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Rising Clamor: Obama Should Reinstate Shirley Sherrod
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyPresident Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack find themselves besieged today with demands from a vast array of liberal voices -- and some prominent conservatives -- to reinstate hastily fired USDA regional official Shirley Sherrod. As new facts have emerged -- all of them pointing to the capricious nature of Sherrod's sacking -- the White House has found itself the target of stinging criticism from voices that are usually raised in defense of Democrats. Vilsack and Obama are being vilified not just for the pell-mell nature of Sherrod's firing, but for cravenness and cowardice as ...
Vilsack to Review Dismissal of USDA Official in 'Reverse Racism' Case
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyAgriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said early Wednesday that he will review the case of an Agriculture Department official who resigned after a video clip surfaced of her apparently admitting to providing a white farmer with inferior service. Shirley Sherrod, who is African-American, resigned Monday under pressure after the video clip first appeared on a conservative website and later on Fox News. In the video, she seemed to tell an audience she did not do her utmost to help a white farmer avoid foreclosure. However, Sherrod later said the clip only showed part of her comments, and that she ...
Farmer, NAACP Back USDA Official Who Quit in Racial Flap
By Lisa Flam - AOL News(July 20) -- The NAACP said today it was "snookered" into condemning former black USDA official Shirley Sherrod after seeing a partial video clip in which Sherrod made comments about not helping a white farmer as much as she should have. The civil rights group's reversal came after Sherrod said her comments had been taken out of context and the farmer's wife came to her defense. Eloise Spooner said Sherrod had helped save her family farm and is "a friend for life." Spooner told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Sherrod was not being treated fairly. "I said, 'That ain't right. They have ...
'A Wake-Up Call' for Rural America
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyAre America's farms facing a crisis? Addressing the USDA's annual Outlook Forum -- which looks at the year ahead in agriculture -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Thursday, "I want to express concern about the 2.2 million farmers and 50 million people who live in rural America." He noted that rural America has fewer college graduates and an average income $11,000 per-capita less than the national average. Rural America is also older than urban or suburban communities; this year's agricultural census puts the average age of farmers at 57. And as those farmers retire or move on to ...
Tom Vilsack's Farm-Country Tour: A Different Kind of Town Hall
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyHealth care town-hall meetings are certainly stealing the spotlight these days -- but they're not the only game in town. Mostly unnoticed, a quieter series of town halls is taking place on a different crisis: Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has embarked on a listening tour through rural America to hear about the problems facing farmers. And it's a good thing too, because back on the farm, all is not well. ...
Joe the Plumber's Book Tour Drawing Smaller Crowds Than a Jim Gilmore Presidential Rally
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyMaybe this guy should stick to country music.Despite a hilarious website and national exposure as a journalist, DTV pitchman and government analyst, Joe the Plumber is slowly learning that Americans don't care about him nearly as much as John McCain thought they did.Joe, who needless to say, has a book out, is on a nationwide promotion tour (one that arguably began back in October). And how's the turnout, you might ask? Well let's just say we think Joe would give his right plunger for the crowds Jim Gilmore or Tom Vilsack drew to their presidential rallies two years ago.Here's an account from ...
Vilsack: It's Time, Hillary
By David Knowles - Politics DailyFormer Iowa Governor and Hillary Clinton supporter Tom Vilsack has officially broken ranks:"It does appear to be pretty clear that Sen. Obama is going to be the nominee. After Tuesday's contests, she needs to acknowledge that he's going to be the nominee and quickly get behind him."Speaking of Tuesday, Hillary Clinton will speak to her supporters from New York City, not South Dakota or Montana. Ben Smith also reports that Hillary's campaign is "shedding staff."CNN has more writing on the proverbial wall. Citing "sources," it reports that the bulk of the undecided 17 U.S. Senatorial ...
Hot Seat: A VP for the Dems?
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V.P. Choices for the Dems
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThough the question of who the Democrats will pick as their nominee for president has not yet been settled, there has been much speculation as to who might fill out the respective V.P. slots on each ticket. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have different needs when it comes to a running mate, but each will try to find that perfect someone to compliment, augment, bolster, or compensate for their own relative strengths and weaknesses. Let's handicap a few of the possible line-ups. First, there's the tantalizing idea of the "Dream Ticket." which CNN's Wolf Blitzer aired at the Democrats' first ...
Super Tuesday Means Goodbye Forever
By Ken Layne - Politics DailyThey've become almost like distant family over this long year-and-a-half campaign that still has another eight months to go -- the kind of family you pray won't actually show up at Christmas or Thanksgiving, but family nonetheless. Many have already left the 2008 race, and many more will be gone come Super Tuesday.For those of us who follow politics, we know at least some of them by first name: Rudy, Barack, Dennis, Hitlery. And we know one of them by two first names, because that's how much Ron Paul loved Freedom.Others, we didn't really get to know at all. They were like the fifth cousin who ...
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