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  • Posted By: venwright @ 02/19/2008 2:32:05 PM

    Wow, I had no idea that some Latinos were so racist... I would hope that no one made a decision based on race because both candidates have deficiencies, but for kellromen to say that he is black first and a senator second is just plain ignorant. I am a former member of Hillary's campaign, so I am not an Obamaniac, but I do admire the way he has forced America to take a closer look at the potential and accomplishments of black people, but uniformed, xenophobic comments and opinions like those of kellromen show us that we still have a long way to go as a country before we can truly be color blind.

    • Posted By: migmanlor @ 02/19/2008 9:17:40 PM

      Latinos may be as racists as blacks or whites, but I definitively hear, more blacks taking about whites and playing the race card, than any other ethnic group!!! As "a former member of Hilary's campaing" so you claim, you should know that she is a more rounded candidate that the "promising" senator from Illinois that delivered Nothing to Illinoisans

      • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/20/2008 5:32:18 PM

        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: Meri @ 02/19/2008 2:55:39 PM

    Hispanics are now the largest minority in the United States, so to dismiss them as some blacks have done is dumb, but hey, they are among Hillary's strongest supporters anyway, so I guess Obama doesn't care about them, or older women, old people in general, the working class, veterans. And each new white male endorsement he gets seems to BACKFIRE a la Kennedy in MASS.

    • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/20/2008 5:30:56 PM

      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: Salsa @ 02/19/2008 10:00:19 PM

      you are being soooo racist! there are other minorites like gays what do u have to say to that?

  • Posted By: Meri @ 02/19/2008 3:08:53 PM

    Actually, one reason Obama has so much money for his campaign is that he's been bought and paid for by Hollywood. Where did more than half a million dollars of that money just go? To buy off 5 Superdelegates. Since there are so few facts in this posting, let alone by the male dominated media, you might want to check out Obama's "unemployed" supporters who somehow manage to come up with a few thousand dollars for his campaign.

    • Posted By: Julia55 @ 02/19/2008 5:19:26 PM

      Hey Meri -- believe me: Hollywood aint paying for Obama. Much of it backs Senator Clinton. California showed Obama that we're used to actors and we're used to speeches and blow hard rhetoric. California is and will always be Clinton country.

      • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/20/2008 5:30:06 PM

        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: lafit @ 02/19/2008 5:08:43 PM

    TEXAS:

    WHERE IS THE MEDIA THAT THEY DO NOT TALK ABOUT IT?

    www.whitehouse.com

    www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56626

    http://www.worldnetdaily.com


    WE AMERICAN PEOPLE DESERVE THE TRUTH.
    WE WOULD NOT WANT THIS GUY TO BE OUR PRESIDENT.

    THE MEDIA LOVES TO HEAR NEGATIVE, HORRIBLE COMMENTARIES ABOUT MRS. CLINTON AND IT IS OK. BUT WHEN IT COMES TO OBAMA IS WRONG?


    MEDIA, IT IS OK TO HAVE SOMEONE FOR PRESIDENT THAT ???HAS BEEN ADICTED TO DRUGS????

    IS THIS A MODEL FOR THE YOUNG GENERATION?

    • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/20/2008 5:28:46 PM

      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: zenoreo @ 02/20/2008 4:13:42 PM

      We have for 8 years.. G.W. Bush !! Do some homework first before speaking?

  • Posted By: Fortheloveofmoney @ 02/19/2008 5:55:41 PM

    Hillary is more of the same. Until the Clintons can step up to the plate and stop taking money from private interest groups, then we will have more of the same, big money corporations running the country. Don't forget NAFTA did this country no favors. I wonder why Bill Clinton signed the bill supporting it ?

    • Posted By: Bashir @ 02/19/2008 6:58:38 PM

      True, President Clinton supported NAFTA. My politics are left of center, and I thought it would be a good idea, but don't you think the U.S. baed corporations have nay responsibility for this mess? Obviously these companies only saw making money was the most important thing and di nothing to keep some of the labour on U.S. shores. I think the govenment(Bush) should have put some pressure on these companies to do the right thing by the American worker. The engorged trade deficit didn't help matters
      much and again that happened under Bush's watch. Don't think that Obama has not taken money from
      special interests or that the tone of how things get done in Washington is going to change. This isn't any Jimmy Stewart movie or fantasy moment. Whoever wins the presidency is going to have his/her hands
      full. What are exactly the conservatives conserving? Deficit spending thru the roof? Continue high employment? Continued war in the Middle East? Oh, that's right we need a gay marriage ammendment.
      Whatever you decide to do with your vote, understand this-the media has had a great deal of influence in this election, and Obama has been given a free ride. Do you think he is going to be abale to withstand the the storm that the other side is going to throw at him? The Clintons are hated by Republicans because they understand the game as much as they do and won't take that crap laying down. the American people are going to have to figure it out or we are due tfor much of the same thing if McCain gets elected. Those Republicans who voted for Obama in the primary are going to look at his politics and no matter how smooth he comes across, they are going to enmass pull the lever for the Republican candidate. If McCain was left to his own devices, I actually think he has the makings of a good President, but those far right loons have been giving him shots across the bow to turn right since he has been the front runner and make no mistake about it, he is behelden to them. Yes, I agreee there is too much divisiveness in govenment, but this is mostly gnereated by the right. Look, Clinton was probably an average president at best, but the Republican machine spent 8 years trying to ruin him(remember, they spent 40 million and found NOTHING)-heck, the legal bills once he finished his terms was astounding. You have to agree that the Republicans play the dirty politics a lot better than the Democrats-it is their nature to do so. I am not a Clinton aplologist(I am on the fence regarding the Democratic cancidates), but think about what they went thru during those 8 years before you throw Hiliary under the bus.

      • Posted By: clikdawg @ 02/20/2008 6:23:30 AM

        Bashir, the response of U.S. corporations to the doors opened by NAFTA was thoroughly predictable; indeed, that's why NAFTA deliberately opened those doors. To say, in effect, that nobody could have foreseen that U.S. based companies would only see "making money was the most important thing" and do nothing to keep "some" of the labor on U.S. shores is to ignore the obvious trends in American corporate ethics and philosophy over the past quarter century. NAFTA achieved just exactly what it was designed to achieve. Period.

        • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/20/2008 5:27:12 PM

          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: not_another_american_idiot @ 02/19/2008 6:34:19 PM

      and you think Obama owes no favors for his "endless supply of money?" I am curious why the media isn't digging into this.... Who are Obama's two main groups of supporters: young people and African-Americans. I know, being a young, fresh out of college American, I do not have a lot of money and demographics have shown that the Southern and Mid-Western states where Obama is winning up to 90% of the African-American vote do not have a lot of money either. Is Oprah financing Obama's campaign completely and if so aren't people a bit skeptical considering that she is a huge business entrepreneur herself? People are so quick to point the finger at the Clinton's for accepting corporate money but what I would like to see is a breakdown of how and where Obama's money is really coming from!!!

      Please Newsweek and other major media start looking at this guy objectively before you throw an easy bone to the Republicans!!!

  • Posted By: Fortheloveofmoney @ 02/19/2008 7:16:21 PM

    Obama will withstand the storm. He already has proved that by standing and winning against the Clinton Machine. I do not believe that Obama has taken money from special interest or the media would have already jumped all over it. As far as US corporations they had no choice but to move their business with the unfair tax advantages that China recieved from NAFTA.

    • Posted By: Bashir @ 02/19/2008 8:40:42 PM

      Obama circumvented MCain-Finegold by having individuals in those companies donate instead of having the company itself donate enmass. I also think that companies had a choice as to whether to farm out jobs overseas. They could have put more pressure at the state and federal level to lower to give more tax breaks,, or even hold hearings in Washington with documentation of their difficulties. Your silence regarding the fact that the CLintons are not media darlings and their difficulties whethering the Republican attack machine leads me to believe that you and other Obamaphiles continue to swallow what the media tlls you is truth. You can go back to many different administrations in the past 50 years and there was always something. Heck, Reagan pretty much has been given a free pass despite Iran Contra, running up record deficits, and his intolerance for minorities. Why else were we exposed to 3 days of mourning and funeral with constant TV coverage. Despite their failings, the Clintons stood up to the Republicans and suffered a lot for it. How else did the Democrats lose a lot of seats in Congress during that time? Yes, Clinton's personal behavior brought him a lot of grief, but they were attacked from day one. No Democrat or any reasonable person who follows politics should ever forget the Willie Horton ads run during 41's campaign. The Republicans will stoop to new lows in oder to achieve power-jsut look at all the gerrymandering DeLay and his ilk did in Texas and throughout the country. Some of you have very short memories. Again, I do not enjoy seeing politicians bicker and fight(or fiddle while Rome burns), but sometimes bullies need to be reminded by force or you keep getting victimized-just look at 43 and his gang did in the past 7 years. They didn't do much reaching across the isle. I wiould even venture to say that again Obama's numbers might be inflated if Republicans are allowed to vote in Democratic primaries. A tiger very rarely changes his stripes and those persons will be voting for McCain.

      • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/20/2008 5:19:43 PM

        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: not_another_american_idiot @ 02/19/2008 7:47:21 PM

      I would be extremely impressed if it were Obama and his amazing policies of change who stood up against the "Clinton Machine," however, that's not the truth of the matter. Only until Oprah stepped onto the campaign trail did Obama start winning against the "Clinton Machine" and in reality we really should be giving more credit to the Clinton's because they have stood together as a family and have truly withstood a storm hitting from every direction (even Chelsea has been attacked). Trust me, the "Clinton Machine" has gone easy on Obama and it's the Pat Robertson, evangelical, mud-slinging Republican, win-at-all costs storm that you ought to be worried about. They have already dragged the Clinton's through the dirt so we will have no surprises in their corner, however, Obama's lack of experience, anti-patriotism, questionable middle name, questionable Islamic roots, questionable failure to speak about the issues, questionable drug use will come full circle and I am wondering if his die-hard fans will still be behind him when he is no longer this demigod that they have made him out to be?

      • Posted By: Mr. Turkleson @ 02/19/2008 8:49:13 PM

        What does Obama's middle name have to do with how he'll lead the nation? How does his religious beliefs have to do with how he'll lead the nation? He hasn't had a chance to be corrupted by the evils of the political world and if i recall correctly Obama isn't the only person in the United States Government that has tried drugs. That leaves anti-patriotism and failure to speak as the only valid points you have against Obama and honestly that doesn't bother me as much as it seems to do to you.

  • Posted By: mjno @ 02/19/2008 7:37:17 PM

    NO matter what you write, Clintons have always been there for hispanics. So, I will look at past actions rather than campaign promises. I also agree that Obama alienates the over 50 crowd and the oldest of old. I hope their votes are NOT being suppressed in these primaries.


    I respect the Clintons.

    • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/20/2008 5:16:35 PM

      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: jacquelineeschenbach @ 02/19/2008 9:28:32 PM

    I am with you all the way to the White House. I know that you can be the first lady to be our 44th President of United States of American. And I know that you can bring our nation back the way it should be.
    Yours Truely
    Jacqueline L. Eschenbach 2/19/2008 9:34pm This is for Hillary Clinton only.

    • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/20/2008 5:16:05 PM

      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: nubbs @ 02/19/2008 10:52:36 PM

    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 5:11:09 PM

      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 12:42:11 AM

    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 2:35:34 PM

      Nobama Shobama!

      • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/20/2008 5:10:22 PM

        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: jhp1940 @ 02/19/2008 10:15:24 PM

    Anyone that supports removing troops (is wrong) from Iraq when things there are coming together and each month is resulting in greater and greater returrn of the Iraqis to their country from wherever they took refuge during the war and Al Qaida bombings. We have to make a stand against terrorists to make the world a safer place. Hillary is a mouthpice for Bill. And where does she get the idea that she has 35 years experience. Experience at what? Keeping Bill as a husband during his womanizing. I think she put up with his transgressions was only because he was the president and she wanted the limelight. AND experience at failing to come up with a Health Care plan that was worth zero during Bills tenure as president. Do you think her health plan is worth more now? WHo is to pay for these socialist programs? THE taxpayers thats who. She claims that she will eliminate the tax breaks that President Bush has given us middle class taxpayers. If you check the tax records at the Tax Foundation internet archives you will find that taxes for incomes up to $125,000 were more under the Clinton administrration than under Bush. Check it out.

    • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/20/2008 5:07:08 PM

      Ask the soldiers what's REALLY going on over there, and they'll tell you that the atrocities are growing worse and worse. The "war" has created more chaos than you can imagine. Removing the troops is the only way to regroup, strengthen our position, and tackle it from a different angle because we will lose our entire army and our standing as a superpower if we keep having our men and women blown up with no plan of escape, plan of intelligence, or plan of fruitful efforts. It is disastrous to keep our army extended, and our economy being grossly misused in this way.

  • Posted By: okaywithit2 @ 02/19/2008 10:32:00 PM

    Like they all eventually do, this election is coming down to the lesser of the evils. Do we want a woman that nobody particularly loves, or a man that we don't know? Claims that Obama has close ties with extremist Muslim groups are scary, to say the least. And DO we want an inexperienced President? At least we know Hillary, with all her shortcomings. Kinda like your old car, it may have problems, but at least you know what to expect. Bottom line...when the Clintons were in office the economy was great, the stock market soared and we had something fun to talk about. Who can forget "Clinton sex" ?

    • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/20/2008 4:57:47 PM

      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: marketingtruth @ 02/20/2008 4:49:15 PM

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

    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 4:28:40 PM

      Boo Hoo! Politics!

      • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/20/2008 4:41:48 PM

        Boo Hoo! Truth!

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


    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: stlopez17 @ 02/20/2008 9:45:09 AM

    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 2:58:26 PM

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

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

    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: yleon28 @ 02/20/2008 1:49:56 PM

    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: sdmolof @ 02/20/2008 11:57:44 AM

    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

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

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