Positive Universe Abstracts

Raw Story

Nick Juliano

Rush Limbaugh would like little more than to see Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama keep fighting each other for at least the next month, if not until the Democratic Convention itself.

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Indiana exit polls showed that four in ten Democrats who said they would vote for McCain over Clinton in a general election [...]

guardian.co.uk

US elections 2008: African-American voters in North Carolina made Obama’s victory decisive, but Clinton pushed them into his camp

Terry Mancour

May 7, 2008 4:00

Barack Obama took North Carolina by … let’s just say it’s a generous portion. His 14-point victory was far in excess of what his supporters had hoped. Far more than Hillary’s people had [...]

Online Journal

By Reza Fiyouzat Online Journal Contributing Writer

If it was unclear to most American observers of the U.S. presidential elections, it was clear to most Middle Easterners, of whom I am one. I am talking about the recently solved mystery about what one Democratic candidate, Hilary Clinton, would ultimately be willing to do to us Middle [...]

Boston Globe

By James Carroll May 5, 2008

INSANITY is defined as repeating one mistaken action again and again, each time expecting a better result that never comes. Prime example: the United States in Iraq. Washington perceived a weapons of mass destruction threat from Saddam Hussein, but instead of responding with diplomacy - internationally coordinated weapons inspections - [...]

Huffington Post

Lee Stranahan

In a hastily called press conference, Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama tonight disassociated in the strongest terms yet from his controversial colleague Hillary Clinton.

“The events of the past several days have made it clear that Senator Clinton is not helping my campaign one bit,” Obama said, “This is a woman who I have [...]

ZNet

May 04, 2008 By Betsy Reed Source: The Nation

In the course of Hillary Clinton’s historic run for the White House–in which she became the first woman ever to prevail in a state-level presidential primary contest– she has been likened to Lorena Bobbitt (by Tucker Carlson); a “hellish housewife” (Leon Wieseltier); and described as “witchy,” a “she-devil,” [...]

Huffington Post, NY

by Peter Birkenhead

Hillary Clinton and John McCain should be careful what they ask for from the Rev. Wright controversy. Surrogates for their campaigns are still, even after Barack Obama’s clear denunciation of Rev. Wright on Tuesday, accusing him of bad judgment for not doing it sooner, and, implicitly, of doing it out of [...]