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Sat Aug 02, 2008 at 10:43:56 AM PDT

In the recent statement by Obama about offshore drilling, there has apparently been selective editing taking place at the AP to delete this paragraph.
Here’s an earlier release which contains the whole Obama quote.

Later versions of this AP piece leave out this paragraph, and ‘news outlets’ like the NYT are not quoting this paragraph.

"Like all compromises, it also includes steps that I haven’t always supported," Obama conceded. "I remain skeptical that new offshore drilling will bring down gas prices in the short-term or significantly reduce our oil dependence in the long-term, though I do welcome the establishment of a process that will allow us to make future drilling decisions based on science and fact."
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Dr. Bruce Ivins is dead, the sole suspect of the 2001 anthrax attacks. If you remember, the letters sent were clearly meant to stew fear and panic after 9/11, and were written like it was an islamic terrorist (death to america, death to israel)

The evidence? A sample of liquid anthrax he had in his home - funny place to keep this kind of stuff - still not the crystalized, weaponized anthrax sent in the mail, the production of which required advanced equipment. Suspicious activity (working long hours), envelopes used in the attacks traced to a store near where he lived. And of course, their key point: testimony that he was deeply deranged, with murderous impulses, a fact that suddenly only came out after his death, after he’d been a lead US biochemical weapons researcher for 35 years.
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Too Fit to Be President?

Facing an Overweight Electorate,

Barack Obama Might Find

Low Body Fat a Drawback

By AMY CHOZICK

August 1, 2008; Page W1

Speaking to donors at a San Diego fund-raiser last month, Barack Obama reassured the crowd that he wouldn’t give in to Republican tactics to throw his candidacy off track.

“Listen, I’m skinny but I’m tough,” Sen. Obama said.

But in a nation in which 66% of the voting-age population is overweight and 32% is obese, could Sen. Obama’s skinniness be a liability? Despite his visits to waffle houses, ice-cream parlors and greasy-spoon diners around the country, his slim physique just might have some Americans wondering whether he is truly like them.

The candidate has been criticized by opponents for appearing elitist or out of touch with average Americans. A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll conducted in July shows Sen. Obama still lags behind Republican John McCain among white men and suburban women who say they can’t relate to his background or perceived values.

“He’s too new … and he needs to put some meat on his bones,” says Diana Koenig, 42, a housewife in Corpus Christi, Texas, who says she voted for Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.

“I won’t vote for any beanpole guy,” another Clinton supporter wrote last week on a Yahoo politics message board. Continue reading…