Just about everything in today's Talking Points Memo is worth looking at:
The largest funder of the Swift Boat veterans is at it again. Bob Perry has given $5 million to the Economic Freedom Fund, a new 527 group. "They appear to be targetting only Democratic incumbents [in 5 districts], at least so far, presumably to force the Democrats to divert funds from Democratic challengers to potentially endangered incumbents."
Senators Reject White House Torture Compromise Senators John Warner (R-VA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and John McCain (R-AZ) seems to have some backbone.
Keith Ellison is running for Congress from MN. The GOP is accusing him of supporting terrorists. Ellison would be the first Muslim in Congress. He's taken campaign money from Nihad Awad's organization, CAIR, who they claim supports Hamas. This came from a March 1994 statement where Awad said "I am in support of the Hamas movement more than the PLO" because they were more moderate, less corrupt, and responded to the daily needs of the people. "The statement came before Hamas had set off its first car bomb in Israel and more than a year before the United States designated it as a terrorist organization. Since then, CAIR has issued dozens of statements condemning terrorism." But the really amazing thing about this, is that Bush on 9/17/2001 stood with Awad saying he feels "just the same way I do". I think Ellison got it right, "The Republicans are in a tough situation, Iraq is a failed policy. They haven't done much for homeland security. We still have a health care crisis. The Earth is warming up, and they're not doing anything about it. What are they going to do? They have to try to engage in smear politics." I hope it doesn't work.
This story is so disgusting I don't know where to begin. Allegedly the parents of a 19 year-old kidnaped their daughter in Maine to take her to NY for an abortion because the father of the child was black (the parents and daughter were white). The daughter escaped in NH and called the police.
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