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What's going on – News Roundup
ecthompsonmd February 27, 2009

Friday Morning News Roundup I continue to be amazed at how Senator Ronald Burris has gone from political genius to a national embarrassment. Now it appears that former Governor Rod Blagojevich hired Ronald Burris, II, as senior counsel, for the state’s Housing Authority in mid-September. This worked out very well since the young attorney had just been slapped with a $34,000 tax lien and a mortgage company had foreclosed on his house. I remember the senator saying something about there was no quid pro quo. Maybe I was mistaken. New York Governor David Paterson has changed his top political staff and

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New York Times OpEd: Obama's Iraq Plan
ecthompsonmd July 22, 2008

Senator John McCain is making a big deal over Senator Barack Obama getting published while his own article got rejected. I think that we have to look at Obama’s article and McCain’s article both. The investigation will be illuminating. (Emphasis added is mine.) My Plan for Iraq By BARACK OBAMA Published: July 14, 2008 CHICAGO — The call by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki for a timetable for the removal of American troops from Iraq presents an enormous opportunity. We should seize this moment to begin the phased redeployment of combat troops that I have long advocated, and that is needed

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