OBAMA DAILY NEWS Tuesday March-25-2008

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WELCOME TO THE OBAMA DAILY NEWS THREAD

Tuesday March-25-2008

You voted for it Hillary, So!!!?

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1. More on Tuzla (More Lies)

More lies.

More on Tuzla

03.24.08 --Josh Marshall TPM

As the Clinton campaign now concedes, Sen. Clinton's claims about running from their military aircraft to evade sniper fire are not borne out by the video of the events in question. Now still others have come forward to dispute her account. And there's even more. Sen. Clinton has said on a number of occasions that she was "the first, you know, high- profile American to go into Bosnia after the peace accords were signed because we wanted to show that the United States was 100 percent behind the agreement."

But this also seems to incorrect.

According to some quick research we did, it turns out that Madeleine Albright, then UN Ambassador, then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs John Shalikashvili, then-Sec Def Bill Perry, various members of Congress and President Clinton himself had all visited Tuzla a few months earlier.

I think the real story here though is the big picture. People have faulty memories. Things get dramatized in people's recollections.....
But this is an anecdote that's become something close to a staple of her foreign policy experience resume.
And it's pretty clearly false. And it comes in the context of a whole slew of exaggerations -- some minor, some major --
that she's used to puff up her Commander-in-Chief resume.

...more at the link

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2. Clinton's damage control machine spins into action

Clinton's damage control machine spins into action(Update 5: CBS video)

by JedReport Mon Mar 24, 2008

Hillary Clinton's bizarre -- and false --
sniper fire claim is starting to cause her campaign problems.

Howard Wolfson, Clinton's PR flack, now says she "misspoke"
when claiming to have been under enemy sniper fire in Tuzla, Bosnia.

Bluntly: that's bull. Misspeaking is the act of saying something other than what you meant.

The truth is that the Clinton campaign is completely freaked out that this
will sink her campaign.

JedReport's diary :: ::

As ABC News senior national correspondent Claire Shipman said on This Week with George Stephanopolous, Clinton's sniper claim claim will "get her into trouble."
...::
On at least two different occasions -- one of them after being pressed by a reporter on her recollection, given Sinbad's different point of view -- Clinton deliberately said that there was no greeting ceremony due to the dangerous conditions and that she was rushed from the plane to waiting vehicles.

Only after video emerged disproving her assertions and threatening a political firestorm
did she start trying to pass her false claim off as simply "misspeaking."

see the video and rest of article at the link

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3. Kicking for Bosnia Story

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4. One Year Ago: Obama proposed the summit Clinton is offering today

One Year Ago: Obama proposed the summit Clinton is offering today

by Sam Graham-FelsenMonday, March 24, 2008

Almost one year ago to the day, Barack Obama sent a letter
(below) to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson
urging them to convene a homeownership preservation summit.
Today, Clinton is proposing essentially the same thing.

One key difference, however, is the diversity and representation that Obama called for –
not just some of the same people who helped to create these problems or have a direct
financial industry stake in the outcome: “I urge you immediately to convene a homeownership
preservation summit with leading mortgage lenders, investors, loan servicing organizations,
consumer advocates, federal regulators and housing-related agencies to assess options for
private sector responses to the challenge.”

Here's the letter Senator Obama wrote to Bernake...

March 22, 2007
The Honorable Ben Bernanke
Chairman
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
20th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20551

The Honorable Henry Paulson
Secretary
U.S. Department of Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, D.C. 20220


Dear Chairman Bernanke and Secretary Paulson,

There is grave concern in low-income communities about a potential coming wave of foreclosures.
Because regulators are partly responsible for creating the environment that is leading to rising rates
of home foreclosure in the subprime mortgage market, I urge you immediately to convene a
homeownership preservation summit with leading mortgage lenders, investors, loan servicing organizations,
consumer advocates, federal regulators and housing-related agencies to assess options for
private sector responses to the challenge.

We cannot sit on the sidelines while increasing numbers of American families face the risk of
losing their homes. And while neither the government nor the private sector acting alone is
capable of quickly balancing the important interests in widespread access to credit and
responsible lending, both must act and act quickly....

more at the link

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5. CBS News reporter with Hillary on Bosnia trip exposes the fraud.

01:56
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x109860

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6. Clinton ‘Misspoke’ About Bosnia Trip, Campaign Says

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5234480

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7. Clinton proposes Greenspan lead foreclosure group

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3240340&mesg_id=3240340

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8. One-degree of separation: Obama superdelegate Kwame Kilpatrick indicted

Monday, March 24, 2008

Only a few short days ago, on March 21, 2008, RezkoWatch updated an article about the April 3, 2004, reception dinner held at the Four Seasons hotel in Chicago in honor of Iraqi-British billionaire businessman Nadhmi Auchi. The function, arranged by indicted political fixer Antoin "Tony" Rezko, who, at the time, was in hopes of attracting Auchi to invest in a 62-acre Chicago development, was hosted by Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.

Kilpatrick was present at the Chicago event. However, according to Nadhmi Auchi's General Mediterranean Holding website, the above photograph was taken at a reception for Nadhmi Auchi (left rear) that was hosted by Kwame Kilpatrick (right rear).

On March 24, 2008, the Detroit Free Press reported that "Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy charged Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and former chief of staff Christine Beatty today with perjury, obstruction, conspiracy and misconduct."

Kilpatrick is an uncommitted Michigan superdelegate. Like Sen. Barack Obama, his photograph recently graced the cover of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ magazine, The Trumpet. (h/t Gateway Pundit)

http://rezkowatch.blogspot.com/

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13. This is an open forum. If you are looking for high fives only, I suggest

you post in the Obama supporters forum.

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38. Your title said it was the Obama daily news thread.

I don't think it's within the rules to call someone a troll, but I'll go check now. I posted something substantive and it concerns Obama.

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21. It's not working; it's comical! nt

[grantcart]

24. no she voted for it to protect her right flank when she ran for president

it is one long string of calculation

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12. anamandujano - THERE ARE 4,000 DEAD THANKS TO HILLARY

YOU OWN THAT.

HILLARY CLINTON IS FAKE FAKE FAKE.

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14. Wright, she was president.

Obama keeps voting to fund.

edit to add--You need to donate in order to post in that forum, so I guess you're stuck here for now.

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19. You are SO FUNNY! Now Kilpatrick is also Obama's problem? Bwhahaha!

Who's next? I just can't wait! :evilgrin:

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9. "Voices carry" "There’s no reason to believe that Rev. Wright’s...

(((((((((((((((((((( The RBC Update: "Voices carry" ))))))))))))))))))))

2008.03.24 17:13:20


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Bill Parent: "There’s no reason to believe that Rev. Wright’s
indignation is central to Obama’s politics or that it would
guide his policies in a profound way. But Obama is, after all,
African American. Historical anger is part of the intellectual,
religious and political waters he learned to swim in, and it is
a part of the American story that has never been directly
represented in the White House before."

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http://WWW.samefacts.com/archives/barack_obama_/2008/03/voices_carry.php

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10. Here are some questions that would make a great thread

1) How much does Hillary have set aside for the GE?
What can she do with that money after the election?
If she were the Vice President would she have to use that GE money for the ticket?


2) Anyway to guage what her fund raising is, what her expenses are and when she is likely to run out of cash?

- wonder what the effect of Bosnia and Judas are going to have on her fund raising - cannot be good

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15. Effort by rich Clinton supporters to finance Michigan re-vote actually undermined the re-vote

Not only is Hillary Clinton FAKE FAKE FAKE - she lacks ethics and she lies.

Effort by rich Clinton supporters to finance Michigan re-vote actually undermined the re-vote

by Joe Sudbay (DC) • 3/23/2008

I didn't get a chance to write about this last week, but as we continue to hear complaining
about the fact that Michigan isn't having another vote, it's important.

There was just something incredibly unseemly about a group of Clinton supporters offering to
raise the money for the Michigan primary re-vote. It literally reeked of trying to buy an election
("Dear Michigan, your vote finally counts because Hillary paid for your election").
I mean, seriously, that sounded like something you'd expect in a third-world dictatorship,
not the United States. So for all of Clinton's feigned outrage over no progress in Michigan,
the fault lies with her and her wealthy backers:

Michigan officials bear considerable responsibility
for the mess they have helped to create, and a revote is one way out, though that looks
increasingly unlikely given the political stalemate. But Rendell and Corzine took matters into
their own hands without thinking through the consequences. Their letter to Granholm creates
the impression that a Michigan do-over would be Clinton-financed contest designed to save her candidacy.

The integrity of the Democratic nomination contest already is in question -- remember,
they are supposedly still counting votes in the Texas caucuses that were held on March 4 --
and this only adds to public cynicism.

It does look like Clinton's big dollar funders were going to buy the re-vote.
It just looks that way. You have to admit, when Clinton's supporters look like they're trying to buy a new election for her, it really does diminish all that moral outrage she's been spewing about holding fair elections.

more at the link

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16. I read they were waiting for Obama's input before writing legislation

and, as luck would have it, he dragged his feet and ran down the clock.

That's how a "winner" does business.

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23. Link? And why should he cooperate? She's flip-flopped on this, too. nt

[anamandujano]

44. The point is he was afraid of a re-vote. He knew he couldn't win.

She has always wanted the voters voices to be heard.

[babylonsister]

46. Your word doesn't cut it because you are partisan. LINK? nt

[PerfectSage]

17. Kickity Kickity Kick & Rec

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22. THERE IS NO GOOD NEWS FOR HILLARY, HENCE THE TROLLS COME HERE

CAUSE THERE'S NOTHING TO PUT ON A "HILLARY DAILY NEWS" EXCEPT
EXPLANATIONS FOR LIES.

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25. Hardball, What does Hillary want? (Its not good for DEMs)

Hardball, What does Hillary want?

by Blue Texas Mon Mar 24, 2008

Tonight on Hardball, Chris Mathews with chart, explains the Clinton strategy,
and all commentators agreed it was #4

Blue Texas's diary :: ::
The Chart was:
#1 Clinton wins nomination and Presidency
#2 Clinton wins nomination and loses Presidency
#3 Obama wins Nomination and Wins Presidency
#4 Obama wins Nomination and loses Presidency

Eugene Robinson, Nora O'Donnell, Chuck Todd While saying the Hillary's first choice would be #1
and that it's a very long shot, all agreed it was #4 Hillary would prefer Obama lose to McCain!
As they said it would set up well for her to run in 2012.. So Everyone Knows, EVERYBODY KNOWS,
that she's trying to sabotage the General Election run of Senator Barack Obama.
All the corespondents acknowledged that Hillary and McCain are coordinating their attacks on Obama..

It makes me sick that the Clintons are still in our party, we should have sided with the Republicans in the impeachment trial and booted them out for good, let them rot like Richard Nixon in the history books as a footnote of how to destroy your Presidency and the Party,, Clintons Presidency survived but the party did't and they are now in the process of further tearing the party apart,, How my fellow Democrats don't see that they are a cancer in our midst is beyond me! When the video of this segment appears on the Hardball website I'll post it.

link

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26. Carville calls Richardson's endorsement an "act of betrayal."

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1936

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27. It's over. Clinton can't win. Let's move on.

97 recs • by kpete
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5238201

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28. "Obama is going to Idaho - what a fool"

74 recs • by grantcart
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5228569

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29. Sundering the party (Clinton)

Sundering the party

by kos Mon Mar 24, 2008
Josh is right, of course.

The system is based on pledged delegates and super-delegates. Period.
There's a set of rules everyone agreed on. The wisdom of those rules is irrelevant at this point. The Clinton campaign is entitled to do whatever it wants to get superdelegates to come over to her side to even out the pledged delegate deficit. My take is that whatever the arguments, the superdelegates aren't going to go against a clear pledged delegate leader.
And I think they'd be extremely ill-advised to do so. But the superdelegates do have this power under the rules. But these constant efforts to say the rules aren't fair are just silly, and truth be told I think they're more undermining of the Clinton campaign than they realize.

The Clinton campaign has realized that the rules don't work in their favor, that if we follow the rules as agreed upon before the first caucus vote was cast in Iowa, that they have no chance of winning. Part of me is bitter about this, since I've been railing against our stupid primary system (and the caucuses) for years, but that never mattered to the Clinton camp at the time. It only mattered after she lost the election based on the rules. The media narrative is finally starting to reflect this reality.

Again, as I noted before, the only way Clinton can win this race is with a coup by superdelegate,
which would necessarily create civil war in our party.

And of course, Hillary Clinton doesn't care.

That's the bottom line. All the other noise in this contest are just ex post facto justifications
for that coup attempt.

link

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30. Glowing op-ed for Obama by Pittsburgh's own Teresa Heinz

Glowing op-ed for Obama by Pittsburgh's own Teresa Heinz

Kerry by beachmom Mon Mar 24, 2008

This is a great news day in Pennsylvania for Obama. Teresa Heinz Kerry,
best known (in addition to being married to John Kerry) for running the Heinz Family Philanthropies
in Pittsburgh, PA, has come out in her own right to support Barack Obama.
Teresa has been fairly quiet about the 2008 presidential primaries, so it is actually a
big deal that she decided to pen an endorsement in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
I think this is a signficant endorsement for the Pittsburgh area and the Pennsylvania primary,
especially when you see what she said!

beachmom's diary :: ::

Before I get into the particulars of this stunning opinion piece, I want to say a few words
about Teresa as it relates to her hometown of Pittsburgh.
It is true that she was incessantly attacked by the Right Wing in 2004 to drive up
her negatives nationally; however, the impression of her by the people who know her
best is completely different. I'll let Howard Fineman, a Pittsburgh native himself,
do the rest of the talking:

Well, I'm a Teresa Heinz Kerry fan, if for no other reason than she explained that we're both from Pittsburgh.
And the thing is, after she married John Kerry, and after the focus of their lives became Washington, D.C., Teresa,
who had been married to the leading figure in the Heinz family, could have picked up and left Pittsburgh,
both literally and in terms of her charitable work. One of the great things about her, and one of the
reasons people back in my hometown like her so much is that she stayed committed to the city.
She's the most important philanthropist in the city, and has been for a number of years,
supporting the hospital system, medical care, and so forth. She's a stand-up gal. She really is.
You know, people like her back in Pittsburgh, and she's very real.

With that said, let's get to her endorsement of Barack Obama:

Sunday Forum: It's Pennsylvania's turn - vote for Obama

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Post-Gazette

Election days are always special to me. I grew up in a land where there were no election days.

The Mozambique of my childhood was governed by a right-wing dictatorship in far-away Portugal.
My father, a wise and good man, was 71 years old when he voted for the first time.
I never cast a ballot until I became a citizen of the United States.
But when I did, it was for a young man who spent years teaching me about the needs
of Pennsylvania's working families and the good our government can do for them --
my late husband, Sen. John Heinz. He helped me learn how precious a right suffrage is --
as a weapon against tyranny; as an instrument of hope, progress and change.

That is why, this year, I will cast my vote in the April 22 Pennsylvania primary for
Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois.

more at the link

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31. Signs your campaign is in trouble (Seen at LaGuardia Airport)

Signs your campaign is in trouble #217..snapshot from the fire sale
table at a LaGuardia Airport gift shop. Apparently retailers haven't heard
the electoral votes theory.

In this case, a picture really is worth a 1,000 words

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32. McCain, Clinton - Just the ticket

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33. "A place of moral leadership"

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2008.03.24 21:11:59


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Jonathan Alter thinks that Barack Obama could help the nation
"rearrange our mental furniture."

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http://WWW.samefacts.com/archives/barack_obama_/2008/03/a_place_of_moral_leadership.php

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34. Holy Bosnia, Batman! Will Hillary’s Downfall Be … That She WAS Greeted with Flowers?

Holy Bosnia, Batman! Will Hillary’s Downfall Be …
That She WAS Greeted with Flowers?

By Don Davis The Satirical Political Report



Greeting ceremony, Tuzla military airport, Bosnia, March 25, 1996.

“SOME DAY, LITTLE GIRL, I’LL BE ABLE TO TELL EVERYONE IN THE UNITED
STATES THAT I WAS GREETED AS A FABRICATOR.”

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35. Hillary ‘Sins Bad,’ According to Sinbad

Hillary ‘Sins Bad,’ According to Sinbad

By Don Davis


Greeting ceremony, Tuzla military airport, Bosnia, March 25, 1996.

“YOU BETTER DUCK, LITTLE GIRL, YOU’RE NOW UNDER ATTACK
FROM SOME DANGEROUS ‘FLACK’.”

link

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36. Bill Clinton Finally Gets the Hillary-McCain Comparison ‘Right’

Bill Clinton Finally Gets the Hillary-McCain Comparison ‘Right’

By Don Davis

“I THINK IT WOULD BE A GREAT THING IF WE HAD AN ELECTION YEAR WHERE
YOU HAD TWO PEOPLE WHO LOVED TO PANDER TO THE RIGHT-WING, AND
WERE DEVOTED TO GETTING THEMSELVES ELECTED.”

link

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37. CLINTON'S CHANCES VIRTUALLY NIL

CLINTON'S CHANCES VIRTUALLY NIL

...by Ari Berman at 03/24/2008 The Nation

"One big fact has largely been lost in the recent coverage of the Democratic presidential race," Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen wrote in the Politico recently, "Hillary Rodham Clinton has virtually no chance of winning."

With Obama leading in the popular vote, pledged delegates, states won and picking up virtually
ever superdelegate endorsement since Super Tuesday, you'd think that point would be rather obvious.
Yet many in the media continue to cover the Obama-Clinton race as if it were a dead heat. It's not. Clinton's slim chances of capturing the nomination all but evaporated last week,
with Obama rebounding from the Wright controversy with a historic speech on race, revote efforts
in Michigan and Florida collapsing and Bill Richardson sending a strong signal to superdelegates
(and former Clintonites) that Obama is still the one.

There's also been a strong reaction among establishment insiders within the Democratic Party,
people who are and should be sympathetic to the Clintons, about how Clinton has run her campaign
and the path she is pursuing toward the nomination.

"There still are scenarios by which she can win the nomination," Time magazine's Joe Klein blogged recently.
"But those scenarios depend on schadenfreude, on the hope that Obama will prove to be massively unworthy...that the Wright revelations will prove the first of many, that white people will abandon him and young people in Pennsylvania and elsewhere will stay home, that Obama himself will lose his cool,
say something stupid (A likely story, given his cool so far!).

"That is no way to win a nomination, or a general election. And it is striking to me that the Clinton campaign doesn't seem to be thinking about new, positive ways to make her case--doesn't seem to be thinking about a larger theme, a vision for the future (which, in truth, is something her campaign has never had)."

...more at the link

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39. "I'm not going to get in the gutter like that," Richardson said. "...(like Senator Clinton's people)

"I'm not going to get in the gutter like that," Richardson said. "And you know, that's typical of many of the people around Senator Clinton. They think they have a sense of entitlement to the presidency."
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?bid=45&pid=301838

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40. This post is very very funny but it may take a while to figure out

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5243293&mesg_id=5243374





hint look at the profile and the # of posts

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41. Accountability? for those who voted FOR the war???????

You know who they are... two are running for president, McCain and Clinton

March 24, 2008

Accountability

Posted by Mark Kleiman
Five years, and four thousand body bags, into the conquest and apparently interminable occupation of Iraq is as good a time as any for some self-reflection on the part of those of us who supported its commencement, however skeptically. We were wrong.

Still, I strongly protest the notion that the people who lucked into being right (largely out of their pacifism, latent anti-Americanism, and secret admiration for radical Islam) ought to enjoy some sort of privileged status in the ongoing discourse. Accountability is a fine thing, in principle, but a little goes a long way.

After all, we all agree that experience is the most important thing, right? And it's well known that "experience is the name that people give to their mistakes." Those of us who were mistaken are, therefore, more experienced than those who happened to be right, and deserve both to be listened to and to be elected President.

Yes, dammit, this is meant ironically

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42. Text of Letter from Hillary's own Minister defending Rev. Wright

Text of Letter from Hillary's own Minister defending Rev. Wright........

The Reverend Jeremiah Wright is an outstanding church leader
whom I have heard speak a number of times. He has served for
decades as a profound voice for justice and inclusion in our society.
He has been a vocal critic of the racism, sexism and homophobia
which still tarnish the American dream.

To evaluate his dynamic ministry on the basis of two or three sound bites
does a grave injustice to Dr. Wright, the members of his congregation,
and the African-American church which has been the spiritual refuge of a
people that has suffered from discrimination, disadvantage, and
violence.

Dr. Wright, a member of an integrated denomination, has
been an agent of racial reconciliation while proclaiming perceptions
and truths uncomfortable for some white people to hear. Those of us
who are white Americans would do well to listen carefully to Dr.
Wright rather than to use a few of his quotes to polarize. This is a
critical time in America's history as we seek to repent of our racism.
No matter which candidates prevail, let us use this time to listen again
to one another and not to distort one another's truth.

Dean J. Snyder, Senior Minister
Foundry United Methodist Church
March 19, 2008

link

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48. Thank-you for this

just thanks

[grantcart]

43. for the disruptors

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5245071

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45. Warning: Voter Registration Site "IWantToVote.com" under investigation - possible scam

Attorney General Investigating Voter-Registration Web Site

Mar. 24 WRAL

Raleigh, N.C. — A company that claims to take a hassle out of registering to vote is under scrutiny from state officials.

“They (IWantToVote.com) were asking for things like Social Security numbers, which we don't require,” said Gary Bartlett, executive director of the State Board of Elections.

IWantToVote.com offers to help folks register to vote if they provide personal information and pay a fee for postage, technology and material. A credit or debit card number is required for the consumer to receive a completed application that he or she then has to submit.

The state Board of Elections became suspicious of the Web site's motives, along with the potential for identity theft,and asked the state Attorney General's Office to investigate. “In fact, voter registration is a free process for the voter and they were trying to charge a $10 processing fee,” Bartlett said.

The Web site has ties to Oklahoma, where the Better Business Bureau has received a complaint.
A consumer who registered with the Web site said he was charged $16 initially and $10 every month since October.

.... more at the link

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50. Democrat predicts early resolution

Democrat predicts early resolution

By MOLLY BALL REVIEW-JOURNAL Mar 24 2008

While Democrats across the country are anguished about the bitter fight for their presidential nomination, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid doesn't appear to be losing any sleep over it.

...Asked about it last week, Reid said he remains convinced the nominee will be decided well before the August national convention. He wore a serene and mysterious smile.

"Michigan and Florida wouldn't play by the rules," Reid said. "They're not my rules. They're not the caucus' rules. They're DNC rules. They broke the rules."

Adding delegates for those states, he noted, would alter the number of delegates needed to get the nomination, currently 2,025. It wasn't crystal clear, but Reid seemed to suggest that delegations from those states should get to attend the convention, but not vote.

..."They're the ones causing all the problems. No one else did. And so they will be seated. They're big states. They represent 29 million people. We want to make sure their delegates are part of the convention that takes place in Denver."

more at the link

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51. Visiting the wounded

Denzel Washington Visits Wounded Soldiers at Brook Army Medical Center (BMAC)

the media only provides a sanitized version of the war, the dead are just a number,
and the wounded are not ever shown. At the link below you will see how one woman soldier
paid a huge price for George Bush's lies, and for the weakness of some senators and representatives:

http://www.kurowski.com/platoon/denzel.htm

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52. DIGG this up - CBS Exposes Hillary Clinton Bosnia Trip - 1,755 Diggs so far

CBS Exposes Hillary Clinton Bosnia Trip. watch! youtube.com — CBS News was on that very trip.


http://digg.com/politics/CBS_Exposes_Hillary_Clinton_Bosnia_Trip

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53. Is It Hillary's Turn to 'Denounce and Reject' a Problematic Pastor? (abused 7 yr old girl)

Is It Hillary's Turn to 'Denounce and Reject' a Problematic Pastor?

By Steven Reynolds, The All Spin Zone

We hear about Rev. Wright's racism 24/7, but there's nary a peep about Clinton's former pastor who's been convicted for sexual child abuse.

The blogs are talking about it, but the mainstream news is not. Still, this is interesting. Blogs such as AdvanceAmericablog, commondreams.org, the National Journal’s Hotline, and wakeupfromyourslumber.com are talking about the scandal that has enveloped the former Pastor of the Clintons, but it appears only the Utica, NY newspaper is covering the story. The rest of the mainstream media is silent. Perhaps the story isn’t divisive enough for the mainstream media to take notice. Of course, it is as unfair to blame Hillary Clinton for her former pastor’s abuses just as it is unfair to blame Barack Obama for Rev. Wright. Still, that means the mainstream media is far more enamored of condemning Obama for his Rev. Wright’s tirades about 9/11 and race than it is concerned with the plight of a seven year old girl abused by Hillary Clinton’s former pastor. ...

.....The irresponsibility here is on the media, who wish to blow out of proportion those issues which will inevitably divide Americans, by focusing on the behavior of Barack Obama’s former Pastor, while ignoring other transgressions by the pastors of Presidential candidates, even though Hillary Clinton’s former Pastor has actually been convicted of a crime.

more at the link

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67. TOWN named Clinton I think, NOT HILLARY

This is a bad one... I bit too.

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54. I Will Not Support Hillary Clinton for President, by Molly Ivins.

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55. Hillary's Macaca Moment

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56. Obama Within TEN Points in Pennsylvania!!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5248265&mesg_id=5248265

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57. Hey, James Carville: 'Judas' did return the favor

Hey, James Carville: 'Judas' did return the favor

Chris Reed at March 24, 2008

I got a great kick out of Clinton aide James Carville calling New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson a "Judas" for deciding to support Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton, with the implication being that Richardson owes his political career to Bill Clinton, who gave Richardson two Cabinet posts while he was president. This is funny because if Richardson is Judas, that makes the Clintons out to be Carville's collective Jesus.

But it's also funny because Carville ignores the time when Richardson very much stepped up and did the Clintons a huge favor -- Bill Clinton, at least. This favor came back in fall 1997, when the president needed to keep a certain former intern employed, happy and out of sight:

Washington (CNN, Jan. 23, 1998) -- Whitewater Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr has issued subpoenas for documents to U.S. Ambassador Bill Richardson and the entire U.S. mission, according to Richardson's chief of staff, Rebecca Cooper.

Cooper said, "The subpoenas are for documents only at this point, for all details pertaining to Monica" Lewinsky. Cooper said Richardson and the staff "plan to comply fully."

Richardson's office offered Monica Lewinsky a job as junior assistant doing public outreach and cabinet agency assignments. She would have worked for the ambassador's chief of staff in the New York office. Her job would have included working with grass-roots organizations across the country, like college model U.N.s and associations and other groups with interest in the work of the United Nations.

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58. Monical Lewinsky's Foreign Policy Resume Better Than Hillary's

Richardson Already Repaid Clintons & Monica Lewinsky's Foreign Policy Experience

...Richardson believes that, whatever he owes the Clintons for his appointments as Energy Secretary and United Nations Ambassador, he fully repaid his debt during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

It was Richardson, you'll remember, who went out of his way to hold open a job for Lewinsky at the U.N. Testimony before the independent counsel's grand jury showed that Richardson was unusually eager to accommodate Lewinsky. So when the scandal exploded, the news was not only embarrassing, but Richardson also had to endure hours of testimony before the grand jury. And a lot of the questions clearly made him uncomfortable.

In late 1998, when grand jury transcripts were made public, I wrote a story for the American Spectator about Richardson's role in the affair. After hearing about Lewinsky from White House chief of staff John Podesta, Richardson kept a sharp lookout for her promised resume. When it arrived, he acted quickly:

Richardson examined Lewinsky's resume the same afternoon it appeared on the fax machine. "I must say that the resume impressed me," he told prosecutors. "She worked in the Department of Defense....She had worked in the White House in legislative affairs....As a former congressman, I thought that was impressive." He testified that he told Watkins to set up an interview with Lewinsky.

more at the link

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59. AOL Poll 55% say Tuzla story ends Hillary's "experience" argument against Obama

AOL Poll 55% say Tuzla story ends Hillary's "experience" argument against Obama

Hillary: Yeah, I lied misspoke Update: AOL Hot Seat
poll added

March 25, 2008 by Ed Morrissey

And now the admission that she misrepresented the Tuzla trip in both danger and
importance undermines what little credibility she had left after insisting that she
should receive credit for all of the foreign-policy initiatives during her husband’s administration.
Without experience or credibility, just what can she offer?

link

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60. 1974: Hillary Lost Judiciary Committee Job After Trying To Block Nixon Impeachment.

1974: Hillary Lost Judiciary Committee Job After Trying To Block Nixon Impeachment.

Hillary Rodham was 27 years old. Eventually, because of a number of her unethical practices I decided that I could not recommend her for any subsequent position of public or private trust. ...The theory was, keeping Nixon in office through 1976 would make it a shoe in to elect a liberal democrat.

more at the link
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_jerry_ze_080325_1974_3a_hillary_lost_j.htm

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61. Clinton's Bosnia Lie: Why Padding Your 3 am Ready Resume Is a Bad Idea

Clinton's Bosnia Lie: Why Padding Your 3 am Ready Resume Is a Bad Idea
by Pam Spaulding,

What is wrong with Hillary Clinton and her advisers? In an effort to promote her foreign policy experience -- and thus draw a contrast between the NY senator and Barack Obama, she boldly claimed on March 17 that she went on a harrowing, brave trip to Bosnia in 1996 as First Lady.


more here
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/#80525

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62. Obama Leaps Ahead Of Clinton In North Carolina

Obama Leaps Ahead Of Clinton In North Carolina
March 25, 2008 12:41 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Barack Obama has taken A Great Leap Forward in North Carolina by opening up a 55 percent to 34 percent lead over Hillary Clinton, according to Public Policy Polling which conducted its survey on March 24. The margin of error is 3.8 percent. This is a startling rebound from PPP’s March 17 poll when Clinton had closed to within a point of Obama in the battle for this state’s 134 delegates. Dean Debnam of PPP attributed Obama’s surge to his recent visit to the state and “openly taking on some of the controversies swirling around his campaign.”

The poll found that if former candidate John Edwards decided to endorse Clinton that it would make no difference to 57 percent of voters. Thirty-one percent said it would make them less likely to vote for Clinton and only 12 percent said it would make them more likely to support her. Obama has leads in the 20 point range among both men and women.

Forty-seven percent named the economy and jobs as the top campaign issue followed by 26 percent who cited Iraq. White voters, who made up 59 percent of the sample, favored Clinton by 47 percent to 40 percent while black voters, comprising 34 percent of the sample, supported Obama by 80 percent to 14 percent.



http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/polltracker/2008/03/obama-leaps-ahead-of-clinton-i.html

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63. New Obama girl youtube - no longer an amatuer production

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axxooGIgOKs

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64. 4,000 Dead for What?

4,000 Dead for What?

By Eugene Robinson
Tuesday, March 25, 2008; Page A15

Four thousand.

When U.S. military deaths in Iraq hit a round number, as happened Sunday, there's usually a week or so of intense focus on the war -- its bogus rationale, its nebulous aims, its awful consequences for the families of the dead. Not likely this time, though. The nation is too busy worrying about more acute crises, some of them real -- the moribund housing market, the teetering financial system, the flagging economy -- and some of them manufactured, such as the shocking revelation that race can still be a divisive issue in American society.

So the fact that 4,000 men and women serving in the U.S. armed forces have been killed in Iraq is somehow less compelling than the zillionth playing of snippets from a sermon that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright preached more than six years ago.

For now, that is: Sooner or later, attention is bound to turn back to the war and the stark choice voters will face in November.

It may happen sooner. A few weeks ago, it looked as if Iraq might be entering another cycle of headline-grabbing violence. Now, the increase in mayhem is clear. On Sunday alone, more than 60 people were killed in several incidents, including a car bombing. Insurgents even sent rockets crashing into Baghdad's ostensibly secure Green Zone, a rare occurrence. While the violence hasn't risen to the levels that prevailed at this time a year ago, when the country seemed to be coming apart, it is clear that both civilian and military deaths are on the rise.

more at the link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/24/AR2008032402293.html?wpisrc=newsletter

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65. Hillary dodging sniper fire in Bosnia - photo

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66. Breaking: Photo proves Hillary was under sniper fire -

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68. Faced With Bosnia And Now Tax Returns Hillary Camp Embarks On Wright Blitzkrieg

Faced With Bosnia And Now Tax Returns Hillary Camp Embarks On Wright Blitzkrieg

By - March 25, 2008, 3:07PM
It would seem that after being hit with her embellishing of her Bosnia trip the Clinton camp is hitting back hard on the Wright issue with Hillary herself making comments about it. Was this something they always planned on doing or is the Bosnia flap making them more desperate to shift the conversation? I think Obama's Tax Return release is something they didn't see coming.
Who will get more media coverage of their attack? If recent weeks are any indication, Clinton should dominate the headlines. Which of these attacks is more substantive? Can Hillary really do more damage to Obama than Fox News and the rest of MSM already has with the Wright story? Maybe but she'd have to really go into deep race baiting territory. Maybe she'll task Bill with that. The most substantive of all these issues is the reluctance of Clinton to reveal her tax returns. Her campaign has changed the date they said they'd release the information a few times already and 8 years of Obama returns cranks up the pressure. This week should be very interesting.

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/03/faced-with-bosnia-and-now-tax.php

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69. must read

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