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| Liverpool await High Court ruling A High Court ruling on the future ownership of Liverpool Football Club is set to be announced at 1000 BST on Wednesday. news.bbc.co.uk |
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Jewish settlers 'start 600 homes' Jewish settlers have started work on some 600 West Bank homes since an Israeli construction freeze expired - four times the pace of building before then, a pressure group says. bbc.co.uk |
Controversy in Rhode Island | Michael Tomasky So Frank Caprio, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Rhode Island, is steamed that Obama isn't endorsing him, saying that the prez can take his endorsement and "shove it." I can understand why Obama isn't backing Caprio. He's running against Lincoln Chafee, the former Repubican and now independent, who endorsed Obama in 2008. Some Democrats seems to be fulminating about this on background to reporters, but really, Obama is just paying Chafee back, and that's politics. In the old days, Caprio wouldn't have been paid a lick of attention, but now of course you can get attention easily, especially by making oblique and coarse reference to presidential anatomy.What I don't understand from Obama's end is why he is going to Rhode Island tonight in the first place. What the hell? There's no Senate race there, and the Democratic incumbents in the House are both virtually guaranteed reelection.What on earth is the point of going to Rhode Island? It's kind of pathetic, the equivalent of Bush in his last two years going to Oklahoma and Idaho and Utah, about the only places he was above 50% toward the end. Things aren't remotely that bad for Obama, but by doing this, he's feeding the impression that they are.More mystifying political decisions from this White House. I mean, heck, if you're going up I-95, at least go to Massachusetts, where the Democratic governor is in a tight race and where Obama's approval is still well north of 50.As the campaign has dragged on, I've become basically more and more baffled by Obama, his White House, and the Democrats generally. They're just not politically competent.One example: If they were politically competent and willing to play hardball, they'd have found a way long ago to get Kendrick Meek to endorse Charlie Crist, who could then have beaten Marco Rubio. Rubio could not pull 51% of that state's vote. Neither could Meek. Crist could. So you get Crist the job, make sure he caucuses with the D's, and you later get Meek some decent job in the administration (without making an explicit promise up front, because that would be, horrors, against the law).Well, they'll pay the price for all this soon, I guess. Rhode Island...US midterm elections 2010Rhode IslandMichael Tomaskyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
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