Under the illusion that this is a democracy, and you are free to support your candidate of choice? 

Not if you are an AA democrat who did not endorse Barack Obama.  

Congressman Charlie Rangel remained a loyal Clinton supporter until DNC finally forced through Obama. 

Very soon after the primaries, the NYT began obsessively beating the drum against Rangel.  His crime?  Maintaining his offices in four rent control apartments in a Harlem luxury building.  

Hardly enough to rate a paragraph.  Mr. Rangel has rented these apartments for decades - why bring it up now?   And how was this enough to dwell on day after day in a national newspaper?

The NYT is back again with a new Rangel scandal.  It is huge. Rangel is Delay and Abramoff rolled into one. 

Rangel owes a few thousand dollars in back taxes for his rental property in the Dominican Republic. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/nyregion/10rangel.html?hp  

Investigating any member of Congress would yield as much, if not worse. 

Republicans are demanding that Rengal step down as chair of the Ways and Means Committee.  And Republicans are being blamed for sensationalizing the issue. 

So why am I smelling Barack Obama all over this?  

The timing.   Right on the tails of the primaries.  Plus Obama's reputation as a vindictive little prick. 

Oh, and here is another major Rangal scandal the NYT mentions: 

He has also been criticized for using his official stationary to solicit donations for a new educational center at the City University of New York that will be named for him.  The ethics committee is now examining whether that violated Congressional rules.  

Charlie Rangel is one of the most brilliant speakers in this country.  Unlike Obama, he does not need a teleprompter.

It was depressing to watch DNC insiders kill off Clinton, for a corrupt,  intellectually deficient weakling.  It is even worse to watch them go after a capable progressive like Rangel - because he is a strong Clinton ally.

In 2012, after 4 years of McCain, Obama will join the ranks of the elderly senate losers club, steeped in spite and jealousy that Clinton remains a bright star.

Like bitter Kerry, Kennedy, Hart, Carter, McGovern. Obama and his DNC gang will do whatever it takes to prevent the one candidate committed to healthcare, and a middle class friendly economy.  They will kill off the bitch.  Rangel is their lesson for anyone daring to support her.

This interview comes as no surprise to those ofus in the blogs, who have gotten a heavy doseof Obama style persuasion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek-idgd8JJg

All the post mortems about why Hillary lost?

She DIDN'T LOSE. 

Tell the voters in OH, PA and WV that she lost. 

The losing was an inside job.  

Party insiders decided she lost, and didn't care what the voters said. 

Every time she won a major primary, we'd hear:  "Well time to quit."  

All the DC mediocrities that resent Clinton's popularity, just used Obama to feel good.  Even if it destroys the party.  

Talk about the oil bubble, the Obama bubble will burst before the election, if it hasn't already.  

Remember '04, when Howard Dean fought

against a process STOLEN FROM THE VOTERS IN 2000?

And he passionately spoke to restore power to the
voters?

And how happy we were to see the great Howard
Dean running DNC?

And he stepped in, and

. Two states got a hatchet job;

.  Caucus goers were intimidated.  There were rampant
reports of voter fraud;

. the prominent democratic youth blogs were hijacked, so that young
people were only exposed to hate rhetoric against one of the two candidates,
and praise only for the DNC candidate??

. Delegates and Superdelegates were intimidated and bribed;

.  The VOTERS ELECTED one candidate, but the DNC over-rode their choice,
    and APPOINTED THEIR OWN NOMINEE;

In essence, under Howard Dean, this election was STOLEN FROM THE VOTERS.

Everything that Dean fought for in '04, he fought against in '08.

This time, Howard Dean did not lose.
American democracy did.

Not too many years ago, you could quote from the NYT and not come off looking like a complete fool.    Propaganda editorials under the guise of "news" was a trait of lesser papers like the LA Times.   NYT was an oasis of straight-forward reporting sans BS.  
The number of spam and hit pieces in the political section these past few months has been troubling.  Forget ethics.  The end now justifies the means 

Adam Nagourney's front page article today is a troubling reminder on how far this progressive paper has sunk.
Yesterday, Clinton won another in a string of victories. SD was especially profound because it showed that Obama, once the glorious golden boy, is quickly losing favor with voters.
In an effort to overshadow and undercut this key Clinton victory, the DNC pressured delegates to rush out their decisions 
Right wing controlled cable news like CNN, also did its best to hurt Clinton at the polls by announcing early that she had "conceded."  They then corrected this, but continued their efforts to dissuade voters by saying that she wanted to be Obama's VP. 
Here is a section from NYT "reporter" Nagourney's clueless, and offensive front page piece.
"Like her husband, Mrs. Clinton has a way of becoming the center of attention even when the spotlight is supposed to be trained elsewhere . . ." 
Interesting comment on a candidate who won all of our key democratic states, and has the popular vote. 
After the hijacking of DNC, an intimidation job on super delegates and a hatchet job on Florida and Michigan, the NYT is celebrating.

Under the overturned lute with its
One string I am going my way
Which has a strange sound.

This way the dust, that way the dust.
I listen to both sides
But I keep right on.
I remember the leaves sitting in judgment
And then winter.

I remember the rain with its bundle of roads.
The rain taking all its roads.
Nowhere.

Young as I am, old as I am,

I forget tomorrow, the blind man.
I forget the life among the buried windows.
The eyes in the curtains.
The wall
Growing through the immortelles.
I forget silence
The owner of the smile.

This must be what I wanted to be doing,
Walking at night between the two deserts,
Singing.

 WS Merwin

This occurred to me, after my diary in one of the "progressive" blogs was received as most pieces are supporting Hillary Clinton:  Spat at and taunted by the usual paid Obama operatives, and I was called a Troll about 50 times.  And 90% of my posts were made invisible, just from spite.

These Obama operatives are the new Republicans

Al Gore, 2000.  Just wanted the votes counted to see who won the election.
Jeered at by the media, Overwhelmed, made to look foolish and narcissistic. . .

Fast forward to two states with citizens who voted honorably in our primary.
Given the draconian punishment of having their democratic rights as citizens removed, because their state primary was moved up.  That was the premise, anyway.  The actual reason is the party was hijacked for the purpose of making one candidate the democratic nominee.  Best accomplished by blocking votes from being counted.

And one candidate fights against a revote.  DOES NOT WANT THESE VOTES COUNTED.  AND HIS SELF PROCLAIMED PROGRESSIVE FOLLOWERS BACK HIM ON SUSPENDING DEMOCRACY.

And this candidate's proposals are to the right of the candidate who will suffer when and if the voters are disenfranchised.

It is 2000 all over again.   
Cult democrats have hijacked our party from the majority.  
And most surreal of all:  The head of our DNC, the "TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY" candidate.  My hero for 4 years. Howard Dean.  Appears to be a perpetrator in this coup.

This piece will be followed by all the Freeper style taunts and jeers.  Same people, aping each other. Filled with blind hate.  I repeat BLIND hatred that we were so contemptuous of in Wingnuts.

Go into Dailyi Kos. Write something positive about Hillary Clinton. Count the hours that you are troll rated off. Just like Free Republic.

The whole damned thing is inverted.  

Howard is the new Katherine Harris. Obama is the new George Bush. Hillary Clinton is the new Al Gore.

What a mind fuck.

In Chicago, Obama used lawyers to prevent the voters from having any choice except Obama.   

His fancy Harvard law buddies caught minor technicalities on the petitions of Obama's opponents, and effectively kicked them out of the running. 
This included rights activist, Alice Palmer.  

Now, hotshot lawyers are preventing the voters in TWO STATES from the democratic process.  Hillary Clinton has the popular vote.  But the technicalities are being inforced to keep the will of FL voters from being carried out.  Voter Suppression.  All nice and Legal.  

This is undemocratic.  
This is the worst abuse of lawyers in the history of this country.

LAWYERS EXIST TO SERVE THE CITIZENS, NOT TO RULE THEM  

 

Obama has a little pattern going on.  
A little trick that served him well in the corrupt gloom of the ghetto, that he is rooted in.  South Side Chicago.  Bleak with hopelessness.  And smells that cling like street sewage on those who claw their way above it by whatever wiles they can devise.  
The disenfranchisement of Florida and Michigan voters should be of no surprise to anyone familiar with the Obama way of doing business. 
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/29/obamas.first.campaign/index.html

The thing that has catapulted Obama to the lead candidate is the very thing that pushed me to change my support to Clinton early on. 
The shrewd and aggresive annihilation campaign against the opponents. 
I am certain that Axelrod has closely studied successes of historic despots.  
Just the way that he hijacked the democratic blogs, and has brainwashed the college set into a monolith of passionate hatred, is dazzling. 
And this web smear campaign has gone completely under the radar.  Not a peep about it from television news, or newspapers. 
Only his most recent (and least credible) smear tactic of framing Clinton as trying to get Obama assassinated, was finally exposed by George Stephanopoulis, and ridiculed by progressive economist, Paul Krugman.  Until that moment, even the NYT had thought it front page-worthy news. 
Axelrod has proved himself more cunning, and ruthless, and aggressive than Bush's brain, Rove. 
Without a doubt, he will be taking over Rove's old office at the White House, should Obama become our nominee and win the GE. 
And Obama, with his indifference to detail, ala George Bush will continue to be the face in front of the brain.

And George W. Bush looks Presidential.This was repeated over and over on CNN immediately after the Gore/Bush debate in 2000. 
We were bewildered.  In actuality, Bush's eyes looked like those of a stunned animal caught in a light beam.  It was as painful to watch Bush then as it is now. 
Meanwhile,  Michael Moore and the Latte crowd were having their own rage.  They wanted to screw Al Gore by voting for Ralph Nader. 
Had Daily Kos been around in those days, "Kossacks" as they lovingly call themselves, would have joined in.  "Al Gore is going Down," would be the gallant war cry. 
Anybody remember why?  What Michael Moore cause was so worthy that it killed off a candidate from the most peaceful presidential administration in our nation's history?  
Moore, what cause justified the deaths of  thousands worldwide; and pushed middle class American who were enjoying an unprecedented standard of living, back into poverty?
Moore, and the angry Lattes got their wish.  They taught America a lesson it would never forget. Nobody knows what the lesson was, but we were saved from having to endure Al Gore. 
When Gore tried to do a recount, CNN, MSNBC et al came up with another buzz sentence:  "America wants to move on." You could not turn on the television without hearing how America was weary of the democratic process, and wanted go on and let Bush have the presidency. 
What if Al Gore had stood his ground?  What if he had stood up to the chanting heckling media?  Americans wondered frequently.  
We can see what Gore's fate would have been right now. 
A new candidate is being harassed and victimized by CNN, MSNBC and friends. 
This one has the spine to stand up to them and say "Hell No" to them.
No, you will NOT push me out of this primary.  I have as much right to be a candidate as anyone else. 
And yesterday is an example of what would have happened to Gore if he had shown a spine of steel.
The media now has a gag order on mentioning Clinton's name.  She no longer exists.  Only lengthy cuts of Obama and McCain are aired.
Except.  Except when they find something negative about Clinton to propagandize.
And like yesterday, when there is nothing negative, to turn it into negative.
Corporate owned news is telling Clinton that if she does not get out of this race now, they will destroy her.
And now big money has a new propaganda tool.  The web.
Jackals puppeted by big money are installed in every progressive blog.  To make sure there is plenty of hate mongering so that things are pushed in the right direction.  And that any opposition is razzed and silenced. 
We'll stop now, and hear from either knowingly or unwittingly, one of said corporate puppets, hiding behind his stash of avatars.

Hillary Rodham Clinton now has 1776 delegate endorsements. This number is also one of the most significant dates in the history of our country - the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Despite corporate-owned news pumping out negative propaganda by the hour.  Despite all of our democratic blogs being hijacked and converted into Clinton hate mills.  Despite Soros buying out the NYT,  and super delegates by the dozen,More Americans voted for Clinton than any democratic candidate in our nations history. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the next president of the United States of America.

"A newspaper that betrays its reader's trust is not worth the paper it is printed on" 

The NYT is deceiving their readers.  

They are deliberately feeding faulty news about the primary.   

One example can be found in today's article, "Obama Draws Huge Crowd in Oregon as Clinton Courts Kentucky" 

"And she has argued to audiences here that she is leading in the popular vote, based on a count that includes the elections in Florida and Michigan, whose votes were moved up in violation of Democratic Party rules. (Mr. Obama was not on the ballot in Michigan; neither candidate campaigned in Florida.)" 

 The truth that the NYT does not tell you:

1.  Obama chose not to be on the ballots; 

2.  Obama PREVENTED a re-vote in these two states; 

3.  South Carolina also moved its election up in DNC violation.  But mysteriously, the DNC chose not to penalize SC. Apparently, only pro Clinton states get penalized. 

Depressing to watch the NYT use its past reputation to promote the hijacking of our democratic primary.

The media paid no attention when NOW announced support for Hillary Clinton.  The women's organization felt Obama has a weak record on women's issues. They were surprised when yesterday, the media gave tremendous attention when a much smaller organization, NAREL, endorsed Obama. The NY chapter of NOW wanted not only to reassure women that they stand firmly behind Clinton, but to urge her to continue. Here is their emal: 

NOW New York State Urges Hillary Clinton to Stand Strong and Stay in Race

ALBANY, NY (05/14/2008; 2110)(readMedia)-- The media attention that Hillary Clinton has garnered for her win in West Virginia has been too much for the boys in DC to tolerate. So the Beltway boys are circling the wagons and trying to force Hillary Clinton out of the race. And the “no girls allowed" sign has been given a fresh coat of paint.

Today, NOW New York State stands firm in our support of Hillary Clinton. We strongly urge her to stay in the race until every vote is counted. Senator Clinton has shown brilliantly as a true American who stands strong and who insists that every vote be counted, and who demands that a nominee be chosen before anyone drops out. She is a democratic American who believes in the rights of all citizens to cast their votes. And Hillary Clinton is every bit as fit to hold office as is the cast of characters calling themselves patriotic, but clamoring that this perfectly viable and capable woman drop out before the votes are counted.

With the recent endorsement of Obama by John Edwards et.al, the race has become a test of wills among Democrats who should in fact be interested allies. Women will not stand idly by to watch their candidate be sidelined by the DC boys and their supporters who cannot deal with a woman who is the most qualified candidate to be the next President of the United States. And it's no accident that these recent endorsements come on the heels of Senator Clinton’s exceptional win in West Virginia. She is expected to win the other upcoming primaries, and the drip of Obama endorsements is designed to take the attention away from Senator Clinton. And NARAL should be ashamed of itself for following this herd.

Hillary Clinton is the best candidate to beat John McCain in November. She has all of the states that any Democratic candidate needs to secure the White House. She has won the swing states. She has fifty-five percent of the women’s vote; and she enjoys the majority of the working class citizens' vote, as proven over and over again. What more does the Democratic party want from a candidate?

Hey boys! Girls ARE allowed these days. And we of NOW New York State strongly support Hillary Clinton for President of the United States of America.

When the primary began, Edwards had everyone fooled that he was a Howard Dean populist. 

The moment I took a look at his senate record, I laughed till I was rolling in the floor. 

This guy is a charlatan!  

His senate record was a conservative and play-it-safe as it gets! 

Kerry despised Edwards because instead of being a running mate, he campaigned for himself.  He refused to be the attack man, which is what the VP normally candidate is.

Kerry told the NYT he suspected Edwards was campaigning half-heartedly so Kerry would lose and Edwards could run for president again.

Edwards has such a "bleeding heart for the poor" that after Kerry lost, Edwards spent the last FOUR YEARS working for the poor?  No!  Getting himself elected president.

This operator spent an entire YEAR before the Iowa primary, campaigning in Iowa.  He figured he'd have it made.  People in Iowa thought the guy was a loony.  He IS a loony!

And being obsessed with nothing more than himself, he waited to endorse until he could see who he thought would win.

The fact that Clinton's health and economic plan are far to the left of Obama's, and closer to Edwards didn't mean a thing.

Because Edwards does not care about the poor, the candidates or anything.  He is a tight vortex of ambition.

Finally, and only recently, he ran down to Jimmy Carter's housing for the poor to "help out" ie give himself some creds.  For the next election.

At least the poor are finally getting a little something out of this shyster!