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When Hillary Clinton won - with the unanimous support of the cocktail waitress lobby - her supporters went insane. They immediately turned and faced the Obama supporters on the other side of the room, un-Iowanly pushing their signs at their sad faces and taunting them with chants as they stormed out of the room while the woman conducting the caucus was still talking on the stage. Although I did not see anyone pour champagne on anyone else, I have trouble believing it did not happen...
...located in these hot spots, should be safe. In addition, Terigin said that his family in Eldoret has informed him that the violence has nearly completely subsided. “Politicians recognize the unrest and plan to settle it politically in Parliament,” he said. Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, backed by a panel of African leaders, has stepped in to lead negotiations between the opposing parties. “If the negotiation succeeds, then everything should go back to normal,” Kitur said. “I would say that it is not dangerous...
...imperial policy. In the specific context of Iraq, one only has to point to the murderous regime of sanctions in place from 1991-2003, which were conducted with the active consent of Clinton’s government (and condemned as “genocidal” by the former UN humanitarian coordinator in Baghdad). Or more generally, consider JFK’s misadventures in Vietnam and Cuba, or even reputed “peacenik” Jimmy Carter’s preemptive meddling in Afghanistan...
...Clinton tried "Turn Up The Heat" as her slogan and, throughout, John Edwards' rhetoric was so hot that it eventually burned him to a cinder. Obama's unspoken slogan was "Turn Down the Heat." The blogger Daily Kos endorsed Obama at first then, frustrated by the lack of fire, un-endorsed him. The far left wing of the Democratic Party may have to rethink the value of vitriol...
What are you missing? A bleakly funny critique of struggling postindustrial American cities; a novelistic, street-smart social drama; a passionate, un-p.c. look at race and class dynamics--all wrapped up in a sprawling story of police work and politics that makes CSI look like an Encyclopedia Brown mystery...