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fbc's JournalYes, Let's Talk About 'Upbringing,' Rudy
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/02/yes-lets-talk-about-upbringing-rudyYeah, maybe Giuliani's right. Maybe we really are formed by the character of the people who raised us.
Interesting article. I recommend reading the whole thing.
More on Obama's family's WWII service (first reference is to his Grandfather):
On D-Day, documents place him at Stoney Cross, England, in the 1830th Ordnance Supply and Maintenance Co., Aviation....
His company supported the 9th Air Force as it prepared for the assault on Normandy and took part in the drive that carried the Allies across France. Dunham and the men of the 1830th came across six weeks after the initial Normandy invasion and followed the front through France....
Madelyn, the beloved grandmother known as "Toot" who helped raise the future president, did her part for the war effort, working the night shift as a supervisor on the B-29 bomber assembly line at the Boeing plant.
Her brother is part of the war story, too. Charles Payne, Obama's great-uncle, in 1945 helped liberate a sub-camp of the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald....
Democrats have rarely had a front-runner as dominant as Clinton
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Clinton’s Lead in Historical Perspective
Since the 1972 campaign -- when the power to choose the party nominees was shifted from national convention delegates to voters in state primaries and caucuses -- Democrats have rarely had a front-runner as dominant as Clinton. In four of eight contested nomination campaigns from 1972 to 2004, no candidate had a lead of 20 points in a Gallup Poll at any point during the year prior to the election. In two other campaigns, this occurred just once during that time.
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http://www.gallup.com/poll/102265/clintons-lead-historical-perspective.aspx
This is from mid-October, 2007
Just something to keep in mind, seven and a half years later, when people want to consider Clinton's nomination a fait accompli almost two years before the election.
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