I have been a feminist for almost 56 years, since the nun preparing me for Holy Communion when I was 7 explained that the boys went up first, because they could be priests and were closer to God. Having five younger brothers increased my commitment to feminism every day. I was very active in the feminist movement of the late 60s and 70s. I was delighted to have four daughters; I am fiercely proud of the brilliant, dedicated, loving women they have become. As they start to have children, I am deeply discouraged that they face the same dilemmas combining careers and childrearing as I did. Read More »
If you want to contribute to Hillary's campaign by purchasing items from the Hillaryclinton.com store, you better hurry up. Only a few days ago I ordered a Hillary poster and a friend wanted one, but could not find it on the Hillary site any more. I just went there and I could not either, although there are many other Hillary collectibles still left to purchase. Buy a piece of history. I also bought a lot of buttons for stocking stuffers this year as well as some from Obama's site too.
Here is the poster that I don't think is available any more:
Tony Puryear is the artist and this was his statement regarding his work:
"Senator Clinton is a beautiful, strong and inspiring woman, and I wanted to make a poster that reflected that. Rather than putting a slogan on the poster, I chose to put her name, because she is surely the only leader at this level with whom we are all on a first-name basis, and to me, that reflects her personal warmth and connection with ordinary Americans." - Tony Puryear
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Among other reasons for the town being picked, its voters, by the square, cast exactly 107 ballots to each candidate in the Jan.8 primary, and New Hampshire is expected to be a critical battleground for Democrats in the November general elections. "
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-06/24/content_8426191.htm
I will not behave like other posters and threaten to leave, but actually keep reposting. This will be my very last post to PB, but I will read all replies before leaving.
Please understand your bile and vitriol, directed at Democrats who support Sen. Clinton, will have a price. Most of her supporters represent the historic base of the Democratic Party. I am more angered by the disrespect from Sen. Obama's supporters than I am by his campaign. However, this anger at his supporters has driven me to the decision to vote against the Democratic Party. I am not voting FOR the republican, but I am voting directly AGAINST the democrat.
Contained within the fury of Hillary supporters, there is a message to the DNC. The primary process was flawed and defective, but phone calls and letters will not lead to any change. I think a defeat in November might.
I understand Sen. Clinton is now backing Obama, but I am not going to discard my own intelligence and blindly follow her . . . can everyone else say the same?
I cannot wish you good luck, so I simply say goodbye.
We are one family now, even if some are still outside the fold and a few may remain there. The large body of us are uniting: All the Biden, Dodd, Richardson, Edwards, Kucunich, Clinton and Obama fans. [Gravel went over to the other side.]
I think that all of our other Democratic candidates are out of debt (but correct me if I am wrong and we will add them to our support list).
Hillary needs help from her family. The Clintons have done a lot for our party and we need to give back to them. This may not be easy for some, but I've thought of a way. Things from Hillary's store would make great gifts for birthdays and holidays. In short while these items will also have value as collectibles. BUY NOW. CONSIDER IT AN INVESTMENT--NOT ONLY IN HILLARY AND OUR PARTY--BUT FOR YOURSELF AS WELL. Who knows? That Hillary button you purchase today could be worth hundreds of dollars 20 years from now.
THE INVESTMENT I MADE SINCE I LOVE ART IS THIS ONE:
Hillary Clinton PrintExclusive to www.Hillarystore.com. Full-color, 24"x31" on heavy stock. Designed by Hollywood screenwriter Tony Puryear ("Eraser"). Union printed in USA using 100% wind power and vegetable-based inks.
$40.00
FROM AN AP RELEASE ON June 7, 2008
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton suspended her pioneering campaign for the presidency on Saturday and summoned supporters to use "our energy, our passion, our strength" to put Barack Obama in the White House.
"I endorse him and throw my full support behind him," said the former first lady, delivering the strong affirmation that her one-time rival and other Democratic leaders hoped to hear after a bruising campaign. . .
"The way to continue our fight now to accomplish the goals for which we stand is to take our energy, our passion, our strength and do all we can to help elect Barack Obama, the next president of the United States," she said.
"Today as I suspend my campaign, I congratulate him on the victory he has won and the extraordinary race he has run. I endorse him and throw my full support behind him and I ask of you to join me in working as hard for Barack Obama as you have for me," the New York senator said in her 28-minute address.
With that and 13 other mentions of his name, Clinton placed herself solidly behind her Senate colleague from Illinois, who awaits Arizona Sen. John McCain in the general election. "We may have started on separate journeys but today, our paths have merged," Clinton said.
So, lets forget about Iowa. New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida and Michigan all moved their Primaries ahead of dates allowed for those states. The DNC rules state that if a state does this, they shall lose 50% of its pledged delegates and all of its unpledged delegates. New Hampshire originally would be entitled to 18 delegates. Reduce that by 50% and they now have 9. Their 12 Superdelegates would not be seated. So, Obama would be entitled to 3 Delegates and Clinton would be entitled to 4 delegates and Edwards would receive 2. This would give Clinton a net gain of +1 in the pledged delegates count. South Carolina originally would be entitled to 45 delegates. Reduce that by 50% and they now have 23. Their 17 Superdelegates would not be seated. So, Obama would be entitled to 12 Delegates and Clinton would be entitled to 6 delegates. This would give Clinton a net gainof +7 in the pledged delegates count. Florida originally would be entitled to 211 delegates. Reduce that by 50% and they now have 105.5. Their Superdelegates would not be seated. Now, according to Party rules, because Obama ran adds in Florida when he was not supposed to, he would lose all of his Florida delegates. So, Obama would be entitled to 0 Delegates and Clinton would be entitled to 60 delegates. Edwards would receive 0 because he did not receive 15% of the vote, required by all states in order to receive delegates. This would give Clinton a net gainof +41 in the pledged delegates count. Michigan originally would be entitled to 94 delegates. Reduce that by 50% and they now have 47. Their Superdelegates would not be seated. Now here is what I am sure the DNC did not expect. Obama and Edwards removed their names from the ballot in MIchigan. Their was no agreement amoung candidates to do so and the DNC did not require it. Obama chose to not allow the people of Michigan to cast a vote for him. Strange that he left his name on Florida but removed it from Michigan. Remeber, a candidate that does not receive 15% of the vote and any primary or caucus is not entitled to any of the delegates from that state. Therefore, buy default, the only candidate that received at least 15% would get all the delegates. So, Obama would be entitled to 0 Delegates and Clinton would be entitled to 47 delegates. This would give Clinton a net gain of +44 in the pledged delegates count. So, following party rules, Clinton would receive an additional 93 delegates and Obama would lose 84. That would make the delegate count 1682 for Obama and 1731.5 for Clinton. Another DNC rule, because both Florida and Michigans dates were set by Republican Legistatures, they can petetion to receive all of their delegates. And because the DNC would not want to be seen as trying to steal the election or disenfranchise voters, they both should have received the waiver. This would give Clinton an additional 107 delegates, bringing her total to 1838.5 delegates. Of course, both candidates are still short the 2,178 delegates required. But. lets takea look at Texas, which is the only statethat has both a caucus and primary to award delegates. Clinton received 50.88% of the popular vote, Obama 47.39. 2,825,210 Texans voted in the primary. Only 42,538 people stuck around to participate in the caucus. The caucus chooses 67 of Texas' 194 pledged delegates. That is 35% of their delegates. 1.5% of Texas voters chose 35% of its delegates. In order to participate in the caucus, voters must first vote in the Primary. That is a very long and disenfranchising requirement for the people of Texas. Basically, it would be party insiders staying for the Caucuses. The caucus went against the will of the voters of Texas and awarded Obama 56% of these delegates compared to 44% for Clinton. Now, if the will of the people was not tossed aside for the Party insiders to overrule, Clinto would have received 116 delegates and Obama would have received 92 delegates. +22 for Hillary and -7 for Obama. We now have 1869.5 for Clinton and 1675 for Obama So, at the end of the primary season, you have Clinton ahead with 1869.5 delegates compared to Obama with 1675. 34,447,397 people voted in the primaries. 17,393,180, 50.42%, for Clinton and 17,054,217, 49.51%, for Obama. According to the DNC rules, Clinton won both thepopular vote as well as the majority of the pledged delegate votes. All we heard about was how much of an up[roar theirwould be if Barack won the pledged delegates and the popular vote and Hillary stole the nomination with the Superdelegates. Well, thenomination is definitely being stolen, but it is the DNC and Barack Obama who is attempting to steal the nomination away from Clinton. And it appears, they have had this in the back of their minds for some time. It is no wonder Dean, Pelosi and Reid, as well as many other high ranking Democrates wanted this race to end early. With Hillary staying in the race, it has made it clear that we do not elect the Democratic nominee, he is selected by the insiders of the Democratic party. So, I challenge you Barack Obama. You say you want to change the way polotics are ran in Washington. You have all these people believing that you are somehow different. PROVE IT. Give the nomination back to Hillary Clinton, as it should be. For once during this campaign, show some backbone. If you continue to claim that you are the nominee, then you are far worse than the Washington insiders that you claim to hate. For starters, You, Pelosi and Reid should be impeached! Howard Dean fired! Kennedy and Kerry, impeached! As for Caroline Kennedy, I feel sorry for her. She has had the wool pulled over her eyes. Obama portrayed a horrible lie, as if he was a fresh and new face for Washington. A man with different ideas...for the people, like Carolines Father. As if Caroline has not been through enough pain in her life, you used her as a puppet in your game. Senator Kennedy, maybe Karma is trying to tell you something. You havebeen a voice for the under privaleged and for minorities. You do not belong in this scheme to defraudyour niece and the American public. Give us back our voice! "Its an election stupid, not a selection!"
I just read an article about Hillary's debt. Her debt is estimated at $30 million
She is between a rock and a hard place.
Campaign finance laws prohibit Mr. Obama from simply transferring money from his war chest to Mrs. Clinton’s campaign. But Mr. Obama’s fund-raisers could ask their donors to give to Clinton. However many Obama supporters are reluctant to do this because of one huge reason: Some of Senator Clinton's largest outstanding bills are to some of her closeset advisors. For example, she owes nearly $5 million to the firm of Mark Penn--yes the same fellow who was taking money from the Colombians for advising them on how to pass a trade agreement that Hillary was against.
In addition to raising money to pay her bills before August, her campaign must liquidate more than $23 million in contributions set aside for the General Election. They can do that by returning it to donors or designating it for her senate re-election campaign in 2012, provided she obtains permission from her donors and there may be a way to use this money to pay her debts but that is not clear.
because of a clause in the McCain-Feingold campaign finance measure that was intended to limit the ability of candidates to self-finance campaigns, she has until the convention in August to pay herself back. After that, the most she could recover is $250,000.
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Frank Rich on Obama's win. Even though I post a lot on other folks' blogs, I don't write that many from scratch. After all Frank Rich is a trained writer; and I'm a tired preacher.
Anyway, here is a link to Frank Rich's column in todays New York Times:
I've been in a conference all day and just now heard the recording. I thought it was one of her best speeches. (and not just because she was endorsing Obama, there were lots of parts that I liked a lot). Hillary was great today.
I liked the part where she mentioned that the glass ceiling had almost 18,000,000 cracks in it.
Until I saw her speech today I couldn't picture her as VP, but now I can--still she may not want it , but regardless, she is a political force finally and totally in her own right without Bill Clinton and for that I'm very glad. It will be interesting to see what she chooses.
I am proud of them both. Compared McCain--they are both like 100 watt bulbs compared to a 15 watt bulb. McCain is not in the same league with them. He simply is not.
I wonder who McCain will choose for VP? Here is my guess, mark it down so you can say nah nah nah when I'm wrong: Even though he hates his guts, I think it will be Romney.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton 2008 Simply The Best
The Inclusive Choice The Peoples Choice My Choice
She is Simply The Best Above All The Rest
Read More »These three people have helped to make many cracks in the glass ceilings of sexism, racism and ageism so far in their lifetimes! Because of Hillary, many little girls and young women now see the possibility of a woman president is real. Because of Obama, many young African American children can realize that the dream of the highest office in the land is not a dream that is limited to white people. Because of John McCain, perhaps there are job interviewers in America who will look at an older applicant in a different light regarding their job capabilities.
I think Obama and the Campaign Veep Committee has a Vice President contender right on the Committee. Her name is Caroline Kennedy the daugther of John F Kennedy. She is bright no baggage and would be a great Women to have on his ticket. It would to me make for a strong ticket. I am going to contact the Obama campaign and suggest they consider Caroline Kennedy for the 2nd spot on the ticket. How many Democrats on here like Caroline Kennedy and would support an Obama/Kennedy ticket?
Obama/Kennedy 08
