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National: High Court Denies Famous Inmate a New Trial; Obama is Outpacing McCain in the Polls
October 7th, 2008
High Court denies famous inmate a new trial.
Mumia Abu-Jamal, the journalist and former Black Panther convicted in the 1981 killing of a Philadelphia Police officer, will not get a new trial, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday. In issuing their ruling, the justices were silent, leaving intact an earlier appeals court decision that upheld Abu-Jamal’s murder conviction but granted him a new sentencing hearing. Abu-Jamal’s plight has gained international attention. Many foreign dignitaries have called for the death-row inmate either to be released or granted a new trial. Prosecutors claim that Abu-Jamal ruthlessly gunned down Daniel Faulkner, a 25-year-old cop, after the officer pulled over the defendant’s brother late one night. For many years, Abu-Jamal has argued that a thoroughly racist judicial system undermined his chance for a fair trial.Obama is outpacing McCain in the polls. Democratic Sen. Barack Obama appears to be stretching his lead against his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain, in the race for the White House. After shadowing each other over the past several weeks, Obama appears be gaining some traction, as his flimsy 2- to 3-point lead in national polls is now a full 6 to 7 points in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. On Monday, the poll showed Obama ahead 49-43. “Over the past couple of weeks, McCain has absorbed a very tough, one-two punch,” says Republican pollster Neil Newhouse, who conducted this survey with Democrat Peter D. Hart. “First, the financial crisis… Second, the debates. These two things have clearly led to a momentum shift in this campaign, where Obama has slowly started to [increase] his lead.” There is now less than one month before Election Day - a bad time to be trailing in the polls. “I think John McCain finds himself in a hole no candidate wants to be in,” Hart added.
9/11 was a tragic day that robbed us of nearly 3000 precious lives. We lost another 4000 of our soldiers in a pointless war, and guess what? Bin Laden—–still breathing. How is that protecting us when the person who is most responsible for 9/11 is still at large? Even so, republicans will trot out the terrorism factor in every debate because that is all they have to stand on. We lost 7,000+ people to terrorism, but the other 300 MILLION are suffering because of the economy. We are losing jobs, homes, healthcare—in short, everything. I’m all for fighting terrorism, but the GOP has used this “you’re not safe” ploy for too long. Some things have to be put into perspective. Without a strong economic foundation, everything else crumbles to the ground, including our ability to fight terrorism.
The Republicans are trying to bring up all kind of dirty tricks. Look for more stupid stuff to air on ..”FOX NEWS’.This morning they was showing a..’School Teacher’..Being kicked out of the school for having students .’Step Dance’.For Mr Obama and now this charter school is thinking about legal charges on the teacher. And get this the charter school is 95% African american and spanish. The students may be of color but this tells you who is in charge of the school and who they want to be President!!
I told a friend of my that when it comes to John McCain/Palin ticket that “GOD DON’t LIKE UGLY”. McCain and his side-kick Palin are the two worst folks I have every seen. Their lies instant of truth goes beyond anyone’s imagination. It pleases me that all my work and the all the workers (volunteers) for Obama Campaign should be proud of their hard work for walking and knocking on doors to get voter registration to the total somewhere around 500,000 for the democratic party to McCain’s 28,000 for the republican party. The party has just begun, we still have to get the new voters to the polls on Nov. 4. When we hear the announcement that Obama is our Next President of the United States — then we can party on. But for NOW let’s keeping doing all we can. I’m proud of the volunteers and the Campaign workers (coordinators) — I pray that God Bless Each and Everyone of you — I pray for you each day. FOUR WEEKS AND COUNTING!!!
well said terri j i could not have said it better , i will only add that . the 30%
that still wants to vote for the pain in the azz/ mc insane ticket has to be
a very scarey group of people. ignorance is dangerous!!!!!
David….You are still young….And uninformed…Get educated on the Black Panthers and then comment. They were not a terrorist group. If ignorance was against the law you would probably get life without the possibilityof parole. Dont comment on an issue that you have no knowledge of. For we as African American citizens the struggle is still not over and people such as yourself are the culprits of injustice in this world.
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