PurityOfEssence
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Tue Sep-18-07 09:53 AM
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Hillary, the Minnie Pearl of Democratic Politics, hosts a fundraiser for homeland security lobbyists |
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Remember Minnie Pearl? She was the brassy country comedienne whose trademark was wearing tacky hats with the pricetag dangling from them.
This is just another example of wholesale commerce politics of the quid pro quo variety she embraces so heartily. Lunch with Hillary, and for a mere grand, your corporate clients can be jumped to the head of the line for potential future taxpayers' money. Step right up folks, we remember our friends.
Here's a little email from the Edwards campaign:
Dear Friend,
If you want to know why we need change in Washington—and I mean real change, not just trading corporate Republican insiders with corporate Democratic insiders—then just look at Senator Clinton's schedule for today.
Today at noon, Hillary Clinton will be hosting a fundraiser in Washington, D.C. for a select group of lobbyists with an interest in homeland security.
Tickets for the Clinton fundraiser are $1,000 a ticket and $25,000 per bundler. And for that money you get more than a meal—you get to attend one-hour breakout sessions in four different areas of homeland security that will include House Committee Chairs and members of Congress who sit on the very committees that will be voting on homeland security legislation.
The American people know that the system in Washington has become corroded and corrupt—that the nation's capital is awash in campaign money from lobbyists seeking to gain influence to impact legislation.
Yet too many in office have fallen under the spell of campaign money at any cost—and do not see that when they defend the system, they are protecting those that have rigged the game that puts corporate profits ahead of the interests of working Americans.
To truly end that game, it's going to take more than a change of heart from other candidates: it's going to take thousands of committed Americans like you who are willing to take on the powerful interests dollar for dollar to elect a president like John Edwards—who has never taken a dime from any Washington lobbyist, and never will.
You may not have $1,000, but your $25, $50 or $100 contribution today—when combined with the contributions of thousands of others who are replying to this email right now—can send a powerful message to all of Washington that the days of trading special interest contributions for government access are numbered:
www.johnedwards.com/contribute
Today's Clinton fundraising event is a "poster child" for what is wrong with Washington and what should never happen again with a candidate running for the highest office in the land.
That no one in the Clinton campaign—including the candidate—found anything wrong with holding this fundraiser is an indication of just how bad things have gotten in Washington—because there isn't an American outside of Washington who would not be sickened by it.
Just last month, John Edwards asked Senator Clinton to join him in taking the Democratic Party on the first step towards real reform—to become the first party to refuse and reject the money of Washington lobbyists.
Senator Clinton refused to stand up to the lobbyist game. But you can send a message today to all of those in Washington that it's time for all Democrats to stop playing this rigged game by contributing what you can today:
www.johnedwards.com/contribute
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Tue Sep-18-07 10:06 AM
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using a slam as an excuse for sending $$$ to your campaign?
Try using Bush/Cheney's perverted government next time as an excuse rather than a low blow at a fellow democrat.
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Tue Sep-18-07 03:30 PM
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16. John is hoping to make an enemy of Hillary |
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Edited on Tue Sep-18-07 03:40 PM by Lirwin2
He makes more money that way. It worked after all the Ann Coulter attacks, right?
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Tue Sep-18-07 07:48 PM
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27. Are you putting Hillary in the same category as Ann Coulter? |
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Tue Sep-18-07 05:13 PM
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19. How is is a slam if it's true? |
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Tue Sep-18-07 07:47 PM
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26. HA! This fundraiser is the low blow. n/t |
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Tue Sep-18-07 10:07 AM
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2. Just out of curiosity... |
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Which law firm was involved? I have seen several posts about this and yet none say which law firm was involved.
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Tue Sep-18-07 10:11 AM
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3. I just got an invitation to hear John Edwards at a fundraiser for $ 15- this is the way |
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to raise funds and talk to the people instead of the corporate elite.
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Tue Sep-18-07 10:19 AM
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7. FYI, Hillary has been hosting plenty of low-dollar fundraisers, too |
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I went to one a couple of weeks ago that was $20.
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Tue Sep-18-07 10:15 AM
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4. Sorry John, when Hillary said, "I'm in it to win it", you might as well have folded up your tent and |
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went quietly into the night.
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Tellurian
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Tue Sep-18-07 10:17 AM
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5. They went quietly into the night.. |
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playing pettiness cards by candlelight.
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PurityOfEssence
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Tue Sep-18-07 01:08 PM
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14. Funny, that's the same arrogant "privilege of greatness" Clark presumed in '03... |
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I still feel that one of the sources of Clark Supporter/Edwards antipathy comes from the assumption that upon entering, other lowly wretches in direct competition (the other Southern Guy) should bow out out of some kind of bizarre fealty.
She presumes the same thing, and she can be the bare-knuckles "winner" all she wants, but she still has to stand to account for her methods. Maybe courting corporate money on a gluttonous scale will serve her well, but it's also a mirror to her unscrupulousness, her love of wealth and power, and her perfect ease with the Monetocracy that is. Fine. Maybe she's unstoppable, but I don't want to hear any whimpering that it's unfair to call her out on her blatant corruption and collusion, and if people like to adopt the reactionary stance of hectoring rivals as losers, I'll point that out for what it is, too.
She and her lapdog corporatists have swept along many deluded lefties who're dazzled by the moment, many women who can't wait for apparently ANY woman president and a host of others, but she's truly shown her colors as the ruthless attainer she is. Johnny Edwards spent his whole legal career fighting against corporations and championing losing causes, and he won repeatedly. Even if he loses now, anyone who thinks he'll quit is oblivious to human nature.
Having sold her services to so many kleptocratic corporations, is she going to deliver the goods and be their minion, or is she going to welch on the deal? Hopefully, we'll never have to find out.
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Tue Sep-18-07 07:43 PM
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24. What? I guess we should hold elections and just give her the presidency... |
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Tue Sep-18-07 07:51 PM
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Fold up his tent? You must be joking.
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Tue Sep-18-07 10:19 AM
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6. Yep...selling access to power |
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and notice how she takes the party down with her? Good on Edwards for making an issue of this. To be continued.
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Tue Sep-18-07 03:33 PM
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17. "notice how she takes the party down with her?" |
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No, but keep grasping at straws!
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PurityOfEssence
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Wed Sep-19-07 10:55 AM
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31. Yes, yes, the old conservative tactic of calling opponents "desperate" |
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Why don't you just skip to the main course and call us "whiners"?
Walks like a duck, talks like a duck, must actually be a sweet and progressive dove. Tilt tilt tilt.
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Tue Sep-18-07 10:25 AM
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8. Edwards is the answer. |
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Hillary is a total phony Democrat. She is Republican lite and I'm not so sure about the lite.
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Tue Sep-18-07 10:42 AM
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11. The New Yorkers who re-elected Hill to the Senate believe she's a real Democrat. |
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Of course, some here at DU know better than those NY dummies.
New Yorkers:dunce::dunce::dunce:
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Tue Sep-18-07 05:15 PM
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20. No, we believed she was the only dem on the ticket. |
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I was one of those democrats who voted for her only because there was no better choice. I would have loved to have a better choice, and I'll certainly accept one when the primaries come around.
Don't pretend that we all support her for President just because she's our Senator.
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Tue Sep-18-07 05:56 PM
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22. Or call us "dummies".. |
PurityOfEssence
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Wed Sep-19-07 11:02 AM
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32. Somewhat similar to the way I vote for Dianne Feinstein |
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The big difference is that Feinstein is an addle-headed dimwit of a ultra-moderate (think about that concept for a second), while Hillary is a calculating, sharp, self-promoter.
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Wed Sep-19-07 12:10 AM
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30. Edwards is the answer to what? |
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Talk about a phony! :rofl:
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Tue Sep-18-07 10:35 AM
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Tue Sep-18-07 10:41 AM
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FOR SALE? Indeed. :evilgrin:
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Tue Sep-18-07 11:04 AM
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12. I hope so. I loved Minnie Pearl. Strong, intelligent, independent woman fighting |
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to make it in a man's profession without losing her identity. Edwards will go a long way mocking such an icon of rural culture. :sarcasm:
On re-reading, I see it wasn't Edwards who made that comparison. Good. Though the click, click, click of his broken "blame Hillary for my sins" record is only a little better.
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Tue Sep-18-07 12:18 PM
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When I saw this I thought "oh it's on now!"
And it surely is. ;-)
Julie
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Tue Sep-18-07 03:25 PM
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15. Hillary will have to prove to some of us that the big bucks |
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she is receiving from lobbiest and corps. won't give them an audience with her when they want legislation (or write the legislation, like bush allows) and the people that voted for her are ignored. We have been devastated by the "new laws" bush has pushed through and the total catering to the corps. allowing our economy to dive for those in the middle. Will this continue with Hillary?
I want to vote for her if nominated but She worries me.
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Tue Sep-18-07 07:53 PM
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29. How would that be proved? |
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Your worries are justified.
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Tue Sep-18-07 03:35 PM
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18. Hillary's Homeland Security fundraiser is nothing less than "pay to play" in a dept. already under |
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Edited on Tue Sep-18-07 03:57 PM by flpoljunkie
assault for tens of billions of dollars in mismanaged contracts. Link to the invitation to "Washington, D.C. Issue Forum and Luncheon with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton:" http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/070918_Clinton_Invite.pdf
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Tue Sep-18-07 05:42 PM
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21. Obama or Edwards was going to have to start going after Hillary |
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I figured Edwards would do it first, since he is putting so much importance on winning Iowa. The trick is to not go so negative that you turn people off to the campaign, like when Dean and Gephardt dragged each other down last time. Obama probably figures he can win in some of the next primaries, if he doesn't win in Iowa, and will try to avoid picking fights with Hillary.
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Tue Sep-18-07 07:44 PM
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25. Obama is banking on a strong showing in Iowa and a victory in SC |
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Tue Sep-18-07 07:37 PM
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Why does the mention of Homeland Security give me the heebie jeebies?
It's a sad state of affairs when we as citizens, are sold out for a few campaign dollars....Tell me again how I should abandon my principles and support Hillary....(or any of the so-called frontrunners for that matter).
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Wed Sep-19-07 11:07 AM
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33. Committee of Public Safety (Comité de salut public): a new Reign of Error |
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I guess it's the Fatherland under Junior, but it would become the Motherland under Hillary...
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