Speaker P., we chics at hireheels would just like to know, “WHAT IN THE NAME OF HELL WERE YOU THINKNG?!?” Answer: Clearly, you weren’t thinking, when you took the podium yesterday to spew your off-script, partisan rancor and bash the very peeps that you clearly needed to pass the tenuous bailout bill? (Do you still feel lucky…777?!?)
The life of said bill was dangling in a very fragile balance— a balance that could have certainly been tipped by the Democratic House majority… Natch, we understand that the Dems didn’t want to pass such a massive piece of legislation without bipartisan support… the switchboards on Capitol Hill were jammed yesterday with constituents threatening to vote every one of you out in November if you passed it. Personally, I question the particulars of the bill, but I know that something must be done. It must be done quickly and it must be accomplished with members of both sides of the aisle standing tall to deliver a package that strives to stabilize the situation before the country finds itself at a complete standstill.
But Madam Speaker, just how did you think you were going to glean such bipartisan support, when you threw the Republicans under the bus?!? Maybe you wanted it to fail. One thing is sure…you need to take a crash course in diplomacy from your buds down the street at the State Dept… or maybe you should botox the muscles ’round your mouth to relax the urge to open it!
What a difference a day makes. Nearly 500 points up when the Speaker shuts up. Hmm, is there Catholic holiday coming up??
Between watching my portfolio and watching Sean Hannity, it’s all a gal can do to get a pedicure! (No manicure necessary for my poor bitten nails). The Dow just opened and is sinking with abandon and Congress is doing everything it can…to make it go lower!
No one likes blaming Bush more than the Princess. Heck, I’d blame him for my last break-up if I could!
But not this time. I’m laying the blame squarely on the Democrats and their chosen one. Don’t be fooled by Obama’s confident debate performance on economic issues. He’s hoping the low-information voters that comprise his party aren’t as sharp as my Prada stilettos. Boy, was he mistaken!I’d love to lay it out for you here, but am a bit cross-eyed after designing this.
Posted on September 25th, 2008 in Piper in Pucci by hireheels
So often politicians launch slick slogans and iconic imagery to reinforce their message. Yesterday, John McCain lived up to his campaign’s theme, ‘Country First’ (didn’t Just Say No Deal start that trend with Country B4 Party?). By suspending his presidential campaign to return to Washington, he sent a message of strength and certainty. Let’s face it, he is still a United States Senator and one who has historically rolled up his sleeves for the nation’s greater good. Sure he invited Obama to do the same, but suggesting that his intentions were anything short of honorable is not the “Hope & Change” I’m lookin’ for.
Obama’s response? The show must go on. A president must be able to multi-task, but, uh, I’ll return to DC if I’m needed.
So in the midst of a monumental financial crisis, the likes of which we haven’t seen since the Great Depression, Obama would rather pontificate and lecture us than get his finger nails dirty. The shiny new leader of the Democratic party is fully content to let those geeky wonks work on the biggest bailout in America’s history, while he, uh, practices, uh, not saying “uh” with a McCain stand-in.
Barack Obama, too, is a United States Senator. The voters of Illinois elected him to represent their interests in difficult times. But Obama must think these are “good times” …what was with that “poppin’ champagne” comment anyway? I guess he thought he’d take a pass, not unlike all those days he voted “present” in the Illinois state senate.
And why should we be surprised …this from someone who’s spent more time running for the presidency than actually serving his constituents? And worst of all, the media accept this behavior as quasi-presidential while insinuating mccain’s was political.
What happened yesterday exhibited what I’ve said all along about Obama: he doesn’t want to govern. He does want to be worshipped.
From the faux Presidental seal to the styrofoam greek columns at invesco, he wants to be adored by millions. He wants to be rock star. That whole ‘governing thing’ is just a stepping stone to that goal, and now it’s getting in the way.
It’s true that in ordinary times a president must be able to handle more than one thing at a time. But these are extraordinary times, not unlike 9/11, and they call for extraordinary action and Washington’s undivided attention. Does that not include Senator Barack Obama?
All of this now seems to be moot as President Bush has heeded McCain’s call for a meeting of both candidates and congressional leaders to resolve this crisis. At this posting, the Dow is up 250 points and the display of bi-partisanship seems to be beating out the bickering (much to the chagrin of the media). However, when the initial 3 a.m. call came in, it was McCain’s judgment and steadiness that stood out. Was he a bit aggressive? Hell ya! But his uncanny ability to set aside partisan politics and get to work for the American people prevailed over Obama’s petulant demand that the country refocus on his awesomeness and the republic of georgia. There is plenty of time to debate foreign policy. These times are not that time!
To echo Lindsay Graham, we don’t need debates, we need solutions. So hireheels suggests you return to one of your specialties: ducking debates. And don’t worry, if anyone asks about your foreign policy stance, we’ll follow your lead and direct them to your website.
Think about it. Remember the kids who used to play hookey a lot. They were too cool for school. You were always drawn to their big plans for the day — playing pinball at the local arcade, a beer picnic at the Arnold Arboretum, a pretend study session at the Boston Public Library followed by a fast-food feast at Burger King in Copley Square (oops, was that too specific?). Doncha get the feeling Obama was that kinda guy? But even with all his short-cuts and bone-headed moves, he’d still end up at Harvard?
The media don’t want us to know ’bout Obama’s short cuts. That’s why there are entire swaths of time missing from his “reported” history. Indeed, Obama doesn’t want us to delve too much, or we may start asking questions. Questions like: why did obama spend so much time “playing hookey” with the unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers?
Wall Street Journal’s Stanley Kurtz broke down the radical plan Obama and Ayers had for school kids. Kurtz, seemingly one of the few investigative journalists left, pored over the papers from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) to examine just what this foundation was up to. Stunningly, Ayers appointed Precious to head CAC, despite his having zero experience in such areas. We all know, though Obama denies, that Ayers went on to launch Obama’s political career into the stratosphere with an intimate fundraiser at his house in 1995. Sounds like quite a history to me!
The Obama campaign continues to downplay that association. Last April, Sen. Obama dismissed Mr. Ayers as just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” and “not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis.” Ah, nooooo…you two were playing hookey and plotting your master plan. Only it wasn’t just for the day, it was for the entire country and the presidency!
The CAC papers are now located in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Chicago. No need to play hookey to visit…Kurtz eventually won access and did the work for us. The Daley archives prove that Ayers and Obama worked in concert to advance CAC’s radical agenda. Evidence of their collaboration is overwhelming. The objectives are eerily similar to those of leftwing community organizers of the Saul Alinsky mold. And even Obama’s pals from ACORN were involved.
From Kurtz’s piece in the WSJ:
CAC’s agenda flowed from Mr. Ayers’s educational philosophy, which called for infusing students and their parents with a radical political commitment, and which downplayed achievement tests in favor of activism. In the mid-1960s, Mr. Ayers taught at a radical alternative school, and served as a community organizer in Cleveland’s ghetto.
In works like “City Kids, City Teachers” and “Teaching the Personal and the Political,”Mr. Ayers wrote that teachers should be community organizers dedicated to provoking resistance to American racism and oppression. His preferred alternative? “I’m a radical, Leftist, small ‘c’ communist,” Mr. Ayers said in an interview in Ron Chepesiuk’s, “Sixties Radicals,” at about the same time Mr. Ayers was forming CAC.
CAC translated Mr. Ayers’s radicalism into practice. Instead of funding schools directly, it required schools to affiliate with “external partners,” which actually got the money. Proposals from groups focused on math/science achievement were turned down. Instead CAC disbursed money through various far-left community organizers, such as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (or ACORN).
Mr. Obama once conducted “leadership training” seminars with ACORN, and ACORN members also served as volunteers in Mr. Obama’s early campaigns. External partners like the South Shore African Village Collaborative and the Dual Language Exchange focused more on political consciousness, Afrocentricity and bilingualism than traditional education.
Starting to sound more and more like a master plan to me. But without media coverage, this goes nowhere. And it doesn’t help that voters are spoiled with 10-second soundbites like “lipstick on a pig”…acorn and cac require a hell of a lot more bandwidth - ours and the media’s! The stakes are enormous, the clock is ticking…that skinny, opportunistic, chain-smokin’, uh-uttering community organizer could very well be your next president.
Posted on September 22nd, 2008 in Georgia Armani by hireheels
I love travelling – just moving energizes me and my brain kicks into gear. as I travel 10,000 meters high, having a bit of bubbly as you do, I contemplate life, the state of world affairs, and autumn fashion. So here I sit in my cushy seat in the new plush A-380, somewhere between the Indian Sub-continent and Iran, flipping thru the vast in-flight entertainment program. And there it is - the musical biography of BO Man disguised as The Best of Gil Scott-Heron in the Jazz/Soul section.
I admit (culpa mea) I did not read any of Barack Obama’s books as of yet. I am sure they are all lovely, but I would bet my blue Kelly Bag that the music of Chicago-born blaxplotation legend Gil Scott-Heron must have had quite the influence on the BO Man. Why, you ask? Well, just check out the playlist for my unique interpretations. (Amazing what a little champagne and altitude can inspire.)
the BO shuffle
1 The Bottle (early digressions, covered in the ‘Audacity of Dope’)
2 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (don’t we just know it, the media is in the tank!)
3 Lady Day & John Coltrane (hint: D as in Democrat -HRC and John McCain)
4 Washington D.C. (do I need to say more? Aim high, deliver low!)
5 The get out of the Getto Blues (here we go again, organizing on the South Side)
6 Storm Music (there is a chilly blast from Alaska in the air)
7 No Exit (No, you can’t hide, Pumas are everywhere!)
8 Free Will (yes, normal people do choose their friends, it is a viable option)
9 Pieces of a Man (yeah, never seem to get the whole picture of the BO Man)
10 Home is Where the Hatred is (Michelle!)
11 Did you hear what they said (oh, they criticized me, they must be racist!)
12 Back Home (mmh, uuhh, mmmh where is that damn birth certificate!)
13 ‘B’ movie (don’t we just know that sickening feeling!)
14 Blue Collar (‘I have been down in Pennsylvania…Cincinnati ’: fill in the missing word: Scranton!)
15 H2OGate Blues [intro goes: ‘you don’t wanna be involved in this one’] (Man - we hear ya! that’s why we Just Say No Deal!)
“I am confident I will get her votes if I’m the nominee,” Obama stressed. “It’s not clear she would get the votes I got if she were the nominee.”
What a difference six months and a pack of pumas make.
Oh sure, they won’t all admit to being PUMAs, but privately, they know they are. Had we not crawled out on the proverbial limb before these high-profile Clintonistas - John Coale, Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, and Donald Trump -publicly said “NO DEAL” to The Anointed One, well, their endorsements may actually be explosive news. But in reality, voters of all socioeconomic shapes and sizes have been saying “nobama” all along. The “I’m-the-last-Democrat-standing-strategy” may have seemed like a good one back in February, but not if you’ve simply been propped up by mob bosses Howard, Nancy and Donna. To earn a puma’s vote, you need to earn that standing, and you Senator Sweetie, have not!
So confident was the new leader of the Democratic Party of winning over Hillary supporters, he didn’t factor in the possibility of their not only abandoning him but publicly endorsing his Republican rival. Sounds like another miscalculation on the part of the Obama camp. Better roll out another gimmicky marketing campaign bcuz that Hope & change thang ain’t gonna carry ya. Hmmm…now what?!
I’ll tell you what, or shall I say WHO! During an impromptu conference call yesterday for her supporters, Hillary Clinton launched her new “Hillary Sent Me” campaign, an outreach program designed to convince her grassroots supporters to help get “her opponent” elected:
“The effort was organized with the Obama campaign and state Democratic parties nationwide. Its goal: to engage the former first lady’s donors and voters — many of whom are still sore over her loss to Obama in the epic primary contest — to put that firmly behind them and help in battleground states.”
So rather than check his ego at those “styrofoam Greek columns” and appeal to us directly, he directs his minions to strong-arm Hillary into doing more of his dirty work. And we do believe he considers it “dirty work.”
What he doesn’t seem to realize is that the more he trots out the Clintons to deal with their downtrodden, low-information voters, the weaker becomes his standing and the stronger becomes our resolve. If he’s such the messianic uniter with sagely judgment, why can’t he ask us for our votes himself?
Because he doesn’t need to as long as Hillary is there to mop up.
The burden remains on Obama, not Hillary, to earn our coveted votes. No amount of dirty tactics will change history and pumas have long memories. Obama’s continued arrogance and dismissal of Hillary Clinton’s eighteen million voters is not a winning strategy. Outsourcing the job to Hillary only assures his eventual defeat.
Posted on September 19th, 2008 in On Consignment by hireheels
All,
I confess - some days I pull the covers so far over my head that my toes are sticking out. I still dream that the DNC wakes up, Obama confesses to fraud, hubris and inexperience, steps aside, and as the electable Democrat, Hillary is the nominee, double digits ahead in the polls. But no, McCain leads in national polls, is even in PA and VA, and is ahead in CO, Ohio, and FL…
Sigh.
This is the third and final part of CONVENTION POST MORTEM in five sections:
1. ACTION ITEMS
2. MORE ON THE “ROLL CALL”
3. THE ELECTABILITY WATCH
4. ARTICLES AND COMMENTARY
5. HILLARY AT WORK - Simply the Best
From time to time over the coming weeks, I will write about the action items in #1 below. However, as I suspend not end these conversations on a regular basis, I do want to note that, for me, one of the saddest aspects of this remarkable experience is the tone of the discourse, the apparent inability to disagree on substance without ad hominem attacks and characterizations. This is a terrible corruption of the system and goes both ways - I have been shocked at some of the language and ugly attacks from Hillary supporters - we should know better. But rarely have I seen anything from a BO supporter that has not had some vulgar/offensive component. I have included several below. How anyone thinks this will be persuasive or unifying is beyond me…intimidating, yes.
I want to give special thanks to Mary Ellen Courtney who was the bus captain for most of the NY volunteer buses to many of the primary states, and without whom the Electability Watch would not have happened as smoothly; and Lucy Cristancho, my assistant who many of you have corresponded or talked with throughout the campaign. And to the amazing group that pulled together the nominating petitions! And to the 18 million and everyone who made that happen!
It will be no surprise to anyone that the DNC is making it as difficult as possible to get the lists of the votes, but we must push back on this very anti-democratic withholding of public information. So much for transparency.
We have the tally sheets for Oregon and New Mexico, so it can be done! Please forward to me other states so that we can distribute the comparisons for delegate accountability.
HILLARY DEMOCRATS: Please donate and get involved in “Down Ticket” Hillary Democrat campaigns. The need for your support is compounded by BO’s refusal to take public financing - down ticket Democrats need money that is now going to Obama’s campaign. Coattails?
To help support Hillary Democrats, please send me information on events and fundraisers along with a brief description of the campaign.
DEMOCRATS NOT OBAMOCRATS: For anyone who cannot vote for McCain, nor for Obama, please consider blanking the top of the ticket and voting for down ticket Democrats. This is a way to distinguish between Democrats and Obamorats, register a vote of no-confidence in the DNC and BO, and express yourself for party reform. Blanking is far preferable to writing in - the conditions vary from state to state and can easily invalidate your ballot, and a third party vote dilutes your message.
A vote for Obama in blue or red states is an endorsement of him and the DNC which I, for one, cannot do.
In addition to withholding contributions from the DNC and all its arms, I know of no other way to say to the DNC that we are in this pickle because they shoved aside the only electable Democrat, Hillary Clinton, and this must not happen again. If there is a large enough discrepancy between the totals voting for Democrats down ticket, and those voting for Obama, attention must be paid, and we may have a chance…
2) MORE ON THE “ROLL CALL”:
ANONYMOUS: “Ultimately, the roll call vote was a sham and did not even come close to reflecting Senator Clinton’s historic achievement. As of this writing, all of what went on behind the scenes has yet to come to light. From what we know thus far, it is apparent the vote was rigged. Unlike Jesse Jackson’s historic campaign for the Democratic nominee in 1984 when his name was placed in nomination and his 465 ½ delegate votes were accurately recorded for the history books, Senator Clinton’s delegate votes ultimately did not reflect the will of the voters. As a result, the fact that she won more votes and primaries than any candidate in history will forever remain obliterated from the official record.”
Karen Murphy, Alegre’s Corner: “Too many have worked too hard for too long to have this historic vote shoved under the rug like this!”
Let the record show that Senator Clinton led in the popular vote, and that there was only a separation of 47 pledged delegates, even with all the caucus fraud and manipulation.
Democratic Convention
Presidential Nominating Process
Automatic selection of unpledged delegates: Saturday 1 March 2008
Rules and Bylaws Committee Meeting: Saturday 31 May 2008
45th Democratic National Convention: Monday 25 August - Thursday 28 August 2008
Candidate Popular
Vote Delegate Votes
Hard Total Floor Vote
Clinton, Hillary Rodham 17,857,446 48.04% 1,730.5 39.17% 341.5 7.73%
Obama, Barack Hussein 17,584,649 47.31% 1,747.5 39.55% 1,549.5 35.07%
Edwards, John Reid 994,022 2.67% 32.0 0.72%
Uncommitted 293,075 0.79% 908.0 20.55%
Richardson, William B. “Bill”, III 104,051 0.28%
Kucinich, Dennis J. 99,962 0.27%
Biden, Joseph Robinette “Joe”, Jr. 79,754 0.21%
Gravel, Mike 35,303 0.09%
Dodd, Christopher J. “Chris” 34,663 0.09%
No Preference 31,255 0.08%
Blank, Void, Scattering 28,698 0.08%
(others) 25,871 0.07%
Uninstructed 861 0.00%
Scattering 468 0.00%
Undecided 42 0.00%
(available)
(not voting) 2,527.0 57.20%
Total 37,170,120 100.00% 4,418.0 100.00% 4,418.0 100.00%
4,418 total delegate votes - 2,316 district / 794 at large; 456 Pledged PLEOs; 771 Unpledged PLEOs; 81 Unpledged add-ons
CALIFORNIA: Misha Houser: “This is such a pile of dung. I WAS a Hillary delegate from California and that’s not at all what happened. Hillary supporters flipped to Obama and we passed so as not to embarrass Hillary. Gloria Allred made a fool of herself in order to get publicity for herself and lost most of us in the process, her stunt was embarrassing and out of place. Ray Panko was NOT a delegate and had no knowledge of the real goings on if he even does exist. I have my doubts about many of your so-called respondents. NOT ONE DELEGATE that I spoke to (and I spoke to a LOT of Hillary delegates) was disillusioned after the amazing week so stop spreading these falsehoods.”
FP: “Gloria Allred was handing out the petitions to get a vote on the floor and Chris Lavery, who I had a run in with when volunteering for Hillary months earlier, came over to me and intimidated me by saying, “You realize you are an At-Large delegate for Hillary and Hillary does not want people to sign this. This would be an embarrassment to Hillary.” Later, in a message to my facebook account, Chris told me “he would remember what I had done” basically telling me I would never get an at-large delegate slot again for Hillary. I told him I could care less because politics was not my life and I was there to represent the public and to stand up for the constitution.”
COLORADO: Lila: “A request for Unity has no place in a political party until after the roll call vote is over and the candidate has been selected. The Democratic Party essentially committed suicide on August 27, 2008, with that joke of a roll call vote, thereby reaffirming yet again that Barack Obama was selected, not elected. The roll call vote essentially laughed at democracy. In the name of “Unity,” votes were taken wholesale from Hillary supporters and given to Obama, thereby creating more division. Authentic votes no longer matter just like in any autocratic country. Individual liberty and free speech are under severe attack. Obama cannot be vetted or criticized in any way, or you are a racist. Police force and Obama thugs now attempt to control behavior. You will support Obama or you will pay dearly. This is the message from the Denver Convention to those of us who have been watching from home. This message is loud and clear.”
DC: Susan Magee: “This past week I have been decompressing from the experience of the Denver Convention. I loved seeing my friends with whom I have shared this 19-month journey. What a roller-coaster of feelings I had during that week. I wept and applauded as Hillary addressed the convention with such strength and intelligence. I was happy with the selection of Joe Biden among the possible men as he is a good, decent and experienced person. Bill delighted me with the clarity and skill with which he laid out the argument in favor of the Obama-Biden ticket. I was deeply moved at the historical significance and the opportunity to heal our deep racial wounds as the first African-American, Barack Obama, was nominated for the Presidency.
However, as I listened to Senators Dick Durbin, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry and former VP Gore speak about passing the torch to a new generation, I wanted to shout out: WAIT, we have not yet had our chance. What struck me was that I was watching the patriarchy perpetuating its own power. The last night as I sat in the large Invesco Field, I became very quiet and profoundly sad that so many of our party leaders are unwilling to support a powerful woman becoming President of the United States. I genuinely believe that we will not have peace or harmony in our world until women and men serve in mature partnerships in all realms of life. I came home and said to my husband: ENOUGH. I WANT A REVOLUTION. I recommit myself to work with all of you to elect qualified women. Hopefully, we will see one elected to the White House before I die.”
FLORIDA: Lady Hawkke: “I’m faxing this out, don’t know if it will do any good. If anyone wants to participate, just change the officials to their STATES except for the US DOJ.”
BY FAX (850) 488-3680
Secretary of State Kurt S. Browning
400 S. Monroe St #P12
Tallahassee, FL 32399
BY FAX (850) 410-1630
Attorney General Bill McCollum, Office of the Attorney General
State of Florida, The Capitol PL-01
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1050
cc; Matthew W. Friedrich, US DOJ, Criminal Div. By Fax: (202) 514-9412
Subject: Objections to Special Status Granted to the Democratic Party on FL State Ballots
Dear Sir:
I am writing to you to protest the state of Florida allowing the Democratic Party access to our state election ballots.
Upon contacting the Secretary Of State, I was told that state officials cannot intervene in the internal operations of any political party and was referred to the DNC. Why would I contact the DNC when they are the ones violating their own Rules? To whom do I turn to make them accountable? I am a taxpayer and expect our state officials to act on our behalf when it is obvious citizens are being deprived of their votes. Howard Dean made clear he would do nothing regarding FL & MI stating they violated the Rules by holding primaries out of turn although other states did that as well and they were not punished. However, at the Rules Committee meeting on May 31, the rules were again broken by giving uncommitted delegates to Sen. Obama and taking 4 pledged delegates from Sen. Clinton and giving them to Sen. Obama. After Howard Dean & Nancy Pelosi “selected” Sen. Obama as the nominee by pressuring and threatening super delegates to vote for Sen. Obama, they again changed the Rules to allow FL & MI a full vote.
At the DNC Convention in Denver, the DNC, Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean and others, threatened and intimidated delegates prior to the Roll Call and did not hold a bona fide floor vote on the nomination. States were not allowed to go in order and others were passed solely for the purpose of keeping Sen. Obama ahead in the delegate count. Delegates were not told that some states had bound laws and they were bound to vote for the person who won the primary on the First Ballot. Investigations are ongoing in this regard.
We spend taxpayer money for elections that are fair and honest, and support the will of the people. The DNC has shown through its nomination of a candidate by dictum that they are not abiding by our state’s principles…
Furthermore, there are widespread reports and investigations of fraudulent voting irregularities in several states. In the Texas caucuses there was massive voter fraud and voter intimidation. In Oregon there were dead people voting. In Los Angeles, gang members were hired to walk neighborhoods and threaten people to vote for Obama. In some southern states there is an investigation of votes being sold for $20.00, or in some cases, for drugs. These problems affect the results of voting in all states, Florida included; please visit Dr. Lynette Long’s website on caucus fraud.
The foregoing fraud was seen by countries all over the world. I am alarmed that a rigged roll call and nomination was allowed to happen in the USA. Our soldiers are dying all over the world for democracy and to give others the privilege to cast an honest vote. Former Pres. Jimmy Carter goes to many countries to monitor elections for fraud, yet he did nothing to stop what was going on in our own country. Jimmy Carter endorsed Obama. No Party should be above the law and as a citizen I expect you to do your job. If it is not your job, then whose job is it? .
The spending of our state tax dollars to allow a private club such as the DNC to pick their own candidate in violation of even their own rules, and run that candidate on our state ballots is outrageous. . I assure you, I intend to work to amend our state laws so that from now on the DNC will not be allowed access to our state ballots without the requisite fees and petitions that the other political parties… must pay and supply, unless they return to holding fair elections based upon votes of citizens.
In the interim, I demand that you revoke the special status that our state laws grant to candidates from the Democratic Party to get on the ballot. I await your response.
OHIO: Lee Hakel: “Mrs. Clinton told her supporters in person at the convention that she had cast her vote for Obama and we should do the same. That was the only directive I received.”
MARYLAND: Dion Guthrie: “I was a Delegate from Maryland and a Councilman from Harford County. Maryland vote was 94 to 6 for Hillary. I was 1 of the 6″.
Paulie Abeles: The right to vote, it seems to me, is not simply about exercising your franchise—but actually having that exercise tied to a result. Whether we look narrowly at Florida and Michigan, or broadly at caucus and convention intimidation and fraud—what becomes clear—crystal clear—is that the delegates—both in number and composition– did not accurately represent the ‘will of the people’ that voted for them. And, as a tribute to their organizational skill, if not their integrity, the Obama campaign did everything in their power to ensure that that would be the case.
Just as importantly, throughout the nomination process, the Obama campaign did everything possible to curtail the free speech of those who opposed him. Whether it was as simple as harassing supporters at the local metro, or as brazen as intimidating delegates at state conventions and threatening members of the Black Caucus—opposition to Barack Obama put people at risk—to be taunted, insulted and harassed in a way I’ve never before experienced in a political campaign.”
MASSACHUSETTS: M. Saboori: ” Would you be suprized if Obama loses GE? NO, he never won the primary!”
MISSISSIPPI: Kelly Jacobs, MS Hillary Delegate: “I was pulled into the hotel hallway outside of our breakfast room on Tuesday because of the Denver Postcomments that were printed about my insistence on voting for HRC. Hillary’s MS whip, Gloria told me they didn’t want me to pass around the petitions, and that I would be able to vote for whomever I wanted but that Hillary was going to formally end the voting when it got to NY. This was the negotiated deal she made with Obama, there would be a paper trail recording the votes, this was the way she wanted the convention to go so would I please cease and desist the collection of signatures? OK, I did.
On Wednesday morning we had more than 2 hours of speakers before we could get our credentials, none were good. The sole purpose of the last speaker, a former DNC Chairman was to change the Hillary Clinton delegate votes to Obama. On Tuesday all 14 HRC delegates (in an unofficial straw poll) were voting for her, but..after one hour of this DNC guy, 6 switched. I felt the target of his speech because I was wearing a black coat covered only in Hillary buttons, but I just kept saying to myself, I am rubber and you are glue… So when the MS vote was announced at the Pepsi Center , 8 stayed with Hillary, 31 Obama and 2 (super delegates) refused to attend and vote. I think it was wrong to try to change our votes at the convention, and it appeared to me that many other states were subject to this arm twisting stuff also, and I wanted to share what happened to MS.
I’m leaving out the part about how I was threatened with assault by a MS Obama delegate/atty. who told me after an interview with a reporter from the the Congressional Quarterly that I was not entitled to my opinions and she wanted us to go outside so she could whip my ass (Monday night).”
NEW YORK: Stephanie Madden: “As I listen to the “lipstick on a pig” furor, I feel the need to call attention to the fact that Barack Obama would have a good deal more credibility in his charges of “manufactured controversy” and “phoney outrage” if he had not employed exactly those tactics against Hillary - specifically when his campaign deliberately misinterpreted her statement of historical fact about the synergy between Johnson and King. - though there were many other times. I’m still not sure how I’ll vote. But I’m certain I want to raise this comparison - because it’s important the party learn this lesson.”
OREGON: Bob Williams: “GO AWAY RICKI LIBERMAN WE KNOW YOU ARE JOE LIEBERMAN LITTLE SISTER AND ALL OF YOU HATE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.”
And, from DANMAN 626@aol.com:
“Yo… get over it.. and FUCK OFF. Also stop sending me your bullshit you pretentious crybaby.”
3) THE ELECTABILITY WATCH: “DOING THE EW” - The Super Delegates only job - to select the electable…
My comment: The Electability Watch (EW) was a no-cost, grassroots action where, over the summer, hundreds and hundreds of Hillary supporters all over the country took time each week to write thoughtful letters to over 650 Super Delegates, discussing the issue of electability, that electability should be the only consideration for SDs in making their vote at the Convention, and that the electable Democrat was Hillary Clinton.
The polls over the summer - in spite of a faux presidential seal, a trip to Berlin, and a plane with the vanilla ice cream ball melting on hot coals - remained static at a time when the conventional wisdom was that a Democrat should be ahead by double digits. The trends continued from the primary season - the more voters knew about BO, the more they had voted for Hillary. EWers demanded accountability from delegates and from the DNC which chose to flick us off, but not before having to confront the thousands of messages which said that we knew they had the power to intimidate and manipulate results, but urged them not to. That they did, that they simply persisted without a shred of embarrassment, will not easily be forgotten.
I so admire the work the EWers did with the SDs on the ELECTABILITY issue - that many of the Super and Pledged delegates stood their ground in the face of enormous pressure should make them and us proud, although we will probably never know exactly how many and who did so that we can thank them as they should be thanked.
That we all had to work so hard and basically beg for fairness and transparency is a sad commentary on the Presidential selection process. That we were even moderately influential is some consolation, but cold comfort. As an EWer wrote: “without the EW, the DNC would not have had to work so hard to rig the results…”
A small selection of many other comments on the experience and thoughts of EWers:
“The Electability Watch may not have been able to flip the election but it did pressure the DNC to let Hillary have her rightful place in the convention”
“What the EWers did with the Super Delegates over the summer - the high level contacts and cultivation - helped create the context where nomination and a roll call could not be dismissed, along with the focus on holding pledged delegates accountable to their constituents and urging recognition of her historic candidacy and 18 million voters.”
Doris Meyer: “The EW made it easy for me to contribute more than money to Hillary’s campaign. Even though we ultimately did not succeed, I think that many of us (certainly the women and men with whom I was communicating) felt passionately that we needed to do something constructive to advance her candidacy. The EW gave us that opportunity, and for that I am very grateful”.
Joyce Kusmersik: “I live near Buffalo, New York, and our group of Hillary supporters were so grateful for your daily e-mails offering us encouragement as we all worked so hard to make Hillary our next president. We all watched together with tears in our eyes last week as Senator Clinton delivered her amazing speech. She showed us she’s stronger than all the rest of them to be able to stand up there and face the delegates who treated her so unfairly at what should have been her convention and try to show her support for the most unqualified candidate… It was so difficult to watch as all our hopes were crushed by the powerful DNC leaders who selected their own candidate regardless of how the people voted. With all their cheating and fraud they managed to steal an election. I still don’t understand what they’re thinking or what their hidden agenda could be, but I know they’ve lost the respect of millions of democrats, which is really sad and detrimental to the Party. I guess there’s not much we can do at this point to show them how wrong they were to have wasted precious years in getting our country back to where it should be.
Thank you again for all you’ve done. Please keep us posted on anything we can do to help in the future. I’m really going to miss your daily messages.”
“The EW allowed us to deal with the abuses and distortions of the process by letting the Supers and Pledged Delegates that we were watching and holding them accountable.”
Susan Elin: “We EWers really did influence the convention….I really do believe that little respect for Senator Clinton or President Clinton would have been shown without our tireless work on behalf of history, the feminist movement and our country.”
Aaron Baxter: “We EWs knew that Clinton was far more Electable than BHO, and we know it still to be true…”
Many EWers commented on Hillary’s brilliant, Presidential speech, saying that the issue remained electability and that the convention and the Democratic Party failed us and the country by failing to nominate the candidate who can and should win in November.
4) ARTICLES AND COMMENTARY:
WE ARE THINKING DEMOCRATS - NOT YELLOW DOGS by Bill Boe
Hillary’s speech answers the burning question that has been on the minds of her supporters since that Saturday afternoon when she suspended her candidacy—quo vadis? (i.e. dear girl whither go’est thou?). Are you still the war goddess we saw on the night of the South Dakota victory just waiting for the right opportunity to launch a counteroffensive; or have you abandoned the quest and if so why? The answer is neither. Instead, Hillary has decided to wrap herself in the tattered principles of the party, and the highest ideals of our nation, and to dare the rest of us friend and foe alike to follow her lead. In this safe haven, she finds personal and political salvation. She knows who Obama is and supports him only to that extent.
The more I think about it the more I realize that this is the right answer for Hillary. Consider the matter from her perspective: you have given everything you have to this ship of fools called the Democratic Party–everything. During the past eighteen months you made a clear, cogent and convincing case for your candidacy, your party and this nation. It resonated with the American People. You made them feel that they were a part of something wonderful which was about them and more than them. Big Media dismissed the historic nature of your candidacy but we did not. You re-energized women and caused conservative men to rethink the whole issue of women’s rights at a time when this country needs all heads in the game. You connected with real people and changed the world for the better.
At the same time, what you have done for this country has come at a high personal cost– in terms of heartbreak, betrayal, and disappointment. We admire your commitment to duty and the self discipline it requires. But no human being is immune from such sentiments. Thus, we can only imagine how it broke your heart to see two of your closest friends and allies suffer tragic deaths in the days leading up to the Convention. Or to see your beloved daughter savaged by the likes of David Schuster and his MSNBC cronies.
Likewise, we can only imagine how it felt to see people like Bill Richardson forget all you have done for them and turn their backs on you in your hour of political need—after they promised to support you. Or to be targeted by traitors like Dean, Pelosi and Brazille who conspired with the likes of Karl Rove to undermine your candidacy, and the standing of centrist Democrats in the party. Or insiders like Patty Solis Doyle who betrayed your confidence and made you wonder who you can trust. Finally we understand the bitter disappointment of winning the popular vote only to be cheated out of the nomination by the forces of corruption, and thus deprived of the rightful opportunity to do great things for the country you love.
The Democratic Party has made a fatal mistake in nominating Barack Obama to be President of the United States. Now they will do everything fair and foul to foist that mistake on the American People. They will hack voting machines in key states, they will lie cheat and steal, and they will launch the same misogynistic attacks against Palin that they did against you while Obama maintains plausible deniability. No doubt, you will do what you can to prevent this but it is not in your hands. Rather it is in the hands of people like Axelrod who are devoid of moral scruples and in the primary we saw the lengths to which they would go to disenfranchise voters… and if they fail then they will try to make you a scapegoat.
These people cannot connect with the traditional base of the party and they know it. Therefore, they will cast you into the breach. They will ask you to sell their candidate to the same audiences who previously rejected him in favor of you. Then they will ask you to spearhead the attack against Palin to neutralize the gender issue. I hope you will tell them that Obama and Biden must sell themselves to these audiences—it cannot be done by proxy. Furthermore, I hope you refuse to attack Palin personally and confine the discussion to policy related issues. Everyone knows your candidacy is what made hers possible. And, you know that if you attack her on behalf of Obama then you will diminish the good will you have worked hard to establish with those audiences. Lest we forget, it is Biden’s job as vice presidential nominee to handle any attack on Palin. If he is sane, sensible and sober, then he will keep it to a bare minimum…
We are your supporters and we are thinking Democrats—not yellow dogs. The party of Barack Obama is no place for centrist democrats. When Howard Dean calls the Republican Party the white peoples party, when the Chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party tells black voters to not support white candidates, when Obama himself claims that people who live in small town America are bitter, cling to guns and religion, and when former Democratic Chairman Don Fowler hopes a hurricane will hit New Orleans during the Republican Convention, something is clearly amiss.. But the Obama cancer is metastasizing throughout the party.
VETTING, ANYONE? Biden has deep ties to Rezko accomplice JOSEPH CARI | 30-year friend of VP pick guilty in kickback scheme BY DAVE MCKINNEY /dmckinney@suntimes.com
DENVER — No matter what help Barack Obama might get from Sen. Joseph Biden, his newly named vice presidential running mate won’t give Obama much cover on the Tony Rezko front. Biden has described himself as a 30-year friend of a key figure in the Rezko trial who’s pleaded guilty to a federal extortion charge in Chicago and is awaiting sentencing. When the Delaware senator began contemplating his own 2008 presidential run, he initially was helped by Chicago lawyer Joseph Cari Jr., who also served as Biden’s Midwest field director in his failed 1988 bid for president.
In 2005, Cari admitted to taking part in an $850,000 kickback scheme that prosecutors say was part of a larger political fund-raising operation for Gov. Blagojevich overseen by Rezko, who was convicted in June of wide-ranging corruption involving state deals.
On the day Cari’s name first surfaced in the federal probe of the state Teachers Retirement System, the former finance chairman for the Democratic National Committee and for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee was to have hosted a Biden fund-raiser in Chicago. Cari was a no-show at that July 25, 2005, event. Offering Cari a vote of confidence at the time, Biden said, “All I know is Joe Cari is a friend, and he’s an honorable guy, but I don’t know anything beyond that.”
“Strategy involved G.O.P. crossover voting to take out Clinton, marketing newcomer Obama, stripping battleground delegates, threatening violence at the convention, and (if necessary) declaring martial law to prevent November’s general election. Meanwhile, revelations about the Illinois senator’s ties to Chicago political fixer Antoin Rezko and Iraqi war profiteers are downplayed by the press. For their part, Democratic Party leaders have circumvented the official nominating process, declaring Obama the nominee by breaking their own rules and allowing superdelegates to “vote” before the convention.”
CORRUPTING THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS FOR TEN POINTS Tom in Paine Wed, August 27, 2008
The roll call vote tonight is shaping up to be what the DNC wanted all along — a show as fake and as rigged as a Fifties quiz show, where there will be no chance for an honest vote and no chance or an honest result and where the pre-scripted outcome has been rigged before hand. The question is will Clinton’s delegates go along with the script? No one really knows except the delegates themselves.
The news is that Clinton has agreed to release her delegates prior to the vote but that Maggie Williams, her campaign manager told them they were free to vote their conscience. To show the depths that the Obama campaign, the DNC and the media have sunk, when news of this leaked it was interpreted and characterized by some in the Obama camp and the media as Clinton potentially trying to sabotage Obama. Think about that.The DNC, Obama and the news media have now gotten to a point where someone voting their conscience is considered “sabotage”. Which makes the DNC have a lot more in common with the old soviet Politburo in 1968 than Philadelphia in 1789…
And for those concerned about the corruption of principles by the Democratic Party leadership headed by Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi as well those super delegates whose constituents voted for Clinton but who declared for Obama after taking cash bribes, they can punish those responsible the best way possible — with their vote.
…What these people need to learn is that most Democrats think for themselves and put the country ahead of the party and cant be whipped into line. There will never be unity behind a corrupt system. The fact that Joe Biden said that Obama was ready to be President and lead on day one, shows the depths a politician is willing to sink for the sake of his own ambitions and that of “the party”.
HILLBUZZ writes: There is no longer a 50-state strategy in play. It’s now, apparently, down to a 7 state strategy: 1. Ohio 2. Nevada 3. New Mexico 4. Indiana 5. Iowa 6. Colorado 7. Virginia
Obama has not only dropped the fantasy of turning Georgia blue in the fall, but has also pulled out of NC, Mississippi, Kansas, and other GOP strongholds, too. They’ve backed out of Montana and the Dakotas as well, and have completely written off Florida.
How Obama lost the election By Spengler …By all rights, the Democrats should win this election. They will lose, I predict, because of the flawed character of their candidate http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JI03Aa02.html
Remembering Stephanie Tubbs Jones: Connie Schultz - Plain Dealer Columnist
In all the years I have known Stephanie Tubbs Jones, I have never written about her in this column. She was a public figure, but she was also my friend. That made her off-limits for me as a journalist. But hiding behind professional boundaries now strikes me as not only cruel, but cowardly. Stephanie mattered to all kinds of people, including me.
“Girlfriend,” she’d say, her eyes full of mischief. “What is up with . . .” Loyalty prevents me from completing the sentence. Let’s just say she was full of opinions, and I was only too eager to hear them.
We became friends after I started dating her congressional colleague, Sherrod Brown. She was the star attraction at our wedding reception in 2004, where she called my burly father “baby,” then pulled his face into her bosom and squeezed him like a teddy bear.
He looked like he was about to faint, but for the rest of his life he bragged about the big hug he got the first time he met “that Congresswoman Jones.”
Our friendship was forged by her to-the-bones understanding of what it means to be a woman willing to stick your neck out for your beliefs. I so appreciated never having to explain the punch line. She’d seen it all.
During the Democratic primary season, Stephanie supported Hillary Clinton early and with the kind of enthusiasm and energy that could humble campaigners half her age. She stumped for Clinton across the country, and she never let Barack Obama’s growing momentum whittle away at her loyalty for her friend Hillary.
She paid a price for that, although she never saw it that way. She’d just shake her head at the foolishness of anyone who thought they could bully her into submission, but I worried about the long-term stress of so much hate. There were death threats, and behind-the-scene machinations by some leaders in the black community to intimidate her. Their warning was hardly subtle: Support Obama, or we will defeat you in 2010.
My word is all I’ve got,” she told me during a reception in Washington shortly before Ohio’s primary. “This isn’t about race. It’s about experience, and personal history. I gave my word to Hillary that I would fight for her to the very end, and that’s exactly what I am going to do.”
She did, too, knowing full well that forces were underfoot to make her pay. “No fear, girlfriend,” she told me. “I got no time for fear.”
Stephanie once stood in my kitchen and pointed to a magnet I’d stitched years ago: Say What You Mean, and Mean What You Say. “Got that right,” she said, kissing my cheek and laughing. “And we’re not shutting up anytime soon, are we?”
Stephanie Tubbs Jones has been silenced by the only force that had the right, or the might, to say her time was up. God always has his reasons, but I am at a loss to explain them. This I do know: I am braver because I knew her. And I ain’t shutting up any time soon. Count on it, girlfriend.
Hillary’s Orange Pantsuit POSTED BY PUGET SOUND ISLAND GIRL “Everyone knew when Obama gave Sen. Hillary Clinton the finger. The crowd knew and they loved his big F-You to Hillary. I believe it was the day after she cleaned his clock in their last debate - remember, Obama wouldn’t debate her anymore —
Well, when Hillary gives the finger to Obama, et al. it is done in such a classy way that I am sure the Obots missed the big “F-You!”
I saw the photo of the different colored pantsuits that her aides were holding by the podium… I think there were five to choose from. All I know is that I was hoping she would pick orange. It looked good with the background and I knew what the color orange would signify.
Orange is the symbolic color of the Ukrainian Revolutionaries who protested the “selection” of the President in a rigged election. There was massive corruption, voter intimidation and direct electoral fraud. In the end the Orange Revolution was successful. There was a re-vote that was watched by world observers (that’s what we needed here!) and Yushchenko became the President. I guess only “rigged” elections in foreign countries get world outcry.”
Democrats Need to Shake The “Elitist” Tag Lynn Forester De Rothschild
Despite Mr. Obama’s assertions that his campaign is about “you,” much of his campaign is, in fact, all about him. In the months since the primaries ended, his creation and display of a mock presidential seal with his name on it, his speech at a mass rally at the Prussian Victory Column in Berlin, and his insistence on delivering his acceptance speech in front of fabricated Greek columns in a stadium holding 80,000 chanting supporters have crossed the thin line that separates galvanizing voters and plain old demagoguery. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122109030550621451.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries
Nata Koerber to James Carville: I am one of your biggest fans, and a die-hard Hillary supporter.I was highly offended by David Axelrod’s article in the New York Times suggesting their desire to pimp Hillary to do their dirty work against Palin, while they sneer in the background.
Hence, I must express my dismay with you joining in the piling on the media is doing regarding Gov. Palin. Your face added to the fray gives the impression that Hillary condones the mounting sexist and unsavory narrative being leveled against another woman in government, and makes Hillary look like a hypocrite.
While I understand Hillary must help promote the Democratic ticket, David Axelrod and the Obama Campaign have shown they are well capable of doing their own dirty work, and conducting their own smear campaigns, as demonstrated against Hillary during the primaries.
It is fair to contrast Democratic and Republican policis, but please let Axelrod and Obama dig their own dirt, and wallow in it , if they must. And if push comes to shove, let them make Biden do it. After all, he’s the one they trust.
An Open Letter to Senator Hillary Clinton Marcia A. Pappas, President of NOW NYS August 28, 2008
Dear Senator Clinton:
You gave a fabulous, eloquent, and dynamic speech at the Democratic Convention. It brought tears to the eyes of the millions of women who worked so hard for you. One phrase in your powerhouse delivery rings on in my ears. In your call for us to back Obama you asked: “Were you in this campaign just for me or were you in it for all the people in this country who feel invisible?”
For some people your question was a turning point. I was one of those people. And I need to answer you, not just because you are my wonderful Senator from New York, but because I want to give you the answer I know many are thinking, but lack the forum to express.
… for me, the only answer can be: “Yes, Senator, I was in it for YOU, precisely because YOU were in it for those people who feel invisible, and because YOU were the candidate who saw clearly that over fifty percent of the population was being ignored.”
Who are those people? Why they are the poor, the hungry, the underinsured, i.e. women and their children. YOU are the person who addressed the issues of that fifty-plus percent. YOU are the person who worked her entire life for that fifty-plus percent. YOU are the person who, in the face of rife opposition and ridicule, stood firm in favor of health care for the invisible. YOU are the person with a proven record on Emergency Contraception for all women, because YOU understand that without reproductive freedom, women are held hostage to unwanted pregnancies. And it is YOU who has proven, over and over, that you can deliver for the invisible.
YOU were the candidate whose followers felt they knew so well, they could call her by her first name. Little girls yelled “Hillary” because they knew their future was in your hands. Single mothers saw hope for the future, knowing that their struggle would lessen under your leadership. Older women came out in the wintry Iowa Caucuses to finally vote for the first truly possible woman president. They looked into your heart, into your eyes, into your soul, and saw something different. And those of us, who traveled around the country, working for your campaign, watched you emerge as a new kind of politician. We saw YOU.
Today, your popularity endures, bigger perhaps than even you imagined. Why? Because YOU represent the invisible. YOU persist as our symbol of hope, justice and equality. Please don’t be afraid of it. Please embrace it. YOU inspired us, brought us to tears, made us laugh, and made us finally feel that we were not voting for the lesser of two evils. There are eighteen million people out here who are, like me, not ashamed, like me, to say: “Yes Hillary I was in it for YOU.”
So What Is Fair Game With Sarah Palin? Look at the Rules Hillary Clinton Had to Play By. Anne E. Kornblut Sunday, September 7, 2008; B01
Watching Gov. Sarah Palin explode onto the national scene over the last week got me thinking back to a cold evening earlier this year, just before the New Hampshire primary. I was half-listening to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton speak at an auditorium when a strange noise interrupted the event: two young men shouting, in muffled voices, “Iron my shirt!”
At first, Clinton seemed as taken aback as the rest of the audience, unsure of what was going on. Then she saw the yellow “Iron My Shirt!” sign one of the young men held, figured out what was being shouted and brushed the interruption aside. “Ah, the remnants of sexism, alive and well,” she said, then continued with her remarks. When security officers removed the young men from the audience, I joined several other reporters in following them outside to find out who the hecklers were and what had motivated them to make such a spectacle.
Little did we know that the bizarre incident was a precursor of what was to come — of the debate over sexism, feminism and the role of women in public life that would emerge as one of the defining aspects of the 2008 campaign. My fellow reporters and I never really did resolve the mystery of the “iron my shirt” episode; the two young men refused to give us their names and offered strangely vague reasons for being there. But we were put on notice that night: Gender politics was going to be a part of this race in ways that no one could foresee…
Obama’s woes have nothing to do with ‘lipstick’ Howard Fineman
For two years, Obama played the golf course of presidential politics with the ice-cold self-assuredness of a Tiger Woods. But since securing the Democratic nomination, he’s made a series of strategic errors that could jeopardize his chances in November.
After traveling with him on the trail, watching him in Denver and talking to Democratic operatives and insiders, here’s my list of his errant shots:
Declining to take federal financing for the general election: This mistake is two-pronged. Obama stands accused of flip-flopping on the matter, saying in 2007 that he’d accept those funds and the cash limits that come along with it. In relying solely on private money, Obama appears to have ceded some higher ground to McCain, who, with his public funding, appears slightly more immune to interest groups. On a more practical level, Obama will have to leave the campaign trail more often to headline fundraising events. He’ll likely spend more time than he should in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles and less than he needs in Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Detroit.
Declining McCain’s offer to hold ten town hall debates: When Obama was leading the race in leaps and bounds, he blew off this GOP proposal…
WHERE IS HILLARY WHEN WE NEED HER? Reba Shimansky: One of the many reasons I supported Hillary was because the Clintons are the only democrats who have successfully stood up to the GOP slime machine. Nobody would ever tell Hillary that she was not fighting back hard enough as they have recently done with Obama. With Monday`s stock market crash and the collapse of Lehman Brothers Hillary would have been the perfect candidate. After all she was associated with an administration that brought us the largest peace time expansion of the economy where the stock market tripled. However the theme of the Obama campaign was to reject the 1990s and Bill Clinton`s accomplishments as president.. Obama throughout the primary season trashed Bill Clinton`s record as president while praising Reagan as a transforming president-his role model.
If Hillary were the nominee she would be ahead by double digits.This would not be a close race.
Nothing angers me more the way the Dean/ Pelosi leadership of the democratic party rigged the primaries to ensure an Obama victory. However nothing changes the fact that Obama just like Palin does not have the experience to be president and that he does not transcend race. However Monday`s disaster and the fact that all the major issues favor the Democrats Obama could still win but it would so much easier if Hillary were the nominee.
Legislation Introduced by Senator Hillary Clinton Fights for Pay Equity in the Workplace NOW New York State thanks Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for calling attention to the wage gap’s impact on women in New York and around the country. As was revealed in last week’s US Government Accountability Office report, the Bush Administration has neglected to monitor pay-equity law enforcement and failed to investigate violations.
TAKING ON THE PENTAGON’S HANDLING OF SEXUAL ASSAULT Just this week, Hillary introduced legislation to improve the Pentagon’s handling of sexual assaults on service members. She acted as a result of troubling reports that too many sexual assaults in the military go unreported and the finding by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) which criticized the response by the Department of Defense to sexual assaults.
inspriation…
a reminder…
and simply the best…
AND FINALLY,
Regardless of where your thinking is today, I cringe when a longtime Democrat writes, “The Obama campaign is attacking Sarah Palin in the most sexist of terms as well. How did the Democrats become the party of sexism?”
In this context, WomenCount writes, “we’ll be watching closely to see how she is treated when it comes to gender bias. We need you to be our eyes and ears on the campaign trail. If it happens, WomenCount will be right there. Let us know if you see signs of sexism in this election. Remember, it’s time to stop the silence.
Hallie Travis in response to DNC talking points on how to deal with Palin: “those of us that are HRC people are a bit tired of the constant trashing of another woman. THIS is not the way to win us over or to get to our contacts or our money. Time for a new playbook, rather than the same one used against our candidate”.
Grace O’Rourke: “Obama showed his immaturity & inexperience with his inability to make a simple and obvious VP choice that would have not only benefited this country but made it a certainty to win in November - his ego got in the way…”
AND FINALLY, FINALLY -
Madeleine Albright: “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.”
The rest of the bums gotta go. Must I watch Nancy Pelosi convene another emergency photo op, er meeting,AS IF she can suddenly instill confidence in the U.S. economy? Both parties have failed us.
Listen, I am obviously still PO’d here and I know you all share my pain. Whether you claim a paltry IRA or a multi-gazillion-dollar portfolio like Lady de Rothschild, you have suffered losses this week. I don’t care who you are, no one likes losing money!
So it’s not surprising that Senator Obama is enjoying an unearned bump in the polls today. The psychology among voters suggests that the Dems own the issue of the economy. Yet they are as responsible for the failures on Wall Street (and K Street) as their GOP counterparts.
When a GOP-proposed overhaul of the housing finance industry including Fannie & Freddie was put forth five years ago, and resurrected two years ago by Senator McCain, it was the Dems who blocked it.
In a new campaign ad, McCain attacks Obama for his ties to former Fannie Mae executive Jim Johnson–who headed the company a decade before the current financial crisis.
this from The New York Times - the wisdom of Barney Frank:
“These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis,” said Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ”The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.”
…not to be outdone, Melvin Watt (D) N. Carolina weighs in :
“I don’t see much other than a shell game going on here, moving something from one agency to another and in the process weakening the bargaining power of poorer families and their ability to get affordable housing,” Mr. Watt said.
The delirious dems have been so busy trying to get their messiah elected, they’ve been derelict in their duty to protect the American people.
Indeed, only a Clinton could have cleaned up this mess. And why should Obama benefit from the very record he mocked throughout this elex season. NO DEAL! The only bump Harvard Boy deserves is an "I Coulda Had A Hillary" bump on his forehead. MUST SEE THIS VID!
by the way, when the Obamas felt a "credit crunch" during their own housing crisis, they turned to a convicted felon (Rezko) and an Iraqi arms dealer (Auchi). How’s that for an "ordinary American" bailout?!?
Governor Palin could never be branded a member of the intelligentsia. The Patagonia Princess is not much for cerebral theorizing…and lengthy lectures mos-def ain’t her thang. Nah, she’s just a doer. And what woman can’t relate to that? Do you have the time and bandwidth to contemplate your daily activities with arduous analysis? NO, you JUST DO IT!
This post is my therapy. Wall Street is not my friend and has yet to be my lover. I have watched my portfolio shrink faster than an L-Street Brownie’s you-know-what after a plunge in Dot-Bay on New Year’s Day.
So here’s my question: is it possible to LOATHE Bush and LOVE Palin? Can this woman - who has overnight redefined the term “power chick” - transfer her home-grown ballsiness to the snootiest street on the planet, where her accent and a bad hair day could mistakenly label her a secretary and her college credentials would be impressive enough to deliver a cup of joe, let alone sweeping reform?
What’s that? You’re more comfortable with the more professorial Obama to save your money? Understandable. Historically, America has put a lot of ’stock’ in ivy-league educated boyz. If Obama attended South Side Chicago Community College(not a real school) he’d be lucky to make “courier” for Lehman Brothers. Obviously intelligence counts for A LOT (i mean, look where georgie-boy got us). Bottom line: the bums do need to be thrown out. But am I comfy with another entitled Ivy-Leaguer policing his high net worth friends and donors? It’s a club few penetrate, but we gals have been known to “infiltrate” and gather enough ‘intelligence’ to peel back the curtain. Trust me - they ain’t all that!
Maybe you don’t need an ivy-league library full of financial prowess to snap these wall street boyz into submission. Sounds like what they really need is a little S & M…and soon!
Jeremiah Wright may have disappeared from the headlines, but….wait, what’s that? He’s back? Oops, there goes my next line: "but he hasn’t escaped America’s psyche…" The good reverend isn’t exactly front and center. But he IS seeping thru. An affair with the church lady and now, a regurgitation of "God Damn America!" in a new round of 527 ads. In other words, — drip, drip. Anything more than that would be, well, obvious.
Don’t say you weren’t warned Dems! What’s that? You weren’t reading hireheels? Hmmm, me thinks
you should have - you might have even picked up on the pre-puma seedlings! - here ya go :
March 19, 2008 - Princess’ Very First Blogpost:
Any American with a TV who was alive in 2004,
has a total recall of the moment that Howard Dean’s
campaign imploded. The pitch, the rabid look, the
thrust and, dare I say, the sweat…Pardon, as I
shudder.
It’s the stuff that epic political falls are made of.
From Allen’s macaca to Dean’s scream, the media
and its complicit audience are all too willing to
participate in one of America’s favorite pastimes: icon
toppling. And you needn’t worry, because if you
hadn’t caught it on “LIVE” TV or up close in-person,
it will be shoved in your mouth like a seemingly
endless helping of brussel sprouts, which by the way
are now en vogue.
Now we are right back where we started – with
Howard Dean, a screamer and an impending
implosion. Is there anyone else out there who gets a
sense that Dean just may be enjoying this? Let’s go
a step further: Did he have a hand in handicapping
the primaries to benefit Obama? Is Hillary Clinton
the victim of a vastly dysfunctional far left-wing
conspiracy?
It’s all too delicious to entertain. But in looking at
the power struggle now ensuing within the
Democratic Party, it’s as if each player has a bone to
pick. You’ve got the professed liberal wing
accompanied by moderate has-beens hoping to cash
in on Obama’s rock-star status. But now, the
screams. HAVEN’T THEY LEARNED BY NOW
THAT AMERICA HATES SCREAMERS.
I’ve always believed that Barack Obama was the
dream candidate, for the GOP. A proper vetting
would have revealed “the screamer.” Hillary Clinton
is many things, but she sure ain’t a screamer. She is
the only democratic candidate who is masterful
enough to take on not only the ruthless republicans
but the delirious democrats as well. If the party does
manage to anoint Senator Obama, we can look
forward this fall to heaping portions of brussel
sprouts…I mean screams.
