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Blog The Vote-Presidential Candidates Comment on the Virginia Tech Massacre 2007-04-16 22:25:00 As news came in from Virginia
Tech University, the Presidential
candidates began to release statements concerning the shooting. I feel that gun control will become another hot button campaign issue.Rudy Giuliani"On this day of national tragedy, when we lost some of our finest to a senseless act, we stand together as a country to mourn those who lost their lives. "My thoughts and prayers continue to be with the survivors and the many friends, colleagues and family members of those who perished. May God bless them all." John McCain "I am shocked and saddened to hear the news of today's events. This inconceivable tragedy was a horrific act of cruelty that took the lives of so many innocent young people, cutting their lives short and inflicting tremendous pain on all of those who loved them. Read more:Candidates
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Virginia Tech Shooting 2007-04-16 14:34:00 Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and families of the Virgina Tech University shooting.The Politicians said on the floor of the Senate,"We pray for the students and faculty members and families of Virginia
Tech community, and do hope for a speedy recovery of the wounded," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, said. "And we pray that America can find the strength, which we will find, for overcome our grief and outrage, as we face yet another tragedy.""On behalf of this side of the aisle, let me offer my condolences for this unspeakable tragedy to which the majority leader has been referring, and join him in calling for a moment of silence," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, added.Be sure to check out, www.InformedStudents.BlogSpot.com for Daily Updates! Read more:Virginia Tech
Democrats Losing Support 2007-04-16 14:31:00 Support for the Democratic-controlled Congress has slipped eight points since January when Democrats
took control of the House and Senate, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll.In January, only 31 percent of Americans believed that the Democrats' policies were taking the country in the wrong direction, but in the new poll released Monday, this number has increased to 39 percent.Clashes over a wartime emergency spending bill and showdown over the dismissal of several U.S. attorneys are just two of the issues Congress and the White House sparred over.Be sure to check out, www.InformedStudents.BlogSpot.com for Daily Updates! Read more:Support
CNN Poll: Presidential races tighten on both sides 2007-04-16 14:06:00 Sen. John McCain has slashed Rudy Giuliani's double-digit lead by 10 points, but the GOP picture gets muddier if former Sen. Fred Thompson or former House Speaker Newt Gingrich enters the race, according to a CNN
poll gauging the popularity of 2008 presidential hopefuls. CNN.com reports.Be sure to check out, www.InformedStudents.BlogSpot.com for Daily Updates! Read more:Presidential
Blog The Vote-Barack Obama Calls for Imus Firing From Radio 2007-04-12 07:33:00 Democrat BarackObama
on Wednesday became the first presidential candidate to call for radio host Don Imus to be fired for making racially and sexually charged comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team. Read more here.Be sure to check out, www.InformedStudents.BlogSpot.com for Daily Updates! Read more:Radio
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CNN Reports: Fred Thompson has Lymphoma 2007-04-11 08:59:00 According to a source close to Fred Thompson
, Mr. Thompson has a treatable form of lymphoma, says CNN
.This can hurt his hope to run for President in 2008.UPDATE:The politico has the full story here.Be sure to check out, www.InformedStudents.BlogSpot.com for Daily Updates!
Video-The Politico: Rudy Giulliani Late Start 2007-04-11 07:31:00 Nicole Collins reports on Rudi Giuliani's late start in early voting states - where he leads in the polls despite his lack of social conservative valuesBe sure to check out, www.InformedStudents.BlogSpot.com for Daily Updates! Read more:Politico
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Blog The Vote- McCain on Iraq 2007-04-11 07:28:00 “Democrats, who deny our soldiers the means to prevent an American defeat, have chosen another road,” McCain
says in prepared remarks. “It may appear to be the easier course of action but it is a much more reckless one, and it earns them no credit even if it gives them an advantage in the next election. This is an historic choice, with ramifications for Americans not yet born.” The Politico has the full story here. Be sure to check out, www.InformedStudents.BlogSpot.com for Daily Updates! Read more:Iraq
Hillary Clinton's Iraq Vote 2007-04-10 06:28:00 The Presidential campaign has caused the candidates to reexamine their position on the war in Iraq
in the present tense and past tense. Sen. Barack Obama has said that he would not have voted for the war, if he were in the senate. Sen. John Edwards has written an op-ed in the Washington Post, in which he opens with the words "I was wrong." The question on Democratic primary voters is why hasn't Presidential front runner HillaryClinton
apologized for her vote.Sen. Clintons position for the past several months is that she made the right vote at the time. She said "My decision is influenced by my eight years of experience on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue in the White House, watching my husband deal with serious challenges to our nation. I want this president, or any future president, Read more:Hillary Clinton
Democrat vs. Democrat 2007-04-09 11:22:00 Sen. Carl Levin, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman appeared on ABC's "This Week." He went against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the Senate "will not stop paying for the Iraq war or relent from insisting that President Bush keep pressing the Baghdad government for a negotiated end to the violence," Sen. Levin said. Sen. Levin has spent the past few years arguing against the war and calling for a complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. Michael Crowley at The Plank believes the Senate Democrat
s are attempting to play to the multi-personalities that makes up the Democratic party. He says "Are Reid and Levin playing a game of good cop, bad cop? Reid stokes up the base while Levin covers the right flank?"I would have to agree with Mr. Crowley that the democrats are extremely di
Apologies for Slavery 2007-04-09 10:47:00 I do not want to sound crude when I discuss the new apologies for slavery, but when it was discussed on the New Republic I felt it was an important issue to discuss.I agree that individual state governments and the federal government should pass resolutions expressing regret and apologies for the institution of slavery. However, I have overheard some discussion of "slavery reparations," I disagree with this idea for one main reason. I do not believe that there is one living individual who was enslaved. Families are able to trace their lineage to former slaves, however they did not suffer and they therefore do not deserve to be paid for others suffering.Our country and government has larger problems, and handing out money to families of former slaves is not going to change anything. I perso Read more:Slavery
What to Make of "Underclassmen" Foreign Policy 2007-04-08 18:09:00 Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Syria seems to have started a chain of non-State Department officials directly engaging in foreign policy. Gov. Bill Richardson (D) has just gone to North Korea to claim the remains of American soliders from the Korean War (backed by the Bush administration unlike Pelosi's visit). Newt Gingrinch (R), former Speaker of the House, calls Pelosi's and Richardson's visit to these foreign nations dangerous. Breaking with tradition of letting the President's administration handle the foreign diplomacy, he says these leaders have begun to create their own foreign policy agenda for personal gain. While nothing bars them from engaging in talks with other nations, it certainly can demonstrate a divided US government, a sign of weakness to other foreign nations.Do you Read more:Foreign
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Political Cartoons 2007-04-04 23:47:00 Be sure to check out, www.InformedStudents.BlogSpot.com for Daily Updates! Read more:Cartoons
Political Cartoon 2007-03-29 08:15:00 Here is a link to my original post on the No Child Left Behind Act. What do you think?Be sure to check out, www.InformedStudents.BlogSpot.com for Daily Updates! Read more:Cartoon
Blog The Vote-Giuliani and Forbes 2007-03-28 14:43:00 Ryan Sager has the whole story here. The Giuliani
Campaign has been quiet for some time now. This deal with Forbes
will help Giuliani a lot in the long run.The connections that Steve Forbes has will help the campaign in the long run. He is fully integrated within the business world and this will help Giuliani achieve fundraising goals.This is a significant endorsement that will help the Giuliani campaignBe sure to check out, www.InformedStudents.BlogSpot.com for Daily Updates!
Spring Break: Congress goes to Cancun! 2007-03-28 09:17:00 Just kidding, but that would be funny to see Chuck Hagel and Nancy Pelosi on MTV's SpringBreak
. The war spending bill that the President has vowed to veto is going to have to wait till Congress
returns from Spring Break (Passover and Easter).Congress will reconvene April 16, however the funds the President has asked for are desperately needed. As well Congress is no longer debating those funds they are debating the pork that was laid on thick.The Politco says:The White House doesn't intend to accept the IOU quietly, accusing the Democratic-controlled Congress of skipping town before its work is done. "They should stick around until they send him a bill," White House spokesman Tony Fratto said. "You can be sure that we won't be shy about talking about that." And I would agree Democrats rea Read more:Cancun
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