Sen. Barack Obama promised senior citizens Friday that as president, he would protect Social Security benefits and provide universal health care. To extend the life of Social Security, Obama proposed applying a payroll tax to annual incomes above $250,000, affecting the wealthiest 3 percent of Americans. The Democrat also proposed eliminating income tax for any retiree making less than $50,000. "Secure retirement is no longer a guarantee for the middle class,'' Obama said during a visit to Oakleaf Village retirement center with his wife, Michelle. "It's harder to save and harder to retire."
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080614/NEWS01/806140369
]]>In response to today's landmark Supreme Court decision granting habeas corpus to Guantanamo detainees, Lindsey Graham has decided he wants to amend the United State Constitution to strip it of any pesky kinds of civil rights protections that have existed since the Magna Carta.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/12/17277/3723/62/534898
]]>Dennis Kucinich is speaking on the floor of Congress (and on C-SPAN) right now, introducing articles of impeachment. Go, Dennis! [As suggested in comments]:Congressman Dennis Kucinich is on the floor of the House of Representatives right now introducing 35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush. Yes, 35. He'll be reading for a while. [Update: at an hour and a half, he's up to #14 :-) ]
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/9/191519/7181/915/533004
]]>Barack Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, becoming the first black candidate to lead a major party into a campaign for the White House. Vanquished rival Hillary Rodham Clinton swiftly signaled an interest in joining the ticket as his running mate. Obama arranged a victory celebration in St. Paul, Minn., at the site of this summer's Republican National Convention - an in-your-face gesture to Sen. John McCain, who will be his opponent in the race to become the nation's 44th president.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PRIMARY_RDP?SITE=MITRA
]]>Sen. Barack Obama has picked up a majority of the pledged delegates, according to CNN calculations.NEW YORK (CNN) – Hillary Clinton won a landslide victory in Kentucky Tuesday, but momentum — and a growing sense of inevitability — is now firmly on Barack Obama's side. He took Oregon last night, but it was his symbolic victory with pledged delegates that was the storyline.The one-time long shot for the Democratic nomination has a majority of pledged delegates to the Democratic Convention and is now about 70 delegates shy of the finish line.
]]>It's finally happened! After years of hiding, the G.O.P. has finally found us, and they're striking back with a vengence. That's right, today when I got home, I got the mail and there it was, a white envelope with the return address of John McCain's Washington office. The Republican presumtive...
http://alaking.vox.com/library/post/with-love-john-mccain.html
]]>The Obama campaign has announced a "major national endorsement" for a rally tonight at 7pm in Michigan, and the rumor mill is swirling that it is none other than Sen. John Edwards. Time's Mark Halperin is teasing as much at his Web site, with a photo of Edwards and the text, "Ready to choose? Ready to hope?"CNN's Mike Roselli and Suzanne Malveaux have confirmed that former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards will endorse Barack Obama at a Michigan campaign event about an hour from now. Obama will come on stage in Grand Rapids and say he has a special guest to introduce, followed by the appearance of Edwards himself.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/14/john-edwards-endorsing-ob_n_101749.html
]]>This leaves Mrs. Clinton with 264 superdelegates and Mr. Obama with 268, according to The Times’s count. Mr. Obama first surpassed Mrs. Clinton in superdelegate support, according to most tallies, on Friday. Update 7:30 p.m. Mr. Obama’s campaign just announced yet another superdelegate backing his bid: Representative Harry Mitchell of Arizona.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/three-more-superdelegates-for-obama-2/
]]>Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), the Democratic Party’s 2000 vice presidential nominee, is leaving open the possibility of giving a keynote address on behalf of Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) at the Republican National Convention in September. Republicans cl...
]]>A wonderful grassroots organization that makes it easy for you to learn learn about and get involved in political action, if nothing else than by clicking a send button which emails your local politicians about current pressing events.
]]>I think if there is to be a control of this subject, there should be more of a crackdown on the businesses that take advantage of the undocumented aliens as the cheap labor source. While many of the undocumented aliens do take the necessary steps to become citizens, it's the remainder that don't...
]]>Democrat Barack Obama expanded his fragile lead in delegates over rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday, picking up at least seven delegates as Iowa activists took the next step in picking delegates to the national convention. Half the 14 delegates allocated to John Edwards on the basis of caucus night projections switched Saturday and Obama got most, if not all, of them.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jVbCCOVnbwIhoHdCa99s2muTPJRAD8VE5F880
]]>Finally, the Barack Obama campaign has found a big gun to help shoot down Hillary Rodham Clinton's self-proclaimed foreign policy experience. And he may be the wackiest gun of all: Sinbad, the actor, who has come out from under a rock to defend Obama in the war over foreign policy credentials.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008/03/sinbad_unloads_on_hillary_clin.html
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