Did the Clintons with their deep and sorted connection to the Hollywood Mafia get the Hollywood Mafia to create the Writers Strike? Just think about it for a minute. With the writers out of the way Hillary won't have to listen to a barrage of Bill as First Dude jokes like "Will Slick Willy's intern budget be severely reduced having to swap wings in White House with his wife?" or "Will Bill's interns have to bring a second dress to work not allowed to leave work at the White House with the first one, and of course let us not forget the penis jokes and Whether or not Bill should have submitted his penis for mug shots so that special prosecutor Ken Star could ask witnesses in open court "Can you identify this penis?" With the writers being on strike quite possibly all the way through to the end of the presidential primary campaign the public won't be reminded of Bill Clinton's penis over and over again which will allow Hillary Clinton all the time in the world to show us hers.
This is important because Hillary Clinton is running in the presidential primary against an African American and public penis perception is everything. You see, the white male in America is afraid of African American Penis. So the Clinton's have obviously fallen for the trap of attempting to compete with African American Penis. Instead of just accepting African American Penis as their equal the Clinton's see it as a threat. After all, Hillary Clinton is a woman competing in what she called the "Boys Club!" so she has to overcome her husband's penis, Barack Obama's penis, the whole democratic party presidential primary penis fest, all with a metaphorical penis of her own invention. So with the writers out on strike and Bill staying in the shadows and only coming out in the open to display his penis when the "Boys Club" gangs up on his wife, Hillary can attempt to win the penis factor metaphorically or otherwise.
Of course the other day Bill showed off to much penis by claiming to be "against the war from the very beginning" illustrating once again the famous Clinton ability to bend their penis around corners like in the infamous "It all depends what your definition of "is" is."
I know many of you are saying its not the size of the penis, its what you do with it (or in the Clinton' case how you bend it), like providing the public with sound policy. But Clinton can't win that debate because she proved to have erectile disfunction and Bill's penis proved to have very poor aim. When it came to universal health care Hillary Clinton couldn't get it up and instead of giving the poor "a hand up" Bill got a "hand job" instead of the promised blow job from the intern underneath his desk in the oval office dribbling his jizz onto the intern's dress and as a result accidently balancing the budget on the backs of poor because the blood that should've been in his brain was in his penis.
And remember earlier this year the Clinton campaign putting the condom on the Vanity Fair story threatening that if a story that exposed Clinton camp infighting were to published Bill Clinton would never show Vanity Fair his penis ever again.
I think the Clintons don't want the public to learn that the Clintons don't have the penis to be in the White House. If the writers were working right now the Clinton penis gap would be exposed by the likes of Jon Stewart's penis or Stephen Colbert's penis and of course Bill Maher's cute but little penis. After all, the speech writers of Clinton's democratic opponents in the presidential primary don't have the imagination to expose the Clinton penis gap. If they did they'd be livin in L.A. and on strike with the rest of the writers.
Personally I want there to be nothing but vagina in the oval office for at least the next twenty years. Let's face it, vagina is a warm and cozy place like free universal health care and a social safety net and environmental restoration. But the problem is, Clinton has chosen a strategy of showing us she can do penis with the best of them. Albeit bent penis.
When the nation is in desperate need of the universal vagina Clinton gives us Pavlov's Penis. Instead of providing free universal health care Clinton has chosen what she thinks is the penis approach. Clinton's mandated healthscar program is more like taking the public by the head and rubbing their nose in what ails them while at the same time screaming " You will buy this shitty, failed scum bag run private health destroying blood sucking plan, cause if you don't you can't get a job!" Only Clinton's perverted sense of bent penis could have come up with that policy.
As far as I'm concerned the writers should be ashamed of themselves for going on strike just when the public needs desperately to laugh at their politicians. The presidential primary process is a tried and true comedy writing bonanza fraught with so many opportunities to create laughter all across the land that only the Clinton's could have come up with the strike idea creating impotent writers instead of hard full thrust laughing all the way potency the presidential primary is usually filled with. But by trying to save themselves from the comedy writers the Clinton's have prevented the comedy writer's from making fun of the republican field of candidates as well as her democratic opponents. Just like the Clinton's though like when they bombed a baby food factory in the Sudan instead of dealing with the Clinton penis/vagina gap in Washington. You know what they say, little penis/no vagina leads to bigger bombs. I wonder who Hillary Clinton would bomb?
Clearly the lesson the Clinton's didn't learn after eight years in the White House was that Bill should have been giving the wives of Senators head and Hillary should have been giving the Senators vagina on top of the president's desk in the oval office if they wanted to get a real free universal health care bill passed.
Hillary Clinton! Put the bent penis down on the ground and back away from the writer's strike.
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Clinton's top Democratic rivals, Barack Obama and John Edwards, still lead Republicans in hypothetical match-ups ahead of the Nov. 4, 2008, presidential election, the survey by Zogby Interactive showed.
Clinton, a New York senator who has been at the top of the Democratic pack in national polls in the 2008 race, trails Republican candidates Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, John McCain and Mike Huckabee by three to five percentage points in the direct matches.
In July, Clinton narrowly led McCain, an Arizona senator, and held a five-point lead over former New York Mayor Giuliani, a six-point lead over former Tennessee Sen. Thompson and a 10-point lead over former Massachusetts Gov. Romney.
She was not matched against the fast-rising Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor, in the July poll.
The results come as other national polls show the race for the Democratic nomination tightening five weeks before the first contest in Iowa, which kicks off the state-by-state nomination battles in each party.
Some Democrats have expressed concerns about the former first lady's electability in a race against Republicans. The survey showed Clinton not performing as well as Obama and Edwards among independents and younger voters, pollster John Zogby said.
"The questions about her electability have always been there, but as we get close this suggests that is a problem," Zogby said.
Obama, an Illinois senator, and Edwards, a former North Carolina senator, both hold narrow leads over the Republican contenders in the hypothetical 2008 match-ups.
"It all points to a very competitive general election at a time when many people think the Democrats are going to win the White House," Zogby said.
The poll of 9,355 people had a margin of error of plus or minus one percentage point. The interactive poll surveys individuals who have registered to take part in online polls.
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(Reporting by John Whitesides, editing by Vicki Allen)
Source: Reuters North American News Service
The Iowa caucuses are known for their “living-room chats” where ordinary Iowans can meet candidates face-to-face and talk about what interests voters. When candidates have larger events or make major policy speeches, the crowds are bigger, but there is often still an opportunity for questions. But under the pressures of major media coverage, with polls narrowing in Iowa, campaigns can potentially control questions and coverage by planning questions ahead of time.
While no campaigns admit to this practice, at a recent Hillary Clinton campaign event in Newton, Iowa, some of the questions posed to the New York Senator were planned in advance, planting some audience members in the crowd.
On Tuesday Nov. 6, the Clinton campaign stopped at a biodiesel plant in Newton as part of a weeklong series of events to introduce her new energy plan. The event was clearly intended to be as much about the press as the Iowa voters in attendance, as a large press corps helped fill the small venue. Reporters from many major national news outlets came to the small Iowa town, from such media giants as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, and CNN.
After her speech, Clinton accepted questions. But according to Grinnell College student Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff ’10, some of the questions from the audience were planned in advance. “They were canned,” she said. Before the event began, a Clinton staff member approached Gallo-Chasanoff to ask a specific question after Clinton’s speech. “One of the senior staffers told me what [to ask],” she said.
Clinton called on Gallo-Chasanoff after her speech to ask a question: what Clinton would do to stop the effects of global warming. Clinton began her response by noting that young people often pose this question to her before delving into the benefits of her plan.
But the source of the question was no coincidence"at this event “they wanted a question from a college student,” Gallo-Chasanoff said. She also noted that staffers prompted Clinton to call on her and another who had been approached before the event, although Clinton used her discretion to select questions and called on people who had not been prepped before hand. Some of the questions asked were confusing and clearly off-message.
The practice of planting audience members to ask specific questions does not appear to be a common practice, or at least not a politically acceptable one. “Our campaign does not plant questions,” said Lauren Rose, Communications Director for Governor Bill Richardson’s campaign. When asked what she would think of other campaigns who did plant audience members, Rose said, “I think campaigns should give Iowa caucus-goers the chance to ask the questions they want.”
When asked if the John Edwards campaign employed such practices, Jenni Lee, Edwards’s Iowa Press Secretary said, “No, they ask whatever they want.”
But the Clinton campaign also denied the practice of planting. “It’s not a practice of our campaign to ask people to ask specific questions,” said Mark Daley, Clinton’s Iowa Communications Director. Daley said that when an event is focusing on a specific topic, such as health care or Iraq, “people are encouraged to ask questions in these regards,” but denied that they are given specific questions.
But when directly asked if his statements meant that planting does not occur in the Hillary campaign, Daley could only say, “to the best of my knowledge.”
“[Planting] is not something that is encouraged in our campaign,” he said.
The event in Newton was a particularly major policy speech, more informative than rallying. The campaign’s apparent tactics at this event may have little or no relationship with the questions at less formal campaign events.
Other presidential campaigns were approached for comment on the topic, but no others responded before the paper went to press.
Serving as a stark contrast to the Clinton event was Richardson’s campaign stop at Grinnell College the night before. Richardson’s appearance was designed as an opportunity for voters to interact with the candidate, and not the media event that Clinton held in Newton. In lower-profile events like Richardson’s (and most of Clinton’s) candidates face many challenging, presumably spontaneous questions.
Without the punch lines that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert provide every night the tension building that happens to the American public as they come in contact with the news of the day (our national monologue), day in, day out will not be released. The longer the writers are out on strike the greater the American public's tension will become till one day very soon it will be to much for the American People to handle and they will be forced, finally to attack the source of their tension and violently over throw the government of the United States of America and that would be an act terrorism according to a new bill passed in the house of representatives.
I am calling on law enforcement officials to arrest Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert and their writers for inciting terrorism and force them back to their shows at gun point. At gun point Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert and their writers should be forced to provide our National Punch Line quota so we the American people do not have to resort to the violent over throw of our government. If I don't get my daily punch line quota I'm afraid I will have no choice but to beat up Dick Cheney and the generals.
There is a ticking time bomb in America and its called the writer's strike. So the use of torture is not out of the question after all the Democrats sided with Bush on appointing a new pro torture attorney general Adolf or Benito Mukasey or something like that. I say we put the new attorney general right to work busting the writer's guild in a pre-pre-emptive union busting water boarding session so they never endanger our governments right to commit acts torture and mass murder against people who some how have our oil under their sand.
If we can't laugh at ourselves we'll have to do something about it and that would be un-American.
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"It's trying to have it both ways; walk the fence, something Senator Clinton's good at. At one minute the strong woman ready to lead, the next, she's the woman under attack, disingenuously playing the victim card as a means of trying to avoid giving honest, direct answers to legitimate questions," Michelman said in a statement the campaign issued Saturday.
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Michelman has impeccable creditionals when it comes to the struggle for womens equality and supporting women cracking glass ceilings. As the former president of NARAL, she has been a long-time national leader in the abortions rights movement.
Michelman goes after Clinton for playing the gender card after Clinton botch answers in Tuesday's debate in Philadelphia--with Edwards part of an aggresive assault.
"As a woman who's been in the public eye and experienced scrutiny, as a woman who knows how hard it can be for women to earn their seat at the leadership table, how hard women have to work just to get the same opportunities, this distresses me," she said.
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From Senator Mike Gravel
Monday, October, 29, 2007
Friends,
Corporate censorship has taken over. I have been excluded unfairly from the MSNBC Debate at Drexel University this Tuesday.
I won't have it!
Join me for this truly historic event...
I am broadcasting LIVE via WebCast tomorrow from Philadelphia across from the debate site at Drexel University and I will be answering all of the same debate questions that Hillary and the others are answering at the MSNBC debate. That WebCast will be LIVE at 6pm PT, 7pm MT, 9pm ET at Link (bookmark this page).
If you live in the Philadelphia area, I will be at World Cafe Live (http://www.worldcafelive.com) with hundreds of supporters and anti-war protestors to protest GE (the owner of MSNBC and NBC) and corporate media censorship in this election! Join me there - doors open at 8:30pm ET.
Even if you have donated to my campaign, I urge you to donate again. I need you to take a stand with me today.
Yours in gratitude,
Senator Mike Gravel
In the past year, I have attended 11 national Democratic debates of which two were sponsored by corporate media giant NBC. However, last week, the network suddenly conjured up arbitrary polling and fundraising requirements specifically designed to exclude me. None of the previous debates I attended held such requirements.
When my staff called NBC directly to find out why I was now barred from attending, Chuck Todd, NBC news' political director, told us that there were three criteria we did not meet, namely that I had not campaigned in New Hampshire and/or Iowa at least 14 times in the past year, that I was not polling at 5% and that I hadn't raised $1 million.
It is abundantly clear that NBC just wants me out of the race. This was made evident by the fact that NBC did not even inform me of its arbitrary criteria before making the decision to stifle my campaign. NBC's Todd waited until 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 19, to inform my staff that I was not invited to the Oct. 30 debate at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
Since I announced my candidacy for the Democratic Nomination for President of the United States on April 17, 2006, I have certainly traveled to New Hampshire and Iowa at least 14 times. And, according to a recent CNN poll, I am tied with Joe Biden, Dennis Kucinich and Chris Dodd.
NBC claims I haven't raised enough money to qualify. I'm proud of the fact that I don't collect millions from special interests (or fugitives like Norman Hsu). The reason why Senator Hillary Clinton seems to have a fundraising scandal every month is because money has corrupted our democracy. By stifling my voice on the basis of fundraising dollars, NBC is reinforcing the power of money over our national political discussion and our freedom.
But why has NBC suddenly come up with "requirements" designed to exclude me from the debate?
NBC's decision is proof that our corporate media do not want a genuine debate over our impending war with Iran. During the last debate I was the only one to aggressively confront Senator Clinton over her vote to label the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. Had I not brought up the subject, seasoned NBC commentator Tim Russert, the moderator of the Sept. 26 debate, would not have even asked about it.
Most Americans still don't appreciate the gravity of that vote and they don't understand that our government is intentionally raising roadblocks to diplomacy. Corporate media have once again failed to investigate how Bush and a compliant congress have set us on the warpath. Instead the media simply parrots the demonization of Iranian President Ahmadinejad and the administration's unproven accusations against Iran. NBC and the other corporate media have jumped on the war bandwagon and they are determined to shut up anyone who tries to stop it.
The fact that NBC is owned by General Electric, one of the world's leading military contractors, is frightening and certainly smacks of censorship directed at the most outspoken critic of the influence that the military-industrial complex holds over this great nation. In the past decade, GE has benefited financially from the global war on terrorism and currently holds almost $2 billion in military contracts.
So I ask that anyone, who is as concerned as I am about the power of the mainstream media and the military-industrial complex, speak out in support of my campaign today. And, even if you support another candidate, surely you understand the implications of NBC's decision for our democracy and the future peace and security of our nation.
And since the powers that be now require that I raise $1 million in order to participate in the debates, please make a donation to my campaign. Unlike my fellow candidates, I am not focused on raising million of dollars; I am focused on fixing representative government. Help us reach that arbitrary threshold, and I will continue to fight for democracy and peace.
Senator Mike Gravel
Despite what Hillary claims, Congress gave Bush the green light to attack Iran when they labeled the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRG) a terrorist organization. Bush can now attack the IRG as a counter-terrorism measure. All he needs is a "Gulf of Tonkin incident" in Iraq that can be tied to the IRG, and he will begin bombing IRG facilities in Iran. Of course Bush will disregard Hillary's resolution demanding he check with Congress before attacking Iran. No president since James Polk has felt the need to check with Congress before "defending" American troops.
What makes Hillary believe a congressional resolution will prevent Bush from doing anything? A war on Iran has been a neocon dream for decades and Bush sees himself as a modern-day messiah ridding the world of evil-doers. Throughout his presidency, Bush has consistently disregarded checks and balances. He defied a Supreme Court decision banning torture simply by ordering his Justice Department to secretly issue a go-ahead. (The MSM also dropped this story.)
After Bush launches the planned strikes on the IRG, Iran will hit our naval forces in the Persian Gulf and our troops in Iraq. Within an afternoon, we will be at war. Bush might later ask our rubberstamp Congress for a show of support. But by then any opposition will be moot. The Iranian navy will cut the oil supply of the European economies and a worldwide depression will hit American markets. Other regional powers, including Saudi Arabia and Israel, might be drawn into the war. Within weeks tens of thousands will be dead and that's only the beginning.
We presidential candidates must do our best to avoid this tragedy by bringing it up constantly. And it's not enough for my fellow candidates just to challenge Bush and Hillary out on the stump. They must join me in challenging her directly during the debates.
If we immediately and consistently inform the American public what their government is up to, I believe we have a shot at stopping this war. Without any sort of public outcry, we are most certainly heading for disaster.
ABC has a poll up asking who you think will win the Democratic Debate (taking place on ABC tomorrow morning from 9:00-10:30 ET).
Here's the link to it: abcnews.go.com/politics
Click on the "Who will win..." and the candidates will come up...
Go there and vote for Mike Gravel!...Maybe they'll let him have more than 4 minutes if we all predict him as the winner!
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