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Huckabee says Romney is running a dishonest campaign. He’s quoted as saying “I don’t believe Mr. Romney is going to get (the nomination) because I think Republican voters are looking for somebody who really not just reflected in his recent rhetoric, but actually reflected in his record a Republican record, a conservative record, a pro-life, pro-Second Amendment record and that’s not what they’re going to find if they keep looking.” Romney and Huckabee are the leading Republican candidates in Iowa at the moment.
Mike Bloomberg is becoming more interested in running an Independant campaign for the presidency. According to the NY Times “(d)espite public denials, the mayor has privately suggested scenarios in which he might be a viable candidate: for instance, if the opposing major party candidates are poles apart, like Mike Huckabee, a Republican, versus Barack Obama or John Edwards as the Democratic nominee.”
World news-
More evidence, and more confusions of evidence are arrising in the case of Bhutto’s assassination last week. From Time- “With rumors of government complicity in Benazir Bhutto’s assassination rife throughout Pakistan, the country’s stability may depend on the absolute transparencey of the investigation into the murder. But a constantly evolving and sometimes contradictory explanation of the events by Pakistani investigators has only clouded the issue. Meanwhile, her husband and her supporters are asking for a United Nations-led inquiry into her death, something Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is unlikely to accede to. But even if Musharraf were to agree, there is very little for international forensics experts to investigate.”
North Korea has missed the deadlines for nuclear disclosure. But that was pretty much expected to happen.
U.N. officials are taking control in Darfur. Well, trying to anyway. Originally the plan was to have 26,000 troops deployed there. The number they did receive? 9,000, about 1/3 of the desired number. Speculation runs rampant as to whether the troops will even make a difference there.
News that both breaks your heart and makes you scratch your head-
From USA Today- A 6-year-old girl who won four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert with an essay falsely claiming her father died in Iraq isn’t going to the show after all. The contest’s sponsor, a store chain named Club Libby Lu, withdrew the prize Saturday and awarded it to another contestant. It didn’t identify the new winner. The opening line in the essay was: “My daddy died this year in Iraq.” The girl’s mother had told Club Libby Lu officials that the girl’s father died April 17 in a roadside bombing in Iraq, company spokeswoman Robyn Caulfield said. But the mother, Priscilla Ceballos, admitted later Friday that the essay and the military information she provided about her daughter’s father were untrue. “We did the essay and that’s what we did to win. We did whatever we could do to win,” Ceballos said in an interview Friday with KDFW-TV of Dallas. “But when (Caulfield) asked me if this essay is true, I said ‘No, this essay is not true.’”
I don’t care how hot a ticket Hannah Montana might be, the ridiculous spectacle that is being called “The Beatles” for the current younger generation. With people going so far as to spend $1,800 on seats. With governors pulling strings to get their families in. It’s still just a concert, and to falsify claims like that to get in, is a blatant slap in the face to every family that has felt the sting of losing a loved one to not just the current war, but any war. This is just me on a soapbox here- but shame on them. I hope they feel disgusted with themselves.
*ahem*
After all that, I think it’s a good time to roll to a close.
Happy and safe New Years to all.
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December 31st, 2007 at 10:08 pm
that last story really pissed me off. I agree that it's a complete slap in the face! The gall of oding something as disgusting as that for concert tickets? Really classy.
January 1st, 2008 at 12:08 am
that last story really pissed me off. I agree that it’s a complete slap in the face! The gall of oding something as disgusting as that for concert tickets? Really classy.
January 1st, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Romney has the record, experience, smarts, convictions, family orientedness. What else could you ask for?
Huckabee has shown his true colors with this attempt to fool the media and attack Romney by implying disohnesty while saying he's not negative.
Romney was chosen to head the scandal plaqued olymplics precisely because he was a proven excecutive with an impecable reputation for honesty.
Vote for Rommy. Don't belive the flip flopping stuff. Romney only did honest flips, but no flops.
Go Romney!
January 2nd, 2008 at 1:05 am
Romney has the record, experience, smarts, convictions, family orientedness. What else could you ask for?
Huckabee has shown his true colors with this attempt to fool the media and attack Romney by implying disohnesty while saying he’s not negative.
Romney was chosen to head the scandal plaqued olymplics precisely because he was a proven excecutive with an impecable reputation for honesty.
Vote for Rommy. Don’t belive the flip flopping stuff. Romney only did honest flips, but no flops.
Go Romney!
January 2nd, 2008 at 1:22 pm
The Hannah Montana story just makes me shake my head and wonder what the world is comming to. First of all that with all that is going on in the world that the Hannah's and Britney's make new is a shame. Think about the trouble that the new generation is in if this is all what they see and worst what they are learning.
January 2nd, 2008 at 3:22 pm
The Hannah Montana story just makes me shake my head and wonder what the world is comming to. First of all that with all that is going on in the world that the Hannah’s and Britney’s make new is a shame. Think about the trouble that the new generation is in if this is all what they see and worst what they are learning.