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What's the new controversy about Obama's church? Just caught the end of it on Fox News. I doubt it will be on ObamaNBC or CNN if they can help it.

The trashing Scott Mclellan (sp?) is getting is unmerciful. They can't figure out why "he never mentioned any misgivings/etc. in our personal conversations?" "They" being the loyalists, which is what they're REALLY torqued about: lack of loyalty, i.e. refusing to support the LIES any longer... These people have the same script writer and will NEVER "break ranks!"

Scary shit...scarier people/process. Fascists all!!!
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Activist Chicago priest apologizes for mocking Clinton
Activist Chicago priest apologizes after mocking Clinton in Obama's church
By CARYN ROUSSEAU Associated Press Writer | AP
May 29, 2008

(CHICAGO) An activist Chicago priest and supporter of presidential candidate Barack Obama says he's sorry for a sermon at Obama's church in which he mocked Hillary Rodham Clinton's tears just before the New Hampshire primary.

The Reverend Michael Pfleger (FLAY'-ger) said at Sunday's sermon that Clinton cried because she felt "entitled" and that a "black man is stealing my show."

Pfleger is pastor of Saint Sabina parish on the city's Southwest side. But he made the remarks at Obama's Trinity United Church of Christ.

Pfleger said Thursday that his sermon was "inconsistent with Senator Obama's life and message."

Obama said in a statement that he was "deeply disappointed" by Pfleger's "divisive, backward-looking rhetoric."
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They should call it "Church of Hate."

How dare those hacks at CNN and MSNBC not pick up the mainstream news at Fox, huh lib Dem?

Church of Hate indeed.... click on name for video of Pfleger

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After reading Doug Smith's Creeps at the Clinton School, (5-29 issue) which is found in the R screen column, makes me really wonder about any value in another Clinton occupying the White House.
Will it be NAFTA III if she gets elected? Would her library be an adjoining house trailer?

listening to john dean talking about mcclelland at least gives you an idea that what he did was brave. regardless of the fact that that it should have been earlier,he went on record with what he knew and that has to be respected. there still hasn't been any bush people denying any facts in the book, they just call him names.

"Ernie Dumas couldn't help but remark about what a small town our big city seems to be. So true. So wonderful."

You betcha. I could live anywhere, but it's Little Rock for me!

Huckabee moved to Hot Springs?

Nailed it again, Zonker!!!

Hey Max, if you can get a free dinner at Brave New, I say GO FOR IT! I hope this is your reward for that fine-looking gumbo.

Lwood -

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The speakers are chosen by Rutherford and Patrick Kennedy, director of public programs at the school. There are no criteria, Rutherford said.
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Clinton school Motto - No criteria

(fascists, torturers, weeping vote cagers, and robber barons welcome, without question)

I would think a school would want to have a wide range of people that have been involved in politics both good and bad. Unless you are somehow afraid of people that are different or you don't agree with.

Even Wright would be welcome. Not sure about the guy above though.

Max,

When you write like that about Little Rock you make me homesick. I have moved for the work but the city is always in my heart. It is remarkable place when it gets it right. In so many ways it is just the right size...just the right blend of people. I was always struck that the thing about Little Rock is that when you walked into a restaurant you expected to see people you knew. A nice turn of phrase tonight Max...thank you.

Was the dinner with an out of town reporter researching a missing executive?

ARK. BLOG: No, something much more mundane.

The Knight Ridder/McClatchy crew who were the few main stream press folks to get it right to begin with.. speak up again (full read at my name)

May 29, 2008
Memo to Scott McClellan: Here's what happened
Until now, we've resisted the temptation to post on former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's new book, which accuses the Bush White House of launching a propaganda campaign to sell the war in Iraq.

Why? It's not news. At least not to some of us who've covered the story from the start.

(Click here, here and here to get just a taste of what we mean).

Second, we find it a wee bit preposterous -- and we are being diplomatic here -- that a man who slavishly - no, robotically! -- defended President Bush's policies in Iraq and elsewhere is trying to "set the record straight" (and sell a few books) five years and more after the invasion, with U.S. troops still bravely fighting and dying to stabilize that country.

But the responses to McClellan from the Bush administration and media bigwigs, history-bending as they are, compel us to jump in. As we like to say around here, it's truth to power time, not just for the politicians but also for some folks in our own business.

Bush loyalists have responded in three ways:

1) Scott, how could you?

SNIP

"I would think a school would want to have a wide range of people that have been involved in politics both good and bad."

You would be thinking exactly right, lib 2012. I've said the same thing repeatedly. The otherwise enlightened people here who continually decry the mix of speakers at the Clinton School remind me of the knee-jerkers Cherry was counting on when he repeatedly implied that Faubus must be a communist, since he had attended Commonwealth College back in the 1930s. To their credit and to Cherry's chagrin, most of the voters saw through the ruse.

I see your point, durango, and don't know what exactly to suggest.. but *no criteria* seems to be an awfully low bar.. sounds like no standards to me.

When Tim the vote cager was allowed a cry on a closed platform, to lie without question.. that seemed to be a particular low point..

John Yoo's anti constitutional, pro torture legal writings, war criminality, are abominable at best, and would fail in any level of law school scrutiny.. what's the benefit of allowing him to speak?

Harriet, while awaiting subpoena.. another low.. an awfully long list of featuring war criminals and professional liars (Rove).

Little Rock has its small-town charms, but it also has more than its share of big-city crap. Just one small example: Terrible garbage service despite overcharging for it every month.

And what's with those white lines just painted on Kavanaugh? Another step toward turning our placid little neighborhood into an inner city control zone? Just the other day some Barney Fife was writin' tickets all over Hillcrest for poor saps who parked their cars the wrong way. How 'bout ticketing the yahoos that blast down our small streets at 50 or 60 mph all day and night? How 'bout drivin' out the creeps who steal anything that's not nailed down and never get arrested, much less tried and convicted?

There's plenty more to gripe about, but I'm trying to channel happy thoughts. Really.

Great post, Eureka. The McClatchey journalists have every right to post this.

And let's add Rove to your list E.S., even though his position entitled him to prosecution-free criminal acts. Now , Rove is thumbing his nose at Congress, and who knows, he could be mooning them too.

I'm sure there are still living members of the Third Reich. Let's put them on the Clinton podium, and some Mugabee staff too.

I'm incredibly proud of and excited by the roster of speakers the Clinton Library program provides. The diversity and prestige of many of these speakers would usually be found in a much larger city, and not necessarily on a regular basis.

Richard Dawkins, anybody? The Oxford evolutionary biologist whose latest book is "The God Delusion?"

Yep. He drew some 1,500 attendees to the Statehouse Convention Center, and pulled no punches, either in his lecture or his Q&A.

I didn't care a hoot about attending Billy Tauzin's commercial for the pharmaceutical industry, so I didn't. I got stoned instead.

I applaud Skip Rutherford and Patrick Kennedy and look forward to attending many more of these outstanding programs.

Your President is at it again. Photos, click on Cato

Ya know, there wouldn't have been any Nuremberg Trials if the Nazi Scott McClellan's of WWII, who might have acted earlier, but didn't, hadn't rolled over on their superiors starting in late 1945. Underlings made sure a lot of bigger heads rolled and that's a good thing.

Here's the big question of 2008. Though the numbers of innocent people killed are much smaller (though 6 or 7 times more than the population of the 2nd largest city in Arkansas, my hometown), doesn't America and the world deserve to see our criminal leaders marched before the bench and tried for their crimes? We've been so quick to punish others throughout our history, why are we letting Cheney-Bush slide? Not only slide but continue merrily down their same path of murderous destruction?

Shouldn't we start next week by taking the evidence in Scottie's book and adding it to the 98,472 tons of other damning evidence against the Bush administration and start marching Fox News Darlings off to the pokey? John Dean said tonight the clock has run out on Impeachment....is that so? Would someone be kind enough to tell me where the line is for me...so that I may get right up next to it and rob and rape in a time frame too close to the line to be punished?

Can we not continue the election process while we indict 9/10ths of the Bush administration? Is America a one trick pony? If we can shoot retarded guys laying next to the Interstate, can we not indict, convict and execute our criminally retarded President by January, 20th, 2009? Oh, I think so! And we should, we owe it to our children and to the rest of the world whose watching with big open eyes.

I just don't feel much like minding the laws these days. What's the point of me walking the line of the law when our leaders in Washington don't have to? When my August extension on my 2007 taxes come due, I'm gonna tell the government I lost my tax money in Baghdad and I'll have to get back to them. I'm sorry.....I can't account for jack shit these days boys! Call me a Cock-eyed Bremer on this one!

Bush can't remember if he did Cocaine. That's funny, I barely remember 1988-96, but I have crystal clear memories of 3 coke parties I attended. Funny funny me...I found out coke doesn't do jack for me....I can snort all ya got and all that happens is I sober up. Bummer! Scott heard Bush OK lots of leaks that led us to attacking a jerk-off little country and outing our own CIA agent. Nothing! But if I light up my Marlboro Light tomorrow in our newest Wal-Mart the SWAT team will have the cross-hairs on me and I'll never blog again. Something seems off here.

We've got every indication that our government has been taken over by a criminal element for the last 7 and 7/8th years and we can't figure out what to do. Oh....let's vote them out of office and let them take their stolen billions and go play until the sweet Lord calls them home. Wonderful! Don't forget to reelect their enablers like Mark W. Pryor and Whispering John Boozman! And by all means let's hope that nice Tim Griffin gets a new job soon!

As stupid as America is at the moment....I can't figure out why no one isn't attacking us. Hell, Canada could make us their bitch by the weekend. Guess we'll just lay there with our legs up in the air. Cheney-Bush will quit raping us by the end of next January. pitiful

DBI - The answer is yes.. and what Scottie said on the Today show (yesterday morning).. along with the completed (not closed) investigation and trial of Libby ( documented in court).. there is more than enough to impeach the P and VP lickety split. (among scores of other egregious reasons)

See the quick detailed run down at my name ..

Jimmy Carter won't make it to the Clinton School in the near future:

Jimmy Carter Crosses the Line
Monday, 26 May 2008
"Here's a thought experiment. Try to imagine a major American political figure boldly calling on Europe to break with the United States, unilaterally lift the blockage on Gaza and negotiate directly with Hamas, the democratically-elected government of Palestine.

"He then goes on to reveal -- from his access to the most highly classified intelligence -- that Israel, far from being at risk from "destruction" by Iran or anyone, possesses a minimum of 150 nuclear weapons: the first time that any such high-level U.S. official has ever publicly confirmed the existence of Israel's arsenal, much less detailed its size. (that was 28 yrs ago, think it could have grown?Lw)
What's more, this Establishment renagade then calls for the complete withdrawal of American forces from Iraq, combined with pledges of massive aid to rebuild Iraq "from the destruction we've caused."

This fantasy became a reality yesterday in the drenching rain of a Welsh border town. Former President Jimmy Carter had come to Hay-on-Wye for the annual literary festival, and held forth in a wide-ranging interview before a large crowd. Carter denounced the policies of the so-called "Quartet" -- the U.S., EU, UN and Russia -- which have led to the strangulation of Gaza and immense suffering to the people "imprisoned" there, in Carter's words:
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Well the CIA says we beat AL Q... so why not listen to Carter who has been correct on these things for decades?

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda is essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and on the defensive throughout much of the world, CIA Director Michael Hayden said in a Washington Post interview published on Friday.

The upbeat assessment came less than a year after the CIA warned of new threats from a resurgent al Qaeda, the Post said.

"On balance, we are doing pretty well," Hayden told the newspaper this week citing major gains against Osama bin Laden's network and its allies.

"Near strategic defeat of al Qaeda in Iraq. Near strategic defeat for al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia. Significant setbacks for al Qaeda globally -- and here I'm going to use the word 'ideologically,' as a lot of the Islamic world pushes back on their form of Islam," Hayden said.

U.S. officials blame al Qaeda in Iraq for most big bombings in the country, including an attack on a Shi'ite shrine in Samarra in February 2006 that set off a wave of sectarian killings that nearly tipped Iraq into all-out civil war.
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"The otherwise enlightened people here who continually decry the mix of speakers at the Clinton School remind me of the knee-jerkers Cherry was counting on when he repeatedly implied that Faubus must be a communist, since he had attended Commonwealth College back in the 1930s."

It's really just another thing for the Clinton-haters to bitch about. That's all it is.

I voted for Ford and I went to my Baptist church to pray for our country the night Jimmy Carter was elected. I didn't like Jimmy Carter and I thought his term in office was miserable and 100% all his fault.

Now I'm older and understand better and will admit I was wrong about Carter. I stand behind him 100% with his work with the terrorist group Hamas. For 60 years the US has blindly supported the terrorist group called the government of Israel. It has always bothered me that my country would back one terrorist group over another.

It is surprising that Super Christian Jimmy Carter would break with the usual Israel-worshiping mindset of his brethren and sisteren in attempt to be fair and actually bring peace to the Middle East in our lifetime. Maybe Barack should think about Jimmy Carter for his running mate? Sic em Jimmy!

That would be a good match...the naive ticket.

Children's Hospital, US New and World Report- look who they bested! Duke, Dallas, Johns Hopkins et al. Some thing good on Marshall Street, and UAMS Pediatrics as well