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Bill Clinton: The race must go on
Bill Clinton is standing firmly by his wife, who stood firmly by him when he had a problem or two.
Here are highlights of a fundraising email the ex-president sent today on behalf of the woman he wants to be the next president. Devoted? Delusional? You make the call.
“I want to tell you about the day I had on Monday. I stopped in nine towns throughout North Carolina, starting the day at 7:30 a.m. in Elizabeth City and ending with a rally in Raleigh. That’s the most stops I’ve ever done in a single day - for any campaign. And I couldn’t be happier to work that hard for Hillary.”
“I talked to a lot of people that day, and one thing was crystal clear - people want Hillary to stay in this race until every last voter has a say. That’s why Hillary and I are working so hard. That’s why we’ve made a deep commitment to keep campaigning, keep fighting, and keep winning.”
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McCain’s mom
On Mother’s Day (which is this Sunday, go buy a card) the John McCain campaign will run a TV ad featuring his mom Roberta talking about his childhood.
See the ad here
But for a more up-close look at Mrs. McCain, watch the above video showing her giving a tour of her Washington apartment. Mrs. McCain is 96. So is her twin sister Rowena. Really.
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New farm bill far from Bush’s demands
Details of a new farm bill worked out by House-Senate conferees — still undisclosed but confirmed by Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., — sharply decrease income limits for direct-payment subsidies.
Farmers with outside adjusted gross income over $500,000 for singles and $1 million for married couples will be ineligible for direct payments, which are received regardless of commodity prices. The income limit for those who farm exclusively will be $750,000 for singles and $1.5 million for couples.
President Bush had repeatedly urged Congress set an income cap of $200,000.
“We’ve made huge, huge changes and reforms in the payment limit provision and the president does recognize that,” Chambliss said this morning.
Emerging from weeks of intense negotiations over a new farm bill, House and Senate conferees are keeping quiet about the final details until a public announcement set for at 2 p.m. EDT.
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Lance: Non-Smoking Please
He’s tackled time trials, sprints and the heights of the Pyrenees en route to his seven victories in the Tour de France, but there’s one thing bicycling legend Lance Armstrong hasn’t missed since he retired from competitive cycling.
“I raced for 15 years in Europe and I was around enough cigarette smoke to last me a lifetime,” Armstrong testified Thursday before the Senate Committee on Health, Education and Pensions.
The experience has made Armstrong a fervent foe of smoking in restaurants or other public places where customers and employees have no choice but to choke down second-hand smoke. “That’s not fair,” he told the committee at a hearing on the state of cancer research and treatment.
As a survivor of testicular cancer, Armstrong has become a spokesman for the estimated 12 million Americans who suffer from some form of cancer.
“Tobacco, use and abuse, would be the number one thing,” in reducing the risk, he told the panel. “It’s an addictive drug that is marketed and targeted to the youth of America,” he said. “As a father of three and a cancer survivor, that’s troubling … As a society, we have to address that in some way.”
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Bonior backs Barack
Former Michigan Rep. David Bonior, who was national chairman of John Edwards’ unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, endorsed Barack Obama today.
Here’s his statement:
“John Edwards ran a campaign focused on fulfilling a promise to America’s working families that they could once again trust their leaders to put them first. As I look at the presidential race as it stands today, I see one candidate who has proven he can bring the kind of change to Washington that will mean more jobs, better pay for American workers, and health care for every single American. That candidate is Barack Obama.”
“This is a critical election in our nation’s history. For too long, Wall Street lobbyists and special interests have blocked real change for hardworking Americans. Senator Obama is the candidate who can take on the Wall Street lobbyists and make sure Washington works for working families again. Senator Obama has been fighting for working families ever since he moved to Chicago more than twenty years ago to help turn around communities that were struggling after the local steel plants closed.”
“Tuesday was a critical moment in this race. Because Barack Obama continues to run a positive campaign that focuses on the issues that matter to ordinary Americans, he has won a commanding lead in this race, and I believe he can and will defeat John McCain in November. Now is the time to unite behind Barack Obama so we can end business-as-usual in Washington and fulfill our moral obligation to America’s hardworking families.”
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Hillary discusses her loans to her campaign
Here’s Hillary Clinton talking about the $6.425 million she loaned to her campaign in recent weeks, which is in addition to a previous $5 million personal loan.
The comments came today after a campaign stop in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
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Gingrich warns home state of impending GOP doom
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich continued Wednesday to issue dire warnings about his Republican Party’s prospects for November’s election.
“When you lose the speaker’s seat in Illinois that you’ve had for 75 years, and you lose a seat in Louisiana you’ve had since 1977…and you look at the national polling data, you had better figure out that the voters generally are not happy with how Republicans have run Washington,” the former speaker said as reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Political Insider.
Gingrich, in Atlanta to witness a Georgia bill signing, said Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign future is now “verging on a cliff.”
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Hillary: “It’s still early.”
Watch Hillary Clinton make her case that the nomination is still not decided. She spoke with reporters after a campaign speech in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
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Lewis promises ‘non-violent’ thrashing of challengers
Facing his first primary challenge in a decade, Rep. John Lewis said Wednesday he is confident he can take on the two Democrats seeking to displace him. The civil rights icon, whose career began in nonviolent protesting, quipped: “I’m going to give them a non-violent kick.”
The Atlanta Democrat, first elected to Congress in 1986, said he was “somewhat surprised that someone would challenge me and talk about change. That’s what I’ve been about all my life. I am change. But it’s OK. People have a right to run.”
He said he would continue returning every weekend to his home district and take nothing for granted. “I want to win big,” Lewis said. “No one is going to outwork me.”
Two Atlanta Democrats, Markel Hutchins, a minister, and State Rep. Able Mable Thomas, have filed to run against Lewis in the July 15 primary.
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Bush honors Fort Hood spouse
The wife of a Fort Hood soldier fielded a “thank you” from the commander in chief Tuesday for her work to help military families care for wounded soldiers.
Colleen Saffron was one of six military spouses who received the President’s Volunteer Service Award on the South Lawn of the White House. Saffron’s husband, Staff Sgt. Terry Saffron, shattered his jaw and injured his arm in Iraq four years ago after an improvised explosive device detonated.
In 2007, Colleen Saffron and others formed Operation Life Transformed, a nonprofit foundation that pays for spouses and other caregivers to learn how to care for wounded troops.
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