do you have a link for this outside of somebody's blog?

Posted at April 22, 2008 12:51 PM in response to Obama Camp reporting broken voting machines in inner-city polls...

de-ment-ed
Function: adjective
1. suffering from or exhibiting cognitive dementia.
2. having a usually progressive condition marked by deteriorated cognitive functioning often with emotional apathy.
3. suffering a condition wherein one post 6 anti-Obama screeds in a row, accompanied by a fleeting sense of superiority.

Posted at April 21, 2008 12:48 PM in response to Why are the Obama supporters so demented?

who cares who mayhill fowler is. if it wasn't her recording his remark, it would've been junebug critter or someone else eventually doing it. obama said what he said and it got out. it's up to obama now to handle it, and make supporters of the small town PA'ers who might have been offended. unless you can prove she entrapped him into saying those things, its useless to debate her motives. attacking her isn't turning a negative into a positive, it's just adding more negative.

Posted at April 16, 2008 8:36 AM in response to Who IS Mayhill Fowler?

when hillary wins by double digits, the media will comment on what a tough old bird she is, another clinton comeback, the thing that will not die, blah blah blah, and then the race will move on to NC, where she'll lose and the pundits again will call for her to quit the race, since she has no chance of winning the most pledged delegates.

... or your alarm will go off, waking you up from your dream to find out hillary only won by 6 points, giving her just a slight delegate lead from the state, but no where within striking distance of obama. either one sounds plausible to me.

Posted at April 10, 2008 8:59 AM in response to when hillary wins by double digits in pennslyvania

This doesn't look like a vindication to me.

Factcheck sums it up best: "Despite disparagement from political rivals, we find she deserves ample credit for expanding children's health insurance."

The word here is 'expanding'. She got Kennedy to write more money into a bill he wrote; I doubt she had to twist his arm to do it. On her website, Hillary is claiming she helped 'create' SCHIP. She didn't write the bill, Kennedy and Hatch did that. She didn't help it through congress, since it had bipartisan support. Her role in this was to convince Bill to sign it instead of veto it, which he had pledged to do for Trent Lott.

It's wrong for Kennedy to downplay her role now, but it's also wrong for her to claim to be one of the creators of SCHIP.

Posted at April 3, 2008 8:10 AM in response to Hillary Vindicated on SCHIP

Okay, so in October of last year, before Iowa even voted, and Hillary was the frontrunner, she claimed SCHIP as one of her accomplishments. Boston Globe's Factcheck found that the law was written by Teddy Kennedy and Orrin Hatch, based on a MA law. Hillary supported it, while at the time Trent Lott wanted it dead and Bill tried to kill it to keep Trent happy. Eventually Hillary, Teddy, Orrin, and a bunch of advocacy groups helped convince Bill to support the thing.

But 7 years earlier in August 2000, when Hillary was in a tight race for her first elected office, Kennedy was willing to let his senior health advisor describe Hillary was a one-woman army fighting to win this thing.

But then this year, when Teddy's decided Obama is his candidate, Teddy has changed his tune and gives her barely any role saying whatever she did was limited. Orrin Hatch meanwhile who has never said anything about Hillary's involvement is downplaying the idea she helped at all.

So if the choices are A) when Hillary was the presidential frontrunner she did something, B) when she is running for her 1st senate race Hillary did a whole lot, and C) when Obama is the frontrunner Hillary did a little - then I'm going with A.

Hillary did do something - Kennedy lobbied her, and she lobbied Bill. If the words of high profile legislators are untrustworthy now, they were certainly untrustworthy in 2000.

Posted at April 1, 2008 7:59 AM in response to Hillary Clinton and SCHIP: The Unvarnished Truth and The Massaged Talking Points

Longtime lurker here. just to put some perspective on this here are Hillary's statements From the Today show (is this accurate?):

CLINTON: She'd gone, what she thought would be just a great jog. She was going to go down to Battery Park, she was going to go around the towers. She went to get a cup of coffee and -- and that's when the plane hit.

JANE PAULEY (host): She was close enough to hear the rumble.

CLINTON: She did hear it.

PAULEY: And to see the smoke in person, not on television.

CLINTON: No. Of course, Bill was in Australia. And, you know, he was so upset by what he was seeing on television that I didn't want to tell him that I couldn't find her until I found her. I told him that, you know, everything's fine, don't worry. But I couldn't do it with the level of assurance that I needed until I could find her a couple of hours later.

and here's the description Chelsea gave Talk magazine (taken from Talk Magazine):

"Clinton was alone at a friend’s Union Square apartment in Manhattan that morning, when her friend phoned to tell her what had happened; then Chelsea tried to call her mother, but the line went dead. Panicked, Clinton suddenly found herself running downtown—"the direction everyone was coming from"—in search of a pay phone, desperate to speak to her mother, in Washington, and her father, far away in Australia."

some people will see this as another example of hillary stretching the truth (and yeah, saying chelsea was close enough to hear the rumble? stretch). others will see this as a stretch on the part of those that want to attack hillary. it's up to you i guess to make up your own mind.

/back to lurking

Posted at March 27, 2008 9:18 AM in response to Why Did Hillary Lie About Where Chelsea was on 9/11?

- why didn't he confront Rev Wright during their 20 year friendship? If he did, why wouldn't he say so?

You think those youtube soundbites are all Rev Wright talked about for 20 years? Perhaps he also spent time talking about the aids ministry he started, or the gay/lesbian singles group the church sponsors. Or maybe he also talked about Jesus in that time.

- why didn't he propose a comprehensive plan on addressing the racial divide in this country? Why didn't he even speak about it at length until now?

Does Hillary have a comprehensive plan on addressing America's racial divide? Did Bill have one in '92? Aside from the Iraq War, the economy, the middle east, energy, the deficit, and the debt, do politicians develop plans for this, or is this a silly question?

Posted at March 20, 2008 9:02 AM in response to The State of Our Imperfect Union: A Fence-sitting Feminist Finally Makes Up Her Mind