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Obama won so many states all across the country while Hillary won only a handful. How about if Obama gets to keep all the delegates in the states he won and Hillary gets all the delegates in the states she won? Fair deal?
A couple of things missing that people ought to know before they vote wrt Hillary's plans for Iraq and the moratorium on foreclosures:
1) she will not say whether the US will maintain permanent bases in Iraq.
2) the cap on foreclosures is "voluntary."
Hillary has a lot going for her and no doubt she is intelligent. However there are a few other things to take into consideration:
Something many have overlooked is the weapons-industrial-complex are some of Hillary's largest donors as well as corporate lobbyists.
It seems that most of Hillary's decisions are more political than anything. Take for instance her vote for attacking Iraq. More importantly she voted against 3 amendments that would have curbed Bush's rush to war. One of which was submitted by Dick Durbin (D-Il) that would have compelled Bush to demonstrate "imminent threat" prior to invading Iraq.
The second was Levin's amendment. Granted Levin's bill called for the UN's approval before force could be used, but it also reinforced America's right to defend itself even if the UN voted against it. Therein nothing in that bill was an impediment to the US in any way. Yet Hillary claimed it would have made the president "subordinate" to the UN.
So basically her vote against Levin's bill meant she was against international support and the UN's consensus. Moreover her votes would be relevant only if she believed that Bush 41 had been wrong to go to the UN for international support and approval.
Although the amendments were defeated Hillary had 3 chances to slow down Bush's rush to war, but chose not to! Publicly she was fully supportive of Bush's war.
Hillary also shifted her policy on torture. At first she said she would seek "legal" exemption to saying her current position, "torture cannot be American policy."
All of which leads me to believe Hillary will be more of the same, but as a "Bush-lite." And the McCain will be like Bush, only on steroids!
Furthermore Clinton never talks about her tenure as a corporate lawyer at the Rose Law Firm, the Arkansan corporate powerhouse.
In the mid-1980s, as a member of the board of the anti-union Wal-Mart. While the company mounted a campaign against unions seeking to organize Wal-Mart workers Hillary stayed silent. She claims she fought for women's rights, but nothing was ever achieved.
I suggest taking a closer look at her actions rather than believe everything she says; it is what she doesn't say that worries me.
A few straggling votes out there are yet to be counted, but the grand total when primary and caucus voters are added together is:
Clinton: 7,186,853 (48.78%)
Obama: 7,142,354 (48.48%)
Edwards: (2.74%)
Here’s the popular vote, state-by-state, of Democrats:
http://ruralvotes.com/thefield/?p=509
Even if your candidate does not get Democrat nomination,
you should always vote for the Democrat Nominee.
I never lke Kerry, but I still voted for Kerry in 2004, and
even went to Reno and Vegas to walk precinct.
I was working in the Poll Booth on Super Tuesday. The
Republican Precinct inspector, who cannot add 212 to 55 at
2nd grade level, gave every Democrat voter a hard time, and
nearly kissed every Republican who walked in. About 1/3 of
total votes were Provisional or using Sample ballot and they
could be thrown out.
We need every vote.
And we need people works in Poll Booth on Election day to
make votes are not influenced by Republican Volunteers who
are like Wolf in Sheep ranch.
>65 years
He is 46. Why do Clinton's supporters feel the need to infantalize Obama?
Probably because the most reliable slice of Clinton's base are the >65-year-olds, so the "Obama's a baby" angle plays well. Trouble with Clinton v. McCain is he's, what, 71? She can't play that card against him with the older voters, so that's one out of her hand right there.
---Oh man, I've tried pointing this out to no avail. I'm glad you've picked up on this, too. If it's HRC vs. McCain, she has to change several things about her campaign: number one being the experience mantra. She actually doesn't have more political experience than he does. She entered the Senate in 2001, he entered in 1987, not counting his time before that as a congressman.
As Bill is the outsider, I'd like to consider him first. I think that, at 60, his roving days are over. I'd turn the old saying around in this case: "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak". Because of his cardiac by-pass, he's probably on statins and one of the side-effects of this medication can be muscular weakness. Didn't he recently fall asleep in a Church during a eulogy to Martin Luther King? I conjure up a Bill Clinton wearing comfy slippers, maybe even an ol-fashioned nightcap such as was worn in Victorian times. He will also need quick access to a bathroom because, as men get older, the need to pee can become urgent. Bill will have a warm milky drink laced with bourbon in the evening and soon his snoring will rock the White House but that contented snile on his rubicund face will be a sure sign that he's having lovely dreams about those far-off days (and nights, of course) when he was a babe-magnet.
Michelle Obama comes across as a very stroppy woman who has told the American public that she will not be available again if they don't pick her husband for President this time. In the White House she'll spend a lot of time in the gym cos, dare I say it, she's lookin a little heavy on the hips - but that might be caused by the TV cameras. She will also have frequent appointments with couturiers as that pink/fuchsia suit she was wearing recently looked very old-fashioned. She will by then have forgotten the time when she tried to look like Condoleeza Rice with the flicked-ot hair and the string of pearls as she'll have stylists at her beck and call. Relaxing on an ivory-and-gold chaise-longue (Louis Quatorze), Michelle will listen appreciatively to Hot Chocolate singing "It Started With a Kiss" while telephoning all her cousins back in South Carolina to tell them how well her girls are doing in school.
Cindy McCain's severe hairstyle will be long gone. She will "let her hair down", literally and metaphorically. She will raid the White House kitchen so often that "Vanity Fair" will call her "voluptuous" and that Limbaugh fellow will coldly call her "fat". She will drink a few Margaritas, take classes in Advanced Spanish and the gossip-hounds will be on her trail, suggesting that she's meeting a younger man who looks a lot like Madonna's personal trainer and the father of her daughter, Lourdes. Matt Drudge will report yhe gossip immediately and there may even be a picture of Cindy with a tear in her eye. No matter that it was caused by desert dust on a visit to Arizona, all is grist to the gossip-mill.