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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama laid out list of political shortcomings he sees in the Bush administration but said he opposes impeachment for either President George W. Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney.

Obama said he would not back such a move, although he has been distressed by the "loose ethical standards, the secrecy and incompetence" of a "variety of characters" in the administration.

Obama does not know what to do about the war in Iraq...

Does this mean He is going to turn His back on Our Solider's ???

We need a leader that know's what to do in 2008 !

To send Our Loved ones Home...

God Bless the U.S.A

Obama's Trouble With The Truth

By Richard Cohen

John Edwards lied about the cost of his haircuts. Fred Thompson lied about lobbying for a pro-choice outfit. John McCain insists that the U.S. was founded as a "Christian nation." Mitt Romney concocted the story about how his father marched with Martin Luther King Jr. And Rudy Giuliani is one-man fib machine -- everything from why he had to provide police protection for his then-mistress to the cure rates for prostate cancer in Britain. Yet it is something Barack Obama said that bothers me most of all because Obama is a new kind of politician. He is supposed to be coolly authentic.

What concerns me is the lie or fib or misstatement -- call it what you want -- that involves Obama's assertion that more young black males are in prison than in college. It is a shocking statistic -- and it is wrong. But when The Washington Post's lonesome but formidable truth squad, Michael Dobbs, brought this to the attention of the Obama campaign, he not only got the brush-off but the assertion was later repeated.

You can appreciate the usefulness of this false claim. It says something compelling about the plight of young, black males that is essentially true -- their condition amounts to a calamity and something has to be done. But this particular comparison is wrong, and Obama must know it by now. Ought to be true is not the same as true.

After all, it ought to be true that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. It ought to be true that he had ties with Osama bin Laden. It ought to be true that aluminum tubes were intended for a nuclear weapons program and it ought to be true, really, that none of this mattered since what mattered most of all was a larger truth: Saddam had to go and the Middle East had to be urban renewed for the sake of democracy.

In a recent provocative essay for The New Republic's Web site, Princeton historian Sean Wilentz coined the phrase "the delusional style in American punditry." He applied it to Obama's fans in the American press. His argument is that certain journalists are so enthralled by the sheer Obamaness of Obama that they are willing to overlook everything they know about the fundamental value of experience.

In this regard, Wilentz cites a Boston Globe editorial that used Obama's memoir "Dreams From My Father" to extol Obama's real-life experiences. Wilentz is not persuaded. To him, the book is "not exactly a portrait of sterling honesty or authenticity."

I and others have written that Obama -- as he himself says in the introduction -- invented composite characters and altered chronology. But as The Chicago Tribune also reported, some of the events Obama passionately details seem not to have happened at all. Maybe his memory played tricks on him. Mine sure does.

But I am not running for president. And if I were, I'd pay particular attention to the truth -- to the nagging facts that sometimes get in the way of a good story. After all, it is not only Iraq that has been destroyed in the last several years -- so has whatever trust the American people still had in their government. I have been at this game a long time, but for sheer manipulation of the facts, for a fudging of the truth, for the occasional bald lie, the Bush administration takes the cake. Cheney and truth cannot be found in the same sentence.

So the cavalier dismissal of Dobbs, the Post's truth-hunter, is troubling. Since he writes that the Obama campaign would not comment, it is reasonable to assume that it doesn't give a damn -- that this is a little matter and the candidate is engaged in something grand. The phony statistic is, in its way, like a composite. There's a larger truth here, get it?

No. When John McCain sticks to his insistence that the Constitution established the United States as a "Christian nation," I don't like it, but I know McCain and I know his character. He has a record in public life going back, essentially, to 1967 when he was shot down over Vietnam and repeatedly tortured by his captors. Back in 2000, I might have gotten a bit "delusional" over him, but I had my reasons.

I am a bit enamored with Obama as well. But the man's public record is thin and the glow from him is distracting and my intuition tells me that sometimes intuition is no substitute for experience. So, I'll sit back and watch some more -- and wait to see if Obama or anyone in his campaign calls back Dobbs and corrects the record. "Facts are stubborn things," John Adams once said. So, to our regret, we keep learning the hard way.

I feel like I've been abducted in the past, but only because of reacuring dreams ! If thats what they are ?

We have more than doubled our servants in our home and I've

been to Europe three times this year. If the pourer people would try harder and be willing to learn they would have nice

things and better jobs. Quit being jealous.

We have been married for almost 30 Years and He has only gave me something two or three times for Valentine's Day. He also never gives me anything for Mother's Day He say's I am not His Mother. He believes these are just Day's made to waste money.

When We needed Him most He was hiding... He turned His back on Us...Is this what He means by cut and run ???

Bush always talked If your not with me your Un-American... I think He is the most Un-American Person whos only out for Himself...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton said Saturday that voters "know something is wrong" in Washington and urged Democrats to create change in the November elections. "I have never seen the American people so serious," said Clinton. "I think I know why. People know things are out of whack. The rhythm of our public life and our common life in America has been disturbed."

The former president was the keynote speaker at the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner, the Iowa Democratic Party's biggest annual fundraising event. He drew more than 3,500 activists.

There is speculation that Clinton's wife, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, may seek the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008. She has not been in Iowa during this election cycle, even though other candidates have already begun campaigning in the state that will open the presidential nominating season.

Bill Clinton joked about the speculation. "I am under no illusions as to why I'm here," he said. "You were so desperate for a Democrat with any name recognition at all who isn't running for president that you resorted to the chief caseworker to the junior senator from New York."

Clinton urged activists to focus on the midterm election.

"People are sick of partisanship, they are sick of gridlock and they are coming to us in droves," said Clinton. "People know something is wrong and they want to change."

Clinton called the Bush administration and the Republican-led Congress "unprecedentedly unaccountable" and said tax cuts for the rich have led to huge deficits.

"This is not class warfare," said Clinton. "I've been poor and I've been rich and I like rich better. I want to pay my share. I don't need another vacation home."

Both the White House and Congress are resistant to scrutiny from the outside, he said.

"In Iraq, which is famous for no-bid contracts, $9 billion has gone missing and there has been no serious congressional investigation," said Clinton. "There's never been a more secretive, unaccountable administration."

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SOLON, Iowa (AP) - Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards on Saturday bashed the Bush administration for "proactive stupidity" by sticking with a failed policy in Iraq and being unable to admit its mistakes.

He predicted the Iraq war and a wave of scandals in the Republican-run Congress will prompt voters to demand change in November.

"There is an underlying current that Democrats are in a strong position, for a lot of reasons," Edwards told The Associated Press. "Some of it is the scandals and corruption that people all across the country are seeing in Washington."

Edwards was spending the weekend in eastern Iowa raising money for Democratic legislative candidates.

He finished a surprising second in Iowa's leadoff precinct caucuses in the 2004 presidential election, and that propelled him to a spot on the ticket with eventual nominee John Kerry (website - news - bio) . Edwards has left little doubt he's interested in again seeking the party's nomination, and he's been among the most active of the potential candidates campaigning in Iowa.

Danny Diaz, a spokesman with the Republican National Committee, said Saturday that Edwards is a "failed presidential candidate and a rejected vice presidential candidate whose political attacks will be no more successful today than they were two years ago."

Edwards diverted from his campaign schedule to speak at a University of Iowa conference on poverty issues. "We should be for the eradication of poverty in America," he said. "In our party, we need to seize the moral high ground."