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Despite polls predicting otherwise, one of the three raised doubts about a Democratic win, a hope they all said they subscribed to.

The doubter worried that while the potential election of the African American candidate created the appearance that race no longer plays an active role in American politics, the fear remained, racism could rear its ugly head on election day.

]]> The Choice: Comment: The New Yorker http://www.newscloud.com/read/The_Choice_Comment_The_New_Yorker Never in living memory has an election been more critical than the one fast approaching-that's the quadrennial cliché, as expected as the balloons and the bombast. And yet when has it ever felt so urgently true? When have so many Americans had so clear a sense that a Presidency has-at the levels of competence, vision, and integrity-undermined the country and its ideals?

]]> McCain uses term ‘tar baby’ - msnbc.com http://www.newscloud.com/read/McCain_uses_term_tar_baby_msnbccom Republican presidential contender John McCain on Friday used the term "tar baby," considered by some a racial epithet, and later said he regretted it.

]]> Political Cortex: Downfall into Political Chaos? http://www.newscloud.com/read/Political_Cortex_Downfall_into_Political_Chaos Despite the fact that 50 million un-insured, a disappearing middle class, the headlines are filled with talk of pitbulls, swine and lipstick, as if some sort of Animal Farm like fever had stolen the meat from the potato's of reality that politics is meant to address.

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]]> Unintelligence in Federal Intelligence Agencies - Indies http://www.newscloud.com/read/Unintelligence_in_Federal_Intelligence_Agencies_Indies Incredible waste federal spending: $3 billion of taxpayer money annually because of privatization.

]]> Values verses Candidates http://www.newscloud.com/read/CodyLyon_sblogolater_Values_verses_Candidates excerpt:

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In these modern times when a campaign song like "Happy Days are here again" seems silly, in these days of Presidential administrations filled with countless advisors, policy shapers and other insiders who pontificate from above to the 'chosen ones' occupying the oval office, it is imperative that voters take into account what are clearly package deals, they are the packages that each party embodies, and each is filled with stark differences and competing ideologies.


]]> Arrests Made in Alleged Obama Assassination Plot http://www.newscloud.com/read/Arrests_Made_in_Alleged_Obama_Assassination_Plot A possible plot to kill Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama during his acceptance speech Thursday at the Democratic National Convention was foiled in Denver on Monday night when at least three suspects were arrested, authorities reported.

]]> McCain Backer's Firm Pleaded Guilty To Funding Terrorist Group In http://www.newscloud.com/read/McCain_Backer_s_Firm_Pleaded_Guilty_To_Funding_Terrorist_Group_In The co-host of a recent top-dollar fundraiser for Sen. John McCain oversaw the payment of roughly $1.7 million to a Colombian paramilitary group that is today designated a terrorist organization by the United States.

]]> German Toymaker Launches Barack Obama Doll http://www.newscloud.com/read/German_Toymaker_Launches_Barack_Obama_Doll Notice anything? According to the Spiegel Online International, in an article titled "Change You Can't Quite Believe In: German Toymaker Launches Barack Obama Doll:"

]]> On opting out of Public Financing: Pennies for Votes | The Agonist http://www.newscloud.com/read/On_opting_out_of_Public_Financing_Pennies_for_Votes_The_Agonist excerpt: (Opinion)

Until we as a nation begin to aggressively address the growing influence that money has had in politics, we will continue to witness the political pollution that money buys on an increasingly grand scale.

http://agonist.org/cody_lyon/20080621/on_opting_out_of_public_financing_pennies_for_votes

]]> Black lawmakers emotional about Obama s success http://www.newscloud.com/read/Black_lawmakers_emotional_about_Obama_s_success Rep. John Lewis D-Ga. was about to enter his Capitol Hill office on Wednesday afternoon when a tourist from Miami rushed up to him. "I was watching Barack last night, and I just kept thinking, 'What would Dr. King think?'" the tourist, Larry Ellery, told Lewis expectantly.

]]> Obama Bans DNC from Taking Lobbyists' Money : NPR http://www.newscloud.com/read/Obama_Bans_DNC_from_Taking_Lobbyists_Money_NPR Morning Edition, June 6, 2008 · Presumptive presidential nominee Barack Obama, exerting his new power as leader of his party, has told the Democratic National Committee to eschew all contributions from Washington lobbyists and political action committees.

]]> Wall Street backs Obama http://www.newscloud.com/read/Wall_Street_backs_Obama Despite concerns about higher taxes, Wall Street is backing Obama. Securities firms think they are on a winner

]]> Inteligentaindigena Indigenismo : Hillary campaign denies report of her quitting Prez race-USA-World http://www.newscloud.com/read/Inteligentaindigena_Indigenismo_Hillary_campaign_denies_report_of_her_quitting_Prez_raceUSAWorld Hillary Clinton's campaign on Tuesday refuted as '100 per cent incorrect' media reports that she will concede defeat on Tuesday night to frontrunner Barack Obama in the bitter race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

]]> Political Cortex: Don't Cry For Me Puerto Rico http://www.newscloud.com/read/Political_Cortex_Don_t_Cry_For_Me_Puerto_Rico Instead, they dutifully watched as the hip young "it" girls and boys sporting those Pepsi looking Obama pins would anticipate the next Obama rally as if it were a rock concert, where, when they happened, the reporters on TV would convey to viewers that the "energy here is infectious" while the pundits took turns gushing and blushing over this new message of hope, all building momentum among a new cross section of voters, built on a dynamism that might rescue the nation from its long nightmare that had been brought to the citizens courtesy the current White House of horrors.

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