter S. Canellos, Globe Staff PHILADELPHIA -- After a year of speaking of racial reconciliation in mostly hopeful, uplifting terms, Barack Obama today offered a fuller, deeper, and more personal testament to the nation's tormented racial history and how to begin to overcome it. The speech had greater weight and specificity than his usual stump speech, and made fewer promises as it wrestled with the legacy of his former pastor and his inflammatory rhetoric. It suggested that an Obama administration would be a time of grappling with difficult and sometimes unpleasant issues rather than conjuring great visions. For some voters, the speech might serve to remove the glow of optimism surrounding Obama's candidacy; but for many others, it could make him a more realistic president. Like Mitt Romney's address on his Mormon faith last year, Obama's speech was delivered in a presidential setting -- in the very shadow of Independence Hall -- and invoked common values and historic truths; it showcased Obama more as a national teacher, a role that particularly flatters him, rather than simply an eloquent speaker. As such, it added gravitas to a candidacy that some have found superficial; and it also served to quell the controversy-of-the-moment over Obama's long association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the pastor whose statements Obama condemned in no uncertain terms while offering a reasonable explanation for why he's sticking by his church and its former minister. "I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community," said Obama. "I can no more disown him than I can disown my white grandmother." Starting with a reference to slavery as the country's original sin, Obama aimed for a Lincolnesque tone. Lincoln is frequently cited as a model of presidential leadership and invoked as a figure of reconciliation. But few have tried to capture Lincoln's almost mournful tone of parsing painful issues, piece by piece, in reference to timeless principles -- speeches that were meant to be printed and passed around rather than delivered on the stump and posted on YouTube. "For the African-American community, that path [to a more perfect union] means embracing the burdens of our past without becoming victims of our past," Obama said. "It means continuing to insist on a full measure of justice in every aspect of American life. But it also means binding our particular grievances – for better health care, and better schools, and better jobs - to the larger aspirations of all Americans. . . ``In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.'' Obama provided a coda that tied this ongoing struggle to his politics of hope -- suggesting that the benefit of all this hard work will take the form of unified action on priorities such as health care and housing that challenge all Americans. But this speech will be remembered as the moment that Obama got a little more down and dirty, and grounded his candidacy in serious mechanics of governance. He tried to take apart the engine and get some grease on his hands rather than just pat the hood. This wasn't the gauzy vision of diversity draped in tapestry metaphors and colored in rainbow hues: It was a nation confronting its sins and overcoming its deeply held fears and prejudices. "We have a choice in this country . . .," Obama said. "We can tackle race only as spectacle – as we did in the OJ trial – or in the wake of tragedy . . . We can play Reverend Wright’s sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words. We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporter as evidence that she’s playing the race card . . .Or, at this moment, in this election, we can come together and say, “Not this time." For perhaps the first time in the 2008 campaign, Obama presented a big problem as something to be confronted by average people -- the aggrieved white worker, the black person fuming about injustice -- who are part of his own political constituency. There was no corporation or lobbyist or rival politician in the picture. The question -- for Obama, as well as his legions of hopeful supporters -- is whether those average Americans will give him the answer he wants.

Obama picks up 14 more delegates by James Oliphant Sen. Barack Obama picked up 14 new delegates yesterday, widening his lead over Sen. Hillary Clinton even as the Clinton campaign maintained the race was in a dead heat. Obama grabbed nine delegates in Iowa as the majority of John Edwards' delegates were awarded to him. And late Saturday night, he added five delegates in California. According to the Associated Press, Obama now enjoys a 119-delegate advantage over Clinton. The delegate count was a central focus of Sunday's "Meet the Press" on NBC. The news program featured Rep. Nita Lowey, a Clinton supporter, and former Sen. Bill Bradley, who backs Obama. Lowey focused on a core Clinton argument, that because Clinton has won more key states, she is more electable than Obama. "Now, you and I know that no one, since 1960, has won the presidency without winning Iowa. We know you have to win Iowa, we have to win Pennsylvania, you have to win Florida. There are key states that are critical to getting the number of votes in the electoral college," Lowey said. "And I think right now, frankly, it's a tie, and I would hope . . . that between now and the time we go to the convention, we can have a really constructive discussion [about the issues]." Bradley countered that if Obama has the most delegates at the time of the convention, he should be the nominee. "Barack Obama has more delegates, more votes, he's won more states. Last night in Iowa he won 10 more votes. If you take what happened in Mississippi and Wyoming, he won more net delegates in those two races than Senator Clinton did in Ohio and Texas combined," Bradley said. "So I clearly think that we're heading into a period where, certainly, after last night, she's got to win more than 60 percent of all the remaining -- all the remaining states." The contentious subject of what to do about Florida and Michigan came up. Not surprisingly, Bradley echoed the position of the Obama camp, saying, in effect that because the Democratic party in those states broke the rules, they shouldn't be seated. Or if they are, the delegates should be split 50-50. Moderator Tim Russert quoted Clinton saying in October about Michigan: "You know, it's clear, this election they are having in Michigan is not going to count for anything." Last week, Clinton said she believed the results in Michigan should indeed count. Lowey responded to Russert by saying that if Democrats had any hope of winning the general election, voters in Michigan and Florida should not be disenfranchised.

It's because you get the story from the end, this awful action was just an reaction for what the zionists criminals doing.

No one get afraid, I know that USA citizens having a good strong stomach and an extraordinary nerve system.;)

Obama Wins Mississippi Democratic Race By JERRY ESTILL – 1 hour ago WASHINGTON (AP) — With a six-week breather before the next primary, Hillary Rodham Clinton turned her attention to Pennsylvania and beyond to counter the latest in a string of victories by Barack Obama in Southern states with large black voting blocs. Obama won roughly 90 percent of the black vote in Mississippi on Tuesday, but only about one-quarter of the white vote. That was similar to the breakdown that helped him win South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana before losing to Clinton in Texas and Ohio, which has similar voter demographics to neighboring Pennsylvania. "We have now basically recovered whatever delegates we may have lost in Texas and Ohio, and we have a substantial lead," Obama said Wednesday morning during a round of television network interviews. Maggie Williams, Clinton's campaign manager, congratulated Obama on his victory in a written statement. "Now we look forward to campaigning in Pennsylvania and around the country," Williams said. Obama, in claiming his victory in Mississippi, said he expects to be the Democratic nominee and "the party is going to be unified." Clinton was attending a presidential forum in Washington on Wednesday. Obama planned to be in his hometown of Chicago. With 99 percent of the vote counted, Obama had 61 percent to 37 percent for Clinton. Republican Sen. John McCain, who has already won enough delegates to claim the GOP nomination, rolled up 79 percent of the vote in Mississippi. Obama picked up at least 17 of Mississippi's 33 delegates to the Democratic National Convention, with five more to be awarded. He hoped for a win sizable enough to erase most if not all of Clinton's 11-delegate gain from last week, when she won three primaries. The Illinois senator had 1,596 delegates to 1,484 for Clinton. It takes 2,025 to win the nomination. With neither appearing able to win enough delegates through primaries and caucuses to claim the nomination, the importance of nearly 800 elected officials and party leaders who will attend the national convention as unelected superdelegates is increasing. Obama leads Clinton among pledged delegates, 1,385-1,237 in The Associated Press count, while the former first lady has an advantage among superdelegates, 247-211. Blacks, who also supported Obama in overwhelming numbers in earlier primaries, accounted for roughly half the ballots cast in Mississippi, according to interviews with voters leaving polling places. About one in six Democratic primary voters were independents, and Clinton and Obama split their support. Another 10 percent of voters were Republican, and they preferred Clinton by a margin of 3-1. Exit polls showed blacks accounted for a majority of the ballots in all but Louisiana, where they represented a plurality. Obama's share of the black vote in those states ranged from 78 percent in South Carolina to 88 percent in Georgia, while Clinton won the white vote with ease. Other than Pennsylvania, the remaining primaries are in Indiana, North Carolina, West Virginia, Kentucky, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Montana and South Dakota.

Victor R. Caivano / Associated Press Supporters of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero celebrate at the Socialist party headquarters in Madrid. Prime Minister Zapatero wins reelection, but his party fails to gain an outright majority. That could hamper his government. By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer MADRID -- Spaniards on Sunday reelected Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and the ruling Socialist Workers Party, turning out in large numbers after an acrimonious campaign that accented deep divisions in Spanish society. But the Socialists defeated the right-wing Popular Party by a narrow margin and fell short of gaining an absolute majority in the lower house of parliament. That could hamper their ability to govern and foreshadow another four-year term possibly as contentious as the one coming to an end. Waving red-and-white party flags and chanting the name of their leader, jubilant Socialists celebrated outside their party headquarters in Madrid and across the country. Spain's last national elections, in 2004, came three days after the country suffered continental Europe's deadliest terrorist attack. "The Spanish people have spoken clearly," Zapatero said in a victory speech to the crowd. "They have agreed that it is time to open a new era, a new era without the hostilities, an era that excludes confrontation and seeks agreement." A politician not known for his charisma, Zapatero, 47, beamed as he pledged to pursue the liberal social reforms that he launched in his first term but to also "correct mistakes," offering "a firm hand, but an outstretched hand." He stood behind a huge red lectern in the shape of a Z, for Zapatero. The prime minister opened his remarks by paying homage to the five people killed by Basque separatists during his government, including a Socialist activist shot to death less than 48 hours before the election. At the Popular Party headquarters, supporters were as noisy as if they had won. The party's prime ministerial candidate, Mariano Rajoy, and other party leaders conceded defeat but pledged to continue waging a sharp opposition. Despite its loss, the Popular Party won more seats than it did in the last election, which allowed supporters a measure of hope. "Everyone knows what we believe," Rajoy said from the balcony of his party headquarters. "Everyone knows the values we defend. We will rise to the circumstances." The Socialists won 169 seats in the 350-seat lower house, five more than in 2004 but seven short of the absolute majority that would have eased their ability to govern. With 154 seats, six more than last time, the Popular Party remains a major force. With a once-robust economy starting to sour and a resurgence in political violence, turnout was high for Sunday's vote. Election officials said more than 75% of the 35 million eligible voters cast ballots, equaling the turnout in 2004, when train bombings by Islamic militants drove people, especially first-time voters, to the polls in near-record numbers. At the time, many voters were furious with the then-ruling Popular Party for attempting to blame the attacks on Basque separatists even as evidence pointed to Islamic militants. Voters also sought to punish the government for involving Spain in the U.S.-led Iraq war, which the overwhelming majority of the country opposed. Spain's left and right have been badly polarized since. On Sunday, one common theme ran among voters on both ends of the ideological spectrum. Several people interviewed after they cast their ballots said they wanted a more civil political atmosphere in which leaders worked to find compromise rather than attack one another endlessly -- the kind of destructive standoff that has characterized the last few years of government. "I'd like to see a new legislature in which they don't go after each other like attack dogs," said Ignacio Fernandez, 42, a bespectacled college professor who voted for the Socialists in his funky Madrid neighborhood of Lavapies. Support for the Socialist Party was strong in Lavapies, an area of immigrants and the working class with patches of gentrification. "Spain is a more modern country under the Socialists," Fernandez added. His mother-in-law, Maria Teresa Gomez Baez, 66, a retired child-care worker, agreed. "The laws used to be very machista," she said. She praised the government's advances in family leave and support for women in the workplace. Few complained about immigration, even though the Popular Party sought to make it a major campaign issue. In a sunny Lavapies plaza Sunday, elderly Spaniards in wool coats and plaid berets sat on a bench, while young Latin Americans and Africans played with their children. Across town in the upscale Salamanca neighborhood, where streets are cleaner and buildings regal, support for the Popular Party -- or, at least, opposition to the Socialists -- was firm. Three generations of the Olivares family arrived to vote at a school on Goya Street, eager to defeat the Socialists. "They make us, good practicing Catholics, feel like odd birds," said Laura Olivares, 31, a bank manager. Antonio Lorente, 71, a retired jeweler, said the Socialist government had made grave errors, such as negotiating secretly with the Basque separatist group ETA. He hoped the Popular Party would prevail and "cure" Spain. But his 38-year-old daughter, Maria Lorente, said she was disgusted with the lot. "All of the parties are alike," she said. "They have to change. There is too much confrontation and no one knows how to collaborate." She voted for a small alternative party that was running for the first time. Zapatero will have to make deals with other smaller parties to push through his legislative agenda as he faces daunting problems with the economy and regional tensions. Inflation and unemployment are rising; the construction sector that gave jobs to tens of thousands of Spaniards and immigrants has all but collapsed. "Zapatero is going to lean on a difficult mixed group in order to govern," Angel Exposito, editor of the conservative ABC newspaper, said Sunday night. "It is a complicated collage, and he will have to depend in great measure on a pretty atomized group."

McCain to visit Israel next week Hoping to garner support among Jewish voters, Republican presidential candidate to arrive in Israel on March 18, meet with Olmert, Livni and Barak Yitzhak Benhorin Published: 03.09.08, 07:33 / Israel News WASHINGTON – Republican presidential candidate John McCain will arrive in Israel on March 18 as part of a delegation of senators visiting the region. The schedule for the trip has not been released yet, but it is expected to be a brief, one-day visit during which McCain will meet with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. According to US sources, the trip is aimed at boosting support for McCain among Jewish voters in the US. McCain has already declared that he plans to attend Israel's 60th anniversary celebrations this year. The republican candidate is considered a staunch supporter of Israel, and his visit to the country is expected to further boost his pro-Israeli image. McCain visited Israel about six months ago, but at the time his prospects for winning the republican race seemed less than promising. While in Israel, he met with Olmert and Livni. Roni Sofer and Itamar Eichner contributed to the report

I'm Egyption as you know so I can't vote, I just owning a hope and this hope just wiped when Ron Paul get out from the presidential race. I considered him a real hope for Middle East.

Reuters Politics Summary Obama wins Democratic contest in Wyoming WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama beat rival Hillary Clinton in Wyoming's nominating contest on Saturday, bouncing back from a string of losses that gave Clinton new life in their hotly contested presidential battle. Obama's victory in the nominating caucus in sparsely populated Wyoming slowed Clinton's momentum after she won three of four contests on Tuesday in their tight duel for the right to face Republican John McCain in November's presidential election. Democrats take high-profile Republican district CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Democrat captured on Saturday an Illinois U.S. House of Representatives seat that had been a Republican stronghold, in a symbolic blow to President George W. Bush's party ahead of November elections. Returns showed physicist and businessman Bill Foster beating dairy owner Jim Oberweis by 52 percent to 48 percent of the vote in the district that had been held by former House Speaker Dennis Hastert for more than two decades. Obama aide quits over Clinton "monster" comment CHICAGO (Reuters) - A foreign policy adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama resigned on Friday after calling campaign rival Hillary Clinton a "monster" during an interview with a British newspaper. Samantha Power, a foreign policy aide on the Illinois senator's White House campaign, said the comments were inexcusable. They were published on Friday by The Scotsman newspaper. Wyoming, land of firsts for women, tough on Clinton CHEYENNE, Wyoming (Reuters) - With a long history of firsts in women's rights, Wyoming would seem to be a state primed to put its stamp on the presidential aims of Sen. Hillary Clinton, but experts say that doesn't seem likely. They are predicting the western state of just 59,000 registered Democrats will back Clinton's rival, Sen. Barack Obama, in Saturday's presidential nominating caucuses. It has backed Republicans in the past 10 presidential elections.

Clinton Wins Ohio, Texas; McCain Clinches Republican Nomination By Cindy Saine Washington 05 March 2008 Senator Hillary Clinton scored crucial primary wins Tuesday in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island, reviving her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. But her opponent, Senator Barack Obama, has more pledged delegates and says he still expects to be the nominee. Republican Senator John McCain clinched his party's nomination. VOA Correspondent Cindy Saine reports from Washington. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton acknowledges supporters during Columbus, Ohio rally 04 mar 2008 As the dust settles from Tuesday's Democratic primaries, the party faces the reality of a long and likely contentious battle for its presidential nomination. Senator Hillary Clinton's wins extend the race until Pennsylvania's primary in late April and possibly all the way to the nominating convention in late August. Clinton ended her losing streak of 12 straight defeats in caucuses and primaries to Senator Barack Obama, and told voters Tuesday in Ohio their state is known for picking presidential winners. "This nation is coming back and so is this campaign," she said. Senator Obama had hoped to deliver Senator Clinton a knock-out blow by winning Ohio and Texas, but he came away with only a win in Vermont. Texas has both a primary and a caucus. Clinton narrowly won the primary, but caucus results are still being counted. They will determine the number of delegates each candidate wins. Senator Barack Obama speaks during rally San Antonio Texas, 04 Mar 2008 Obama has a lead of about 90 pledged delegates. He told told the CBS News Early Show that he has won more states, more of the popular vote and more delegates. "Senator Clinton has tried to cherry pick which states she thinks are important," he said. " But what we know is at the end of the day, we feel confident that we are going to have a strong delegate lead and we will have a strong claim on the nomination." Asked on the same morning television show whether she and Obama might join forces as the presidential and vice presidential candidates on the same ticket in November, Clinton replied: "Of course we have to decide who is on the top of the ticket." The next nominating contests are in Wyoming this Saturday and in Mississippi on Tuesday. Senator John McCain, wife Cindy react to news he has won enough delegates to be named Republican presidential nominee in Dallas, Texas, 04 Mar 2008 It was a night of quiet triumph for Republican Senator John McCain, whose campaign had been prematurely declared "finished" months ago. Speaking in Texas, McCain thanked his supporters. "Thank you Texas, Ohio, Vermont, and Rhode Island," he said. His main remaining rival, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, bowed out of the race, pledging support for McCain. The senator from Arizona, considered a maverick by some conservative Republicans, will shortly receive a formal endorsement from President Bush at the White House. McCain told his supporters Tuesday the contest for the White House in November has now begun, and that he will present himself as the candidate best able to keep America safe from terror attacks.

Author says Holocaust story is false By MELISSA TRUJILLO The Associated Press BOSTON – Almost nothing Misha Defonseca wrote about herself or her horrific childhood during the Holocaust was true. She didn't live with a pack of wolves to escape the Nazis. She didn't trek 1,900 miles across Europe in search of her deported parents, nor kill a German soldier in self-defense. She's not even Jewish. Defonseca, a Belgium writer now living in Massachusetts, admitted through her lawyers this week that her best-selling book, "Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years," was an elaborate fantasy she kept repeating, even as the book was translated into 18 languages and made into a feature film in France. "This story is mine. It is not actually reality, but my reality, my way of surviving," Defonseca said in a statement given by her lawyers to The Associated Press. "I ask forgiveness to all who felt betrayed. I beg you to put yourself in my place, of a 4-year-old girl who was very lost," the statement said. Defonseca, 71, has an unlisted number in Dudley, about 50 miles southwest of Boston. Her husband, Maurice, told The Boston Globe on Thursday that she would not comment. Defonseca wrote in her book that Nazis seized her parents when she was a child, forcing her to wander the forests and villages of Europe alone for four years. She claimed she found herself trapped in the Warsaw ghetto and was adopted by a pack of wolves that protected her. Her two Brussels-based lawyers said the author acknowledged her story was not autobiographical. In the statement, Defonseca said she never fled her home in Brussels during the war to find her parents. Defonseca says her real name is Monique De Wael and that her parents were arrested and killed by Nazis as Belgian resistance fighters. The statement said her parents were arrested when she was 4 and she was taken care of by her grandfather and uncle. She said she was poorly treated by her adopted family, called a "daughter of a traitor" because of her parents' role in the resistance, which she said led her to "feel Jewish." She said there were moments when she "found it difficult to differentiate between what was real and what was part of my imagination." Pressure on the author to defend the accuracy of her book had grown in recent weeks, after the release of evidence found by Sharon Sergeant, a genealogical researcher in Waltham. Sergeant said she found clues in the unpublished U.S. version of the book, including Defonseca's maiden name "De Wael" – which was changed in the French version – and photos. After a few months of research, she found Defonseca's Belgium baptismal certificate and school record, as well as information that showed her parents were members of the Belgian resistance. "Each piece was plausible, but the difficulty was when you put it all together," Sergeant said. Others also had doubts. "I'm not an expert on relations between humans and wolves, but I am a specialist of the persecution of Jews, and they (Defonseca's family) can't be found in the archives," Belgian historian Maxime Steinberg told RTL television. "The De Wael family is not Jewish nor were they registered as Jewish." Defonseca's attorneys, siblings Nathalie and Marc Uyttendaele, contacted the author last weekend to show her evidence published in the Belgian daily Le Soir, which also questioned her story. "We gave her this information and it was very difficult. She was confronted with a reality that is different from what she has been living for 70 years," Nathalie Uyttendaele said.

Just for Now- Imogen Heap

Paul Wins, Upset Brewing In TX 23? By Josh Kraushaar (The Politico) Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) handily defeated his Republican rival, Friendswood City Councilman Chris Peden, in tonight’s primary and will be heading back to Congress for another term. With 70 percent of precincts reporting, Paul leads Peden by a 70 percent to 30 percent margin. Paul had drawn fire from conservatives in the district for his strident opposition to the Iraq war during his long-shot presidential bid. But Peden ultimately wasn’t able to raise enough money and organize effectively to end up mounting a serious enough challenge. In another contested Republican primary in Texas, Bexar County Commissioner Lyle Larson is headed to an upset victory over self-funded attorney Quico Canseco despite being outspent by a significant margin. Larson leads Canseco by a 63 percent to 37 percent margin with 53 percent of the vote reporting. The GOP winner faces freshman Rep. Ciro Rodriguez (D-Texas), who is one of the top Republican targets for the fall.

The Champion out:bigcry: Any team can win now;)

Clinton wins could trump Obama delegate edge 03-04) 04:00 PST Washington - -- On the eve of the Democrats' second Super Tuesday, polling is so close in both Texas and Ohio that the Clinton and Obama campaigns are preparing their own spin on what will matter when the nation wakes up Wednesday morning: Will it be math or momentum? On the math side, it is a certainty that Sen. Barack Obama's lead in pledged delegates, at least 151, according to the Associated Press, after 11 straight victories last month, most of them by wide margins, is so wide that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton cannot catch up with anything less than blowout victories in the 60-40 percent range in both states. On the momentum side, however, if Clinton wins both states, even narrowly, she could blunt Obama's momentum and generate some of her own. Headlines will declare a Clinton victory in two giant states, lifting some of the pressure on her from party leaders to exit the race. Obama's best chance for a knockout blow is Texas, where polls have given him a slight edge. "Obama, to stop her, really has to win one of the two big states. Then the delegate math does take over," said Tad Devine, a top strategist for the Al Gore and John Kerry presidential campaigns. But if Clinton wins both, she is likely to stay in the race. "Even if the math works in Obama's favor, if he loses two big states, I don't think that's how you win the nomination," Devine said. "You don't win the nomination by losing. You have to win the nomination by winning, or at least splitting ... I think it's going to be incumbent on Obama to win one of those big states if he wants the race to end tomorrow." Seeming to concede that Clinton could win the popular vote in both states, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said the race hinges instead on "the cold hard reality of the math." There are 370 pledged delegates, the kind chosen by voters, at stake Tuesday in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont. Even if Clinton ekes out victories in all four, she cannot begin to close the delegate gap because delegates are awarded based on vote shares. A close outcome will distribute the delegates nearly evenly in each state. "If we can come out of Tuesday night's contests with a pledged delegate lead still healthy in our favor, and we're able to maintain or even build on it, I think that's going to be a major event in the nomination fight," Plouffe said. A close Clinton victory is "simply not good enough," he said, and will require "more creative math and tortured explanations" to conceive a path to the nomination. For the Clinton campaign, Tuesday's votes are all about momentum: ending Obama's string of huge victories, generating a long-overdue win and allowing her to fight on to the Pennsylvania primary seven weeks away, hoping that Obama implodes in the meantime. That breather would give Clinton time to press the hard-hitting attacks that seek to generate "buyer's remorse" among Obama supporters by undermining Obama's credibility on national security, trade and his relationship with Chicago real estate developer Tony Rezko, whose racketeering trial has begun. "We expect that by Wednesday morning, the momentum of Sen. Obama will be significantly blunted and new questions will be raised about whether he is the right nominee for our party," said top Clinton strategist Mark Penn. "If we wake up Wednesday and Sen. Clinton wins Ohio and Texas, we have a whole new ballgame here," said Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson. Clinton has watched her double-digit leads in both states vanish over the last two weeks, but her campaign said internal polling shows votes breaking her way. She would add two more big-state victories to her ledger, along with California, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts. Ohio is critical in general elections, narrowly swinging for President Bush 2004. A Clinton win might persuade some super delegates - the elected and party officials who make up 20 percent of the 2,025 delegates needed to win the nomination - to stop jumping from Clinton's ship and allow her to continue the race. By the same token, Clinton will be out of the race if she loses both Ohio and Texas and will find it all but impossible to continue if she loses one. The candidates are likely to split the two smaller states, as Clinton is ahead in Rhode Island and Obama in Vermont. Garry South, a veteran Democratic strategist who once worked for California Gov. Gray Davis, said he voted for Clinton and feels bad for her but that Obama's advantage even now is overwhelming. "The fact is, Barack Obama has been winning (earlier) states, not barely, but 2 to 1, 3 to 1," said South. "If she turns around and wins a close victory in Texas and Ohio, that doesn't change the momentum of the race" or flip Clinton's delegate count, in which South said she is "getting killed" by proportional delegate allocation. "Look, I'm a world class spinner myself," South said. "I've had to spin myself in and out of all kinds of campaign situations over my 36 years in this business, but there comes a point where you can't spin away the facts." Even if Clinton wins Texas and Ohio, however, she faces a tough calendar strikingly similar to the one she confronted after tying Obama on Super Tuesday Feb 5. This time the wait for another big primary is even longer: seven weeks, not four, until Pennsylvania, with its 158 delegates and blue-collar base, where Clinton holds a large but declining lead. In between is a Wyoming caucus Saturday, exactly the kind of red-state, rally-style contest where Obama has a proven advantage. A week after tomorrow comes Mississippi, whose large African American population looks to be in Obama's pocket. Though after Tuesday, there are still 611 delegates up for grabs in the remaining contests that end in June in Puerto Rico, many Democrats are eager for the rivalry to end so they can begin focusing on likely Republican nominee John McCain. Others worry that the sharply escalating negative attacks provide fodder for Republicans, who for now can sit back and let Democrats attack each other. Some top superdelegates have begun to call for the race to end. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said Sunday that whoever is ahead in pledged delegates after Tuesday should be the nominee. Neither candidate can win the Democratic nomination on pledged delegates alone, thanks to the proportional allocation of delegates. "Some superdelegates might see (wins by Clinton today) as persuasive enough to take the pressure off of her to drop out," said Bruce Buchanan, a political scientist at the University of Texas in Austin. "They might then say, 'Go ahead and go through Pennsylvania, we won't gang up on you and attempt to get you to quit,' as was happening over the last week." Clinton's negative attacks, and Obama's aggressive responses, have escalated in the last few days, but experts say they do not feel they have crossed the line to be damaging to either candidate. If anything, they may be toughening Obama, who has enjoyed positive press coverage and comparatively little scrutiny. "These are charges that certainly would come out in a general election against either of these two candidates," South said. "And they better damn well be prepared to deal with them in the fall. One of the ways you do that is by having to fend off these kinds of charges during the primary election campaign." John Gilliom, a political scientist at Ohio University, said the candidates are still in a healthy process of "checking for glass jaws." Voters "want to know what Sen. Obama's answers are on the various questions she's been asking," he said. "They're going to be asked in a lot tougher way later on."

Clinton Aims to Push Beyond Ohio and Texas By JACKIE CALMES March 4, 2008 AUSTIN, Texas -- Hillary Clinton faces the judgment of Texas and Ohio voters today in what she and her backers have declared "must win" contests, following 11 straight losses to Barack Obama. The big question: What constitutes a "win"? If the New York senator gets large majorities of the popular vote in both states, she will clearly keep fighting for the Democratic nomination, at least until the next major primary in Pennsylvania on April 22. If she loses both, she will face tremendous pressure to drop out of the race. The latest polls suggest, however, that the outcome is likely to be muddier than either of those scenarios. The surveys show Sen. Clinton with a solid, even expanding, lead in Ohio. In Texas, two polls released yesterday, show Sen. Obama with a slight lead, while a third puts Sen. Clinton somewhat ahead. Texas's results will be complicated by separate caucuses held after the primary polls close. Sen. Obama is favored to win the caucuses even if he loses the primary. Should the senators split the states' contests -- or if Sen. Clinton wins, but only by narrow margins -- the debate will turn to how to interpret the results. Two smaller states, Rhode Island and Vermont, also vote today. Clinton aides have started to imply that even just one big win today would allow her to claim she had broken Sen. Obama's momentum, justifying a continuing competition. If the outcomes are as close as polls suggest, Sen. Clinton won't be able to cut into Sen. Obama's lead in delegates to the Democrats' August nominating convention. The more likely net result from the four states is that his edge will grow. The Illinois senator currently is ahead with 1,386 delegates to 1,276 for Sen. Clinton, as calculated by the Associated Press. A candidate needs 2,025 to secure the nomination. Meanwhile, Arizona Sen. John McCain is expected to win enough delegates in Texas and Ohio to formally claim the Republican nomination. He needs 177 to secure a majority, or about two-thirds of the 265 delegates at stake today. Obama campaign manager David Plouffe predicted Sen. Clinton would end the day having failed to make up her shortfall in delegates. "There's a lot of smoke screens going on right now and then there's the cold, hard reality of the math," he said yesterday. The Clinton campaign is greatly dialing down expectations from nearly a month ago, when she first declared that big wins in the Ohio and Texas contests would put her on the march to nomination. "We expect on Wednesday the momentum of Sen. Obama will be significantly blunted and new questions will be posed as to whether he is the right candidate for the Democratic Party," said Mark Penn, Sen. Clinton's chief strategist, in a conference call with reporters. "Then this nomination will go straight to the convention." Sen. Clinton, asked yesterday in Toledo how she would measure success today, said, "Winning." Noting the tight races in Ohio and Texas, she added: "Let's wait and actually let people vote before we start commenting on something that hasn't happened yet." Broader Doubts The Clinton campaign has done its best in recent days to raise questions about Sen. Obama's readiness to be commander in chief and his association with Chicago businessman Tony Rezko, who went on trial this week in a fraud case that doesn't involve the senator. In Ohio, Sen. Clinton also has sought to stoke broader doubts about Sen. Obama's trustworthiness by questioning just how strongly he opposes the North American Free Trade Agreement that many in the state blame for widespread job losses. After the two-month grind through primaries and caucuses, party strategists agree that neither Sen. Clinton nor Sen. Obama can reach the majority needed to clinch the nomination solely with pledged delegates. The winning margin will have to come from among 795 superdelegates -- the Democratic members of Congress, governors and party officials nationwide who can support whomever they choose. While Sen. Clinton began with a big edge among superdelegates, Sen. Obama has cut deeply into it in recent weeks as many superdelegates followed the lead of voters in their states. Texas has 193 pledged delegates at stake, while Ohio has 141. Delegate-apportionment rules in both states tend to favor Sen. Obama, meaning he may win more delegates even if he loses the popular vote. The two states give the most delegates to areas that have had high Democratic turnout in recent elections. Those tend to be districts with electorates heavy in young, liberal and African-American voters -- groups that are the base of Sen. Obama's support. Of the two smaller states also voting today, Sen. Clinton is hopeful of winning in Rhode Island, while Sen. Obama is expected to win overwhelmingly in more liberal and less working-class Vermont. His delegate margin there could exceed any margin Sen. Clinton might achieve in the bigger states. Another advantage for Sen. Obama: Voting in the Democratic primary in both Texas and Ohio is open also to independents and Republicans, who have tended to favor him in earlier contests. Texas not only holds a primary but also caucuses in the evening -- the "Texas two-step," as Sen. Clinton termed it yesterday. One-third of its delegates will be awarded based on the caucus results. Democrats can't participate in Texas's caucuses unless they show proof of having voted in the earlier primary. Sen. Obama, with his energetic young volunteers, has won nearly every caucus to date. Anticipating that Sen. Clinton could win the Texas primary but lose the caucuses, her advisers indicated on the call with reporters yesterday they may revive their past argument that caucuses are less representative than primary elections. For example, they note, people with night jobs can't participate, and Sen. Clinton has shown appeal among working-class voters. Sen. Clinton's campaign plane has been more crowded with reporters in recent days, with many aboard expecting to chronicle her final days. The candidate and her crowds in Ohio and Texas were energetic. Her audiences, however, left empty space in gyms and airport hangars in both states, while Sen. Obama's events continued to draw thousands. At the University of Toledo yesterday morning, the Clinton crowd was less than 1,000. Eight days earlier, Sen. Obama had drawn an estimated 10,000 to a larger field house at the campus, and fire marshals turned away several thousand more. Closing Argument In her closing argument to voters, Sen. Clinton emphasized her preparedness to be commander in chief and a steward of the struggling economy -- with the latter point more prominent in hard-hit Ohio, and the former in Texas. She told voters "to effectively consider this as a hiring decision." She spotlighted endorsements from several admirals and generals, and at each stop repeated the theme of a campaign television ad suggesting she -- not Sen. Obama -- was qualified to respond as president to a 3 a.m. phone call about a threat to the nation. "I don't want anybody in Youngstown taking a leap of faith on me," she said Sunday in that eastern Ohio city. At an event in Akron Sunday, 67-year-old Jeanette Poole said she was undecided, but the 3 a.m. ad "upset me" -- smacking of Republican-style attacks. "I don't like using the fear issue," she said. Still, Mrs. Poole left Sen. Clinton's speech leaning toward voting for her because "she sounded like her experience really would make a difference." The Obama campaign quickly countered with its own ad, using the Clinton ad's own footage, to argue that he would show the better judgment upon getting such an emergency call. The ad cites Sen. Obama's opposition to the war in Iraq. The candidates also stepped up their sparring over Nafta, the 1994 free-trade agreement with Mexico and Canada. Sen. Obama has linked Sen. Clinton to the accord, noting that Bill Clinton completed it as president. As Sen. Clinton's motorcade neared its destination outside Youngstown, a sign greeted her: "Remember the Shafta We Got From Nafta." But Sen. Clinton scored some points over reports, denied by the Obama camp, that Sen. Obama's chief economic adviser had reassured a Canadian official not to worry should the Illinois senator be elected president. Sen. Clinton called it "the old wink-wink, don't pay attention, this is just political rhetoric." In Akron, Rick Ewing, 49, attended the Clinton event there Sunday evening, though he had resolved to vote for Sen. Obama as "the more presidential." His wife, Terry Ewing, 49, remained undecided, even after Sen. Clinton's address. "It's going to come down to something intangible," she said, "like personality." --Amy Chozick contributed to this article.

Medvedev to take Russian presidency By DOUGLAS BIRCH, Associated Press Writer MOSCOW - Just hours after Russia elected a new president, the Kremlin sent two strong signals that it doesn't plan to back down from its pull-no-punches foreign policy — a coalition of pro-government youth groups marched on the U.S. Embassy and the state-controlled gas monopoly reduced gas supplies to Western-looking Ukraine. The decision to squeeze Ukraine and to use street protests to attack American foreign policy may be an early indication that Dmitry Medvedev, the president-elect, intends to continue the course set by his mentor, President Vladimir Putin — who has reasserted his country's power abroad while keeping a tight grip on society at home. Nearly final results — from 99.45 percent of precincts — showed that the 42-year-old Medvedev had received 70.2 percent of the vote, the head of the elections commission said Monday. Shortly after almost all the votes were counted, hundreds of young people marched through Moscow toward the U.S. embassy to criticize American policies in Kosovo, Iraq and the Muslim world. While they toed the Kremlin line, Gazprom, the Russian gas monopoly, made good on a promise to reduce gas supplies to Ukraine. In addition to serving as first deputy prime minister, Medvedev is chairman of Gazprom. Russia says the dispute over natural gas with Ukraine is strictly a financial one, a result of the alleged nonpayment by Ukraine for past gas deliveries. But the timing of the cutoff suggests a possible deeper motive: telling the world that despite his purported liberal leanings, Medvedev plans to rule with a firm hand — one perhaps guided by Putin himself. The last time Russia cut gas supplies to Ukraine was in January 2006 in a move widely seen as punishment for the Orange Revolution that blocked a Kremlin-backed candidate from gaining Ukraine's presidency. Since then, Russia has expressed continuing anger over Ukraine's attempts to join NATO and forge stronger links with the European Union. Chris Weafer, chief strategist for UralSib investment bank, said Medvedev may have been motivated by the need to appear tough in the face of Russia's dispute with Ukraine over gas payments. "He found himself in that situation," Weafer said. "He didn't want to be seen as backing down." Meanwhile, election observers from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, said Monday that unequal access to the media called into question the fairness of the vote. Andreas Gross, who led the 22-member mission, described Sunday's vote as a "reflection of the will of the electorate whose democratic potential unfortunately has not been tapped." Two of Medvedev's three challengers alleged there were violations and threatened to challenge the results in court. The influential Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe refused to send observers, saying restrictions imposed by Russian authorities monitors made it impossible to work in a meaningful way. The campaign was dominated by Medvedev, the Kremlin's favorite, who refused to debate his rivals or formally campaign but received the bulk of the television coverage. In the end, no one was surprised by the result. The liberal opposition alliance headed by former chess champion Garry Kasparov planned marches in cities around the country Monday. Riot police have used violence to break up similar marches in the past, and trucks of police were stationed early Monday near the square where the Moscow march was to begin. The main outstanding question was who would be calling the shots in Russia once Medvedev takes over and, as is widely expected, names Putin prime minister. The outside world will watch closely how the new leadership in Russia, with its immense oil and gas reserves, engages with global rivals and partners at a time of rising commodities prices. Most Russians expect the mild-mannered Medvedev to follow Putin's lead, at least at first. In his rhetoric, Medvedev has presented himself as a pro-business liberal and more Western-leaning face to the rest of the world. But he has also helped implement Putin's drive to give the Kremlin a near-monopoly on political power and energy resources. The teacher-pupil relationship will be tested after Medvedev's inauguration May 7. Medvedev has said he would propose making Putin his prime minister, and Putin has said he will accept the offer. But in Russia, the premier wields significantly less power than the president, and Putin may find his new chair confining. Gazprom's reduction of gas to Ukraine could be an early signal of Medvedev's foreign policy. Another early sign could come in July at the summit of the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations: If Putin goes alone or accompanies Medvedev, that could signal his reluctance to relinquish control. Some officials who know the quiet, unassuming Medvedev have said privately that he is tougher than his appearance and demeanor may suggest. Russian history also shows that rulers often like to get rid of those who backed their ascent to power. Medvedev's election was not a wide-open contest. Medvedev ran against three rivals apparently permitted on the ballot because of their loyalty to the Kremlin line. But Communist Party candidate Gennady Zyuganov and ultranationalist candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky still alleged violations after the voting ended. Zyuganov, Medvedev's nearest challenger with almost 18 percent in the nearly complete results, said he would dispute the result. Zhirinovsky, with 9 percent, threatened to do so as well. Liberal opposition leaders Kasparov and Mikhail Kasyanov were barred from running after authorities decided they had not met the strict requirements for gaining a spot on the ballot. Voters across Russia say they were being urged, cajoled and pressured to vote in an effort to ensure that Medvedev scored a major victory.

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