Sen. Ted Kennedy, shown in May 2007, was rushed to a hospital Saturday morning.
Sen. Ted Kennedy (America’s Royalty) has apparently suffered a seizure, not a stroke according to CNN. Details are still developing. Recently, Kennedy made news when he endorsed Obama. Thoughts and prayers are with Kennedy and his family.
Van Meter died Saturday of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Crawford County coroner said. Her body was found in her Meadville, Pennsylvania, home on Sunday.
Her brother said she battled depression, but her family thought she had been dealing with her problems.
“She was unhappy, but it was hard for her to open up about that, and we all thought that she was coping,” Daniel Van Meter said. He said she had opposed taking medication.
Van Meter was celebrated in 1993 and 1994 when she made her cross-country and trans-Atlantic flights accompanied by only a flight instructor. Her instructors said she was at the controls during the entirety of both trips.
“If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything,” Van Meter said before her second trip. In her teens, she said she hoped to become an astronaut when she grew up.
Later she earned a degree in criminal justice from Edinboro University in Pennsylvania and spent two years with the Peace Corps in the former Soviet republic of Moldova. She recently worked as an investigator for an insurance company.
Her mother, Corinne Van Meter, said her daughter had begun applying to graduate schools and wanted to study psychology.
Van Meter was a sixth-grader in September 1993 when she flew from Augusta, Maine, to San Diego over five days. She had to fight strong headwinds and turbulence that bounced her single-engine Cessna 172 and made her sick.
At the time, she was believed to be the youngest girl to fly across the United States. That record was broken by a 9-year-old in 1994.
Also in 1994, Van Meter flew from Augusta to Glasgow, Scotland, and was credited with being the youngest girl to make a trans-Atlantic flight. She battled dizziness brought on by high altitude and declared upon landing: “I always thought it would be real hard, and it was.”
The child pilot phenomenon ended in 1996, when 7-year-old Jessica Dubroff, her father and the instructor supervising the flight were killed in a crash in Wyoming while Jessica was trying to become the youngest person to fly across the country. Congress quickly passed a bill banning record-setting attempts by unlicensed pilots.
“I was really rooting for her, but I guess reality says accidents do happen,” Van Meter, then 14, said at the time of the crash. “It’s unfortunate it had to happen to someone so brave, someone trying to fulfill her dreams.”
Corinne Van Meter said her daughter “led a full and interesting life. … She had more guts than any of us could ever imagine.”
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You Are Cayenne Pepper |
 You are very over the top and a bit overwhelming. You have a fiery personality, and you can give anyone a good jolt. You can easily take things up a couple notches, no matter what crowd you’re running with. |
In Pennsylvania,Obama told reporters that he would address racial issues, and the mess created by his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. The speech is to be a “discussion on race and politics.”
In reference to Jeremiah Wright, Obama says:
“I think the caricature that is being painted of him is not accurate, and so part of what I will do tomorrow is to talk about how these issues are perceived from within the black church community for example which I think skews this very differently.”
Yeah ok, if you say so Obama.
This oughta be interesting.
Stay tuned until tomorrow.
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I Can’t Get Over How Accurate this is!! Thanks Regina!
What Bria Means |
 You are full of energy. You are spirited and boisterous.You are bold and daring. You are willing to do some pretty outrageous things.Your high energy sometimes gets you in trouble. You can have a pretty bad temper at times.You are wild, crazy, and a huge rebel. You’re always up to something.You have a ton of energy, and most people can’t handle you. You’re very intense. You definitely are a handful, and you’re likely to get in trouble. But your kind of trouble is a lot of fun. You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It’s easy to get you excited… which can be a good or bad thing. You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don’t stick with any one thing for very long. You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start. You are usually the best at everything … you strive for perfection. You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive. You have the classic “Type A” personality. |
(CNN) — Sen. Hillary Clinton got her campaign back on track with projected wins in the Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island primaries.
Sen. Hillary Clinton claimed victory in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island.
Delegate-rich Texas and Ohio were considered must-wins for her campaign.
Obama, who claimed victory in Vermont, had won 12 straight contests since Super Tuesday on February 5.
Texas also held Democratic caucuses Tuesday, but it was too close to declare a winner.
“For everyone here in Ohio and across America who’s been ever been counted out but refused to be knocked out, for everyone who has stumbled but stood right back up, and for everyone who works hard and never gives up — this one is for you,” Clinton said before supporters in Columbus.
“You know what they say,” she said. “As Ohio goes, so goes the nation. Well, this nation’s coming back and so is this campaign.”
Obama congratulated Clinton on her victories but downplayed his losses. 
CNN’s political team weighs in on the results »
“We know this: No matter what happens tonight, we have nearly the same delegate lead as we had this morning, and we are on our way to winning this nomination,” Obama told supporters in Texas.
Sen. John McCain swept all four Republican contests on Tuesday to become his party’s presumptive nominee. Read about McCain’s victory
McCain won primaries in Texas, Ohio, Vermont and Rhode Island, giving him more than the 1,191 delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination.
“I am very, very grateful and pleased to note that tonight, my friends, we have won enough delegates to claim with confidence, humility and a great sense of responsibility, that I will be the Republican nominee for president of the United States,” McCain told supporters Tuesday night. 
Watch McCain claim victory »
Mike Huckabee dropped out of the Republican race after the results came in.
“It’s now important that we turn our attention not to what could have been or what we wanted to have been, but now what must be — and that is a united party,” Huckabee told a crowd in Dallas. Watch Huckabee bow out »
McCain is slated to go to the White House on Wednesday to receive the endorsement of President Bush, according to two Republican sources.
The Arizona senator’s campaign — his second run for the White House — was largely written off for dead last summer amid outspoken opposition from the party’s conservative base, a major staff shakeup and disappointing fundraising.
But McCain said earlier Tuesday that he was confident he would emerge as the presumptive nominee by the end of the night.
McCain overwhelmingly won moderates and conservatives in Ohio, but he lost the evangelical vote to Huckabee, according to exit polls.
Obama’s campaign pressed to extend voting by one hour in two Ohio counties. See county-by-county results in Ohio
“Due to reports of ballot shortages in Cuyahoga and Franklin counties, we requested a voting extension in those counties,” said Obama spokesman Bill Burton.
A judge ruled to keep parts of Cuyahoga county open an extra hour.
In Texas, Clinton held a two-to-one advantage over Obama with Hispanic voters, while ObamaSee county-by-county results in Texas had the overwhelming advantage with black voters in the state’s Democratic primary, according to CNN’s exit poll.
Eighty-three percent of blacks voted for Obama, while 16 percent supported Clinton, according to the exit poll.
Meanwhile, 64 percent of Hispanics backed Clinton, while 32 percent went for Obama.
Early exit polls indicate a distinct “age gap” in both states.
Obama appealed most strongly to younger voters while older voters favored Clinton. Among Ohio Democratic primary voters aged 17 to 29, 65 percent went for Obama, and 34 percent went for Clinton. Among those age 60 and older, Clinton led Obama 67-31 percent.
The same pattern held true in early exit polling from the Texas Democratic primary. Among voters aged 18 to 29, Obama led Clinton 61-39 percent, and among voters 60 and older, Clinton led Obama 63- 36 percent.
Poll workers in Collin County, near Dallas, estimated that nearly three-quarters of the Democratic voters would participate in the Democratic caucuses to be held after the polls close.
In an unusual system, the 193 delegates that Texas will send to the Democratic National Convention will be split between Obama and Clinton according to the results of both the primary and the caucuses.
State party officials say the dual primary/caucus system promotes participation in the party. Both Clinton and Obama have encouraged supporters to do the “Texas two-step” and vote in both events.
Obama came into the day with momentum on his side. He had 1,378 pledged delegates and superdelegates to Clinton’s 1,269.
Neither candidate is close to the 2,025 needed to win the Democratic nomination. Allocate delegates yourself and see how the numbers add up »
Former President Bill Clinton said in February that if his wife won Ohio and Texas, she’d go on to win the nomination. source
Here’s a sight for sore eyes! I haven’t seen Dick Gregory since he was peddlin’, promoting his weight loss goods! I heard it was a success too. We may not have seen D.G., in recent years but some things never change…including Dick Gregory.
Listen as he tells black americans about themselves, ourselves. Thanks Twin!
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