May 9, 2008
Pathetic: Hillary Plays the White Voter Card (Brent Budowsky)
As part of her continuing campaign for the 2012 nomination and her campaign to elect John McCain over Barack Obama in 2008, Hillary Clinton is closing her sad campaign acting like a right-wing Republican with the latest and most offensive example of race-card attacks.
Possibly because she is tired and letting her guard down, possibly out of sheer desperation combined with blind ambition, Hillary Clinton openly talks about "white people." Bill Clinton speaks to white audiences about "voters like you." Paul Begala says Democrats can't win with only intellectuals and African-Americans. Paul Krugman graces The New York Times with his wisdom about the white vote. > Read More
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What's This May 7, 2008
The Night the Old Politics Died (Brent Budowsky)
The old politics died on May 6, 2008, as the predictable and inevitable happened and the voters said no to business as usual.
The voters said no to the most phony and fraudulent proposal in memory for a gas tax cut that would never happen, that would profit the oil companies that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) falsely said she was fighting with it, that would do nothing for the people she falsely claimed she was helping with it.
The most reprehensible and shameful aspect of this gas tax fraud was in its cheap exploitation of people who are hurting, and fearful. There is nothing lower in politics that exploiting people who are hurting, trying to deceive them. The voters said no. > Read More
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What's This May 2, 2008
Hillary Joins the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (Brent Budowsky)
Even a creative Hollywood producer couldn't have conjured up a film in which Bill and Hillary Clinton would pursue the tactics of personal destruction against a Democrat in full-throated alliance with the vast right-wing conspiracy!
Wonder why Clinton confidant Terry McAuliffe sings the praises of Fox News with the hilarious compliment that they are the most fair of the cable networks? Wonder why Hillary goes on Bill O'Reilly’s show confident O'Reilly will further the demonization attack against Barack Obama? Three guesses why Hillary's great new friend and ally is none other than right-wing mogul Richard Mellon Scaife, a founding leader of the vast right-wing conspiracy against the Clintons? > Read More
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What's This May 1, 2008
Forget Wright — The Super Surge to Obama Has Begun (Brent Budowsky)
While the pundits, never missing an opportunity to be wrong, are enraptured by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the party has already begun a powerful and profound movement of superdelegates to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
Today, former Democratic National Committee Chairman Joe Andrews, who served during the Clinton presidency, is switching from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) to Obama. Several major Clinton fundraisers have made the switch and more than a thousand Clinton donors have now donated to Obama.
Andrews has major influence in Indiana.
In an excellent front-page story last Friday in The Hill, it was noted that a large number of leading Edwards supporters, now totaling more than four dozen, plus at least nine members of Congress who supported Edwards, have moved to Barack. > Read More
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What's This April 24, 2008
Dream Team: Is Hillary John McCain's Vice President? (Brent Budowsky)
There are several conceptions of the role of a vice presidential nominee, one of which is the attack dog to slime the opposition.
While the laughingstock idea of the century is the notion that Obama might run with Clinton, the real dream team is John McCain running with Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential nominee, a role she has been playing for some time.
Truth is, if Obama is nominated, both Hillary and McCain want Obama to lose — her conduct has no other explanation. Her campaign is actively colluding with Republicans and Swift Boat types in simultaneous slimes that are coordinated de facto or de jure. > Read More
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What's This April 19, 2008
Sam Nunn Endorses Barack Obama (Brent Budowsky)
Former Sen. Sam Nunn, the pre-eminent Democratic voice on national security and national defense, just endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
Former Sen. David Boren and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich did as well.
The Nunn endorsement is a very, very, very big deal. Not only does it give Obama national security backing, but Nunn is enormously respected by superdelegates.
Expect more announcements soon.
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What's This April 18, 2008
To Bob Franken, Who Defends Stephanopoulos and Gibson (Brent Budowsky)
Bob, with all due respect, if you think that first hour of oppo-research questioning reflects the news of the day of real Americans in the real world, I would like to know how many real Americans you actually talk to who agree with you about this.
I am talking not about cable studios or lunch dates with George and Charlie, but Americans who have lost their jobs, or who are hungry, or who fear they may be foreclosed upon tomorrow, or the 300,000 veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq we learned yesterday will return home with major psychological disorders, or what we learned from the homeless veterans’ association this week about a problem we are not dealing with, which is getting worse. > Read More
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What's This Why Didn't Hillary Wear the Flag? (Brent Budowsky)
And why didn't ABC, Stephanopoulos andGibson ask her about it?
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What's This April 17, 2008
The ABC Debate Fiasco and the Cable Pundit Flim-Flam (Brent Budowsky)
So ABC humiliated itself with a debate so repulsive it became impossible to watch. So what?
With all of the cable pundit jib-jab and flim-flam that wastes bandwidth supposedly analyzing this campaign, from those who are always wrong, a few facts:
The most important fact is that Pennsylvanians watched the debate and most of them thought: When on earth are they going to talk about anything that matters to me?
The second most important fact is that Doug Schoen's advice for Hillary to go more negative makes me desire a sip of the beverage he was drinking when he wrote it in The Washington Post. Hillary's attacks are so obnoxious to voters, they make Hillary's numbers go down more than Barack’s and convince more superdelegates she is trying to elect McCain, which infuriates those who matter. > Read More
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What's This April 16, 2008
The Worst Political Team on Television (Brent Budowsky)
It's a tie between MSNBC, CNN and the Republican cable network for the worst political team on television.
How many times have we seen endless discussion of Jeremiah Wright? Right here on this site we have seen the two major Clinton supporters, Lanny Davis and Ron Christie (if you want to know who Republicans really want, watch how they spin!), refer endlessly to Wright and the damage he supposedly did to Obama.
How many times have we seen endless discussion of the "bitter debate" and the damage it allegedly did to Obama? > Read More
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