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[Obama], who in other contexts has tried to compare [Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.] to a loutishly eccentric old uncle, told an interviewer that the quotes were the result of "cherry picking" the pastor's many sermons. By Friday, though, the senator and his campaign had begun to understand that his association with Wright is problematic in ways neither [John Hagee] nor [Geraldine Ferraro] were for [John McCain] and [Hillary Rodham Clinton]. For one thing, the video clips of Wright's inflammatory homilies are caught up in the new media loop. They're all over the Internet, the cable news shows and right-wing talk radio. They have "gone viral. The Illinois senator is nothing if not an adroit campaigner, and he clearly understood that an Internet firestorm required an Internet backfire. So late F...
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The presidential candidates include Guy Bouvier, who was elected as MN-S vice president in the organization's last election in May 2004 and who took on the role as acting president when former MN-S president Dwayne Roth resigned from the post in May 2006, and two candidates who went up against Roth in the 2004 election-Robert Doucette and Alex Maurice. Also running for the position of president are Phillip Chartier, who was elected as regional representative for the Clearwater/Clear Lake Region in the last election, and Métis activist John Melenchuk, whose last bid for public office was in 2006, when he launched an unsuccessful attempt to become mayor of Saskatoon.
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Even those candidates willing to question conventional wisdom on Cuba - such as Republican Mike Huckabee, who knocked the current Cuba policy when he was still governor of Arkansas - are now sure to sing from the official "Cuba Si, Castro No" songbook every presidential candidate since Richard Nixon has followed when visiting Little Havana.For a Canadian watching the election unfold in South Florida, it's a tad strange to think that even those presidential candidates who favour normalizing relations with Cuba insist they will bar their citizens from visiting an island just 90 miles south of Miami. Curtis Brown is a former Brandon Sun editor who is travelling across the U.S. and watching the presidential primaries as part of a U.S. State Department exchange program.
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Among the reasons are the high potential for terrorist attacks, widespread disappointment in the political system - which is regarded as terribly corrupt - allegations of vote-buying and bribery as well as double voting and suspicions that ballot boxes will be tampered with by supporters of the wily incumbent, Hamid Karzai - who curiously has the declared backing of at least a dozen of the other presidential candidates. Because of security questions and the country's challenging geography, preliminary results are not expected for at least 48 hours and it could take weeks for all the votes to be tabulated.
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THE man tipped to be Australia's 31st prime minister was drinking a few beers with journalists in the far western state capital of Perth one recent night when the subject of one of Australia's most elite schools came up. We didn't have that sort of thing at Nambour High," mused a smiling [Kevin Rudd], hands behind his head, chin pointed at the ceiling as he affected a fond reminisce about his school days. When it comes to the "log cabin'" stakes -- the humble backgrounds that most American presidential candidates aspire to -- few can match Mr. Rudd.
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In America, too, huddled masses are less welcome as many presidential candidates promise to fence off Mexico. And around the rich world, immigration has been rising to the top of voters' lists of concerns -- which, for those who believe that migration greatly benefits both recipient and donor countries, is a worry in itself. Given all these gains, why the backlash? Partly because politicians prefer to pander to xenophobic fears than to explain immigration's benefits. But not all fear of foreigners is irrational. Voters have genuine concerns. It is not all about money, however. As the London tube bombers and Paris' burning banlieues have shown, the social integration of new arrivals is also crucial. The advent of Islamist terrorism has sharpened old fears that incoming foreigners may fai...
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It's that difficulty that helps push a recession ever closer. Business can't get easy credit for expansion, consumers can't get easy credit to buy products, homebuyers find it more difficult to get mortgages. The failure cannot just be laid at [Bush]'s door, it is broader than that. For Wall Street and for the City of London, it is a failure of risk assessment. Most of all, it is a failure of institutional memory. Risky lending on overly optimistic views of property prices has happened so many times, it almost inconceivable that this crisis flows from so easy a mistake. It is the inertia of this system that has failed to produce universal health care, failed to normalize the position of millions of illegal immigrants and on Monday, failed to underpin the world's financial system. Both p...
...Both presidential candidates had openly supported the plan. It didn'...
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Nothing happens by mistake in the Tight Ship Harper, certainly not at the level of the prime minister's chief of staff, Ian Brodie. The former law professor at first claimed, through [Stephen Harper]'s communications director Sandra Buckler, that he "does not recall" discussing the Democratic presidential candidates' positions on NAFTA with CTV reporters during the budget lockup. The strategy ranks Canada's national interest well below Harper's partisan one. U.S. ambassador David Wilkins, a Republican, agreed the leak was interference but not "insurmountable." [Barack Obama] Democrats may be less forgiving, since "NAFTAGate" may have cost them Ohio and perhaps, the nomination. Said Democratic consultant Bob Shrum on U.S. national television: "You've got a right-wing government in Canad...
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Most of [John McCain]'s other former primary rivals will speak, including former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee, Kansas Senator Sam Brownback and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who also is mentioned as a potential vice-presidential candidates. McCain's vice-presidential candidate is scheduled to speak on the third night of the convention, the same night McCain's wife, Cindy, will give her address. McCain will accept the nomination on the final night.
