6/1/2008
From http://blog.hillaryclinton.com/blog/main/2008/06/01/153615
Decision at the RBC: Harold Ickes and Tina Flournoy issued a statement yesterday following the Rules and Bylaws Committee [RBC] meeting:
"Today's results are a victory for the people of Florida who will have a voice in selecting our Party's nominee and will see its delegates seated at our party's convention. The decision by the Rules and Bylaws Committee honors the votes that were cast by the people of Florida and allocates the delegates accordingly. We strongly object to the Committee's decision to undercut its own rules in seating Michigan's delegates without reflecting the votes of the people of Michigan. The Committee awarded to Senator Obama not only the delegates won by Uncommitted, but four of the delegates won by Senator Clinton. This decision violates the bedrock principles of our democracy and our Party. We reserve the right to challenge this decision before the Credentials Committee and appeal for a fair allocation of Michigan's delegates that actually reflect the votes as they were cast."
There is a clear pattern emerging from the Clinton campaign, but it's not the one Hillary Clinton wished to suggest.
Hillary's recent words underline a clear pattern in the way both the Clintons have been using race in this campaign. However poorly worded, Hillary's recent words suggest the fundamental reason the Clintons have betrayed the honorific title of "first black president" once bestowed on Bill Clinton by the great American writer Toni Morrison:
"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."
"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.
The African-American community has clearly recognized and understood the implications of this pattern of racialized discourse, and has almost completly renounced and rejected the Clintons as a result. Results from the Indiana and North Carolina primaries this week indicate that over 90% of African-Americans voted against the Clintons.
Since the election of a Democratic President in November depends so heavily on the African-American vote, all superdelegates need to be asking, in spite of Hillary Clinton's claims to the contrary: Who really has "a much broader base to build a winning coalition on"?
http://policybusters.blogspot.com
i hope this puts this hoax to bed once and for all. no slurs were used. okay?
http://mediamatters.org/items/200805020008?lid=276387&rid=7676531
Hillary Clinton is under a lot of pressure these days, but in a Tuesday interview she seemed cheery, confident and unapologetic as she talked about her determination to fight on in the Presidential race. Speaking by phone from Pennsylvania, she explained why she plans to continue her push for the Democratic nomination, even as some question her chances of winning. She expressed confidence that her party would pull together in time to beat Republican John McCain, as well as a belief that the remaining contests — and perhaps some surprising shifts in the delegates already elected — would make her the Democrats' nominee.
Read entire interview here:
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1725514,00.html
So watch and consider, along with the missing tax returns, the rest of the white house papers, the fact she did not know that blackhawk would be given immunity, even though SHE made comments to the record that day before the vote, is this really what you want.
she blows through $107 campaing dollars like water and you want to give her the budget??????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It6JN7ALF7Y
For progressives, the gutter politics of the Clintons are no laughing matter.
No sooner than Bill Richardson endorsed Barack Obama for president than the Clintons loosed their attack dogs on him. “Mr. Richardson’s endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the timing is appropriate, if ironic,” snarled James Carville — the ultimate Clinton attack dog; in doing so, Carville used the week holy to Christians to implicitly compare Hillary Clinton to Jesus Christ, but he is hardly unique among Hillary’s supporters, who seem to view her campaign as a kind of Second Coming. Famous for having produced the theme of Bill Clinton’s winning 1992 campaign, “It’s the economy, stupid,” Carville is the archetypal Clinton operative for whom public policy is only the subject of campaign sloganeering and gaining power is the only thing.
“I’m not going to get in the gutter like that,” Richardson responded on “Fox News Sunday” when asked about Carville’s characterization as a Judas. “And you know, that’s typical of many of the people around Senator Clinton. They think they have a sense of entitlement to the presidency,” the governor of New Mexico added. “I am very loyal to the Clintons,” said Richardson, but he said he wanted something beyond “Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton,” referring to the pattern of dynastic condominium that the Bush/Clinton presidencies represent. “You know, what about the rest of us?” Richardson asked. Obama is the first viable African American presidential candidate and Richardson is the only sitting Latino governor, and the latter’s endorsement was eagerly sought by both the Clinton and Obama campaigns.
Actor Sean Astin and former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend will join former President Bill Clinton and his daughter Chelsea on their campaign swing through Indiana today.
Townsend, the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy and a former Maryland lieutenant governor, will appear with the Clintons at Dyngus Day and Solidarity Day events in South Bend.
Townsend lost the gubernatorial election in Maryland five years ago.
Dyngus Day is a Polish holiday that celebrates the end of Lent, but in South Bend it's more of a political holiday where residents can meet and talk to elected leaders.
The former president also is scheduled to make stops at "Solutions for America" rallies Monday in Rochester and Logansport. His schedule for the day ends with a 7:30 p.m. appearance at a West Lafayette High School rally.
Chelsea Clinton will be joined by Astin, the star of the Notre Dame football movie "Rudy," during an appearance in Bloomington. The two will appear at 6:30 p.m. at the Grand Foyer at Indiana University Ballroom, according to a campaign spokesman.
Read More »ANDERSON -- Delaware County residents Jim Lutton and Jack Gray both feel more comfortable voting for Hillary Clinton after attending a Thursday rally in Anderson.
Both men were leaning toward Clinton going into the campaign stop at Anderson High School's Wigwam gymnasium.
"But this persuaded me," Lutton said. Clinton delivered a speech that focused on renegotiating trade agreements, bringing manufacturing back to the Midwest, providing national health care, ending U.S. involvement in Iraq and making college affordable.
http://www.thestarpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080321/NEWS01/803210340/1002
Long before the sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright became instant hits on YouTube and talk-show fodder for the cable news channels, Barack Obama knew he had a preacher problem. On the eve of launching his campaign for the White House in February 2007, Obama abruptly withdrew an invitation to Wright to deliver the invocation at his announcement speech in Springfield, Ill. Wright had been Obama's pastor for nearly 20 years. He had brought Obama into the church, helped him find his faith in God, officiated at Obama's wedding and baptized both his children. But Wright had also said a lot of incendiary things from his pulpit about America over the years, things that would be awkward to explain away for a politician hoping to unite the country and become the first African-American President of the United States.
Read More »From CBS News' Ryan Corsaro:
CHARLESTON, W.V. -- On the war's fifth anniversary, Hillary Clinton said "restoring America's leadership in the world starts with ending the war in Iraq" and accused President George W. Bush of trying to "run out the clock" while in office by keeping troops in the region.
Clinton took questions today at a high school rally in Charleston, West Virginia today, one of which concerned the war.
"I've been working on this in the Senate to try to persuade the Republicans to join us in requiring the president to change direction," said Clinton.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/03/19/politics/fromtheroad/entry3952302.shtml
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama's big national lead over Hillary Clinton has all but evaporated in the U.S. presidential race, and both Democrats trail Republican John McCain, according a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
The poll showed Obama had only a statistically insignificant lead of 47 percent to 44 percent over Clinton, down sharply from a 14 point edge he held over her in February when he was riding the tide of 10 straight victories.
Illinois Sen. Obama, who would be America's first black president, has been buffeted by attacks in recent weeks from New York Sen. Clinton over his fitness to serve as commander-in-chief and by a tempest over racially charged sermons given by his Chicago preacher.
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The St. Petersburg Times/Bay News 9 poll says "an overwhelmingly plurality" of Florida Democrats think their January primary was meaningful and the votes should count. More than half, 56 percent, say the lack of campaigning in the Sunshine State by Democrats made no difference in their votes.
But here's the worst news for Democratic national chairman Howard Dean and front-runner Barack Obama. One in four Florida Democrats say they may vote for Republican John McCain if the Democrats don't count their votes because the primary date was moved into January. Almost as many Democrats blame Dean for the mess as they do the Republican-majority Florida Legislature.
The Obama camp says they can beat McCain in November without Florida while challenger Hillary Clinton says Florida is crucial, just ask Al Gore. (Clinton does well against McCain in head-to-head matchups in Florida while Obama doesn't, according to Survey USA polls pre-pastor-gate).
Obama has closed the gap in Florida against Clinton but she still leads him by 9 percentage points with 46 percent to 37 percent. Sixteen percent are undecided.
COLBERT: This is your first interview after having left the Obama team because you called Hillary Clinton a monster. True?
POWER: Sadly, yes.
COLBERT: First of all, I think it's a great development for America that members of both teams, Obama and Clinton, are quitting for things that they said about the other side. Eventually there will be no one left to say the things that both sides actually think about each other except the candidates themselves. Then we put them in a sand pit and make them wrestle.
POWER: Each camp has a lot of amazing people left.
COLBERT: Okay. Fantastic. Do you want to clarify what kind of monster while we're here, by the way?
POWER: Can I just clarify and say I don't think Hillary Clinton is a monster and I get to be on television and say that.
COLBERT: There's a way to make it positive. Why not embrace it?
POWER: No, no, no.
COLBERT: What about a good monster like Cookie Monster? And her campaign slogan - I'm helping out here - the campaign slogan could be "C is for Clinton, that's good enough for me." Think about it.
POWER: I need help.
COLBERT: Great. I'm willing to say that John McCain is a minotaur.
Amy Chozick reports on the presidential race from Washington.
The Democratic candidates are just starting to stump their way through snowy Pennsylvania, and already the Clinton campaign is looking to sunny Puerto Rico.
Today, Hillary Clinton released a policy agenda to put more policemen in Puerto Rico, bring universal health care to the island, create new jobs and work to have the federal government give up land on Vieques island, where the Navy formerly operated a bombing range. Her plan today is also designed to lift the cap on Medicaid there, and to extend President Bush’s latest budget proposal to include aid to Puerto Ricans.
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Thoughts on his speech. Will Barack's words quiet his critics and soothe white America's fears?
INDIANAPOLIS — Former President Bill Clinton will campaign for his wife at rallies in three Indiana cities Tuesday.
Clinton will join former Democratic Gov. Joe Kernan and former Indiana first lady Judy O’Bannon for stops in Lawrenceburg, Richmond and Fort Wayne on Tuesday.
The campaign for New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said the three “Solutions for America” rallies will be free and open to the public. At 12:45 p.m., Clinton will be at the Dearborn Adult Center in Lawrenceburg, followed at 3:30 p.m. at Richmond’s Fire Station No. 1 and lastly, the Grand Wayne Center in Fort Wayne at 6:45 p.m.
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