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Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:49 PM

MoveOn Petition

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Subject: Do Billionaires Own the Democratic Party?

Hi,

I don't know if you saw this, but 20 big Clinton donors tried to bully Nancy Pelosi for saying that superdelegates should let the voters decide who becomes the Democratic nominee. This is the worst kind of insider politics, and it has to stop.

You and I and everyone who has ever given money or time to a progressive candidate make up the backbone of this party.

We need to send a strong signal that we, the small donors, will back Democratic leaders with the courage to stand up for Democracy in the Democratic party. Please join me and sign this statement today.

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Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:48 PM

MoveOn Petition

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Subject: Do Billionaires Own the Democratic Party?

Hi,

I don't know if you saw this, but 20 big Clinton donors tried to bully Nancy Pelosi for saying that superdelegates should let the voters decide who becomes the Democratic nominee. This is the worst kind of insider politics, and it has to stop.

You and I and everyone who has ever given money or time to a progressive candidate make up the backbone of this party.

We need to send a strong signal that we, the small donors, will back Democratic leaders with the courage to stand up for Democracy in the Democratic party. Please join me and sign this statement today.

http://pol.moveon.org/democracy/?r_by=-7636548-FkdMcB&rc=confemail

Thanks!

Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:47 PM

MoveOn Petition

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Subject: Do Billionaires Own the Democratic Party?

Hi,

I don't know if you saw this, but 20 big Clinton donors tried to bully Nancy Pelosi for saying that superdelegates should let the voters decide who becomes the Democratic nominee. This is the worst kind of insider politics, and it has to stop.

You and I and everyone who has ever given money or time to a progressive candidate make up the backbone of this party.

We need to send a strong signal that we, the small donors, will back Democratic leaders with the courage to stand up for Democracy in the Democratic party. Please join me and sign this statement today.

http://pol.moveon.org/democracy/?r_by=-7636548-FkdMcB&rc=confemail

Thanks!

Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:38 PM

Joan

I am still waiting for your take on Clinton's Bosnia misspeake, Carville's Judas comments and all the missteps in the Clinton campaign.

All you write about is Obama's "not out of the woods yet." Can we assume that for you Clinton is out of bounds on anything she does, while you will parse every little Obama infraction.

Just asking.

Thursday, March 27, 2008 07:36 PM

Judas remark

Carville is a hatchet man. He does not work for the Clinton campaign, but is a fixture on CNN. He insists that Richardson up until recently had promised many people that he would endorse Clinton. Apparently, it came as a huge surprise to many that he switched allegiance. So what?

Clinton cronyism should be a topic of discussion. Don't forget though that many Clinton friends are now Obama surrogates. That should open a floodgate.

Thursday, March 27, 2008 07:21 PM

Wasn't McCain statistically dead only a year ago?

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

Liza Minnelli

USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population.

David Letterman

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

Ernest Rutherford

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

David Lloyd George

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts—for support rather than for illumination.

Andrew Lang

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

George Canning

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

Henry Clay

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

Harry Reasoner

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

Evan Esar

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

Evan Esar

Thursday, March 27, 2008 06:21 PM

Media complict

in exploiting non-issues. I care about Clinton lying about her experience, but I do not care about Craviile calling Richardson "Judas." I care about issues of race and Wright, which Obama answered beautifully and superbly.

Thursday, March 27, 2008 02:09 PM

Posturing?

Just shows who owns the Democratic Party. If Pelosi succumbs to this threat, then we know that the party is bought and owned by people with money. Hillary Clinton after all, has big money on her side, while Obama has run on nickle and dimes from his supporters. I just sent him a check.

Obama is not posturing to get Hillary Clinton out of the race. He is trying to prevent her from destroying the party.

Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:42 AM

Campaig Finance Reform

This is good. Big money guiding the electorate. Now is the time to get Campaign Finance Reform as one of the major issues to discuss in the run up to the nomination, as well as the General Election.

Wasn't McCain complicit in the McCain-Feingold limp reform? Gotta get this back to the front burner.

Thursday, March 13, 2008 08:19 PM

Cluster Bombs Are Not Good for Children, Hillary

Ditto for Landmines and Sanctions

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/13/7655/

Here is another of her legislative experience besides voting for the war in Iraq

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