Couple of interesting related stories as well.
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Editorial: In defense of Senator Debbie Stabenow
I am not writing this to defend the actions of Senator Stabenow’s husband. The actions of Thomas Athans were deplorable. If I were the senator, I would be seeing a lawyer and relieving this man of his burden of marriage.
However because the story of Thomas Athans has become the catalyst of great political fodder and blogger ridicule, and outright mocking by those of opposite political ideology. Because of this sort of nonsense, I am writing a simple defense of Senator Stabenow as a Senator of the State of Michigan.
I am quite aware of Senator Stabenow’s political stance, However, I am also aware of her performance in the Senate. I can personally testify to her consistency in addressing issues brought before her. I have personally e-mailed TONS of issues, brought to my attention by the John Birch Society, to Senator Stabenow’s office.
Senator Stabenow’s office was always faithful to reply to my e-mails to her, sometimes, the replies were even personal, and not a computer generated response, even though I am sure that some of the issues brought to her attention were in direct opposition to her political stance.
Further, of all the political representatives in my local area, other than one other political official for my local area, Senator Stabenow was the ONLY political official who responded to my e-mails, sometimes Senator Stabenow would reply to me personally via United States Mail, Even though she did not have to.
Therefore, I feel that this smearing by the Republican and Conservative Bloggers is just unwarranted. We are not dealing with a seedy politician here. We are dealing with a very nice woman, who has a husband who is an idiot.
I think that the Blogosphere needs to take a step back and leave this woman to sort out her own affairs. I hope that she will do the right thing in the situation regarding her husband.
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Herold Icks admits that the Clintons are racist.
Go read about it here.
Desperate actions from a desperate campaign.
Live by Identity Politics, Die by Identity politics. That’s the Liberal way! 
Hillary Clinton fired from Lawyer Job
This juicy bit of info came out yesterday and I didn’t get chance to Blog about it.
This comes via the guys over at HotAir.com.
An Article by Dan Calabrese basically removes any varnish off of Hillary Clinton’s Lawyer days. Calabrese quotes Jerry Zeifman, a life long Democrat as saying the following:
Quote:
As Hillary Clinton came under increasing scrutiny for her story about facing sniper fire in Bosnia, one question that arose was whether she has engaged in a pattern of lying.
The now-retired general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, who supervised Hillary when she worked on the Watergate investigation, says Hillary’s history of lies and unethical behavior goes back farther – and goes much deeper – than anyone realizes.
Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. Hillary got a job working on the investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair. When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation – one of only three people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman’s 17-year career.
Why?
“Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said in an interview last week. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”
It is being reported that this isn’t really news, however, it is the first time that I have heard of it. So, far only Conservative Blogs are talking about it, I haven’t seen any movement by the bigger Blogs, but if this did catch fire, it could spell the end of Hillary Clinton. Because basically, she’s used her years as a lawyer to say she is ready for the White House.
Zeifman goes on to say at his website:
After hiring Hillary, Doar assigned her to confer with me regarding rules of procedure for the impeachment inquiry. At my first meeting with her I told her that Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino, House Speaker Carl Albert, Majority Leader “Tip” O’Neill, Parliamentarian Lou Deschler and I had previously all agreed that we should rely only on the then existing House Rules, and not advocate any changes. I also quoted Tip O’Neill’s statement that: “To try to change the rules now would be politically divisive. It would be like trying to change the traditional rules of baseball before a World Series.”
Hillary assured me that she had not drafted, and would not advocate, any such rules changes. However, as documented in my personal diary, I soon learned that she had lied. She had already drafted changes, and continued to advocate them. In one written legal memorandum, she advocated denying President Nixon representation by counsel. In so doing she simply ignored the fact that in the committee’s then most recent prior impeachment proceeding, the committee had afforded the right to counsel to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas.
I had also informed Hillary that the Douglas impeachment files were available for public inspection in the committee offices. She later removed the Douglas files without my permission and carried them to the offices of the impeachment inquiry staff — where they were no longer accessible to the public.
Hillary had also made other ethical flawed procedural recommendations, arguing that the Judiciary Committee should: not hold any hearings with – or take depositions of — any live witnesses; not conduct any original investigation of Watergate, bribery, tax evasion, or any other possible impeachable offense of President Nixon; and should rely solely on documentary evidence compiled by other committees and by the Justice Departments special Watergate prosecutor.
If any of the above is true, Hillary Clinton could be in deep trouble should this story begin tread water among the main stream media.
Ed Morrissey on this:
The right to counsel is considered one of the inviolable tenets of our justice system. It doesn’t speak well of ambitious attorneys working on a highly-charged political investigation that she wanted to deny someone the right to an attorney. Small wonder Zeifman questioned her ethics.
If all she did was to propose that as a tactic, that would not make it terribly concerning — but she did much more than just spitball ideas. When informed that public evidence showed a precedent for the right to counsel, she absconded with the files to eliminate the evidence. Does that remind anyone of later incidents in the Clinton narrative, such as the billing records for the Rose Law offices and the 900+ raw FBI files on political opponents of the Clintons?
For the sake of the Democrats and for the sake of this election, I am hope that this story just dies off and goes away. I mean, the Democrats have enough trouble right now as it is.
Should be interesting indeed.
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One of the half a million reasons I think Joe Scarborough is an Asshat….
Transcript: (via Media Matters for America)
From the March 31 edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe:
SCARBOROUGH: You know, Willie, the thing is, Americans want their president, if it’s a man, to be a real man. They — 1984, I remember Ronald Reagan goes to South Boston. He holds up that beer mug —
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.
SCARBOROUGH: — in that South Boston pub, and everybody’s like, "He’s a real man," and I guess Barack Obama’s trying to do the same thing, too.
BRZEZINSKI: Stop it. Oh, come on.
SCARBOROUGH: Awful. Good Lord.
GEIST: He’s going to have to try a little harder than he did in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Saturday night —
SCARBOROUGH: Oh my God —
BRZEZINSKI: Really?
SCARBOROUGH: Oh, this is awful.
GEIST: — at the Pleasant Valley Rec Center. He went bowling, and let’s just take a quick look at it here. I guess I’ll just give you the final numbers. Started out nicely, got the Velcro shoes.
BRZEZINSKI: Looking good, looking good.
GEIST: But then he started bowling. The score you’re really after in bowling is 300; that’s a perfect score.
BRZEZINSKI: Oh, OK.
SCARBOROUGH: That’s perfect score.
BRZEZINSKI: Good, good, good.
SCARBOROUGH: But, you know, if you get 200, you’re a good bowler.
GEIST: Sure. You know what?
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah. Two-fifty —
SCARBOROUGH: You get 150, you’re a man —
BRZEZINSKI: OK.
SCARBOROUGH: — or a good woman.
BRZEZINSKI: Stop it.
GEIST: Out of my president, I want a 150, at least. Barack Obama bowled — well, you can see his form here —
SCARBOROUGH: Hee!
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.
GEIST: A 37.
BRZEZINSKI: Oh.
GEIST: That’s a three, next to a seven.
SCARBOROUGH: Baby, if you go to Altoona, Pennsylvania, on a Saturday night and you’re going to try to bowl —
SCARBOROUGH: Oh, that’s so dainty. Ugh.
GEIST: Get there, get there.
SCARBOROUGH: What a dainty —
GEIST and SCARBOROUGH: Oh!
BRZEZINSKI: A gutter ball, that’s like me bowling.
SCARBOROUGH: That is such a dainty release.
GEIST: If you’re the president, you want — you don’t want them to have to put those bumpers in the gutters.
SCARBOROUGH: Look, here we go, look at this. OK.
BRZEZINSKI: All right now.
[Scarborough squeals]
GEIST: Oh, it’s like a children’s birthday party.
BRZEZINSKI: OK, guys.
SCARBOROUGH: I’ve got a feeling he —
BRZEZINSKI: That was useless and stupid and [unintelligible].
SCARBOROUGH: — he didn’t go bowling in Cambridge that much. That’s a guy that’s been studying a lot of — reading a lot of books.
[…]
FORD: One thing I thought he did a great job of this week — he’s done a lot of great things but —
SCARBOROUGH: Not bowling.
FORD: No.
SCARBOROUGH: Have you ever bowled before, Harold?
FORD: I do, I have.
SCARBOROUGH: You ever bowl?
FORD: I’m embarrassed to say, but I do.
BRZEZINSKI: Harold, make your point.
FORD: My other point is just —
SCARBOROUGH: No, no, I’m curious. If you were running for president in Altoona, Pennsylvania —
FORD: They can walk him through —
SCARBOROUGH: He got a 37 —
FORD: — feed milk to him —
SCARBOROUGH: Harold, he got a 37 bowling in Altoona, Pennsylviania.
BRZEZINSKI: Oh, Harold.
GEIST: So sorry.
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.
FORD: He probably shouldn’t do that again, but I tell you, it showed a human side to him. I mean, it showed a very humble side to him.
SCARBOROUGH: Well, yeah, yeah, yeah.
BRZEZINSKI: He is a politician.
SCARBOROUGH: A very human side? A prissy side.
BRZEZINSKI: Oh, stop it. Now, that’s just not nice.
SCARBOROUGH: Anyway, make your point.
FORD: He’s a heck of an athlete, by the way.
SCARBOROUGH: Is he really?
FORD: Actually, heck of an athlete.
SCARBOROUGH: It sure didn’t look it, the way that he was just —
BRZEZINSKI: Oh my God.
SCARBOROUGH: He was pushing it this way, right there.
BRZEZINSKI: You have to take it and run with it, Harold.
FORD: But he looked like — I mean, he looked like folks, he looked like an American. A Pennsylvanian — he looked like someone, day in and day out —
[crosstalk]
BRZEZINSKI: No, no, no.
SCARBOROUGH: He was bowling in his tie —
FORD: — except the bowling. The bowling hurt it.
BRZEZINSKI: Harold, take my advice.
FORD: The bowling — I mean, I thought it was 137. You sure it was 37?
SCARBOROUGH: It was 37. That is awful.
BRZEZINSKI: You have to — there is no way. There is no way out of this one.
[…]
SCARBOROUGH: So Harold, so Harold, though —
FORD: He’s my buddy. I can’t believe you make me laugh at –.
SCARBOROUGH: But you say he’s a good athlete?
BRZEZINSKI: He’s a dancer.
[crosstalk]
FORD: He’s a heck of a basketball player.
SCARBOROUGH: Is he really?
FORD: Heck of a basketball player.
SCARBOROUGH: OK.
FORD: As a matter of fact, I spent a little time with his brother-in-law over the weekend who can also play.
BRZEZINSKI: I’d think you’d have a hard time against him —
SCARBOROUGH: How tall is he?
FORD: How tall is Barack?
SCARBOROUGH: Yeah.
FORD: Barack’s probably 6’2".
SCARBOROUGH: Really?
FORD: 6’2", 6’3", yeah. He’s a big guy.
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah.
SCARBOROUGH: Well then, I better be quiet because —
FORD: Yeah, probably.
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah, I think you should.
SCARBOROUGH: I mean, I’m bigger than he is.
BRZEZINSKI: I still think you should be quiet.
FORD: You should reach out to a bowl-off.
SCARBOROUGH: I’ll challenge him to a bowl-off. But basketball — he looks like he’s in pretty good shape. I would just have to post low.
GEIST: Right.
FORD: And I’d throw him a pass on you, too. I’ve seen you. I think he could probably take you down the sideline on a post route.
BRZEZINSKI: O
h no. Please don’t, don’t don’t don’t go there. You didn’t just do this.
[crosstalk]
SCARBOROUGH: Wait, wait. I’m sorry? You talking football now?
BRZEZINSKI: Guys —
FORD: I mean, that’s one sport y’all can still play at Florida —
[crosstalk]
SCARBOROUGH: I’ve got 5 yards.
BRZEZINSKI: Harold?
SCARBOROUGH: I’ve got 5 yards, bump and run. He’s not going down the field.
FORD: Oh, Joe.
SCARBOROUGH: You know what my nickname was in college?
BRZEZINSKI: Oh, Lord, help me.
SCARBOROUGH: The "Round Mound of Rebound." On the basketball court, you just go low and lean.
BRZEZINSKI: Yeah, well, 15 million Big Macs later, I don’t think that name applies, honey.
[…]
SCARBOROUGH: Let’s bring in right now David Axelrod, he’s chief strategist for the Obama campaign. David, we have to ask a question, what did you know, when did you know it —
BRZEZINSKI: And what were you thinking?
SCARBOROUGH: What were you thinking? Why did you allow your candidate to bowl a 37 in Altoona, Pennsylvania? America waits for your answer, sir.
AXELROD: Well, if you’re going to bowl a 37, Altoona’s a good a place as any, Joe. No, listen. I think it was tremendously insightful of the candidate not to try and show up any of the other bowlers there.
SCARBOROUGH: I’ll tell you what —
AXELROD: I mean, that’s the kind of political sophistication that you want —
GEIST: There you go.
AXELROD: What’s worse, I mean, listen, what made that worse was that right after that, Hillary Clinton revealed that she had bowled a 300 with the prime minister of Uzbekistan. So —
SCARBOROUGH: Oh, here we go.
[crosstalk]
BRZEZINSKI: Oh, that’s harsh [unintelligible]. David —
SCARBOROUGH: I’ll tell you what, that is some spin, my man.
BRZEZINSKI: No, you didn’t.
SCARBOROUGH: First of all, you say he got the 37. That’s why he gets the big bucks. He says —
AXELROD: So he didn’t bowl 10 frames, Joe. He didn’t bowl 10 frames, and as he’s proven, he’s a strong finisher.
SCARBOROUGH: Oh, OK.
AXELROD: So —
BRZEZINSKI: No. David?
AXELROD: Let’s put the whole thing in perspective.
From the 10 a.m. ET hour of the March 31 edition of MSNBC Live:
HALL: Well, Barack Obama — his friends say he’s a whiz on the basketball court and he can hold his own on the dance floor — and he’s got a gift, of course, for speaking. But one thing Barack Obama cannot do, and I think it’s official — he can’t bowl. Mr. Obama scored a 37 when he hit the lanes this weekend. And yes, he bowled all 10 frames. That’s impossible. Well, voters in Pennsylvania will give him some pointers for his effort.
I do sometimes catch his show in the mornings. But I think the guy is a fucking dick, quite frankly. Someone who picked on kids in school, a spoiled rich kid who thought he was something big. I would love to see nothing more than some beat the living fucking shit out of Joe right on the air, on his own show.
I honestly do not know how Mika Brzezinski puts up with it. I wouldn’t, I’d bitch and have his ass fired. He’s said so much offensive stuff to her, as a woman, it is unbelievable.
He’s the kind of Republican, that I cannot stand. The kind with the "I am better than you", Attitude.
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Obama up the polls, Clinton Trailing at 43%
Obama 51%, Clinton 43% So says Gallup Poll.
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Clinton not paying her bills
No wonder people want her to drop out!
Quote:
Among the debts reported this month by Hillary Rodham Clinton’s struggling presidential campaign, the $292,000 in unpaid health insurance premiums for her campaign staff stands out.
Clinton, who is being pressured to end her campaign against Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination, has made her plan for universal health care a centerpiece of her agenda.
The campaign provides health insurance to all its employees, their spouses, partners and children — and that wasn’t interrupted by any lag in payments to insurance providers, said Jay Carson, a Clinton campaign spokesman.
He said the campaign this month paid off all outstanding bills to Aetna Healthcare and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield. Those payments will be reflected on a report the campaign will file this month with the Federal Election Commission, which Carson said will show “zero debt owed to both vendors.”
“Sometimes invoices are not paid immediately because we need additional information for our records, or to verify expenses,” Carson said in a statement e-mailed to Politico. “Sometimes invoices arrive at the very end of the month at the cutoff of the reporting period, which means that we are required to report them as a debt on the current FEC report, even where they are paid in regular course during the next month.”
But the unpaid bills to Aetna were at least two months old, according to FEC filings.
Wow. Just Wow.
If she doesn’t destroy the Democrat Party, She’ll end up bankruptcy court. Either way. Life’s not going to be kind to Hillary.
I wish Dean would get off his lazy behind to deep six this woman’s campaign. But we all know that ain’t happening!
Stupidity, Innate Stupidity.
Update: Speaking of Innate Stupidity, I called Hillary a Republican by Mistake! I was a bit tired when I wrote that. Oops! 
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Oy…. Hillary Clinton Edition
As if Hillary needed anymore negativity, this drops…
The Article: Cash-strapped Clinton fails to pay bills (via The Politico)
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s cash-strapped presidential campaign has been putting off paying hundreds of bills for months — freeing up cash for critical media buys but also earning the campaign a reputation as something of a deadbeat in some small-business circles.
A pair of Ohio companies owed more than $25,000 by Clinton for staging events for her campaign are warning others in the tight-knit event production community — and anyone else who will listen — to get their cash upfront when doing business with her. Her campaign, say representatives of the two companies, has stopped returning phone calls and e-mails seeking payment of outstanding invoices. One even got no response from a certified letter.
Before I get into my comments about this, there are those in the Blogging world, that say that Politico has become a Barack Obama apologist organization. So, keep that in mind, when reading this.
However, having said all this, This cannot be good. I believe the writing is on the wall for her. She was basically caught in a bald-faced lie, about her Bosnia trip, when she was First Lady. Her daughter basically came across as a elitist snob, when asked a question about the Monica scandal.
Anyway you slice this, it is not good, and could be a sign of things to come.
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Al Gore to save the Democrat Party? I highly doubt it…..
I saw this, and almost spit my coffee on the laptop. Mostly because it sounds that absurd.
The Article: Senior Democrats mull Al Gore’s nomination (Via UK Telegraph)
Plans for Al Gore to take the Democratic presidential nomination as the saviour of a bitterly divided party are being actively discussed by senior figures and aides to the former vice-president.
The bloody civil war between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has left many Democrats convinced that neither can deliver a knockout blow to the other and that both have been so damaged that they risk losing November’s election to the Republican nominee, John McCain.
Former aides to Al Gore now believe he could emerge as a compromise candidate
Former Gore aides now believe he could emerge as a compromise candidate acceptable to both camps at the party’s convention in Denver during the last week of August.
Two former Gore campaign officials have told The Sunday Telegraph that a scenario first mapped out by members of Mr Gore’s inner circle last May now has a sporting chance of coming true.
As exciting or scary, depending on your point of view, as this sounds. It is a known fact among us hardcore Bloggers, that the UK Telegraph is NOT really known for it’s factual reporting. It has, in the past, reported some quite outlandish headlines, that were, quite frankly, wrong.
I may not be an expert, when it comes to Politics, but it would be absolutely crazy to dump Gore into the mix, at this point in the race. There would be massive, and I do mean MASSIVE defections from the party.
So, as nice or as horrible as this may sound. I would not begin to panic, until the New York Times or some other legit News Source in America reports it.
A rule of thumb is, if in doubt, engage your common sense filter.
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Saturday Political Headlines!
It’s the weekend. I am taking it off from writing Political articles. Hey, we all need a break. So….. Here’s the stuff that’s happening in the Political World…:
The Obama/Hillary Primary Saga Continues and Continues….
Meanwhile, the rest of the world is going to hell and a hand-basket.
The Economy is killing the Movie industry.
People want to know what will Fox News do, if a democrat takes the White House, I wonder, "who cares?" I’m sure they’ll have plenty to do, like smearing the President. (anyone remember Bill Clinton????!?!?!)
Obama’s Pastor makes an appearance, conservative media goes ape…..
Obama’s Pastor is also beyond the Pale, so says Philly Mayor. I was thinking Black Nationalist myself.
The Corner Says that the chickens of identity politics are coming home to roost.
How to avoid a Democrat Disater
The latest on the Basra Situation in Iraq
The Defeatist drums just continue to pound.
Students of Virginity?
The Gender wars continue, Dude…. errr Ummm.. Ma’am.
Team Hillary crosses the line……. again?
Obama Weathers Wright Storm, Clinton has issues
So says pew research.
So much for Hillary’s crossing the Executive threshold eh?
It’s too much to quote here, best to go read it all, for yourself.
There’s a ton of people on this, check out the coverage.
Going to be an interesting couple of weeks, no doubt.
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She’s losing, so, she plays the "holier than thou" game
What utter Stupidity!
The Article: Clinton: Wright ‘would not have been my pastor’ (via Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a wide-ranging interview today with Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporters and editors, said she would have left her church if her pastor made the sort of inflammatory remarks Sen. Barack Obama’s former pastor made.
"He would not have been my pastor," Clinton said. "You don’t choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend."
Oh, So now that she is slipping in the polls, she now is trying to play the "Holier Than Thou" game. Sorry, I am not buying it, You lied about going to Bosnia. You lied and said you went under the sniper fire and that was proven to be a flat out lie.
As far as I am concerned, anyone who lies about her experience, anyone who lies about her trips overseas, anyone who’s attempt to get a national healthcare program, was a abysmal failure. Is not ready to lead on day one. Plain and Simple.
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A great article…
Of course, the Hillary people are screaming, "Bias!" But, it is the truth, I think anyway…
Article: The Long Defeat by DAVID BROOKS (via New York Times)
When you step back and think about it, she is amazing. She possesses the audacity of hopelessness.
Why does she go on like this? Does Clinton privately believe that Obama is so incompetent that only she can deliver the policies they both support? Is she simply selfish, and willing to put her party through agony for the sake of her slender chance? Are leading Democrats so narcissistic that they would create bitter stagnation even if they were granted one-party rule?
The better answer is that Clinton’s long rear-guard action is the logical extension of her relentlessly political life.
I hate to say it, but this article really does set it out for Hillary. It speaks truth to power about her.
I just do not understand her at all. She would rather destroy the Democrat Party and cause another 1968 Convention. I know, I wrote some rather mean stuff about her yesterday. I admit it, I cannot stand her. Her husband disgraced the White House, and I haven’t forgotten about it.
Her husband signed off of on a immoral invasion of a "Cultist" Christian commune, based on bad information and as a result, Seventy-six people, including 21 children and two pregnant women, along with their leader died. I haven’t forgotten about this either.
Yes, I know the leader was nutcase, however, that stand off could have ended peacefully. But no, the President stood back idly and allowed the ATF and FBI massacre those people, and their children, and when the fire trucks arrived, the FBI and ATF, refused to allow them in to put the fire out. Instead they allowed them to burn alive. I haven’t forgotten about that.
I also happen to know that, Hillary Clinton AND Bill Clinton, ruined the life of a well known financier, who came to rescue of Stan Lee, when marvel comics fired him. Bill Clinton turned right around and stole the very person, who could have saved Stan’s career. If that wasn’t enough, Bill Clinton pulled strings and basically ruined a man’s life. That man was Peter F. Paul. I haven’t forgotten about this either.
I could go on and on, but I’d rather not waste my bandwidth and my writing talent on this feckless woman. She’s truly not worth it.
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"Misspoke" my royal behind….
I am really beginning to believe that this lying thing is quite common among Democrats.
Article: Clinton Misspoke About Bosnia Trip, Campaign Says (via The Caucus, A New York Times Blog)
The Clinton campaign says Senator Hillary Clinton may have “misspoke” recently when she said she had to evade sniper fire when she was visiting Bosnia in 1996 as first lady.
She has been using the episode as an example of her foreign policy bona fides.
“I certainly do remember that trip to Bosnia,” she said last week. “There was a saying around the White House that if a place was too small, too poor, or too dangerous, the president couldn’t go, so send the First Lady.
“I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”
She has been using the episode as an example of her foreign policy bona fides.
“I certainly do remember that trip to Bosnia,” she said last week. “There was a saying around the White House that if a place was too small, too poor, or too dangerous, the president couldn’t go, so send the First Lady.
“I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”
(snip!)
But her account has been challenged, first by Sinbad, the comedian, who traveled with her, and then by news organizations, most notably the Washington Post, which awarded her four “Pinnochios” which it gives for major “whoppers.
(snip!)
Helene Cooper, The Times’s diplomatic correspondent, reports the following:
I spoke with William Nash, who was the commander of U.S. troops in Bosnia and was at the Tuzla airport with Hillary Clinton. He said there was no threat of sniper fire at the airport during her visit. He said that Mrs. Clinton was gracious during her visit and took pictures with the soldiers, but “she never had her head down. There was no sniper threat that I know of.”
and now for the damning video:
This is, as far as I am concerned, nothing short of a boldfaced lie. As an independent voter, I have lost any and all respect, which was not much to begin with. I do not see this as an isolated incident. I see this as a pattern amongst Democrats. First it was Bill Clinton, during his time in the White House, then it was Elliot Spitzer, and Mayor Kilpatrick of Detroit.
Is this all the Democrats are good for? Lying their way through life? Whatever happened to just telling the goddamned truth? Whatever happened to honesty in Politics? Whatever happened to Integrity in Politics? It seems to be that it has been replaced by cheap thug bastards, who would rather lie their way through the White House and collect a paycheck to do a job, that they really did not deserve to obtain. Which is about what one could say about Hillary Clinton. Truth is, that this lying feckless bitch was only elected, because the people of New York felt sorry for her and she used her mantra of "feel sorry for me, because my husband fucked around on me." to get elected. I am personally sick and tired of seeing this goddamned closet lesbian tearing the Democrat party apart. I really wish that she’d drop out of the Presidential race and just go away and preferable die of aids or something.
Sorry if that sounds harsh, but fucking aye already!!! Enough is enough, from racism, to fear mongering and now just fucking out right lying out her goddamned ass to make herself look good. Does this feckless bitch have any fucking shame at all?
Can you tell I am just a fucking wee bit annoyed?!?!?
Maybe I will get lucky and the blogging world will see this and Keith Olbermann will name me worst person in the world, as if I’d give a remote fuck about what asshole commie closet fag would think.
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Ouch! A Obama Supports goes there…. with the Clintons!
Oh Man, I bet this dude is paying for this, big time.
Via Political Punch (ABC News Blogger)
In his blog, Fischer writes:
"B. Clinton questions Obama’s patriotism. In repsonse (sic), an Obama aide compared B. Clinton to Joe McCarthy. This is patently unfair. To McCarthy.
"When Joe McCarthy questioned others’ patriotism, McCarthy (1) actually believed, at least aparently (sic), the questions were genuine, and (2) he did so in order to build up, not tear down, his own party, the GOP. Bill Clinton cannot possibly seriously believe Obama is not a patriot, and cannot possibly be said to be helping — instead he is hurting — his own party. B. Clinton should never be forgiven. Period. This is a stain on his legacy, much worse, much deeper, than the one on Monica’s blue dress."
D’oh!
He went there, he really went there. He has since removed it. But dang, that was a low blow. Big time. Ouch.
Although, James Carville’s comment about McCarthyism is totally uncalled for. Turns out that McCarthy was somewhat right about his notions on Communism. He was, however, a bit out of control, and also had some self destructive personal habits.
I believe before it is over with, the Democrat Party is going to be so broken, they won’t be able to win anything.
The November Election is going to be an interesting time.
Memeorandum has more coverage.
Man, is Hillary desperate or what?
Does this feckless woman know any bounds?
Clinton Backer Points to Electoral College Votes as New Measure (via New York Times)
Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, who backs Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for president, proposed another gauge Sunday by which superdelegates might judge whether to support Mrs. Clinton or Senator Barack Obama.
He suggested that they consider the electoral votes of the states that each of them has won.
“So who carried the states with the most Electoral College votes is an important factor to consider because ultimately, that’s how we choose the president of the United States,” Mr. Bayh said on CNN’s “Late Edition.”
In a primary, of course, electoral votes are not relevant, but the Clinton campaign is trying to use them as an unofficial measure of strength.
So far, Mrs. Clinton has won states with a total of 219 Electoral College votes, not counting Florida and Michigan, while Mr. Obama has won states with a total of 202 electoral votes.
How silly! Desperate actions from a desperate feckless woman, who knows damn well, that she cannot win the Presidency, at all, and now she’s grasping at straws. She’s also throwing out the kitchen sink also.
This woman is absolutely determined to destroy the democrat party, just so she can win the Nomination for President. The sick and sad part, is that the leadership of the Democrat Party, Howard, "I’m a screamer!" Dean, flatly refuses to do anything about it. What a waste! If I were a member of the Democrat Party, I would be demanding his resignation. Those people pay Howard Dean to lead that party, to make the hard decisions, and what has he done? Nothing! But sit there at look like an idiot. He needs to go and someone take the helm and take control of the situation.
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Oh Lordy….. Here we go!
May the Games begin!
The Story: In Easter Sermon, New Obama Pastor Charges Rev. Wright Victim of ‘Lynching’ (via FoxNews.com)
The new pastor of Barack Obama’s church delivered a defiant defense of its retiring reverend Sunday, comparing media coverage of Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. to a modern-day lynching that resembles Jesus’ death at the hands of the Romans.
In a sunrise Easter sermon, Rev. Otis Moss III never mentioned Wright by name, but implied that his mentor, who has delivered sermons in which he likened the U.S. to the Ku Klux Klan and declared it damned for its “state-sponsored terrorism,” is facing the same challenges Jesus did.”No one should start a ministry with lynching, no one should end their ministry with lynching,” Moss said.
I’m sorry, did the mental midget Olympics begin and I not get the Memo or what? 
Good grief, can you say race baiter? I knew you could!
If this keeps up, I got a funny feeling that the Democrats are going to lose and I mean lose hard.
Lynching. Yeah, Lynched by his own damn rope. Kind of like the Mayor of Detroit.
This ignorant stupidity gets any deeper, I’m going to have to buy some hip waders.
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BREAKING NEWS! — Senator Barack Obama might have ties with a Terrorist Financer.
As much as this pains me to do this, I am posting this here on my Political Blog as well.
No, this is not a joke!
This is 100 percent serious.
I saw this over on NewswithViews.com. If this is true, this could possibly sink his political career!
The Story via several sources:
TALK SHOW HOST REVEALS OBAMA CONNECTION TO TERRORISTS (via NewsWithViews.com)
Obama Connection to Terrorists Revealed by Talk Show Host – (Via New Media Alliance)
Northwestern Intelligence Network
Quote:
There is a far-reaching scandal brewing for presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, thanks to a radio talk show host based in Oregon. Syndicated talk host Laurie Roth’s revelations make the news story about Obama’s relationship with a racist, anti-American pastor look like child’s play.
A top official at the Pentagon during former-President George H. W. Bush’s Administration and a former CIA intelligence officer maintain that Barack Obama and former Weather Underground honcho William Ayers funneled money to Professor Rashid Khalidi, a known terrorist sympathizer.
Khalidi serves on the faculty of Columbia University in New York and is best known as the professor who invited Iranian President Ahmedinejad to visit Columbia University after he finished his speech at the United Nations. According to confidential sources, Khalidi has direct ties to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), a group on the US State Department’s list of known terrorist groups.
"One source for this information was once a top military figure in the 1990s. He doesn’t take making allegations lightly. If he says something happened, believe me, it happened," said syndicated radio talk show host Laurie Roth.
Here is the Audio from the Show:
Hour 1: Click here (MP3)
Hour 2: Click Here
Hour 3: Click Here
The basic stinging information is:
Here are the connections as described by very reliable sources, who possess impressive military, national security and intelligence backgrounds:
Allison Davis, who hired the young Obama into his small, Chicago law firm Davis, Miner, and Barnhill in 1993, left the firm in late 1999-2000 and became a housing developer. Davis went into business with Tony Rezko, the indicted businessman who’s scheduled to go on trial for corruption in Illinois, and who was a major fundraiser for Obama.
Davis met Rezko when he was a client of Davis, Miner, and Barnhill. Rezko is currently under indictment in Illinois for demanding kickbacks from companies seeking state government business contracts under Governor Blagojevich. Obama was identified as one of the politicians cited in the indictment as having received political contributions from Rezko out of his kickback funds.
Tony Rezko hosted fundraising events for Obama in his home and was on Obama’s US Senate campaign finance committee which collected $14 million for his campaign against conservative Alan Keyes, an African-American who served as an Ambassador during the Reagan Administration. In order to avoid a scandal during his presidential campaign, Obama returned $85,000 that Rezko and his family had donated to him.
In early 2000, while Obama served as a state senator in Illinois, he also sat on the board of the nonprofit Woods Fund. The Woods Fund is a Chicago-based foundation that claims its primary mission is to make financial grants in order to increase and/or create opportunities for disadvantaged people and low-income communities.
The chairman of the Woods fund board in 2000 was Howard Stanback, who like Obama also had connections to Davis, according to the reliable sources.
Davis submitted a grant request to the Woods Foundation for a $1 million investment in his development partnership, Neighborhood Rejuvenation LP, that would be used to finance low-income senior-citizen housing. Under normal circumstances, a board member is supposed to recuse himself or herself from decisions where they have a business or personal relationship.
Obama, who did not recuse himself, voted to approve Davis’ grant request. Stanback, on the other hand, abstained from voting. The housing project, which also received a $5.7 million loan from the city of Chicago, in turn donated almost $70,000 in political contributions to Obama’s presidential campaign.
In the past, Rezko gave Obama — who served as an Illinois State Senator — his first two political contributions in 1995, $1,000 each from two of his companies. In 1998, State Senator Obama wrote letters to city and state officials urging them to fund a Davis-Rezko housing project. It was an obvious quid pro quo arrangement.
Let me say that I have absolutely no way to independently confirm this.
I will be contacting other Bloggers in the Political World to promote this story.
I will be contacting the Main Stream media first thing in the morning.
Cross-Posted from my other Blog, Wayward Fundamentalist Christian
Clinton Camp on Richardson’s Endorsement…"Doesn’t Matter"
"I’d kiss you, but these people and my wife would never understand…"
Via WSJ:
Quote:
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson finally made up his mind and endorsed Sen. Barack Obama today, but a senior adviser to Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign — which likewise spent months courting the former Democratic presidential candidate’s nod — dismissed its significance.
“Look, I think that everyone has their endorsers,” said senior Clinton strategist Mark Penn, adding — with a little huff — “I think New Mexico is a state that, actually, we won.”
“The time that he could have been effective has long since passed,” he continued. “I don’t think it is a significant endorsement in this environment.”
Perhaps sensing that it may not be effective to dismiss out of hand a popular Hispanic governor’s political clout, campaign spokesman Phil Singer chimed in. “We respect Gov. Richardson,” he clarified. “But at the end of the day this campaign is about Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama.”
Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe told reporters today that Richardson made up his mind “just very recently” and — unsurprisingly — saw significance in it. “We obviously think it’s very meaningful,” Plouffe said, referencing the behind the scenes jockeying the Clinton and Obama campaigns had conducted since Richardson withdrew from the presidential race in early January. “That process has been going for some time now,” Plouffe noted.
I normally do not use this source for entries, because of who owns them, and their newly discovered Republican and quite conservative slant. But this one warrants a posting.
The quote that bothers me is….:
“The time that he could have been effective has long since passed,” he continued. “I don’t think it is a significant endorsement in this environment."
Yeah, Okay Markus, then why the fuck did Bill Clinton basically invite himself to Richardson’s House to watch the damn Super Bowl? I know it wasn’t because they were best buddies.
Like I said in a previous entry, she can’t win, by a long shot, and now she’s in spin and denial mode.
So typical.
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3 A.M. Girl Makes Ad….for Obama…
As I thought she would… (via and H/T to The Hill Blog)
Oh to be a fly on the wall at the Hillary camp!
Memo to Hillary Clinton: You can’t win Bieeeeoootch!
Heh, Sorry… I couldn’t resist.
The Story: Story behind the story: The Clinton myth (via Politico.com)
One big fact has largely been lost in the recent coverage of the Democratic presidential race: Hillary Rodham Clinton has virtually no chance of winning.
Her own campaign acknowledges there is no way that she will finish ahead in pledged delegates. That means the only way she wins is if Democratic superdelegates are ready to risk a backlash of historic proportions from the party’s most reliable constituency.
Unless Clinton is able to at least win the primary popular vote — which also would take nothing less than an electoral miracle — and use that achievement to pressure superdelegates, she has only one scenario for victory. An African-American opponent and his backers would be told that, even though he won the contest with voters, the prize is going to someone else.
People who think that scenario is even remotely likely are living on another planet.
Wait! There’s a song there…
Anyhow…. I think Hillary is just hanging on, thinking she might be able to score a VP spot. But, I think that is, at best, a pipedream. Maybe I am wrong. But I just do not see, a Black guy and a pasty White woman on the same ticket, and plus their personalities are too dominating. Neither of them want to play second fiddle. So, I think that Hillary’s just hanging on for Pride’s sake. Of course, according the e-mail that I received this morning. She’s hurting for money. So, who knows, maybe she will do the right thing after this net primary vote, if she loses and will drop out.
Here’s hoping!
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It wasn’t just Obama’s Passport…..
So, it wasn’t a conspiracy after all…
The Story: Obama urges inquiry into passport snooping (via CNN.com)
Sen. Barack Obama called for an investigation Friday into how the security of the passport files of the three remaining presidential candidates was breached.
The State Department admitted Friday that the passport files of Obama, Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. John McCain had been accessed without authorization.
"One of the things that the American people count on in their interactions with any level of government is that if they have to disclose personal information, that it stay personal and stay private," Obama said in Portland, Oregon.
"And when you have not just one but a series of attempts to tap into people’s personal records, that’s a problem not just for me but for how our government is functioning," he said.
Obama said he expected "a full and thorough investigation" by the administration in conjunction with congressional oversight committees.
Now if I were one of them overly paranoid Liberals, I would say this was released to stop the coverage of it, as a attempt to roust out Obama from the race or something silly like that. Truth is, is was most likely just some bonehead who thought that they’d be really cool and access the info.
However, it does speak the absolute incompetence of the State Department. This should have been released to the Candidates and the Media the very minute it happened.
Many questions linger and will most likely be brought out eventually, Most likely when the offending parties are safely out of office.
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