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Republican Marc Spitzer, a former state Senate leader from Arizona who now works in Washington as the commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said that a historic event was unfolding outside the Marriott where Democrats were meeting. Spitzer woke up his son Ben, 12, at dawn to bring him downtown to watch the protests. Ben, who was posing for a picture with a protestor dressed as Uncle Sam when he was interviewed by NEWSWEEK, said, "Some countries like Saudi Arabia, they don't really have a democracy, and this kind of makes me realize some of the great things I have in America like the freedom of assembly and stuff."

Two foreign visitors who observed the protest from the balcony of another hotel across the street said nothing about such lofty ideals. Constance Bastiaans and John Human, visiting from Namibia for a telecommunications conference, were amused by the political theater on display. "It's a bit weird, but I like it," Bastiaans, 44, said. Human chimed in, saying that politics in Namibia is nowhere near as emotional. "Definitely we would not have, in one party, a race like this," he said. "It is normally our carnival that looks like this."

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  • Posted By: griffin1 @ 06/05/2008 11:26:00 PM

    For those of you are voting McBush to keep our solders over in Iraq do your home work PLEASE
    1. - Our soldiers are doing 2 and 3 terms in Iraq they have no relief
    2.- Our soldiers suicide rate is up 40 %
    3. - McBush states we will stay the course, what course nothing has changed, but Dick Cheney company is over there working on a 10 year contract.

    FACTS: The Bush administration misused intelligence to build a case for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Senate Intelligence Committee said in a report issued Thursday.

    "Before taking the country to war, this administration owed it to the American people to give them a 100 percent accurate picture of the threat we faced," Rockefeller said Thursday.
    The report also found that the administration misled the American people about contacts between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda
    OBAMA 08'

  • Posted By: griffin1 @ 06/05/2008 11:25:12 PM

    continue to spread lies.,
    OBAMA 08'

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