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US Election 2008
Obama's Game Changing
On the Saturday before the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, Hillary Clinton stood on the back of a vintage pickup truck in Gastonia, N.C., and let fly in the most impressive fashion - a woman transformed from Eleanor Roosevelt into Huey Long in two short months. Spotting a big yellow placard that said GAS TAX HOLIDAY IS BLATANT PANDERING - a sign she would have ignored in her earlier, less feisty incarnations - she went after the young Obamish sign-holders: Why wasn't the Federal Reserve accused of pandering when it bailed out the Bear Stearns investment bank to the tune of $30 billion?
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Why shouldn't the oil companies pay the federal gasoline tax this summer instead of the people who "hold their breath" every time they pull up to the gas pump? "I know that some people don't have to worry when they go to the supermarket," she said, staring accusingly at the placard bearers, but "there are people who count their pennies as they walk down the aisle," trying to figure out what they can afford. "Don't they deserve a break every once in a while? They haven't done anything wrong ... The oil companies have had it their way for too long," she said. "I'm tired of being a patsy."
May 8, 2008 - 10:03:12 PM
US Election 2008
The Five Mistakes Clinton Made
For all her talk about "full speed on to the White House," there was an unmistakably elegiac tone to Hillary Clinton's primary-night speech in Indianapolis. And if one needed further confirmation that the undaunted, never-say-die Clintons realize their bid might be at an end, all it took was a look at the wistful faces of the husband and the daughter who stood behind the candidate as she talked of all the people she has met in a journey "that has been a blessing for me."
May 8, 2008 - 8:07:07 PM
US Election 2008
Navy releases McCain's military record
WASHINGTON - From his five years in a North Vietnamese prison camp to his tenure as the Navy's liaison to the Senate, John McCain's Navy record boils down to a series of unadorned paragraphs that bestow upon him some of the nation's top military honors.
May 8, 2008 - 7:51:43 PM
US Election 2008
Sunday Political Outlook May 4, 08
As rhetoric over foreign policy, electability and a gas tax holiday intensifies less than 48 hours before another defining moment in the epic 2008 election, the Democratic presidential contenders stepped off the trial Sunday in Indiana for separate Sunday show interviews on dueling television networks.
May 4, 2008 - 8:48:02 PM
World
Hong Kong Embraces Olympic Torch
HONG KONG — Thousands of mainland Chinese and Hong Kong residents cheered the Olympic torch through the streets of Hong Kong on Friday during the largely peaceful first leg of its three-month trip through China.
A small crowd jeered, threw a few eggs and physically blocked a march by about 20 activists who tried to follow the torch relay while calling for human rights and democracy in China.
May 2, 2008 - 8:05:48 PM
Caribbean Latin America News
Stores Hint at Change Under New Castro
HAVANA — Can a rice maker possibly be revolutionary? There they were, piled up one atop another, Chinese-made rice makers selling for $70 each. Beside them, sleek DVD players. Across the well-stocked electronics store were computers and televisions and other household appliances that President Raúl Castro recently decreed ought to be made available to average Cubans, or at least those who could afford them.
May 2, 2008 - 4:21:10 PM
World
Beijing Air Terminal Goes All Out for the Games
BEIJING — Beijing airport’s new Terminal 3 — twice the size of the Pentagon — is the largest building in the world. Adorned with the colors of imperial China and a roof that evokes the scales of a dragon, the massive glass- and steel-sheathed structure, designed by the renowned British architect Norman Foster, cost $3.8 billion and can handle more than 50 million passengers a year. The developers call it the “most advanced airport building in the world,” and say it was completed in less than four years, a timetable some believed impossible.
May 2, 2008 - 4:13:18 PM
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Posted On: May 8 2008, 11:06 AM | Title: Radio Kyskeya_Haiti_ Ratification du premier ministre désigné Ericq Pierre par le Sénat
Le Sénat a ratifié mercredi soir le choix de M. Ericq Pierre comme premier ministre par 17 voix pour et 2 abstentions, sur 20 sénateurs présents, le président de l'assemblée ne votant pas.
Ce vote est intervenu après que M. Pierre a fait parvenir à la commission de ratification des pièces qui manquaient à son dossier. Le premier sénateur de l'Ouest, Jean Hector Anacacis (plate-forme présidentielle LESPWA), avait exigé la communication desdites pièces au nom du respect scrupuleux de l'Article 157 de la Constitution sur les conditions d'accession au poste de premier ministre.
Anacacis a toutefois exprimé son étonnement d'avoir appris mercredi matin à la radio la tenue du vote la veille, alors qu'à son départ du Sénat il avait été convenu que cela se ferait au cours de la journée de mercredi. Il a exhorté tout un chacun à prendre note de son attitude au début et jusqu'à la fin du processus.
C'est maintenant autour de la Chambre basse de se prononcer sur le dossier de M. Pierre. Une commission de ratification a finalement été formée à cet effet. Le bloc parlementaire dénommé Coalition des Parlementaires Progressistes (CPP) réunissant 53 députés, a sollicité mercredi une rencontre avec le premier ministre désigné.
Au niveau des deux Chambres une véritable course contre la montre est engagée. Au Sénat, le mandat des sénateurs élus pour deux ans arrive à terme ce jeudi. Les bouchées doubles sont mises pour parvenir au vote, avant minuit ce jeudi, de la nouvelle loi électorale.
Les députés sont également pressés par le temps. Alors que le Sénat fonctionne en permanence, ils doivent partir en vacance le deuxième lundi de mai (Article 92-2 de la Constitution). Ils se sont toutefois engagés à répondre à toute décision de l'Exécutif de les convoquer à l'extraordinaire, conformément à l'Article 105 de la Constitution. [jmd/RK]
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