Lanny Davis still bitter and clinging to the primary campaign will be joining Fox News as an analyst according to Fox News June 16, 2008. Lanny claims he is joining Fox because they were always fair and balanced and treated him very well. He is upset with MSNBC Chris Mathews and Keith Olberman because they treated Hillary so badly. He hates CNN because he feels they always "ganged" up against him. I guess because he did not believe in the truth, then the other analysts on these shows should have joined him in his parallel universe. Only Lanny Davis (an alleged Democrat) believes that Faux News is "fair and balanced" and according to Fox he will be appearing regularally next to Karl Rove....shows you how far Lanny has fallen.

It's great to see the Weasel is finally going home where he belongs..... on Faux News.

The Tennesse Republican Party made Michelle Obama an issue in this campaign. Time magazine said that Michelle Obama is fair game, so I say Cindy McCain is fair game. The Republican party is very comfortable in demonizing people with the assurance that the Democrats with our ethics, compassion and sense of  fair play will not retaliate in kind. It is time for Democrats to stop being affraid and start meeting the Republicans on the battle field armed with bigger weapons. They bring a knife, we bring a macheti, they bring a pistol revolver we bring a glock nine. It's time that we fight fire with an inferno and take no prisoners.

So the Republicans want to make a comment that Michelle Obama made that came out not so "correct" then attach her in a manner that is unheard of in Politics. When was the last time the spouse of a candidate was attached my the official political opposition party? When did a political party start attaching the family of the candidates? This is outrageous and they have opened up a can of worms that cannot be closed so easily.

Cindy McCain, is fair game. Her drug use..her federal investigation for drug theft..the fact that she did not go to prison because she was privileged and the wife of John McCain. She received a pass because she was rich, came from a rich family and her husband a politician. How many other women who went through the same thing and are now languishing in our prisons. Mothers jailed for years because of the possession of a small amount of drugs, mothers who have not seen their children for years for a similar crime, but because they were not rich or connected will rott in jail for 5 years. Cindy McCain is not the role model I want for my children or this country where justice is supposed to be blind and balanced. Cindy McCain is living breathing example that the America she stands for is the America in which the rich have different laws and if you are rich and connected you can get away with anything. Cindy McCain is Fair Game.

I came across this wonderful post from the site below and I just wanted to share. When things seem down or we begin to worry about racism and hate (from today's Washington Post article), read this to remember why we are all so involved this time. There is much more to this campaign and we will fix the "system" so that we can all understand each other better.

http://www.beyondchron.org/articles
/Obama_Campaign_Journal_
Now_I_m_in_it_for_Mrs_Trivedi_5664.html

Obama Campaign Journal: Now I’m in it for Mrs. Trivedi
by Jay Jonah Cash‚ May. 13‚ 2008

Barack Obama is no longer the icon of this presidential election. He has been quietly replaced by a widowed Indian immigrant mother from Fleetwood, Pennsylvania … at least for me. This is how that happened.

I became an Obama precinct captain in San Francisco less than 24 hours after Clinton fatigue hit me like a Wal-Mart truck. That was still my motivation when I flew 1,875 miles to Corpus Christi, 13 days before the “Texas Two-Step” primary caucus.

But while in Texas I realized Barack Obama was the strongest (“I have some news for John McCain, and that is that there was no such thing as al Qaeda in Iraq until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq!"), and became convinced that he was by far the best candidate in the race.

That is what, 13 days before the Pennsylvania primary, got me to fly 2,929 miles to JFK Airport and then take a Bieber Tourways bus 110 miles to Kutztown, PA – population 5,067.

In travelling the almost 5,000 miles for the Obama Campaign, I didn’t see much scenery. I was busy making calls, literally running from house to house on the weekends and entering data when I finished calling or I got back to the office at night.

It’s the people who stand out.

Nancy: Who was, in both San Francisco and Corpus, the caring house mother and calming “adult in the room.”

Sarah: The LA fashion designer who, at the peril of her business, skipped REAL Oscar Parties to be with us, and who helped clean the Corpus Christi office bathroom on the night of the broadcast.

Warren (aka “Montana”): The young progressive cowboy from Missoula who hitched a ride with friends to Vegas and then took a very, very long bus ride to Corpus Christi.

Kathleen: Who drove me and Montana down the highway and out of Port Aransas during a tornado warning.

Joel: The former telephone sales-rep who I actually think persuaded more people to vote for Obama than probably any other volunteer in Berks County. He would always show up in a coat and tie, including the days that we got him to physically canvas.

Maureen and Barbara, the mature duo, who drove to Kutztown from D.C. to spend four days knocking on doors in their running shoes telling people how “We’ve lived and worked in Washington for decades, and we’ve never seen it like this. We need to move on as a country. Now!”

But the one that stood out most, and still does, is Mrs. Trivedi.

A couple of weeks before the Pennsylvania primary, one of Mrs. Trivedi’s doctor sons (the one in D.C.) wanted to travel back home to help with the election. She decided to help too. And one day, about a week before the election she walked into the office without me noticing.

I was then startled by a quiet voice.

“Hello, I’m Mrs. Trivedi and I’m here to help you.” (Seriously, that’s what she said.)

I smiled, introduced myself, and then showed her how to use the phone and she went at it. She completed several dozen calls and dutifully checked the appropriate boxes on the tracking sheets and then went home.

She was back the next day, but the campaign had changed to a longer “persuasion” script, and by the time Mrs. Trivedi got through it, a whole lot of people had already hung up.

“It’s my accent,” she said.

It seemed that way to me too, and it bothered me. I knew the reaction of the people she was calling. While it wasn’t really racism, it just seemed a little too much like it.

She kept going, but was getting disheartened and I gave her some tips and encouragement and kept listening in the background while my heart continued to break. I imagined that, in rural Pennsylvania, in an area that was once a pretty active Klan location, that it might have been something she had endured before.

Finally, it became obvious that my verbal “tips” were ridiculously confusing, so I asked her to take a break and I typed her a much shorter script that identified that she was a local.

“Hello, my name is Mrs. Trivedi and I’m calling from the Barack Obama office here in Kutztown. How are you doing today?”

Simple. People started talking to her again.

What impressed me was how dignified she was through the whole thing. But it was also the fact that she didn’t blame the people that were hanging up on her. She didn’t attack them and say they were ignorant or intolerant, and she didn’t give up either. She just kept going.

Mrs. Trivedi didn’t need to do that. Making political phone calls is hard. Making political phone calls in rural Pennsylvania with an Indian accent is harder. She just didn’t need to do it. But the fact that she did it for days demonstrates that SHE has confidence in this country. SHE believes in it, no matter how consistently imperfect it can be.

The fact that people did start talking to her again is also important to me. It wasn’t the person (Mrs. Trivedi) or the people (the registered voters) that were the root of the problem. It was simpler than that. It was just the script. The “system” was the problem.

It would have been easy for everybody to give up somewhere along the line. But by making a simple change to the system, things started to work again.

Kindness, dignity, persistence, purpose … that’s the kind of country I want to live in. Mrs. Trivedi is the kind of person I want engaged.

There is much talk about the divisions in the Democratic Party, but without this extended primary season there would be dramatically fewer motivated grassroots-level activists prepared for the fall campaign. The Obama campaign especially got huge numbers of people involved, new people, in nearly every state. What has happened is that there are now thousands of individuals that have never – and I mean never – been involved in the process before who are now trained and motivated.

Those individuals are not part of the recalcitrant system. Instead those individuals are now beginning to challenge it. That deeper, grassroots change is what gives me an increased confidence in the future of this nation. It really does. The Democratic Party may or may not have been strengthened by this process, but our democracy itself has definitely been strengthened.

Whatever happens, this country is better because Barack Obama, the community organizer, decided to run for President.

Being with all these other volunteers, assisting them and learning from them, simply witnessing them come alive and feel they can really actually make a difference … has been amazing. It is, by far, one of the most moving and rewarding things I have done in my lifetime.

I’m back home now. This past Saturday I trooped around San Francisco neighborhoods registering voters for seven hours (Hayes Valley, Civic Center, a smattering of SoMa), approximately 1.5 miles from my apartment. I was doing it to move the country forward, and because I want Barack Obama to be President.

But I was doing even more so because I can’t get enough of getting people involved … people like Mrs. Trivedi. They’re out there, and now, so am I.

Jay Jonah Cash is a local writer who likes to travel the country and redecorate campaign offices in his spare time.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Old habits die hard, a long-time Hillary Clinton supporter proved this week when he sent out a press release from his new organization with press@hillaryclinton.com as the contact address.

Sam Arora, a Clinton aide for three years, made the goof Tuesday in a press release for VoteBoth, which is pressing for a ticket that would bring the two Democratic rivals together.

The release said "press@voteboth.com," but linked to the Clinton campaign's generic media e-mail address.

Arora said it was a simple mistake caused by his using an old Microsoft document to make the new one.

"I didn't realize that, when you do this in Microsoft Word, you have to look at what the html says," he said. "This was just me being technically unadvanced."

Collusion between VoteBoth and the Clinton campaign would be illegal, since VoteBoth filed with the Federal Election Commission as independent of any candidate or its committees.

Founded a month ago to promote a ticket with Clinton on top and Sen. Barack Obama as vice-president, VoteBoth was retooled last week to say either candidate could lead the ticket.

Its founder, Adam Parkhomenko, is a die-hard Clintonite who was 17 years old when he launched an online drive in 2003 to draft her to run for president in 2004. He went on to become the right-hand man of Patti Solis Doyle, the Clinton campaign director who was ousted in March after a string of Clinton defeats. Parkhomenko left the campaign soon after Doyle did.

The launch of VoteBoth — originally called Clinton/Obama '08 — prompted muttering in the blogosphere about ongoing links between Parkhomenko and the Clinton campaign.

TO: Superdelegates

FROM: David Plouffe, Campaign Manager

RE: An Update on the Race for Delegates

DA: May 7, 2008

There are only six contests remaining in the Democratic primary calendar and only 217 pledged delegates left to be awarded. Only 7 percent of the pledged delegates remain on the table. There are 260 remaining undeclared superdelegates, for a total of 477 delegates left to be awarded.

With North Carolina and Indiana complete, Barack Obama only needs 172 total delegates to capture the Democratic nomination. This is only 36% of the total remaining delegates.

Conversely, Senator Clinton needs 326 delegates to reach the Democratic nomination, which represents a startling 68% of the remaining delegates.

With the Clinton path to the nomination getting even narrower, we expect new and wildly creative scenarios to emerge in the coming days. While those scenarios may be entertaining, they are not legitimate and will not be considered legitimate by this campaign or its millions of supporters, volunteers, and donors.

We believe it is exceedingly unlikely Senator Clinton will overtake our lead in the popular vote and in fact lost ground on that measure last night. However, the popular vote is a deeply flawed and illegitimate metric for deciding the nominee – since each campaign based their strategy on the acquisition of delegates. More importantly, the rules of the nomination are predicated on delegates, not popular vote.

Just as the Presidential election in November will be decided by the electoral college, not popular vote, the Democratic nomination is decided by delegates.

If we believed the popular vote was somehow the key measurement, we would have campaigned much more intensively in our home state of Illinois and in all the other populous states, in the pursuit of larger raw vote totals. But it is not the key measurement. We played by the rules, set by you, the DNC members, and campaigned as hard as we could, in as many places as we could, to acquire delegates. Essentially, the popular vote is not much better as a metric than basing the nominee on which candidate raised more money, has more volunteers, contacted more voters, or is taller.

The Clinton campaign was very clear about their own strategy until the numbers become too ominous for them. They were like a broken record , repeating ad nauseum that this nomination race is about delegates. Now, the word delegate has disappeared from their vocabulary, in an attempt to change the rules and create an alternative reality.

We want to be clear – we believe that the winner of a majority of pledged delegates will and should be the nominee of our party. And we estimate that after the Oregon and Kentucky primaries on May 20, we will have won a majority of the overall pledged delegates According to a recent news report, by even their most optimistic estimates the Clinton Campaign expects to trail by more than 100 pledged delegates and will then ask the superdelegates to overturn the will of the voters.

But of course superdelegates are free to and have been utilizing their own criteria for deciding who our nominee should be. Many are deciding on the basis of electability, a favorite Clinton refrain. And if you look at the numbers, during a period where the Clinton campaign has been making an increasingly strident pitch on electability, it is clear their argument is failing miserably with superdelegates.

Since February 5, the Obama campaign has netted 107 superdelegates, and the Clinton campaign only 21. Since the Pennsylvania primary, much of it during the challenging Rev. Wright period, we have netted 24 and the Clinton campaign 17.

At some point – we would argue that time is now – this ceases to be a theoretical exercise about how superdelegates view electability. The reality of the preferences in the last several weeks offer a clear guide of how strongly superdelegates feel Senator Obama will perform in November, both in building a winning campaign for the presidency as well as providing the best electoral climate across the country for all Democratic candidates.

It is important to note that Senator Obama leads Senator Clinton in superdelegate endorsements among Governors, United States Senators and members of the House of Representatives. These elected officials all have a keen sense for who our strongest nominee will be in November.

It is only among DNC members where Senator Clinton holds a lead, which has been rapidly dwindling.

As we head into the final days of the campaign, we just wanted to be clear with you as a party leader, who will be instrumental in making the final decision of who our nominee will be, how we view the race at this point.

Senator Obama, our campaign and our supporters believe pledged delegates is the most legitimate metric for determining how this race has unfolded. It is simply the ratification of the DNC rules – your rules – which we built this campaign and our strategy around.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: This is Shamaria from Tampa, Florida, hi, Shamaria, welcome to the EIB Network.

CALLER:  Hi, Rush.  It's an honor to speak with you.

RUSH:  Thank you very much.

CALLER:  I am a young black Republican woman, 33 years old, conservative Republican.

RUSH:  Thank you.  Way to go, way to go, welcome home.

CALLER:  And I just want to say first of all that you snatched me from the claws of liberalism at a very young age listening to you, so I have to thank you for that.

RUSH:  You're more than welcome.  I'm happy to hear that kind of story.

RUSH:  I'm also from Chicago, and I have a comment, but picking up on what you just said, I don't know if anybody has been thinking about really how Obama even became a senator.  I was there and active in the Republican Party at the time he was running for the Senate, and he has no experience in running a campaign, a serious campaign anyway.  I mean, he was basically given that seat.

RUSH:  I know.  The Chicago machine.

CALLER:  He was given that seat.  And the whole premise that, you know, he's something new, yes, he's very new, he's too new. He's never run a campaign, and that whole thing with Ryan, Jeri Ryan's husband, he had no candidate, he had no opposition.  So he just became a senator just because he was in the right place at the right time.  But he had no one to campaign against.  

RUSH:  That wasn't the right place at the right time.  There's more to it than that.  He's up against a candidate, and all of a sudden the candidate's wife decides to let go some secret materials involving her divorce to show what a pervert, so-called, the husband was, and that ended his campaign.  Obama just had to coast.  

CALLER:  Yes.

RUSH:  The Republicans sent Alan Keyes in there --

CALLER:  Yes.

RUSH:  -- from Washington, not even from Chicago.  That didn't go very well.  But still, the Chicago machine arranges this kind of stuff.  That's why Obama went to the church.  That's why Obama went to Trinity United Church, is to get himself enmeshed and firmed up in the Chicago machine.

CALLER:  And that church is the social hierarchy.  You must, if you're black, and if you are affluent or successful in any way, that is the place to be.

RUSH:  Wait a second.  Did I just hear you correctly?  The congregation of Reverend Wright's church is affluent?

CALLER:  I can't speak for the entire congregation, but a segment of black upper and upper middle class and upper class society, which is different than any other place, and I've lived all over this country, you have to belong to the right church.  And reverend Wrong's church is the right church.  It is the church where if you want to --

RUSH:  You've been in that church?

CALLER:  I have been.

RUSH:  Have you heard Reverend Wright sermons in that church?

CALLER:  My grandmother listens to him on the radio every day. Recently, you know, I was even there last week, and I will tell you this, although I've never heard anything that resembled that when I was there or when he has sent his pastors to my church, and I'm Presbyterian, I never heard any of that, but when I was back at home, from people that I've known my entire life that are successful young black business owners, their belief is the exact same as what Reverend Wright was espousing.

RUSH:  Oh, black liberation theology churches are not dominant, but they're around.  It's one of the major problems that I think the black community faces.  People like Reverend Wright continue to poison the minds of parishioners in this regard.  We've discussed this at great length.  Shamaria, I'm glad you called.  I really appreciate it.

END TRANSCRIPT

I do not listen to Rush Limbass..just wanted to get that out in the open. The woman is very dumb and contradicts herself over and over, but on the Italic comment she proves the point Obama has been trying to make. I came across this transcript from his show today and thought it very interesting that even this Black Republican woman who has been to Wrights church and has a grandmother who listens to Wright eveyday, has never heard Wright make those comments.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/
0408/The_Hills_AB_Stoddard_says_skanky_after_
Hillary_MSNBC_clip.html

Off camera today on MSNBC, A.B. Stoddard of "The Hill" newspaper followed up a clip of Hillary Clinton with the word "skanky."

In the clip, Clinton tells supporters that she'd debate Obama anywhere: "We could even do it on the back of a flatbed truck, doesn’t even have to be in some fancy studio somewhere.”

"The New Argument" mentioned the clip earlier today, but only that there was an "unknown culprit" who used the word "skanky."

MSNBC confirmed to Politico that it was Stoddard, who's seen laughing as the camera goes back to her.

It's a good thing for the network, considering that MSNBC's Chris Matthews and David Shuster have already gotten in trouble with the Clinton campaign for comments over the past couple months.

On David Gregory's "Race for the White House," this evening, MSNBC aired the Clinton clip, but of course without Stoddard's reaction from the earlier broadcast with Norah O'Donnell.

I agree with her 100% "Skanky", I mean if you have to proposition a man at least require that it be in hotel. How skanky can you be when you start insisting that your easy, cheap and don't care wher you do it as long as you do it.

The Associated Press is reporting that North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley is planning to endorse Hillary Clinton, most likely tomorrow. No formal announcement has been made.

Easley, a superdelegate and conservative Democrat who has been the state's governor for two terms, is reportedly planning the endorsement despite the fact that Clinton trails Barack Obama by double-digits in most polls of North Carolina Democrats. The state's voters go to the polls on May 6th.

In other endorsement news, Obama picked up the backing of United States Senator Jeff Bingaman today. The superdelegate said in a statement: "To make progress, we must rise above the partisanship and the issues that divide us to find common ground. We must move the country in a dramatically new direction. I strongly believe Barack Obama is best positioned to lead the nation in that new direction.”

by; Kari Chisholm (Blue Oregon)

 Just spent three days in Little Rock, Arkansas - where I was invited to talk about technology and politics at the Clinton Presidential Library, to a conference of under 35 elected officials.

The visit to the Clinton Library was an extraordinary reminder of how good we had it during Bill Clinton's presidency. In a stark contrast to the failed Bush presidency, the exhibits remind you of achievement after achievement of the Clinton years.

But it all started in 1992.

In that campaign, Bill Clinton called on a new generation to participate in the political life of our nation, and millions of us responded. He asked us to "vote our hopes, not our fears" -- and many of us joined him in believing in a place called Hope.

Clinton  told us that his presidency would be about "putting people first" and putting power back in the hands of the people. He came from outside Washington, to fight the "privileged, private interests" that have "hijacked" our government.

He asked us to "look beyond the stereotypes that blind us" and "restore our sense of unity and community". And he called on us all to build a "country of boundless hopes and endless dreams; a country that once again lifts up its people, and inspires the world".

Sound familiar?

The messages and themes of that 1992 campaign live on today -- in the campaign of Barack Obama. It's Barack Obama who is inspiring yet another new generation of Americans. It's Barack Obama who is fighting against the entrenched Washington insiders that stifle debate and impede progress. It's Barack Obama that understands that "hope" isn't just a bumper sticker, but a vision and promise of a better country.

I have no doubt in my mind that if his wife weren't running, Bill Clinton would be Barack Obama's #1 supporter in this presidential campaign.

I love Bill Clinton. And all these years later, I still believe in him and his vision. Like many people I know, I work in politics today because of his call to service. I am a Clinton man.

And that's why I support Barack Obama for President.

Date: Thursday, April 24, 2008
By: Sherrel Wheeler Stewart, BlackAmericaWeb.com

When he arrived this week in the rural Alabama town of Camden, presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain was met by the world famous Gee's Bend Quilters and others clapping and singing “Do Lord (Remember Me).”

McCain acknowledged in his two-day visit to Alabama's Black Belt that Republican support in the area has not been strong. Still, he pledged to be the president of all of the people.

While in the Black Belt, McCain stood at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, where blacks in 1965 were beaten back by police as they attempted to march to Montgomery to demand their right to vote. He rode across the Alabama River on the Gee's Bend Ferry, along with the quilters and others. The ferry was shut down for 44 years, closed initially because white leaders in Camden wanted to prevent blacks from coming to town to push for civil rights. Without the ferry, the trip to town was 80 miles for the blacks who lived in Gee's Bend.

While there, McCain sang along with the quilters, elders whose quilts have beem made through the years from cloth remnants, icons who have shown the world a swath of Deep South culture. McCain even bought three of the large quilts, writing a personal check for more than $14,000, according to published reports. On Monday afternoon, he went on to Birmingham for two fundraisers.

"I am aware of the challenges, and I am aware of the fact that there will be many people who will not vote for me, but I'm going to be the president of all the people," he said while in the Black Belt.

Jeff Sadosky, a spokesman for the McCain campaign, said the senator wants to show that when he governs “he will not just be the president for 51 percent of the people.

“He’s aware that some of the people he talks with will not vote for him. He still wants to hear their views. He wants to have a dialogue.”

McCain is now taking his "It's Time for Action" Tour to Louisiana’s Ninth Ward, where he will join that state’s Republican governor, Bobby Jindal, for a walk-through.

In a political season where Democratic presidential hopefuls still are fighting for the nomination, McCain is either positioning himself as an alternate choice in November or covering himself from charges of racial insensitivity, said University of San Francisco political scientist James Taylor.

“Hillary and Bill Clinton have been so reckless, throwing just about everything they can at Barack Obama,” Taylor told BlackAmericaWeb.com. “If it is perceived that the nomination was stolen from Obama, we will see a fundamental dealignment of blacks in the Democratic Party,” Taylor said. “They would take a step back and punish Hillary Clinton. And no Democrat has been elected president without 85 percent of the black vote. Hillary Clinton has lost the support of blacks. Barack got 92 percent of the black vote on Tuesday in Pennsylvania.”

Taylor predicts that given the right scenario, a Republican like McCain could get as much as 30 percent of the black vote.

“No Republican president has had that type of support from blacks since Richard Nixon,” he said. “McCain would be a formidable opponent.”

By going into areas such as Selma, Gee's Bend, and the Ninth Ward, McCain is attepting to show that he is not anti-black, observers say. His move on Wednesday to ask North Carolina Republicans not to run an anti-Obama advertisement that injects race by looping in comments from his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, also shows that McCain wants to be viewed as a different kind of Republican, Taylor said.

Black Republicans in Alabama applauded his decision to campaign at historic places and meet people along the way.

“It was a smart move,” said Richard Finley, former president of the Alabama Republican Council.

Finley, a Birmingham political consultant, is optimistic about the potential of a Republican presidential candidate in November.

"Sen. McCain knows what we have done here. Gov. (Bob) Riley carried 25 percent of the black vote in his last race -- through out the state," Finley told BlackAmericaWeb.com. "If he can get more blacks working in his campaign, he can attract some votes."

Blacks in Alabama, he said, are concerned about economic issues. "They want jobs. They want housing. That comes with industry, not welfare," Finley said.

Longtime Alabama Republican Joe Dickson said he too will support McCain, but he said he's a realist. "Barack Obama will be our next president," said Dickson, a 75-year-old civil rights foot soldier.

"McCain will get some votes among black voters in Alabama, but he has to say some things differently," said Dickson, a former black newspaper publisher who at one time served in the cabinet of a Republican Alabama governor.

"He has to talk about getting us out of the 100-year war. He has to discontinue the Bush administration tax cuts," Dickson said. "Already, this country is in too much debt."

While McCain was greeted with hugs and handshakes, some in the Gee's Bend crowd said it wasn't enough to sway their Democratic leanings.

"I thank the Lord for McCain coming here," said quilter Mary Lee Bendolph. But she symbolized the challenge facing McCain. Bendolph admitted she likes Obama best.

"He come, to me, just like Martin Luther King," Bendolph said, "not just for one race, but all the races."

On Sunday, at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the Arizona senator described in vivid detail the clubbing that fractured the skull of John Lewis, now a Democratic congressman from Georgia. McCain, who speaks often of courage shown by military veterans, said he never saw greater courage than Lewis and the marchers showed that day, March 7, 1965.

"There must be no forgotten places in America, whether they have been ignored for long years by the sins of indifference and injustice, or have been left behind as the world grew smaller and more economically interdependent," McCain said outside the St. James Hotel, several hundred yards away from the historic bridge.

Earlier this month, McCain was in Memphis for the observance of the 40th anniversary or the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. He was booed at one point, but he was there, Taylor said.

McCain's home state, Arizona, was the last to establish a state holiday to honor King, and he was still opposed to it when they made the move, said Taylor. 

“He’s been trying," he added, "to show that he can take the high road.”

--- Associated Press contributed to this story.

 In 1979 Hillary moved to Evansville for 2 weeks and was a border with 9 Catholic nuns. She wanted to be a nun, but alas the nuns said she was to tenacious for the church. She must go out and make a life for herself in politics. That is how Hillary first became really interested in politics, the nuns told her she was ment to be a leader. So now that she is back in her home town where it all began, she understands the people of Indiana, because she is one of them. Right there on the steps of the church she began her long journey into politics. She remembers the nuns taking her to the back of the church and teaching her how to shoot for their dinner and pray for the dinner meal.

Hillary, the hometime gal of America (Every State).

Andrerw Sullivan has unearthed a gem from 1997, a video showing Ed Rendell (a staunch Hillary Clinton supporter) praising Minister Farrakan. This is true love between Rendell and Farrakan and there is not much to say, watch the video.


So in light of this, will Hillary Clinton Reject and Denounce Ed Rendell or not? Hillary Clinton says we have a choice in our pastors and in who we associate with. She attacked Obama over Farrakan at the Ohio debate and she attacked Obama over Ayers in the Pennsylvania debate. Hillary Clinton has stronger ties to Farrakan then Obama, Hillary Clinton has stronger ties to Ayers than Obama.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXum_-8I1TA&eurl=http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/04/rendell-praises.html

She will use anything against Obama in order to race bait her way to the nomination. This is another example of her duplicity and the lengths she will go to devide and conquer the democratic party.

At a small closed-door fundraiser after Super Tuesday, Sen. Hillary Clinton blamed what she called the "activist base" of the Democratic Party -- and MoveOn.org in particular -- for many of her electoral defeats, saying activists had "flooded" state caucuses and "intimidated" her supporters, according to an audio recording of the event obtained by The Huffington Post.

"Moveon.org endorsed [Sen. Barack Obama] -- which is like a gusher of money that never seems to slow down," Clinton said to a meeting of donors. "We have been less successful in caucuses because it brings out the activist base of the Democratic Party. MoveOn didn't even want us to go into Afghanistan. I mean, that's what we're dealing with. And you know they turn out in great numbers. And they are very driven by their view of our positions, and it's primarily national security and foreign policy that drives them. I don't agree with them. They know I don't agree with them. So they flood into these caucuses and dominate them and really intimidate people who actually show up to support me."

Listen to the Audio here;

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/celeste-fremon/clinton-slams-democratic_b_97484.html

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Senator Clinton's remarks depart radically from the traditional position of presidential candidates who in the past have celebrated high levels of turnout by party activists and partisans as a harbinger for their own party's success -- regardless of who is the eventual nominee -- in the general election showdown.

The comments also contradict Clinton's previous statements praising this year's elevated Democratic turnout in primaries and caucuses, and appear to blame her caucus defeats on newly energized grassroots voter groups that she has lauded in the past as "lively participants" in American democracy.

"You've been asking the tough questions," Clinton said in April of last year at a MoveOn-sponsored town hall event. "You've been refusing to back down when any of us who are in political leadership are not living up to the standards that we should set for ourselves... I think you have helped to change the face of American politics for the better... both online, and in the corridors of power."

Clinton's criticism followed MoveOn's endorsement of Obama in early February.

In a statement to The Huffington Post, MoveOn's Executive Director Eli Pariser reacted strongly to Clinton's remarks: "Senator Clinton has her facts wrong again. MoveOn never opposed the war in Afghanistan, and we set the record straight years ago when Karl Rove made the same claim. Senator Clinton's attack on our members is divisive at a time when Democrats will soon need to unify to beat Senator McCain. MoveOn is 3.2 million reliable voters and volunteers who are an important part of any winning Democratic coalition in November. They deserve better than to be dismissed using Republican talking points."

So Hillary wants to be Republican, we need to start treating her like one. 


Article by, Dick Morris April 17,2008
In this week’s debate, Hillary Clinton said all of her “baggage” has been “rummaged through” for years. But important features of her close relationship with known terrorist sympathizers and Hamas supporters are still opaque to the public view.

Her relationship with terrorists began in the mid-1980s when she served on the Board of the New World Foundation, which gave funds to the Palestine Liberation Organization, at a time when the PLO was officially recognized by the US government as a terrorist organization.

In 1996, the First Lady initiated an outreach program to bring Muslim leaders to the White House. But, as terrorism expert Steve Emerson noted in the Wall Street Journal: “Curiously, nearly all of the leaders with whom Mrs. Clinton elected to meet came from Islamic fundamentalist organizations. A review of the statements, publications, and conferences of the groups Mrs. Clinton embraced shows unambiguously that they have long advocated or justified violence. By meeting with these groups, the first lady lent them legitimacy as ‘mainstream’ and ‘moderate.’”

Among these radical groups was the American Muslim Council (AMA) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, both groups that support Hamas, who attended a White House reception hosted by Hillary in February, 1996. Emerson says that its leaders “have sanctioned terrorism, published anti-Semitic statements, and repeatedly hosted conferences that were forums for denunciations of Jews and exhortations to wage jihad.”

The American Muslim Alliance was headed in the 90s by Abdulrahman Alamoudi who met with Clinton and Gore in 1995. Emerson notes that “Mrs. Clinton [allowed] the American Muslim Alliance to draw up the Muslim guest list for the first lady’s … White House reception.”

Alamoudi, Emerson says was “the primary defender of Musa Abu Marzug, the Hamas political bureau chief responsible for creating the group’s death squads.” Marzug took “credit” when Hamas brigades sprayed machine gun fire into a crowded Jerusalem mall. But less than three days after Marzug was arrested by the FBI in July of 1995, Alamoudi said that Marzug “had never been involved in terrorism” and called his arrest “an insult to the Muslim community. Emerson reports that he “elicited contributions fro Marzug’s defense fund” and called him a “political prisoner.”

Then, Hillary ran for Senate on her own and suddenly it was payback time. On June 13, 2000, the American Muslim Alliance’s Massachusetts Chapter held a very successful fundraiser for her candidacy. Tahir Ali, the chairman of the chapter, said “we must support all who have [Muslim] interests at heart.”

Perhaps conscious of how controversial the contribution would be, Hillary or someone on her staff, tried to pull a fast one, recording the donation on federal filing forms as being from the “American Museum Alliance.” But alert observers weren’t fooled and Senate candidate Clinton was forced to acknowledge who the real donor was and, four months after getting the money, she returned it.

But by then, a few weeks before the election, she had abjured the use of soft money in her Senate campaign, so the donation was, in practical terms, useless, since it was well over the limits for hard money contributions.

The Palestinian terrorists know that Hillary hears their point of view reported on October 7, 2007 that leading terrorists have publicly called for her election. Aaron Klein, WorldNet Daily’s Jerusalem correspondent, wrote, in his wonderful book Schmoozing with Terrorists, Ala Senakreh, West Bank chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorist group said “I hope Hillary is elected in order to have the occasion to carry out all the promises she is giving regarding Iraq.”

Senakreh has high hopes for a Hillary presidency. He told Klein “I hope also that she will maintain her husband’s policies regarding Palestine and even develop that policy.

Abu Hamed, leader of the Al Aqsa Brigades in Gaza, noting that “the Iraqi resistance is succeeding,” said that “Hillary and the Democrats call for withdrawal.” Then he added, helpfully, “her popularity shows that the resistance is winning and that the occupation is losing. We just hope that she will go until the end and change American policy.” He explained that “President Clinton wanted to give the Palestinians 98 percent of the West Bank territories. I hope Hillary will move a step forward and give the Palestinians all their rights.”

Clearly Barack Obama should not have stayed in Rev Wright’s church and his campaign should not maintain a “friendly” relationship with William Ayers. But what about Hillary’s service on a board that gave money to a terrorist organization? And her hosting of a terror supporting group in the White House? And her acceptance of a $50,000 contribution from that group? And the statements of terrorists that they are hoping for her to win.

These are far more serious connections than have been established for Obama and either Wright or Ayers.

Hillary Clinton and Muthanna Hanooti in 1996.

In a 1997 interview with this reporter, Muthanna Hanooti said that at the meeting, Mrs. Clinton was "very receptive" to his request for an easing of the American sanctions on Iraq that were in place at the time. He said Mrs. Clinton "passed a message to the State Department" about the need to implement the oil-for-food deal, which was intended to allow Saddam to sell billions of dollars' worth of oil to pay for food for Iraqi citizens.

Back in 1997, a spokesman for the first lady referred inquiries about the meeting to the National Security Council. At the time, a spokesman for the National Security Council, Eric Rubin, responded by saying that President Clinton, not the first lady, sets foreign policy.

Asked whether Senator Clinton recalls the meeting or whether the presidential campaign had any further comment on the meeting in light of Mr. Hanooti's indictment, the Clinton presidential campaign yesterday offered no formal response.

White House schedules for Mrs. Clinton that were released earlier this month by the National Archives show a May 9, 1996, "Private Meeting w/ Congressman Bonior and Chaldean-Americans" in the Map Room. David Bonior, who was a member of the Democratic leadership in the House of Representatives until he stepped down in January 2003, backed Mr. Hanooti's efforts to ease the American blockade of Baathist Iraq. Mr. Bonior has been back in the news this week for having been one of the congressmen on an October 2002 trip to Iraq that Mr. Hanooti organized and that, apparently unbeknownst to the congressmen, was paid for by Saddam's government. Chaldeans are Iraqi Christians.

For the Clinton campaign, already reeling from Mrs. Clinton's misstatement on another 1996 episode — a landing at an airport in Bosnia that she claimed took place under sniper fire — the indictment of Mr. Hanooti and the disclosure of his claim to have met with her could not have come at a worse time. Mrs. Clinton has made her foreign policy experience in the White House an important part of her argument to voters that she is the only Democratic presidential candidate who would be ready to serve as president if the red phone rings at 3 a.m.

Mrs. Clinton and her defenders may claim that no one could have known in 1996 that Mr. Hanooti would become an agent of Saddam Hussein, engaged in what a grand jury and federal prosecutors say was a criminal conspiracy. The indictment charges that the conspiracy began "in or about 1999." Mr. Hanooti has pleaded not guilty.

But to reporters on the foreign policy beat in Washington at the time and to those active in the Iraqi opposition to Saddam, it was clear whose agenda was being advanced. The news article in 1997, published in the Forward, that described Mrs. Clinton's involvement with Mr. Hanooti began: "The American-led blockade of Iraq is crumbling, following an intensive, domestic lobbying effort that has involved Rep. David Bonior and Senator Abraham — and, according to some sources, Hillary Rodham Clinton."

In the October 1997 interview, Mr. Hanooti identified himself as a Palestinian and said he had recently visited Iraq. He also said he had recently met with America's U.N. ambassador, Bill Richardson, to make the case against U.N. sanctions on Iraq.

"Of course we want the sanctions to be lifted, because we don't believe in it," Mr. Hanooti said. He added that the sanctions hurt the Iraqi people but do not affect the Iraqi regime.

When a reporter identified the Forward as a Jewish newspaper, Mr. Hanooti said, "It is interesting that our cousins are interested in this issue. We believe that part of the problem we have is their lobbying against lifting the sanctions."

Mr. Hanooti described the impact of the sanctions on Iraqis as "another Holocaust, like the one which happened to the Jews." He claimed that 1 million Iraqi children have died because of the lack of food and medical supplies there, and he said had raised the matter in the May 1996 meeting at the White House with Mrs. Clinton.

Mr. Hanooti's dealings with politicians reach beyond Mrs. Clinton. Federal Election Commission records show he donated to the campaigns of Mr. Bonior, of President Bush, and of Spencer Abraham, a Republican senator of Michigan who served as Mr. Bush's energy secretary. He also gave to Rep. Tom Campbell, a Republican of California, and to Rep. John Conyers, a Democrat of Michigan.

Asked yesterday about the donation to Mr. Bush's presidential campaign, the White House referred The New York Sun to the Republican National Committee, which in turn offered no immediate comment. A Republican familiar with the president's 2000 campaign said the compliance committee for the campaign had disbanded. Nonetheless, this official, requesting anonymity, said, "We are looking into this."

As a senator, Mrs. Clinton voted to authorize the Iraq war, but she has since stated both that she regretted the vote and that she thought it was a vote to allow more time for diplomacy and inspections by allowing the diplomacy to be backed by the threat of force. She is campaigning for president on the theme of bringing the troops home from Iraq.