I noted that CNN will be having a documentary on Dr Martin Luther King's assissination this Thursday.

I was wondering if anybody can tell me if they remember CNN or other stations doing this (a King's death story) every year, in the past few years?

Perhaps I've missed the actual assassination documentaries in the past?  I've seen stories of the King's life and his 'I have a Dream' speech but it's been a very long time since I've seen a story about the way that he was killed.

CNN's "Eyewitness To Murder" report this coming week, bothers me.

Are they trying to scare Barack Obama supporters into not voting for Barack because he 'might' get assissinated?

That, unfortunately was my first thought when I heard about this upcoming show. 

I know for a fact that many blacks were concerned about this happening in the beginning.  I don't know if they continue to worry about the possibility or not; but I'm here to tell them, if President George W. Bush survived the past 7 years, the most hated President we've had in years, Barack Obama will survive just fine too.

Don't get me wrong.  I think the story needs to be told about King's death; but I'm just concerned about the 'timing' of this one.  It's just a couple of weeks before the Pennsylvania and North Carolina primaries.

Why couldn't the cable networks just tell King's life story, as in the past?  Why dwell on the assissination itself?

Just makes you wonder is all.

It seems Hillary Clinton may have lied about her past experiences yet again.

First we hear her tell us about her Bosnia trip as First Lady.  She and Chelsea supposedly underwent sniper fire after landing.  We find out by actual video's it's not true.

Then we're told she helped the Ireland peace treaty, when she didn't according to many of those involved.

Then Dick Morris reminds us about the story she gave as to where Chelsea, her daughter, was during 9/11.  Chelsea's story was completely different.

Now, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann report another lie or 'mistake' of Hillary's.

At a 1997 race-relations forum for teenagers in Boston, Hillary recalled the “pain” of a “childhood encounter” that helped her to grasp the injury suffered by the victims of bigotry. Her comments came as her husband was launching his second term in office by calling for a national dialogue on race and reconciliation. In an effort to empathize with her audience and inject herself into the discussion, she made up yet another incident that never happened.

“During a junior high school soccer game” on a cold day, Hillary claimed, a goalie told her, “I wish people like you would freeze.” Stunned, the future first lady asked how the goalie could feel that way when she didn’t even know her. “I don’t have to know you,” the goalie shot back, “to know I hate you.”

Nice story, but it never happened.

While today’s generation of young girls routinely play on multiple soccer teams in their schools and towns, Hillary’s generation had no such opportunity. Hillary may have attended lots of Chelsea Clinton’s soccer games, but that seems to be the sum total of her soccer career. As a school sport, girls’ soccer teams didn’t exist when Hillary went to middle or high school. In 2004, the athletic director for South Main High School in Park Ridge — and a 34-year veteran of the school system — confirmed that there were no girls’ soccer teams of any kind in Hillary’s school district in the 1960s.

Hillary seems to have simply conjured up the tale...

Now I realize that Dick Morris has a huge grudge against the Clinton's for their firing of him when Bill was President, but this article includes another person's input.  Keep in mind how many years Dick knew and worked for the Clintons.  If anybody would know their secrets, he would.

I sure would be interested in hearing Hillary's explanation for this lie or 'mistake' wouldn't you?

Hillary seems to like to 'exaggerate' her life stories a lot.  I'm almost afraid to know what she would 'exaggerate' on if she were our President?

Did you see Charlie Rose’s interview of Senator Chuck Hagel (R) last night? He seems to be very impressed with Senator Barack Obama. When asked by Charlie if he would endorse him, Hagel first said something like, “I don’t know….I might” Rose immediately said, “Do you realize what you just said?” Hagel quickly changed his comment to include that he would want to talk to John (McCain) first, then Obama to see where they were headed and then make a decision. It was only after Rose said, “And Senator Clinton too”, that Hagel said something like, yes, if she is the nominee of course. When Charlie Rose pressed Hagel to tell him who he thought had the best skill to ‘Bring people together’in Washington, Hagel said, Barack Obama. His whole interview seem to be saying the same thing that Obama’s been saying all during his own campaign, that now is the time to bring Americans together to get things done. This is a defining moment in our history. I’m betting if Obama plays his card right, Chuck Hagel, a Republican, just might end up endorsing him for President. This would be very good. Chuck opposed the war in Iraq also and he disagreed with the Bush administration on several of their foreign policy maneuvers.

Last year Hillary signed a statement agreeing to not allow Michigan and Florida delegates to be seated in August.  Only after Hillary took a look at her math did she decide she ‘changed her mind’ and now wants to seat those delegates.

She’s out there demanding they be seated.  She claims the voters in those States will be disenfranchised if their delegates aren’t counted.  Barack Obama says he'll follow the rules of the DNC.

Meanwhile, her campaign has been pushing the idea that Super delegates should ignore what the voters say and vote for who they think will win in November. 

Recently she’s been pushing the idea that even ‘elected’ delegates have a right to override the Will of the voters in their States.

At the same time, Hillary’s camp is pushing the idea that if she wins the popular vote, that proves she deserves the nomination.  As some of you might know, the nominee is chosen by the person to reach total of 2024 delegates.  The nominee is ‘not’ chosen by popular vote.  The rules say ‘delegates’ decide the winner. 

Some of you might say, “Connie, you must be one of those that took the side of George W. Bush in 2000 down in Florida, saying it was the ‘delegate’ count that made the winner”.  No, actually it was the Supreme Court that decided the winner.

That fact brings me back to the confusion Hillary is causing.  On one hand she wants ‘YOUR VOTE TO COUNT’;  but on the other hand, she wants the ‘Super and elected Delegates’ to override YOUR vote.

If the Supers and Elected delegates override the Voter’s Will --- isn’t that the same as having the Supreme Court decide who wins?

Bill Clinton reportedly terrified that Hillary is about to officially lose Texas

by John Aravosis (DC) · 3/27/2008 07:28:00 PM ET ·

You'll recall that the media declared Hillary the winner of Texas before it was actually over. Texas had a primary and a caucus, and Hillary only won the primary. The winner of Texas is decided by adding the delegates from both the primary and the caucus. Come this weekend, we should find out that Obama really won Texas. A NY Daily News reporter accidentally got invited to a private conference call Bill Clinton was holding today with Texas delegates. Seems the campaign is terrified that people may finally figure out this weekend that Hillary lost Texas.

I KNOW THAT DURING MISSISSIPPI'S RACE, CNN ANNOUNCED THAT HILLARY WON THE PRIMARY IN TEXAS, BUT BECAUSE OBAMA WON THE CAUCUSES, THAT THEY WERE COLORING THE STATE OF TEXAS WITH LIGHT AND DARK BLUE STRIPES TO DECLARE A TIE.

LET'S SEE WHAT THE MEDIA DOES WITH THIS NEWS --- IF IT COMES TRUE.

Poll: Obama leads Clinton nationally

By The Associated Press

THE RACE: The presidential race for Democrats nationally

THE NUMBERS

Barack Obama, 49 percent

Hillary Rodham Clinton, 39 percent

This race is not about two white men running for the Democratic Nomination, as political pundits keep trying to make it out to be.

It's about a black man and a white woman.  That's definitely not politics as usual.  This is not your typical Democratic Primary where two guys duke it out and the best man wins.  This is about the base of the Party coming dangerously close to being split in two.

Hillary Clinton said during a speech today the following:

Clinton was asked by a questioner in the audience here what she would tell frustrated Democrats who might consider voting for McCain in the general election out of spite.

“Please think through this decision,” Clinton said, laughing and emphasizing the word “please.”

“It is not a wise decision for yourself or your country.”

“I intend to do everything I can to make sure we have a unified Democratic party,” she said. “When this contest is over and we have a nominee, we’re going to close ranks, we’re going to be united.”

Hillary, I say, "PLEASE THINK THROUGH THIS DECISION, PLEASEEEEE!  IT IS NOT A WISE DECISION FOR YOURSELF OR YOUR COUNTRY - ESPECIALLY YOUR PARTY"

IF YOU SINCERELY WANT THIS PARTY TO CLOSE RANKS AND BE UNITED, THEN FACE FACTS -- YOU HAVE LOST THE RACE.

If you have an once of desire to run for office again, I respectfully warn you, withdraw now before it is too late and you not only lose your future chances, but you lose the November election for Barack Obama.

You are beginning to look like President George W. Bush when it comes to a Withdraw Date for bringing our troops home from Iraq.  You seem to be saying that if you drop out it will embolden the enemy or something.

It's time to withdraw.

I’ve heard over the past few weeks when the political pundits were talking about whether Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee were harming the Party by allowing this campaign to continue.  Instead of asking Senator Hillary Clinton to step aside or at the very least, step back and quit the personal, Republican ‘like’, attacks against Senator Barack Obama, such as Governor Mike Huckabee did for Senator John McCain, they’ve continued to support this race going onward.

 

Supporters of both candidates are fighting fiercely to help their man/woman win this nomination.  These same supporters started out this campaign agreeing to support the other’s candidate, if theirs did not win.  They felt at the time that either candidate would be able to win the General election against any Republican in November, that either would make a great President.

 

Today, these same supporters are, to some, mortal enemies now.  They spew hate throughout the blogs on the Internet; they attack one another in newspapers and on cable stations across the airwaves.  Bloggers that use to be friends are now enemies telling each other to “go away troll” or “get out of here idiot” whenever one discusses their own candidate’s pros and cons.

 

Because polls are now saying that 28 percent of Hillary’s supporters would vote for John McCain if Obama wins, and 19% of Obama supporters would vote for McCain if Hillary wins, political pundits and leaders of the candidates campaigns have been arguing over whether or not this ‘hate’ will go away by November or not.  Will Democrats come together in the end?

 

Hillary’s supporters say yes, they will come back to the Party; they don’t want another Bush administration through John McCain.  Besides, keeping this campaign going is drawing millions of new registered voters, this is good for the Party, they say.

 

Barack’s supporters say no, the base is angry at Hillary and the DNC for allowing her campaign to destroy, not only her own chance of winning in November, but possibly Obama’s chances.  As each day goes by, the chances of winning in Nov are less, polls prove this, they say.  They say voters will feel cheated if Obama loses because Supers ignored the will of the people (delegate counts).

 

Hillary supporters point to previous primaries over our history where anger had divided the Party, but in the end Democrats came to back.

 

Hillary’s supporters overlook one huge difference this time around; the candidate’s race and gender.
 

In previous elections, it was always two white men going at one another.  Women, Blacks and Browns had only to choose between the two men.  They had no private agenda or personal feelings (other then political issues) to voice their opinions on.  Not this time.

 

Having a Black man and a White woman running for the Democratic nomination is history making.  The base of the Party is split in two.  The majority of women want Hillary, the bulk of Blacks want Barack.  They both have their deep seeded feelings about why their candidate should win (besides the issues).  Women think it’s their turn, rightfully so.  Blacks feel the same way, again rightfully so. 

 

If that fact isn’t enough, now we have Hillary basically doing John McCain’s job for him by attacking a member of her own Party.  This is mostly unheard of.  Parties stick together – they don’t run a General election between themselves.

 

Now Hillary’s going after Obama’s pastor story; forgetting the fact her own previous pastor asked her not to.  This is like your friend stabbing you in the back - to many Democrats.

 

I’m not sure why, but I honestly think women that don’t want more of a Bush administration will come back to Obama’s campaign in November (they are more use to not being picked), however, I’m not so sure the bulk of Blacks will come back to the Party.  They have supported the Party, for the most part, since they could vote; kicking them in the gut by handing this to Hillary -- will not suit well.

 

Meanwhile….John McCain’s polls continue to rise.

During a conversation that Governor Rendell of Pennsylvania had with Charlie Rose last night may come to haunt the Governor and Hillary Clinton later.

Somewhere near the end of the conversation they are discussing having a primary or caucus in Florida and Michigan, when Rendell mentions that caucuses are "UnDemocratic".  To prove his POINT, he said (I don't remember exact words) that "you think it's undemocratic for Supers to decide this race, let me tell ya, Caucuses are even worse......"

I got the impression he was saying that allowing Supers to decide this race would ALSO be unDemocratic.

Did anybody else hear this interview?  The video is not available yet from the show.

This interview was on 3/26/08

I just read this on THE HILL by Dick Morris.  I don't like him either but what he said triggered a memory in my head and in light of the Bosnia lie or 'mistake'.....it's a good question to ask.

Interviewed on the “Today Show” one week after Sept. 11, she spun an elaborate yarn. The kindest thing we could say was that it was a fantasy. Or a fabrication.

She said that Chelsea was jogging around the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 and happened to duck into a coffee shop when the airplanes hit. She said that this move saved Chelsea’s life. But Chelsea told Talk magazine that she was in a friend’s apartment four miles from ground zero when the first plane hit. Her friend called her, waking her up, and told her to turn on the TV. On television, she saw the second plane hit, disproving Hillary’s claim that “she heard the plane hit. She heard it. She did.”

SO WHY DID HILLARY LIE?

When will Chelsea Clinton, Hillary’s daughter, face the heat of reporters asking her questions? 

Chelsea has been traveling the country campaigning for her mom.  She visits colleges and clubs around the nation, giving speeches of support for Hillary.  As of yet, she’s not to had to face national reporter’s questions.  Why is this?

It’s as though the media still feel she’s off limits being an ex-president’s daughter.  Have the Clinton’s warned the media that she’s ‘off base’?  Have they been threatened something like, “if you go after Chelsea and I win the White House, you won’t get access to me”?

What other excuse could there be?  Chelsea, like any other Clinton campaign worker/advisor is responsible for answering reporter’s questions, yet she’s gotten off the hook several times.

When will the media demand answers from this young lady?  She’s 28 years old for gosh sakes – she can handle it.

The current controversy over her mom’s accounts of her First Lady Bosnia trip makes for a very good time to talk to Chelsea.  She was there for gosh sakes.  Make her answer questions, not spin her “love” for her mom.  What did she hear?  What did she see?  Get her on record.

Governor Phil Bredesen of Tennessee wants a Superdelegate Primary in June:

"If Obama were denied the nomination by Democratic insiders after winning the party’s popular vote, Bredesen said, “There would be hell to pay in the party for a long time to come.”"

NOTE his statement closely.  He says if Obama were denied after winning the party's POPULAR vote.......

He must be supporting Hillary.  She's the ONLY won advocating the winner of Popular votes should be nominee.

Dan Abrams on Verdict MSNBC said tonight about the Clinton’s, everybody says the Clintons don’t do anything by mistake, so what happened with this Bosnia “mistake”?  Hillary Clinton claimed on several occasions during her campaign that there was no greeting ceremony and that they had to run to the cars to avoid sniper fire.  A recently found video clearly shows there was no sniper fire, no running to cars and there was a greeting committee there.  Hillary is clearly seen standing and talking to greeters alongside her daughter Chelsea.  A child was seen talking to Hillary.

Dan triggered a thought for me.  He’s right; the Clintons do nothing (just as the Bush administration didn’t) without a reason.  Surely they knew this tape was out there?  Surely they knew others that went along would dispute her description of the event?

Take another look at the video.  Who is Hillary talking to, who is she surrounded by?  They are men and women in United States uniforms.   They aren’t in their dress blues or professional looking uniforms; they are in fatigues and helmets with rifles.  They are dressed for combat.
 
Are there tanks nearby?  Can you hear gunfire from afar?  Is she wearing a military gear?  What is she ‘seen’ doing?  She’s on the front lines of a war in Bosnia; she’s talking, shaking hands, patting men and women on their backs in a show of support.  She’s seen thanking them for their job well done. 

Now, ask yourself what the President of these United States would be doing if he were the one in Bosnia, exactly the same thing, of course.
Hillary Clinton was looking Presidential.

Was this video released on purpose?  Did the Clinton campaign come to the conclusion that a short term media attack of her “mistake” (resolved by claiming, “I’m Human”), would be well worth the ‘long term’ effects of the video?

Just look at how many times that video is being shown on television and out on YouTube.  Hillary Clinton is being seen as a brave, taking ‘charge’ type of President.

Was it all planned?

The only part that sounds screwy is – Hillary says it was too dangerous for Bill to go to the front lines of Bosnia, so he sent his wife and only daughter instead?  That sure doesn’t sound too good for Bill to have done that.

Some have said over the many years since Bill left office that Hillary’s been preparing for the presidency all her life.  Ya think maybe this was one of those steps back in 1996?

Setting:

In the beginning Hillary’s campaign flowed like trout swiminng in the water headed for that great big ocean, a coranation of the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.  But soon she encountered a busy little beaver by the name of Barack Obama ; he was building a Dam to stop her.  Each time Hillary would try jumping over that Dam, the beaver would just add more tree branches. 

Whenever she was finally able to fly over that Dam, that beaver would just waddle further down stream ahead of Hillary to begin once again, building a new Dam.

Hillary the trout and Barack the beaver kept this regime up for the longest time, until finally one day, they both came to the end of the stream where a very large concrete wall stood .  They both appear to be dumbfounded as to what to do next.

Hillary the trout tried becoming silly putty, bouncing off this huge wall.  Bounce, bounce and bounce again, she would go; but no amount of bouncing would help her get over that wall.  Barack the beaver meanwhile, starting stacking tree branches at an angle along side the wall.  As each branch got him closer to the top of the wall, Hillary decided to try bouncing onto those branches hoping to land on higher ground each time.

Bounce, bounce and bounce again she would go, accomplishing very little of gaining height, Hillary the trout decide it was hopeless.  She would never make it over. 

If I can’t make it over, neither will Barack the beaver.

She began bouncing against the tree branches that Barack had built, hoping to knock them down so the beaver wouldn’t make it over.  It worked for awhile but then Barack the beaver came up with the idea of using mudpacks to hold the branches together as he built his bridge over that Dam.

Hillary soon found out that the beaver’s bridge was rock solid.  After several bruises ad cuts, she finally gave up, turned around and started swimming down stream.

I would like to know what conservatives considers to be a VICTORY in Iraq?  I want details please.

In my view, we've already succeeded in Iraq.  As most of you know, we will never have a peace treaty signed.  So, what is victory Senator McCain?

What were our goals when we went over there?  President Bush wanted to find WMD, remove Saddam Hussein, liberate the Iraqi people, setup a form of Democracy and setup a security force.

Name one thing from that list that we haven't done already (other then not finding any WMD - because (we now know) there were none)?

The Iraqi people, thanks to VP Cheney this past week, will once again hold an election in October.  What is that, their 4 -5th one, with over 70% of the voters voting.  Sounds like they are on their way to being better voters then we are here in America.

Saddam is dead.

The Iraqi people are free.

There is now a police force, a neighborhood watch, an intelligence dept, foreign policy dept, their form of FBI/CIA, and they now  have a very large military force.

They are currently making deals with Russia and China to sale their oil.

The internal civil war will only end when the PEOPLE of IRAQ stand up and fight against the extremists, just as we here in America did during the civil war.  We continue to fight the extremists (criminals, abusers, rapists, killers, white supremists, (Oklahoma bombing, school shootings,)etc..) 

We have been successful - We can and should declare VICTORY and start to withdraw.

Would Hillary Clinton, if forced to answer, vote for Barack Obama or John McCain for president?  Which man would she prefer to be our next president?

Another question to Hillary should be, do you think Barack Obama will try his best to withdraw our combat troops from Iraq by 2009 as he's said he would?

Hillary's been supporting John McCain over Barack Obama for the past 3 months.  The media needs to see if they can force her to admit that she would vote for McCain over Obama in November.  The idea she's been pushing that she and McCain were 'ready' and Barack is not -- needs to be answered from this lady.

I would like to take a moment of your time to let you know that if the Democratic primary comes down to the Super Delegates deciding who wins the nomination, Pennsylvania voters, your Governor Rendell, is promising to OVERRIDE YOUR VOTE to vote for Hillary Clinton.

He's recorded as saying he will do so, even if Barack Obama wins the popular vote, the total elected delegates (the ones you and I vote for) and the most States (Obama currently has all three).

If you don't like the idea of your Governor ignoring your VOTES, then you'd best be writing or calling him before the Supers make their decision sometime very soon.

Governor Rendell is also recorded at saying he thinks Florida and Michigan votes need to be counted.  They'll be disenfranchised if not, he says.

If the Governor is going to ignore YOUR votes, why would he care how Michigan and Florida vote?  If their Super delegates vote the way Rendell does (ignoring their voters decision), they'll be disenfranchised anyway.

Hillary Clinton's camp is pushing this idea that Super Delegates should vote whatever way they 'want to'.  Don't worry about ignoring the voters, she is basicially saying, if you want me, vote for me -- who cares what others say.

If you want YOUR vote to count, vote for Barack Obama.  He wants Supers to consider what their own State has voted on.

P.S.
For those that claim the Kennedy's would then have to vote for Hillary (they endorsed Obama), you are right.  As they should.  They work for THEIR voters in their States -- not for Hillary or Obama.

Governor Rendell of Pennsylvania is willing to OVERRIDE what his State's voters prefer as their President.  He's said so several times on live televison.

If Pennsylvania were to decide that they wanted Barack Obama for President -- Rendell is recorded as saying he would IGNORE them and vote for Hillary Clinton instead.

Even if Pennsylvania voters end up voting for Hillary as polls show they will.  I think the voters of Pennsylvania have best think twice about voting for this Rendell again in the future -- he's telling them THEY DON'T MATTER.

Barack Obama made a speech this week about race that was not only inspiring but a joy to listen to.  He also made a speech about our 5 year anniversary in Iraq and another speech about the status of our economy and how Iraq is related to it.

On Friday Barack enjoyed the endorsement of a former employee and friend of President Bill Clinton and his wife.  The most experienced of all eight Democratic candidates running for the Democratic nomination this year for President, ended up choosing Barack Obama for president.

Hillary Clinton enjoyed the endorsement of the anti-war Rep.  John Murtha this week.

It’s Sunday morning and I’ve just spent that last thirty minutes watching Meet the Press with Tim Russert.  The topic of the day was, Reverend Wright, race, whether Obama saved himself with a speech and Bill Clinton’s implication that only Hillary Clinton and John McCain are the patriots in this race.

On Friday of this week we heard about Chris Wallace of Foxnews criticising his fellow anchors on Fox & Friends for 2 hours of Obama bashing.  We also saw one of those anchors walk off the set after trying to point out Obama's side of the issue.

We American’s need to wake up and see what media pundits are doing to our Democratic process and do it soon.

Instead of being a race between three Democrats running for the highest office in the land, we are seeing a race about which political pundit or commentator can get the best ratings with their “shock and awe” television slots and slogans or videos.

I defy anyone to find an ‘interested’ American that has not already seen the videos of Reverend Wright’s sermons or at the very least read the comments he made.  The same goes for the videos of President Clinton making his statements that are perceived as being either racists or McCarthism comments.

I also defy anyone to find an ‘interested’ American that knows what Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton said about our economy and what they plan on doing about it, or the five year anniversary of the war in Iraq.

Instead of hearing what the candidates will do when they take the office of the Presidency, we are hearing insinuations, gossip, scandals and old news repeated over and over again-- on a daily basis.

Wake up my fellow 'interested' Americans.  We must demand the media; commentators and political pundits do their true job – report the news and report the facts --- not discuss and advertise the latest gossip, scandal or YouTube video.