Letters to the Editor
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Conason's free advice
Hey Joe, just saying that the Clinton's shady deals have been investigated "ad nauseum" doesn't make it so. Why do they refuuse to realease their tax records? Why do they refuse to release docunments concerning contributors to his "library" in Arkansas, or documents relating to his many controversial 11th hour pardons? Why was Sandy Berger dispatched to the National Archives to steal, and destroy documents requested by the 9/11 commission?
Maybe it's just me, but if I'm accussed of any type wrongdoing, and I have documents to prove those accusations to be false, I immediately release those documents. But, hey, that's just me!
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HRC is Dead to Me
The style of the Clinton campaign and her use of fear to disatract voters from Obama is pathetic. How reminiscient of the tactics of the Bush administration.
This short sighted strategy of the Clinton campaign may be just enough to win the nomination, but she is most certainly going to alienate much of her own party and independents going into the general election in November.
It looks like another 100 years in Iraq, at least for the next 4.
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svendson
In Swedish, svensdon means racist douche bag. Hard of herring. Nordic bigot.
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manyctnj
You are as tiresome as your sisters AKASmith and LJWalker.
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Obama supporters
are in full sore loser mode, fighting as dirty as you can fight. I don't really think it's a reflection on the candidate.
How many times have you heard a Hillary supporter say She would not support Obama, or even vote for McCain if Obama take the nommination. Yet this blackmail is a constant from Obama heads....
Randi Rhodes is playing the anti-Arab card, in utterly racist terms, to the hilt. She should be dead to any leftists...
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No.
Why would Obama supporters be in "sore loser" mode? Perhaps you're terrible at math, but Obama has already won the nomination.
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amosduncan
How many times have you heard a Hillary supporter say She would not support Obama, or even vote for McCain if Obama take the nommination. Yet this blackmail is a constant from Obama heads....
25% of Clinton supporters have said they will not vote for Obama
10% of Obama supporters have said they will not vote for Clinton
But after the gutter tactics of Hillary Clinton in the last week, I am not sure if she is even electable now. She has permanently alienated both the left and the right who will always hate her no matter what.
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@ Bennett
You say: "I am always surprised by the certainty with posters make statement that are incorrect. The Canadian prime Minister announced in parliament, yesterday, that no one in the Clinton camp approached any Canadian official or otherwise about NAFTA."
Would this be the same Prime Minister protecting his chief of staff Ian Brody? Someone set this whole thing up. Remmeber the Obama Campaign was approached by the Canadians, not the other way around. The memo was written by consulate employee Joseph DeMora and Obama official Goolsbee claims he mischaracterized the tone and content of the meeting. The memo is then LEAKED by the government to the press. Someone is lying. Someone set this up. Obama was swift boated. Clinton wins Texas and Ohio due in no small part to this whole NAFTA-GATE memo. I believe that Clinton business contacts in Canada may be involved. That way they can claim no direct involvement.
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From the mouths of babes
Casey Knowles, a High School Senior in Washington state, recently discovered she was one of the sleeping children in Clinton's controversial "Children" ad appearing prior to the Texas primaries.
Knowles, a supporter of Barack Obama was shocked that she had contributed to the national security message of a candidate that she passionately opposes.
When asked by The New Argument, this is what Knowles had to say about her appearance in Clinton's ad:
"While I love Hillary, I would much rather hear Barack Obama's voice at the other end of the phone at 3am.
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In the Meantime...
...if the Clintons are going to "throw the kitchen sink" at Obama they had better tend to the rest of their kitchen:
"LITTLE ROCK — Federal archivists at the Clinton Presidential Library are blocking the release of hundreds of pages of White House papers on pardons that the former president approved, including clemency for fugitive commodities trader Marc Rich.
The archivists' decision, based on guidance provided by Bill Clinton that restricts the disclosure of advice he received from aides, prevents public scrutiny of documents that would shed light on how he decided which pardons to approve from among hundreds of requests.
Clinton's legal agent declined the option of reviewing and releasing the documents that were withheld, said the archivists, who work for the federal government, not the Clintons...."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-03-06-clinton-library-foia_N.htm [updated/Peter Eisler reporting]
This whole schmigilla could have been avoided had Hillary Clinton not decided to go full throttle negative vs. Obama. From a practical standard, the Rezko matter is a piffle; even considering Obama's post-political posture, this won't amount to anything. He's made his records available, he's fessed up to "bone-headedness" and been otherwise transparent [I'll admit, even with all that, his campaign should have been better prepared, with the Rezko trial coming up, to handle the campaign news corps' full-court press on the matter, the other day--that looked gnarly].
If I were Obama, I'd handle this archive thing surgically--keep raising the issue of why she won't go transparent on the archives and her other records and frame it in such a way that it's the least a politician can do in the new age of openness and "post-politics." I think it would then dove-tail neatly with his Message, while showing the Clinton campaign the folly of their "kitchen sink," party-destructive strategy.
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@ KcM -- Keep that calculator humming
Excerpted from a Washington Post Article:
Pennsylvania's primary will be followed by contests in West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky, all of which have similar, lunch-pail demographics. If Clinton enters the summer on a roll, especially in the big states, the superdelegates may no longer feel that backing her would be opposing the will of the voters, an Obama supporter said.
"Superdelegates are politicians. They will not buck the will of the voters," said a superdelegate supporting Obama. "The danger point comes if the superdelegates don't see a vote for Clinton as bucking anyone."