global poverty act posts
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Truth Fights Back, just not too well (John Kerry on anti-Obama smears) - 08/14/08
... trivial.
Their entry on Obama's Global Poverty Act combines some debunking with a lot of disingenuousness (truthfightsback.com/site/smear/230). The RNC sent out a fundraising letter which is apparently excerpted at crooksandliars.com/2008/08/07/the-lunatics-are-running-the-rncs-asylum:
A bill he has sponsored in the U.S. Senate, the so-called Global Poverty Act
(S. 2433), would raise the amount...
Kevin Drum/Washington Monthly deletes yet another comment (Obama's Global Poverty Act) - 08/06/08
... on a post about Barack Obama's Global Poverty Act. It was left on washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_08/014237.php, which links to blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/08/05/this-just-in-obama-is-a-secret-agent-from-the-u-n.aspx from Jonathan Cohn.
Here's the comment, as posted:
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Let me get this straight: Jonathan Cohn admits he knows nothing about this, but he's...
Barack Obama's "Global Poverty Act" (S. 2433, United Nations, global tax?) - 07/06/08
... committee passage of a plan [the "Global Poverty Act", S.2433] that could end up costing taxpayers billions of dollars in an attempt to reduce poverty in other nations...
It would demand that the president develop "and implement" a policy to "cut extreme global poverty in half by 2015 through aid, trade, debt relief" and other programs...
The House version is H.R.1302 (link), introduced by...
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