March 31, 2008
Delegate Endorsements (A.B. Stoddard)
The Hill's A.B. Stoddard answers questions and takes comments about endorsements, Reverend Wright, and the Florida and Michigan primaries.
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What's This Let’s Have an Honest Discussion on Race (Ron Christie)
Driving in to work this morning, I was stunned that local radio host Chris Plante on Washinton, D.C.'s WMAL invited his listeners to have an open and honest discussion on race. What with all the excitement generated by Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) “seminal” speech — remarks that my friend Chris Matthews has labeled as being worthy of Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln?
In any event, an African-American caller phoned in to say that White America is to blame for most of the crime, drugs and woe that befall the black community. As incredulous as I was, another called opined that whites operate on an unequal playing field and that blacks just do the best they can under the circumstances.
As we come upon the 40th anniversary of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King (April 4), I can’t believe we’ve fallen so far away from the spirit and hope of his dream here at the beginning of the 21st century. What happened to being judged by the content of one’s character rather than the color of one’s skin? What happened to the calls for self-reliance and responsibility? > Read More
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What's This Hillary's Hoodwink (Ryan J. Davis)
I finally understand why Hillary Clinton is obsessed with health insurance mandates. As a blog over at the Baltimore Sun is reporting, the Clinton campaign failed to pay its health insurance premiums for months, racking up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to its providers.
The deadbeat campaign is nearly $9 million in debt. It’s left a string of unpaid bills all over the country, from Ohio to Iowa. This has put a real-world hurt on the small businesses her campaign has hoodwinked. > Read More
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What's This Why Should Hillary Drop Out? (Bill Press)
Good for Barack Obama.
Late last week, from prominent Obama supporters, there was a drumbeat of calls for Hillary Clinton to drop out of the race. Bill Richardson, Patrick Leahy, Chris Dodd, Dick Durbin and others all chimed in with the same chant: He’s ahead. She can’t win. She’s only hurting the party. She should drop out.
They’re dead wrong, of course. Yes, he’s ahead. But she’s still in the game. Yes, it looks like he’s the winner. But he hasn’t won yet. And you never know what’s going to happen. There’s no more reason for Hillary Clinton to drop out of the race than there is for Barack Obama to drop out of the race. > Read More
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What's This Carville, Coulter and the Others (Bob Franken)
In today's media Tower of Babel, the only way to prosper is to get noticed, to be heard above the din. Somehow. It's the very best way to get to the front of TV's Clamoring Class. From there it's a direct link to those coveted (and obscenely lucrative) speaking engagements.
James Carville is a poster boy for this. How better, for instance, to enhance his image as the always-outspoken "Ragin' Cajun" than to compare Bill Richardson to Judas Iscariot?
Richardson certainly infuriated Carville and his fellow Clinton backers by coming out for Barack Obama, but does that warrant a comparison to one of Christianity's supreme villains? Even Carville finally had to admit that was "out of bounds.” Mind you, he didn't apologize. He made light of it. That way he could calm the uproar a bit while keeping the bad-boy image intact and the big buck flying toward that carefully maintained high profile. > Read More
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What's This Empress Hillary (Armstrong Williams)
Yes, I am a harsh critic of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). Yes, there are many who would love to see her out of the race today. However, let us back up and look at it from her perspective.
Whether we admit it or not, she has done a pretty good job of making Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) human in showing that he does bleed. Mrs. Clinton and her cadre of by-any-means-necessary inner-circlers believe that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright is not going away any time soon. This writer will admit that it was a colossal mistake for Sen. Obama not to fully disassociate himself from this wayward minister, remove himself as a member of the church and disavow him once and for all.
What we don't know is what else these Clintons have dug up on Obama that convinces them he will implode. You see, America, in order for Mrs. Clinton to have a snowball's chance of winning this nomination, she has to come up with the goods that will be nothing short of causing Obama to serve jail time. > Read More
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What's This March 30, 2008
Obama's Pastor Problem (Armstrong Williams)
Armstrong Williams believes that Barack Obama should be blamed for choosing to attend Rev. Jeremiah Wright's congregation.
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What's This March 28, 2008
Hillary's Soccer Fantasy (Dick Morris)
By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
Hillary Clinton’s made-from-whole-cloth fantasy about the perils of her trip to Bosnia was no unique foray into the world of make-believe accomplishments.
She’s been doing that for a long time.
Here’s another telling example: 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. > Read More
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What's This Courting the superdelegates (A.B. Stoddard)
Don't miss Hillary Clinton's interview this week with Mark Halperin of Time magazine where she suggests that pledged delegates Barack Obama won are free to vote for her. Clinton said "every delegate with very few exceptions is free to make up his or her mind however they choose. We talk a lot about so-called pledged delegates, but every delegate is expected to exercise independent judgment." > Read More
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What's This Hillary’s Blackmailing the Speaker? (Brent Budowsky)
Not content with James Carville showing his panic by comparing Bill Richardson to Judas Iscariot, the Clinton money people are now trying the blackmail the Speaker and House Democrats by implicitly threatening to withhold money from Democrats who dare say the will of the people should govern the Democratic Party.
Regarding the history of party-building, please note that after eight years of Clintons our country fell into a near one-party Republican state. Republican House, Republican Senate, majority of Republican governors, Republican president, reactionary Supreme Court. > Read More
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