Clinton Releases New Texas, Ohio Ads

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I'm appalled.

She's certainly been missing in action on the Senate floor herself. Hillary didn't your mother tell you to not throw stones when you live in a glass house.

Hillary was too busy to vote on FISA - too busy campaigning and it wasn't politically expediant for her to do so even though the people who elected her to office expected her to. Now FISA is going to sneak by anyway because of the Dems working behind the scenes for a compromise. where is her voice in this situation?

Enough already. This is not what the Democratic party needs. I supported her until she became a nasty piece of work. Now I cannot stand her, I hope she gets creamed tomorrow.

New flash!! He could hold all the meeting he wants but the fact is NOTHING is going to change in regards to Iraq or Afganstan until Bush and company leaves the White House! His time is better spent trying to get elected so he'll have the power to make changes. Holding meeting is not going to get him elected and sure ain't going to change a thing in Bush's screwed up policies, and if you don't believe that, then why hasn't the congress been able to make any changes?

BO: Uhhh...it was the start of uhhh...the campaign.....uhhh, yeah, that's right, it was.

Give me a break - this from Senator Clinton who could not be bothered to read the Intelligence reports before voting to give Bush the power to go to war in Iraq! Even though Senator Graham, chairman of the Intelligence Committee urged senators to read it and voted against the resolution himself!
This from Senator Clinton who then did it again, voted in 2007 on essentially the same wording in the Lieberman resolution that would authorize Bush to go to war with Iran! Then hoped it failed!!!!
The same Senator Clinton who will not meet with any of the countries causing us concern but is willing to stand back and call them names!
The same Clinton who in the White House blew away any chance of passing Health Care when the Democrats held the house because she did it in secret with the big Health Care Insurance corporations; would not include others, including Democrats who had experience but were not allowed input on her bill; who essentially took a my way or the highway approach! Presto ...no health care.
The same Clinton who will tear apart the Democratic party to further her own ambition with misleading and dishonest ads like this. Is she working for the Republicans, she sure sounds like it!
I want nothing to do with another Bush or another Clinton and I do not care how many misleading, ridiculous ads like this she runs. It only reinforces my belief that if she is the nominee our best chances to take back the White House will be gone, she will lose to Senator McCain, because they have the same voting records on Iraq and Iran but he is perceived to be more trustworthy than she is and less divisive. No more Clintons!


All of the Clinton ads relies on a belief that the American public is stupid or incapable of doing a little research on the internet - like her voting record or her absences or that the sub-committee in question deals with Europe and as such NATO but has nothing to do with Afganistan which is handled by another committee.

The audacity of hypocrisy - www.politicalamnesia.blogspot.com

I like both these ads a hell of a lot better than last week's 3 a.m. ad.

Wake me up when it's over.

We need to make sure that we have our facts straight here. Afghanistan itself is not in Sen. Obama's subcomittee's jurisdictition --it can be addressed only either from the Foreign Relations Committee as a whole, or John Kerry's subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs. Hearings have been held there. By the way, the last I looked it's the President who makes foreign policy, and the ineptness of the current administration speaks for itself. The damage it has done will take some time to fix. Our European partners in NATO aren't going to change their policy until a new President with a more constructive approach is in office. While it certainly would have been to Obama's political advantage to hold hearings, in that they would have helped him combat the narrow nitpicking that goes on in a campaign, it serves the country much better for him to spend his time campaigning for an office where his influence will be much greater. Let's keep our eye on the larger picture folks.

Let me see...number of National Intelligence Estimates read...oh, never mind.

If I start that, there is sure to be a Clinton ad that suggests that reading is far less important than the ability to make uninformed decisions, quickly.

Why didn't Hillary vote in the senate on FISA when she was clearly in D.C. just like Obama and McCain who did go cast their vote? Voted for the war against Iraq and voted for higher credit card interests rates, but HOPED it wouldn't pass. So she does HOPE after all.

FISA UPDATE!

The House leadership is considering splitting up the Senate abomination in order to allow congressmen to trade votes (you vote yes on A, I"ll vote no, you vote no on B, I"ll vote yes) in order to give them cover to pass the entire bill.

Please read:

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03/todays_must_read_287.php

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/03/03/democrats/index.html

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/1/175613/1399/825/467005

A list of Blue Dog Congressmen thought to be sympathetic to the concept of Telecom immunity is at: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2/29/145640/493/398

Then call Pelosi, Hoyer, Conyers, some Blue Dogs and your own congressman and raise holy hell. Tell them that only the RESTORE act is acceptable.

From the article: "Under pressure to end an impasse over espionage legislation, House Democrats are considering a plan to vote on a bill next week that would give the government broad new eavesdropping authorities but strip out a provision that would protect phone companies from lawsuits."

Please act!

That's true he was busy kicking your ass from coast to coast for the Democratic nomination for POTUS. You spent even less time in the Senate but you wasted your sabbatical planning your inauguration. You had only gotten as far as choosing that Tweety Bird yellow jacket to be sworn in with when the sky fell in on you. Now please get out of the way and find another political career or spend the rest of your life answering toy red phones in Chappaqua and muttering unintelligible instructions to your make believe security staff.

Committee Chairman Obama held as many hearing on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe as he did on the Afghanistan subcommittee! Zero. If he had as many brains as a box of rocks Obama would have scheduled a meeting each quarter for both of these committees. Even if they didn't make much or any progress at least they would have tried. Obama had the perfect forum to air and gain publicity for his policy positions on the Afghanistan War and Europe's restricted NATO participation which now seems to think are important (recent speeches and policy papers). When given golden opportunities to make significant accomplishments in the Senate on these very issues, Obama didn't even vote "PRESENT". Republicans don't even have to write the TV ads, just presenting the facts is all that's needed.