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Posted by Rick Pearson at 5:07 p.m. DENVER—An African-American woman who is an Illinois delegate for Sen. Hillary Clinton maintained Monday that Senate President Emil Jones, a mentor of Sen. Barack Obama, called her an “Uncle Tom” at the Illinois hotel for the Democratic National Convention. Earlier today, Jones, a veteran African-American legislator who is resigning at the end of his term in ...
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Belmont Club —
... to link Obama to terrorism “an appalling lie, a disgraceful smear of the lowest kind on the senator’s patriotism and commitment to the rule of law.” Airing the ad “is inconsistent with your station’s obligations under Federal Communications Commission regulations,” the letter continues, saying Simmons’ group lacks formal incorporation. Within the Democratic party itself, the process of “healing the rifts” may mean in practice mean cracking the whip to get people back in line. In Denver , an African-American Illinois woman delegate for Sen. Hillary Clinton, Delmarie Cobb, ...
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... Once again, a somewhat misleading headline. Clinton die-hards are refusing to go along with the plan that the Obama camp is trying to foist on them through Clinton delegates that have been converted to Obama. Since most of the converts have already left the Clinton camp and plan to cast their votes for Obama, the headline is less than accurate. They're trying to cover their butts and not have to publicly declare against the candidate they're sworn to--Clinton.
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