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This was largely in response to the appeal made by the World Bank President, Robert Zoellick.
“While many are worrying about filling their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs, and it is getting more and more difficult every day,” Zoellick said late last week in a speech opening meetings with finance ministers.
Hopefully this will somewhat ease the affected country’s woes.
According to counterterrorism officials yesterday, the Senior al Qaeda Planner Abu Obeida al Masri has died. He was identified as the key person in the
al Qaeda decided to hold off the announcement of the death in the hopes that they could claim martyrdom as part of the terrorist operation, but none materialized. There was no comment on how the chief planner died. Unfortunately, his position has now been taken by another Egyptian, Sheik Sayed al Masri, a finance official at al Qaeda’s organization.
Sen. Barack Obama wins North Carolina and Sen. Hilary Clinton barely wins the Indiana Democratic presidential primary. It’s supposed to be a tie now, right?
Mr. Obama called North Carolina “a victory in a big state, in a swing state, in a state where we will compete to win if I am the Democratic nominee.”
But Mrs. Clinton said that taken together with her win two weeks ago in Pennsylvania, Indiana was the key tie-breaker and “tonight we’ve come from behind, we’ve broken the tie, and thanks to you, it’s full speed on to the White House.”
The win edges Obama over Clinton as he topped in North Carolina by 200,000 votes and a strong showing in the Indiana voters. So if he wins the presidential nomination, more people would vote for him over McCain.
Since the House Democrats can’t force the United States to withdraw from Iraq, they’re going to do the next best thing: spend the $108 billion dollar war request to pass billions of dollars in election-year domestic spending.
“I reject the president’s view that all this supplemental should be is for spending money overseas,” House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, said yesterday. “We believe Americans have needs.
Some of the programs in dire need for funding is the Hurricane Katrina relief and the extension of unemployment benefits. However, according to President Goerge Bush, he will veto any supplemental war-funding bill that exceeds his $108 billion spending limit or that micromanages the war or “ties the hands of our commanders.”
This has a lot of Democrats in rage. According to the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, the President, “seems to think that he can issue pronouncements like the great Yoda and that the American people and the Congress will comply.”
After winning the Pennsylvania Primaries, Sen. Hillary Clinton gets a $3.5 million fundraising haul literally overnight. The Senator sees this as an opportunity to convince other superdelagates in different states to choose her over her competitor for the Democratic Presidential Representative position, Sen. Barack Obama.
On the other side, Obama’s supporters are saying that he is more likely to win by adding states like Virginia, and that the Pen results won’t change his prospects for capturing the nomination. His campaign manager listed down 13 states wherein Obama would win: Colorado, North Carolina, Oregon and Michigan.
“We can make Montana competitive,” he said, while Mrs. Clinton is losing by double digits. “The best chance we’ll have to win the general election is to expand the playing field.”
Sen. Hillary Clinton wins the all-important Pennsylvania Primary. She called it as a tide turning contest that eases pressure from her to drop out of the presidential nomination race.
“We were up against a formidable opponent who outspent us three-to-one. He broke every spending record in this state trying to knock us out of the race. Well, the people of Pennsylvania had other ideas,” Mrs. Clinton told supporters at her Philadelphia victory party.
On the losing side, Sen. Obama said the following:
“We closed the gap, we rallied people of every age and race and background to the cause,” he said. “Whether they were inspired for the first time, or for the first time in a long time, we registered a record number of voters, and it is those new voters who will lead our party to victory in November.”
We’ll see in November who wins the ultimate prize.
Obama’s comments on Pennsylvanians have provided his opponents with some bullets to shoot his chances at being the Democrat Candidate for the Presidency.
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