Letters to the Editor
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So what's the deal
Slick Hilly obviously has the hots for the big states. So, is her sooper duper pooper scooper strategy to put all of her eggs in one basket, that basket being the Penn state?
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@ tom payne
You make some good points, but comments like "Klinton Kligon Kamp" make it very easy for people to play the righteous indignation game on you and dismiss what you say, while giving nothing of substance of their own.
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@Jack
"I really think the worst thing that you can say about Hillary is that she's an old-style pol when compared to the transformational 21st-century politics of Obama."
I guess it depends on what you consider acceptable behavior from an old-style pol.
I agree that the press has a long standing dislike of the Clintons, not just Hillary. It's rooted in the Clinton White House, where the press felt like they had limited access and where they were criticized for doing too much unsubstantiated reporting on Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky. I also agree that some members of the press (MSNBC, in particular) have allowed their dislike of Hillary to pervade their reporting. But that doesn't explain why they won't investigate and unpack her 35 years of experience claim; why they won't use the facts to call into question what she claims is her foreign relations experience.
It doesn't explain why they allow her to continuously reset and redefine the parameters for "winning" this contest, and that they allow her to define winning as being successful in contests where she has always been expected to dominate (now it's Pennsylvania, a state where she been up by 20+ points for months, that will finally decide the race). If Obama had lost 14 straight primaries in a row, if he had a delegate deficit of 7%-10%, if he was behind in fund raising, and if his attacks on Clinton were becoming more obviously desperate, the mainstream media would have already dismissed his candidacy like they did Edwards and Kucinich.
There is a mythology about the Clintons that they are fighters and survivors, that they are political miracle workers. In a lot of ways, I think the press is supporting Hillary's claim that the race is not over, because they are curious to see if she, like Bill, can defeat the odds. As a result, they are not doing their jobs in actually investigating her and her record.
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There's a mythilogy that the Clinton's are great fighters and survivors
Yeah, rats are are great survivors too.
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John McCain and Hillary Clinton - Republican ticket for the White House
she glowed at the thought of herself and John McCain together. "Both of us will be on that stage having crossed that threshold," she said. And again: "I think you'll be able to imagine many things Senator McCain will be able to say. He's never been president, but he will put forth his lifetime of experience. I will put forth my lifetime of experience. Senator Obama will put forth a speech made in 2002."
As other observers have noted, this is the kind of thing you say if you are John McCain's running mate, not what you say if you mean to campaign fiercely against him. It was a remarkably destructive statement--a defection from party loyalty, and a subversion of the principle that is supposed to underlie such loyalty.
To speak so emphatically about the president's role as commander-in-chief is to speak in code. It means all of the following: that war is the foremost thing in our minds when we think of any president; that this is especially so because we are now entangled in a necessary war on many fronts; that what we look for in a president is "a war president" (George W. Bush's description of himself); that the war in question is indeed the "global war" initiated by President Bush; and that a worthy commander-in-chief must be an enthusiast for the perpetuation of that war.
Hillary Clinton is the social-democratic candidate of the war establishment.
John McCain is the right-wing candidate of the war establishment. Both Clinton and McCain know this. They look on each other kindly, and share a disdain that borders on contempt for Barack Obama.
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P51
You're right, of course. For me, this (the web) is entertainment, and I have, self-evidently, a wise ass streak a yard wide. But, beneath that, I have a lifelong commitment to progressive politics, starting with the '68 campaign for Robert Kennedy in California, for which he paid with his life. I was a senior at Berkeley at the time. That took the steam out of a lot of us. It was beyond disheartening. So, I'm not having a schoolgirl crush over Obama; actually, Edwards was my first preference. But, I am decidedly, dare I say, hopeful about what the Obama campaign has done, and what it could mean in this country, and around this broken world. I'll try to back off on the sniping, but some targets begged to be mocked and, at 61, I have a hard time restraining long ingrained habits. Wyoming went for Obama by 17 points; I'm sure someone here will piss in the lemonade because Wyoming is obviously reserved for cowpoke rednecks with high altitude sickness. Whatever. Now, you have two days to come up with reasons why Mississippi is irrelevant, 'cause the same thing is going to happen to the Hillster there on Tuesday. Drip, drip, drip. The gap ever widens. Dream on, Hillbots.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/08/wuspols108.xml
Nobel winner: Hillary Clinton's 'silly' Irish peace claims
By Toby Harnden in Washington
Last Updated: 9:30am GMT 08/03/2008Page 1 of 2
Hillary Clinton had no direct role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland and is a "wee bit silly" for exaggerating the part she played, according to Lord Trimble of Lisnagarvey, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former First Minister of the province.
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David Trimble: Hillary Clinton mere "cheerleader" in Ireland
Hillary Clinton with the Rev Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness after their meeting in Washington last year
"I don’t know there was much she did apart from accompanying Bill [Clinton] going around," he said. Her recent statements about being deeply involved were merely "the sort of thing people put in their canvassing leaflets" during elections. "She visited when things were happening, saw what was going on, she can certainly say it was part of her experience. I don’t want to rain on the thing for her but being a cheerleader for something is slightly different from being a principal player."
Mrs Clinton has made Northern Ireland key to her claims of having extensive foreign policy experience, which helped her defeat Barack Obama in Ohio and Texas on Tuesday after she presented herself as being ready to tackle foreign policy crises at 3am.
What is Hillary Clinton's foreign policy experience? Why is the press so quiet about this?