The first debate is now history. We watched it twice.
Has the first debate affected opinion among our audience? The only way to tell is to reset the Real Poll here at the Real Sporer.
I am going to give the old debate coach’s review tomorrow, the hour is too late for lengthy analysis, but my pre-sleep impression is three of the underdogs stole the show. Perhaps the arms of Morpheus will provide a different conclusion?
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6 comments:
Sporer, I waited up for your commentary.
What a tease. I know you were a debater. You and some guy named Owens used to kick my butt.
Guns, guns guns and Gilmore.
The problem is the format. It sucks. Matthews is stupid.
Ron Paul won the foreign policy debate. McCain lost it.
Guiliani won the flipflop debate, for his comment on Roe v Wade.
The three who denied evolution are out to lunch on all things scientific.
Qualification wise can anyone argue that Gov. Thompson and Sen. McCain have the most complete conservative resumes? Hunter is a nice enough guy but his claim is 4 years on the armed services committee? And Brownback? Did he say anything?
Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Friday, May 4, 2007 11:39 a.m.
Hamas Calls for 'Extermination of Jews'
The Palestinian militant organization Hamas not only wants the elimination of the state of Israel, but also the extermination of the Jews, according to the group’s newspaper.
"The extermination of Jews is Allah’s will and is for the benefit of all humanity, according to an article in the Hamas paper Al-Risalah,” the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reports.
"The author of the article, Kan’an Ubayd, explains that the suicide operations carried out by Hamas are being committed solely to fulfill Allah’s wishes. Furthermore, Allah demanded this action, because ‘the extermination of the Jews is good for the inhabitants of the worlds.’”
PMW points out that Hamas’ justification for the extermination of the Jews echoes Adolph Hitler’s words in "Mein Kampf”: "Thus I believe today that I am acting according to the will of the almighty Creator: when I defend myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.”
Another Hamas statement monitored by the PMW called Judaism "a faith that is based on murder.”
And in a televised speech, Dr. Ahmad Bahar, Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, called for the killing of Americans as well as Jews.
Bahar said his people were "afflicted by the cancerous lump, that is the Jews, in the heart of the Arab nation,” according to a transcript provided by the PMW.
"Be certain that America is on its way to disappear.
America is wallowing [in blood] today in Iraq and Afghanistan.
America is defeated and Israel is defeated . . . Allah, take hold of the Jews and their allies.
Allah, take hold of the Americans and their allies . . . Allah, count them and kill them to the last one and don’t leave even one.”
The moment a teenage girl was stoned to death for loving the wrong boy
Last updated at 18:28pm on 3rd May 2007
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A 17-year-old girl has been stoned to death in Iraq because she loved a teenage boy of the wrong religion.
As a horrifying video of the stoning went out on the Internet, the British arm of Amnesty International condemned the death of Du’a Khalil Aswad as "an abhorrent murder" and demanded that her killers be brought to justice.
Reports from Iraq said a local security force witnessed the incident, but did nothing to try to stop it. Now her boyfriend is in hiding in fear for his life.
Miss Aswad, a member of a minority Kurdish religious group called Yezidi, was condemned to death as an "honour killing" by other men in her family and hardline religious leaders because of her relationship with the Sunni Muslim boy.
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The teenager was dragged outside by 8 or 9 men and stoned for half an hour until she died. Her boyfriend is now in hiding in fear for his life
They said she had shamed herself and her family when she failed to return home one night. Some reports suggested she had converted to Islam to be closer to her boyfriend.
Miss Aswad had taken shelter in the house of a Yezidi tribal leader in Bashika, a predominantly Kurdish town near the northern capital, Mosul.
A large crowd watched as eight or nine men stormed the house and dragged Miss Aswad into the street. There they hurled stones at her for half an hour until she was dead.
The stoning happened last month, but only came to light yesterday with the release of the Internet video.
It is feared her death has already triggered a retaliatory attack. Last week 23 Yezidi workmen were forced off a bus travelling from Mosulto Bashika by a group of Sunni gunmen and summarily shot dead.
An Amnesty International spokesman in London said they receive frequent reports of honour crimes from Iraq – particularly in the predominantly Kurdish north.
Most victims are women and girls who are considered by male relatives to have shamed their families by immoral behaviour.
Kurdish authorities have introduced reforms outlawing honour killings, but have failed to investigate them or prosecute suspects, added the Amnesty spokesman.
Kate Allen, the organisation’s UK director, said: "This young girl’s murder is truly abhorrent and her killers must be brought to justice.
"Unless the authorities respond vigorously to this and any other reports of crimes in the name of 'honour', we must fear for the future of women in Iraq."
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