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Obama to U.N.: 'Climate threat' grave
The Swampby Christi Parsons and updated NEW YORK -- President Obama this morning issued an appeal to world leaders to help avert "an irreversible catastrophe" in the earth's climate, accepting a portion of blame for global warming on behalf of the......Tags: Famines, United Nations, China, National Government, Barack Obama
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Obama, Mideast: 'Time to move forward'
The Swampby Christi Parsons NEW YORK -- Insisting that Middle East peace-talks must move beyond a familiar pattern of taking "tentative steps forward and then stepping back," President Obama entered a meeting with Israeli and Palestinian leaders this afternoon...Tags: Astoria, Mahmoud Abbas, United Nations, Barack Obama, Washington (U.S. state)
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Food, Fuel, Famine
The Swampby Stephen J. Hedges U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer, who travels to a world food security conference in Rome next week, laid out the Bush administration's strategy today for meeting the current worldwide crisis of rising food costs and shortages......Tags: Food Industry, Health, Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Disasters and Accidents
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Cheney: Tax cuts, security, game plan
The Swampby Mark Silva Vice President Dick Cheney - the "magic man'' of the Bush administration, in the words of the now-renowned Scott McClellan - stirred up the Republican faithful last night in New York, scene of the party convention that......Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Elections, George W. Bush, Connecticut, Defense
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Rice's Rules of Engagement
The SwampBy Bay Fang Despite diligently ignoring each other at a United Nations-led conference on Iraq in Stockholm, Sweden, Condoleezza Rice and Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki could not avoid getting into a bit of a public spat. At the meeting,......Tags: United Nations, Politics, Political Systems, Condoleezza Rice
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Clinton and sexism -- Not 'death knell'
The Swampby Mark Silva Was Sen. Hillary Clinton a victim of sexism in her failed bid for the Democratic presidential nomination? Some of her supporters say so. Then again, some will say that Sen. Barack Obama has suffered from racial prejudice......Tags: Upper House, Minority Groups, Mitt Romney, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Elections
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Bush: (Welcome) American in Paris
The Swampby Marc Silva There have been, as French President Nicolas Sarkozy gently put it today, a few "hiccups'' along the way in that long history of Franco-American relations. Must have been the "Freedom Fries.'' But you wouldn't have known that......Tags: Diplomacy, Death, Politics, Social Issues, White House
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Obama: We need City Hall, not McCain
The Swampby John McCormick, updated with McCain response Sen. Barack Obama told a conference of mayors Saturday in Miami that he knows he will need to listen to them if he makes it to the White House, otherwise the snow in......Tags: Thomas Jefferson, Barack Obama, Richard M. Daley, George W. Bush, White House
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Black terror comments: 'Inappropriate'
The Swampby Jill Zuckman After telling Fortune magazine that a terror attack on the United States would be "a big advantage" for Sen. John McCain in the presidential campaign, senior adviser Charles R. Black, Jr. was forced to recant the sentiment......Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Barack Obama, John McCain, Osama bin Laden
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Dobson criticizes Obama on religion
The Swampby Katie Fretland An influential conservative figure criticizes Sen. Barack Obama on religion today in a radio segment saying the candidate for president has distorted the Bible and pushed a "fruitcake interpretation" of the Constitution. James Dobson,...Tags: Al Sharpton, Barack Obama, John McCain
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Obama v. McCain: Fate of women's rights
The Swampby Mark Silva In his show of unity with Sen. Hillary Clinton in Unity, N.H., Sen. Barack Obama made note of what the former first lady's campaign for president had done for the cause of women's rights. "Because of the......Tags: Ohio, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Rights, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton
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Obama and Clinton's show of "Unity"
The SwampBy John McCormick and Mike Dorning updated UNITY, N.H. - Two fierce and sometimes spiteful rivals offered a schoolyard embrace Friday, standing in the same state where one had first blocked the other from what could have been a much......Tags: Iowa, Arlo Guthrie, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Elections
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