March 2008
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Senator Clinton Isn't A Republican, As Far As I...
by Bob Cesca
Winston Churchill wrote: “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
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The big lie — the “ultimate fear bomb,” as Michelle Obama put it — is this notion that Senator Obama, despite being a Christian and...
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Olbermann Rips Into Hillary and Ferraro
Last night Keith Olbermann definitely earned my respect as the only real journalist on television. He was pretty well ahead before, but last night he sealed the deal, and all it took was pointing out the obvious: that Hillary is campaigning as a Republican. Anyway, check it out, it is definitely worth watching:
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The Limbaugh Effect (Hillary: The GOP's Weapon of...
So it looks like Hillary may very well be getting a big boost from Republicans wanting to keep her in the race either to beat Obama and give the Republicans an easy victory in November, or to just keep her kicking long enough to take the Democratic Party down in flames, per Rush Limbaugh’s request. He made the plea to his supporters before the Texas primacaucus and may have given her a...
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Farewell Spitzer
So today NY Gov. Elliot Spitzer resigned following allegations that he had been having sex with very expensive hookers for years, possibly using taxpayer money. Personally I’m glad to see him go because he is an embarrassment to Democrats, and only Republicans keep their sex offenders in office after they have been discovered.
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Geraldine Ferraro's History of Bigotry
I previously wrote about how the other day Geraldine Ferraro, Clinton supporter, fundraiser, and member of her financial committee said that Obama is only winning the presidential race because he is black. Her comments not only demeaned his accomplishments, abilities and millions of his supporters, it reeked of the kind of bigoted attacks on minorities that are often heard from people who attack...
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Mythbusting Hillary: Experience (Sinbad Speaks Out...
[Nearly all of Hillary’s argument that she has what it takes to be Commander-in-Chief rests on completely exaggerated accomplishments and events taken from her First Lady days. Check out the “Full Debunk Edition” of Mythbusting Hillary for more details, but for now here is an insider look at her Bosnia claim, from fellow Commander-in-Chief threshold-passer himself,...
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Mythbusting Hillary: Experience (Full Debunk...
Every Hillary supporter who buys into her “experience” argument should read this, and every Obama supporter should memorize it and have it bookmarked, because this is the most thorough and comprehensive rundown of her experience I’ve come across yet.
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Greg Craig (now an Obama supporter), a...
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Let's Take GOP Rep. Steve King Down In November!
Rep. Steve King of Iowa is one of the most conservative members of Congress, and he just sealed his fate. King commented the other day on the possibility of Barack Obama winning the presidency:
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The radical Islamists, the al-Qaeda … would be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did...
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So Much for the Surge (Repost)
[My blog was never meant to be devoted exclusively to the Democratic primary, although that has obviously been featured most prominently on here so far. After Hillary drops out, I’ll be devoting a lot of time to tearing down John McCain and the Republicans, among other things. And since I abhor blind allegiance, whether it be by Republicans to Bush, or Hillary supporters to Hillary, after...
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"McClinton" vs. Obama (Repost)
“McClinton” (The Empire Strikes Back) vs. Obama (Bill Foster Provides A Glimpse of an Obama Presidency)
by Paul Abrams
A not so subtle series of statements by Hillary Clinton this week that she and John McCain had lifetimes of experience to bring to the presidency, but Barack Obama had only a single speech*; and, that she and John McCain passed the Commander-in-Chief test, but...
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Geraldine Ferraro Must Resign Immediately
A few days ago Geraldine Ferraro, one of Hillary’s top fundraisers, and member of her finance committee said the following about Barack Obama:
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If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman, of any color, he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who...
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A Case Study: Hillary's Doublespeak, and Her War...
Let’s use a case study to find out who Hillary Clinton really is, to find out where her real values lie. The case we will be studying is Hillary’s attitude toward democracy.
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This topic keeps coming up, mostly with respect to Florida and Michigan, where she won’t shut up about how much every...
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Hillary Clinton, Fratricidal Maniac (Repost)
[I’m feeling lazy today, and I want to spend time reading instead of posting, so I’m going to do some reposts. Here is a great article from The New Republic, basically stating the obvious, the same things I’ve been saying. It makes me feel better when others state the obvious, so I don’t feel so crazy when it is so obvious what she is doing, yet the MSM, the DNC and most...
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Hillary: Political Suicide-Bomber (Repost)
[This is a good blog post for those who deride Obama supporters for being so anti-Hillary, those who talk about Obama Hillary-haters like they are crazy and fanatical, like we hate without justification. In reality, we who can’t stand Hillary aren’t “Hillary-haters” like the Republicans are, the ones we’ve been fighting ever since the 90s, we are against Hillary...
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Super Saturday Election Roundup
Obama won the Wyoming caucus today, wasn’t even close, scoring him 3 or 4 delegates over Hillary. According to the numbers from the Obama camp (which seem to be the most reliable), that is about the same amount Hillary won on March 4th (Obama won Texas, when you add the caucus results there, so he came up with 3 more delegates in Texas total than Hillary did).
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Sleeping Children Believe Obama Will Keep Them...
It’s funny how things work out when you use stock footage of sleeping children to make fearmongering ads. It turns out that one of the sleeping children in Hillary’s infamous “3am” ad is now all grown up, and a big Obama supporter:
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I would much rather hear Barack Obama’s voice at...
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Mythbusting Hillary: Experience (Peace In Northern...
[Here is a repost from the other side of the pond, where those involved in bringing peace to Northern Ireland have another take on Hillary’s claims (which she uses to support her “experience” and “ready to lead” arguments) that she was a big part of the peace process. Now there is resume fluffing, then there is egregious resume fluffing, and then there is Hillary...
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Howard Wolfson Must Go (Or Hillary's Test Of...
As I wrote previously, when the Clinton campaign was asked to release their tax returns, Howard Wolfson, Clinton’s chief spokesperson, came out and instead of answering why they refuse to release them until after she has secured the nomination, decided to ridiculously say that Obama has been imitating Ken Starr in his campaign tactics.
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Hillary Crosses The Threshold, Embraces The...
Did you hear the news? Hillary passed a threshold the other day! She was obviously very excited about it, indeed she wouldn’t shut up about it. Yes, yesterday Hillary officially crossed the threshold between Democrat and Republican, following in the proud tradition of fellow failed presidential hopeful Joe Lieberman, she has shown where her true loyalties lie, with John McCain and the rest...
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Clinton, Genocide and a Campaign Gaffe (Repost)
[Marc Cooper wrote this today for The Huffington Post, and it helps paint a more comprehensive picture of who Samantha Power is, and why Hillary Clinton wasted no time in trying to take her down (aside from wanting to pick off one of Obama’s top advisors). It turns out maybe this hit was a bit of payback for Power “vetting” Bill just a little too much for Hillary’s...
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A Tribute to Samantha Power
Just a few days ago I posted an article written about Samantha Power, chief senior policy advisor to Senator Obama. Here is an excerpt from the article, describing how she came to join Obama’s team:
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… when his office first called her in 2005, she thought, “who is this guy?”
Her 2003 book on genocide, “A Problem...
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Hillpocrisy Attacks (Tax Edition)
Obama released his taxes months ago, because he believes in government transparency. He has devoted a lot of time in both Illinois and the US Senate to ethics reform, and his financial transparency reflects that.
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For months Obama has been requesting that the Clintons follow suit and disclose their financial records, but time...
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Some Light Reading...
America Behind Bars: Why Attempts at Prison Reform Keep Failing
by Liliana Segura
A bloated prison system is against the country’s best interests. Yet “tough on crime” rhetoric has gotten in the way of reform.
Hillary Clinton on International Law
by Dr. Stephen Zunes
Ironically, [Senator Hillary Clinton] shares much of President Bush’s dangerous attitudes toward...
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Hillpocrisy Attacks ("NAFTA-Gate" Edition)
I’ve previously written about Hillary’s disingenuous attempts to try to smear Obama with a hyped up story, devoid of facts but full of hearsay, spread by the Right-wing government of Canada to try to paint Obama as a liar. As I’ve noted before, there are no facts to back these claims up, the Obama advisor accused of saying these contrary things has vehemently denied saying...
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Black Enough? Too Black? Not Black Enough,...
So this has been floating around for a few days now, but I finally feel like mentioning it. There has been a suggestion (a lot of suggestions actually) that the Hillary camp finally found an answer to that question of whether or not Obama is black enough: he isn’t quite black enough, so it looks like they took it upon themselves to darken him up a bit, literally.
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Endorsement Update (3/5)
Apparently Obama hasn’t become black enough to scare away the endorsements, yet. Today, it should be mentioned, he secured the endorsement of the first post-March 4th superdelegate: Dayton, Ohio Mayor Rhine McLin. What sparked this endorsement? Obama trounced Hillary in her county by over 10,000 votes.
Rolling Stone also endorsed Obama today, here are some highlights:
Obama has emerged...
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About Last Night…
Last night proved a couple of things:
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The media is weak, and when Hillary throws a fit about the media being unfair (even when they haven’t been) they try to compensate by dutifully throwing every bullshit attack they can at Obama, using talking points straight from the Hillary campaign.
After last night’s wins for Hillary, the...
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Kucinich Still Feels The Love
The big winner of last night’s election: Dennis Kucinich (and John McCain, but I’ll get to that later). He was able to easily hold his Congressional seat against attacks from multiple non-progressive assholes. Ohio continues it’s long sucking streak, but at least they kept Dennis around, that was much more important than a cosmetic victory for Hillary.
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Wake Me When It's Over
I can’t stand to hear the punditry try to spin this race into cotton candy.
These are the facts:
Hillary lost 11 races in a row, and lost them bad.
Hillary is so far behind in delegates, that even if she won Texas and Ohio by 10 points each, she couldn’t even begin to start catching up to Obama.
Almost all of the states ahead favor Obama, tonight was Hillary’s last chance...
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Hillary Takes A Page From Bush's FEMA, Fakes The...
So it turns out that the Hillary campaign has come up with yet another unethical underhanded tactic in this campaign: faking the news. Apparently there is a radio ad out in Ohio meant to sound like a news report from the Associated Press.
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The fake news ad proceeds to distort the facts...
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Is Hillary Running To Be McCain's VP?
Here is why Keith Olbermann is the only person in the MSM that I trust to point out the obvious. In this clip Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow discuss Hillary’s recent tactics. They discuss her Republicanesque fearmongering tactics, her hypocritical lack of any experience that has tested her (contrary to all of her claims) and lastly how she is backstabbing the Democratic Party....
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War, What Is It Good For? (Creating Sociopaths)
So I just saw one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen, really the kind of thing that puts any number of girls and any number of cups to shame. Here is a video of a US soldier lobbing a helpless little puppy off a cliff. It is disgusting.
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It also says something about the state of our society, our...
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Bill Richardson Loves Him Some Obama
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson has hinted in recent days at a de facto endorsement of Barack Obama. From the Washington Post:
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Speaking on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Richardson said: “I just think that D-Day is Tuesday. We have to have a positive campaign after Tuesday. Whoever has the...
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Hillary Fearmongering Ad Parody!
My favorite line:
The world’s a tough, dangerous place, it always has been, there’s no reason to reupholster the inside of your trousers and vote like a moron every time they say ‘boo’
Priceless.
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Something Stinks In Texas
This is interesting, here is a Report by the Dallas Morning New which talks about the training materials the Hillary campaign is sending out to its precinct captains for caucus night:
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The materials say in part, “DO NOT allow the supporter of another candidate to serve in leadership roles.”
It goes on to say,...
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Hillary Weighs Women's Rights Vs Money, Takes The...
[Here is a new story from NBC News that I believe speaks for itself about Hillary’s character and priorities. Brief commentary at the end:]
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Sen. Clinton Accepts Donations From Troubled Firm
Sen. Hillary Clinton has declined to return $170,000 in campaign contributions from individuals...
February 2008
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Hillary Invokes The Boogeyman (And Karl Rove)
Hillary has apparently decided to fall back on her fearmongering strategy (previously seen when she implied that terrorists may attack if Obama is elected) in a desperate attempt to slow her defeat. In her new TV ad, you hear a narrator, who in a somewhat creepy voice (sounding very similar to the guy who does all of the scary movie trailers), tries to stir fear in the voter, while the scene...
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Samantha Power: Obama and Me (Repost)
[Here is a brief look inside Obama’s campaign, and at how his cabinet will likely be run. I actually have A Problem from Hell sitting on my bookshelf, and at the time I bought it I had no idea she was his senior foreign policy adviser, so that book just jumped up a few places on my reading queue. Anyway, take a behind the scenes look at his foreign policy, from an expert:]
Samantha Power...
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Hillpocrisy
There are so many instances of Hillary Clinton being a giant hypocrite, that I think it is now appropriate that we create a new word to describe the phenomenon: Hillpocrisy.
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Yesterday, just a day after her ridiculous questioning of the strength of Obama’s denunciation of Minister Louis Farrakhan at the Ohio debate based on some...
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Why I Think Obama is the Best Candidate on Foreign...
[Here is a great article by international human rights lawyer Lisa Gans on why Obama is by far the best suited to deal with the foreign policy challenges facing our nation in the post-neoconservative era. Enjoy:]
Barack Obama is better equipped to handle the United States’ foreign policy on the world stage than either Hillary Clinton or John McCain. As an international human rights lawyer...
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Hillary Interviews To Be Rove's Replacement
Today came the predictable outcome of the Clinton campaign’s shadow strategy of trying to paint Obama as an anti-Semite, which started when the Clinton campaign implied to prominent Jewish Americans that Obama was not a friend of Israel (not true) and surrounded himself with anti-Semites (not true). For quite some time now Clinton supporters have also been spreading lies about his relation...
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On A Brighter Note...
Today civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis, who had previously jumped on Hillary’s bandwagon when everyone thought she was inevitable, jumped ship and endorsed Barack Obama. This is a big win for Obama, as every defection makes it that much easier for others to follow.
Obama also got the endorsement of North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan today:
Senator Obama has also shown a strong...
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Waaaahh The Meeedia!! (Playing For Excuses,...
So my overall impression of the debate, more of the same (what? You mean nothing new came out that hadn’t already been covered in the 19 previous debates??), angry Hillary came out to play a lot (although we didn’t get as dramatic as “Shame on you!” when he was right there to set the record straight and point out her hypocrisy, which he did many times last night), and Obama came off...
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The Obama Effect, Cont.
Today Politico reported on the wave of hope that the Obama Effect has brought to red and purple states and districts all across America.
Check it out.
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The Many Faces of Hillary Clinton (Which Will Show...
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A headline at The Huffington Post raises a great question in the run up to the Ohio debate, “Which Hillary Will Show Up At Tonight’s Debate?” The question isn’t as silly as it sounds, in fact, it might be the only reason to watch the debate, except perhaps to see...
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"Meet Me In Texas--err Ohio--errr...Somewhere!"
Before the dust had even settled in the Potomac after her crushing one-two-three defeat there on February 12th, Hillary had a new challenge for Barack Obama: “Tell him to meet me in Texas. We’re ready.” Beyond Hillary characteristically diminishing the worth of the states she had just lost (which we’ve come to expect), she even managed, in one sentence, to diminish the...
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Senator Dodd Endorses Obama
Today Senator Chris Dodd, former Democratic presidential candidate, endorsed Barack Obama for president. This probably won’t mean anything, but I have to give kudos to Dodd for having more of a spine than John Edwards, who for all his talk of “change vs status quo” and anti-lobbyist influence, still hasn’t had to guts to put his name where his mouth is and endorse the...
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Clinton, Obama And The Belief In The Magic Power...
[Arianna Huffington hit a home run with this one, showing how Orwellian her attacks against Obama on rhetoric really are. Just because she says she has superior experience, doesn’t make it true. Just because she says Obama doesn’t have experience or serious legislative achievements, doesn’t make it true. Just because she says the media is out to get her and in love with Obama,...
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Going Out On A Low Note (or, How Hillary Learned...
A couple days ago a prominent Hillary supporter, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, weighed in on the election and expressed her belief that Barack Obama is going to be our nominee. She also mentioned many errors Hillary has made in her campaign, including running on “experience”, when she had no more (less actually) useful experience than Obama, and much less than many other candidates in the...
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Is THIS Hillary's "Dean Scream" (x10) Moment?
Wow. Huffington Post just posted a video of Hillary mocking Obama’s message of change and a new direction in politics, and by “mocking” I mean perhaps the most pathetic, childish display I think I’ve ever seen from a politician. Keep in mind, once again, that she cannot win the primary, the math just doesn’t add up, meaning she is mocking our Democratic nominee out of...