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John Edwards defended Barack Obama Wednesday against an attack on him by conservative hag Ann Coulter. Coulter told Fox News that the election of Barack Obama would only help al Qaeda. She also said that polls showing Obama beating any Republican candidate were fabricated. Edwards responded by saying, “Just when we thought Ann Coulter couldn’t take the politics of personal destruction any lower, she proved us wrong,” …… “Her outrageous comments are inexcusable and should not be tolerated in the public dialogue.” I guess that means Edwards doesn’t believe in freedom of speech. Her comments are obviously tolerated by the right, and even encouraged. If Edwards would just ignore her he would be better served. To bring it up like this only legitimizes Coulter as someone that should even be listened to. She has no real arguments to back herself up, that is why she always uses personal attacks. Edwards had his own run in with Coulter about a month ago when Coulter hinted that Edwards was a fag. Edwards argued that President Bush’s war on terror has “created a climate where people think it is OK to use the threat of terrorism as a guise for hateful political attacks.” huh?
Alan Cosgrove

Barack Obama was in Detroit on Monday and he criticized the auto industry for it’s failure to keep up with foreign competitors on fuel efficiency. “For years, while foreign competitors were investing in more fuel-efficient technology for their vehicles, American automakers were spending their time investing in bigger, faster cars,” Obama told a group of business leaders. Obama has a plan for them that would cost Americans about 10 billion dollars. He wants to give the automakers 7 billion towards health care for their retired employees. Under this plan the automakers are required to invest half of those savings into technology to produce fuel efficient cars. Then he wants to give another 3 billion to the automakers to help them retool their plants to build these new fuel efficient cars. So Obama wants the U.S. taxpayer to pay for the automakers poor decisions of the last few decades, and help bail them out. It’s all so we can get out from under our dependence on foreign oil according to Obama. “The need to drastically change our energy policy is no longer a debatable proposition. It is not a question of whether, but how; not a question of if, but when. For the sake of our security, our economy, our jobs and our planet, the age of oil must end in our time.” Obama said we must focus more on the cars we drive and the fuel we use. Doing so could save as much as 2.5 million barrels a day. “It starts with our cars, because if we truly hope to end the tyranny of oil, the nation must once again turn to Detroit for another great transformation,” Obama said. And to the taxpayers wallets. This makes about as much sense as Bush giving the oil industry tax breaks to develop alternative fuels. Obama also wants to raise the fuel economy of cars by 4% each year, but Bush has already called for that one.
In other news about Obama, he is asking supporters to walk for Obama on June 9th. In a letter sent to supporters Obama says, “On June 9th, hundreds of thousands of people will have that experience as we take our campaign to the streets in all 50 states for a nationwide neighborhood walk. We’re calling it Walk for Change, and its success depends on you. I’m asking you for something extraordinary. I’m asking you to lead a group of supporters in your community in a neighborhood walk to let people know about our campaign.” If you want to sign up to the Walk for Obama day just click here.
Alan Cosgrove

CBS has informed it’s staff through email that they should no longer enable the comments section on any Barack Obama article. The reason according to the email is that his stories have attracted to many racist comments. According to CBS, they have their “rules of engagement”, and they strictly prohibit racist attacks. Normally they would deal with this by just deleting the comments on an individual basis, but the volume of attacks brought on by his stories overwhelm them. According to CBS they have no plans to disable the comments section on any of the other Presidential candidate, and they hope they can bring back the comments on Obama stories. Racism exists, but should we censure it? Expose it? I guess this explains the early Secret Service protection that Obama got.
Alan Cosgrove

Newt Gingrich was on Face The Nation today and told host Bob Schieffer that Hillary Clinton looked foolish with her call for repealing congressional authority for the Iraq war. “Well, I think, quite frankly, it made her look foolish,” Gingrich said. “If she honestly believed that we should get out of Iraq, vote no on the funding. The Congress has every authority under the Constitution to force the president out of Iraq.” Gingrich said that Hillary only does this to “appease her left who are very angry at her for, you know, not having gone back on her vote on the war.” Gingrich didn’t have anything bad to say about the Republican candidates. He did complain about the debates saying, “In the debate the other night, the Republicans averaged seven minutes and 20 seconds apiece, split up into 25- to 30-second answers,” he said. “The television celebrities dominate these things. They cut people off. They treat them with disrespect.” He has proposed a different style of debate. “Whoever the two nominees are, they should agree in advance to 90-minute dialogue time keeper, but no moderator 90 minutes a week, for nine weeks, from Labor Day to the election. Let the American people have in their living room a chance to see two adults.” Gingrich also talked about the possibility of him running in 08, and Gingrich is still thinking about it. “I’m going to spend all summer developing a new generation of solutions that are different than the current dialogue in Washington,” Gingrich said. “If people adopt them and people campaign on them, I probably won’t run. If, however, the ideas require an advocate and citizenship requires me to run, then in October, you know, starting on September 30th, we’ll look very seriously at whether or not that’s necessary.”
Alan Cosgrove