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Dinner at Karl’s
By Ken Herman | Sunday, March 4, 2007, 09:39 PM
President Bush, a homebody who rarely goes out to eat, made a rare dinner venture out of the White House on Sunday night. Bush and the Mrs. motorcaded to the Washington home of longtime adviser Karl Rove and wife Darby.
The menu apparently included sausage and quail wings. We know this because Bill Sammon of the Washington Examiner, on pool duty for the dinner trip, sent an e-mail to Rove asking if he would send a doggy bag out to the vans in which the pool reporters were holding.
Ask and ye shall receive. Not long after the e-mail, somebody emerged and delivered the sausage and quail eggs.
“These were eagerly accepted,” Sammon graciously noted, “despite the fact that by now the pool was already scarfing down pepperoni-and-mushroom pizza from Domino’s.”
No word on whether Rove, known as something of a kitchen magician, prepared the president’s dinner.
Obama Tangles With Online Pervert
Photos of pol's daughters were posted on pedophile's web site
MARCH 4--Senator Barack Obama is threatening legal action against a self-described pedophile who has posted photos of the Democratic politician's young daughters on a web site that purports to handicap the 2008 presidential campaign by evaluating the "cuteness" of underage daughters and granddaughters of White House aspirants. In a February 26 letter to the web site's operator, an Obama lawyer demanded the removal of a photo of the Illinois senator's two daughters, noting that the image's inclusion on a site advocating pedophilia "is not simply defamatory, but is a criminal act." Robert Bauer, general counsel for Obama for America, also demanded that references to Obama and his family be scrubbed from the site and that a link to the candidate's web site also be removed. A copy of the Bauer letter can be found below. Responding to the legal demand, the site's owner, who identifies himself as Lindsay Ashford, deleted the photo of Obama's children, Malia, 8, and Sasha, 5. However, he continues to link to Obama's campaign web site and refer to the politician and his family, claiming that his comments are "laudatory," not defamatory. On his creepy web site, puellula.com, which is registered from a Panamanian address, Ashford notes that his Latin nickname translates to "lover of little girls." He claims to "have been bestowed with the gift of girllove. I have chosen to unmask here because I have a very strong conviction that I should not be forced to hide my sexual orientation."
In Selma, Obama Appeals to Black Voters
By NEDRA PICKLER
SELMA, Ala. (AP) - Barack Obama reached out to the civil rights generation Sunday on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march, saying the protesters helped pave the way for his campaign to become the first black president. He also urged blacks to take more personal responsibility.
"I stand on the shoulders of giants," the Democratic senator from Illinois told hundreds at a breakfast to commemorate the 42nd anniversary of the clash between voting rights demonstrators and police.
He was just 3 when police with billy clubs bloodied blacks who tried to cross the bridge out of Selma on the way to Montgomery, the capital. On his first visit to Selma, Obama was coming face-to-face with Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as the candidates seek support from the party's loyal black constituency.
Obama and Clinton, joined by the former president, planned to speak at the same time from pulpits three blocks apart. They also were to appear together at a rally before making the ceremonial walk to the Edmund Pettus Bridge to honor the Selma-to-Montgomery marches.
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In a call to action perhaps politically unfeasible for his white rivals to make, Obama said the current generation needs to honor the civil rights movement by taking responsibility for rejecting violence; cleaning up "40-ounce bottles" and other trash that litters urban neighborhoods; and voting in elections.
"How can it be that our voting rates dropped down to 30, 40, 50 percent when people shed their blood to allow us to vote?" Obama asked.
He criticized the Bush administration for opposing affirmative action and said blacks must fight for banks to reinvest in their communities and for more spending in their schools.
But, he added, parents also have to "turn off the television set and put away the Game Boy and make sure that you're talking to your teacher and that we get over the anti-intellectualism that exists in some of our communities where if you conjugate your verbs and if you read a book that somehow means you are acting white," he said.
The Selma civil rights demonstrations, Obama said, reverberated across the globe and helped inspire his father growing up in Kenya to aspire to something beyond his job herding goats. His father came to Hawaii to get an education under a program for African students and met Obama's mother, a fellow student from Kansas.
Obama said he was not surprised when it was reported this week that his white ancestors on his mother's side owned slaves. "That's no surprise in America," he said and added that his mother's family was inspired by the unity in the Selma marches.
"If it hasn't been for Selma, I wouldn't be here," Obama said. "This is the site of my conception. I am the fruits of your labor. I am the offspring of the movement. When people ask me if I've been to Selma before, I tell them I'm coming home."
At the breakfast, Obama got a key to the city and another to the county from a probate judge, Kim Ballard. "Forty-two years ago he might would have needed it because I understand it would open the jail cells," Ballard said. "But not today."
Other Democratic candidates are not leaving the black vote to Obama and Clinton.
John Edwards, the 2004 vice presidential nominee, was speaking about Selma and civil rights at the University of California, Berkeley.
"The fight for civil rights and equal rights and economic and social justice is more than just going to celebrations, even as wonderful as the one in Selma," Edwards said in remarks prepared for delivery later Sunday as he referred to Berkeley janitors' fight for a wage increase. "The fight is going on right here, right now."
Clinton's appeal among blacks is largely due to the popularity of her husband Bill - author Toni Morrisson once famously named him the "first black president."
Tracy Eatmon, 25, wore an Obama campaign T-shirt at the breakfast because, he said, the senator has the interest of young people in mind and would be a good representative of black leadership. Eatmon also likes Clinton and said he wished they would run together.
"I think Senator Clinton is also an excellent candidate, being the wife of Bill Clinton," said Eatmon, who is from Tuscaloosa, Ala.
At the First Baptist Church, a gathering place for protesters during the civil rights movement, Louretta Wimberly said it was only fitting that Obama and Clinton had come to Selma.
Waiting to hear Hillary Clinton's speech, the 74-year-old Wimberly, one of the first blacks to register to vote in Selma, said she had not settled on a candidate. "All I want to know is what they stand for," she said.
Diane Lee, 47, stood outside the church and held a "Hillary Clinton for President" sign. She said she twice voted for Bill Clinton and believes Hillary Clinton is the most qualified candidate in 2008.
"I don't vote because of the color of a person's skin. I vote for the person I think will do the best job," Lee said.
Earlier Sunday, Hillary Clinton spoke to about 100 current and former public officials, ministers, lobbyists and party stalwarts at a private, invitation-only breakfast in Montgomery.
"She doesn't sound like she's from the South, and she doesn't necessarily have that good ol' gal persona. But she came across today as a very warm, compassionate person," said one state party leader, Nancy Worley, a former secretary of state.
"You can't turn somebody into a Southerner who didn't grow up in the South like he (Bill Clinton) did. But she certainly did a good job showing her interest in people and her concern for people," Worley said.
Bill Clinton was being inducted Sunday afternoon into Selma's Voting Rights Hall of Fame. Hillary Clinton had intended to appear on his behalf.
But as plans were being finalized late Thursday for the dueling Obama-Clinton appearances, the Clinton campaign announced the former president would make the ceremony after all. His spotlight-stealing attendance marked the first time the couple campaigned together since Hillary Clinton announced she was running for president.
The former president's induction was to take place at the foot of bridge where police attacked the protesters on March 7, 1965. On that day, hundreds of marchers had begun to walk from the Brown Chapel AME Church - where Obama was to deliver the keynote address Sunday - despite a ban on protest marches by then-Gov. George Wallace.
The protesters made it six blocks before mounted troopers attacked them with billy clubs, tear gas and bullwhips while white onlookers cheered. U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., who at the time was an activist who helped organized the mark, suffered a fractured skull.
Thousands flocked to Selma in support of the marchers. Martin Luther King Jr. led a separate march to the bridge two days later. On March 21, 1965, after a federal court overturned Wallace's ban, King led the five-day march to the capital.
President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law on Aug. 6, 1965. President Bush extended it last summer.
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Romney gets the nod from CPAC
By Caroline Daniel in Washington
Published: March 4 2007 20:17 | Last updated: March 4 2007 20:17
Mitt Romney’s efforts to become the preferred candidate for social conservatives were rewarded at the weekend when he won a straw poll asking attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference who they thought was most likely to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2008.
Mr Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts, had faced scepticism at the conference amid charges that he had flip-flopped on some of the critical issues for conservatives, changing his stance on gay and abortion rights. The initial reception to his speech at the conference on Friday was far less enthusiastic than the rousing greeting for the celebrity figure of Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York.
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About a third of the 6,000 attendees at the three-day conference voted in the poll. Mr Romney won with 21 per cent of the vote, followed by Mr Giuliani, with 17 per cent. Senator John McCain, the only Republican presidential front-runner not to attend CPAC, languished in the poll, ranking fifth with 12 per cent.
Mr Romney’s campaign was the best organised at the conference. Dozens of students wearing blue Mitt Romney T shirts and carrying red Mitt Styrofoam baseball mitts were bussed in to encourage activists to vote in the poll. Even so, national polls have consistently shown Mr Romney as trailing in third place. His national campaign has appeared to stall as attention shifted to Mr Giuliani as his presidential ambitions have become clearer.
Unlike at the recent parade for the Democratic presidential candidates last month at the Democratic National Committee meeting, where the main preoccupation was to set out assertive stances on the Iraq war and for withdrawing troops, the Republican candidates largely avoided the subject, focusing instead on the need to win the war on terror.
Other than Mr McCain, the other notable missing figure at the conference was President George W. Bush.
Obama: Redistribute Anti-Terror Millions
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Printable FormatAssociated Press
By Nedra Pickler
WASHINGTON – Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama wants to change the government's formula for giving states money for homeland security, with the early voting states getting a little extra.
Obama wants states that have a bigger risk from the terrorist threat to get more of federal homeland security dollars - also a recommendation from the commission that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks. That's an unpopular idea among lawmakers from smaller states who would lose funding on the switch.
Currently, each state gets at least a .75 percent share of the roughly $900 million in the state homeland security grant program. The Senate bill would lower that to .45 percent, and Obama, the Illinois senator, is offering an amendment that would cut it to .25 percent. His office said it expects the Senate to consider the measure next week.
A memo by Obama's staff says the senator wants to "ensure the funding is allocated based on the threats states face, not politics."
But states with big political influence need not worry that they will get short shrift from the candidate's amendment.
The biggest benefactors would be Obama's Illinois and other heavily populated states, including White House rival Hillary Rodham Clinton's New York, which would each get more than $1 million in extra funding under Obama's plan versus another Senate proposal. Clinton and other members of the New York congressional delegation have been trying to change the formula for years.
"Every state gets two votes in the Senate so we're facing the challenge of convincing people they should give up what they think is their rightful claim on some of this money to do what the 9/11 commission and everybody who has studied it has said, which is have the money follow the risk," Clinton said yesterday.
But even though they have much smaller populations, the leadoff Democratic primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina would not be harmed under Obama's plan. Iowa would get an additional $119,824; Nevada would get $86,222 more; and South Carolina would receive $175,027 extra.
Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt points out that Obama doesn't determine which states have higher risk and therefore would get more money. Those calculations are made by the Department of Homeland Security, which won't reveal its methods or say just what makes Iowa more vulnerable than, say, New Hampshire.
New Hampshire would have had a drop in funding if Obama's proposal was simply based on risk. But Obama has a provision to ensure that states with an international border would stay at the .45 percent minimum, and New Hampshire's 58-mile dividing line with Canada qualifies it to keep the same amount that it would get in the current Senate bill.
In all, 34 states would get more money under Obama's amendment. That comes largely at the expense of eight smaller population states and the District of Columbia, which would lose more than $1.8 million each under the formula.
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