This week featured the through-the-looking glass moment when Bill Clinton accused Barack Obama of having "played the race card on me," then denied saying it just a few hours later -- even though he'd said it on the radio. I know Toni Morrison called Clinton the first black president, but that's taking things too far. Joining the outrageous parade, John McCain said it's "very clear" that Hamas wants Obama to be president, and that he would be open to "tearing down" New Orleans' Katrina-devastated Lower 9th Ward. Not to be left out, Hillary Clinton vowed to "totally obliterate" Iran if it attacked Israel, and repeatedly claimed to have "received more votes" than "anyone else" -- which is absolutely true... if you "totally obliterate" her pledge to disavow Michigan and Florida.
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Clinton hates Obama because a neophyte black freshman senator is beating The Clintons, and Obama has achieved what The Clintons have not been able to do, energize folks by the millions who register and vote.
"The focus on Clintonian error has obscured a debate that Obama and the former President tried to have. Obama has been arguing the country’s economic troubles are as much Clinton’s fault as Bush’s," Obama [correctly] "blames Clinton deregulation of telecommunications and banking industries, he implicitly accuses Bill Clinton of surrendering to special interests." “The problems we face go beyond any single Administration,” Obama told one labor audience. “For far too long, through both Democratic and Republican Administrations, the system has been rigged against everyday Americans by the lobbyists that Wall Street uses to get its way.”
Clinton hates that Obama has spoken the truth about the Clinton era, but Obama does not care what the Clintons think of him.
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2008/05/05/080505ta_talk_lizza
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-jenkins/clinton-not-exactly-the-g_b_98789.html
It is my expectation that Obama will end the primary season June 3 with a pledged delegate margin of about a hundred votes.
Shortly thereafter, the DNC and Obama's campaign will announce they will recommend that the credentials committee seat the Florida and Michigan delegations selected at their state conventions, giving Clinton a 60 net delegate gain. Obama will continue to lead the total pledged delegate count by about 40 votes.
A few hundred superdelegates will announce their committment to vote for Obama at the convention. Obama will be the presumptive nominee, AND Michigan and Florida will have been counted in the total.
If the situations were reversed, and Clinton was ahead by any number of pledged delegates, she would be the nominee. To do anything else would leave her supporters feeling severely alienated and cheated. The Democrats won't do that to either side. Since Obama will almost certainly be in the lead, he will be the nominee.
I hope that the Democrats can then unite around Obama, our nominee, and win in November.
the whole world will change
every day a new landscape
each night a new dream
in the bare desert
the wind will shift a huge dune
one grain at a time
The election of either would not threaten the control of that clique. Military Imperialism, the Southern Strategy and Trickle-down economics is its policy.
Barack Obama, whose emergence as the Democratic frontrunner was not foreseen, represents a mortal threat to our current policy makers.
Sen. Clinton and Sen. McCain should be seen as partners in the effort to stop him.
I tremble to think what kind of sh*t will rain down from those vertiginous heights (more like depths) should Obama make it into office. Or will they skilfully quash a democratic election ---
AGAIN?
We need to get serious about stopping this "ruling clique." Or have we waited too long?
What a corruptible let-down our Democratic congress has turned out to be. I can almost see it Nancy Pelosi's eyes sometimes..that she has been assimilated..
what the hail to make of it? What to do? All the traditional avenues of redress are not serving us, seems like. Rallies, marches vigils, talks, demonstrations. Anymore, these methods seem to marginalize dissenters. It's as if we need to organize on a much larger scale. If Obama doesn't get assimilated, remains a true "voice for [at least some] change, he has just the right kind of platform, really, for pulling us all together and developing a voice that has influence, clout. I'm on the Obama campaign email list and send money in 10 and 25 dollar increments (being po'), hoping to weave my bit of oomph to strengthen the grassroots. Hoping there is still hope. Real hope, not slogany hope
Isn't it time to put this government back on track and with its disarming of itself. We do not need to protect our boarders with anything other than our good or great will.
It's a reflection of how our culture embraces lies and liars.
Is it absurd to teach your children to tell the truth?
Im no engineer but makes sense to me
In addition, it is not as if nothing would be built there. The property would then be back on the market, available for commercial development. This would be a case of corporations profiting from the poor's misfortune in the extreme.
It was reported on , MSNBC, that the company rebuilding the dams in New Orleans, was using newspaper in some portions, as filler.
Cindy McCain (by way of her father) is connected to abortion terrorists who murdered a journalist. (Yes, it's a real story, not a snark.) Now we know why he gets a free pass by the press!
Deceased journalist Don Bolles' bombed out car on display at Newseum.
How's that for interrupting your Sunday?
John McCain's Ties to Terrorists
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/26/202813/282/311/504123
Matt Welch
http://www.mattwelch.com/archives/2007/12/23-week/
Hotel reclaims name in effort to memorialize journalist's death
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0516ruelas16.html
Sen. McCain Wants To Be President
http://www.usvetdsp.com/story22.htm
"I think it is very important that Iran understands that an attack on Israel is an attack on our strongest ally in the region, one whose security we consider paramount. It would be an act of aggression that I would consider unacceptable, and the United States would take appropriate action."
Senator Obama has also stressed that "they (the Iranians) should also know that I will take no options off the table when it comes to preventing them from using nuclear weapons or obtaining nuclear weapons."
The words "take no options off the table" means that Senator Obama does not rule out using strategic or tactical nuclear weapons to respond to an Iranian attack on Israel.
So, when Senator Clinton says she would "totally obliterate" Iran if it attacks Israel with nuclear weapons; it seems clear that Senator Obama, if he were President, would do exactly the same thing.
I was not aware you were/are an advisor to the Clinton's and/or Obama camp. Did you interpret HRC’s meaning or were you told? Did Obama have a one on one just with you to enlighten us here? Seriously, sometimes people “misspeak” and sometimes they don’t. Let us draw our own conclusions about what was truly said instead of having someone trying to interpret the meaning of what was not said.
Clinton = irresponsible lying loudmouth
Obama = responsible statesman and leader.
The more I hear from people who spew this kind of crap (either with creepy anti-American propaganda in mind or because they actually believe it themselves, the more I fear that the coming election will be another that will be decided by the most stupid and the most gullible elements of our voting population. Karl Rove taught the propagandists EXACTLY what to say to the morons, and the dimwits have not smartened up even one iota since they believed the nefarious swifties and voted for Bush.
And as to the 9th Ward.... do you live in New Orleans? If not, I don't think you'd even begin to understand why lifelong residents would WANT to rebuild. Think about it. If your home is obliterated by some disaster, do you want to rebuild? How about some of those midwestern towns hit by tornadoes? Are they rebuilding? You know... those nice quaint white towns?
Yeah, I thought so.