black like me

The self-proclaimed ‘first black president’, Bill Clinton is losing his grip on the black vote at a time when it might very well cost him another chance to get into the White House.

Once considered unshakeable, black voters in South Carolina voted overwhelmingly for Obama, leaving Hillary Clinton staggering, yet again. First it was in Iowa, and now in the Deep South, where Hillary’s former president husband was thought to be a favorite son. More important: while Obama gained 80 percent of the black vote, he gained 20 percent of the white vote at a time when many pollsters believed he would only earn 10 percent.

That shift can be attributed to the genuine credibility of Obama’s message of change and the sheer transparency of one of the most basic of Clinton political strategies — playing the race card.

“Blacks have mistaken Clinton’s ease with them as a sign of his good trustworthy character, when in fact Clinton’s racial politics are among the most destructive among recent presidents, precisely because they depend on an exploitative duplicity,” Dyson wrote in 2000. “When it benefits him, Clinton reaches out to blacks; when it hurts him, he withdraws the hand of racial charity.”

Dyson went further, saying Bill Clinton “is willing to turn every speck of black familiarity into a political advantage and hold black folks hostage to a corrupt racial politics that says, in effect: ‘I’m all you got, so take me or lose progress.’”

eager to write Hillary’s political obituary

The New York Post endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination Wednesday, calling him an “untried candidate” but a preferable alternative to the newspaper’s home state senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Clinton and her husband, the former president, “stand for deja vu all over again — a return to the opportunistic, scandal-scarred, morally muddled years of the almost infinitely self-indulgent Clinton co-presidency,” the paper wrote. “Does America really want to go through all that once again? It will — if Senator Clinton becomes president.”

“A return to Senator Clinton’s cattle-futures deal, Travelgate, Whitewater, Filegate, the Lincoln Bedroom Fire Sale, Pardongate — and the inevitable replay of the Monica Mess? No, thank you,” the paper wrote.

Hillary muzzles Bill

Reporters covering Bill Clinton have noticed a much more subdued tone coming from the former president in recent days.

Gone is the Bill Clinton on display in South Carolina who went on the attack against his wife’s chief Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

Gone too are the lengthy freewheeling discussions with voters, the constant references to his White House record, and the flashes of temper directed at the news media.

The Clinton campaign appears to be trying to keep Bill Clinton tightly on message while he campaigns across the country for his wife in the lead up to the crucial Feb. 5 multi-state contests.

Yesterday he only spoke for 31 minutes barely mentioning himself and today he seemed to be doing his best to focus on his wife’s candidacy.

They’re also keeping him as far away from the press as possible. So far away, in fact, some reporters covering the former president are having trouble hearing what he’s saying to supporters as he shakes hands along the rope line.

That’s led some to speculate that Bill Clinton, who was acting as his wife’s chief attack dog — has been muzzled.

I personally would suggest a choke collar for that dog.

what goes around comes around for HillBilly

As the Clinton campaign battles the Obama campaign in the Democratic presidential primaries, more and more observers on the political left are criticizing the Clintons for being dishonest and deceitful — claims that once were lodged mostly by the political right.

Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary in the Bill Clinton administration, has accused his old boss of leading a “smear campaign against Obama that employs some of the worst aspects of the old politics.”

“Bill Clinton’s ill-tempered and ill-founded attacks on Barack Obama are doing no credit to the former president, his legacy, or his wife’s campaign. Nor are they helping the Democratic Party,” Reich wrote on his blog.

Liberal talk-radio host Ed Schultz blasted the former president on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews: “[Clinton] lied 10 years ago about Monica Lewinsky and he’s lying about a very viable candidate and somebody who could really bring change in this country [Sen. Barack Obama]. He is embarrassing poor Democrats.”

Schultz, whose radio program is broadcast from North Dakota, was rated the most influential liberal radio personality in the nation and the fifth most influential host overall by Talkers Magazine.

In a recent conference call with reporters, former Sen. Tom Daschle criticized “President Clinton’s inaccurate descriptions of the differences between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the war, about his inaccurate portrayal of Barack’s comments … he made about Republicans.”

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) griped that Clinton had “shaded things and tried to manipulate the facts in a way that is patently unfair.”

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) warned that Obama’s record was being “swift boated” -unfairly attacked. Kerry did not name the Clintons directly as the perpetrators of the “swift boating,” but the implication was clear.

“The fight is just heating up,” Kerry said. “We won’t let them steal this election with lies and distortions.”

Nicholas von Hoffman, a veteran liberal columnist, wrote in Nation magazine that Hillary Clinton is an “experienced political thug.” He also accused both Clintons of “playing demolition derby politics” and advised Barack Obama to take a word of advice from former president Lyndon Johnson: “[don't get] into a pissing contest with a skunk.”

Von Hoffman also compared the Clintons’ treatment of Obama to the way they tried to discredit Paula Jones. “In the last couple of days, Barack Obama has found out what Paula Jones must have felt like after being worked over by the Clinton organization,” von Hoffman wrote. “Ms. Clinton goes slap, slap, slap across his face as husband Bill lets the Illinois Senator [sic] have it below the belt.”

SC gives Hillary the finger

Hillary can count her South Carolina counties (or rather, county) on one hand. In fact, she only needs one finger.

more votes for Hillary bought with your money

Hillary Clinton, who is aggressively competing for the black vote with her chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama, touted the endorsement of Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, a prominent black leader and pastor of one of the oldest black churches in America, the Abyssinian Baptist Church of Harlem.

Not surprisingly, Hillary secured more than $1 million in federal funding last year for the Harlem-based non-profit group. Clinton backed an $839,000 federal funding earmark to the development corporation’s programs for at-risk youth; $446,500 for the organization to expand youth after-school programs; and $146,000 for the group’s social service work.

Let me point out to the average Hillary supporter here that federal money doesn’t grow on federal trees planted in Washington DC. It comes out of taxpayer pockets. Think of Hillary and her votes next April 15.

slumming with the Clintons

Rightpundits couldn’t explain it any better…

Who knew that the Clintons hang out with shady real estate characters?

Rezko is the real estate developer named by Hillary Clinton as having close ties to Barack Obama. That spectacle of hypocrisy occurred during the Democratic presidential debate in South Carolina, video below. After Obama dropped the well-timed line that Hillary was on the Walmart board of directors while he was fighting for underdogs, Hillary fired back about Obama doing legal work for Tony Rezko the Chicago “slum lord.”

Why Obama did not follow Hillary’s example and lose his billing records is a mystery, but this time honesty was the best policy. Hillary just got her hand caught in a cookie jar full of campaign contributions.

Since the story broke of the Clinton’s ties to Rezko, Hillary has developed a case of amnesia:

“I don’t remember meeting Rezko,” she says sheepishly. “I probably have taken hundreds of thousands of pictures. I don’t know the man. I wouldn’t know him if he walked in the door.”

Find Hillary’s explanation on the Today Show here where you can note the giant American flag in her small office space with assorted other props.

Sorry Hillary, a picture speaks a thousand words. While you may not remember him, nobody gets their picture taken with Bill and Hillary Clinton without doing them favors. So what did Tony Rezko do for the Clintons to deserve this photo?

even the blind are starting to see

Lately, though, the Clintons have really begun to wear on me. First, it was Hillary playing games with Martin Luther King’s memory. That Sean Wilentz is sticking up for her interpretation only deepens my skepticism about Hillary’s intentions. And not because Wilentz is a bad historian.* But anyone who claims he’s not a proxy for the Clintons** hasn’t been paying attention. Next, it was Bill dragging himself through the muck and then popping back up with an expression of righteous outrage on his face when anyone would dare to question his methods. Finally, we have this: Hillary trying to reinstate the delegates from Michigan and Florida.

Perhaps a little research into Hillary’s past on the part of the blogger can move him in the direction of real change and honesty in government.

the 8th ring of hell belongs to Hillary

Despite Hillary Clinton’s surprising win in the New Hampshire primary, discontent remains the order of the day in “Hillaryland,” according to an article in the liberal New Republic.

“For all of Team Hillary’s gifts, it is not known as a happy group,” Michelle Cottle writes in the magazine.

“‘I’ve never seen a campaign where everyone feels so bad about themselves,’ says one campaign staffer, echoing others.”

That feeling was palpable the morning after Clinton’s defeat in the Iowa caucuses, when a “sad and sorry Team Hillary” gathered for a conference call with the candidate, Cottle relates.

After Hillary came on the line, message guru Mandy Grunwald tried to spur conversation by asking staffers if they had any thoughts. No one spoke. After a pregnant pause, Hillary began talking for a few minutes about the campaign. Again, silence.

An angry Hillary finally snarled: “This has been very helpful talking to myself” — and hung up.

Read the rest here.

hillary and bill are losing it

Peggy Noonan makes it simple even for Clinton Supporters and other idiots to see who they are backing… and who is walking away.

There are many serious and thoughtful liberals and Democrats who support Mr. Obama and John Edwards, and who are seeing Mr. Clinton in a new way and saying so. Here is William Greider in The Nation, the venerable left-liberal magazine. The Clintons are “high minded” on the surface but “smarmily duplicitous underneath, meanwhile jabbing hard at the groin area. They are a slippery pair and come as a package. The nation is at fair risk of getting them back in the White House for four years.”

That, again, is from one of the premier liberal journals in the United States. It is exactly what conservatives have been saying for a decade. This may mark a certain coming together of the thoughtful on both sides. The Clintons, uniters at last.

Bill has officially worn out his welcome

Even democrats are now demanding what I’ve been wanting for years…

Hey Bill, STFU!

opposite day

Generally, there is one way to find out the truth in anything Bill or Hillary Clinton say. Simply reverse the situation. Compare THIS to THIS.

For those who aren’t in a clicking mood, here is the second link…

David Plouffe, in a succinct statement appended to a released quotation from his boss, Barack Obama, said the Obama campaign was investigating more than 200 reporters of irregularities in Nevada.

“We currently have reports of over 200 separate incidents of trouble at caucus sites, including doors being closed up to thirty minutes early, registration forms running out so people were turned away, and ID being requested and checked in a non-uniform fashion. This is in addition to the Clinton campaign’s efforts to confuse voters and call into question the at-large caucus sites which clearly had an affect on turnout at these locations. These kinds of Clinton campaign tactics were part of an entire week’s worth of false, divisive, attacks designed to mislead caucus-goers and discredit the caucus itself.”

Plouffe asks Nevadans to call a toll-free number, (866) 675-2008, and report any other problems.

Obama, for his part, said he “ran an honest, uplifting campaign in Nevada that focused on the real problems Americans are facing, a campaign that appealed to people’s hopes instead of their fears.”

Michelle Obama is the AntiHillary

Barack Obama’s wife Michelle launched a scorching attack on her husband’s chief Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, saying she represents “the same old thing over and over again.”

Speaking at a rally in Las Vegas 48 hours before the Nevada caucuses, Michelle Obama — a lawyer and Harvard graduate — did not mention Hillary by name, The Telegraph reported. But no one in the crowd doubted that Clinton was her target as she said:

“I get confused when people say there are a lot of choices in this race. There are so many more experienced candidates. My response is, no, that’s not true. You’ve got two choices in this race.

“You’ve got the same old thing over and over again that hasn’t worked for regular folks in my lifetime. And then we have Barack Obama.”

must… shut… down… union… votes

Bill Clinton, the felon who admitted to lying to a grand jury under oath, now tells us that he (and apparently only he) has witnessed widespread voter intimidation in Nevada. How ironic that this otherwise unseen intimidation that he is so upset about, happens in places that he and Hillary tried to shut down as polling places just a week ago.

Come on, Bill… let’s see your next trick for denying workers of a union that has publicly supported Obama the opportunity to vote.

fool me once, shame on me…

… fool me twice, shame on you

Since Hillary’s crocodile tears worked magic for her in New Hampshire, her campaign has dropped the ‘change’ slogon (which was really helping Obama more than Hillary anyway) and is now embraced good old fashioned fake emotion. She’s dredging up past issues that she was previously trying to bury so deep that it required a backhoe.

Hillary Clinton said in an soul baring interview aired Friday she never doubted her husband’s Bill Clinton’s love for her, despite the former president’s infidelity with a White House intern.

Exactly a decade after the Monica Lewinsky affair was first reported, the former first lady candidly revealed how she worked through the inner torment it caused, as she battles Barack Obama for the Democratic White House nomination.

“I really had to dig down deep and think hard about what was right for me, what was right for my family,” Clinton said on the Tyra Banks talk show on Fox television.

“I never doubted Bill’s love for me, ever, and I never doubted my faith and my commitment to our daughter and our extended family.

Yes, her new found sensitive side is a drastic change over the personality that her aides and coworkers have known for so long… here is an example of the not so compassionate Hillary of yesteryear.

how about another glass of koolaid?

It’s amusing, yet disturbing, to read other blogs and see what people think of hillary rodham.. take this one, for example..

Hillary would have been an incredibly strong candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2000 even if Monicagate had never happened because she built a solid record of accomplishment over her entire adult life. As First Lady, she led the health care battle in 1993, traveled the world as an advocate for women’s rights, and helped her husband become the first Democrat since FDR to win two terms in the White House.

First, there is the notion that hillary actually accomplished anything with her fiasco known as HillaryCare. That was as successful as 80 percent of the dot com startups during Bill’s administration. A flash in the pan and out of business before the letterhead was delivered from the print shop. Hell, if that’s all it takes to be considered a success, I ought to rewrite my resume to remind people that I was CEO of a lemonade stand when I was 7. The fact that the stand closed after 40 minutes with zero profits because Sesame Street was about to start wouldn’t make any difference to that voter/employer.

And she travelled the world as an advocate of women’s rights? I guess the fact that she was travelling abroad might account for why she produced nothing in the USA to help women. Sure, she was active with certain women… she made damn sure Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Sally Perdue, Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick would have no credibility, career or quality of life in order to keep Bill out of harms way. And why not. After all, each rape and sexual assault story was clearly generated by that vast right wing conspiracy that nobody had heard about until Hillary spoke of it.

But it is true that Hillary did everything in her power to enable her rapist and philandering husband to retain his power, even though it went against everything she said in her earlier years about Richard Nixon, a man who committed lesser crimes than her husband, who is now a convicted felon.

However, I will agree with one thing the original blogger said in regards to Chris Matthews’s criticism of Hillary..

So Chris, do your goddamn homework and stop lying about Hillary’s record.

I also wish Chris Matthews would do his homework and stop lying about Hillary’s record. The truth would make every sane person wonder why she isn’t already in prison.

that’s gotta hurt

Two sources familiar with the senior Vermont senator’s plans say Patrick Leahy will be endorsing Obama in an 11:00 a.m. conference call today.

Leahy’s spokesman, David Carle, wouldn’t confirm the senator’s plans, but did suggest a reporter pay attention to the call, which the Obama campaign is touting as a “major endorsement.”

If Leahy endorses as expected, it would be the latest in a string of Senate validations for Obama, and to the extent that endorsements play a role in voters’ decisions, Leahy’s — along with those of Sen. John F. Kerry and others — could counterbalance charges that the Illinois senator lacks readiness or establishment credibility. Like Kerry, he’s also a liberal stalwart and a veteran of battles with the Bush administration.

UPDATE: “We need a president who can reintroduce America to the world — and actually reintroduce America to ourselves,” Leahy said in the conference call, saying Obama carried the “hope” to end the war in Iraq and to bring “health care for all.”

He also compared the decision to support Obama to supporting John F. Kennedy for president.

a bumpersticker that kinda sucks

chelsea is just as ‘accessible’ as her mom

“We are just trying to make my mom’s campaign more accessible to people,” said Chelsea Clinton ‘01 on Sunday night to a standing-room-only crowd in the Pi Phi lounge. The Stanford alumna and daughter of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Ms. Clinton arrived at Stanford yesterday for a one-day swing through campus in order to talk to young women, a key target demographic of the Clinton campaign. But the limited invitation policy of the event at Pi Phi, which was only open to members of the Inter-Sorority-Council, left a bad taste in the mouths of the many Clinton fans and political junkies across campus, many of whom would have stayed home from Lake Tahoe ski trips for a chance to attend.

What transpired on Sunday night, however, created the impression that Hillary Clinton’s campaign, which has been accused of belonging to a establishment network and resisting grassroots political change, was something less than accessible. Chelsea’s mum appearance sponsored by the sorority system, a naturally exclusive institution that accepts and rejects candidates based on notoriously subjective qualifications, only perpetuates the major criticisms of the Clinton campaign.

Certainly there are many sorority girls at Stanford who are interested in politics and benefited from hearing Chelsea speak — many sorority girls were denied entry into the event at Pi Phi. An open event, however, where perhaps a lottery system could have limited attendance but allowed access, could have drummed up more interest and positive energy for the Hillary campaign. Instead, on Sunday Chelsea sought “accessibility” for her mother’s campaign at a private event that, ten years ago, then-student Chelsea Clinton would not have been invited to attend.

and Hillary thought the DNC owned the blacks (votes, that is)

Michigan’s primary win is more of a loss for the the queen of diversity

Hillary Clinton faced a grim statistic in Michigan Tuesday night, despite her primary “win” there: results revealed that she may have reason to worry about her grasp on the African-American vote.

The Michigan primary vote was essentially meaningless: the national party stripped the state of its delegates because it held its contest too early in the election season, and Clinton was the only major Democratic contender whose name appeared on the ballot.

Even so, roughly 70 percent of Michigan’s African-American voters — a group that makes up a quarter of Michigan’s Democratic electorate — did not cast their votes for Clinton, choosing the “uncommitted” option instead. Yet these voters weren’t uncommitted at all: in fact, according to CNN exit polls, they overwhelmingly favored Barack Obama, whose name did not appear on the ballot.

Had Obama’s name been on the Michigan ballot, CNN exit polls show that he would have won an overwhelming 73 percent of the African-American vote, in contrast to 22 percent who say they would have voted for Clinton under those circumstances. If South Carolina’s large African-American community votes as Michigan’s, Hillary may not be feeling much ‘southern hospitality’ in that state.

vote early and use Diebold Voting Machines

It might come as a shock to some people — the same people who believe in the Easter Bunny, but who don’t believe in Easter — but some people in our world think that Hillary’s win in New Hampshire was rigged. Any day now we’ll start hearing chants for a recount and voters being disenfranchised. Oh wait, those voters got their wish this time, so they’ll be the first to stomp back any dissenters.

The Europeans can clearly see what the majority of Americans refuse to see ~ we still have a flawed election vote counting system and Hillary Clinton’s ” miraculous ” New Hampshire primary victory, where 81% of the vote was tabulated by a highly suspect electronic vote counting system with no oversight and audit, is solid evidence of it.

Also, election Officials Confirm that Employees from LHS Associates, Diebold’s Sole Programmer, Vendor, and Service Provider in NH, Were Allowed to Access Vulnerable Optical-Scan Systems Throughout Election Day Diebold Voting Machine Failures Found Across State During New Hampshire Primary.

And according to THIS source….

- Two hand count towns reported “zero” votes for candidate Ron Paul to the media, even though they did have votes for him. The town of Sutton reported zero, but had 31 votes; the town of Greenville reported zero, but had 25 votes. The two towns had misreported results affecting exactly the same candidate in exactly the same way.

- Results in many locations arrived up to four hours late on Election Night, surprisingly, from machine-counted locations — not hand count locations;

- A single private entity had control over coding for every memory card in New Hampshire. According to the contract for LHS Associates, this firm requires a right of access to any voting machine at any time, services the machines, maintains the machines and handles repairs, replacements and troubleshooting on Election Day.

- Ken Hajjar, a key employee of this sole source private entity, LHS Associates, has a criminal record for narcotics trafficking. The state of New Hampshire knew of this conviction but approved the contractor anyway. According to a complaint filed with the New Hampshire Attorney General, Hajjar had called the Dan Pierce radio show in 1999 and threatened to rig an election.

the ultimate vote pandering

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton officially rescinded her bid for president at an Iowa campaign appearance Saturday.

“Just two months ago, I promised that I’d listen to every voice through my town hall meetings, web chats, and trips to communities across the country,” said Clinton, whose opponents have accused her of being out of touch with average voters. “America, you spoke clearly and with conviction—and I listened. And so I say to you today: Let the conversation end.”

Polls showed that immediately following her speech, Clinton’s approval numbers skyrocketed all across the South, wide swaths of the Midwest, scattered pockets of the Northeast, and in California, Alaska, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Hawaii, and Ohio.

famous last words

An airplane was about to crash, and there were 4 passengers left, but only 3 parachutes.

The first passenger, George Bush said “I am the president of the United States, and I have a great responsibility, being the leader of nearly 300 million people, and a superpower, etc.” So he takes the first parachute, and jumps out of the plane.

The second passenger, Hillary Clinton, said “I am the future first female President of the United States, and I am the smartest woman in the world.” So she takes the third parachute and exits the plane.

The third passenger, Pope John Paul the second, says to the fourth passenger, a 10-year old boy scout “I am old and frail and I don’t have many years left, so as a Christian gesture and good deed, I will sacrifice my life and let you take the last parachute.”

The boy scout said “It’s okay! There’s a parachute left for you. The ‘world’s smartest woman’ took my backpack.”

“I promise that my promises are worthless”

In an attempt to get an early start on breaking her campaign promises, Hillary is now breaking her promises about campaigning.

there’s no crying in baseball!

No Crying!

Watch the video in its entirety to see how New Hampshire SHOULD HAVE reacted to Hillary’s crocodile tears.

it ain’t kosher

Bob Johnson joins HAM^TM (the Hillary Attack Machine).

Hillary Clinton, who had told Tim Russert on “Meet the Press” earlier on Sunday morning that if someone on her staff engaged in personal attacks against Barack Obama that person “would be gone,” failed to take action or to distance herself from the founder of BET when he launched such an attack.

Campaigning with Sen. Clinton in South Carolina yesterday, Bob Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Network, raised the specter of Barack Obama’s admitted drug use as a teenager but the senator neglected to repudiate the remark when she spoke on the same platform with Johnson or afterwards as she campaigned throughout the day.

Johnson went over the top when he said “And to me, as an African-American, I am frankly insulted that the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Hillary and Bill Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues since Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood — and I won’t say what he was doing, but he said it in the book — when they have been involved.”

crack just happens

Barack Obama’s campaign has dismissed as not believable a prominent Hillary Rodham Clinton backer’s “tortured explanation” for seeming to inject Obama’s youthful drug use into the 2008 presidential campaign, and called it “troubling” that Clinton has not done more to distance herself from the remark.

Former President Bill Clinton was drawn into the controversy on Monday in appearances on black radio talk shows. He told one host, Roland Martin, that impolitic remarks by supporters sometimes “just happen” in politics and said, “I think it’s important not to overreact to them.”

Obama has admitted in his memoir to using drugs as a young man, and Hillary Clinton has said personal attacks using that information are off-limits. Except they keep coming, in what are now at least three direct or indirect drug references from top Clinton surrogates in recent weeks.

I find it particularly noteworthy that Bill Clinton shows a great deal of restraint and patience when fielding questions raised about his own staff, and that of his wife. However, his view that it’s ‘just politics’ is forgotten when he and his own are the brunt of the rumors. The Bill Clinton temper tantrums are well known in media circles.

damage report, Mr. Scott!

Once again on the ropes for past comments, Hillary is trying to rewrite her history. This time involving comments she made downplaying Martin Luther King’s role in civil rights history.

It must be frustrating for her to not have her usual allies, the media, go along with her plan they way they always have in the past.

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested Sunday that Barack Obama’s campaign had injected racial tension into the presidential contest, saying he had distorted for political gain her comments about Martin Luther King’s role in the civil rights movement.

“This is an unfortunate story line the Obama campaign has pushed very successfully,” the former first lady said in a spirited appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”"I don’t think this campaign is about gender, and I sure hope it’s not about race.”

Both New York Sen. Clinton and her husband, the former president, have engaged in damage control this week after black leaders criticized their comments shortly before the New Hampshire primary last Tuesday.

The senator was quoted as saying King’s dream of racial equality was realized only when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, while Bill Clinton said Illinois Sen. Obama was telling a “fairy tale” about his opposition to the Iraq war.

hillary’s housekeeping

“I just put it in a little box. That’s how I deal with it. I put it in a box in my mind and I just don’t think about it.” When asked by Camille Paglia, “People are alleging that the president is a sex addict — is this true?”

It’s interesting to see where hillary’s priorities are. It’s perfectly fine with her that her husband raped at least one woman (Juanita Broaddrick) and has cheated on her countless times, as long as Hillary can tuck those facts away and not be bothered with them.

forget what I said… listen to me now

During her Sunday morning appearance on Meet the Press, Hillary had this to say to Tim Russert. “I want to see my government be more transparent,” she said.

However, during her previous residency of the White House, she said, “I’m not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.” when commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents.

the victim party

Ex-President Bill Clinton is expressing frustration with the backlash in the black community over his claim in New Hampshire that the press has coddled Barack Obama.

“This is what happens any time anyone tries to question a statement or a position of Senator Obama,” Clinton says in an interview now airing on Sirius satellite radio. “The response is, ‘You’re attacking me personally,’ and that relieves him of the obligation to address the substance.”

This, in addition to earlier statements where he expressed concern that the ‘boys were ganging up on Hillary’ during the debates. Perhaps this is a new campaign strategy. Bill and Hill are going after the liberal votes by demanding restitution for their victim status.

which candidate best represents you?

Find out HERE.

By the way, are you aware that you do NOT have a constitutional right to vote for president? And no, the 14th Amendment does not guarantee any citizen the right to vote. It establishes that all citizens be treated equally.. thus, we could all be denied the opportunity to vote if the government decides to do so.

Another little fact that most american citizens are surprisingly ignorant of… the United States of America is not a democracy. It is a republic. Feel free to research both facts yourself.

pop quiz!

Q. Bill and Hillary are in a boat that capsizes out at sea. Who gets saved?

A. The United States of America.

not playing in theaters near you

As another example of the Feingold/McCain Campaign Finance “Reform” Act, free speech is being denied for a group wishing to offer information to voters.

where’s the love for the feminazi?

Camille Paglia seems to think that Hillary has an issue with men.

Hillary’s feckless, loutish brothers (who are kept at arm’s length by her operation) took the brunt of Hugh Rodham’s abuse in their genteel but claustrophobic home. Hillary is the barracuda who fought for dominance at their expense. Flashes of that ruthless old family drama have come out repeatedly in this campaign, as when Hillary could barely conceal her sneers at her fellow debaters onstage — the wimpy, cringing brothers at the dinner table.

Hillary’s willingness to tolerate Bill’s compulsive philandering is a function of her general contempt for men. She distrusts them and feels morally superior to them. Following the pattern of her long-suffering mother, she thinks it is her mission to endure every insult and personal degradation for a higher cause — which, unlike her self-sacrificing mother, she identifies with her near-messianic personal ambition.

It’s no coincidence that Hillary’s staff has always consisted mostly of adoring women, with nerdy or geeky guys forming an adjunct brain trust. Hillary’s rumored hostility to uniformed military men and some Secret Service agents early in the first Clinton presidency probably belongs to this pattern. And let’s not forget Hillary, the governor’s wife, pulling out a book and rudely reading in the bleachers during University of Arkansas football games back in Little Rock.

Hillary’s disdain for masculinity fits right into the classic feminazi package, which is why Hillary acts on Gloria Steinem like catnip. Steinem’s fawning, gaseous New York Times op-ed about her pal Hillary this week speaks volumes about the snobby clubbiness and reactionary sentimentality of the fossilized feminist establishment, which has blessedly fallen off the cultural map in the 21st century. History will judge Steinem and company very severely for their ethically obtuse indifference to the stream of working-class women and female subordinates whom Bill Clinton sexually harassed and abused, enabled by look-the-other-way and trash-the-victims Hillary.

Read it all.

it just occurred to me

We’ve got Brangelina and TomKat, and then there was Bennifer. Why has the press not come up with the obvious moniker for a couple from Arkansas with the names Hillary and Bill?

HillBilly

Bill to the rescue

Fed up with the ‘unbiased’ media giving favorable press to Obama instead of his wife, the impeached ex-president comes to Hilly’s rescue. The Moderate Voice explains all.

Some campaigns switch into crisis mode.

Some campaigns slip into offensive mode.

The Clinton campaign has seemed to slip into victim mode.

The press has indeed piled-on Hillary Clinton — but they will usually do that when a candidate stumbles. Each news outlet looks at what the other is doing and tries to match it or do a better job with a new twist. It’s nothing insidious; it’s the way the news business works.

It’s a shocking development, but the Clinton campaign is increasingly resembling a Dr. Phil program with a little Jerry Springer mixed in. It’s shocking because, for politicos of both parties, the Clinton camp has remained the gold standard for political campaigns in terms of professionalism, organization and effectiveness.

Now what do you see?

Hillary Clinton finds it so hard — and tears up (an event greatly exaggerated by the mainstream and new media). And Bill Clinton sucking up most of the oxygen and media attention that his wife DESPERATELY needs, to turn the campaign into centering on how his wife is being treated and how much he clearly dislikes Barack Obama. It is now literally not a matter of Hillary Clinton versus Barack Obama but Hillary and Bill Clinton against Barack Obama.

a rose by any other name

I had to link to this post this because of the title, A Pope and a Hope! Huckleberry Hound and Obamarama met Andy Warhol!, but it would be worth reading regardless of the title. Here’s a sample…

John Edwards came in second, and acted like he won. Hey, it worked for Bill Clinton in New Hampshire in 1992. Hillary Clinton came in third, and somehow says the same words as John Edwards, only without the human emotion. Don’t get me wrong, Edwards is a snake oil salesman. Yet he knows how to sell the stuff well. Hillary confuses loudness with emotion, and the moniker “Shrillary” is not without merit.

Hillary Clinton: An Unfair Advantage

Another woman’s view of Hillary Clinton’s exploitation of gender… see Hillary Unmasked for more gems.

I’m not sure how many people are going to say this after all of the headlines today but….how many other presidential candidates would be welcome on The View tomorrow? Probably none. Voting for Hillary because she is a woman is about as stupid as watching CNN to get an unbiased view of the news.

She was on the woman’s show to try and woo homemakers and those more feminine voters (who probably can’t think for themselves) while trying to portray a less masculine image. None of the other presidential candidates, certainly none of the conservative candidates, would be welcome on the show to pathetically pander as Hillary has done.

Should we give her “quota” points simply because she is a female? HELL NO!!! She has done nothing to promote women’s rights other than encouraging manipulation, perjury and murder to conceal a dissatisfied husband’s infidelity.

Once again…thanks, but no thanks. We would find a better president in the rat that scratches around in my garage than in Hillary Clinton.

tears of a clown

We all know the story… the attractive woman who gets pulled over by a police officer for going 50mph in a 35mph zone. As soon as she sees the lights in her rearview mirror, she readies herself for the act. As the officer approaches her car, she thinks of the worst thing that has, or could ever, happen to her. Perhaps the death of a loved one.. or the cancellation of her credit card (yet another stereotype). And by the time the officer knocks on her window, the sniffling begins and the eyes are teary. In the story, the ruggedly handsome officer can barely look her in the eye as he fumbles for an apology for pulling her over. The woman is given a verbal warning and then speeds off to meet her girlfriends for the latte she is now 30 minutes, rather than 20, late for.

Yes, that’s a stereotype. Perhaps it happens, but I doubt many women are inspired by that scenario. And police officers become more jaded every time they hear that sort of tale, and are less likely to show compassion even when it’s warranted.

So why does Hillary, who is making speeches regularly on the theme of ‘breaking the gender barrier’, try to pull off a stunt that is so demeaning to women everywhere?

Does she think that resorting to tears will make us think “now there is a woman who should be leading the world’s only superpower” after losing one primary?

sell Hillary short

Being no stranger to selling short, Hillary watched her own value drop faster than she could say Norman Hsu. But unlike previous situations where Hillary’s pocketbook always seemed to get harder to close after market fluctuations, this is a case where it could cost her millions. That is, if you consider the benefits and lucrative deals that would be attached to becoming the first female president.

Currently, Hillary Rodham’s market value is at 17 cents on the dollar at Rasmussen Trades. Hell, even old man Potter was dealing at 50 cents on the dollar in Bedford Falls.

But there are many who think fortunes are still to be made between now and January 8th, when it is predicted that Hillary takes third place a second time (can you say that three times fast?).

Maybe since Hillary thinks we should do nothing for our own retirement plans, that selling her short is our path to retirement. Thanks for taking one (big one) for the team, Hillary!

what’s Hillary’s exit strategy?

From the Drudge Report

Facing a double-digit defeat in New Hampshire, a sudden collapse in national polls and an expected fund-raising drought, Senator Hillary Clinton is preparing for a tough decision: Does she get out of the race? And when?!

“She can’t take multiple double-digit losses in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada,” laments one top campaign insider to the DRUDGE REPORT. “If she gets too badly embarrassed, it will really harm her. She doesn’t want the Clinton brand to be damaged with back-to-back-to-back defeats.”

Meanwhile, Democrat hopeful John Edwards has confided to senior staff that he is staying in the race because Hillary “could soon be out.”

“Her money is going to dry up,” Edwards confided, a top source said Monday morning.

Key players in Clinton’s inner circle are said to be split. James Carville is urging her to fight it out through at least February and Super Tuesday, where she has a shot at thwarting Barack Obama in a big state.

“She did not work this hard to get out after one state! All this talk is nonsense,” said one top adviser.

But others close to the former first lady now see no possible road to victory, sources claim.

deadbeat dad – it’s all in the family

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s youngest sibling is a deadbeat dad who owes tens of thousands of dollars in child support to his politically connected ex, The Post has learned.
In a disclosure that could prove embarrassing for his sister, Anthony Rodham has stiffed his former wife, Nicole Boxer, out of $75,000 in child support, as well as $55,000 in alimony, a source close to the case said.

Including interest and various fees and expenses, the presidential candidate’s brother now owes Boxer – the daughter of Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) – more than $158,000, the source said.

Barbara Boxer has not endorsed a candidate in the race.

Thank you, President Clinton

as found on various internet sites… author unknown

Dear Mr. Ex President Clinton:

I recently saw a bumper sticker that said, “Thank me, I voted for Clinton-Gore.” So, I sat down and reflected on that, and I am sending my “Thank you” for what you have done, specifically:

1. Thank you for introducing us to Jennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, Dolly Kyle Browning, Kathleen Willey, and Juanita Broderick. Did I leave anyone out?

2. Thank you for teaching my 8-year-old about oral sex. I had really planned to wait until he was a little older to discuss it with him, but now he knows more about it than I did as a senior in college.

3. Thank you for showing us that sexual harassment in the work place (especially the White House) and on the job is OK, and all you have to know is what the meaning of “it” is. It really is great to know that certain sexual acts are not sex, and one person may have sex while the other one does not have sex.

4. Thank you for reintroducing the concept of impeachment to a new generation and demonstrating that the ridiculous plot of the movie “Wag the Dog” could be plausible after all.

5. Thanks for making Jimmy Carter look competent, Gerald Ford look graceful, Richard Nixon look honest, Lyndon Johnson look truthful, and John Kennedy look moral.

6. Thank you for the 73 House and Senate witnesses who have pled the 5th Amendment and 17 witnesses who have fled the country to avoid testifying about Democratic campaign fund raising.

7. Thank you, for the 19 charges, 8 convictions, and 4 imprisonment’s from the Whitewater “mess” and the 55 criminal charges and 32 criminal convictions (so far) in the other “Clinton” scandals.

8. Thanks also for reducing our military by half, “gutting” much of our foreign policy, and flying all over the world on “vacations” carefully disguised as necessary trips.

9 Thank you, also, for “finding” millions of dollars (I really didn’t need it in the first place, and I can’t think of a more deserving group of recipients for my hard-earned tax dollars) for all of your globe-trotting. I understand you, the family and your cronies have logged in more time aboard Air Force One than any other administration.

10. Now that you’ve left the White House, thanks for the 140 pardons of convicted felons and indicted felons-in-exile. We will love to have them rejoin society. (Not to mention the scores you pardoned while Governor of Arkansas)

11. Thanks also for removing the White House silverware. I’m sure that Laura Bush didn’t like the pattern anyway. Also, enjoy the housewarming gifts you’ve received from your “friends.”

12. Thanks to you and your staff in the West Wing of the White House for vandalizing and destroying government property on the way out. I also appreciate removing all of that excess weight (China, silverware, linen, towels, ash trays, soap, pens, magnetic compass, flight manuals, etc.) out of Air Force 1. The weight savings means burning less fuel, thus less tax dollars spent on jet fuel. Thank you!

13. And finally, please ensure that Hillary enjoys the $8 million dollar advance for her “tell-all” book and you, Bill, the $10 million advance for your memoirs. Who says crime doesn’t pay!

14. The last and most important point – thank you for forcing Israel to let Mohammed Atta go free. Terrorist pilot Mohammed Atta blew up a bus in Israel in 1986. The Israelis captured, tried and imprisoned him. As part of the Oslo agreement with the Palestinians in 1993, Israel had to agree to release so-called “political prisoners”. However, the Israelis would not release any with blood on their hands. The American President at the time, Bill Clinton, and his Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, “insisted” that all prisoners be released. Thus Mohammed Atta was freed and eventually thanked the US by flying an airplane into Tower One of the World Trade Center. This was reported by many of the American TV networks at the time that the terrorists were first identified. It was censored in the US from all later reports. Why shouldn’t Americans know the real truth?

What a guy!!

And finally, thank you for reminding me of the things to consider now that Hillary is running for president.

SINCERELY,
A US Citizen

Hilly’s foreign policy experience

According to Hillary, while Bill met with the “various factions” of Irish politics, Hillary met with women leaders of the peace movement. Rather than discuss the difficulties of the peace process, Hillary focused on a teapot used by the women:

“They poured tea from ordinary stainless steel teapots, and when I remarked how well they kept the tea warm, Joyce insisted that I take a pot to remember them by. I used that dented teapot every day in our small family kitchen in the White House…”

If Hilly was so fond of that dented teapot, why didn’t she take that instead of the White House silverware?

Clintons and old rockers

The year was 1992, and Bill Clinton had just received the Democratic nomination. The crowd was energized as Fleetwood Mac’s music flooded the convention center urging America, “Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow.”

Fleetwood Mac would roll over in their musical graves if they could hear how the Hillary campaign has gotten into a time warp, obsessing with the 90s while a new political generation demands a focus on tomorrow.

Suddenly, the Clintons have become old before our eyes. They are, as if by magic, now part of the past, no longer inevitable in the future. It took Obama and Huckabee to put them there, but they have become the couple that can’t stop thinking about yesterday.

New Hampshire isn’t buying whatever Hillary is selling

Hillary’s supporters are shopping around.

Hillary has 35 years of ‘change’ under her belt?

yada yada yada

must be the middle digit

On ABC this weekend she said: “When I started here, I was in single digits. I mean, nobody expected me to be doing as well as I’m doing in Iowa.”

Nobody, meaning, almost everybody, unfortunately. (The campaign can’t point us to a poll where she was ever in single digits.

boooo who?

Lukewarm off her third place finish in Iowa, Hillary struck east toward New Hampshire to see if she could get some momentum behind her tepid campaign. Apparently she has her work cut out for her.

If the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s 100 Club dinner is any bell weather [sic] – Barack Obama will handily win here. When Obama, the dinner’s last speaker, took the stage the crowd surged forward chanting “O-bam-a” and “Fired Up, Ready to Go!” So many people pressed toward the stage that an announcer asked people to “please take their seats for safety concerns.”

By comparison Hillary was twice booed. The first time was when she said she has always and will continue to work for “change for you. The audience, particularly from Obama supporters (they were waving Obama signs) let out a noise that sounded like a thousand people collectively groaning. The second time came a few minutes later when Clinton said: “The there are two big questions for voters in New Hampshire. One is: who will be ready to lead from day one? The second,” and here Clinton was forced to pause as boos from the crowd mixed with cheers from her own supporters. “Is who can we nominate who will go the distance against the Republicans?”

screw the vast right wing Yale democrats!

Poor Hillary.. she can’t even poll well at her own alma mater.

Like hubby Bill, she didn’t seem to leave a positive legacy.

The Illinois Democrat [Obama Barack] was the top choice of 26.4 percent of undergraduates surveyed in a recent Yale Daily News poll, giving him more than twice the support of New York Senator Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 — the only Yale graduate in the field — who registered 12.1 percent

the sun was in my eyes!

The polling hasn’t even started yet, and Hillary is already lining up her excuses for not winning in Iowa.

“I was shocked when I learned Iowa and Mississippi have never elected a woman governor, senator or member of Congress,” Hillary told Des Moines Register columnist David Yepsen in October.

“There has got to be something at work here.”

Clinton Hand + Cookie Jar

Once again, allegations are turning into subpeonas for Hillary Clinton.

The top donor to Sen. Hillary Clinton’s 2000 campaign has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission asking the agency to re-open an investigation into illegal contributions and to probe alleged continuing violations of the law by the Democratic presidential candidate.

The complaint by business mogul Peter Franklin Paul also asserts the Clinton campaign’s 2005 conciliation agreement with the FEC – in which a finance aide was fined $35,000 – effectively let Clinton and other top aides off the hook.