Trump e Zelensky vão discutir a paz na Ucrânia. O que pode sair do encontro?

[nunofaustino]

Ontem foi uma noite péssima para os democratas...

O McCain, o único que os poderá derrotar, ganhou em toda a linha e não existe um claro candidato democrata (o que indica que vai continuar a haver ataques entre os dois candidatos e a demonstrar os pontos fracos de cada um deles).

Continuo a achar que os candidatos serão McCain/Romney (apesar de poder aceitar outro VP, mas sempre muito mais conservador e mais republicano do que o Mccain) e a dupla Clinton/Obama, com Obama a ser o primeiro VP negro. Resta saber se o Obama aceita ser o VP de Clinton...

De qquer modo, penso que terá sido uma boa noite para os EUA, pois eliminou o Rommney e o Huckabee, dois candidatos demasiado conservadores para o meu gosto e que, na mho, n seriam bons presidentes para os EUA.

Um abr
Nuno

[Keyser Soze]

com este tipo como candidato Presidencial, os Republicanos têm uma chance de ganhar novamente a Casa Branca, algo impensável há uns tempo atrás

(se bem q se diga q estão a verificar-se muitas transformações dentro do Partido, McCain é odiado por facções no partido: direita radical, os fanáticos religiosos....que estiveram por detrás de Bush, mas é bem capaz de apanhar muita gente independente e ao centro)

em todo o caso o próximo Presidente dos EUA será um Negro, uma Mulher ou um Herói

McCain (front right) with his squadron, in 1965.


John McCain being pulled out of Truc Bach Lake in Hanoi and about to become a prisoner of war.[39] October 26, 1967.


President Richard Nixon greets the released John McCain at a White House reception honoring returning POWs. May 24, 1973.


Prisoner of war

On October 26, 1967, McCain was flying as part of a 20-plane attack against a thermal power plant in central Hanoi, a heavily defended target area that had previously been off-limits to U.S. raids.[40][41] McCain's A-4 Skyhawk was shot down by a Soviet-made SA-2 anti-aircraft missile[41] while pulling up after dropping its bombs.[42] McCain fractured both arms and a leg in being hit and ejecting from his plane.[43] He nearly drowned after he parachuted into Truc Bach Lake in Hanoi.[40] After he regained consciousness, a mob gathered around him. [44] Others crushed his shoulder with the butt of a rifle and bayoneted him in his left foot and abdominal area; he was then transported to Hanoi's main Hoa Loa Prison, nicknamed the "Hanoi Hilton" by American POWs.[44][45] Although McCain was badly wounded, his captors refused to put him in the hospital, deciding he would soon die anyway. They beat and interrogated him, but McCain only offered his name, rank, serial number, and date of birth.[44] Only when the North Vietnamese discovered that his father was a top admiral did they give him medical care[44] and announce his capture. At this point, two days after McCain's plane went down, that event and his status as a POW made the front page of The New York Times.[36]

McCain spent six weeks in the Hoa Loa hospital, receiving marginal care.[40] He was interviewed by a French television reporter whose report was carried on CBS, and was observed by a variety of North Vietnamese, including the famous General Vo Nguyen Giap.[44] Many of the North Vietnamese observers assumed that he must be part of America's political-military-economic elite.[44] Now having lost 50 pounds, in a chest cast, and with his hair turned white,[40] McCain was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp on the outskirts of Hanoi nicknamed "the Plantation"[46] in December 1967, into a cell with two other Americans who did not expect him to live a week (one was Bud Day, a future Medal of Honor recipient); they nursed McCain and kept him alive.[47] In March 1968, McCain was put into solitary confinement, where he would be for two years.[44] In July 1968, McCain's father was named Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Command (CINCPAC), stationed in Honolulu and commander of all U.S. forces in the Vietnam theater.[5] McCain was immediately offered a chance to return home early:[40] the North Vietnamese wanted a mercy-showing propaganda coup for the outside world, and a message that only privilege mattered that they could use against the other POWs.[44] McCain turned down the offer of repatriation due to the Code of Conduct of "first in, first out": he would only accept the offer if every man taken in before him was released as well.[48] McCain's refusal to be released was even remarked upon by North Vietnamese officials to U.S. envoy Averell Harriman at the ongoing Paris Peace Talks.[40]

In August 1968, a program of vigorous torture methods began on McCain, using rope bindings into painful positions and beatings every two hours, at the same time as he was suffering from dysentery.[44][40] Teeth and bones were broken again as was McCain's spirit; the beginnings of a suicide attempt was stopped by guards.[40] After four days of this, McCain signed an anti-American propaganda "confession" that said he was a "black criminal" and an "air pirate",[40] although he used stilted Communist jargon and ungrammatical language to signal the statement was forced.[49] He would later write, "I had learned what we all learned over there: Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine."[44] His injuries to this day have left him incapable of raising his arms above his head.[13] His captors tried to force him to sign a second statement, and this time he refused. He received two to three beatings per week because of his continued refusal.[50] Other American POWs were similarly tortured and maltreated in order to extract "confessions".[44] On one occasion when McCain was physically coerced to give the names of members of his squadron, he supplied them the names of the Green Bay Packers' offensive line.[49] On another occasion, a guard surreptitiously loosened McCain's painful rope bindings for a night; when he later saw McCain on Christmas Day, he stood next to McCain and silently drew a cross in the dirt with his foot[51] (decades later, McCain would relate this Good Samaritan story during his presidential campaigns, as a testament to faith and humanity[52][53]). McCain refused to meet with various anti-war peace groups coming to Hanoi, such as those led by David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, and Rennie Davis, not wanting to give either them or the North Vietnamese a propaganda victory based on his connection to his father.[44]

In October 1969, treatment of McCain and the other POWs suddenly improved, after a badly beaten and weakened POW who had been released that summer disclosed to the world press the conditions to which they were being subjected.[44] In December 1969, McCain was transferred back to the Hoa Loa "Hanoi Hilton";[44] his solitary confinement ended in March 1970.[44] McCain continued to refuse to see anti-war groups or journalists sympathetic to the North Vietnamese regime;[44] to one visitor who did speak with him, McCain later wrote, "I told him I had no remorse about what I did, and that I would do it over again if the same opportunity presented itself."[44] McCain and other prisoners were moved around to different camps at times, but conditions over the next several years were generally more tolerable than they had been before.[44] Back at the "Hanoi Hilton" from November 1971 on,[44] McCain and the other POWs cheered the intense, Hanoi-focused, B-52-led U.S. "Christmas Bombing" campaign of December 1972 — whose explosions lit the night sky and shook the walls of the camp, and whose daily orders were issued by McCain's father, knowing his son was in the vicinity — as a forceful measure to force North Vietnam to terms.[44][54]

Altogether McCain was held as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for five and a half years. The Paris Peace Accords were signed on January 27, 1973, ending direct U.S. involvement in the war, but the Operation Homecoming arrangements for POWs took longer; McCain was finally released from captivity on March 15, 1973,[55] having been a POW for almost an extra five years due to his refusal to accept the out-of-sequence repatriation offer.[56]

[Woodhare]

O que eu curto mais é a mãe do McCain já vai fazer 96 e parece mais nova que muita gente. Quando o Chuck Norris que faz campanha pelo Huckabee,disse que o McCain estava velho demais o McCain respondeu que tinha que mandar a mãe lavar-lhe a boca com sabão para não dizer essas coisas. O McCain é o candidato que curto mais.

[Rockerduck]

Ex-primeira dama em vantagem

Ex-primeira dama em vantagem
Hillary Clinton vence estados mais importantes
A senadora de Nova Iorque, Hillary Clinton, venceu nos estados mais populosos, apesar de Obama ter conquistado um maior número de estados. Do lado republicano não há surpresas, John McCain obteve as principais vitórias.

http://clix.expresso.pt/gen.pl?p=storie ... ies/234648

8:37 | Quarta-feira, 6 de Fev de 2008


As urnas ainda não estão fechadas, mas a ex-primeira dama dos EUA triunfou nos principais estados, vencendo o importante estado da Califórnia.

Porém Obama venceu um maior número de estados. O que faz com que a diferença de delegados seja muito pequena. De acordo com a CNN Hillary Clinton conquistou, até agora, 714 delegados e Barack Obama 617.

McCain à frente entre os republicanos
O senador do Arizona, John McCain, deverá ter uma vantagem decisiva para obter a vitória nesta super terça-feira.

McCain tem, até agora, vantagem em nove estados, entre eles alguns dos mais populosos, como Nova Iorque e Califórnia. O seu rival Mitt Romney ainda não reconheceu a derrota.

Apesar dos resultados respoderem às sondagens, as primárias republicanas trouxeram uma surpresa: o ex-governador dos Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, venceu no Tennessee, Geórgia, Alabama, Arkansas e Virgínia Ocidental.

[Presa36]

"In their hard-fought Democratic duel, Obama won 13 states and Clinton took eight, ensuring a long and difficult battle for the nomination. Clinton's wins included the key prizes of California and New York on the biggest day of U.S. presidential voting before the November 4 election.

"There is one thing on this February night that we do not need the final results to know: Our time has come," Obama told cheering supporters in Chicago. "Our movement is real, and change is coming to America."

McCain won nine contests, including victories in California and the Northeast, to take a daunting lead in the Republican race. He captured a huge haul of the convention delegates who select the party's presidential nominee, taking several big states where delegates are granted on a winner-take-all basis."

Reuters - online

[Pata-Hari]

Não consigo entrar na outra noticia mas o titulo refere que Obama ganha mais estados do que Clinton mas Clinton ganha em estados com mais população.

[Pata-Hari]

McCain vence em nove estados incluindo os mais populosos
Apesar de aparentemente dispersos os votos republicanos nas primárias, o ex-senador John McCain deverá ter obtido uma vantagem decisiva na Super Terça-feira, ao vencer nos estados mais populosos, nomeadamente Califórnia, Nova Iorque e Illinois.

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Apesar de aparentemente dispersos os votos republicanos nas primárias, o ex-senador John McCain deverá ter obtido uma vantagem decisiva na Super Terça-feira, ao vencer nos estados mais populosos, nomeadamente Califórnia, Nova Iorque e Illinois.

Segundo os resultados provisórios apurados às 06h00 (hora de Lisboa), McCain deverá ter vencido em nove estados, Mitt Romney em seis e Mike Huckabee em cinco, não tendo ainda começado a contagem no Alasca.

John McCain venceu ou levava vantagem decisiva no Missouri, Califórnia, Arizona, Oklahoma, Nova Iorque, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut e Illinois.

Romney ganhou ou estava à frente no Colorado, Montana, Minnesota, Dakota do Norte, Utah e Masschusetts.

A surpresa maior terá sido o ex-governador dos Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, que venceu no Tennessee, Geórgia, Alabama, Arkansas e Virgínia Ocidental.