The Greg Knapp Experience

Is this sexism on Obama’s part, or is the McCain campaign reaching? The Obama campaign points out that McCain used the same ‘common” analogy to criticize Hillary Clinton’s health care plan.

“Enough is enough,” Obama senior adviser Anita Dunn said in a statement e-mailed to reporters

“The McCain campaign’s attack tonight is a pathetic attempt to play the gender card about the use of a common analogy - the same analogy that Senator McCain himself used about Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s health care plan just last year,” she continued. “This phony lecture on gender sensitivity is the height of cynicism and lays bare the increasingly dishonorable campaign John McCain has chosen to run.”

McCain’s criticism:

McCain criticized Democratic contenders for offering what he called costly universal health-care proposals that require too much government regulation. While he said he had not studied Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s plan, he said it was “eerily reminiscent” of the failed plan she offered as first lady in the 1990s.

“I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” he said of her proposal.

Is McCain’s criticsm different from Obama’s? If so, why?

Hillary did kind of sound like a “cowboy” on Iran the other day.

  The Democratic presidential hopeful said last week the US could “totally obliterate” Iran if it attacked Israel.

“If I’m the president, we will attack Iran… we would be able to totally obliterate them.”

Next thing you know, she’ll be saying, “Bring it on!” Iran is angry, strong letter to follow:

In a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi, Iran’s deputy ambassador to the UN, said Mrs Clinton had “unwarrantedly and under erroneous and false pretexts threatened to use force against the Islamic Republic of Iran”.

Kung-fu action hero Jackie Chan has warned anyone planning to stop him carrying the Olympic Torch he will come out fighting.

The Hong Kong hardman, whose films include Rush Hour and Shanghai Noon, is due to carry the torch when it nears Beijing, the venue for this summer’s Olympic Games.

The Torch Relay’s journey through Europe and North America has seen it become a magnet for protestors angry at China’s human rights record and the clampdown in Tibet.

However, Chan insists anyone trying to protest on his watch can expect short shrift, warning: ‘Demonstrators better not get anywhere near me.’

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UNITED NATIONS - Pope Benedict XVI is coming to the United Nations next week as “a pilgrim of peace” to promote dialogue between cultures and religions based on fundamental human rights, the Holy See’s U.N. observer said Thursday.

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On March 26, Richard Falk, Milbank professor of international law emeritus at Princeton University, was named by unanimous vote to a newly created position to report on human rights in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs. While Mr. Falk’s specialty is human rights and international law, since the attacks in 2001, he has devoted some of his time to challenging what he calls the “9-11 official version.” (more…)

China should never have gotten the Olympics. It’s human rights violations are too numerous to ignore. If the IOC had a backbone it would cancel the torch relay now and say it is doing so to protest China’s treatment of it’s people and the people of Tibet. Bush should boycott the opening ceremonies and meet with China dissidents instead.

The family of an Indian girl born with two faces, who has been venerated as a “gift from God” by local villagers, will not consult doctors to see if their daughter needs to receive treatment or corrective surgery.

The baby, who is yet to be named, was born to a labourer, Vinod Kumar, and his wife, Sushma, nearly four weeks ago in a village 35 miles outside Delhi. Since her arrival, the family home has drawn hundreds of visitors. “People have come in trucks and have been queuing at our doorstep,” said the Mr Kumar, 24.

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