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LETTER FROM HILLARYLAND

How Deep In the Hearts of Texas?

Clinton's chances may come down to Latino support in the Lone Star State.

By Arian Campo-Flores | NEWSWEEK
Feb 25, 2008 Issue

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  • Posted By: Armed Forces Patriot @ 04/12/2008 3:36:57 PM

    Comment: A large amount of Hispanics choose Hillary because they simply can't take having a Black president. While there are in fact now more Hispanics than blacks in America, their numbers only recently exceeded Blacks due to illegal immigration. Blacks and Native Americans are the only "non-immigrants" in America. Everyone else here "Migrated" by choice! Blacks built the greatest country ever to exist, and then fought and died for the civil rights of all people of color, to include hispanics, and make up a disproportionate amount of Armed Forces service members. I find it amazing that Hispanics feel "envy" or "jealousy" to the degree that they would rather support Hillary rather than submit to the candiate whose race built the greatest country ever to exist. As if Hispanics weren't already getting a free ride...and still aren't satisfied... Benjamin O. Davis, McNair, MLK, Oprah, George Washington Carver, Frederick Douglas...the list of "true" Americans that have led this country through difficult times to too long to list. African slaves were castrated, hung, whipped, disemboweled, raped, amputated, chained, drug, burned and any other imaginable atrocity you can think of. They still built this country and died for civil rights...for Hispanics, Asians and all people of color. No wonder America prefers Colin Powell, Condi Rice and Obama over anu Hispanic candidate. I guess that's why so many white supporters are in Obama's corner. I could care less if any illegal immigrants support Obama. Blacks have nothing to prove in the country they built. What have Hispanics done other than inundate our schools, emergency rooms and highways with non-taxed/un-insured parasites? I'd rather Obama lose than be supported by a race of people that have done nothing but introduce MS-13 and other idiotic gang elevation to America. Please go back to Mexico...

  • Posted By: Trenton Sims @ 02/25/2008 6:30:09 PM

    Comment: Maybe GOD Will Save Her.. If She Repents..?
    On SUNDAY??
    OH No She Didn't.??

    SHAME ON YOU HOLLARY !!!
    For Todays (SUNDAY) Sacrelege, blasphemy, and Atheism..
    Mocking the Christian belief in Salvation.
    Poking fun and Sarcasm at Believing that Heaven can Open up the sky to those who believe. Laughing at the notion that there are Celestial Angelic Choirs in the Heavens, Hurling sarcasm at those who would believe they can hear. Laughing at Hope.. Laughing at GOD..!!!
    Hillary..Can you say Moses?
    Did he not part the Red Sea and free his people from the Pharoh?
    Who are you Hillary Rodham to tell us all not to believe that all things are possible through our Lord Our God?
    It is dillusional to Hope The Lord God would ever extend his ever redeeming, ever forgiving ever everlasting Love to Our Nation? To America and her United States Citizens??
    Its dillusional On SUNDAY to think this could be possible ?? 2/24/08
    One thing is certain..It won't be possible under your leadership. You are a non-believer.
    I suppose that deceased Dallas Police Officers family should abandon any HOPE for his Salvation. His life was lost performing a difficult and demanding job too. There aint NO GOD coming for him either. Right Hillary??
    May God have mercy on your immortal soul Hillary Rodham.
    SHAME ON YOU HILLARY RODHAM
    The Lord works in mysterious ways....
    And today God exposed your true dark soul to the world. And In so doing, the Nation and the World will be better served.

  • Posted By: dswenk @ 02/25/2008 6:14:55 PM

    Comment: Another example of politicians who prostitute themseves to any group in order to get in office. Even though we have millions of illegal aliens in this country, people like Clinton look at them as potential new voters to keep themselves in power regarless of their damage to the country. Though they ignore us trying to court minority votes so much, I think these candidates should not discard us red blooded Americans too much, we still hold the balance of power in this country.

  • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 02/24/2008 8:19:16 PM

    Comment: Can someone please enlighten me and tell me if any of Obama's speeches ever end with "God bless America"? I'm not sure if I heard him or not. Maybe that would stop the religious inuendos if he is indeed christian as we know christianity to be. Otherwise havng been a follower of Louis Farakhan, (please forgive me if I spelled his name wrong) who believes in the destruction of the United States, if this is true, isn't that like sending the cows to slaughter?
    I know you should never mix religion and politics yet every other candidate has always made referrence to the loyalties of the United States as one nation under God.
    I guess like marketingtruth has been trying to tell us, think and look at the facts. Read this read that and when we do it gets scarier and scarier. Where are we heading?

  • Posted By: Alfie Montanez @ 02/24/2008 12:04:21 PM

    Comment: Hillary is the stronger candidate. I agree with the cult of personality style of this OBAMANATION. He is not my choice for anything. At first I thought that it would be cool, but I respect the seriousness of Hillary Clinton. She is friends, GEUINE friends of the Mexican people and many other Latinos feel the same. Obama supporters are given to vitriol and arguing and downright silliness. IT IS EASY TO PULL THE WOOL OVER IGNORANT PEOPLE WHO, TRUTH BE TOLD, ARE ABOUT AS INTELLIGENT AS KELLIE PICKLER! Sorry, but I appreciate a woman who can stand up to any man with straight up facts. I don't want passion and eloquence when what we need is STRENGTH and EXPERIENCE. I am 22 years old and not for Obama. Obama is just a straight perpretator, a fraud. Just because Oprah treated him like a Book of the Month club shows that she would choose RACE over REAL ISSUES. We are seeing that she likes to have white woman line her pockets since 1986, yet she jokes all over the place how white people are eating out of her hand. I am not into Oprah. Isn't she one of those secret Scientologists?? She's trying to pull the wool over our eyes and lead us into a PUPPET PRESIDENCY, cause that is what is going to happen. They will ALL write his speeches. CHANGE CANNOT BE XEROXED!! lol That was the highlight of the night for me. Hillary has proven to be the one to knock down the Republicans. Obama is fluff. Latinos see through this. And, all the Black people who are jumping on Latino backs just so that we do like them is SELFISH. They portray the Latino youth as being for Obama overwhelmingly. FALSE. This is just more of their propaganda to hate on Hillary. We pick the best choice and we don't hate on people just because they arte Black or whatever. Obama is not a strong candidate. He just has the backing of Hollywood, a place FULL of cult members and nuts. This is WHY the media is biased the way it is. But, Latinos have seen FOR THEMSELVES that Hillary is for us. She has a solid background and hers IS the change we can believe in. Enough with Obama and his MIERDA TALK. Mexicans 4 Hillary.

  • Posted By: NATIVEEYESAREWATCHING @ 02/23/2008 1:34:43 PM

    Comment: Hillary Clinton blocked our appeal for continued Health Care Benefits. 9/11 workers need continued health care the Hillary blocked it. 5,000+ State and 3,000+ CITY workers lost the health care benefits and have appealed to Senator Clinton and she let us down. She turned her back on us.. She had the final say. We have no disablities, no medical at all because of the loopole she voted in. We went to court and the court was swayed by the lobbyist that support Haillry Clinton's campaign. She didn't do anything to help our State's Child care benefits so we may have quality care while we are seeking jobs that will employ us with our health issues.

    We need help and she isn't there for us in her own STATE.

    Now she wants to campaign for Universal Healthcare!! She is a liar for votes on this issue. She will say anything to get elected... She will keep doggin OBAMA on his words of copy catting a speech..

    GET REAL PEOPLE. We want Change people, not who's quoting who!! That is how low she needs to go to get votes. For goodness sake, we are not NAIVE HILLARY.

    She owes the New York State and City workers their rightful Benefits, we paid for them.

    HILLARY, We need healthcare NOW, you stopped it... PEOPLE DON'T SEE THIS...

  • Posted By: J Druid @ 02/22/2008 10:27:20 PM

    Comment: The leaders of both the Republican and Democratic Parties are moving us closer and closer to Socialism, away from our Constitution (the true Test of American Patriotism). Both major parties pushed through the Patriot Act (a direct violation of our civil liberties) allowing the Federal government (and the lawmakers) greater access in to our personal lives. We have welfare, medicare, and medicaid, all basically federal government subsidies for Americans as a socialist distribution of wealth and commodities. Then, we have the continuation of undeclared War (a direct violation of our Constitution), allowing the President (or socialist leader) the ability to unilaterally decide whether our country (our Americans) go fight in another country using military resources and costing volunteer military lives.
    The very core values of America that the founding fathers of our country laid out for us are being destroyed, and our nation is moving in a perilous direction. The American people need to Wake up from their Slumber, and start helping educate their fellow Americans that we are not Socialists, but in fact we are a Nation of Patriots (people who live by and die for civil liberty as well as individual rights).
    Our country sorely needs a third party that will rejuvinate and unify the 40% of Americans that usually don't vote, to overcome the two party system of the Socialist Democrats and Socialist Republicans. Individuals always care for other individuals through charity and good deeds, the Federal government steals from individuals to line the pockets of the Corporations and maintain power for itself, leaving whatever remains recycled back to the American people.
    Stop sleep walking into Socialism --- Wake up and fight for our Founding Fathers core values of freedom and equality for all! Freedom from the Federal government intervention! Freedom from excessive taxation!

  • Posted By: J Druid @ 02/22/2008 10:27:01 PM

    Comment: "There's only "a dime's worth of difference" between the Republican and Democratic parties, and they're fighting over that dime! "
    Obama, Clinton, McCain, Huckabee --
    1. All voted to continue funding the Iraq War.
    2. All support "comprehensive immigration reform" -- Washington speak for Amnesty for illegal aliens. They want their big corporation buddies to be happy now don't they with their cheap labor. Meanwhile we pay higher taxes to offset the burden that would put on Social security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare. If you subsidize something you get more of it, the more we subsidize illegal immigration the more we will get of it, and the more illegal alien families will be affected and hurt by risking their lives and living in terrible conditions.
    3. All wish to enact some socialist program or another for the "greater good" -- Translation, we want you to pay higher taxes so we (the federal government) can spend it in the way that benefits our special interest group. Obama (Health care insurance companies), Clinton ( Pharmaceuticals), McCain (Military industrial complex including all military corporations), Huckabee (Military industrial complex).
    4. All are for reforming Washington and ridding it of government and lobbyist control (well so they say).
    5. All support the Patriot Act (a direct violation of our civil liberties)

  • Posted By: whataboutthis? @ 02/22/2008 5:35:50 PM

    Comment: pnganly: Monica is dusting off her presidential knee pads as we speak. There is only one thing Hillary lacks in her book.

  • Posted By: whataboutthis? @ 02/22/2008 5:24:31 PM

    Comment: Clinton equals experience, intelligence, background, battle-testedness. Obama equals hope, inspiration, freshness, excitement. Take your pick. Whatever it is, they will be the next president.

  • Posted By: pnganly @ 02/22/2008 5:21:26 PM

    Comment: Monica Lewinskiy has decided to endorse Barick Obama. She says that the swinging Clintons leave a bad taste in her mouth!

  • Posted By: doinyssa @ 02/22/2008 5:12:55 PM

    Comment: I am Latina, born and raised in Austin, Texas, and a student at the University of Texas. My vote is with Clinton. She has more experience and she is willing to listen to the people. Obama is a wonderful public speaker but I feel that Clinton has a better percentage for success as President. If Obama fails he will have to rely solely on himself not to mention there are too many lunatics out there in the US who are threatening him everyday. But as far as Clinton is concerned if she fails who can she rely on? Hmm....maybe her husband? Former President of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA who was in office for how many terms? How many years? Exactly.

    Experience. Connections. Heart.

    She has it all.

  • Posted By: looking4leaders @ 02/22/2008 2:10:56 PM

    Comment: Aiday - You add nothing to the discussion! Hillary has NOMINAL more real experience than Obama and is most probably hamstrung by the past. It is totally illogical to claim that she has presidential level experience by being Bill's first lady (well, almost...that title really goes to whoever was in front of him at any particular time). Look at some first ladies who accomplished something and made a real difference - she only promised this and that and did nothing!! Then she created a residence in NY so she could run for senator - just like she creates opinions and sound bites to fit the cowd rather than standing up for what she truly believes. We need a leader, someone who can make a difference and lead this country in a very difficult and troubled time, not someone who is pollitically expedient or who cries to show she cares!!! A leader needs to be able to handle themselves and their emotions while igniting the proper passions within people to accomplish the goals they BELIEVE is best for the country.

    • Posted By: librarygirl @ 02/22/2008 18:11:26

      Comment: She did accomplish something, she is a Senator in one of the most populated states in the country and was in politics and government when Obama was in high school. Tell me something, Obama is a decent man and I agree with the majority of his views, but isn't his job in Washington? Correct me if I'm wrong but I was certain that they refer to him as Senator Obama so doesn't that mean he is part of the people in the government that he says do not care about the American people? Think about it, he is part of the system already, so what's so different about that.? He talks like them and walks like them no matter the best of intentions, he is one of them caught up in the same games, succombing to the same pressures. He would have more credibility with me if he actually dressed in hoodies and long shorts or jeans. Senator Clinton is to but she has connections, the passion and the tenacicity to get the job done. She may not make you feel all warm and fuzzy like Obama, but she cares. I agree Obama is a very inspirational person but so are preachers and rock stars doesn't mean they should be President!

  • Posted By: looking4leaders @ 02/22/2008 2:10:27 PM

    Comment: Aiday - You add nothing to the discussion! Hillary has NOMINAL more real experience than Obama and is most probably hamstrung by the past. It is totally illogical to claim that she has presidential level experience by being Bill's first lady (well, almost...that title really goes to whoever was in front of him at any particular time). Look at some first ladies who accomplished something and made a real difference - she only promised this and that and did nothing!! Then she created a residence in NY so she could run for senator - just like she creates opinions and sound bites to fit the cowd rather than standing up for what she truly believes. We need a leader, someone who can make a difference and lead this country in a very difficult and troubled time, not someone who is pollitically expedient or who cries to show she cares!!! A leader needs to be able to handle themselves and their emotions while igniting the proper passions within people to accomplish the goals they BELIEVE is best for the country.

  • Posted By: Aiday @ 02/21/2008 7:43:56 PM

    Comment: Hillary for PRESIDENT,YES!

  • Posted By: ssocky @ 02/21/2008 7:32:49 PM

    Comment: Does anyone believe an afroamerican candidate cares about the latino?

    • Posted By: karcervt @ 02/22/2008 12:29:18

      Comment: Yes? Why do you think that's not possible? If it's possible for a white candidate to care about Latinos, why not an African American. That's a terrible stereotype that keeps disenfranchised people fighting each other rather than the super-rich who control this country.

  • Posted By: Sam10 @ 02/21/2008 6:47:49 PM

    Comment: What we have here is a failure to understand. Everyone gets excited when it's personal, when there is something on the line. Problem is, there is too much excitement and not one of Obama's supporters is listening. They just want to spread the frenzy. Which seems to be the problem. Obama's supporters are stuck with no brain activity to respond when asked what he stands for, what he's done to stir the masses.......he's run a good campaign they say, he's an agent of change. This we can not allow. We've already lived thru this period of no ideas, we do not need another. Obama can have the black vote, the liberal vote, he can even get the rick vote. But he will not get the Texas vote.

    • Posted By: changen2008 @ 02/25/2008 11:07:45

      Comment: He has my Texas vote any day!!!!!

  • Posted By: VALO1913 @ 02/21/2008 1:32:53 PM

    Comment: OBAMA is far superior. I pity anybody to naive to see it.

    • Posted By: Aiday @ 02/21/2008 20:13:52

      Comment: The general public seems to believe what they hear on TV. Obama has more money to spend on hype rallies and publicity....and that makes him superior?... what about experience? Hillary is a knowledgeable, experienced seasoned person to be the President that this country needs in this time of enormous trouble. People, it is not a concert, it is our future.

  • Posted By: VALO1913 @ 02/21/2008 1:32:02 PM

    Comment: GO OBAMA

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 02/21/2008 7:25:21 AM

    Comment: Jrmapu after reading your comments it is obvious you are not AMERICAN. The statements you make sound like you never lived here. ARE you CANADIAN? or perhaps pakistani or Bangladesh.

  • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 02/20/2008 10:50:11 PM

    Comment: People of color have been waiting for this opportunity all thier lives. They did not want to vote until now. I wonder how many of them voted for JFK? They seem to liken Obama to JFK. I still don't feel he is ready but if this trend continues well, you may not like him but he will command respect. Just like good old GW. I am a Hillary supporter. Maybe if her name was Harry and male, she may have had a chance. My concerns is even Edwards said that Obama's healthcare is a weak solution. Our citizens are in trouble. How many of you young people are ready to take care of your parents? I see a reverse trend of elderly being disadvantage. How about the housing foreclosures? We will need to wait a little bit longer for that to turn around. As for foreign relations, well I don't know, I wouldn't be surprised if the other countries refuse to do business with America. Immigration, who knows. We know where the republicans are coming from, yet, people are willing to put all thier hopes that change will come. Unfortunately we need solutions for change to happen. He truly has no clue how to solve the issues we are facing.

    • Posted By: librarygirl @ 02/22/2008 18:13:20

      Comment: Enter Your Comment racist!

    • Posted By: hope-3 @ 02/21/2008 04:59:15

      Comment: With posts like this (coded racism)you wonder why obama is winning?

  • Posted By: Dr.Lamot @ 02/20/2008 7:39:19 PM

    Comment: Times columnist Andres writes. He adds that, "despite her reassuring rhetoric" that her health care proposal is not a "government takeover" and contains no "new bureaucracy," Clinton proposes to "use the heavy hand of government" to require all residents to obtain health insurance. Her "near-religious zeal to force universal coverage strikes some as odd," Andres writes, adding, "Why compel someone to buy something he or she can't afford?" According to Andres, the "financial penalties for those who fail to purchase insurance ... stirs significant opposition," and Clinton "opened a political can of worms" when she said that she might seek to garnish the wages of residents who can afford health insurance but do not obtain coverage. "Improving health care is a salient bread-and-butter election issue this year," Andres writes, adding, "Compelling everyone to buy a product, whether he wants it or not ... sounds more like a mandate for defeat than a promise of political success" (Andres, Washington Times, 2/14).

  • Posted By: Herb42 @ 02/20/2008 6:52:33 PM

    Comment: I wish to ask a question please, why is it that every time I switch to MSNBC all I here is how can Clinton STOP Obama, is this the stand that MSNBC has taken, or just the personal views of those on the air. Please respond.
    Thank you, Herb Hall, Holton KS.

    • Posted By: isabvella @ 02/20/2008 23:55:15

      Comment: I've also seen it on PBS. They even ask what advice they would give H. Clinton.

  • Posted By: Herb42 @ 02/20/2008 6:52:11 PM

    Comment: I wish to ask a question please, why is it that every time I switch to MSNBC all I here is how can Clinton STOP Obama, is this the stand that MSNBC has taken, or just the personal views of those on the air. Please respond.
    Thank you, Herb Hall, Holton KS.

  • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/20/2008 4:49:15 PM

    Comment: So who is she [Hillary Clinton] kidding? If she wants to hit Obama with a negative based on his inexperience and limited legislative record, she should go right ahead. But to pretend that she is the ???solutions??? and ???answers??? person while he gives speeches is absurd.

    Dick Morris

  • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/20/2008 4:41:17 PM

    Comment:
    Hillary Clinton Goofs Again
    A Commentary by Dick Morris

    Who was it that defined neurosis as repeating the same mistake again and again, and expecting a better outcome each time? That???s really what the Clinton campaign is doing in its post-Chesapeake primary strategy. Now Hillary defines Obama as the candidate who makes speeches, while she is the one who provides ???answers??? and ???solutions.???

    Why is Hillary embracing this new line? It???s not that she has any great record of solutions or answers of which to boast, but rather that she wants to highlight Obama???s lack of a legislative record. Once again, she and her campaign geniuses are making the same mistake they made when they decided to use the experience as their defining difference with Obama. It???s not that she had much, but they sensed an opportunity to highlight that he had even less.
    Of course experience not only didn???t work. It backfired massively. By co-opting the experience tag, Hillary bought into the status quo and left Obama to be the agent of change. A candidacy that could have excited tens of millions of women, the first serious prospect of a female president, became merely a boring part of the status quo, shorn of its novelty.

    Hillary???s claim to be the solution-person won???t work either for the same simple reason: She hasn???t passed any...she hasn???t walked the walk so now she cannot talk the talk.

    As a first lady, Hillary???s sole important legislative involvement came during the first two years of her husband???s presidency when she sought to pass her ill-conceived health care reform, an effort that failed so miserably that it cost her party control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years. Between 1995 to 1997, she was largely absent from the White House, traveling the world, promoting her best selling book and helping to raise funds. She never attended strategy meetings and her only intervention in the singular legislative achievements of Bill???s administration ??? welfare reform and the balanced budget deal ??? was privately to urge a veto of the former and to oppose the latter because it provided for a cut in the capital gains tax. Hillary returned to the White House in 1998 to oversee the defense to the Lewinsky scandal and the impeachment attempt, but the Clinton administration essentially folded its legislative efforts during those years and hung on for dear life. No portfolio of accomplishments there...

    Her only actual legislation included one bill to increase nurse recruitment, another to aid respite time for Alzheimer???s care givers and another to expand veterans??? health benefits, a paltry output for six years??? service.

    In her second term, she has spent full-time campaigning for president and has the worst attendance record of the three senators now still in the presidential race.

  • Posted By: Dr.Lindsey @ 02/20/2008 3:57:26 PM

    Comment: Setting the Record Straight
    An open letter to Hillary Clinton.

    By Dick Morris

    Dear Hillary,

    In your new book, Living History, you correctly note that when you asked me to help you and Bill avert defeat in the congressional election of 1994 I was reluctant to do so. But then you assert, incorrectly, that my reluctance stemmed from difficulties in working with your staff. You even misquote me as telling you: "I don't like the way I was treated, Hillary. People were so mean to me."
    As you know, I never said anything of the sort. I had, in fact, no experience in dealing with either your staff or the President's at that point, and had not yet met Leon Panetta or George Stephanopoulos. My prior dealing with Harold Ickes had been twenty five years earlier.

    The real reason I was reluctant was that Bill Clinton had tried to beat me up in May of 1990 as he, you, Gloria Cabe, and I were together in the Arkansas governor's mansion. At the time, Bill was worried that he was falling behind his democratic primary opponent and verbally assaulted me for not giving his campaign the time he felt it deserved. Offended by his harsh tone, I turned and stalked out of the room.

    Bill ran after me, tackled me, threw me to the floor of the kitchen in the mansion and cocked his fist back to punch me. You grabbed his arm and, yelling at him to stop and get control of himself, pulled him off me. Then you walked me around the grounds of the mansion in the minutes after, with your arm around me, saying, "He only does that to people he loves."

    I continued to work for Bill since I felt a responsibility to do so until Election Day in 1990. But our relationship was never close and never the same. After the 1990 campaign we parted ways as a direct result of the altercation.

    When the story threatened to surface during the 1992 campaign, you told me to "say it never happened."

    That, and not the invented conversation in your memoir, was the reason that I was reluctant to work for Bill again.

    Yours,
    Dick Morris

    • Posted By: Tejanos 4 Clinton @ 02/20/2008 16:28:40

      Comment: Boo Hoo! Politics!

      • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/20/2008 16:41:48

        Comment: Boo Hoo! Truth!

  • Posted By: Dr.Lindsey @ 02/20/2008 3:47:56 PM

    Comment: Dick Morris: Hillary's 'Paltry' Senate Record
    New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has been a great Senator for New York - at least according to her fans in the media, who regularly note how hard she works while insisting she's done much for adopted home state.

    Baloney, says Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. In their new book "Condi vs Hillary," they blow the lid off Hillary's pathetic Senate performance - a list of accomplishments that are so meager her supporters ought to be embarrassed.

    Morris and McGann note: "Hillary has had a total of twenty bills passed since she entered the Senate. Of those, fifteen have been purely symbolic in nature."

    Lest they be dismissed as Hillary-haters who don't want to give the former first lady the credit she deserves, "Condi vs Hillary" itemizes Mrs. Clinton's legislative "achievements" (such as they are).
    In five years as the most influential Democrat in the Senate, Hillary has managed to get the following laws and resolutions enacted:

    ??? Establish the Kate Mullany National Historic Site

    ??? Support the goals and ideals of Better Hearing and Speech Month

    ??? Recognize the Ellis Island Medal of Honor

    ??? Name courthouse after Thurgood Marshall

    ??? Name courthouse after James L. Watson

    ??? Name post office after John A. O'Shea

    ??? Designate August 7, 2003, as National Purple Heart Recognition Day

    ??? Support the goals and ideals of National Purple Heart Recognition Day

    ??? Honor the life and legacy of Alexander Hamilton on the bicentennial of his death

    ??? Congratulate the Syracuse University Orange Men's Lacrosse Team on winning the championship.

    ??? Congratulate the Le Moyne College Dolphins Men's Lacrosse Team on winning the championship

    ??? Establish the 225th Anniversary of the American Revolution Commemorative Program

    ??? Name post office after Sergeant Riayan A. Tejeda

    ??? Honor Shirley Chisholm for her service to the nation and express condolences on her death

    ??? Honor John J. Downing, Brian Fahey, and Harry Ford, firefighters who lost their lives on duty.

    Only five of Clinton's bills are, according to Morris, "substantive":

    ??? Extend period of unemployment assistance to victims of 9/11

    ??? Pay for city projects in response to 9/11

    ??? Assist landmine victims in other countries

    ??? Assist family caregivers in accessing affordable respite care

    ??? Designate part of the National Forest System in Puerto Rico as protected in the Wilderness Preservation System

    Concludes Morris and McGann: "In the face of Hillary Clinton's reputation as an effective U.S. senator, this record of paltry accomplishment is sobering. As much as Alexander Hamilton, Harriet Tubman, and the American Revolution deserve our recognition, one thinks the voters of New York may have expected more of their junior senator."

    • Posted By: emmarcee @ 02/20/2008 18:54:41

      Comment: kondi, who gets money from big oil

      • Posted By: Dr.Lamot @ 02/20/2008 19:19:50

        Comment: Comment: As Ralph Nader states about the Clinton Administration and what is to come, "To justify his invasion of Iraq, Bush regularly referred in 2002-2003 to Clinton's bombing of Iraq and making "regime change" explicit U.S. policy.

        But it was Clinton's insistence on UN-backed economic sanctions in contrast to just military embargos, against Iraq, during his term in office. These sanctions on civilians, a task force of leading American physicians estimated, took half a million Iraqi children's lives." The Clinton administration is hardly the perfect administration. This happened when HILLARY CLINTON was in office. I would like to think that this is not a Fascist country where we are told its a democracy, but all the while only a few families and a few small elite circles are ruling and will continue to control the masses. Prove them wrong and vote OBAMA in for president!

        • Posted By: isabvella @ 02/21/2008 00:00:30

          Comment: Have you ever read"The Irony of Democracy"? According to tthis book, the few elite control the masses in order to have a democracy.

          • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/21/2008 14:41:18

            Comment: Well...of course a "so called" democracy. Even deeper than that....search the term take a look at this website.....http://www.prolognet.qc.ca/clyde/illumin.htm EYEOPENER

      • Posted By: Dr.Lamot @ 02/20/2008 19:17:10

        Comment: The Clintons are a part of that same vein.

  • Posted By: emmarcee @ 02/20/2008 2:54:51 PM

    Comment: I read this disgusting article about Obama and Asians in Time magazine. It is this liberal media which is trying to split democratic lines. If Latinos or Asians stick with Hillary there may be something beyond race too. It could be because in these populations, allegiances and loyalty do not change like the change of weather. They also seem to go for house hold names rather than a recent media hype. These people are harder It is not just Obama's team who can say "race does not matter". (and then get all the black voters to come out and vote for him). All white liberal democrats voting for him like the rats following the pied piper. I noted in another blog, that this "dislike to Asians have prompted Newsweek to publish an article on "rats" as a complement to Chinese New Year Day. I am so disgusted with the media. I will never pay a dime to these people who try to sell their own opinions.

  • Posted By: JohnGaltlaketahoe @ 02/20/2008 2:53:56 PM

    Comment: Will McCain, Clinton, or Obama speak up to the issue of today's news release that Royal Dutch Shell and BP are announcing their tenders for "helping" to service Iraqi oil fields? WW1 and WW2 along with the two Gulf/Bush wars have been the issue of Iraqi/Caspian Sea/ Baku region oil reserves.

    Bush lied millions died. Will McCain, Obama or Clinton speak to this issue? Will the debate on the issue of what will be next for America in the Middle East? It is not like the issue will be a new one with a new President.
    George W. Bush and his cabinet of advisors involved America in a quest for oil through decades of Congressional approved and failed foreign policy. Take the war to Congress. Force them to impeach Bush, exile him and his Cabinet of Advisors before November 2008. The issue needs more public debate.

  • Posted By: Tejanos 4 Clinton @ 02/20/2008 2:26:36 PM

    Comment: Actually, the saying 'El no trae nada' means 'He has nothing.'; hence followed by 'He's never done anything for anybody here'. Hillary, she can for the Hispanicans! We love America as much as she does; giving her life to being a public servant.

    • Posted By: yleon28 @ 02/21/2008 14:41:55

      Comment: Trae is to bring, tiene is to have

  • Posted By: yleon28 @ 02/20/2008 1:49:56 PM

    Comment: Technically, "El no trae nada," means he does not bring anything not " He's never done anything for anybody here." If you are going to translate something from Spanish to English (or any language) you need to get the translation right, and maybe translation errors occur in order to finish bashing another political candidate. If you can't translate properly maybe you shouldn't translate.

  • Posted By: JohnGaltlaketahoe @ 02/20/2008 12:52:24 PM

    Comment: Does anyone hear the three candidates speak on agribusiness giants? On corporate criminals? Nuclear power? Big bank scams, drug company and insurance scams? Union busting? War profiteers? Well? Is there any discussion for the highest office in the nation about treason, insurrection, Constitutional violations and human rights violations?

  • Posted By: JohnGaltlaketahoe @ 02/20/2008 12:40:46 PM

    Comment: The scam of this particular American electoral process is that all the debates have been sponsored by "private cable networks". The contracts signed and agreed upon by the Dems and Repugs have excluded much needed input on issues that Kucinich and Paul would have brought, before Feburary 5th Super Tuesday.
    The scam is that now, the nation is looking at 9 months of nothing, no issues, no debates worth their merit between Clinton, McCain and Obama? No debates on corporate criminals and what to do about them in Congress, no debates about how to deal with Bush and his war criminals once they are out of office. No debates on banking, drug companies, energy provider pollution, credit card companies, big oil. Nothing.

    There should be a war waged against Congress like it has waged against the American electorate with its bipartisan allegiance to obstruction of justice. This Presidential election year must deal with George W. Bush and the quagmire US taxpayers are facing in Iraq for decades to come because of failed foreign policy under the the United States Congress and too many Presidential terms.

  • Posted By: sdmolof @ 02/20/2008 11:57:44 AM

    Comment: The real question in Texas should not be as much about what each candidate has done for Texas in the past. The real question should be for who you believe has the better ability to bring people together and inspire the nation as a whole.

    Another obvious reason for answering this question is that neither of the candidates are hispanic or latino in any form so what matters most to me is the true ability to bring about change, not whether or not which one loves hot sauce more.

  • Posted By: SEBesq @ 02/20/2008 11:16:58 AM

    Comment: Latinos of AmerKKKa, thanks for your vote and see you in four years.

  • Posted By: stlopez17 @ 02/20/2008 9:45:09 AM

    Comment: WHEN ALL THIS OBAMA VS. CLINTON IS ALL SAID AND DONE. MOST OF US ARE GOING TO BE ON THE SAME SIDE VOTING FOR THE WINNER BETWEEN THESE TWO. LETS FACE IT AND STOP FIGHTING AGAINST EACHOTHER.

    • Posted By: emmarcee @ 02/20/2008 14:58:26

      Comment: do you think so? who is your friend, Mcaine or Obama?

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 02/20/2008 5:49:17 AM

    Comment: "YES WE CAN" T SHIRTS WILL SELL LIKE "HOT CAKES"

    BARAK NEEDS A YES WE CAN SLOGAN IN SPANISH.
    THEN MAKE T SHIRTS AND OTHER ATTIRE and HAND THEM OUT IN TEXAS AND OHIO.


    "YES WE CAN" "YES WE CAN" "YES WE CAN" TEXAS AND OHIO.
    I
    T is TIME TO SEND A MESSAGE AND DELIVER THE KNOCK OUT BLOW.
    TAKING YOUR GLOVES OFF EARLY IS NOT ALWAYS THE WISEST DECISION TO MAKE. SOME MIGHT EVEN CALL IT NAIVE.

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 02/20/2008 5:35:44 AM

    Comment: To Jrmapu

    Barak is not President yet. IT IS THE PRESIDENT'S JOB TO VISIT THOSE VICTIMS.
    ONE OF THE MAIN POINTS OBAMA MADE IN LAST NIGHTS SPEECH WAS THAT THE CHALLENGE of implementing change is JUST BEGINNING> THAT CHANGE IS NOT EASY. AND WILL TAKE A UNITED EFFORT from all not just a few.

    CAN HILLARY MAKE HER LAST STAND IN TEXAS AND OHIO A SUCCESSFUL ONE.

    "OR WILL THIS OBAMA WAVE , POWERED BY A THUNDEROUS MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE, SWALLOW HILLARY AND HER ARMY OF LATINOS" eddiewhere 2008.

    OBAMA GAVE A TREMENDOUS SPEECH IN TEXAS LAST NIGHT.
    THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE SPEECH WAS WHEN OBAMA MENTIONED THAT SOME LEADERS SAY THAT I CANNOT ENGAGE OUR ENEMIES IN DISCUSSION. TO THEM I SAY YES I CAN.
    YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN.

  • Posted By: Dr.Lindsey @ 02/20/2008 4:51:19 AM

    Comment: Comment: Comment: Comment: Be informed about the Clintons, and read this book, Target: Caught In The Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton, by Kathleen Willey AND go get the stunning film "Hillary! Uncensored" from WND's online bookstore. THEY ARE EYEOPENERS!

  • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/20/2008 4:44:42 AM

    Comment:
    McCain reaches too hard and too transparently to turn everything into a contest about military service.

    There is a strutting self-righteousness about McCain that goes hand-in-hand with a nitroglycerin temper. He flatters himself that his colleagues in the Senate dislike him because he stands up for principle, while they sell their souls for pork. Not exactly. He is disliked because on many, many occasions he has been disrespectful, belligerent, and vulgar to those who differ with him.

    Bradley Smith, former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission and the leading legal scholar on campaign-finance issues, experienced the McCain treatment firsthand. Because Smith opposed limits on political speech, he was denounced as ???corrupt??? by the senator (as was Commissioner Ellen Weintraub). Smith, who lives modestly, jokes that his wife has complained about the absence of jewels and furs. Though he served on the commission for five years and made several attempts to meet with McCain to discuss the issues, Smith was rebuffed.

    The two did accidentally meet outside a hearing room in 2004 when they were both scheduled to testify before the Senate rules committee. At first, McCain grasped Smith???s outstretched hand (Smith was in a wheelchair recovering from surgery), but when he recognized his campaign finance opponent he snatched his hand back, snarling ???I???m not going to shake your hand. You???re a bully. You have no regard for the Constitution. You???re corrupt.???

    Smith, a soft-spoken scholar, ardent patriot, and lifelong conservative Republican, cannot pull the lever for McCain. He is far from alone, and that is the Republican Party???s heartbreak in 2008.

    ??? Mona Charen is a syndicated columnist and political commentator.








  • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/20/2008 4:31:02 AM

    Comment: Comment: Bill Boyarski-Its appalling to contemplate McCain as president, in view of his unstinting support of President Bush's Iraq war and his pledge to increase the Army and Marines from the presently contemplated 750,000 to 900,000.

  • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/20/2008 4:29:46 AM

    Comment: Ric Locke wrote:

    It fails to matter.

    The only reason McCain has gotten this far is that the Press sees him as a slightly left-of-center Democrat and therefore supportable. As soon as it's a contest between him and somebody with a (D) after their name, anything that appears in the media will savage him. I expect the "sold out to the North Vietnamese" notion to surface in the MSM sometime about the middle of March, and to be the Confirmed Narrative??? by May.

    Regards,
    Ric

  • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/20/2008 3:48:13 AM

    Comment: Bill Boyarski-It???s appalling to contemplate McCain as president in view of his unstinting support of President Bush???s Iraq war and his pledge to increase the Army and Marines from the presently contemplated 750,000 to 900,000.

  • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 02/20/2008 2:55:11 AM

    Comment: It truly looks like Hillary will be defeated. So John McCain will get my vote and probably alot of crossovers. Will it be enough, maybe, maybe not. To quote a person of reason, Obama offers a freshness to all the madness. He is bringing hope to America. Lets see him deliver. I believe he is going to need all the help he can get. Because he is running on empty promises that he has no clue how to deliver. I guess I will have to vote for a person of color next time. Hopefully I can trust that person. And if anyone believes he has been disadvantaged, not even I could afford to go to Punahou School. Totally private, and cost alot of money. a couple questions for you Obama diehards, if he is so concerned as you seem to defend, when the shooting happened did he even go and pay respects to the families of the victims? Hey he went home and it happened in his own backyard (figure of speeceh) perfect photo op to prove he is this considerate human being whom loves his country. Or is his loyalties overseas?

    • Posted By: clikdawg @ 02/20/2008 06:31:52

      Comment: Hey, I'm no fan of Barack Obama -- but one thing we don't need is another politician taking advantage of personal and community tragedies to score the sort of cheap photo-op you insist would prove his compassion. Have we gotten so used to such shoddy, crass, and self-serving behavior on the part of office-seekers that we now insist that they turn shootings into a personal circus to show us all how "caring" they are? Mr. Obama did everyone involved a favor by refusing to play that game -- and don't you ever forget it.

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 02/20/2008 2:40:12 AM

    Comment: THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN IS SWEEPING THE NATION. CAN THIS WAVE BE STOPPED.
    CAN HILLARY MAKE HER LAST STAND IN TEXAS AND OHIO A SUCCESSFUL ONE.

    "OR WILL THIS OBAMA WAVE , POWERED BY A THUNDEROUS MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE, SWALLOW HILLARY AND HER ARMY OF LATINOS" eddiewhere 2008.

    OBAMA GAVE A TREMENDOUS SPEECH IN TEXAS TONIGHT.
    THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE SPEECH WAS WHEN OBAMA MENTIONED THAT SOME LEADERS SAY THAT WE CANNOT ENGAGE OUR ENEMIES IN DISCUSSION. TO THEM I SAY YES I CAN.
    YES WE CAN.

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 02/20/2008 2:37:52 AM

    Comment: THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN IS SWEEPING THE NATION. CAN THIS WAVE BE STOPPED.
    CAN HILLARY MAKE HER LAST STAND IN TEXAS AND OHIO A SUCCESSFUL ONE.

    "OR WILL THIS OBAMA WAVE , POWERED BY A THUNDEROUS MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE, SWALLOW HILLARY AND HER ARMY OF LATINOS" eddiewhere 2008.

    OBAMA GAVE A TREMENDOUS SPEECH IN TEXAS TONIGHT.
    THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE SPEECH WAS WHEN OBAMA MENTIONED THAT SOME LEADERS SAY THAT WE CANNOT ENGAGE OUR ENEMIES IN DISCUSSION. TO THEM I SAY YES WE CAN.
    YES WE CAN.

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 02/20/2008 2:22:00 AM

    Comment: EVERY STATISTIC AND POLL HAVE Unanimously INDICATED THAT OBAMA WOULD DEFEAT McCAIN IN A NATIONAL ELECTION. THIS IS THE REASON OBAMA WILL BE THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE.

    McCain WILL BE DEFEATED IN A LAND SLIDE BY OBAMA in A NATIONAL ELECTION.
    THE ECONOMY AND THE WAR are AGAINST McCAIN. HIS ONLY SOLUTION IS TO MAINTAIN THE STATUS QUO"FOR A HUNDRED YEARS". WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR THIS. NOT ME, PERHAPS HOLY ROLLER CAN FUND THIS HUNDRED YEAR AGENDA McCAIN HAS READY FOR ALL TAX PAYING AMERICANS.

    HE WANTS TO KEEP THE BUSH TAX CUT'S INTACT. AS KARL ROVE MENTIONED IN HIS MOST RECENT ARTICLE IN NEWS WEEK, the REGAN ERA IS OVER. SUPPLY SIDE ECONOMICS IS NOT THE ANSWER.

    THE MIDDLE CLASS WILL HAVE TO SUFFER UNDER McCAIN.
    HE BELIEVES THIS AMERICAN SUFFERING IS NECESSARY IN ORDER TO CARRY OUT A MISGUIDED FOREIGN POLICY WHICH IS BASED ON FEAR AND NOT REALITY. IN FACT McCAIN'S AGENDA IS BADLY OUTDATED AND VERY UNPOPULAR AMONG MANY CONSERVATIVES IN HIS OWN PARTY, manY oF WHOM WILL VOTE FOR OBAMA OR STAY HOME IN NOVEMBER.

    REMEMBER THE PROBLEMS IN IRAQ AND PALESTINE AND THE REST OF THAT REGION ARE
    POLITICAL in NATURE. McCAIN is a great MILITARY MAN. BUT HIS EXPERTISE WAS NEEDED in TWO THOUSAND TWO, not now. WE NEED CHANGE. AND OBAMA WILL BE ABLE TO UNITE FACTIONS IN ORDER TO BRING STABILITY TO THAT REGION.

    I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO OBAMA APPOINTING McCAIN TO BE THE NEXT HEAD OF HOMELAND SECURTIY.

    McCAIN's VIABILITY TO BECOME PRESIDENT EXPIRED FOUR YEARS AGO.

  • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/20/2008 12:54:41 AM

    Comment:
    Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/16/2008 5:11:47 AM

    Comment: -Washington Monthly September 2006

    "This is a homeland-security sort of bill that America urgently needs to become law."

    -Martin Schramm, Scripps Howard News Service Columnist, 12/06/2005

    Stopping Nuclear Terrorism

    The greatest threat our nation faces is a nuclear weapon falling into terrorists' hands. The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed 650 cases of illicit trafficking in nuclear and radiological materials worldwide between 1993 and 2004. As little as four kilograms of plutonium - about the size of a soda can - can potentially be enough for a fissile nuclear bomb.

    Senator Obama passed legislation with Senator Lugar to prevent weapons of mass destruction from being smuggled across the globe. Signed into law in January 2007, the Lugar-Obama initiative will help other nations detect and secure weapons of mass destruction before they ever leave their borders. Senator Obama also worked with Senator Lugar to successfully restore $8 million in budget cuts to the original Nunn-Lugar Initiative.
    Project Vote Smart

    • Posted By: Shadoe01 @ 02/21/2008 08:31:25

      Comment: I guess this goes to show you how two faced he is. Why then did he vote to give over $13 billion in subsidies and tax breaks to the oil, coal & nuclear industries. He wants them to grow even larger but then tries to stop anything nuclear from happening? Please explain this?

  • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/20/2008 12:50:13 AM

    Comment: Comment: Comment: Comment: Be informed about the Clintons, and read this book, Target: Caught In The Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton, by Kathleen Willey AND the go get the stunning film "Hillary! Uncensored" from WND's online bookstore. THEY ARE EYEOPENERS!

  • Posted By: Dr.Lamot @ 02/20/2008 12:42:11 AM

    Comment: Comment: Interesting: Hillary Clinton has been telling America that she is the most qualified candidate for president based on her 'record,' which she says includes her eight years in the White House as First Lady - or 'co-president' - and her seven years in the Senate. Here is a reminder of what that record includes: - As First Lady, Hillary assumed authority over Health Care Reform, a process that cost the taxpayers over $13 million. She told both Bill Bradley and Patrick Moynihan, key votes needed to pass her legislation, that she would 'demonize' anyone who opposed it. But it was opposed; she couldn't even get it to a vote in a Congress controlled by her own party. (And in the next election, her party lost control of both the House and Senate.) - Hillary assumed authority over selecting a female Attorney General. Her first two recommendations, Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood, were forced to withdraw their names from consideration. She then chose Janet Reno. Janet Reno has since been described by Bill himself as 'my worst mistake.' - Hillary recommended Lani Guanier for head of the Civil Rights Commission. When Guanier's radical views became known, her name had to be withdrawn. - Hillary recommended her former law partners, Web Hubbell, Vince Foster, and William Kennedy for positions in the Justice Department, White House staff, and the Treasury, respectively. Hubbell was later imprisoned, Foster committed suicide, and Kennedy was forced to resign.

    • Posted By: Tejanos 4 Clinton @ 02/20/2008 14:35:34

      Comment: Nobama Shobama!

      • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/20/2008 17:10:22

        Comment: Hillary Clinton Goofs Again
        A Commentary by Dick Morris

        Who was it that defined neurosis as repeating the same mistake again and again, and expecting a better outcome each time? That???s really what the Clinton campaign is doing in its post-Chesapeake primary strategy. Now Hillary defines Obama as the candidate who makes speeches, while she is the one who provides ???answers??? and ???solutions.???

        Why is Hillary embracing this new line? It???s not that she has any great record of solutions or answers of which to boast, but rather that she wants to highlight Obama???s lack of a legislative record. Once again, she and her campaign geniuses are making the same mistake they made when they decided to use the experience as their defining difference with Obama. It???s not that she had much, but they sensed an opportunity to highlight that he had even less.
        Of course experience not only didn???t work. It backfired massively. By co-opting the experience tag, Hillary bought into the status quo and left Obama to be the agent of change. A candidacy that could have excited tens of millions of women, the first serious prospect of a female president, became merely a boring part of the status quo, shorn of its novelty.

        Hillary???s claim to be the solution-person won???t work either for the same simple reason: She hasn???t passed any...she hasn???t walked the walk so now she cannot talk the talk.

        As a first lady, Hillary???s sole important legislative involvement came during the first two years of her husband???s presidency when she sought to pass her ill-conceived health care reform, an effort that failed so miserably that it cost her party control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years. Between 1995 to 1997, she was largely absent from the White House, traveling the world, promoting her best selling book and helping to raise funds. She never attended strategy meetings and her only intervention in the singular legislative achievements of Bill???s administration ??? welfare reform and the balanced budget deal ??? was privately to urge a veto of the former and to oppose the latter because it provided for a cut in the capital gains tax. Hillary returned to the White House in 1998 to oversee the defense to the Lewinsky scandal and the impeachment attempt, but the Clinton administration essentially folded its legislative efforts during those years and hung on for dear life. No portfolio of accomplishments there...

        Her only actual legislation included one bill to increase nurse recruitment, another to aid respite time for Alzheimer???s care givers and another to expand veterans??? health benefits, a paltry output for six years??? service.

        In her second term, she has spent full-time campaigning for president and has the worst attendance record of the three senators now still in the presidential race.

  • Posted By: Dr.Lamot @ 02/20/2008 12:39:35 AM

    Comment: Comment: Hillary also recommended a close friend of the Clintons, Craig Livingstone, for the position of director of White House security. When Livingstone was investigated for the improper access of up to 900 FBI files of Clinton enemies (?Filegate?) and the widespread use of drugs by White House staff, both Hillary and her husband denied knowing him. FBI agent Dennis Sculimbrene confirmed in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in 1996, both the drug use and Hillary's involvement in hiring Livingstone. After that, the FBI closed its White House Liaison Office, after serving seven presidents for over thirty years. - In order to open ?slots? in the White House for her friends the Thomasons (to whom millions of dollars in travel contracts could be awarded), Hillary had the entire staff of the White House Travel Office fired; they were reported to the FBI for 'gross mismanagement' and their reputations ruined. After a thirty-month investigation, only one, Billy Dale, was charged with a crime - mixing personal money with White House funds when he cashed checks. The jury acquitted him in less than two hours. - Another of Hil lary's assumed duties was directing the 'bimbo eruption squad' and scandal defense: ---- She urged her husband not to settle the Paula Jones lawsuit. ---- She refused to release the Whitewater documents, which led to the appointment of Ken Starr as Special Prosecutor. After $80 million dollars of taxpayer money was spent, Starr's investigation led to Monica Lewinsky, which led to Bill lying about and later admitting his affairs. ---- Then they had to settle with Paula Jones after all. ---- And Bill lost his law license for lying to the grand jury ---- And Bill was impeached by the House. ---- And Hillary almost got herself indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice (she avoided it mostly because she repeated, 'I do not recall,' 'I have no recollection,' and 'I don't know' 56 times under oath). -

  • Posted By: Anthony576 @ 02/20/2008 12:38:34 AM

    Comment: Hillary Clinton for change?? How can someone who represents the system and is supported by it change the system? No, we need someone new. Vote Obama.

  • Posted By: Dr.Lamot @ 02/20/2008 12:37:12 AM

    Comment: Comment: Hillary wrote 'It Takes a Village,' demonstrating her Socialist viewpoint. - Hill ary decided to seek election to the Senate in a state she had never lived in. Her husband pardoned FALN terrorists in order to get Latino support and the New Square Hassidim to get Jewish support. Hillary also had Bill pardon her brother's clients, for a small fee, to get financial support. - Then Hillary left the White House, but later had to return $200,000 in White House furniture, china, and artwork she had stolen. - In the campaign for the Senate, Hillary played the 'woman card' by portraying her opponent (Lazio) as a bully picking on her. - Hillary's husband further protected her by asking the National Archives to withhold from the public until 2012 many records of their time in the White House, including much of Hillary's correspondence and her calendars. (There are ongoing lawsuits to force the release of those records.) - As the junior Senator from New York, Hillary has passed no major legislation. She has deferred to the senior Senator (Schumer) to tend to the needs of New Yorkers, even on the hot issue of medical problems of workers involved in the cleanup of Ground Zero after 9/11. - Hillary's one notable vote; supporting the plan to invade Iraq, she has since disavowed. Quite a resume?. Sounds more like an organized crime family?s rap sheet. please read the following information gathered from the Library of Congress.

  • Posted By: Dr.Lamot @ 02/20/2008 12:34:21 AM

    Comment: Comment: Feel free to check these records for yourself; better still, read a little more, and try and stay current before posting assinine comments: Clinton v. Obama on Legislative Experience: Senator Clinton, who has served only one full term (6yrs.), and another year campaigning, has managed to author and pass into law, (20) twenty pieces of legislation in her first six years. These bills can be found on the website of the Library of Congress (www.thomas.loc.gov), but to save you trouble, I'll post them here for you: 1. Establish the Kate Mullany National Historic Site. 2. Support the goals and ideals of Better Hearing and Speech Month. 3. Recognize the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. 4. Name courthouse after Thurgood Marshall. 5. Name courthouse after James L. Watson. 6. Name post office after Jonn A. O'Shea. 7. Designate Aug. 7, 2003, as National Purple Heart Recognition Day. 8. Support the goals and ideals of National Purple Heart Recognition Day. 9. Honor the life and legacy of Alexander Hamilton on the bicentennial of his death. 10. Congratulate the Syracuse Univ. Orange Men's Lacrosse Team on winning the championship. 11. Congratulate the Le Moyne College Dolphins Men's Lacrosse Team on winning the championship. 12. Establish the 225th Anniversary of the American Revolution Commemorative Program. 13. Name post office after Sergeant Riayan A. Tejeda. 14. Honor Shirley Chisholm for her service to the nation and express condolences on her death. 15. Honor John J. Downing, Brian Fahey, and Harry Ford, firefighters who lost their lives on duty. Only five of Clinton's bills are, more substantive. 16. Extend period of unemployment assistance to victims of 9/11. 17. Pay for city projects in response to 9/11 18. Assist landmine victims in other countries. 19. Assist family caregivers in accessing affordable respite care. 20. Designate part of the National Forest System in Puerto Rico as protected in the wilderness preservation system. There you have it, the fact's straight from the Senate

    • Posted By: Shadoe01 @ 02/21/2008 08:37:58

      Comment: Dr. Lamont,

      Why did you only print the first twenty, there are a lot more than this that she has done. Why do you print only a partial list, please be truthful and while you are at it let us look at some of your candidates facts:

      1) Voted to extend NAFTA to South America
      2) Voted to let credit card companies increase their fees to 30%
      3) Voted to increase student loan rates & fees
      4) Voted to give $13 billion to one of the industries he is trying to stop (nuclear)
      5) Voted to suspend troop withdrawal

      Please explain these to me?

  • Posted By: Dr.Lamot @ 02/20/2008 12:32:05 AM

    Comment: Comment: Record. Now, I would post those of Obama's, but the list is too substantive, so I'll mainly categorize. During the first (8) eight months of his elected service he sponsored over 820 bills. He introduced 233 regarding healthcare reform, 125 on poverty and public assistance, 112 crime fighting bills, 97 economic bills, 60 human rights and anti-discrimination bills, 21 ethics reform bills, 15 gun control, 6 veterans affairs and many others. His first year in the U.S. Senate, he authored 152 bills and co-sponsored another 427. These inculded **the Coburn-Obama Government Transparency Act of 2006 (became law), **The Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act, (became law), **The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, passed the Senate, **The 2007 Government Ethics Bill, (became law), **The Protection Against Excessive Executive Compensation Bill, (In committee), and many more. In all since he entered the U.S. Senate, Senator Obama has written 890 bills and co-sponsored another 1096. An impressive record, for someone who supposedly has no legislative record. . . . My last point: Obama needs name recognition, he needs to be among the people, so people feel like they have access to him. HRC's debate challenge is more about the fact that her campaign is running low on money and she gets free air-time without spending anything. Would you give up the chance to see 20,000 voters up close and personal to be on a televised debate? No way! Obama, stick to your guns. Debate on your terms, not Hillary's! Go Obama 2008!

  • Posted By: Dr.Lindsey @ 02/20/2008 12:19:35 AM

    Comment: Comment: Obama has WAY more experience in running government than Clinton does. Clinton was a spokesperson who acted as an ambassador during her husband's term and ran her household (of which she didn't do a good job of either). Even while on Clinton's watch as the senator of New York, terrorists attacked the World Trade Center AND Hillary Clinton sided with the worse president in the history of the United States to launch a FRUITLESS war that has cost us BILLIONS of dollars and THOUSANDS of lives and you would have the audacity to side with an individual whose husband, as the president, was having oral sex with some girl named Lewinsky, and this is who you want running your government? Obama has generations of experience of running policy and running a state. Every child in the State of Ilinois receives FREE health insurance and this is the FIRST state to have such a plan. OBAMA implemented this. OBAMA helped to build the resurgence of jobs in the state of Illinois after the factories and plants shut down. OBAMA implemented strategic plans to put those people who were in those factories back to work and OBAMA IS also working on plans to reform the damage that has come about from the mortgage and lending institututions that have caused so many to be in foreclosure. SO besides running a state, here is a person who has FAR greater experience running government than Hillary. I'm not going to argue with anyone who doesn't want to check the facts. Just know that you will be used by the strong "hand of government", to implement Hillary's plan to garnish and tax all the employees in America WHETHER they can afford it or not. My mention of the "heavy hand of government" was an answer that was PARTICULARlY given by CLINTON regarding how she would FORCE her "UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE" on ALL individuals, ( of which I left reference as to where to check in earlier comments). This was Clinton's DIRECT ANSWER AND WORDS regarding how she would enforce her "UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE PLAN". If you want to know what and who the CLINTONS are about, go look for the TRUTH, and you can start with this stunning film "Hillary! Uncensored". Also visit, www.barackobama.com. Please come back with some statistical backup (Books, statistical data, etc.), and not some mainstream media rhetoric. Come campaign with me.

  • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/20/2008 12:10:29 AM

    Comment: Comment: Obama has always supported the Latino community...don't believe the hype.
    He marched with many Latinos and fought for their civil rights in Chicago and abroad and will continue to truly be a voice and movement for the many Latinos that go unheard. Speaker: Senator Barack H. Obama Jr. (IL)
    Title: Obama Statement on Hispanic Heritage Month
    Date: 09/15/2007
    Location: Chicago, IL

    Obama Statement on Hispanic Heritage Month

    U.S. Senator Barack Obama released the following statement today to commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month.

    "This month, I join all Americans in celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, a time to honor the achievements and sacrifices of Hispanic Americans. From a long tradition of service in the United States military to the visionary leadership of César Chávez, one of our nation's civil rights giants, Hispanic Americans have helped sew the social, economic, and cultural fabric of America.

    "But despite all the progress we've made together, we know that there is more work to be done. I stood side by side with the Hispanic community when I was a community organizer in Chicago, I've stood by their side at immigration rallies, and I'll stand by their side when I'm President. We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, reduce the Latino student drop-out rate, finally enact the DREAM Act, and provide the 15 million uninsured Latinos with affordable, high-quality health care. And let's end this war in Iraq now and turn the page on the failed policies of the last seven years that have left Latinos, and so many other Americans, behind.

    "What has always distinguished the Latino community - and what distinguishes us as Americans - is our belief that with big dreams and hard work, anything is possible. And with the energy the Latino community brings to our democracy and our economy, we can be assured that America's future will be bright. So this month and every month, let's reaffirm our shared history as a nation of immigrants dedicated to prosperity and opportunity for all."

  • Posted By: texas1 @ 02/19/2008 11:07:58 PM

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  • Posted By: texas1 @ 02/19/2008 11:07:11 PM

    Comment: Its ironic that Hillary Clinton now needs to win Texas considering how often she bashes President Bush who is from Texas. Lots of luck

  • Posted By: nubbs @ 02/19/2008 10:52:36 PM

    Comment: I'm with okaywithit. At least with the Clintons dollars were flowing. When the poor man has a little cash, everyone does. Obama man not BE Muslim, but he's to close for me. The last time I checked, a quarter had "In God We Trust" stamped on it. I didn't see anything about Allah.

    • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/20/2008 17:11:09

      Comment: Hillary Clinton Goofs Again
      A Commentary by Dick Morris

      Who was it that defined neurosis as repeating the same mistake again and again, and expecting a better outcome each time? That???s really what the Clinton campaign is doing in its post-Chesapeake primary strategy. Now Hillary defines Obama as the candidate who makes speeches, while she is the one who provides ???answers??? and ???solutions.???

      Why is Hillary embracing this new line? It???s not that she has any great record of solutions or answers of which to boast, but rather that she wants to highlight Obama???s lack of a legislative record. Once again, she and her campaign geniuses are making the same mistake they made when they decided to use the experience as their defining difference with Obama. It???s not that she had much, but they sensed an opportunity to highlight that he had even less.
      Of course experience not only didn???t work. It backfired massively. By co-opting the experience tag, Hillary bought into the status quo and left Obama to be the agent of change. A candidacy that could have excited tens of millions of women, the first serious prospect of a female president, became merely a boring part of the status quo, shorn of its novelty.

      Hillary???s claim to be the solution-person won???t work either for the same simple reason: She hasn???t passed any...she hasn???t walked the walk so now she cannot talk the talk.

      As a first lady, Hillary???s sole important legislative involvement came during the first two years of her husband???s presidency when she sought to pass her ill-conceived health care reform, an effort that failed so miserably that it cost her party control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years. Between 1995 to 1997, she was largely absent from the White House, traveling the world, promoting her best selling book and helping to raise funds. She never attended strategy meetings and her only intervention in the singular legislative achievements of Bill???s administration ??? welfare reform and the balanced budget deal ??? was privately to urge a veto of the former and to oppose the latter because it provided for a cut in the capital gains tax. Hillary returned to the White House in 1998 to oversee the defense to the Lewinsky scandal and the impeachment attempt, but the Clinton administration essentially folded its legislative efforts during those years and hung on for dear life. No portfolio of accomplishments there...

      Her only actual legislation included one bill to increase nurse recruitment, another to aid respite time for Alzheimer???s care givers and another to expand veterans??? health benefits, a paltry output for six years??? service.

      In her second term, she has spent full-time campaigning for president and has the worst attendance record of the three senators now still in the presidential race.

  • Posted By: subvet @ 02/19/2008 10:50:32 PM

    Comment: The anointing of Not ready for prime time Barack by Ted Kennedy and some of his clan gave him the impetus and subsequent media attention needed to help him overcome Hillary's lead. With Hillary down and possibly out and all of our more competent and experienced leaders (Biden/Dobbs) ignored by the media and those swayed by image and so-called charisma, I fear that the Dems are going to shoot themselves in the foot yet again. Do you really think that the Reps. would rather face Hillary than Obama? I think we may have lost our chance to deny so-called conservatives the further destruction of government. While Barack's handlers may be able to set up a firewall of protection during the primaries, his inexperience will be exposed during the national campaign and I fear that many independents will be swayed to support the status quo and familiarity of McCain, despite the negative consequences of the policies he will be compromised to offer to maintain conservative support.