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KARL ROVE
May 25, 2008
ON ABC's This Week, Karl Rove lays out McCain's Strategy for the General Election...
"He needs a clear image of what he would to do over the next 4 years. I think there are 6 challenges for Senator McCain, and the biggest and most important of them is to have a clear and concrete reform agenda that's aimed at the future. Every presidential election, even a re-election, is about the future. I mean, In 1996 the Clinton re-election campaign was not based exclusively on 'vote for us, here's what we've done' it was 'here's what we want to do'. That's what every presidential election is about and particularly in an open election like this one."
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Preview for Sunday Morning Political Talk Shows on May 25, 2008
This Memorial Day Weekend, the Sunday Morning Talk Shows will keep their focus on Presidential politics. ABC's This Week will discuss the outlook of an Obama/McCain match up in November with Obama's senior advisor David Axelrod and Karl Rove, an informal advisor to McCain. NBC's Meet the Press will have a panel of pundits to speculate on the presidential race for the hour. McCain supporter Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) will appear on CBS's Face the Nation as will Obama supporter Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Clinton campaign strategist Howard Wolfson. Fox News Sunday will feature Clinton campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe to contemplate the potential of an Obama-Clinton ticket this fall. Fox News Sunday will also host Congressional Campaign Committee Chairmen Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) to lay out their party's strategies to win in November.
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David Axelrod, 2008 Obama Presidential Campaign Senior Advisor
Karl Rove, Republican Strategist
ROUNDTABLE:
Dee Dee Myers, Vanity Fair
E.J. Dionne, the Washington Post
Matthew Dowd, ABC News
George Will, ABC News
ROUNDTABLE:
David Brody, Christian Broadcasting Network
Maureen Dowd, New York Times
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Presidential Historian
Gwen Ifill, PBS
Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
John Meacham, Newsweek
Howard Wolfson, Director of Communications, Clinton Campaign
Dick Durbin, Democrat, Illinois Senator, 2008 Barack Obama Supporter
Lindsey Graham, Republican, South Carolina Senator, 2008 John McCain Supporter
Jon Kyl, Republican, Arizona Senator
Terry McAuliffe, 2008 Clinton campaign chairman
Chris Van Hollen, Democrat, US Representative from Maryland
Tom Cole, Republican, US Representative from Oklahoma
Shortly after President Bush vetoed the farm bill sent to him by Congress, the House overwhelmingly voted to override the veto. The Senate was expected to second the override which would nullify the President's veto.
However, before that could happen, a stunning discovery was made. The congress omitted 34 pages from the bill that was sent to the President which means that the bill Bush vetoed was not the same one that the Congress had passed.
The mistake has left lawmakers scrambling to correct the situation. The Congress will likely have to vote again on the bill and resend it to the President. The current farm bill is set to expire Friday which is probably not enough time to pass a "new" one.
Scott Stanzel, a spokesman for the White House, took the opportunity to poke fun at Congress stating there was no precedent for "a congressional blunder of this magnitude" and that they should now have time to correct the "bloated" bill. Full Story
Puerto Rico Primary Macro Analysis Preview and Voter Guide:
Island of Democracy
There are 55 pledged delegates at stake in the Commonwealth's June 1 primary election. The island has seven superdelegates with four endorsing Hillary Clinton and two backing Barack Obama. Superdelegate and Governor of Puerto Rico, Anibal Acevedo Vila is one of Obama's supporters, but he may actually be a potential liability due to his recent indictments by the Federal Elections Committee.
Saturn and Dione appear askew in this Cassini spacecraft view, with the north poles rotated to the right, as if they were threaded along on the thin diagonal line of the planet's rings. This view looks toward the anti-Saturn side of Dione (698 miles, or 1,123 kilometers across). North on Dione is up and rotated 20 degrees to the right. This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from less than one degree above the ring plane. The image was taken in visible green light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Dec. 12, 2011. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 35,000 miles (57,000 kilometers) from Dione and at a Sun-Dione-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 41 degrees. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute...
