Barack Obama Endorsement: Lincoln Chafee, Susan Eisenhower

Barack Obama receives endorsement from two big name Republicans: Lincoln Chafee, Susan Eisenhower
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Worst of all is the case of Woodhouse...campaigned actively to re-elect Democratic senators who supported the Iraq War in the first place...much of what has passed for peace activism in the past year was little more than a thinly veiled scheme to use popular discontent over the war to unseat vulnerable Republicans up for re-election in 2008. David Sirota, a former congressional staffer whose new book, The Uprising, excoriates the Democrats for their failure to end the war, expresses disgust at the strategy of targeting only Republicans. "The whole idea is based on this insane fiction that there is no such thing as a pro-war Democrat," he says. "Their strategy allows Democrats to take credit for being against the war without doing anything to stop it. It's crazy." Justin Raimondo, the uncompromising editorial director of Antiwar.com, regrets contributing twenty dollars to Americans Against the Escalation in Iraq. "Not only did they use it to target Republicans," he says, "they went after the ones who were on the fence about Iraq." The most notorious case involved Lincoln Chafee, a moderate from Rhode Island who lost his Senate seat in 2006. Since then, Chafee has taken shots at Democrats like Reid, Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer, all of whom campaigned against him despite having voted for the war themselves. "Look, I understand partisan politics," says Chafee, who now concedes that voters were correct to punish him for his war vote. "I just find it amusing that those who helped get us into this mess now say we need to change the Senate — because we're in a mess."

Even beyond the war, the Democrats have repeatedly gone limp-dick every time the Bush administration so much as raises its
voice. Most recently, twelve Democrats crossed the aisle to grant immunity to phone companies who participated in Bush's
notorious wiretapping program. Before that, Democrats caved in and confirmed Mike Mukasey as attorney general after he kept
his middle finger extended and refused to condemn waterboarding as torture. Democrats fattened by Wall Street also got cold
feet about upsetting the country's gazillionaires, refusing to close a tax loophole that rewarded hedge-fund managers with
a tax rate less than half that paid by ordinary citizens...How long are we supposed to give the Reids and Pelosis and Hillarys of the world credit for wanting, deep down in their moldy hearts, to do the right thing? Look, fuck your hearts, OK? Just get it done. Because if you don't, sooner or later this con is going to run dry. It may not be in '08, but it'll be soon. Even Americans can't be fooled forever.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18349197/the_chicken_doves/4
A McClatchy computer analysis, incomplete due to the difficulty matching data from various campaign finance reports, found that hundreds of people who gave at least $200 to Bush's 2004 campaign have donated to Obama. Among them are Julie Nixon Eisenhower, the daughter of the late GOP President Richard Nixon and wife of late GOP President Dwight Eisenhower's grandson; Connie Ballmer, the wife of Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer; Ritchie Scaife, the estranged wife of conservative tycoon Richard Mellon Scaife and boxing promoter Don King. Many of the donors are likely "moderate Republicans or independents who are dissatisfied with the direction of the country now and are looking for change," said Anthony Corrado, a government professor at Colby College in Maine who specializes in campaign finance. "There is a large block of Republicans, particularly economic conservatives, who just feel that the Republican Party in Washington completely let them down" by failing to control spending and address other problems, Corrado said. "The Republicans have really given these donors no reason to give."..a shift of longtime Republicans committed enough to write checks reflects "a real strain" in the GOP.

Katherine Merck "I just can't get over it that my name is in there for sending money to that miserable president," she said. "I think Obama is something we all need badly, really badly. I think that people need to grow up more and learn how to get on in the world without resorting to killing people. I'm talking about the war in Iraq." Worried about the loss of manufacturing jobs to Third World countries, she said, she began volunteering early this year for Obama, who says he'd consider amending trade pacts to protect those jobs. The 48-year-old mother of two has given Obama more than a dozen donations, hitting the maximum $2,300 for the primaries. She's even knocked on the doors of 300 homes in Orangeburg, S.C. and in the affluent Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/39067.html

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[bigfilmhat]

I'm a stunch new deal Democrat, I miss those budget balancing, common sense Repubicans who don't hate the labor, who don't want to rape the environment. The Lincoln Chafees the Teddy Roosevelts, Eisenhower, Fred Hall, Chris Shays, Ray La Hood ect.. I'm glad Sheldon Whitehouse won..

But where have you gone common sense Lincoln Chafee Rebuplicans?????

[lyngranata]

Sue Eisenhower is sooo right, the time has  come for Barrack Obama!

[fenderboy88]

Australia is also doing comparitively better than most advanced economies

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With an increasingly globalized world a solution is only a penstroke away. Europe has enough capital in the bank to attract human resources.

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Death has become a luxury we can't afford. How did life expectancy develop in the same time frame? You can be sure the improvement would be entirely due to medicine because American lifestyle certainly has NOT become healthier since 1960,

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? The US doesn't have those problems. What's your point? Besides the Netherlands is fiscally much healthier than most countries, especially the USA

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5 countries with a lot of people between them. When I find a more expansive survey I will be sure to let you know but this is just the narrow issue of waiting list. There are far more expansive surveys on other issues and in each of them the US get's murdered. How is Canada 'the' example? It is just A example like those others on the list. Btw that survey did cover other criteria as well and overall the US was still dead last behind Canada. Source would be CNN, Sanjay Gupta cited it.