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Posted at 8:55am on Mar. 27, 2008 The Donner Party Saga: Day 83

By streiff

This courtesy of the Washington Post's One Man Fifth Column™ Dana Milbank:

The latest hostile fire directed at Clinton began at precisely 11:55 a.m. yesterday, in an e-mail from Barack Obama's press secretary, Bill Burton.

To: Interested Parties

From: Obama Campaign

Re: Clinton's Exaggerations: The Domestic Record

Date: March 26, 2008.

"Unfortunately, Clinton's fantastic invention of a sniper-raked landing is only one in a growing list of instances in which she has exaggerated her role as First Lady," the memo said. "Clinton has credited herself with 'creating the State Children's Health Insurance Program' and 'helping to pass' the Family and Medical Leave Act. Like the Tuzla story, both of these claims turn out to false" -- the Obama side fired so hastily it forgot the word "be" -- "raising serious questions not just about the rationale for Senator Clinton's campaign, but about her willingness to adhere to the truth."

More popcorn? No thanks, one more bowl and I think I'll explode.

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Posted at 3:13pm on Mar. 21, 2008 Sing it, Sister!

it is selma all over again

By streiff

It looks like the high minded campaign between Hillary! and Barry Obama has come to an end.

In a campaign that seems destined to ensure that no one of either party supports either of these candidates, Obama and Clinton have started acting like... like losers.

Now the Clinton campaign sends this. More below the fold.

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Posted at 2:45pm on Mar. 13, 2008 Re: White people.

By Dan McLaughlin

How much do you think that cost Obama to cast and shoot?

Posted at 8:32am on Mar. 9, 2008 Hillary's Al Gore Problem

it's the internet all over again

By streiff

One of the traits of Dem politicians with a tissue thin resume is the willingness to lie about what they have accomplished and the expectation that we will believe it.

Now Nobel laureate and former Northern Ireland First Minister David Trimble has called Hillary out on her grotesque inflation of her role in negotiating the Good Friday Agreement.

Central to Mrs Clinton’s claim of an important Northern Ireland role is a meeting she attended in Belfast in with a group of women from cross-community groups. "I actually went to Northern Ireland more than my husband did," she said in Nashua, New Hampshire on January 6th.

"I remember a meeting that I pulled together in Belfast, in the town hall there, bringing together for the first time Catholics and Protestants from both traditions, having them sitting a room where they had never been before with each other because they don’t go to school together, they don’t live together and it was only in large measure because I really asked them to come that they were there.

"And I wasn’t sure it was going to be very successful and finally a Catholic woman on one side of the table said, ’You know, every time my husband leaves for work in the morning I worry he won’t come home at night.

"And then a Protestant woman on the other side said, ’Every time my son tries to go out at night I worry he won’t come home again’. And suddenly instead of seeing each other as caricatures and stereotypes they saw each other as human beings and the slow, hard work of peace-making could move forward."

There is no record of a meeting at Belfast City Hall, though Mrs Clinton attended a ceremony there when her husband turned on the Christmas tree lights in November 1995.

To which Lord Trimble says: "I don’t know there was much she did apart from accompanying Bill [Clinton] going around[.]"

In other words, she has the same experience negotiating the GFA as she has answering the "3 AM" phone calls. None.

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Posted at 10:48am on Mar. 7, 2008 Vote Obama and Die

the politics of personal beclowning

By streiff

That, says the Washington Post's Fifth Column of One™ Dana Milbank, is the theme of the new and reinvigorated Hillary! campaign.

On the call with Wolfson and Lewis, Jane Hamsher from the liberal blog Firedoglake pointed out that Clinton's phone-ringing ad was "reinforcing the be-afraid-all-the-time Republican campaign theme." And if that's the argument, she added, "isn't John McCain ultimately the winner?"

Whether he is or not, Clinton looked as if she'd borrowed a page from the Bush White House at her Westin meeting. Against a backdrop of six U.S. flags and several of the flag officers who support her, she raised the specter of terrorism and suggested that her opponent could endanger American lives.

She began with a statement about Thursday's explosion in Times Square. This, she said, served as a reminder that "it is imperative to remain vigilant as we continue to face threats at home and abroad."

That led, in a seamless but unseemly way, to Obama. "Often, when lives are on the line and a decision must be made, experience counts for everything," she said. "In this election, we need a nominee who can pass the commander-in-chief test . . . and keep our families safe."

It was a variation on the Republican theme in recent elections that Democrats mocked as "vote Democratic and die." This time, it's "vote Obama and die."

"It is imperative that each of us be able to demonstrate that we can cross the commander-in-chief threshold," she said. "I believe that I have done that, certainly Senator McCain has done that, and you'll have to ask Senator Obama with respect to his candidacy."

I've watched a few presidential primaries play out, but I have to say this is the first one in which I've heard one candidate unfavorably compare their primary opponent's qualifications to those of their general election opponent. It is a counterintuitive strategy, at least, on the part of Hillary!. Her experience at handling those 3am calls would seem to be no more profound than those of any of the other slew of women who found themselves in Bill Clinton's bed at that hour of the morning. Personally I don't find Hillary!'s résumé to be any more stellar than that of Barack Obama and in the area of national security the salient difference between the two is that Obama has studiously chosen to avoid difficult votes (or even holding difficult hearings before his subcommittee) while Hillary!'s votes all reek of cynical opportunism. I'm not convinced that either upon receiving that 3am call will do much more than roll over and show their belly.

Again, Dana Milbank:

"Senator, there's been a lot of talk about the 3 a.m. phone calls," one of the television reporters accurately pointed out. "Certainly your husband must have gotten some in his presidency. Can you talk about your role?"

"Obviously," the candidate answered, "I was there for a lot of phone calls at different times of the day and night, and I have a very clear idea of what it takes to be prepared and ready to not only answer the phone but then to make the decisions."

Sorry to break in on this party line, but here's an important announcement for Democrats: You are doing John McCain's work for him. While the presumptive Republican nominee rests, the two remaining Democratic candidates are working as hard as they can to make each other appear unfit to lead.

Bingo. Pass the popcorn, and while you're up can you get me another Red Stripe?

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Posted at 7:27pm on Feb. 20, 2008 I Am A Knuckle Dragging Neo-Confederate Racist Pig

By haystack

And a bigot to boot...apparently...but I am against Barack Obama for President (and Hillary Clinton too), and it's not because of their "Black-ness" or "Female-ness"...it's because they are WRONG - wrong for America, and wrong for the people they claim to fight for.

In my intentionally inflammatory rant about Frank Rich, I decided to throw a few race cards on parallel with those of Mr. Rich's level of ridiculousness when he suggested that the GOP had been reduced to nothing more than the "Grand Old White Party." I had a problem with the idea that a white man who came of age in Washington DC BEFORE desegregation and busing, and had moved to Harvard right BEFORE the MLK assassination and the ensuing riots and carnage wrought by ALL colors on our fair Nation's Capitol back in April 1968, would presume to suggest that being a Republican was somehow (by nuance, implication, and innuendo) the same as being a white supremacist male or some such nonsense. Worse, he presumes some expertise in the area of Black-White relations from the vantage point of a political party instead of one who lived with or grew up with black people (or any OTHER minority for that matter). Yeah, I ticked quite a few people off when I spoke even a little bit about any "positives" that might be gleaned from the pre-Civil war South...and whoo-boy did I fire up some folks.

GOOD.

Let's consider the Democrats regarding several pertinent areas of their elitist supremacy and minority exploitation, m'kay? I'm feeling the need for a little more hate to be thrown my way.

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Posted at 1:20pm on Feb. 15, 2008 Clinton favors employing wage theft to enforce "universal, voluntary" health care program

Even at this age, mutual exclusivity seems to be an ungraspable concept

By Jeff Emanuel

Update: The plot thickens, as the indispensible Grace-Marie Turner reminds us:

Hillary Clinton criticized an individual mandate in 1994, saying, "The individual mandate...makes it very difficult to determine and monitor who is in the system and who is out. It would require tracking individuals as they move in and out of jobs, as they move in and out of the insurance market. It would require, in our view, the IRS to engage in an enormous administrative oversight of our health care system."

***

Senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has made “health care for all Americans” a major plank in her policy platform since the beginning of her run for President last year – though, as those who are familiar with the junior Senator from New York and former First Lady’s history will recall, radical changes to America’s health care system have been a cause dear to Mrs. Clinton’s heart for the better part of the last two decades at least.

The program Mrs. Clinton is currently touting as her solution to the problems in America’s health care system – particularly its high number of uninsured citizens – is officially called the “American Health Choices Plan,” though it is less-than-affectionately referred to by some as “HillaryCare II” in reference to her failed attempt to push a government health care system on the nation during the first years of her husband’s presidency.

Under this program, the government alone, with no input from the free market, is responsible for the regulation and management of health care. Oxymoronically, the plan whose formal title includes the term “choice” is built around what is known as an “individual mandate” – a government requirement that all Americans, regardless of income or choice, possess at least a (government-established) minimal level of health insurance.

Read on.

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Posted at 5:27pm on Jan. 7, 2008 Bob Schrum: Hillary Is A Loser

By streiff

If anyone can recognize a loser it is Bob Schrum. So we need to pay attention when he says Hillary is one.

The Clinton industry, encrusted with the beneficiaries and acolytes of the first and probably only Clinton presidency, has turned Hillary into a product whose sell-by date has passed. In a year of change, she has been positioned as the establishment candidate. The relentless appeal to "experience" reinforces that - and too often elides into a dubious attempt to take credit for some of Bill's accomplishments.

Posted at 10:53pm on Nov. 29, 2007 Hillary! To Cure Aids With Love

Well, not really, but the double intendre oozes

By haystack

I almost let THIS go by the board, but I couldn't help myself...it's a disease you know, and I am seeking a support group.

Money and government alone cannot solve the problems, she said. AIDS "is a problem of our common humanity, and we are called to respond with love, with mercy and with urgency," she said.

Well, 'pieces' of this are true enough [the money and Government parts], but really..."love?" And, to sling biblical references around (well, ok-she WAS at a church) and suggest that she'd "been raised to understand the power and purpose of prayer" while quickly contradicting her message by rattling off how much MORE money her Government would spend just got me to giggling...which is it babycakes? Prayer, love, or greenbacks? Inquiring minds really DO want to know.

I was reminded of an old Sam Kinnison act where he suggested the answer to hunger in Africa was NOT to send them food, but to send them U-Hauls so they could...I don't know...MOVE to where the food was?

Anyway, it continued:

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