October remains the month for political surprises

Heading into the final weekend of the 2004 presidential campaign, John Kerry was feeling good about his chances of winning the White House.

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Mark my words," the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. "It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking.

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The legal hurdles that API feared in connection with the release of the tape has now been settled. The American people has soon to be treated to the truth about the true personality of their (probably) incoming first Lady.

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The senior official, who asked to remain anonymous because of the sensitivity of the intelligence, said the U.S. military had recently arrested an Iraqi general who says he was paid by Iran to derail a pending agreement that would allow U.S.

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Is Hannity Just Full of Garbage? Or Did He Truly Have the Big Surprise Tonight

Hannity and every right-winger who said something to me today or this week implied that Sean Hannity had an October Surprise tonight for Obama.

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They know their 15 minutes are up. They know they had their shot, gave it everything they had. Six solid years of complete control, their most potent leaders, their best ideas, war and terror and jingoism, anti-gay anti-women anti-science.

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Wag the Dog Iranian style? News leaked this morning of US warplane intercepted and brought down in Iran. Could this be the October Surprise. Read on.

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Is this the "October Surprise?" US Warplane Plays Chicken in Iran's Airspace. A BAD IDEA.

Friends, Is this the "October Surprise?" US Warplane Plays Chicken in Iran's Airspace. A VERY BAD IDEA.

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Arab intelligence sources believe the US and Iran have reached a tentative "Grand Bargain" that has already influenced the presidential election.

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Ethics Committee Special Counsel Said McCain Had Closest Relationship to Keating.

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I received my copy of the DVD in this mornings edition of The Sunday Oregonian, Oregons largest newspaper. I haven't yet watched it but have learned that it is an extremely biased, fear mongering peice of propaganda. 2 minutes into the film, the Two Towers fall.

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In the aftermath of two major terrorist attacks on Western targets, America's counterterrorism community is warning that Al Qaeda may launch more overseas operations to influence the presidential elections in November.

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In his new book "The War Within," Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward disclosed "the existence of secret operational capabilities developed by the military to locate, target and kill leaders of al Qaeda in Iraq and other insurgent leaders." Asked by a caller on Larry Ki …

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Democrats understand Sarah Palin is a formidable political force who has upset the Obama victory plan. The latest Washington Post/ABC Poll shows John McCain taking a 12-point lead over Barack Obama among white women, a reversal of Mr. Obama's eight-point lead last month.

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The Alaska state senator running an investigation of Gov. Palin says the McCain campaign is using stall tactics to prevent him from releasing his final report by Oct. 31, four days before the November election.

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Everybody knows it, but it took a notoriously ruthless Republican operator to come right out and say it.

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I am not sorry that folks are disquieted by my report that Republicans have a videotape of Michelle doing a rant on white people. This is not a work of creative fiction on my part.

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Defense Secretary Robert Gates has called CENTCOM commander Adm.

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Hillary Clinton's campaign is signaling that a second Clinton presidency will follow the look-to-the-future, don't-worry-about-accountability approach toward Republican wrongdoing that marked Bill Clinton's years in office.

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Given Hillary Clinton's emergence as the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, a Consortiumnews.com reader asked that we post the entire first chapter of Robert Parry's 2004 book, Secrecy & Privilege: The Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq.

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The savings and loan scandal of the 1980s has been depicted in a myriad of ways. To some, it is "the greatest ... scandal in American history" (Thomas, 1991: 30). To others it is the single greatest case of fraud in the history of crime (Seattle Times, June 11, 1991).

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"A flurry of military maneuvers in the Middle East increases speculation that conflict with Iran is no longer quite so unthinkable. Here's how the U.S. would fight such a war--and the huge price it would have to pay to win it"

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Politics and worries about oil supplies may have caused gasoline prices to go up at the pump earlier this year, but one big investment bank quietly helped their rapid drop in recent weeks, according to some economists, traders and analysts.

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October Not-So-Surprise

Originally published on Beterwas. October is here and I, for one, am on the lookout for the dreaded "October Surprise." Karl Rove has promised us one.

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"It should come as no surprise if the Bush Administration undertakes a preemptive war against Iran sometime before the November election.

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