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Kill this bill, break its back because it is a pile of crap

WASHINGTON (AP) - Immigration has supplanted Iraq as the leading issue on television and radio talk shows, complicating the prospects of a Senate bill desperately wanted by President Bush.

Conservative talk radio’s impact on the immigration debate reached new heights last week, with one host effectively writing an amendment for when the Senate returns to the imperiled bill this week.

National talk show hosts have spent months denouncing the bill as providing amnesty for illegal immigrants. Some top Republicans who support the legislation have defied the broadcast pundits. Others GOP lawmakers have tried to placate them, even to the point of accepting their ideas for amendments.

Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., the key conservative negotiator behind the compromise bill, told reporters Friday that California-based radio host Hugh Hewitt “had several ideas” that “we are trying to include” in amendments to be offered in an upcoming series of crucial votes.

Hewitt, a conservative who has criticized many aspects of the bill, had Kyl as a guest on Thursday and asked: “Does the bill provide for any separate treatment of aliens, illegal aliens from countries of special concern?”

Kyl replied: “It’s going to, as a result of your lobbying efforts to me.”

But now Kyl and McCaint will want to have all talk show hosts register as lobbyist…just watch…

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Obama must have some count that there are less Christians in America than their are none Christians. Or is he really tat stupid to say the Christians are all right wing hacks?

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Sen. Barack Obama told a church convention Saturday that some right- wing evangelical leaders have exploited and politicized religious beliefs in an effort to sow division.

“Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and started being used to drive us apart. It got hijacked,” the Democratic presidential candidate said in remarks prepared for delivery before the national meeting of the United Church of Christ.

“Part of it’s because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, who’ve been all too eager to exploit what divides us,” the Illinois senator said.

“At every opportunity, they’ve told evangelical Christians that Democrats disrespect their values and dislike their church, while suggesting to the rest of the country that religious Americans care only about issues like abortion and gay marriage, school prayer and intelligent design,” according to an advance copy of his speech.

“There was even a time when the Christian Coalition determined that its number one legislative priority was tax cuts for the rich,” Obama said. “I don’t know what Bible they’re reading, but it doesn’t jibe with my version.”

Play to poor black man against the rich white man ticket! tat will work…right

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I looked at the Ward Churchill Ward Churchill Solidarity Network and laughed at how stupid people are, They are on the other side of the world and think they understand what is going on based on their own political leis blinders and all.

Dear CU Regents,

I am an American Citizen living in Germany where I am currently completing my Ph.D. in Biophysics.  I have been following the case of Ward Churchill’s alleged academic misconduct.  It appears to me and I would venture to say much of the rest of the Western world, especially here in Germany, that these charges are foundless.  When I discuss this case with other graduate students here they are repeatedly astounded at the treatment Dr. Churchill is recieving.  They are shocked, as they somehow have a notion that America is a bastion of free speech and this case is clearly about censorship.  As open discussion about September 11, 2001, terrorism and America’s war on Iraq are much less  emotionally charged and more rational here in general, such scapegoating of prominent intellectuals is viewed in a quite negative light.  I would hope that you consider that these issues attract international attention and are actually very closely followed here.  They do not sit well with many in Europe and are especially disturbing to those in academia, who consider censorship based on blatantly political motives contrary to the very idea of academia itself.  Please reconsider your position on these charges.  It is obvious that they are spurious.  As a scientist and a rational human being I would have to say that any serious evaluation of the charges as they stand do not have any merit and are not sufficient as a basis for the dismissal of a tenured professor.

Sincerely,

Brian Gentry
University of Leipzig
Germany

If this ASS-HAT was capable of independent thought he might make a better case, but ASS-HAT it is.

then this kool-aid drinker who has to explain where he lives, like we care

Dear Sirs:

I am living in Portugal, what representatives of your federal administration use to call “Old Europe”.

As perhaps might have come to your attention, Pew, Zogby, and a host of other worldwide opinion polls have shown that the standing of the United States of America in the rest of the world has suffered a great deal during the last years. However, I have been able to use Ward Churchill’s Essay “Some People Push Back” with considerable success in countering antiamericanism here. Most people respond like, “well, not everything is lost over there if they still have people like Ward.”

It is true that the Nov. 2004 reelection of George W. Bush was not exactly helpful in this matter, however I think you should award Mr. Churchill a medal for improving America’s image worldwide, not fire him.

Sincerely yours,

Martin Kratz
Portugal

And the world wide polls matter to the fact that Ward Lied, Cheated, and was lazy and lowered the bar on ethics..

I live just south of Boulder and Ward has disgraced himself and the The University of Colorado.

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