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    Bruce Springsteen Endorses Obama, Defends Candidate's Comments

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    By Jeff Bliss

    April 16 (Bloomberg) -- Bruce Springsteen, whose songs about working-class angst have fueled a career spanning four decades, endorsed Barack Obama for president in a letter to fans posted on his Web site.

    ``After the damage done over the past eight years, a great American reclamation project needs to be undertaken,'' he wrote. ``Senator Obama is the best candidate to lead that project.''

    Springsteen, whose songs include ``Born to Run,'' ``Factory'' and ``Born in the USA,'' said that opponents had taken some of Obama's comments out of context. Senator Hillary Clinton of New York, Obama's rival for the nomination, said that the Illinois senator's comments about some voters becoming ``bitter'' because of their economic status showed he was out of touch.

    ``Critics have tried to diminish Senator Obama through the exaggeration of certain of his comments and relationships,'' Springsteen wrote.

    The musician's endorsement comes before the Pennsylvania primary on April 22.

    Springsteen, 58, who is from neighboring New Jersey, was a prominent supporter of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in 2004, playing concerts in swing states such as Pennsylvania and Wisconsin as part of get-out-the-vote efforts.

    Kerry won those two states in his loss to President George W. Bush in the general election.

    To contact the reporters on this story: Jeff Bliss in Washington at [email protected]

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    Fellow Cherie Board Members ....

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    TIRED OF THE SAME ******** FROM THE DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN PARTIES ???? [img]mad.gif[/img]

    WOULD YOU LIKE TO JOIN ANOTHER POLITICAL PARTY THAT REFLECTS YOUR INTERESTS ???? [img]wink.gif[/img]

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    NORAD Releases Mother Lode of 9/11 Tapes

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    Black Listed News
    April 17, 2008

    Source: Danger Room - Media Monarchy

    The Web site governmentattic.org says NORAD and U.S. Northern Command "have released a copy of their audio files, telephone conversations and situation room discussions, from the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001."

    And governmentattic.org has posted them all to its site, in .zip files linked within a .pdf document.

    It was a little labor intensive getting to the files & i think they?re mislabeled. so i?ve sorted them out & saved you some headaches. here are the direct download links:


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    Red face

    By winning back unhappy GOP voters, McCain makes it a race

    By ALAN FRAM and TREVOR TOMPSON, Associated Press Writers

    WASHINGTON (AP) ? Republicans are no longer underdogs in the race for the White House. To pull that off, John McCain has attracted disgruntled GOP voters, independents and even some moderate Democrats who shunned his party last fall.

    Partly thanks to an increasingly likable image, the Republican presidential candidate has pulled even with the two Democrats still brawling for their party's nomination, according to an Associated Press-Yahoo! News poll released Thursday. Just five months ago ? before either party had winnowed its field ? the survey showed people preferred sending an unnamed Democrat over a Republican to the White House by 13 percentage points.

    Also helping the Arizona senator close the gap: Peoples' opinions of Hillary Rodham Clinton have soured slightly, while their views of Barack Obama have improved though less impressively than McCain's.

    The survey suggests that those switching to McCain are largely attuned to his personal qualities and McCain may be benefiting as the two Democrats snipe at each other during their prolonged nomination fight.

    David Mason of Richmond, Va., is typical of the voters McCain has gained since last November, when the 46-year-old personal trainer was undecided. Mason calls himself an independent and voted in 2004 for President Bush, whom he considers a strong leader but a disappointment due to the "no-win situation" in Iraq.

    "It's not that I'm that much in favor of McCain, it's the other two are turning me off," Mason said of Clinton and Obama, the senators from New York and Illinois, in explaining his move toward McCain. As for the Republican's experiences as a Vietnam War prisoner and in the Senate, Mason said, "All he's been through is an asset."

    By tracking the same group of roughly 2,000 people throughout the campaign, the AP-Yahoo poll can gauge how individual views are evolving. What's clear is that some Republican-leaning voters who backed Bush in 2004 but lost enthusiasm for him are returning to the GOP fold _ along with a smaller but significant number of Democrats who have come to dislike their party's two contenders.

    The findings of the survey, conducted by Knowledge Networks, provide a preview of one of this fall's battlegrounds. Though some unhappy Republicans will doubtless stay with McCain, both groups are teeming with centrist swing voters who will be targeted by both parties.

    The poll shows that McCain's appeal has grown since November by more than the Democrats' has dwindled. McCain gets about 10 percentage points more now than a generic Republican candidate got last fall; Obama and Clinton get about 5 points less than a nameless Democrat got then.

    Underlining McCain's burgeoning popularity, in November about four in 10 considered McCain likeable, decisive, strong and honest while about half do now. Obama is seen as more likeable and stronger now but his numbers for honesty and decisiveness have remained flat, while Clinton's scores for likeability and honesty have dropped slightly.

    "You can't trust Hillary and Obama's too young," said Pauline Holsinger, 60, a janitorial worker in Pensacola, Fla., now backing McCain who preferred an unnamed Democrat last fall. "I like him better, he's more knowledgeable about the war" in Iraq.

    Voters at this stage in a campaign commonly focus more on candidates' personal qualities. That usually changes as the general election approaches and they pay more attention to issues and partisan loyalty ? meaning that McCain's prospects could fade at a time when the public is deeply unhappy with the war, the staggering economy and Bush.

    For now, more than one in 10 who weren't backing the unnamed Republican candidate in last November's survey are supporting McCain, a shift partly offset by a smaller number of former undecideds now embracing Obama or Clinton. Of those now backing McCain, about one-third did not support the generic GOP candidate last November.

    Among people who have moved toward McCain, about two-thirds are discontented Bush voters, with many calling themselves independents but leaning Republican.

    About half of this group say they are conservative, yet their views on issues are more moderate than many in the party, with some opposing the war in Iraq. They have favorable but not intensely enthusiastic views of McCain _ for example, two-thirds find him likeable while far fewer find him compassionate or refreshing.

    "He's known, he's a veteran," said David Tucker, a retired Air Force technician from Alexandria, La., and Bush voter who was undecided last November but has ruled out Obama and Clinton. "I understand him better."

    Around a third of the voters newly supporting McCain lean Democratic and mostly backed Democrat John Kerry in 2004. They are moderates who disapprove of Bush and the war in Iraq, but find McCain likeable, much more so than they did last November.

    Many McCain-backing Democrats express one consistent concern about McCain ? his age.

    "Let's face it, we're not getting any younger," said retired accountant Sheldon Rothman of Queens, N.Y., who like McCain is 71. "There are too many imponderables when you get to that age, especially with the stress of the presidency."

    Whether those now switching to McCain will stay that way once the Democrats choose a candidate is what the fall campaign will be about.

    "McCain has a history of doing well with independent voters," said GOP pollster David Winston. He said voters' preference for an unnamed Democratic candidate but McCain's strong performance against Obama and Clinton means "Democrats have an advantage their candidates are not taking advantage of."

    Democratic pollster Alan Secrest said the contrasting numbers mean that while the voters' overall mood favors Democrats, they are still taking the measure of Clinton and Obama.

    "The Democrats will have to earn their way this fall," he said.

    The AP-Yahoo survey of 1,844 adults was conducted from April 2-14 and had an overall margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.3 percentage points. Included were interviews with 863 Democrats, for whom the margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3.3 points, and 668 Republicans, with a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.8 points.

    The poll was conducted over the Internet by Knowledge Networks, which initially contacted people using traditional telephone polling methods and followed with online interviews. People chosen for the study who had no Internet access were given it for free.

    ? AP News Survey Specialist Dennis Junius contributed to this report

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    WASHINGTON - Some 300,000 U.S. troops are suffering from major depression or post-traumatic stress from serving in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and 320,000 received brain injuries, a new study estimates.

    Only about half have sought treatment, said the study released Thursday by the RAND Corporation.

    ?There is a major health crisis facing those men and women who have served our nation in Iraq and Afghanistan,? said Terri Tanielian, the project?s co-leader and a researcher at the nonprofit RAND.

    ?Unless they receive appropriate and effective care for these mental health conditions, there will be long-term consequences for them and for the nation,? she said in an interview with The Associated Press.

    The 500-page study is the first large-scale, private assessment of its kind ? including a survey of 1,965 service members across the country, from all branches of the armed forces and including those still in the military as well veterans who have left the services.

    Its results appear consistent with a number of mental health reports from within the government, though the Defense Department has not released the number of people it has diagnosed or who are being treated for mental problems. The Department of Veterans Affairs said this month that its records show about 120,000 who served in the two wars and are no longer in the military have been diagnosed with mental health problems. Of the 120,000, approximately 60,000 are suffering from PTSD, the VA said.

    Veterans Affairs is responsible for care of service members after they have left the service, while the Defense Department covers active-duty and reservist needs. The lack of information from the Pentagon was one motivation for the RAND study, Tanielian said.

    Problems affect more than 18 percent of troops
    The most prominent and detailed military study on mental health that is released is the Army?s survey of soldiers at the warfront. Officials said last month that its most recent one, done last fall, found 18.2 percent of soldiers suffered a mental health problem such as depression, anxiety or acute stress in 2007 compared with 20.5 percent the previous year.

    Too bad they don't discuss this stuff on Talk Radio and Cable News Shows!
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    Originally posted by gus danger:
    Too bad they don't discuss this stuff on Talk Radio and Cable News Shows!
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    <font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Gus let me answer that with the following quote from the movie
    ZULU

    Lieutenant John Chard: The army doesn't like more than one disaster in a day.
    Bromhead: Looks bad in the newspapers and upsets civilians at their breakfast

    Ongoing nomination fight hurting Clinton more than Obama

    By CHARLES BABINGTON and TREVOR TOMPSON, Associated Press Writers

    WASHINGTON (AP) ? In a dramatic reversal, an Associated Press-Yahoo! News poll found that a clear majority of Democratic voters now say Sen. Barack Obama has a better chance of defeating Republican Sen. John McCain in November than Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

    While Obama and Clinton are both sustaining dents and dings from their lengthy presidential fight, the former first lady is clearly suffering more. Democratic voters no longer see her as the party's strongest contender for the White House.

    Voters of all types have gotten a better sense of Obama, who was an obscure Illinois legislator just four years ago. As more people moved from the "I don't know him" category in the AP-Yahoo! News poll, more rated Obama as inexperienced, unethical and dishonest. And 15 percent erroneously think he's a Muslim, thanks in part to disinformation widely spread on the Internet.

    But Obama's positive ratings have climbed as well, while Clinton ? widely known since the early 1990s ? has been less able to change people's views of her. And when those views have shifted, it has hurt her more than helped.

    The New York senator's ratings for being honest, likable, ethical and refreshing have fallen since January, and Obama scores higher than she does in all those categories.? AP News Survey Specialist Dennis Junius contributed to this report.

    READ MORE AT....

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    Brown upbeat on US ?special relationship?
    By Alex Barker and Andrew Ward in Washington

    Published: April 17 2008 21:49

    Gordon Brown heaped praise on George W. Bush with language evoking Tony Blair on Thursday, as he sought to overcome the impression that the ?special relationship? had entered a cooler phase.

    Speaking at a joint press conference in the White House Rose Garden, Mr Brown said he stood ?shoulder to shoulder? with Mr Bush in a transatlantic bond that was ?stronger than ever?.


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    ?The world owes President Bush a huge debt of gratitude in leading the world in our determination to root out terrorism,? Mr Brown said.

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    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c223f9d2-0...nclick_check=1

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    Day 1816 since "mission accomplished" was declared by the ******* !
    The U.S. death toll is now 4038.
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    Bush's disapproval rating worst of any president in 70 years [img]graemlins/cry.gif[/img]


    By Susan Page
    USA TODAY


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    WASHINGTON ? President Bush has set a record he'd presumably prefer to avoid: the highest disapproval rating of any president in the 70-year history of the Gallup Poll.

    In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, 28% of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing; 69% disapprove. The approval rating matches the low point of his presidency, and the disapproval sets a new high for any president since Franklin Roosevelt.

    The previous record of 67% was reached by Harry Truman in January 1952, when the United States was enmeshed in the Korean War.

    Bush's rating has worsened amid "collapsing optimism about the economy," says Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies presidential approval. Record gas prices and a wave of home foreclosures have fueled voter angst.

    Bush also holds the record for the other extreme: the highest approval rating of any president in Gallup's history. In September 2001, in the days after the 9/11 attacks, Bush's approval spiked to 90%. In another record, the percentage of Americans who say the invasion of Iraq was a mistake reached a new high, 63%, in the latest poll.

    Assessments of Bush's presidency are harsh. By 69%-27%, those polled say Bush's tenure in general has been a failure, not a success. [img]rolleyes.gif[/img]

    Low approval ratings make it more difficult for presidents to maneuver, limiting their ability to get legislation passed or boost candidates in congressional elections.

    "The president understands war and the slowdown in the economy weigh down public opinion, but the situation in Iraq is improving, and the economy is about to get a big boost from the stimulus package," White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said.

    Bush has had dismal ratings through most of his second term. His approval rating hasn't reached as high as 50% since May 2005. He has been steadily below 40% since September 2006.

    Views of Bush divide sharply along party lines. Among Republicans, 66% approve and 32% disapprove. Disapproval is nearly universal ? 91% ? among Democrats. Of independents, 23% approve, 72% disapprove of the job he's doing.

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