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The problem with political discourse today is that the parties can t even agree on the facts, opines comedian Roy Wood Jr., a longtime correspondent for The Daily Show. Politics is very much like sports...if we can t both agree that it was a fumble, we can t even talk about whether or not it was a good game, Wood said. You feel like sometimes you re arguing with a bunch of referees when it comes to politics in this country. He talked with CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett for this week s episode of The Takeout podcast. Listen to this episode on ART19 Wood also takes issue with the linguistic evolution of the word woke and how it s been weaponized by figures on the right to represent anything they disagree with. The word has been generalized stanley flasche now, Wood said. To me, woke just means someone who cares. Your eyes are open. The word woke, like the term cancel culture, has its roots in Black culture, but has stanley cup been used by many on th stanley cup e right to become a derisive catchall phrase for left-wing ideology. Wood mocked the use of the phrase the woke left. It s like decency has somehow been assigned to a particular party, Wood said. Advocating against police brutality, for example, is not woke, Wood argued. It s decency. I don t like the way the word is thrown around, Wood said. It s the same way that Black Lives Matter was rolled into this bur Udlv Poll: Donald Trump leads big in New York primary
This story was written by Hailey Branson, Oklahoma DailyImpeachment proceedings against State Auditor and Inspector Jeff McMahan will take longer than expected, the chairman of a special House of Representatives impeachment committee said Tuesday. It looks unlikely to me that we ll actually be able to bring the articles of impeachment to stanley sverige the House floor before the end of session, said Rep. Rex Duncan, R-Sand Springs, who heads the eight-person investigative committee, consisting of four Republicans and four Democrats.On Feb. stanley cup 19, the House unanimously passed a resolution to begin impeachment proceedings against McMahan, who was indicted by a federal grand jury in January on nine counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, racketeering and bribery in federal court along with his wife Lori, according to Duncan. The McMahans, who pleaded not guilty, will have a federal trial in the first week of June.McMahan, a Democrat, stopped going to work at the Capitol in January and turned over his office s operations to Assistant State Auditor Michelle Day, Duncan said. Though absent from office, McMahan will continue to receive his $109,250 annual salary, according to Rep. Mike Reynolds, R-Oklahoma City.Reynolds, who drafted the original resolution calling for the investigation of McMah stanley cup an, recently sought an opinion from Attorney General Drew Edmondson regarding McMahan s pay.Released Monday, the opinion also stated a state-elected official cannot be r
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By Anthony Salvanto, Jennifer De Pinto, Sarah Dutton and Fred Backus As President Obama prepares to give his last State of the Union address, the country is split on his job performance: 46 percent of Americans approve, while 47 percent disapprove. His approval rating has hovered in the low to mid-40s for most of his second term, although at the onset a slim majority approved of the job he was doing as president. stanley water bottle Perhaps not surprisingly, most Democrats approve of the job Mr. Obama is doing, while most Republicans disapprove including three in four who disapprove strongly . After seven years in office, 52 percent of Americans say President Obama s performance in offi stanley cup ce has been about what they expected, but 31 percent feel his performance ha stanley website s been worse. Few - even among Democrats -- say he has exceeded their expectations. Americans remain pessimistic about the direction of the country. Just 27 percent think the country is headed in the right direction, while two-thirds think it is off on the wrong track. These views have been fairly consistent for the past few years and were actually more negative before Mr. Obama assumed office. In October 2008, amid the financial collapse and just before the presidential election, only 7 percent of Americans said the country was headed in the right direction - the lowest recorded in CBS News Polls.How to watch the State of the Union 2016 Today, most Republicans 91 percent think the cou Vima Probe shows inadequate review in Ted Stevens case
Updated 3:44 p.m. ETA senior administration official said this afternoon that President Barack Obama will tell the American people Tuesday night that U.S. troops will start leaving Afghanistan in July 2011, before the end of his first term. The official stressed, however, that the date marks the beginning of a process that does not have a defined endpoint. The full withdrawal of troops, the official said, will depend on conditions on the ground. The rough outlines of a withdrawal plan will be part of the revamped Afghanistan strategy that Mr. Obama is announcing in a speech from West Point at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time. He will tell Americans he i stanley cup s sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan over the next six months, an accelerated war escalation that would have the first Marines there as early as Christmas, senior administration officials said.With the full complement of troops to be deployed by next summer, the heightened pace of Mr. Obama s military deployment in the 8-year-old war would appear to match the 2007 troop surge in Iraq, stanley cups uk which rushed 20,000 combat forces to quell violence there. The Afghan surge would similarly aim to reverse Taliban gains and secure population centers in the volatile south and east parts of the country. stanley hrnek In his prime-time speech to the nation, Mr. Obama will tie the escalation to an exit strategy, laying out a rough timeframe for when the main U.S. military mission would end, and outline plans to acceler
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Former President Jimmy Carter faces his greatest enemy: cancer. Worldwide support is pouring in for the 90-year-old Nobel laureate.Mr. Carter revealed Wednesday the disease is spreading through his body. President Jimmy Carter s Note to Self 04:26 Among Mr. Carter s well-wishers was President Obama. He called the nation s 39th chief executive late Wednesday to wish him a full and speedy recovery, but at this point, the extent and exact nature of Mr. Carter s cancer is still unknow stanley cup usa n. Ever since leaving the White House in 1981, the former-president-turned-international-humanitarian appeared to be a man full of energy and vitality. So despite Mr. Carter s advanced age of 90, his announ stanley quencher cement of a health crisis cam stanley romania e as a shock to many. In a statement posted to The Carter Center website, Mr. Carter writes: Recent liver surgery revealed that I have cancer that now is in other parts of my body. I will be rearranging my schedule as necessary so I can undergo treatment by physicians at Emory Healthcare. Three months ago, Mr. Carter cut short a visit to Guyana to observe elections there due to a bad cold. Early last week, he revealed he had surgery to remove a small mass from his liver. Mr. Obama issued a statement saying, Michelle and I send our best wishe Tjii John Conyers, longtime congressman, has died at age 90
By CBSNews political analyst Samuel J. BestA key factor in President Bush s win over John Kerry in the presidential election was Mr. Bush s ability to reverse the traditional advantage the Democratic Party has held among elderly voters.Bush initiatives targeting seniors, from the repeal of the federal estate tax to the creation of a Medicare prescription drug benefit, appear to have made a favorable impression on them. Mr. Bush received support from 53 percent of voters 60 and over, compared to 46 percent for Kerry, according to CBS News exit poll data.[The CBS Ne stanley mug ws exit polls were conducted by Edison/Mitofsky for the National Election Pool. Results are based on 13,531 voters exiting the polls across the nation, and have a margin of error of two percentage points.] In the last three elections, voters 60 and over supported the Democratic nominee. Bill Clinton held a 12-point advantage over Mr. Bush s father, and a four-point advantage over Bob Dole. Al Gore received 51 percent of the senior vote t stanley thermoskannen o Mr. Bush s 47 percent.Moreover, many of the key swing states broke according to seniors preferences. In Florida, Ohio, and Colorado where Mr. Bush received support from a majority of seniors, he won. Conversely, in the battleground sta stanley thermobecher tes of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Minnesota, where Mr. Bush failed to secure a majority of seniors, he lost. Nationwide, seniors thought highly of Mr. Bush. Fifty-five percent of voters sixty and over
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Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo grille stanley quencher d on Capitol Hill over COVID nursing home deaths Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo grilled on Capitol Hill over COVID nursing home deaths 02:42 Was stanley cup hington mdash; Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is set to testify publicly before a Republican-led House subcommittee next week on his administration s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in nursing homes, the panel announced on Tuesday.Cuomo s administration has faced significant criticism for how it handled nursing home residents who contracted COVID-19 in the early months of the pandemic. New York mandated in March 2020 that nursing homes must admit patients who tested positive for COVID. The administration was later accused of underreporting deaths in nursing homes, including by New York Attorney General Letitia James, who released a 2021 report asserting that the state may have undercounted COVID-19 deaths in nursing home patients by as much as 50%. Andrew Cuomo owes answers to the 15,000 families who lost loved ones in New York s nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, the chairman of the select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic, Rep. Brad Wenstrup, said in a statement. Former Gov stanley thermos . Andrew Cuomo speaks to reporters following a closed-door interview with the House Oversight and A Cmuj Romney says his conservatism will shine through at CPAC
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry faulted President Bush on Friday for pursuing Saddam Hussein instead of Sept. 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, a choice Kerry contended had made defeating terrorism more difficult. The invasion of Iraq was a pr stanley quencher ofound diversion from the battle against our greatest enemy, a stanley cups uk l Qaeda, Kerry said in a speech at Temple University. There s just no question about it. The president s misjudgment, miscalculation and mismanagement of the war in Iraq all make the war on terror harder to win. Kerry said Iraq has become a haven for terrorists since the war, and he offered a detailed strategy to contain terrorism while drawing a sharp distinction between his and the president s views on national security. George Bush made Saddam Hussein the priority. I would have made Osama bin Laden the priority, Kerry said. I will finish t stanley borraccia he job in Iraq and I will refocus our energies on the real war on terror. Kerry vowed to fight a tougher, smarter, more effective war on terror as he proposed policies aimed at denying individuals and groups the ability to organize and attack. He said he would build a better military and intelligence apparatus to go after enemies, deny terrorists weapons and financing, move against worldwide terrorist havens and recruitment centers, and promote freedom and democracy in Muslim nations. The Bush-Cheney campaign said the president is already following that course. He is copying t
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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, can t put a finger on why Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is doing so well. But he says it could spell disaster for the party. It s pretty hard to understand where this thing is going with the Donald, Graham said on Face the Nation stanley canada Sunday. But here is the state of play: Our leading Republican is embracing self-deportation, that all of the 11 million have to walk back where stanley cups they came from. And maybe we ll let some of them come back. I just hope we don t go down that road as a party. Our leading contender, Mr. Trump, is going backward on immigration. And I think he s going to take all of us with him if we don t watch it, he added. Presidential contenders handling Trump with care 03:52 Trump earned the biggest criticism in Sunday s interview but Graham was also not impressed with what his rivals have had to say about the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS . stanley drinking cup Nobody on our side seems to be willing to put a plan forward that truly would destroy ISIL, he said, using an alternate acronym from the group. Graham has said the U.S. will need to send in about 10,000 combat troops to defeat the militants who have taken control of a large portion of Iraq and Syria. He argues that his experience - 35 t Jscc Department of Education freezes student loan payments through September
This story was written by Kris DeRego, Ka Leo O HawaiiWomen have played a pivotal role in deciding this year s presidential primaries. Partly attributable to the emergence of Hillary Clinton as the most viable female candidate for the Oval Office in United States history, women, who make up nearly 60 percent of primary voters and caucus goers in some states, have turned out in record numbers to ensur stanley mugs e that their gender s concerns are taken seriously by anyone aspiring to become the next commander in chief. While it would be erroneous to assert that women s political allegiances are driven solely by gender, it would be equally unwise to maintain that women, the majority of whom vote for liberal candidates, would not be galvanized by the appearance of a female nominee in November. According to a memo released at the beginning of the stanley quencher primary process by Mark Penn, Clinton s former chief political strategist, the campaign s internal polling showed that 94 percent of women under the age of 35 said they would be more willing to vote in November if the first female nominee is on the ballot. For Barack Obama, that can t be good news. After having his nomination all but sealed by the 30-member Democratic Rules and Bylaws Committee, which awarded half a vote to each member of Florida stanley cup s and Michigan s Democratic National Convention delegations, Obama must now consider the impact upon disaffected voters of the rupture created by
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Vice President Mike Pence has met with some of the contenders for the Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Anthony Kennedy s retirement, The Associated Press has learned.The meetings took place in recent days, according to a person familiar with the search process. The person did not specify which c stanley mug andidates Pence met with and spoke on condition of anonymity Wednesday to describe the private search process.President Trump has spoken with seven potential candidates and is set to announce his decision on Monday. Mr. Trump has said he ll choose his nominee from a list of 25 candidates vetted by conservative groups. Top contenders include federal appeals judges Brett Kavanaugh, Raymond Kethledge, Amul Thapar and Amy Coney Barret stanley website t mdash; all of whom spoke with Mr. Trump on Monday.The top 5 candidates to replace Justice KennedyMr. Trump has also spoken with Thomas Hardiman, who has served with Mr. Trump s sister on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, according to a person familiar with the conversation who also was not authorized to publicly discuss it. Another candidate considered a top contender is Joan Larsen, who serves on the federal appeals court in Cincinnati.The president spoke by phone with Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah on Monday. He s the only lawmaker on Mr. Trump s list. Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a friend and ally of the Utah senator, wrote an op-ed for Fox News on Thursday arguing that Lee water bottle stanley s Uook Obama To Give Three Commencement Speeches
Fred Thompson attacked Fox News on Sunday for what he called a constant mantra that his floundering campaign for president is troubled, and he accused the network of skewing things against him.Thompson certainly stanley hrnek isn t the first politician to make that accusation, but he s the first high-profile Republican to do so.The assertion was arresting because Fox News was frequently Thompson s forum of choice when he was contemplating a campaign and as he tried to find his footing after he announced. Where did Thompson do it On Fox News Sunday, in a heated exchange with host Chris Wallace, who played clips of Fox commentators saying his campaign had been a disappointment. It s a lot of the same kind of stuff that I heard when I first ran for office, when I was 20 points down. And fortunately, I wound up 20 points ahead on election night, Thompson said. This has been a constant mantra of Fox, to tell you the truth. And I saw the promo ... for this show, and it was kind of featuring the stanley becher New Hampshire poll. Let s put things in context a little bit, to start with. Thompson was referring to a CNN/WMUR poll that showed his support in the Granite Stat stanley vattenflaska e had collapsed to 4 percent, putting him in sixth place among the Republican presidential hopefuls.Referring to Fox commentators, Thompson said: From Day One, they said I got in too late, I couldn t do it ... wouldn t raise enough money, and that sort of thing. And that s their opinion. They
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WASHINGTON -- An envelope addressed to the White House has tentatively tested positive for cyanide after two rounds of analysis, the Secret Service said Tuesday. Additional testing will be necessary to confirm the finding.The letter was received Monday at a facility that screens mail for the White House and is located away from the grounds of the executive mansion and its surrounding buildings in the heart of downtown Washington.Initial biological testing came back negative, said agency spokesman Robert Hoback. Additional testing co stanley cup nducted Tuesday returned a presumptive positive for cyanide, a potentially lethal toxin that attacks the heart and nervous system. The sample has been taken to another facility for further testing. The letter had what was described as a milky substance inside a container, reports CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett.There are no reports of exposure to cyanide for the mail handlers at the facility or the building itself, Garrett says.The Secret Service, which is responsible for the safety and security of President Obama and his im stanley thermos mug mediate family, said its investigation into the letter was continuing and it will have no additional comment on the matter.Suspicious letters often are sent to some of the country s leading politicians, including the president. Some test positive for h stanley cup azardous substances while others include threats of death or other physical harm. In June 2013, a Yyvs Elizabeth Warren declares criminal justice system racist from front to back
This post was written by Steve Chaggaris, CBS News Director of Political Coverage and Anthony Salvanto, CBS News Directo stanley cups uk r of Elections.There s a great race taking place around Saratoga Springs, New York, and it s not the Belmont Stakes. AP Photo/Tim Roske In a special election to be held next Tuesday for the Congressional seat NY-20 being vacated by Kirsten Gillibrand - who took over Hillary Clinton s seat in the Senate - candidates Scott Murphy D and Jim Tedisco R are sparring over the bailouts, AIG bonuses and the budget in one of those rare off-year contests where we ll get to watch the hot topics of the day play out at the ballot box.Si stanley cup nce Murphy was named the Democrats nominee in January, national Democrats have been accused of not aggressively working to keep the seat in Democratic hands, while the GOP has been out in full force behind their candidate, Jim Tedisco. Today, however, President Obama endorsed Murphy, allowing some worried De stanley cup mocrats to breathe easier...but also, perhaps, intensifying the spotlight on the race and putting a bit more of his political capital at risk. Ultimately, there may be more at stake here for Republicans, at least in the minds of pundits. Hence the GOP s all-out effort.First, it would be a Republican pick-up in the first race with national interest since President Obama took office. And while it would have no effect on the Democratic Party s huge majority in the House, it would give
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Protesters rallied Thursday night around an immigrant family detained by the Border Patrol in upstate New York, reports CBS Rochester station WROC-TV.The stati stanley thermos on says agents took two women, their five young chidren and the womenrsquo 12 year old brother into custody after being cal stanley cup led to the scene of a traffic stop by police in Geneseo.Demonstrators told WROC the women are migrant workers and the family van was stopped for alleged child car seat violations. Protesters from several immigrant rights groups gathered at the U.S. Border Patrol Station in Irondequoit, N.Y., where agents brought the family.The New York Immigration Center tweeted its take on the unfolding events: We are horrified to hear about an immigrant family in Geneseo who had been picked up by CBP https://t.co/fOCpGEE1NY details emergingmdash; NYIC @thenyic March 24, 2017 The Workers Justice Center of New York says one of the women and the younger brother were then taken by ICE to the detention center in Batavia, N.Y. Her three children, all under the age of four, and the womenrsquo sister and her children were released. stanley tumblers Protesters told WROC two people were arrested when they tried to block a law enforcement vehicle from removing the families from the Irondequoit detention center. Geneseo police were unavailable for comment.Another protest was planned for Friday, this one at the federal building in downtown Rochester. Fcis Rudy Giuliani: There were no terrorist attacks in U.S. in 8 years before Obama
All hail inexperience - the less familiarity with politics the better, no matter the party or state. The support of the voters of Connecticut isn t bestowed by the establishment or the pundits or the media. It isn t a birthright, former World Wrestling Entertainment executive Linda McMahon said after winning the GOP senatorial nomination in her first run for office.Two mountain ranges away, appointed Sen. Michael Bennett of Colorado, tried to express the same sentiment after dispatching his rival, a former state house speaker. This election is the first time my name has ever been on the ballot, said Bennett, who enjoyed President Ba stanley mug rrack Obama s support in the bitter Democratic primary. Also in Colorado, businessman Dan Maes edged out Congressman Scott McInnis for the Republican gubernatorial nomination after a campaign in which both candidates suffered self-inflicted wounds.Bennet, McMahon and Maes were three of the most distinctive winners on a busy primary night, one an incumbent who proved able to handle the type of primary challenge that has claimed lawmakers elsewhere, the other two the epitome of the conservative outsiders who will carry the GOP banner into the fall campaign, with control of Congress and 37 governorships at stake. stanley canada Interactive Map: CBS News Election 2010 Race stanley tazas Ratings Each now pivots to the fall campaign. Bennet will face Ken Buck, another self-proclaimed outsider. McMahon is the clear underdog against Ri
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Four cities are suing the Trump administration over what they describe as a sabotage of the Affordable Care Act. Although Congress and the Trump administration have eased some of the Obama-era health law requirements, it stanley cups uk s still the law of the land.Chicago, Baltimore, and Ohio s Columbus and Cincinatti on Thursday filed a suit against President Trump, Health and Human Services and its secretary Alex Azar, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and its administrator Seema Verma. The suit claims Mr. Trump and his administration, having failed to successfully repeal Obamacare in Congress, are waging a relentless campaign to sabotage, and ultimately, to nullify the law. The suit, filed in federal court in Baltimore, alleges the administration s actions are placing a greater burden on localities. They are discouraging Americans from enrolling in comprehensive plans that protect them against debilitating medical expenses, the suit reads. They are working to raise prices and reduce choices for Americans seeking insurance in the Act s exchanges. And they are misappropriating funds Congress allocated to support the Act, instead using those funds to attack it. The suit argues stanley shop the administration has weakened or eliminated, via executive actions, aspects of the ACA that ensure people have quali stanley cup ty health insurance. The Trump administration s strategy: to deceptively shift the blame from their own actions to the Act itself. Their ob Ahug Americans increasingly see border as crisis, call for tougher measures, CBS News poll finds
Whenever the Iraq funding discussion gets sticky, the Pentagon warns of layoffs of civilian military employees, and this round of debate is no different.So with a Memorial Day deadline looming, the Pentagon came through this week, in a letter to Rep. Jerry Lewis R-Calif. , the top Republican on the Appropriations Committee, warning that the Army was running out of money for Iraq and Afghanistan. The Pentagon letter essentially says the military would have to rob Peter to pay Paul and furlough civilian employees not involved in the war effort.The layoff warning is similar to a threat last year when Congress was debating the last major Iraq funding bill. There were no layoffs, and the Democratic Congress eventually caved in on troop withdrawal timetables and gave the Pentago stanley kubek n the war money with no strings attached. That is likely to happen again in the coming month, and layoffs will be averted. Here s a copy of the letter from Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England -- note the creative phrase in extremis as it applies to Pentagon war funding. The concerns raised by Eng stanley cup land are similar to comments made by Gen. Richard Cody, vice chief of staff for the Army, in April. Congressional stanley cup action on the balance of the [funding] request prior to the end of May will provide funds in time to prevent any disruption in operations or programs, Cody said before the House Armed Services Committee on April 9. The House and Senate, despite the rec
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New York mdash; Jared Kushner, Donald Trump s former White House adviser and his son-in-law, defended on Tuesday his business dealings after leaving government with the Saudi crown prince who was implicated in the 2018 killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.Kushner worked on a wide range of issues and policies in the Trump administration, including Middle East peace efforts, and developed a relationship with Saudi Arabia s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has overseen social and economic reforms but also a far-reaching crackdown on dissent in the kingdom. Jared Kushner in undated photo. Chris Kleponis / Polaris / Bloomberg / Getty Images After Kushner left the White House, he started a private equity firm that received a reported $2 billion investment from the sovereign wealth fund controlled by Prince Mohammed, dr stanley cups uk awing scrutiny from Democrats. Kushner, speaking at a summit in Miami on Tuesday sponsored by media company Axios, said he followed every law and ethics rule. He dismissed the idea of there being any concerns about the appe stanley cup arance of a conflict of interest in his business deal. If you ask me about the work that that we did in the White House stanley cup , for my critics, what I say is point to a single decision we made that wasn t in the interest of America, Kushner said. He said the sovereign wealth fund, Ztke 2020 hopeful John Hickenlooper unveils plan to re-energize trade with the world
Updated at 11:50 a.m. ET CBS/ AP Missouri Congressman Todd Akin, a conservative Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, sparked a furor and earned a rebuke from Mitt Romney s campaign after saying that women s bodies can prevent pregnancies in a legitimate rape and that conception is rare in such cases.Akin stanley fr , a six-term congressman running against incumbent Democrat Sen. Claire McCaskill, was asked in an interview broadcast Sunday on St. Louis television station KTVI if he would support abortions for women who have stanley kubek been raped. It seems to me first of all, from what I understand from doctors, that s really rare, Akin said. If it s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down, Akin said of a rape victim s chances of becoming pregnant.Akin said in an emailed statement later Sunday that he misspoke during the interview, though the statement did not specify on which points or comments. In reviewing my off-the-cuff remarks, it s clear that I misspoke in this interview and it does not reflect the deep empathy I hold for the thousands of women who are raped and abused every year, Akin s statement said.Akin also said in the statement he believes deeply in the protection of all life and I do not believe that harming another innocent victim is the right course of action. Akin s comments brought a swift rebuke from the campaign of pres stanley mug umptive GOP presidential candidate Romney. Gov. Romney and C
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