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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (21081)	2/10/2008 11:21:28 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224713

Wm Penn created the state with the most religious tolerance of the original 13 colonies, as a result of spending years in English prisons as punishment for his Quaker religion. Luckily the King was in deep debt to his deceased father, Admiral Penn, and granted Penn's woods in payment to his son. There'll be a quiz in the morning. LOL

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (21081)	2/10/2008 11:42:28 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 224713

The shake-up came as Mrs. Clinton’s sliver of hope for February, in Maine, disappeared. She had been hopeful because Maine’s demographics — blue-collar voters, who are older and make less than $50,000 — fit the profile of voters who have supported her elsewhere. But Maine is a caucus state, and Mr. Obama has won almost all caucuses, which depend on deep organization and a passionate following. With turnout high, despite heavy snow throughout the state, Mr. Obama won big, 18 points over Mrs. Clinton. Speaking later at a rally in Virginia Beach, Mr. Obama acknowledged his latest victory. “We won by a sizable margin in Maine and I want to thank the people of Maine,” he said to the cheers of thousands of people. “We have now won on the Atlantic coast, we’ve won in the Gulf Coast, we won on the Pacific Coast and we won in between those coasts.” On top of it all, Mr. Obama beat out Bill Clinton for a Grammy, winning the spoken word award for the audio-book version of his memoir, “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.” At the same time, the Clinton camp confirmed that Mrs. Clinton had met secretly with former Senator John Edwards on Thursday in North Carolina. Mr. Edwards, who has dropped out of the race, has not made an endorsement. But Mr. Obama is scheduled to meet with him too, on Monday night, according to Obama allies, and is also flying to Mr. Edwards’s home in North Carolina. The fact that both candidates are taking time out of their campaign schedule to meet with Mr. Edwards is a measure of their competitiveness for his support as the race comes down to a state-by-state battle for delegates and, as important, momentum. nytimes.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (21081)	2/10/2008 11:48:47 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 224713

“What is also true is, I think it’s very hard for Senator Clinton to break out of the politics of the last 15 years.” Mr. Obama said the country was divided politically, with about 47 percent on each side and the rest in the middle and that Mrs. Clinton would be unable to bring people together. “You battle it out and you never actually even if you win, you don’t have a working majority for change and the Congress doesn’t change,” he said. “Keep in mind, we had Bill Clinton as president when, in ’94, we lost the House, we lost the Senate, we lost governorships, we lost state houses. And so, regardless of what policies they wanted to promote, they didn’t have a working majority to bring change about.”