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Insider Report: Did Hillary Aide Tutor Plame; Giuliani's Temperament Special From NewsMax's Most Informed Sources
Headlines (Scroll down for complete stories): 1. Poll: Giuliani Lacks 'Temperament' for President The majority of respondents to an online poll believe Rudolph Giuliani is not fit for the White House. The poll came after Alair Townsend wrote in NewYorkBusiness.com, a Crain's Communications Inc. Web site, that the former New York City mayor doesn't have the temperament to be an effective president. Townsend opined that Giuliani's strong personality would not translate well when it comes to dealing with Congress and world leaders. Visitors to the Crain's Web site were asked if they agree, and nearly 70 percent said yes.
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One respondent wrote: "If there's one thing we should have learned from the current administration, it's the tragic risks we face when our leaders fail to listen to divergent views. For the sake of the nation, we need to get as far from 'my way or the highway' thinking . . . as possible. Unfortunately, Rudy won't get us there." Editor's Note: 2. Socialists Upset With Obama Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama has been attracting plenty of support from the left, but that enthusiasm doesn't extend to many on the far left the socialists. "A more careful examination of [Obama's] politics reveals a mainstream corporate politician who behind skillful rhetoric about 'change' and 'vision' makes a calculated effort to appeal to the corporate elite, the media, and the Hollywood liberals," Alan Jones writes for the Web site SocialistAlternative.org. Jones notes that Obama opposed the invasion of Iraq when he was a state senator in Illinois. But after his election to the Senate in 2004, Obama voted along with the Democratic Party leadership for all military appropriation bills to fund the war. Jones also charged Obama with endorsing cuts in welfare spending that "have devastated entire poor communities, especially predominantly black and Latino urban centers." And Obama's call for a "phased redeployment" of U.S. troops in Iraq is a strategy that "will lead to more war, death, and destruction" in Iraq, said Jones, who concludes: "Iraq is a quagmire, the trade deficit and foreign debt are exploding, good jobs are getting destroyed, the environment is faced with a colossal disaster, and the private system of health care is bankrupting both working people and the country. "On all the key issues, the policies promoted by Barack Obama behind a faηade of 'new ideas' do not in any way represent anything more than a skillful repackaging of the kind of policies that have caused the crisis working people face." Editor's Note: 3. Did Clinton Aide Tutor Valerie Plame? Two days before outed CIA agent Valerie Plame testified before Congress, she and husband Joseph Wilson had dinner with Hillary Clinton and an intriguing fourth party. Joining the three was Sidney Blumenthal, a journalist who served as a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton for 3 1/2 years. "Do you think they might have worked on talking points for Valerie's congressional testimony?" wondered journalist Eileen McGann, co-author with Dick Morris of several books about the Clintons. "Remember: Sidney was advising Hillary about how to spin the Lewinsky story. He's the one who put out Hillary's comments that Bill was just helping a troubled young girl. "Sidney's been awfully quiet lately, but maybe he's been helping out the Wilsons and thereby Mrs. Clinton too." McGann pointed to a passage in Hillary's book "Living History," about the morning Bill told her about news reports that he'd had an affair with a White House intern: "Bill woke me up early. He sat on the edge of the bed and said, 'There's something in today's paper that you need to know about.'" McGann compared that to comments Plame made before Congress about how she found out that columnist Robert Novak had revealed her identity as a CIA operative: "I found out very early in the morning when my husband came in and dropped the newspaper on the bed and said, 'He [Novak] did it.' And I quickly turned and read the article and I felt like I had been hit in the gut." Editor's Note:
4. Walter Jones: I'm Staying With the GOP Democrats have made overtures to anti-war Republican Rep. Walter Jones to switch parties, but he insists he's sticking with the GOP for now. "There were some Democrats" who wanted "to chat with me," said the congressman from North Carolina. The approach came after the Republican leadership denied Jones a subcommittee chairmanship on the Armed Services Committee because of his opposition to the Iraq war, The Hill reports. He would not identify the Democrats who spoke with him. But Rep. Gene Taylor from Mississippi has said he would "welcome him in the Democratic caucus." Jones' father, Walter Jones Sr., was a Democratic congressman from North Carolina, and after his death the younger Jones ran unsuccessfully for his seat as a Democrat in 1992. He switched parties and won as a Republican in 1994. Jones said he is remaining with the GOP chiefly because of its position on abortion. "I'm guided by my faith," he told the Hill. "Quite frankly, I'm strong pro-life . . . "I certainly think about where I will be a year or two, three years from now, but that's God's plan, not mine. "I think at the present time, because of the pro-life issue primarily, I am where I need to be." Jones was initially a strong supporter of the war in Iraq, but he more recently said, based on what he's learned since then, the U.S. went to war "with no justification." In February he became the only Republican to co-sponsor a non-binding resolution opposing President Bush's plan for a troop surge in Iraq. Editor's Note: 5. Christians Say National ID Number Is the 'Mark of the Beast' Several Christian evangelical groups say the national ID numbers mandated by Congress represent the Bible's "mark of the beast" the number 666 associated with the godless. The federal Real ID Act will standardize state drivers licenses and link them to corresponding national ID numbers by 2009, and the ID cards will be required to board an airplane or enter a federal building. But the Christian groups fear that persons assigned a national ID number will be "marked" as prophesied in the Bible's book of Revelation. Their concern is that the number-based ID system will eventually spread throughout the world and be used by a global dictator the antichrist who will control international trade with the ID numbers, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. "This is getting treacherously close to prophecy in the scripture," said Irvin Baxter Jr., founder of Endtimes Ministries in Dallas, whose group has distributed thousands of copies of its monthly magazine and brochures to legislators. According to Craig Treadwell, Baxter's national radio talk-show co-host, some evangelicals are worried that anyone "marked" with a number "will be lost for eternity" and won't be raised to heaven after the second coming of Christ. Missouri State Rep. Jim Guest has sponsored a bill exempting the state from compliance with the Real ID Act, and the measure was overwhelmingly passed by the Missouri House. It is now in the state Senate. He said he has received hundreds of phone calls, e-mails, and letters from constituents concerned about biblical prophecies coming true if the ID program is put in place. "People are genuinely worried about it," he told the Post-Dispatch. "These are people who believe that a national ID number symbolizes something religiously evil." Editor's Note: 6. We Heard . . . THAT presidential hopefuls Rudolph Giuliani and Mitt Romney have spurned an invitation to appear at the National Urban League's annual conference this summer in St. Louis and league President Marc Morial is not happy about the no-shows. "We're sending notice, not just to the Republicans, but to all the candidates, that you're not going to ignore us," Morial, who has led the black civil rights organization since 2003, told The Politico.
The black vote, he said, "is up for grabs, and nobody can take it for granted."
Both President Bush and his Democratic opponent John Kerry appeared at the conference in 2004. Spokespersons for Giuliani and Romney both said the candidates had a scheduling conflict with the conference, although neither would specify what it was. THAT conservative columnist Catherine Seipp has passed away at age 49. Seipp, a nonsmoker, was diagnosed with lung cancer five years ago, and died on March 21 in Los Angeles. Most recently, Seipp wrote a weekly column called "From the Left Coast" for National Review Online, and a monthly column for the conservative Independent Women's Forum, tackling such subjects as gay marriage and Hollywood liberalism.
THAT one hour before John Edwards' Thursday press conference announcing that his wife's cancer had returned, the new political Web site Politico.com said Edwards was suspending his presidential campaign. Whoops. That story was picked up by the Drudge Report and several TV channels including NBC and CNN. But at the press conference, Edwards instead said he was continuing his campaign. Ben Smith, who wrote the Politico item, later said he had gotten his information from a "trusted" source who has always been "reliable." But he added, "I unwisely wrote the item without getting a second source . . . "My apologies to our readers for passing on bad information." Editor's Note: Editor's notes:
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