Obama vs. McCain: General Election Chatter For August
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Man held in Fla. on charge of threatening Obama
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Whomever Obama picks for VP should be good enough to make a solid P, because it is very possible that some racist loon will try.
If you do hear anybody say that they will try to kill him, just call the Secret Service. That will fix their ass for even joking about it. And if they are serious, you would be a hero.
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MIAMI — A man who authorities said was keeping weapons and military-style gear in his hotel room and car appeared in court Thursday on charges he threatened to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Raymond Hunter Geisel, 22, was arrested by the Secret Service on Saturday in Miami and was ordered held at Miami's downtown detention center without bail Thursday by a federal magistrate.
A Secret Service affidavit charges that Geisel made the threat during a training class for bail bondsmen in Miami in late July. According to someone else in the 48-member class, Geisel allegedly referred to Obama with a racial epithet and continued, "If he gets elected, I'll assassinate him myself."
Raymond Hunter Geisel, 22, was arrested by the Secret Service on Saturday in Miami and was ordered held at Miami's downtown detention center without bail Thursday by a federal magistrate.
A Secret Service affidavit charges that Geisel made the threat during a training class for bail bondsmen in Miami in late July. According to someone else in the 48-member class, Geisel allegedly referred to Obama with a racial epithet and continued, "If he gets elected, I'll assassinate him myself."
Whomever Obama picks for VP should be good enough to make a solid P, because it is very possible that some racist loon will try.
If you do hear anybody say that they will try to kill him, just call the Secret Service. That will fix their ass for even joking about it. And if they are serious, you would be a hero.
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Bush negotiates without pre-conditions
Why Bush folded on Iran
Reality, of the military and petroleum-based variety, forced the administration to change course. Now Bush sounds like Obama.
By Juan Cole
Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, left, at a meeting with U.S. undersecretary of state William Burns, far right, in Geneva July 19, 2008.
Why Bush folded on Iran
Reality, of the military and petroleum-based variety, forced the administration to change course. Now Bush sounds like Obama.
By Juan Cole
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July 31, 2008 | Pundits and diplomats nearly got whiplash from the double take they did when George W. Bush sent the No. 3 man in the State Department to sit at a table on July 19 across from an Iranian negotiator, without any preconditions. When Bush had addressed the Israeli Knesset in May, he made headlines by denouncing any negotiation with "terrorists and radicals" as "the false comfort of appeasement." What drove W. to undermine John McCain by suddenly adopting Barack Obama's foreign policy prescription on Iran?
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That in the aftermath, Bush's Iran policy looks more like that of Barack Obama than that of John McCain, is just an indication that Obama is more realistic about the increasing constraints on U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle Eastern oil states than is McCain.
Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, left, at a meeting with U.S. undersecretary of state William Burns, far right, in Geneva July 19, 2008.
