Hillary on the Offensive

C'mon Robert, "vet" is a 3-letter word, not some impossibly deep concept. It simply means that the media have grilled Hillary (and everybody else) whereas they refuse to ask Obama a hard question, either for fear that he may blow it or for fear that they'll be labeled a racist.

I always thought "vetted" was something that was done to your dog or cat.
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Tired of hearing some of the $250 dollar an hour vocabulary of Mrs. Clinton. Even if you listen to a debate with her you've got to have a dictionary with you on the couch.

Senator Obama was editor of a law review and is a dynamic orator, yet he speaks with words that the ordinary citizen can understand.

Let's "vet" these big words and instead focus on big ideas.

If the election were held tomorrow I could not possibly vote for Obama because Hillary is dead on! Whether it's fear of being labeled racist or whether it's infatuation, the media trips over itself making sure Obama is never asked a hard question. Whether it's "Hardball" Matthews, Tim Russert, or the 60-Minutes team it's no hard questions, no followup questions, just let the man preach. Matthews cries for him; Russert savages everyone but -- it is all just so sick.

Let's set the record straight. Intelligence reports stated there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq so Obama voted AGAINST protecting America. There is no way he could have known that there were not weapons there--so- I think he SUCKS at national security. If you vote Obama, you are voting for the downfall of America.

Hillary wants to garnish wages for universal health care. Is that a good stepping stone to the end goal of universal health care? Obviously not. This needs to be done in stages, which is why I prefer Obama's plan. I live in Massachusetts where a Hillary-type mandated system is in place and some folks simply do not have the clerical acumen to wade through the red tape to sort out their health care coverage. The result? Fines and wasted enforcement efforts! This is no way to run a government, and is why Hillary's first crack at national health care flopped like a seal on a beach.

Hillary Clinton a fighter? I beg to differ. A fighter is someone who fights for what they believe, day in, day out, 24-07. A fighter fights with conviction, through rain and shine, summer and winter, without the big bucks, without feathering their nest – and usually alone. A fighter fights clean, nothing like the Clinton's signature style. A fighter who fights the good fight can lose without crying; actors & politicians cry. Hillary may be called many things, but she’s no fighter:

@EARL

Bush invaded Iraq. Hillary voted to support him.

Go Obama!

I think everyone agrees that the republicans hate Hillary and Bill with a passion. Do you ever ask yourselves, why? Is it because their success is the republican’s failure? By working to improve the plight of the middle class the Clintons have ruined the republicans desire to have a country of only poor and rich? They immediately went after Hillary because she wanted Universal health care. Hillary knew what was right for this country when Barak was contemplating if heroin was right for him. Who is the real visionary here? I keep hearing people talk about how inspiring Barak is and all the change he will bring. Those speeches he gives come from John F Kennedy's speechwriter. That "yes we can" comes from the farm labor movement of the United Farm Workers (who back Hillary by the way). Not new, rehashed from days gone by. I have also read many stories of how Barak has asked people for advice. Ted Kennedy, Hillary, and the person who set up the blind trust (apparently turned out to be not so blind). I am sure with a little digging you would find out that Barak doesn't have an independent thought of his own.....kind of like another recent republican president. At the end of the day all that is left is an empty suit preaching from the teleprompter, a lot of promises and a big ego that wouldn't accept the advice from everyone that he wasn't ready. It's not to late, there is still hope.....vote for Hillary. The republicans will have Obama for lunch, or he will turn out to be their ally, not sure which one scares me more.

To his followers - Sen. Obama walks on water, feeds them bread, and has a good supply of wine.

Wait till they follow him into the water.

Obama is the CNN & MSNBC press darling - the CNN "embedded ones" with the Obama campaign see only stars and angels when they talk about him. Their "embedded one" with the Clinton campaign see only - the fires of Hell when describing Sen. Clinton.

MSNBC's Matthews -- encourages people to vote for Obama - because Obama is such a nice guy.

ABC and Fox seem to be the only news-networks left. Good Job

@brenpat

Sorry, the last comment was directed to you.

@Michael Merenstein:

There are two issues:

First, almost every news organization tries to include the super delegates in their counts, all of which is subject to interpretation because none of the votes are committed. They are counting those super delegates who have publicly voiced their support, but this count varies between organizations.

Second: Not even all the pledged delegates have been allocated. For example, the majority of caucus states do not pledge their delegates until a second round, which is when they decide on what to do with the results of the caucus. While this is generally easy to predict based on the results of the caucus, it's not fool-proof therefore, different news organizations have been counting differently.

It's a pretty stupidly complicated and opaque process. Go figure.

Hillary and her supporters keep saying "she's been attacked by the Republicans for 20 years and has therefore been "vetted" by them."

Guess what? She has been attacked by the Republicans for 20 years and IT'S WORKED!

A great many conservatives hate the Clintons (both of them) with a passion that surpasses any other Democratic politician. They think she is a liar, they think she is a "cold, calculating machine," they think that they have committed fraud, many even think that they help cover up murders!

Guess what? 20 years of attacks by the likes of O'Reilly et al. tends to stick in people's heads, even those moderate enough not to listen to O'Reilly et al.

So forget being "vetted" by them. Vetted nothing. They won't need to bring up anything new during the campaign because they have been doing it for the last 20 years -- like she admits!

Why do you think she constantly polls worse against Republican candidates then Obama? Because that's the reality: 20 years of Republican attacks have left their indelible mark.

To Interesting -

Truer words were never spoken! We met up with Obama people on the ground in NH and they could not articulate why someone should vote for Obama other then "change". It was both alarming and shocking that this "new leader" of change would have so man people into believing that all can be achieved through his idea of "change" and little more. We know Hillary is an agent of change even if others refuse to acknowledge it. We need to keep pressing on and engage in CIVIL debates and not mud sling as his campaign has done.

Hillary is about dignity and respect and has EVERY RIGHT TO DEFEND HERSELF. Lets remember that it has been Obama at EVERY debate that throws the first punch! As supporters, lets continue to rise above that even when others cannot comprehend a very basic virtue.

Can someone please explain to me the delegate count in the Democrat party. I am not talking about Super Delegates. I am speaking of just state delegate counts.

before Obama swept these last three states, he was behind Clinton by 1 delegate. Now we are about to decide VA, MD, and DC and he is behind by apx 30 delegates. how is this possible?

Which begs another question, Every TV Network has different delegate counts, and none are the same.How can this be?

What is going On? Is the democratic Party this Corrupt?

First off, HURRAH for Hillary Clinton for finally fighting back on the realities of both campaigns. You put parentheticals to try to insert her contradiction, but in fact Hillary really hasn't run many, if only one you can point out, ads against Obama; which actually disappointed me. Yet Obama spent millions on ads against Hillary Clinton, especially to insinuate she isn't for Universal Healthcare. How dare he! He knows better than that! Hillary is entirely FOR Universal Healthcare, but her approach now is an approach that won't hinder the doctors and insurance companies discontent with the idea of it... so it actually has the ability to pass House. Obama talks a lot about it, but doesn't walk the walk. And I urge you to go to your local news station and ask for the public records of the ads that Obama has purchased to run with ads AGAINST Hillary and you will find he has spent a lot of money.

I just want to comment on the "Reformed Obama Supporter." Thank you for sharing your story. I have a similar story myself and the minute I pulled away from the campaign, every one of my friends in the campaign turned against me in a cultish manner, as if I was defying Liberty. When in fact, I want those things so that is why I pulled away from the campaign. I want to acknowledge the real issues we are facing today that Hillary addresses and where we Americans had real positive changes in all her policies: boosting terrible economy, addressing financial crisis amongst the 95%, improving our terrible education system, decreasing crime rate by instilling rehabilitation and preventative programs aside from incarceration, unemployment rate going up and lastly, the one my parents are going through getting people and banks out of this foreclosure mess. I CARE SO MUCH about these issues that I was so upset, hurt and almost felt betrayed when the Obama Campaign did not want to address these things. And it actually wasn't because they didn't want to address it; I realized that they couldn't address it... they didn't know how to; so instead they kept saying "it's not going to work, because we need something different. And that is Change." Needless to say, they ignored me the minute I said "Different" and "Change" are actually pretty synonymous. So the result of different can't be change, because than change would have to be in place of a tangible meaning. They are cowards. They are brainwashed. They don't have their own individual voice. They have Obama's voice.

Everyone of us have been born AS INDIVIDUALS. We have the right to think for ourselves, yet some do live for acknowledgment of the Other Being (whoever that may be), but the bottom line is, we've always had the choice to be individuals with our own thoughts. And it shouldn't take a guy to make us suddenly realize that this exists. It's always has existed, we always knew it in ourselves, but Obama brings it out as if it's a new thing. It isn't, it's an old thing; so that cannot be change. it's the same old same old same old thing. The only difference is if one chooses to act on it; Obama has yet to act on his deceptive lingo.

Hillary acts on changing things from economy to education to healthcare to crime; she doesn't talk about change to wait for an applause.

And yes, those shady things that the FBI is finding about Obama are all VERY REAL. Not an ideal. REAL THINGS he has done and acted on as a human being. REAL SHADY THINGS.

Can someone please explain to me the delegate count in the Democrat party. I am not talking about Super Delegates. I am speaking of just state delegate counts.

before Obama swept these last three states, he was behind Clinton by 1 delegate. Now we are about to decide VA, MD, and DC and he is behind by apx 30 delegates. how is this possible?

Which begs another question, Every TV Network has different delegate counts, and none are the same.How can this be?

What is going On? Is the democratic Party this Corrupt?

As a Canadian I can't vote, however I'd advise everyone to read both candidate web sites and understand the differences in issues before making their decision. It's easy to follow a movement leader who says little except "yes we can", not so easy to digest issues and solutions.

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to the "reformed obama supporter" commenter, i went door to door for obama too. no one ever told me not to talk about issues. in fact, they didn't try to guide what we said that much. they just mostly said be open about why i supported him, and to encourage people to check out the website for more info. i got into a lot of policy discussions with people, but from my own knowledge on obama's stances on the subjects. there weren't any policy scripts from us to read from like robots, if that's what you're talking about.

On the one hand the Obama campaign is saying that we should not change the rules in the middle of the game and allow the Florida and Michigan delegates to be seated but yet they DO want to change the rules in the middle of the game and state that super delegates should not be allowed to vote how they want (which has been the rule for 20 years) but rather they should vote based on some other factor. Is the Obama campaign saying that the Florida and Michigan delegates should not be seated since those are the rules but the rules should be broken when it comes to super delegates?

I was a big Obama supporter. So big in fact that I volunteered to go out and campaign for him door to door. In the training, you know what they taught us? To avoid the issues. When pressed on Obama's stance on taxes, or the economy, we weren't supposed to state specifics, but rather how Obama makes us feel. We were taught to emotionalize it. At that moment I felt like the fog had lifted and realized that I had been sucked in by a snake oil salesman. His campaign is smoke and mirrors. While I looked around to see if any of my classmates had realized the same I noticed they were all blindly nodding. Content to push on ahead as part of this phenomenon that has become Obama.