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Rick Santorum's Comments on Obama and Abortion -- Clarified
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyFormer Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, who is expected to seek the GOP nomination for president in 2012, this week became embroiled in controversy over comments he made about President Obama and the abortion issue. During an interview with CNS News' Terry Jeffrey, Santorum noted then-candidate Obama's 2008 comments that determining when human life begins was above his pay grade. Here is Santorum's controversial quote: "The question is (and this is what Barack Obama didn't want to answer): Is that [unborn] human life a 'person' under the Constitution? And Barack Obama says no. Well if ...
LeBron James, Jesse Jackson and Dan Gilbert: Let's Not Play the Slavery Card
By Donna Britt - Politics DailyMel Gibson, recent revelations suggest, must be crazy. But he isn't alone. Competing with the epithet-spewing actor for this week's is-he-nuts? headlines was Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert, who became publicly unhinged after the nation's sports media lost its collective mind in its rabid coverage of NBA superstar LeBron James' interminable decision about where to play next season. Topping off the craziness was activist Jesse Jackson's comparison Sunday of the pampered basketball star to an escaped slave. After being lavishly courted by a half-dozen ardent NBA suitors, league MVP James ...
Tavis Smiley's Anti-Obama Rants Largely Ignored in Anacostia
By Lauren E. Bohn and Chika Oduah - Politics DailyWASHINGTON – Pages of The Washington Post lay scattered across a torn blue chair in the My Spott barber shop in Anacostia one day last week as " J," 18, watched her friend, Sweetz, get her weekly cut. News about the neighborhood, the poorest in the city's Ward 8, has held prime real estate on the paper's front page recently. Earlier this month, a shooting left four young people dead and five wounded. The following week, the first family celebrated Easter at Allen Chapel AME Church. J is the first to tell you that Ward 8 in Southeast Washington is riddled with poverty, rattled by gun ...
Back Porch Photo of the Day: 'When Did You Trim the Wig, Rev. Sharpton?'
By Ryan Wilson - AOL NewsWe provide the picture, you provide the 1,000 words. It's the Back Porch Photo of the Day.Jerry: "If you think I love dancing, you should see Wade." Jesse: (blank stare)The actual photo caption for those of you who might be interested: ARLINGTON, TX - FEBRUARY 14: Reverend Jesse Jackson speaks to Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones prior to the NBA All-Star Game, part of 2010 NBA All-Star Weekend on February 14, 2010 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2010 NBAE (Photo by Garrett Ellwood/NBAE via Getty Images). ...
On Obama White House Visitor Log: Lobbyists, Movie Stars and Bailed Out CEOs
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyThe White House released a visitor's log late Friday that revealed many of DC's biggest Democratic lobbyists have made frequent visits, despite President Obama's stringent new lobbying rules. The record of visitors also looks like a red carpet list of celebrities and Hollywood movie stars. And CEOs of all those Wall Street banks the government bailed out earlier this year came calling frequently, too. Many of the Democratic lobbyists who frequented the White House this year are also among the highest earning lobbying firms in 2009, including power player Steve Elmendorf of Elmendorf Strategies ...
Obama, Kanye West, Tommy Lasorda, and Jesse Jackson: Lessons of the Open Mic
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyThree decades ago, when powerful directional microphones were becoming commonplace in broadcast reporting, a newspaper colleague of mine played the most remarkable tape recording for me. It was made during the fourth game of the 1977 World Series at Dodger Stadium and stars Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda, at whom the mic had been aimed. ...
Jesse Jackson Wants to Make an Issue of Michael Vick in the NFL
By Michael David Smith - AOL NewsThe Rev. Jesse Jackson is accusing NFL teams conspiring against Michael Vick to keep him out of the league, even after he has been freed from prison and conditionally reinstated by Commissioner Roger Goodell. Speaking to New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden, Jackson said he is ready to take a public stand against what he views as collusion by NFL owners: "I want to make it an issue," Jackson said Thursday in a telephone interview. "I want teams to explain why they have a quarterback who has less skills but is playing or at least is on the taxi squad, and a guy with more skills can't get ...
Jesse Jackson Said What!?
By Dave - Politics DailyNo, not the nuts thing, the other thing, AOL News has it:The Rev. Jesse Jackson used the N-word during a break in a TV interview where he criticized presidential candidate Barack Obama, Fox News confirmed Wednesday.The longtime civil rights leader already came under fire this month for crude off-air comments he made against Obama in what he thought was a private conversation during a taping of a "Fox & Friends" news show.In additional comments from that same conversation, first reported by TVNewser, Jackson is reported to have said Obama was "talking down to black people," and referred to ...
It's Crowded 'Under the Bus'
By David Knowles - Politics DailyGreetings from our nation's capital! Here, a robust public transportation system helps shield the local populace from the pain of high gasoline prices. But that's not to say there aren't mobility problems. In fact, this year, DC has witnessed a sharp increase in high-profile political figures who have been tossed "under the bus." Really, it's a wonder that they run at all anymore. The single-most overused cliché among pundits and journalists these days, "under the bus" connotes a public cutting-of-ties with a former ally. The action, like a sucker-punch on its hapless victim, often, but not ...
Nader: Barack Obama 'Talks White'
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThere's a new candidate for president chanting "Den-ver! Den-ver!" Independent presidential candidate and, some say, Al Gore spoiler Ralph Nader has a bone to pick with the DNC's heir apparent, Barack Obama, and plans to take them to task at August's Democratic National Convention. From The Rocky Mountain News: "He wants to show that he is not a threatening . . . another politically threatening African-American politician," Nader said. "He wants to appeal to white guilt. You appeal to white guilt not by coming on as black is beautiful, black is powerful. Basically he's coming on as someone who ...
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