Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and other White House hopefuls beseeched Iowans to vote to change America as they sought to land an early blow in Thursday’s crucial first 2008 nominating clash. Both Democratic and Republican races were too close to call, before more than 200 000 activists cast their judgements in the fabled Iowa caucuses.
White House foes chased last undecided voters ahead of Thursday’s dead-heat first nominating clashes in Iowa, as comeback Republican John McCain grabbed a new poll lead in the next key state, New Hampshire.
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/ 28 December 2007
Barack Obama rejected rival Hillary Clinton’s vow to forge change on Thursday, as polls showed a tight Democratic White House race in Iowa, a week before the state’s lead-off nominating clash. In a soaring new speech, the Democratic senator sharpened his attacks on the former first lady.
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/ 18 September 2007
Chinese and Russian spies are stalking the United States at levels close to those seen during the tense covert espionage duels of the Cold War, the top US intelligence officer warned on Tuesday. Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell was to raise the spectre of a new era of clandestine intelligence wars during a House of Representatives hearing on a contentious new law on wiretapping.
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/ 11 September 2007
Anti-war Senate Democrats bluntly told Iraq commander General David Petraeus on Tuesday his troop surge strategy was an abject failure in its prime objective — forcing a political settlement. Several senior Senate Republicans also questioned the administration’s approach as the general endured a grilling on a second day of high-stakes testimony to Congress.
The White House hit back on Tuesday in a bid to stem a growing Republican revolt over Iraq strategy, as Democrats drove home a searing attack on President George Bush over the war. The president’s spokesperson, Tony Snow, pushed back against reports Iraq would meet no benchmarks on political and military progress in an interim assessment due later this week.
From the steamy to the bizarre and the downright embarrassing, the marathon grind of the 2008 White House campaign is rich with missteps, mirth and melodies. When a racy brunette in a steamy video declares a crush on Democratic hopeful Barack Obama, it’s clear that the hoopla surrounding this election is like nothing that came before.
United States President George Bush was readying his veto pen again after US lawmakers voted to fund the Iraq combat in phases of just a few months, the latest twist in the political feud over control of the unpopular war. The legislation now moves to the more closely divided Senate.
President George Bush on Monday warned it was too early for United States troops to "pack up and go home" from Iraq, on the fourth anniversary of a war clouded by pessimism and political angst on the home front.
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/ 25 January 2007
A former United States envoy to Sudan on Wednesday complained that United States policy on the country was based on a ”fundamental flaw” and warned a new war could erupt without urgent action. Roger Winter also made a personal appeal to President George Bush, warning that the peace agreement that ended Sudan’s bloody, 21-year civil war was at risk and would darken his White House legacy if it failed.