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A gay sailor, guns, Tenet's cash and polls
May 08, 2007 9:22 AM
In a new Gallup/USA Today poll, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, vaults over Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, with a 15 point lead, 38% to 23%. MORE HERE.
Clinton pollster Mark Penn says very simply that this is the result of the Democratic debate. "At the debate, people got the first chance to see them all side-by-side," Penn says, "and I think she is looking very ready to lead."
On the GOP side, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani bests Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., 34% to 20%. This despite NEWS in today's Politico that Giuliani and his then-wife donated $900 to Planned Parenthood in the 1990s.
Then there's that Newsweek poll, which has President Bush's approval rating at 28%. Yikes.
Yesterday I spent some time on the phone with a gay Navy man who says he was discharged from the military for being gay then called back up to serve in Kuwait. With able help from Jonathan Karl at the Pentagon, the STORY CAN BE READ HERE.
Then be sure not to miss this look at SALON.COM about all the money former CIA director George Tenet is making from corporations that profit in Iraq.
And this LOOK, from a pro-gun website, suggesting that in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, some states are pushing laws that would increase the number of guns out there, in Tennessee (LINK) and South Carolina (LINK), for instance.
Thoughts?
- jpt
May 8, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (3)
The fact remains HYPOCRIT HILLARY is still for amnesty of the illegal aliens....as are all democrats. Go to her site's blogs. If you mention illegals, your blog is deleted.
I'll vote for Ron Paul.....An honest politician! UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Calico369 | May 12, 2007 2:21:24 AM
The only two presidents who achieved lower approval ratings were Nixon during Watergate and Truman during the Korean War. How low will GWB go? Can you say "single digit approval ratings?"
Great story that you and Jonathan Karl wrote about Jason Knight! The armed services' "don't ask, don't tell" policy is a travesty, since it deprives so many able people who want to serve their country of the opportunity to do so. Sen. McCain's comments about this policy are typical of that ilk, and are nothing more than regurgitated rationalizations from the era when Truman integrated the military. The "arguments" used today against gays and lesbians are mere variations of the rationalizations used then.
And as for your last item, the states that believe that the panacea for this society's ills is for more people to be able to legally carry concealed weapons have never been known to be in the forefront of advanced social legislation, and probably aren't this time, either.
Posted by: chuck | May 8, 2007 10:07:46 AM
Awesome! How poetic would it be if Guiliani finally had the chance to challenge Hillary?
Posted by: cordelia525 | May 8, 2007 9:49:07 AM
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