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The Tonya Harding Option
Mar 26th 2008 9:59AM
Filed Under:eHillary Clinton, Featured Stories, 2008 President, 2008 Governor
When all else fails, hire someone to take out a kneecap. From Jake Tapper:
l just spoke with a Democratic Party official, who asked for anonymity so as to speak candidly, who said we in the media are all missing the point of this Democratic fight.
The delegate math is difficult for Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, the official said. But it's not a question of CAN she achieve it. Of course she can, the official said.
...
She will have to "break his back," the official said. She will have to destroy Obama, make Obama completely unacceptable.
I have my doubts. Oh, no doubts about Hillary's willingness to be a Tonya Harding, or her willingness to send out Bill or anyone else to play Jeff Gilooly. No, my doubts center more around if she can destroy Obama. If she had a dealbreaker for Barack, it would have been deployed by now.
The time to do so would have been super Tuesday or sooner. As much as I'm enjoying the thought, I think Obama's too strong and even slimy dirty attacks will reach a point of diminishing returns for Hillary. She can bring him down, but she won't be able to push herself up.
Recent Comments
(Page 2 of 4)tzada4:46PMMar 26th 2008
To: S.A.Jr.3:22PMMar 26th 2008
If All the media have on Obama is something someone else said
From me: In his own words from his book.
"I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF
GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER'S RACE."
As a white mother I feel it is my duty to support Obama's white mother and VOTE NO for OBAMA. She has passed on so I will stand for her.
PROUDAMERICAN4:50PMMar 26th 2008
From the onset, Barack Hussein Obama has billed himself as a candidate of “CHANGE”. His entire marketing strategy, for the most part, can be summed up in that ‘single’ word that appears on each podium he stands before.
OBAMA thinks if he puts distance between himself and PASTOR WRIGHT---the story will disappear. Obama has contributed thousands of dollars to Wright’s church. Obama is a person who, for over two decades, turned to, was counseled by, and formed a strong personal bond with a friend-mentor-pastor, who is a divider and a hatemonger, can simply not effectively act as a unifying force for the USA. Some of Wright’s beliefs must have been accepted by Obama. A year ago, the Obama campaign dis-invited Wright from delivering a public invocation at Obama's candidacy announcement. They feared THEN that his radical anti-American, anti-white, anti-Jew, and anti-Israel spewing of hatred would be found out! Obama LIED when he said he didn't know about these "particular" speeches. Then, he threw his white grandmother, who loved him and helped raise him, under the bus, to try and make Wright look better.
OBAMA thinks if he puts distance between himself and FARRAKHAN and all the money Farrakhan donated to his campaign ---the story will disappear. Wright gave Farrakhan a "lifetime achievement" award, and Obama lied in a debate saying it was for some community service Farrakhan did. Later, he said he may have received money in donations.
OBAMA thinks if he puts distance between himself and the NAFTA Meeting---the story will disappear. The Obama campaign admitted the meeting AFTER they were caught!
OBAMA thinks if he puts distance between himself and MICHELLE’S COMMENTS---the story will disappear. Read her college thesis.
OBAMA thinks if he puts distance between himself and Exelon---the story will disappear. Exelon is the country's largest nuclear plant operator. Obama's “Chief Political Strategist”, David Axelrod, has worked as a consultant to Exelon. Is this the history of the candidate who doesn't accept money from big business? How many other big companies are helping to raise these huge funds? (The Obama Camp collected $55 million in February)?
OBAMA thinks if he puts distance between himself and REZKO and his Arab associates---the story will disappear. There is ample evidence that Rezko did favors for Obama. A million dollar home for three-hundred-thousand, plus the land next door. At first, Obama said he did a few hours of work for Rezko. On March 15, 2008, he admitted he may have received about $250,000 from Rezko. THE TRIAL OF TONY REZKO PRESENTS A MAJOR POTHOLE IN HIS ROAD AHEAD. Though the Chicago Tribune may be satisfied with the bulk of Obama's answers on the matter, the stigma of "business as usual," or "Chicago-style politics" is not a label that does well, when affixed to the "CHANGE" brand. WILL THEY PUT THE TRIAL OFF UNTIL AFTER OBAMA GET ALL THE VOTES IN? If so, we won’t know the truth about his dealings with Rezko until it is too late!
Obama is not responsible for what his pastor/mentor said or did, but he is responsible for lying about it. I'm sorry, but his past and his 20-year relationship with Jeremiah Wright, as well as relationships with others, tells me that he is not an AMERICA-FIRST supporter. Over the last year, he has been stretching out lies (a little at a time). His fault is not just about his ‘association’ with others, it’s about all the lies he has told.
The best result out of Obama's campaign may turn out to be progress in the form of ALL American cultures accepting that each individual, regardless of race, is to be rightfully held accountable for their actions, affiliations, as well as the doctrines that they adhere to and cultivate in others. The embarrassing litany of anarchy, filth and hate that Pastor Wright spews should not be excused away as simply "the way our people speak". “OUR people” should be ALL Americans! Wrong is wrong and is not to be determined on a sliding scale according to skin color.
The biased media still handles Obama with kid gloves. The honeymoon is over---will we see the real Obama before it’s too late? What else is he hiding? Though the Democrats will not have a nominee until August, unless Hillary Clinton drops out, Obama is the frontrunner, and its time for all Americans to take a closer and deeper look at him. He has along list of terrorist and Anti-American figures in his closet. Obama promises “CHANGE”. I’m afraid his change may not be good for America. The question is: “Who is Barack Hussein Obama?” The problem is: “Nobody knows!”
THIS MAN IS ASKING US TO IGNORE WHAT HE HAS BEEN AND HOPE HE WILL “CHANGE” FOR THE BETTER!
WAKE UP AMERICA!
Go Terps5:22PMMar 26th 2008
All politicians are liars or (Professional mis speakers). There was a line in the Movie "The Hunt for Red October" where the actor said "I am a politician. Which means that when I am not kissing your baby.....I'm stealing its lollipop!"
They all lie....Some get caught....some don't. They just call it Spin….or some other cute name.
I claim to be republican but....This is no longer my party. It has been hijacked by these PHONEYS.
As hard as it is to say (Since I voted for this assss 2 times. Look what he has done to this country, its image abroad and our status as a moral, economic and military super power.
The Dollar - Lowest Ever (I read recently that Dubai and other OPEC nations are switching there cash reserves from Dollars to Euro's now because the dollar is so weak)
Allies - WHERE ARE THEY?
What has happened to the middle class?
And Jobs.
Ford - firing, selling divisions to India.
Chevy - Firing, closing shops
Dodge - Firing, selling off and cancelling models
All these companies are moving headquarters and operations overseas now...
He preaches Globalization but he seems to practice isolationism. Does not care what other leaders think, what are allies concerns are. And turns a deaf ear to, fires or ruins anyone that voices an opinion that differs from his own.
No child left behind…….Just seems keeps them from getting ahead.
And Ronald Reagan MUST BE rolling over in his grave now seeing Russian bombers performing low level fly over’s of our aircraft carriers and Vaval ships. And now one got caught over Alaska.....
Uh, Isn’t that the GOOD OLE USA up there??? that they are flying over now? What the hell. . . . . OMG!
Billo5:59PMMar 26th 2008
Clinton Lemmings:
I guess the label of “Monster” was not far off from the truth. She was clearly trying to lift herself up on the backs of the 9/11 dead. A Typical Clinton move!!!
Written by Dick Morris, a former Clinton advisor:
Now that Hillary has been nailed in an outright fabrication of her role in Bosnia, it is time to remind ourselves of another, even more galling fantasy that Hillary tried to sell the voters. After 9-11, Hillary had a problem. New Yorkers were desperately focused on their own needs for protection and they were saddled with a Senator who was not one of them — an Arkansan or was it a Chicagoan? Interviewed on the Today Show one week after 9-11, she spun an elaborate yarn. The kindest thing we could say was that it was a fantasy. Or a fabrication. She said that Chelsea was jogging around the World Trade Center on 9-11 and happened to duck into a coffee shop when the airplanes hit. She said that this move saved Chelsea’s life. But Chelsea told Talk Magazine that she was in a friend’s apartment four miles from ground zero when the first plane hit. Her friend called her, waking her up, and told her to turn on the TV. On television, she saw the second plane hit, disproving Hillary’s claim that “she heard the plane hit. She heard it. She did.” So why did Hillary make up the story about Chelsea? Most likely to was because her co-Senator (and implicit rival for the voter’s affection), a real New Yorker Chuck Schumer spoke of his daughter, who attended Stuyvesant High School (Dick’s alma mater) located next to the Trade Center, being at real risk on 9-11. Hillary needed to make herself part of the scene.
She invented the entire story on national television, the Today Show, and didn’t blink an eye. Her fabrication on the Today Show was no unique foray. It is her standard M.O. It gives us pause in evaluating all of her stories and calls into question her entire credibility.
Larry6:02PMMar 26th 2008
OBAMA'S EMBELLISHMENTS....
Tribune biography:
Here are instances of fabrication or colored memories or false memories, whatever you wish to call them from the Chicago Tribune story. For ease of reading, and brevity, I won’t indent these quotes:
At the same time, several of his oft-recited stories may not have happened in the way he has recounted them. Some seem to make Obama look better in the retelling, others appear to exaggerate his outward struggles over issues of race, or simply skim over some of the most painful, private moments of his life.
The handful of black students who attended Punahou School in Hawaii, for instance, say they struggled mightily with issues of race and racism there. But absent from those discussions, they say, was another student then known as Barry Obama.
In his best-selling autobiography, “Dreams from My Father,” Obama describes having heated conversations about racism with another black student, “Ray.” The real Ray, Keith Kakugawa, is half black and half Japanese. In an interview with the Tribune on Saturday, Kakugawa said he always considered himself mixed race, like so many of his friends in Hawaii, and was not an angry young black man.
He said he does recall long, soulful talks with the young Obama and that his friend confided his longing and loneliness. But those talks, Kakugawa said, were not about race. “Not even close,” he said, adding that Obama was dealing with “some inner turmoil” in those days.
”But it wasn’t a race thing,” he said. “Barry’s biggest struggles then were missing his parents. His biggest struggles were his feelings of abandonment. The idea that his biggest struggle was race is [bull].”
Then there’s the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don’t exist, say the magazine’s own historians.
Some of these discrepancies are typical of childhood memories — fuzzy in specifics, warped by age, shaped by writerly license. Others almost certainly illustrate how carefully the young man guarded the secret of his loneliness from even those who knew him best. And the accounts bear out much of Obama’s self-portrait as someone deeply affected by his father’s abandonment yet able to thrive in greatly disparate worlds.
Yet even Obama has acknowledged the limits of memoir. In a new introduction to the reissued edition of “Dreams,” he noted that the dangers of writing an autobiography included “the temptation to color events in ways favorable to the writer … [and] selective lapses of memory.”
He added: “I can’t say that I’ve avoided all, or any, of these hazards successfully.”
Memories of a racial awakening?
Obama has told the story–one of the watershed moments of his racial awareness–time and again, in remarkable detail.
He is 9 years old, living in Indonesia, where he and his mother moved with her new husband, Lolo Soetoro, a few years earlier. One day while visiting his mother, who was working at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Obama passed time by looking through several issues of Life magazine. He came across an article that he later would describe as feeling like an “ambush attack.”
The article included photos of a black man who had destroyed his skin with powerful chemical lighteners that promised to make him white. Instead, the chemicals had peeled off much of his skin, leaving him sad and scarred, Obama recalled.
“I imagine other black children, then and now, undergoing similar moments of revelation,” Obama wrote of the magazine photos in “Dreams.”
Yet no such Life issue exists, according to historians at the magazine. No such photos, no such article. When asked about the discrepancy, Obama said in a recent interview, “It might have been an Ebony or it might have been … who knows what it was?” (At the request of the Tribune, archivists at Ebony searched their catalogue of past articles, none of which matched what Obama recalled.)
In fact, it is surprising, based on interviews with more than two dozen people who knew Obama during his nearly four years in Indonesia, that it would take a photograph in a magazine to make him conscious of the fact that some people might treat him differently in part because of the color of his skin.
Obama, who has talked and written so much about struggling to find a sense of belonging due to his mixed race, brushes over this time of his life in “Dreams.” He describes making friends easily, becoming fluent in Indonesian in just six months and melding quite easily into the very foreign fabric of Jakarta.
The reality was less tidy.
Obama and his mother joined her new husband, a kind man who later would become a detached heavy drinker and womanizer, family members in Indonesia say. Their Jakarta neighborhood resembled a village more than the bustling metropolis the city is today. Electricity had arrived only a couple of years earlier. Half the homes were old bamboo huts; half, including the Soetoro house, were nicer, with brick or concrete and red-tiled roofs.
Former playmates remember Obama as “Barry Soetoro,” or simply “Barry,” a chubby little boy very different from the gangly Obama people know today. All say he was teased more than any other kid in the neighborhood–primarily because he was bigger and had black features.
He was the only foreign child in the neighborhood. He also was one of the only neighborhood children whose parents enrolled him in a new Catholic school in an area populated almost entirely by Betawis, the old tribal landowning Jakarta natives who were very traditional Muslims. Some of the Betawi children threw rocks at the open Catholic classrooms, remembered Cecilia Sugini Hananto, who taught Obama in 2nd grade.
Teachers, former playmates and friends recall a boy who never fully grasped their language and who was very quiet as a result. But one word Obama learned quickly in his new home was curang, which means “cheater.”
When kids teased him, Obama yelled back, “Curang, curang!” When a friend gave him shrimp paste instead of chocolate, he yelled, “Curang, curang!”
Zulfan Adi was one of the neighborhood kids who teased Obama most mercilessly. He remembers one day when young Obama, a hopelessly upbeat boy who seemed oblivious to the fact that the older kids didn’t want him tagging along, followed a group of Adi’s friends to a nearby swamp.
“They held his hands and feet and said, `One, two, three,’ and threw him in the swamp,” recalled Adi, who still lives in the same house where he grew up. “Luckily he could swim. They only did it to Barry.”
The other kids would scrap with him sometimes, but because Obama was bigger and better-fed than many of them, he was hard to defeat.
“He was built like a bull. So we’d get three kids together to fight him,” recalled Yunaldi Askiar, 45, a former neighborhood friend. “But it was only playing.”
Obama has claimed on numerous occasions to have become fluent in Indonesian in six months. Yet those who knew him disputed that during recent interviews.
Israella Pareira Darmawan, Obama’s 1st-grade teacher, said she attempted to help him learn the Indonesian language by going over pronunciation and vowel sounds. He struggled greatly with the foreign language, she said, and with his studies as a result.
The teacher, who still lives in Obama’s old neighborhood, remembers that he always sat in the back corner of her classroom. “His friends called him `Negro,’” Darmawan said. The term wasn’t considered a slur at the time in Indonesia.
Still, all of his teachers at the Catholic school recognized leadership qualities in him. “He would be very helpful with friends. He’d pick them up if they fell down,” Darmawan recalled. “He would protect the smaller ones.”
Third-grade teacher Fermina Katarina Sinaga, now 67, has perhaps the most telling story. In an essay about what he wanted to be when he grew up, Obama “wrote he wanted to be president,” Sinaga recalled. “He didn’t say what country he wanted to be president of. But he wanted to make everybody happy.”
When Obama was in 4th grade, the Soetoro family moved. Their new neighborhood was only 3 miles to the west, but a world away. Elite Dutch colonists once lived there; the Japanese moved in during their occupation of Indonesia in World War II. In the early 1970s, diplomats and Indonesian businessmen lived there in fancy gated houses with wide paved roads and sculpted bushes.
Obama, however, was not a part of that group, according to Anthony and Smith. Both of them seemed surprised to hear that in “Dreams”–which neither of them had read–Obama writes about routinely going to parties at Schofield Barracks and other military bases in order to hang out with “Ray,” who like Anthony and Smith was two years ahead of him in school.
”We’d all do things together, but Obama was never there,” Smith said, adding that they often brought along the few other black underclassmen. “I went to those parties up at Schofield but never saw him at any of them.”
Obama devotes many words in his book to exploring his outsider status at Punahou. But any struggles he was experiencing were obscured by the fact that he had a racially diverse group of friends–many of whom often would crowd into his grandparents’ apartment, near Punahou, after school let out.
One of those kids was Orme, a smart, respectful teenager from a white, middle-class family. Though Orme spent most afternoons with Obama and considered him one of his closest friends, he said Obama never brought up issues of race, never talked about feeling out of place at Punahou.
“He never verbalized any of that,” Orme said during a telephone interview from his home in Oregon. “He was a very provocative thinker. He would bring up worldly topics far beyond his years. But we never talked race.”
Whatever misgivings Obama had about Punahou, attending the school was largely his decision.
“Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man,” Obama wrote in “Dreams.”
In the book, Obama discusses race and racism at his high school with one other Punahou student, “Ray,” the young black man described in detail in “Dreams” as perpetually angry at the white world around him. “It’s their world, all right,” Ray supposedly shouts at Obama. “They own it and we in it. So just get the f— outta my face.”
But Kakugawa, in the interview Saturday, said Obama’s recollection of that conversation was mistaken. “I did say we were playing in their world,” he explained, “but that had nothing to do with race. He knew that.”
Kakugawa explained that he had meant they were playing in the world of the elite people who populated and ran Punahou–famous Hawaiian families like the Doles, owners of the pineapple fortune, or the original developers of Waikiki, the tourist mecca. “It just wasn’t a race thing,” he reiterated again and again.
Obama confirmed in an interview earlier this month that the Ray character in “Dreams” actually is Kakugawa.
In another passage from the book, Ray complains that white Punahou girls don’t want to date black guys and that he and Obama don’t get enough playing time as athletes, speculating that they’d be “treated different if we was white. Or Japanese. Or Hawaiian. Or f—— Eskimo.”
But Kakugawa, a convicted drug felon, said Saturday that he had never been the “prototypical angry black guy” that Obama portrays. Because of his biracial heritage, he said, he was “like everyone in Hawaii, a mix of a lot of things.”
A close friend and track teammate of Kakugawa, John Hagar, also said he was surprised by Obama’s description of the character representing Kakugawa as an angry young black man. “I never picked up on that,” Hagar said. “He was just one of those perfect [ethnic] mixes of everything you see in Hawaii.”
Asked Saturday about Kakugawa’s recollections, the Obama campaign declined to make the senator available. But spokesman Bill Burton said Obama “stands by his recollections of these events as related in his book.”
“There’s no doubt that Keith’s story is tragic and sad,” Burton added.
While Obama rocketed to political prominence, his friend headed down the troubled road Obama had feared he was following. Since 1995, Kakugawa has spent more than 7 years in California prisons and months in Los Angeles County Jail on cocaine and auto theft charges.
Another story put forth in “Dreams” as one of Obama’s pivotal moments of racial awakening checks out essentially as he wrote it. Obama recounts taking two white friends, including Orme, to a party attended almost entirely by African-Americans.
According to the book, the characters representing Orme and the other friend asked to leave the party after just an hour, saying they felt out of place. The night, Obama later wrote, made him furious as he realized that whites held a “fundamental power” over blacks.
“One of us said that being the different guys in the room had awakened a little bit of empathy to what he must feel all the time at school. And he clearly didn’t appreciate that,” Orme said. “I never knew, until reading the book later, how much that night had upset him.”
run chelsea run6:48PMMar 26th 2008
Larry:
I think you miss the point made by Billo. I'll recap for all the people who ride on the yellow bus.
In the wake of the most tragic event in USA history...Hitlary lied to the public on national TV to gain acceptance with NY voters
How can anyone support her?????
Billo was wrong on one account. She's not a monster...She is the anti-christ!
Vote No for Hillary\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\6:48PMMar 26th 2008
Tonya Harding candidacy is an apt name for HIllary's campaign. Between Hill and her Surrogates, they are trying to destroy Obama. Even though hill and her supporters know that stealing the Democratic nomination will not win her the presidency, they still want to continue in their destructive path.
Billo7:02PMMar 26th 2008
As recently reported on cable news:
The Clinton campaign has floated the idea of a Mccain/Clinton ticket.
This lady will do anything for the WH. She's nuts!
This should make the Clinton Lemmings happy since most say they will vote Mccan't if Obama is on the Democratic ticket. So near sighted these lemmings are!!! One after another off the cliff they go!!!
Larry8:27PMMar 26th 2008
Fresh from vacation, and back on campaign trail, Barama was back to the same old story of not being in Church to hear the controversial statements of Rev. Jeremiah Wright...he sure was stuttering & flubbering.
Like, not too convincing...
Larry8:32PMMar 26th 2008
ANYTHING TO WIN...BARACK OBAMA !
Showing his bare knuckles
In first campaign, Obama revealed hard-edged, uncompromising side in eliminating party rivals.
By David Jackson and Ray Long
Tribune staff reporters
April 4, 2007
The day after New Year's 1996, operatives for Barack Obama filed into a barren hearing room of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners.
There they began the tedious process of challenging hundreds of signatures on the nominating petitions of state Sen. Alice Palmer, the longtime progressive activist from the city's South Side. And they kept challenging petitions until every one of Obama's four Democratic primary rivals was forced off the ballot.
Fresh from his work as a civil rights lawyer and head of a voter registration project that expanded access to the ballot box, Obama launched his first campaign for the Illinois Senate saying he wanted to empower disenfranchised citizens.
But in that initial bid for political office, Obama quickly mastered the bare-knuckle arts of Chicago electoral politics. His overwhelming legal onslaught signaled his impatience to gain office, even if that meant elbowing aside an elder stateswoman like Palmer.
A close examination of Obama's first campaign puts a hard edge on the image he has honed throughout his political career: The man now running for president on a message of giving a voice to the voiceless first entered public office not by leveling the playing field, but by clearing it.
Lin Cruiz10:29PMMar 26th 2008
who came up with this...the slanted media again I'm sure!!!!
Well... Many Dem. voters in Pa. do not see O'Bama as a "new breeze"
!!!!!...............actually we view him poorly for having stayed in the not so good reverend's church too long and cannot dismiss what Sen. O'Bama defends as just a small number of "stupid comments"!!!!! By Baracks not standing up for America, to the devisivness, hatred and screaming tone of racism in this church, he accepted complacently what was being preached....especially by staying there 20 long years. We feel he might not stand up for America in a national crisis. We see a major character flaw, unworthy of representing our country as Commander in Chief . We also view his speeches as sermons, without any great insight...just that he mimics what we all have been saying the past 8 years with G.W. Bush and people are just agreeing with this ....he has no new ideas or plans as far as we can see and feel he is hiding alot. We will not vote for him !!!! Hillary has been an action oriented public servant for years, has much more experience, more detailed plans, and we also feel, despite the M.L. scandal, that Bill would be an extra bonus to find our way out of the red economy we face !!!!!
ivote47610:30PMMar 26th 2008
DAVE IS ANOTHER SLIMY RIGGED MEDIA REPORTER JUST LIKE DAVID KNOWLES AND TOMMY CHRISTOPHER.
HE TAKES TAINTED MONEY TO SUBVERT OUR ELECTORAL PROCESS.
EXPOSE, DENOUNCE AND REJECT DAVE’S RIGGED MEDIA ATTACKS ON SEN. CLINTON.
HE IS JUST ANOTHER REPUBLICAN PLANT DESIGNED TO DIVIDE THE DEMOCRATS AND HELP THE REPUBLICANS IN THE END.
Katherine10:30PMMar 26th 2008
New HillaryClinton.com announcement:
Three Myths:
MYTH: Barack Obama is running a positive campaign that will unite Americans.
MYTH: The delegate "math" works decisively against Hillary.
MYTH: For Hillary to win, super delegates must "overturn the will of the people."
Peter Daou explains the FACTS:
http://blog.hillaryclinton.com/blog/main/2008/03/24/152617
ivote47610:39PMMar 26th 2008
THE REASON THAT THE RIGGED MEDIA IS SPENDING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
ATTACKING SEN. CLINTON IS BECAUSE THEY KNOW SHE CAN WIN AGAINST MCCAIN.
ASK YOURSELVES: WHO OWNS THE RIGGED MEDIA????
ALL THREE CANDIDATES ARE FLAWED.
WE NEVER HAD ‘THE’ IDEAL CANDIDATE IN A PRESIDENTIAL RACE.
BUT FOR SURE SEN. OBAMA IS MOST UNELECTABLE WITH HIS RATING OF BEING THE MOST LIBERAL SENATOR OUT OF ALL 100 SENATORS. THEN THERE’S HIS 20 YEAR ASSOCIATION WITH THE RACIST AND UN-AMERICAN REV. WRIGHT.
HIS MUSLIM BACKGROUND AND HIS WIFE’S UN-AMERICAN SPEECHES WILL NEVER GET HIM A MAJORITY IN THE GENERAL ELECTION.
THE REPUBLICAN ATTACK MACHINE WILL DESTROY HIM IN SHORT ORDER .
Billo10:54PMMar 26th 2008
Katherine: Classic Clinton Lemming
Did you ever figure out the difference between a write-in vote and a mail-in vote? I hope you did not give yourself a headache thinking about it.
If you still don't get the difference here is a quick lesson.
I'm "writing in" a fourth myth: Clinton will win the nomination
Lin Cruiz10:58PMMar 26th 2008
Many Dem. voters in Pa. do not see O'Bama as a "new breeze"
!!!!!...............actually we view him poorly for having stayed in the not so good reverend's church too long and cannot dismiss what Sen. O'Bama defends as just a small number of "stupid comments"!!!!! By Baracks not standing up for America, to the devisivness, hatred and screaming tone of racism in this church, he accepted complacently what was being preached....especially by staying there 20 long years. We feel he might not stand up for America in a national crisis. We see a major character flaw, unworthy of representing our country as Commander in Chief . We also view his speeches as sermons, without any great insight...just that he mimics what we all have been saying the past 8 years with G.W. Bush and people are just agreeing with this ....he has no new ideas or plans as far as we can see and feel he is hiding alot. We will not vote for him !!!! Hillary has been an action oriented public servant for years, has much more experience, more detailed plans, and we also feel, despite the M.L. scandal, that Bill would be an extra bonus to find our way out of the red economy we face !!!!!
Katherine10:58PMMar 26th 2008
Thank you for telling me about Jake Tapper. Now he's on my list of those to avoid:
Jack Cafferty
Keith Olbermann
Anderson Cooper
Chris Matthews
Wolf Blitzer
Tim Russert
Maybe also "Dave"?
**If Hillary knew something that would be a deal breaker, she wouldn't expose it SO soon, for she knows how short attention spans are in the media.
How about this: Hillary doesn't have to do anything, because the democrats, republicans, and independents are doing the work for her. Like me, and others.
**What exactly makes you so sure that it would be Hillary who would knock him down before November? Sure, you would think that if the Republicans knew something, they would wait until they were in a race against Obama. BUT Obama has the media wrapped around his pinky. SO, republicans don't like that either. Obama sitting atop a media tsunami. They might want to stop the storm before it shifts toward them. THEY SHOULD. They might do it, even though it helps Hillary.
If everyone knew the truth about Obama, all true Americans would not vote for him. The republicans should want Hillary to win dem. nom, because then even if she wins the big prize, she is safer for our country than Obama. I consider Republicans to be very patriotic, so...
Let's band together and get rid of Obama!!
Katherine11:12PMMar 26th 2008
Billo:
Let's have your kind of fantasy and imagine Obama winning dem. nom.
But, first of all, I know the difference. I should think you would NOT want either if you are for Obama.
A write in vote is a NO vote for Obama.
A mail in vote means Obama's PSYCHO CORRUPT gang can't manipulate voting stations and caucuses. A NO vote again. (Keep threatening the lives of superdelegates, THAT is always nice.)
OR, we can all vote for McCain. A NO vote for Obama AGAIN.
Awww, too bad Obama co-sponsored the mail-in vote and now he thinks it's patooey since it won't work in his favor. He wouldn't be able to bus in all the votes from his crazy mega-church rallies.
**You do realize that Obama cannot beat McCain without Hillary votes, RIGHT? Keep it up, you are helping my cause!
Give up on Obama. This country is not as "progressive" a you think. With 80% of Americans being white, and the majority of them offended
by this whole Pastor Wright thing, among other issues, there is no way Barack Obama will be President. It doesn't help that every Obama supporter seems to hate Hillary, so of course Hillary supporters feel alienated from Obama, and a lot of them won't vote for Obama either. Republicans won't vote him. Obama mainly wins red republican states that will shift to McCain in November, so he has no chance.
Billo12:20AMMar 27th 2008
Katherine:
This very simple to explain…you’re not a balance voter. Your blind allegiance to Hillary makes you say and do things that the average voter will not. Trust me here. However, what I find sad about your commentary is that you advocate voting republican, which seems to be a clear disregard for the issues/values that Hillary supports. How dedicated are you? You need to look in the mirror and ask yourself if voting against Obama is worth four more years of Bush politics. I hope you'll do the right thing when Obama becomes the nominee.
Back to the mudslinging...A Clinton Family Motto
Clinton Lemmings: Smile! This is your candidate
THE LIE: Clinton recently claimed she was the first first lady to visit a war zone since Eleanor Roosevelt did it back in the 40's.
FACT: First Lady Nixon visited a war zone in 1969.
THE LIE: Clinton recently claimed she was the first high profile figure to visit Northern Ireland after the signing of the peace accords.
FACT: Secretary of Defense Perry and President Clinton visited Northern Ireland months before Hilary showed up.
THE LIE: One week after 9/11 Clinton claimed on national tv that Chelsea was at ground zero and heard the first plane hit the world trade towers. This was a sick attempt to win acceptance from the NY voters.
FACT: Chelsea was still bed when the planes hit and was awaken by a friends phone call to turn on the tv to see the attacks.
THE LIE: Clinton claimed she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary who was the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
FACT: Sir Edmund Hillary was unknown until his historic climb which occurred five years after Hillary was born. Maybe mommy and daddy had a crystal ball?
How can anyone support this woman?? She's lies about everything! She's not known as Hillary Rob’em Clinton by party elders for nothing!
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Old Lady USA4:14PMMar 26th 2008
Tonya Harding - The PERFECT image...
Now, roll back the tape and notice that both Hillary Clinton and Tonya Harding:
1. have provided justification for their various bad behaviors with a series of WHAAA statements
2. have attempted to portray strength by adding boxing gloves and other bully behaviors
3. have a different excuse for multiple incidents - no single incident goofs for these two, rather chronic behavior repeated and repeated
4. have told lies - in public, to the press - with the express intent that the public believe and follow them ANYWAY
Hillary Clinton is not fit to run for the office of President of the United States.
Tonya got what she deserved. Hillary Clinton is in the process .... The sad part is, it didn't have to be that way in either case. The desire to win - at all costs - must be an awful demon to carry around.