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The common rat is very adept at dodging and evading, and it took the combined efforts of MSNBC’s Tim Russert and Senator Hillary Clinton to corner a two-legged rodent named Barack Obama long enough to get him to use the word “reject” in conjunction with the endorsement of the prominent racist, anti-Semite, and Catholic-hater Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam. Transcript of recent Democratic debate in Ohio (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/us/politics/26text-debate.html?pagewanted=19&_r=2&bl&ei=5087&en=0667d0ff53b714a8&ex=1204261200&adxnnlx=1204122265-9mtE1lD3c1IvYZ00LZq%20zw). Note how Obama equivocates over Farrakhan’s endorsement until backed into a corner. ...As much as we dislike Hillary Clinton, it is obvious that she knows what it means to “reject” the...

U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (D-NY) listens to testimony of U.S. Army General David Petraeus, the top commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, at the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the state of the war in Iraq on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 11, 2007. REUTERS/Molly Riley (UNITED STATES)

NEW BEDFORD, Mass.— A man charged with murder after shooting and killing a suspected burglar last year was released after prosecutors did not request bail. Charles Chieppa, 57, pleaded innocent to second degree murder Friday in New Bedford Superior Court. Family members of the slain man, Frank Pereira Jr., 24, said Chieppa should not have been allowed to go free. "We have wanted to see him in jail since the day it happened," Pereira's sister, Missy Cimbron, told The Standard Times of New Bedford. "A life was taken. Regardless of the situation, you should be in jail." Cimbron said the...

Bush's Ohio Valley Why has he stopped campaigning here? By Chris Suellentrop Posted Thursday, Oct. 21, 2004, at 1:37 PM PT Could he win without Ohio? Maybe. COLUMBUS, Ohio—White House press secretary Scott McClellan wandered into the press cabin on Air Force One this week to let the media know where President Bush would be campaigning. On Thursday, Pennsylvania. On Friday, Pennsylvania and Florida. On Saturday, Florida. Those are two of the presidential campaign's "Big Three" states, which nearly everyone assumes will decide the election. The glaring omission: Ohio. "Why aren't we going to Ohio? The president hasn't been there...

Democratic Sen. John Kerry said Tuesday that former President Clinton may be hitting the trail to campaign for him in the final two weeks before Election Day. Clinton has spent the last six weeks recovering from heart surgery, with his doctors instructing him to get plenty of rest. Kerry campaign officials have eagerly awaited word whether Clinton could get out to personally encourage voters to support the Democratic presidential nominee. Kerry told a Pennsylvania TV station that Clinton may come help him in the state where polls showed the Democrat tied with President Bush. "I think it's possible in the...