20080603 A Campaign to Hate by Richard Cohen

A Campaign to Hate

By Richard Cohen Tuesday, June 3, 2008; A15 Washington Post

Wherever I go -- from glittering dinner party to glittering dinner party -- the famous and powerful people I meet (for such is my life) tell me how lucky I am to be a journalist in this the greatest of all presidential contests. I tell them, for I am wont to please, that this campaign is indeed great when, as history will record, it is not. I have come to loathe the campaign.

I loathe above all the resurgence of racism -- or maybe it is merely my appreciation of the fact that it is wider and deeper than I thought. I am stunned by the numbers of people who have come out to vote against Barack Obama because he is black. I am even more stunned that many of these people have no compunction about telling a pollster they voted on account of race -- one in five whites in Kentucky, for instance. Those voters didn't even know enough to lie, which is what, if you look at the numbers, others probably did in other states. Such honesty ought to be commendable. It is, instead, frightening.

I acknowledge that some people can find nonracial reasons to vote against Obama -- his youth, his inexperience, his uber-liberalism and, of course, his willingness to abide his minister's admiration for a racist demagogue (Louis Farrakhan) until it was way, way too late. But for too many people, Obama is first and foremost a black man and is rejected for that reason alone. This is very sad.

[…]

I loathe also what Hillary Clinton has done to herself. The incessant exaggerations, the cheap shots, the flights into hallucinatory history -- that sniper fire in Bosnia, for instance -- have turned her into a caricature of what her caricaturists long claimed she already was. In this campaign, Clinton has managed to come across as a hungry hack, a Janus looking both forward and backward and seeming to stand for nothing except winning. This, too, is sad.

[…]

So I see little to be happy about, little that pleases my jaundiced eye. Yes, voter participation is way up and in the end, the Democrats will choose a woman or an African American and, to invoke that tiresome phrase, history will be made. But this messy nominating process has eroded the standing of both candidates.

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Read the entire piece here: A Campaign to Hate

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060202590.html

20080603 A Campaign to Hate by Richard Cohen

20080525 Los Angeles Times: Trouble brewing in N.Y. for Clinton

Los Angeles Times: Trouble brewing in N.Y. for Clinton

As rumors persist that Hillary Rodham Clinton may finally be ready to end the national nightmare that has become her bid for the Democrat nomination for the presidential election this fall, there are many who feel that 2008 may be the year of never-ending drama for Senator Clinton and her real troubles are really only beginning…

Trouble brewing in N.Y. for Clinton

From the Los Angeles Times

Black leaders say that if Hillary Rodham Clinton returns as senator, she'll need to heal racial wounds her campaign has inflicted.

By Peter Nicholas Los Angeles Times Staff Writer May 25, 2008

Even as she continues her longshot presidential bid, Hillary Rodham Clinton faces a political rift in New York, where black leaders say her standing has dropped due to racially charged comments by her and her husband during the campaign.

African American elected officials and clerics based in New York City say Clinton will need to defuse resentment over the campaign's racial overtones if she returns to New York as U.S. senator.

State Sen. Bill Perkins, who represents Harlem, said constituents recently phoned him because they wanted to demonstrate outside Bill Clinton's Harlem office against comments by the former president.

Michael Benjamin, a state assemblyman who represents parts of the Bronx, said his wife removed a photograph of Bill Clinton from her office wall -- an expression of the misgivings that some black New Yorkers feel.

[…]

"The Clintons have their die-hard fans who would never abandon them," said Eric Adams, a state senator who represents Brooklyn. "But there are those New Yorkers who feel there was a lot of insult, slight and disrespect toward an African American candidate, and it translated as a slight to the African American community."

[…]

As the campaign unfolded, both Clintons made comments that some black leaders deemed dismissive of Obama. There was Bill Clinton's suggestion that Obama's victory in South Carolina carried no more weight than Jesse Jackson's success there in the 1980s. Other sore points were Hillary Clinton's claim that she enjoys the support of "hard-working Americans, white Americans" and the credit she gave to President Lyndon Johnson -- rather than the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. -- on civil rights legislation.

"There has been a consistent pattern of comments made by both Sen. Clinton and President Clinton from January until this moment that are deeply troubling to the African American community," said Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, whose district is in Brooklyn. "That will require meaningful reconciliation and discussion when Sen. Clinton returns to New York."

[…]

African American leaders said she could repair frayed ties by visiting black churches, backing legislation that shows she is sensitive to conditions in black neighborhoods, and apologizing for comments she and her husband made that seemed to polarize voters and marginalize Obama.

"She has a problem," said the Rev. Al Sharpton, a New York-based civil rights activist. "If she doesn't aggressively deal with the problem -- rather than sit in denial -- it will haunt her at home in her Senate race."

Clinton's Senate term ends in January 2013.

Some Democrats have mentioned that she could run for governor of New York if she isn't nominated for president.

That prospect unnerves some black leaders. They said they didn't want to see her challenge Paterson, who plans to run in 2010. With Paterson in the job, some black leaders want a definitive statement from Clinton that she would not subject him to a primary challenge -- and say they haven't gotten it yet.

[…]

Read the entire article here: Trouble brewing in N.Y. for Clinton

20080402 Campaign 2008: Past Tentacle columns about Sen. John McCain or former Maryland Lt. Gov. Steele

20080402 Campaign 2008: Past Tentacle columns about Sen. John McCain or former Maryland Lt. Gov. Steele

Campaign 2008: Past Tentacle columns about Sen. John McCain or former Maryland Lt. Gov. Steele

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

The McCain Vice President Decision

Kevin E. Dayhoff

Speculation persists as to who presumptive Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain will choose as a running mate. This upcoming decision has sparked a growing debate among many political pundits for a number of reasons.

February 20, 2008

A Presidents’ Day View

Kevin E. Dayhoff

In the wake of “Super Tuesday” and the “Potomac Primary,” all signs point to a November presidential contest between United States Senators John McCain, of Arizona, and Barack Obama, of Illinois.

February 13, 2008

The McCain Maalox Paradox

Kevin E. Dayhoff

At this point in the Republican 2008 presidential primary campaign Senator John McCain has over three times as many Republican National Convention delegates as former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. Most people have resigned themselves to the fact that Senator McCain is the de-facto Republican nominee.

June 27, 2007

Striking a Blow for Free Speech

Kevin E. Dayhoff

Many are singing high praise of the Supreme Court's decision handed down Monday which took a bite out of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law.

November 1, 2006

Michael Steele Endorsement

Kevin E. Dayhoff

Last Monday brought more good news for the Michael Steele campaign for Maryland US Senator.

April 19, 2006

Guess Who’s Coming to the Election

Kevin E. Dayhoff

In a remake of the classic 1967 movie, “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” the royal blue portion of Old Line State just doesn’t quite know what to make of the continuing success of Maryland’s Dr. Prentice – Lt. Gov. Michael Steele.

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20080324 McCain asks when Clinton will apologize to Petraeus

McCain asks when Clinton will apologize to Petraeus

March 24, 2008

Hat Tip:

http://www.memeorandum.com/080326/p10#a080326p10

Brianinmo / BLOGS FOR JOHN McCAIN:

McCain Asks When Hillary Clinton Will Apologize to Gen. Petraeus - Video — Here is Sen. John McCain on March 24, 2008 asking when Sen. Hillary Clinton will apologize to Gen. David Petraeus for her remarks last year ridiculing the idea that “The Surge” strategy in Iraq was working.

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Courtesy of “Blogs for McCain”

McCain Asks When Hillary Clinton Will Apologize to Gen. Petraeus - Video

http://blogsforjohnmccain.com/mccain-asks-when-hillary-clinton-will-apologize-gen-petraeus-video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXcXzoHjqhE

Here is Sen. John McCain on March 24, 2008 asking when Sen. Hillary Clinton will apologize to Gen. David Petraeus for her remarks last year ridiculing the idea that "The Surge" strategy in Iraq was working. McCain also said both Clinton and Obama are advocating a policy of "disaster and defeat" in Iraq.

UPDATE: For reference, here is Hillary Clinton's statement to Gen. David Petraeus on Sept. 11, 2007:

Hillary Calls Petraeus Report Unbelievable

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0isifAC8IQ

Sen. Hillary Clinton told GEN Petraeus Tuesday in the Senate Armed Services Committee testimony that his testimony required the "willing suspenion of disbelief." After naming it a failed policy in Iraq, Petraeus pointed out that she knows Congress...

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Discussion: The Impolitic, Sister Toldjah, Comments from Left Field, Hot Air, Macsmind, Stop The ACLU, Forum: News/Activism and No More Mister Nice Blog

Discussion:

Libby Spencer / The Impolitic: Hillary and McCain — I'm back to work today so just a short post at the moment.

Sister Toldjah: McCain to Hillary: When will you apologize for Petraeus remark?

Tas / Comments from Left Field: I Can Has Accountability?

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Video: McCain demands apology to Petraeus from Hillary

Macranger / Macsmind: McCain to Hillary - Apologize to General Patraeus

Jay / Stop The ACLU: (Video)McCain: When Will Hillary Apologize to General Petraeus?

Blogs for John McCain / Forum: News/Activism: McCain Asks When Hillary Clinton Will Apologize to Gen. Petraeus - Video

Steve M. / No More Mister Nice Blog: D'OH! — I'm sure John McCain was saving this up …

All Related Discussion

RELATED:

Glenn Greenwald / Salon: What can and cannot be spoken on television

Reuters: Chavez says U.S. relations could worsen with McCain

Discussion: Hot Air and BLOGS FOR JOHN McCAIN

20080121 Clinton Obama Edwards slug it out in South Carolina

Debate: In-SC-(D)-Clinton-Obama-Edwards-(3/3)-Jan. 21, 2008

About This Video Added: January 22, 2008

1) Obama, Clinton spar on Reagan 1:34
Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton spar over Reagan at the South Carolina debate.

2)Viewers react to health care debate 1:37
Watch debate viewer reaction to John Edwards and Sen. Barack Obama as they discuss health care.

3) Voting record up for debate 1:52
Sen. Barack Obama and John Edwards get into a heated exchange about their past U.S. senate votes.

4) Clinton discusses Iraq policy 1:20
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton says she would have U.S. troops out of Iraq in a year.

5) Edwards, Obama debate Iraq 2:47
Sen. Barack Obama and John Edwards discuss their policies on the Iraq war.

6) Viewers react to John Edwards 0:42
Watch debate viewers react to John Edwards talking about fellow presidential candidates squabble on stage.

20080115 Next Monday is Lyndon Baines Johnson Day

Next Monday is Lyndon Baines Johnson Day

January 15, 2008

Hat Tip: Delusional Duck

Don Surber has the story…

Hillary to celebrate Lyndon Baines Johnson Day instead.

[…]

But she did get booed in New York as she spoke at a birthday celebration for the slain civil rights leader, reported Fox News, the most trusted name in TV news…

It’s Hillary “Goldwater Girl” Clinton who has a dream – which includes reinventing history, including her own. Of course, there are two sides to the story. And I’m sure you are surprised that the “The Caucus (for Clinton)” blog on the New York Times web site has another take on the matter.

PS:

Sisu has the scoop the Goldwater Girl history and more: “Chatty Hillary”:

Goldwater Girl Hillary Rodham was the crème de la crème, smarter and savvier sis of two also-ran brothers from a wealthy Chicago suburban family. Hillary! quit the campus Republican party and got religion at Wellesley College, where she famously studied at Saul [ends justify the means] Alinsky's knee.

Her thesis, written under his tutelage, was suppressed by Wellesley at her request, and Alinsky is totally absent from her Wikipedia entry. Make of that what you will.

Above, in the flower of her youthful beauty (no attribution) left and right as a Wellesley senior in 1969, when her graduation speech made Time mag as she declared "We're searching for a more immediate, ecstatic and penetrating mode of living." Aren't we all? Then came Yale Law School and her destiny, Slick WIlly. Immediate, ecstatic and penetrating, indeed.

Sorta related: An interesting take on “Goldwater Girl.”

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20080115 Next Monday is Lyndon Baines Johnson Day

20080111 Ozzy brings us this week’s Thank Goodness It’s Friday

Ozzy brings us this week’s Thank Goodness It’s Friday

January 11, 2008

It’s been a long week. Turn up the volume and settle back and enjoy. Whatever inference to current events may very well be up to your imagination… “Your lips are so cold I don’t what else to say.”

Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears

Oh what the heck. A big thanks to Don Surber.

The light from Obama is a jolt of despair
He’s the first black candidate who has a prayer
Your levee of tears taught the people you might not come back
The Audacious Hope will bring another attack.

Your Billy told you that you’re not supposed to lose to strangers
Look in the mirror tell me do you think your life’s in danger here?
No more tears

Another vote passes and you lost big time
The deadline approacheth and you’re falling behind
You see Barack is gaining, will you lose the presidency?
You close your eyes as the pressure rises and you run out of money
No more tears

So now is it over? Will we just say good-bye?
I’d like to move on and make the most of the night
Maybe the Senate is not so bad a place
Your lips are so cold, what can you do to save face?
I never wanted it to end this way, before November
Believe me when I say the lesson is one to remember:
No more tears

Now play this and go back to work.

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20071220 My vote for person of the year: David Petraeus

My vote for person of the year David Petraeus

The annual naming of a person of the year is usually the stuff of a good conversation at a holiday party – otherwise, I tend to not get wrapped around the axle about it all.

However, cruising the web the other day, I came across this post on the Vets for Freedom website: href="http://www.vetsforfreedom.org/news/blogitem.aspx?id=145">Man Of The Year: David Petraeus.

I could not agree more…

Man Of The Year: David Petraeus

Vets for Freedom: 12/14/2007 8:07:17 PM

http://www.vetsforfreedom.org/news/blogitem.aspx?id=145

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Time magazine hasn’t announced its pick for “man of the year” yet, but we certainly know ours: Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the multinational force in Iraq and architect of the surge strategy that is turning the tide in the war.

Petraeus formulated a brilliant counterinsurgency plan. He executed it with care and diligence. And when much of the country didn’t want to notice the security gains that the surge had wrought, he took the national media spotlight to defend his strategy and his honor. In all this, he was nothing less than masterly.

When Petraeus testified on Capitol Hill in early September, much of the media and the Left simply refused to believe that violence in Iraq was down.

[…]

And the day Petraeus’s testimony began, MoveOn.org ran its infamous “General Petraeus or General Betray Us?” ad. It said that “every independent report on the ground situation in Iraq shows that the surge strategy has failed”; that Petraeus “is constantly at war with the facts”; and that the general “is cooking the books for the White House.”

Throughout his testimony, Petraeus continued to suffer slanders from members of Congress who cared about politics more than truth.

Hillary Rodham Clinton stopped just short of calling him a liar, saying that to believe his report required “a willing suspension of disbelief.”

Less than a month later, however, Petraeus’s critics had been effectively silenced. To its great credit, The Washington Post acknowledged this in a blistering editorial:

[…]

Read the entire post here: Man Of The Year: David Petraeus

20071220 Day by Day by Chris Muir

Day by Day by Chris Muir

December 20, 2007

“Day by Day Cartoon by Chris Muir” is really on a roll…

20071018 CyberAlert

CyberAlert

Tuesday December 18, 2007

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1. Time Mag Chief: Gore a 'Superb Choice' for Person of the Year Time magazine's Managing Editor hinted on Monday's Today show that Al Gore would be a "superb choice" for recipient of the publication's 2007 Person of the Year award. Richard Stengel agreed with co-host Meredith Vieira that the former Vice President was on the "short list" and extolled: "He's had an extraordinary year. He's had an extraordinary influence. There was a real tipping point this year in terms of people being conscious of the environment. So, he would be a superb choice." On Time's Web site, the magazine is currently ranking the potential of the seven "short list" candidates. Each person receives a pro and con as to why that individual might or might not win. And while General David Petraeus's "con" is that he can be seen as "excessively protective" of President Bush, Gore's negative is simply that much of his "green works" were completed in 2006. However, the "pro" touted impact: "The Nobel Prize ensures that a generation of children will envision his face while being scolded for leaving a room without turning off the lights." The winner of Time's "Person of the Year" will be announced live on Wednesday's Today.

2. ABC's Kate Snow: Lieberman a 'Conservative' Backing McCain According to ABC's Kate Snow, support for the Iraq War automatically makes one a conservative, even if that individual is liberal on most other issues. In reporting on Monday's Good Morning America on the increasingly tight race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, Snow briefly mentioned at the end that Joseph Lieberman endorsed John McCain. She dismissively referred to Lieberman as a "conservative" when she announced McCain "won over a long-time Democrat, all be it a conservative one."

3. Tom Brokaw: Iraq Surge Success a 'Black Mark' on Team Bush In a long interview with Rachel Sklar of The Huffington Post, former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw accentuated the dark cloud inside the silver lining of the surge. The fact that it's having some effect only darkens a "black mark" against the administration. But when it comes to the current campaign, he could only offer praise for Hillary Clinton ("enormous capacity" of her "native intelligence") and Barack Obama (also with "enormous intelligence," and some rookie mistakes.)

4. Now Online: '20th Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting' Now Online: Results for the "Best Notable Quotables of 2007, the Twentieth Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting" A panel of 52 leading media observers judged 17 award categories and the winning quotes and top runners-up have been posted on the MRC's home page, with the quotes from television accompanied by click-and-play Flash video, as well as downloadable Windows Media video and MP3 audio clip.

5. Christmas Gift Idea: Bozell's New Book on the Media and Hillary MRC President Brent Bozell's new book on the news media and Hillary Clinton: The Perfect Holiday Gift for Your Favorite Conservative. This Christmas, give your favorite conservative, Mom, Dad, friend or colleague, something you know they will love. Give them Whitewash: What the Media Won't Tell You about Hillary Clinton but Conservatives Will, by the Media Research Center's own L. Brent Bozell and Tim Graham. Listen to Sean Hannity: "This is the defining book that needed to be written on Hillary Clinton, and anybody who votes in 2008 needs to examine this thoroughly."

A usually-daily report, edited by Brent H. Baker, CyberAlert is distributed by the Media Research Center, the leader since 1987 in documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias.

The 2,549^th CyberAlert. Tracking Liberal Media Bias Since 1996
11:50am EST, Tuesday December 18, 2007 (Vol. Twelve; No. 222)

Check Out the MRC's Blog

The MRC's blog site, NewsBusters, "Exposing and Combating Liberal Media Bias," provides examples of bias 24/7. With your participation NewsBusters will continue to be THE blog site for tracking and correcting liberal media bias. Come post your comments and get fresh proof of media misdeeds at: http://www.newsbusters.org

20071129 CNN Allows Clinton Backer to Question GOP Candidates in YouTube Debate

CNN (The Clinton News Network) plants another questioner to question GOP candidates in YouTube Debate. Not that any of us were surprised. She will do anything – say anything to be president…

CNN Allows Clinton Backer to Question GOP Candidates in YouTube Debate

Thursday, November 29, 2007

CNN/YouTube - Nov. 28: Retired Brig. Gen. Keith Kerr as he appeared during the CNN/YouTube Republican debate.

A CNN host acknowledged the participation of a retired Army colonel linked to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in a televised Republican debate Wednesday.

Keith Kerr of Santa Rosa, Calif., who revealed himself as gay, challenged the eight candidates via video message and on stage at the CNN/YouTube debate in Florida on the right of gays and lesbians to serve openly in the U.S. military.

The broadcast, however, failed to mention that Kerr, who served as a brigadier general in the reserves, is a member of a gay and lesbian steering committee for Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Read the Clinton campaign release naming Kerr to the steering committee.

Clinton spokesman Phil Singer has denied that the campaign had any knowledge ahead of time that Kerr was going to participate in the debate, and Kerr said he did not inform the campaign of his plans.

It turns out Kerr wasn't the only Democratic supporter asking questions. One woman who identified herself as Journey from Texas, and who has a Web page in which she goes by the name Paperserenade asked the candidates about whether they would prosecute women and doctors if abortion were made illegal and the practice continued. After the debate, she posted a Web video wearing a John Edwards '08 T-shirt. In the posting, she said she was disappointed by the responses she got, particularly from Fred Thompson, though it's the answer she expected.

Related Stories Republican Rivals Spar on Immigration, Torture at Heated YouTube Debate

Another questioner, Leeann Anderson, asked about the danger of lead toys from China. Anderson, an activist on the issue, is reportedly an assistant to Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers of America. The union endorsed Edwards earlier this month, and Anderson's question is posted on the steelworkers' YouTube page next to a picture of Edwards.

As for Kerr, he has been an activist against the military's don't-ask-don't-tell policy for years. He appeared on CNN twice in 2003 discussing his opposition to the policy that says service men and women will be dismissed from service for revealing their gay orientation. But as if reading from that policy Wednesday, Kerr told FOX News that CNN "never asked" him if he is a Clinton supporter so he "never told."

Kerr submitted the question for Republican candidates at the video debate "a couple months ago," and said last Saturday CNN called him and said they'd like him to come to the debate. He said the cable news network paid for his flight, his hotel and his transportation to and from the event.

[…]

Following the debate, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper said in a broadcast statement that Kerr's political ties to Clinton were unknown to the network.

"We don't know if he is still on it," said Cooper. "We are trying to find out that information. Certainly, had we had that information we would have acknowledged that in using his question, if we had used it all."

Watch Anderson Cooper's comments regarding the Hillary supporter.

[…]

Read the entire article here: CNN Allows Clinton Backer to Question GOP Candidates in YouTube Debate

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20071023 CNS News: 'Hillary Uncensored' Film Draws Huge Web Audience by Fred Lucus

'Hillary Uncensored' Film Draws Huge Web Audience

By Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com Staff Writer, October 23, 2007

(CNSNews.com) - The trailer to a new film about Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton, "Hillary Uncensored -- Banned by the Media," has garnered big audience numbers -- about 1 million viewers -- on the Internet. The movie documenting alleged campaign finance violations soon will have several screenings in the Northeast, including three in New Hampshire, the state that will hold the first presidential primary.

The trailer to the documentary was the most-viewed video on Google Video for eight straight days (Oct. 13-20), and dropped to the number two slot on Sunday, Oct. 21. (Google Video is an online video-posting service offered by the highly popular Internet search engine Google.) The trailer also was the only political video to make it onto Google's Top 100 video list.

While the video was No. 1 and No. 2 for those specified days last week, it had 862,536 "all time" views, which placed it at 819 out of all the videos ranked on Google. In other words, it was the No. 1 video seen for each day last week but was not the most popular video overall on Google over time. Some videos, for instance, have had "views" near 10 million.

The preview to the film -- produced by Hollywood businessman Peter F. Paul -- was also the number one most-viewed YouTube video in the United Kingdom under the "news & politics" category, according to the YouTube site where it has, so far, earned 173,901 overall viewers. It was also the number six "most viewed overall" for the month in the United States.

[…]

Nonetheless, the popularity of the trailer has prompted Paul and the Equal Justice Foundation of America, which helped him produce the film, to move up the film's release date to Nov. 1. Also, five screenings have been scheduled for the film before that date.

[…]

Read the entire article – it only gets curiouser and curiouser: 'Hillary Uncensored' Film Draws Huge Web Audience

20070916 Sister Souljah moments by Joan Vennochi

Sister Souljah moments By Joan Vennochi, Globe Columnist | September 16, 2007

Posted here on Soundtrack, September 22, 2007 because earlier yesterday, I saw a news clip of presidential candidate New York Senator Hillary Clinton, once again, refuse to denounce the New York subsidized MoveOn.org “Petraeus Ad,” in a barrage of double-speak…

Sister Souljah moments: BILL CLINTON invented the Sister Souljah moment. Is having one still a political requirement or more a political cliche?

Back in 1992, Clinton made headlines when he chastised rap artist and community activist Sister Souljah for saying, "If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?" His rebuke came in an appearance before Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition: "If you took the words, 'white' and 'black' and you reversed them, you might think David Duke was giving that speech," the then-presidential candidate said.

This so-called "Sister Souljah moment" - a calculated denunciation of an extremist position or special interest group - wrapped Clinton in a warm centrist glow just in time for the general election.

Now, Republicans are pushing Democrats, especially Hillary Clinton, to repudiate the "General Petraeus or General Betray Us?" ad unveiled by MoveOn.org, which represents the antiwar left.

In a scathing statement about Clinton's failure to reject the ad, Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona said, "If you're not tough enough to repudiate a scurrilous, outrageous attack such as that, then I don't know how you're tough enough to be president of the United States."

[…]

Read the rest here: Sister Souljah moments

Hillary's Sister Souljah Moment?

Seems presidential candidate New York Senator Hillary Clinton keeps having these “Sister Souljah Moments” or rather the lack of them.

Then again, an opportunistic Senator Clinton will say anything and stand for nothing except whatever it takes to win the presidency. No values, no morals, no ethics except to crassly promote an overbearing and burdensome big government agenda in which our quality of life and safety will be at risk.

Hillary's Sister Souljah Moment?

This video was loaded on to YouTube 4 months ago and yet in light of her steadfast refusal to denounce MoveOn.org’s ad which slimed General Petraeus...

After criticizing Don Imus, Senator Clinton recently accepted donations raised with the help of rapper Timbaland, whose lyrics contain the same language that Imus used. If Senator Clinton is serious about condemning Imus' remarks, she should return the money from those like Timbaland and Hugh Hefner whose views of women are no less sexist and small-minded.

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20070915 David Keelan: Rudy vs. Hillary and MoveOn.org

David Keelan: Rudy vs. Hillary and MoveOn.org

September 16^th, 2007

Many thanks to David Keelan over at “Howard County Maryland Blog” for calling to our attention the Rudy Giuliani ad featuring yet another enigmatic critical stumble by 2008 presidential candidate, New York Senator Hillary Clinton.

If the Howard County Maryland Blog is not part of your regular reading, then you are missing out.

Meanwhile, watch this: “She Changed:”

This ad focuses on Senator Clinton's politically expedient positions on the War in Iraq, as well as her support for the ad attacking General Petraeus placed by MoveOn.org in The New York Times.
www.JoinRudy2008.com

Consider going to YouTube here and checking out the related videos and “More Videos From This Channel.”

Also see:

20070912 Comparing MoveOn.org’s NYTimes ad to ads about Sen. John Kerry in 2004

Iraq War Sept. 2007 Petraeus Report

Hillary Clinton Watch

Sen. Clinton Questions Gen. David Petraeus at Senate Hearing

Rudy On The Dems Failure To Condemn MoveOn.Org's Attack

Petraeus Hears Senate Panel's Take on Iraq

And for good measure:

19981216 President Clinton explains Iraq strike

Kerry John

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20070719 The Pentagon Issues a warning to Senator Clinton

The Pentagon Issues Warning to Clinton

By Kate Phillips, July 19, 2007, 10:10 pm

Issuing a stunning rocket, one of the Pentagon’s top officials sent a letter to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton earlier this week that essentially told her that any outline of plans for withdrawing American troops from Iraq is tantamount to reinforcing “enemy propaganda that the United States will abandon its allies in Iraq, much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia.”

The letter from Defense Undersecretary Eric Edelman was in response to Senator Clinton’s request in May for the Defense Department to draw up proposals to get the troops out of the battlefields. It was first obtained by the Associated Press, which termed Mr. Edelman’s missive “a stinging rebuke.” (Both Senator Clinton’s initial request and Mr. Edelman’s response are now on the senator’s Web site.)

Here is Mr. Edelman’s language:

“Premature and public discussion of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq reinforces enemy propaganda that the United States will abandon its allies in Iraq, much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia,” Mr. Edelman wrote.

He added that “such talk understandably unnerves the very same Iraqi allies we are asking to assume enormous personal risks.”

The backstory, according to the A.P. and elsewhere, is that Senator Clinton, as a member of the Armed Services Committee, has been asking the Defense Department to develop a detailed proposal for withdrawing troops, which could be complicated, she said in May, …

Read the rest here: The Pentagon Issues Warning to Clinton

20070619 Clinton Announces Campaign Song

Clinton Announces Campaign Song

(Click here for other posts on "Sountrack" about Senator Hillary Clinton.)

June 19^th, 2007

Bada Bing! Clinton Announces Campaign Song

Hillary's Campaign Video Spoofs "The Sopranos"; Theme Song Is By Celine Dion

WASHINGTON, June 19, 2007

(AP) The scene: A diner and a jukebox. A nostalgic song. A cut to black. It worked as a finale for "The Sopranos," the popular HBO television drama. It now marks a new beginning for "The Clintons."

Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign on Tuesday unveiled its new campaign song with a Web video that spoofs the final scene of the mobster series.

[…]

But the song campaign and the video also illustrate the growing effort by some of the more technologically savvy campaigns to connect with voters and potential donors in clever, relatively inexpensive formats that are infused with pop culture references, contemporary themes or intimate moments.

More: Clinton Announces Campaign Song

More info on her web site: http://www.hillaryclinton.com/

From YouTube:

HILLARY CLINTON & CELINE DION YOU AND I CAMPAIGN THEME SONG

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20070601 Hillary wants a job tomorrow

Hillary wants a job "tommorrow"

June 1^st. 2007

Hat tip: about half the blogosphere, including where I first noticed it, on Michelle Malkin who credited Free Republic.com. I also noticed it on David Wissing’s Hedgehog Report, who credited Wizbang

I can’t spell so I have no interest in throwing stones from my glass house. And as it happens, “tomorrow” is traditionally one the words spell check in my computer frequently calls to my attention.

However, what bothers me is what is bothering many – and that is media bias.

And it was said best by one the Hedgehog Report’s commenters, “Photoshop Dan Quayle into that picture and it would be a media event. Comment by jones”

Or worse yet, if President George W. Bush were to have been a part of this gaffe, it would have been a lead story with much of the mainstream media, who has unfortunately been very successful at spinning the president as not very scholarly.

Never mind that the academic record of President George W. Bush is fairly equal, if not indeed, slightly better with that of his previous opponents: Vice President Al Gore and Senator John Kerry. (See: 20050610 Comparing the academic record of Al Gore, John Kerry and George W. Bush.)

Carla Marinucci wrote on The “Politics Blog” on the San Francisco Chronicle:

The Spin Cycle: And on the night a new national spelling champion was crowned....

Jobs for what day, senator?

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was in Silicon Valley announcing her high tech innovation agenda Thursday, but maybe her campaign staff first needs to spring for a spell check on their computers.

Read the rest of her post here: “Jobs for what day, senator?”

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