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Bush supports free Lebanon election United Press International Nov UPI US President George Bush called Lebanon's prime minister Monday to express support for that country's independent election of a president Bush Calls Lebanese PM to Press for Fair Presidential Elections Voice of America Bush says Lebanese election should be free of meddling by Syria International Herald Tribune US supports Lebanese elections free of Syrian influence Xinhua Reuters all news articles Canada UN chief in bid to break Lebanon deadlock hour ago Lebanon on Thursday to meet feuding political leaders and try to persuade them to end a bitter struggle threatening to derail a presidential election UN joins Lebanon crisis mediation BBC News France's FM back in Lebanon to try to break presidential election International Herald Tribune Kouchner shuttles among Lebanese leaders Daily Star Lebanon Africasia International Herald Tribune all news articles Russia Exerting Pr essure on Syria over Lebanon Election Naharnet Lebanon Nov The sources said the letters stressed the need to facilitate presidential elections on time The letters also stressed that Lebanon's security and Influential Bishops Worry Over Delayed Lebanon Election Christian Post Nov Lebanon postponed its presidential elections for the third times within the past two months on Saturday to give rival factions more time to agree on a Election creates Lebanon school board vacancy Lebanon Daily News PA week after winning an election for a seat as a district judge Maria Meluskey Dissinger on Monday submitted her resignation to the Lebanon school board Middle East Times Lebanon's version of Russian roulette Khaleej Times United Arab Emirates French President Nicolas Sarkozy who had promised upon his election to stand by Lebanon has dispatched two high ranking diplomats to Damascus to ask Syria Lebanon internal fractures and foreign int erferences don't help Equilibri net subscription Lebanon ruling coalition blasts Hezbollah over presidency Lebanese gov't blasts Hezbollah leader's comment Xinhua all news articles Syria tells France it backs free Lebanon election Reuters Nov Lebanon's presidential election has been delayed until November to allow time for pro and anti Syrian groups to find a compromise candidate to succeed Ya Libnan un's Ban to visit Lebanon very soon Reuters Nov UNITED NATIONS Reuters UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon will soon pay a visit to Lebanon embroiled in a crisis over the election of its next president Physicians And The Gates Of Hell Dar Al Hayat all news articles UN chief to visit Beirut to push for election Daily Star Lebanon Lebanon Nov Ban also expressed his hope that Lebanon's presidential election would be held on time and in accordance with the Lebanese Constitution Syria's Baath Lebanon Threatened by Split after French Initiative Naharnet Lebanon The last week of the Lebanese presidential election will not leave room for any optimism that Lebanon would succeed in getting out of the bottle neck after PRESS TV France Italy to push Lebanon election PRESS TV Iran Nov The foreign ministers of France and Italy are due to return to Lebanon next week in a bid to prevent the country from entering a political vacuum amid BBC News "Enough" say the Lebanese but who is listening?BBC News UK Concertgoers desperately want their politicians to resolve Lebanon's latest political standoff The country's constitution requires the election of a new Democracy under siege in a luxury hotel Globe and Mail all news articles Kouchner No Deal with Syria on Lebanon Election Naharnet Lebanon Nov Responding to statements by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem regarding a Syrian French agreement on Lebanon Koucher said We did not strike any deal Lebanese presidential election postponed again Radio Netherlands Netherlands Nov If no agreement is reached Lebanon could end up with two governments as happened almost twenty years ago during the civil war Inquiry and Analysis Series No Middle East Media Research Institute DC Nov He told me that there must be no interference in Lebanese affairs particularly in Lebanon's presidential election and that Egypt would not take a neutral South east suburbs school board dynamics change with election Pittsburgh Tribune Review PA Two incumbents in Mt Lebanon Carol J Walton and Rene Garson were voted off the school board in favor of four newcomers GOP fares well McMurray Almanac North suburbs school board dynamics change as votes are cast Pittsburgh Tribune Review all news articles UN Chief Calls For Free And Fair Lebanon Election AHN Nov Cairo Egypt AHN The United Nations has said that Lebanon needs free and fair presidential elections this month UN officials say the elections must be Lebanon Presidential Elections Debate Global Voices Online MA Nov by Moussa Bashir

For Lunch today, Rob and Will pay a visit to Jay Leno and Barack Obama, check in with the women of Slate, see the UN through Mitt Romney's eyes, and say hello to a Hazzard County mechanic. All this, plus six more top stories you won't want to miss.

Dennis Kucinich is the only Presidential Candidate that supports a True Universal Single Payer Healthcare Bill that covers every American - HR 676 - The Conyers/Kucinich United States National HealthCare Act - To learn more about the bill visit: http://www.NationalHealthcareForAll.Info . Please show your Support for this bill and Dennis by making a contribution to his Campaign at: http://www.actblue.com/page/youtube - Even if it's just $5/month it will help greatly. To Learn more about Dennis or to volunteer visit http://www.Kucinich.Us or http://www.TheNextPresident.Info . Here's a great article that provided the stats used in the video. June 25, 2007 06:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time Healthcare Industry Contributions to Presidential Candidates Top $3.7 Million in 2007, Study Says At New Hampshire Press Conference With Michael Moore, Nurses Say Money Influencing Candidates to Promote Insurance-Based Reform MANCHESTER, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Democratic and Republican candidates have accepted more than $3.7 million in campaign contributions this year from healthcare industry sources, with more than 45% of it going to just two candidates, Sen. Hillary Clinton and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, according to a new report issued Friday. Overall, healthcare contributions to the 18 currently announced Republican and Democratic Presidential candidates total an aggregate $12.8 million since 1989 -- with 29% of that total donated just in the first quarter of 2007 alone. Clinton topped the recipient list with $868,722*, 23% of all the healthcare money donated to candidates this year. Romney was a close second at $833,385, 22% of the total dollars. The other frontrunners followed. Sen. Barack Obama, with $574,268, 15%; Sen. John McCain, $423,751, 11%; former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, $408,822, also 11%; and former Sen. John Edwards, $222,950, 6%. Political donations are just part of the story. Healthcare money also swamps Congress. In federal lobbying, healthcare spending exceeds $2.2 billion the past decade, during which healthcare surpassed all other industry sectors in lobbying expenditures. "From the campaign trail to Capitol Hill, the healthcare industry has a choke hold on legislation and the debate on healthcare reform," says Michael Lighty, public policy director for the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee whose research arm, the Institute for Health and Socio-Economic Policy, did the study. CNA/NNOC compiled the research report in concert with the release of Michael Moore's "SiCKO," a searing indictment of the healthcare industry. "The avalanche of healthcare industry cash is corrupting public policy on healthcare," said Lighty. "It leads to legislation that benefits the healthcare lobbyists -- such as the recent vote in the Senate killing a bill to enable the federal government to use its bulk power to garner discount prescription drug prices for Medicare recipients. It also encourages Presidential candidates to promote solutions that expand the reach and wealth of the insurance industry." Lighty noted most of the Presidential candidates favor insurance-based reforms, such as requiring everyone to buy insurance, or taxing employers to buy insurance, or enacting more tax credits for buying insurance. "It is no surprise that the virtually none of the candidates who receive this money advocate the elimination of private health insurance." In New Hampshire press conference Friday, CNA/NNOC and Moore called on all the candidates to reject healthcare industry contributions, part of a four point pledge that also urges the candidates to support for guaranteed, comprehensive healthcare for life; eliminate the role of private insurers in health coverage; and stronger regulation of the drug industry. Following the announcement of the pledge, and the first presentation of the CNA/NNOC report, two bus loads of nurses from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Illinois, and California visited the Manchester, NH campaign offices of a number of the candidates to urge them to support the pledge (photos available upon request). Dating back to 1989, the report, based on a comprehensive analysis of publicly available and custom data sets from the Center for Responsive Politics, shows that Romney is the top recipient of pharmaceutical contributions and money from banks and securities and investment firms which are a prime beneficiary of the rapid growth of Health Savings Accounts and other reform plans that rely on financial institutions. The finance industry ranks third in lobbying expenditures the past decade after healthcare and communications/technology. Sen. Christopher Dodd, whose home state houses corporate offices for many insurance corporations, is the top beneficiary of insurance and HMO donations. Clinton leads among donations from health professionals and lobbyists. In releasing the report, said Lighty, CNA/NNOC, hopes to help "lift the veil on the corrosive influence of political money. Nurses are the antidote to that greed and callous denial of care. It is their everyday experiences which are depicted on screen in "SiCKO," mirrored in the film's brutal and heartbreaking stories." "Nurses around the country are campaigning to change the healthcare system to get the insurance companies out of the way, and will be in front of movie theaters in every corner of our country when 'SiCKO' opens nationwide June 29 to encourage the movie audiences to join us," Lighty said. link to Article: http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070625005429&newsLang=en Thank you for your support!

Sen. Barack Obama shoots some pool during a campaign stop in Charleston, West Virginia. (May 13)

ABC News' Senior Political Reporter Rick Klein on the weekly political roundup.

The Audacity of HopeYes We Can!Meet BarackEarly YearsBarack Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. His father, Barack Obama Sr., was born and raised in a small village in Kenya, where he grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British. Barack's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in small-town Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression, and then signed up for World War II after Pearl Harbor, where he marched across Europe in Patton's army. Her mother went to work on a bomber assembly line, and after the war, they studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program, and moved west to Hawaii. It was there, at the University of Hawaii, where Barack's parents met. His mother was a student there, and his father had won a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya and pursue his dreams in America. Barack's father eventually returned to Kenya, and Barack grew up with his mother in Hawaii, and for a few years in Indonesia. Later, he moved to New York, where he graduated from Columbia University in 1983. The College YearsRemembering the values of empathy and service that his mother taught him, Barack put law school and corporate life on hold after college and moved to Chicago in 1985, where he became a community organizer with a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment. The group had some success, but Barack had come to realize that in order to truly improve the lives of people in that community and other communities, it would take not just a change at the local level, but a change in our laws and in our politics. He went on to earn his law degree from Harvard in 1991, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. Soon after, he returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer and teach constitutional law. Finally, his advocacy work led him to run for the Illinois State Senate, where he served for eight years. In 2004, he became the third African American since Reconstruction to be elected to the U.S. Senate. Political CareerIt has been the rich and varied experiences of Barack Obama's life - growing up in different places with people who had differing ideas - that have animated his political journey. Amid the partisanship and bickering of today's public debate, he still believes in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose - a politics that puts solving the challenges of everyday Americans ahead of partisan calculation and political gain. In the Illinois State Senate, this meant working with both Democrats and Republicans to help working families get ahead by creating programs like the state Earned Income Tax Credit, which in three years provided over $100 million in tax cuts to families across the state. He also pushed through an expansion of early childhood education, and after a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, Senator Obama worked with law enforcement officials to require the videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases. In the U.S. Senate, he has focused on tackling the challenges of a globalized, 21st century world with fresh thinking and a politics that no longer settles for the lowest common denominator. His first law was passed with Republican Tom Coburn, a measure to rebuild trust in government by allowing every American to go online and see how and where every dime of their tax dollars is spent. He has also been the lead voice in championing ethics reform that would root out Jack Abramoff-style corruption in Congress. As a member of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, Senator Obama has fought to help Illinois veterans get the disability pay they were promised, while working to prepare the VA for the return of the thousands of veterans who will need care after Iraq and Afghanistan. Recognizing the terrorist threat posed by weapons of mass destruction, he traveled to Russia with Republican Dick Lugar to begin a new generation of non-proliferation efforts designed to find and secure deadly weapons around the world. And knowing the threat we face to our economy and our security from America's addiction to oil, he's working to bring auto companies, unions, farmers, businesses and politicians of both parties together to promote the greater use of alternative fuels and higher fuel standards in our cars. Whether it's the poverty exposed by Katrina, the genocide in Darfur, or the role of faith in our politics, Barack Obama continues to speak out on the issues that will define America in the 21st century. But above all his accomplishments and experiences, he is most proud and grateful for his family. His wife, Michelle, and his two daughters, Malia, 9, and Sasha, 6, live on Chicago's South Side where they attend Trinity United Church of Christ.

It's a new day on the campaign trail, one filled with talk of the general election. John and Barack prepare for a possible series of townhall style debates, while the Democratic Party tries to ease Hillary towards the exit. ALSO: What's Sam Donaldson like at a cocktail party?

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Watch out, Obama Girl, Hillary Clinton has her own hot, online cheerleader in the form of Internet star Taryn Southern. Taryn lays the sexual overtones on thick in order to juice up Clinton's dry-as-toast personality.