Tonight On The Mike Malloy Show

One More Time to Live

Remember the lyrics to this song by John Lodge of The Moody Blues? It wasn’t so long ago the words seemed so terribly important. So . . . what happened?

“One More Time To Live”

Look out of my window
See the world passing by
See the look in her eye

One more time to live and I have made it mine
Leave the wise to write for they write worldly rhymes

And he who wants to fight begins the end of time…
For I have riches more than these
For I have riches more than these

Desolation
Creation . . .
Evolution . . .
Pollution . . .
Saturation . . .
Population
Annihilation
Revolution
Tell me someone, why this talk of revolution?
Confusion . . .
Illusion . . .
Conclusion . . .
Starvation
Degradation
Humiliation
Contemplation . . .
Inspiration
Elation . . .
Salvation . . .
Communication . . .
Compassion

Solution

Look out on the hedgerow
As the world rushes by
Hear the birds sign a sigh

One more tree will fall how strong the growing vine
Turn the earth to sand and still commit no crime
How one thought I’ll live provide the others die
For I have riches more than these
For I have riches more than these

Tonight On The Randi Rhodes Show

DELEGATES

Delegate Calculator

Pledged Delegates up for grabs

Obama now has 1,590 pledged delegates. Hillary now has ,1426 pledged delegates

SUPER DELEGATES

Obama has 282 as of this morning. Hillary has 271 according to USA Today

Obama campaigners face racism

AUDIO - And look at this! Our ‘old buddy’ Jaz McKay leads the charge.

What to watch for in West Virginia

Obama’s campaign assumes that he will lose in West Virginia on Tuesday and split a pair of May 20 contests, losing in Kentucky and winning in Oregon. The three primaries, strategists say, will give him a firm majority of pledged delegates, excluding Michigan and Florida, and the right to declare victory.

YOUNG EVANGELICALS FOR OBAMA

MCCAIN’S TAX PLAN

An analysis from the Center for American Progress Action Fund finds that John McCain’s massive corporate tax cut would save America’s ten largest electrical utility companies AND ten largest energy companies over $2.8 billion. (This is in addition to the $4 billion tax break for America’s five largest oil companies.)

The new Republican Slogan “The change you deserve” is borrowed from anti-depressant slogan – IRONIC?!?!

Ron Paul supporters are going to stage um SOMETHING at the Republican National Convention.

Bob Barr hurting McCain’s campaign

Barr campaign spending history – who is he supporting with his wallet?

CAMPAIGN POLLS

Election 2008 latest polls

Dem Nomination Polls

ECONOMY

The federal deficit ballooned to $152 billion, 88% higher than the same period last fiscal year.

New gas price record: $3.72/gallon

WAR

AUDIO – Dem Policy Committee hearing yesterday on Iraq – information being spun by Ambassador Crocker – misleading Congress and the American people.

Today On The Ed Schultz Show

Jonathan Alter, columnist and senior editor for Newsweek magazine joins the 1st hour of Today’s show.

David Shuster of MSNBC joins the 2nd hour of Today’s show to report on the latest developments in the race for the White House.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-OR, joins the 3rd hour of Today’s show to discuss the primary coming up in Oregon.

Democracy NOW! Headlines

Today’s Headlines From www.democracynow.org

Today On The Thom Hartmann Show

Hour One - Does this generation have a rendezvous with destiny?

Hour Two - Marc Morano www.epw.senate.gov Topic: Is God punishing Marc Morano by killing Oklahomans?

Hour Three - Arthur C. Clarke www.arthurbrooks.net His new book “Gross National Happiness” “Are conservatives really happier than liberals?”

This Morning On The Stephanie Miller Show

“Kyle” has made it into the national lexicon! Miami Metromix has written an entire column on “The Kyle Syndrome” and you can read it by clicking here!

AUDIO
Right Wing World
Stand Up News
Tinsel Talk
Kerry Washington Interview

ACTRESS KERRY WASHINGTON CALLS IN AT 6:45AM PACIFIC TIME TO TALK ABOUT HER PARTICIPATION IN THIS PAST SATURDAY’S VOTE FOR CHANGE EVENT IN LOS ANGELES WITH STEPH.

VOTING IS NOW UNDERWAY IN THE WEST VIRGINIA PRIMARY. HILLARY CLINTON IS AHEAD BY AN AVERAGE OF 40 POINTS IN THE STATE, AND BARACK OBAMA HAS ACKNOWLEDGED HE WILL NOT WIN THERE.

BARACK OBAMA HAS PICKED UP 26 SUPERDELEGATES IN THE PAST WEEK. THIS WAVE OF ENDORSEMENTS PUTS HIM WITHIN REACH OF THE DEM PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION BY THE END OF THE PRIMARY SEASON ON JUNE 3RD, EVEN IF HE LOSES HALF OF THE REMAINING 6 CONTESTS.

FORMER GOP REPRESENTATIVE BOB BARR LAUNCHED A LIBERTARIAN PARTY PRESIDENTIAL BID YESTERDAY, SAYING VOTERS ARE HUNGRY FOR AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE STATUS QUO WHO WOULD DRAMATICALLY CUT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. SOME BELIEVE BARR COULD PEEL AWAY VOTES FROM MCCAIN, GIVEN THE CANDIDATES’ SIMILAR POSITIONS ON FISCAL POLICY.

JOHN MCCAIN SAID YESTERDAY THAT GLOBAL WARMING IS UNDENIABLE AND THE COUNTRY MUST TAKE STEPS TO BRING IT UNDER CONTROL WHILE ADHERING TO FREE-MARKET PRINCIPLES. SOME HAVE SEEN THIS AS REACHING OUT TO BOTH INDEPENDENTS AND GREEN-MINDED SOCIAL CONSERVATIVES.

CONGRESSIONAL DEMS ARE PUSHING WHAT COULD BECOME THE MOST DRAMATIC EXPANSION OF COLLEGE AID FOR MILITARY VETERANS SINCE WORLD WAR II, WITH A G.I. BILL THEY HOPE WILL BUOY THEM THIS ELECTION SEASON AND BECOME AN ALBATROSS FOR THE GOP.

Tonight On The Mike Malloy Show

Barack’s Religion Problem

Barack might have a religion problem that has nothing to do with Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

According to an op-ed written by Edward Luttwak in today’s New York Times, contrary to popular opinion that Muslims would embrace Obama because his father was Muslim, the opposite might be true.  Obama might find himself in hot water with Muslims here and especially abroad specifically because he committed the “crime” of denouncing his faith and turning to Christianity.  Here’s the argument Luttwak makes in today’s NYT:

[regarding] the oft-made claim that an Obama presidency would be welcomed by the Muslim world. . . .As the son of the Muslim father, Senator Obama was born a Muslim under Muslim law as it is universally understood. It makes no difference that, as Senator Obama has written, his father said he renounced his religion. Likewise, under Muslim law based on the Koran his mother’s Christian background is irrelevant. Of course, as most Americans understand it, Senator Obama is not a Muslim. He chose to become a Christian, and indeed has written convincingly to explain how he arrived at his choice and how important his Christian faith is to him.

His conversion, however, was a crime in Muslim eyes; it is “irtidad” or “ridda,” usually translated from the Arabic as “apostasy,” but with connotations of rebellion and treason. Indeed, it is the worst of all crimes that a Muslim can commit, worse than murder (which the victim’s family may choose to forgive). With few exceptions, the jurists of all Sunni and Shiite schools prescribe execution for all adults who leave the faith not under duress; the recommended punishment is beheading at the hands of a cleric, although in recent years there have been both stonings and hangings.

Because no government is likely to allow the prosecution of a President Obama — not even those of Iran and Saudi Arabia, the only two countries where Islamic religious courts dominate over secular law — another provision of Muslim law is perhaps more relevant: it prohibits punishment for any Muslim who kills any apostate, and effectively prohibits interference with such a killing.

At the very least, that would complicate the security planning of state visits by President Obama to Muslim countries, because the very act of protecting him would be sinful for Islamic security guards. More broadly, most citizens of the Islamic world would be horrified by the fact of Senator Obama’s conversion to Christianity once it became widely known — as it would, no doubt, should he win the White House.

Okay, so the question is this: how much of an impact will Obama’s Christian conversion and related offense to Islam have on the voters?  Is it true that a President Obama would have extreme difficulty in the foreign relations department with Muslim nations as the article implies, or is Luttwak exaggerating the problem because of his own possible hidden agenda?

One thing is certain, once the “presumptive” part is dropped from “presumptive nominee,” Team Obama must be prepared to face this question from the McCain camp.  They’re going to hit him with everything they’ve got.

Can he take it?

We’ll talk about it tonight!

–KBM

Tonight On The Randi Rhodes Show

HILLARY CAMPAIGNS USING WOMEN’S HISTORY AS A THEME ON MOTHER’S DAY. SHE LEAVES OUT JULIA WARD HOWE AND THE WOMEN’S PEACE MOVEMENT THAT STARTED MOTHER’S DAY

Bob Herbert Saturday’s NY Times Op-Ed - OUCH!

Maureen Dowd on Hillary - ANOTHER OUCH!

WEST VIRGINIA (28 DELEGATES) VOTES TOMORROW. HILLARY LEADS BY A MILE: 60-25 percent.

FLORIDA/MICHIGAN

JONATHAN ALTER IN TODAY’S NEWSWEEK

HILLARY’S LETTER TO OBAMA REGARDING FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN (FROM POLITICO) WITH MISSPELLINGS AND GRAMMATICAL ERRORS.

HAROLD ICKES OVER AT CAMP CLINTON, WHO IS NOW INSISTING THAT THE PEOPLE OF FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN BE SEATED AT THE CONVENTION, VOTED AS A MEMBER OF THE DNC BYLAWS COMMITTEE TO DISENFRANCHISE FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN ‘THE RULES ARE THE RULES”

TERRY MCAULIFFE, CLINTON CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN

FROM TERRY’S BOOK ‘WHAT A PARTY” - Speaking to CARL LEVIN (D-MI) IN 2004 WHEN SENATOR LEVIN WANTED TO MOVE UP MICHIGAN’S PRIMARY

GRANDPA MCCAIN’S CAMP RESPONDS TO THE COVER OF NEWSWEEK

BOB BARR IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT – AS A LIBERTARIAN. COULD THIS BE JOHN MCCAIN’S BIGGEST NIGHTMARE? YEAH BABY!

HAVE A LOOK AT BOB’S CAREER

MISSOURI’S VOTER LAW

THE OCCUPATION - 1,000 suicide attempts per month among the veterans .

Daily Voting News, May 9

More disenfranchised voters?? OUR VETS?? Voter registration drives are not permitted at VA run facilities.

VIDEOS

- OBAMA ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN OREGON

- JUST FOR FUN – BILL O’REILLY ABUSING HIS STAFF AND DROPPING THE F-BOMB ALL OVER THE PLACE

Today On The Ed Schultz Show

John Edwards Campaign Manager, David Bonior joins the 1st hour of Today’s show to talk about why he is supporting Barack Obama.

Dr. Robert Pastor, of the Center for Democracy and Election Management , joins the 2nd hour of Today’s show to discuss the battle over voting rights in Missouri.

Casey Dinges of the Strategic and Public Affairs for the American Society of Civil Engineers, joins the 2nd hour of Today’s show to discuss nation’s crumbling infrastructure.