by Dr. Maya Angelou

3/31/2008 11:45:30 AM

This entry is part of a series in celebration of Women's History Month.

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

This is not the first time you have seen Hillary Clinton seemingly at her wits end, but she has always risen, always risen, much to the dismay of her adversaries and the delight of her friends.

Hillary Clinton will not give up on you and all she asks of you is that you do not give up on her.

There is a world of difference between being a woman and being an old female. If you’re born a girl, grow up, and live long enough, you can become an old female. But, to become a woman is a serious matter. A woman takes responsibility for the time she takes up and the space she occupies.

Hillary Clinton is a woman. She has been there and done that and has still risen. She is in this race for the long haul. She intends to make a difference in our country.

She is the prayer of every woman and man who long for fair play, healthy families, good schools, and a balanced economy.

She declares she wants to see more smiles in the families, more courtesies between men and women, more honesty in the marketplace. Hillary Clinton intends to help our country to what it can become.

She means to rise.

She means to help our country rise. Don’t give up on her, ever.

In fact, if you help her to rise, you will rise with her and help her make this country a wonderful, wonderful place where every man and every woman can live freely without sanctimonious piety, without crippling fear.

Rise Hillary.

Rise.

http://blog.hillaryclinton.com/blog/main/2008/03/31/154530#view_comments

"If Barack gets past the primary," said the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to the New York Times in April of last year, "he might have to publicly distance himself from me. I said it to Barack personally, and he said yeah, that might have to happen."

“It's been more than a month since I began warning Sen. Barack Obama that he would become answerable for his revolting choice of a family priest. But never mind that; the astonishing thing is that it's at least 11 months since he himself has known precisely the same thing.”

“Pause just for a moment, if only to admire the sheer calculating self-confidence of this. Sen. Obama has long known perfectly well, in other words, that he'd one day have to put some daylight between himself and a bigmouth Farrakhan fan.”

http://www.slate.com/id/2187277/pagenum/all/#page_start

Now I realize that in the blogging world, quoting large tracts of an author’s words is not technically blogging. But there is no need to reinvent the wheel, either.

However, it is amazing how this lack of a full and honest appraisal of this candidate continues and is leading the democratic populace to a dangerous point of no return.

He has been a politician for his entire career even when he calculated that he needed to develop some religious or spiritual “street cred” –Audacity of Hope (as quoted in above cite)

I heartily concur that:

“This disappointment is only the first of many that are still to come.” (as cited above)

I have enjoyed your blog for a very long time, but I realized recently that the democrat crowd has already split between the far far left and the rest of us. When I could no longer find a safe and fair environment to share my hopes and views in your site, I dramatically cut down by online time with it. 

So many liberal sites have ran off into the nethers believing their own posts so much that, well, they forget to look back and see which brothers and sisters they have left behind.

Stop disenfranchising the Clinton supporters. You do so at your own peril. Perhaps that is why you received so few responses.

We are the ones who suffered on the left all during the Clinton and Bush years and toughing it through, did not need an inspirational speaker, a pied piper to see us through, but a smart reliable and fully understood candidate.

May the best man or woman win, but as we all know that does not always happen.

All of these are quotes from the Chicago Tribune Story:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-obama-rezkomar15,0,2968927.story

His first big contributor

Asked if he ever thought Rezko would expect something from their relationship, Obama was emphatic: "No.

Obama said voters should view his Rezko dealings as "a mistake in not seeing the potential conflicts of interest." But he added that voters should also "see somebody who is not engaged in any wrongdoing . . . and who they can trust."

Obama said he asked his friend about them. Rezko assured him there was nothing wrong. "My instinct was to believe him," he said.

My Comments:

Either he is sincerely naïve and inexperienced and therefore not qualified to be a good chief executive OR he is just another politician caught trying to triangulate his way out of a mess. Get real. All those years and all that money and he never wanted any thing from you? Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaase!