Hillary: Ready On Day ... 57?

Something has comes along that really hit my heart and it really matters. This is a video and song written by a soldier in Iraq. Please watch the video. Our soldiers are serving bravely. They need to finish the mission of securing Iraq, and then they need to come home safely. The safety and fate of our soldiers requires a President who has been to Iraq and witnessed and assessed --first hand-- the situation there. McCain and Hillary have been to Iraq. (so they ARE ready on day one)Obama has NOT. Since Obama has never been to Iraq, I personally feel he is not poised to pull us out of the middle east safely. Please watch this video, and please think of our soldiers and their safe return when you vote this election.

This blog is completely biased and quite frankly stupid. How one "runs" a campaign doesn't necessarily reflect how one "runs" a country. Our current president who has had two very successfull "runs" at the Presidency is a perfect example. Clinton's campaign was set up with a particular mindset: To win big on Super Tuesday and crush the opposition. Obama has run an insurgent campaign that had the opposite scenario *the one we are currently in* as their model. They are running what they *hoped* and *expected* to happen. It is obviously unfair to judge the necessary course corrections of a campaign even the media had dubbed as inevitable just a few months ago.

Nice insight. I love the clear Anti-Clinton bias as well. It's really tragic to see journalism take such a dramatic dive in the dumpster.

You mean that the DLC establishment inside-the-beltway aging boomer campaign strategists aren't good at winning campaigns? I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you! Penn and the rest of those perennial losers should not be able to buy their way onto a national campaign, period. Going forward, the Democratic Party might want to consider a three strikes policy for losing "strategists". To modify a recent Clinton campaign squabble "[sarcastically] Oh, it's always the candidate, never the message!"

Gwen, I think you meant to respond to S.B.'s post. Anywho :), I agree that Secretary Rice wouldn't get many "black" votes, because we know she's drinking the Kool-Aid they're serving at the White House. Now, if McCain convinced Colin Powell to be VP, then Obama might have trouble with the "black" vote in a general election.
Anyway, as an Obama supporter, it's good to see Hillary's having a SNAFU's in Texas.

Latest Clintonian Reponse to JT's post:

"Ready on Day One" is short for "Ready on Day One Thousand Four Hundred Sixty-One."

So is intended to be a HRC 2012 re-election slogan i.e.,[(4 years x 365)+ 1 = 1461].

A low level staffer just got this 2012 Slogan mixed-up with the official 2008 Slogan and inserted it in the campaign literature. So this is just an honest mistake that is being blown out of proportion by the Media and the vrwc.

BUT .... BUT .... BUT ...., I thought she was the smartest woman in the world .... How can this be...

I've been a Senator Obama supporter from the day he started campaigning. Reason is for me is because he's more honest and open than his competition. I have yet to see anywhere on the net or in the news where it was confirmed that he took money from lobbyists. If I'm wrong then I'm wrong but it won't change how I feel. Obama is the face of a new United States, the others like Clinton and McCain are untrustworthy in my eyes. clinton because she plays the everyone is attacking me because I'm a woman card and Mccain because he's a republican..The man supported Waterboarding even though he's been tortured himself and said previously its torture. Thats not a president I want to have leading our country.

Get over it people, Obama is our next president and hopefully he'll lead us out of this pit our current president has put us in.

I've listen to the news this morning at one of the local radio in Boston MA.The announcer had mentioned that Barrack's wife Mitchelle when ever she's campaings for her husband that she's always said We love Jesus and ours soul. I feel that she'll be more than the First Lady! she appears to Aggressive person to me and to be in the White House and that she's be the person that will make most of the decision. Also that Barrack belongs to Black Church that not crazy about the White people in Chicago. If this is true I think that the people should carefully rethinking about the voting to his platform as President. The more I have watching Barrack on TV its appears to me that his words more toward Preeching to people. He does not have the expereince to run the country
and this is not the trial states for him. Sure that the younger people votes for him this as the same with when Senator Kerry, ran for President too. But when come to the actual votes the young people didn't anticipated. I feels that this is just a fast for youngs people and they may took aways from the Real candidate that have the experience and ability and cares for the people in USA.

It seems to happen on a few occasions now that Clinton blames and even tries to change rules after the fact. They are rules they all agreed on and competed with equally.

About the FL/MI votes, I agree that we need their voice heard somehow, but not simply count the votes after the fact - Obama wasn't even on the MI ballot. It's like playing a baseball warm up game knowing it doesn't matter, and after the real game begins the losing team requests to count the home runs during warm up - "hey they were good hits, it's unfair to just ignore them!"

Also, think closer and one has to question, how is Clinton's claim that "Obama is all talks no solution" not just as empty in itself? She doesn't show any evidence or reasoning that she'll have more solutions and he won't.

I enjoy reading these posts. You can feel the emotion jumping off the screen. When, however, will I read that our country is one terrific nation. A number of people knock Hillary, and a number knock Barack. Guess what ? It relly makes no difference ! We have survived many poor presidents, and will continue to do no matter who is elected. Our country survived a great Civil War even though the very best president, Abe Lincoln was in office. We survived, as a nation, even though the wonderful president, JFK,was in office at the onset of that calamity, and we will survive even after Bush got us into the mess in Iraq. There's no reason to be negative about anyone, at anytime, for any reason. It takes way too much energy, and makes too many people uncomfortable. God Bless America, now, for the nextPresident, and for many years thereafter.

Like Obama said its most important to GET IT RIGHT ON DAY ONE. Hillary seems to fumble badly on this point when it comes to managing her campaign. THAT is very telling especially when in one of the debates she prided herself on being a hands-on, administrator. Was she not telling the truth or is she just really bad at it?

I also do not like the way she disenfranchises people and states. She is exclusive rather than inclusive - that bothers me the most. It would seem that if she believes something will not benefit her, she writes it off. The election isn't about HER. This is about the country and the people. Why isn't she building bridges where she is weak? Why isn't she reaching out? Is this the kind of President you want? One who is stuck in a rut, who is closed minded, who writes off half of the country because it is of no benefit to her. Do you want a President who is only favored by a few BIG states ... giving us a President of New York, California ... what does the rest of the country do for a President? Who wants a President who ignores them? It seems she's not running for the reasons I would want a President to be running for. She is sooooo old Politics, politics as its been forever ... if you want more of that, Hillary's your person.

I'm so ready to turn the page and start afresh with a President who is young, and fresh himself. Who is reaching out to everyone. Who would be a President for the UNITED States of America, not just a few. One who isn't yet stuck in any rut.

From how he has run his campaign I would take his inexperience over her experience any day. His GET IT RIGHT ON DAY ONE vs. her being ready on day one.

Running a campaign well is like running the government well: you select the most competent people, make sure they work together, get the best information out of them and make clear decisions. By that measure the crony loaded, flip flopping over budget Clinton campaign is a disaster.

I was an early Clinton supporter and made a substantial contribution. Since then all I have heard from the campaign is daily pleas for more money (contribute and you can be in a sweepstakes to watch football with Bill). Never have they sent me any policy positions nor have they asked me to help organize (say talk to my neighbors before my local primaries)...That is until yesterday when they emailed me a "Persuasion and ID" script and told me I was to call an 800 number which would forward me to Wisconsin voters I should persuade to vote for Hillary.

Too late...I have switched my support to Obama.

Think about this for a moment. I am the Chief Operations Officer for a Multi-National Corporation that has interest in most parts of the world. I am getting old and need a successor. This is no easy decision to make, as there are hundreds of millions of people on payroll and our income is in the trillions. How do I decide who should succeed me? I have a contest. I select the best four candidates and give them their own department and 100 million each, and come back in a year to see what they have done with their investment. I can see now, just by going by the simple, published, undisputed facts, who exactly is the one I would want running the Corporation. Can you?

Sue:
It would be wonderful if the Republicans put Condoleeza Rice on the ticket thinking they would get Black votes. If Obama is the Democratic nominee, she would bring absolutely zilch to the ticket in terms of Black votes. This is the flaw of many observers who believe that people are voting for Obama simply because he's Black. It is much deeper than that. Rice is actually an admired, but despised figure because she has promoted the failed Bush policies. Her inclusion on the ticket will get the GOP absolutely nowhere.

From Hillary's point of view, "Words are cheap" and one of her first objectives should be to abolish all words. That will effectively put an end to anyone that should challenge the high and mighty Hillary Clinton

Senator Clinton's campaign was certainly not ready from day one as they had no plan in place after February 5. Her campaign has yet to find a solution to stopping Senator Obama's momentum. It concerns me that she has failed to "right the ship" of her campaign. What would she do as President when meets resistence from Congress? Would her administration unravel like her campaign?

They "discovered" that info. this month?

Are they using the Christopher Columbus guide to discovering the obvious? Perhaps her campaign strategists should get a newspaper subscription. The quirks of the Texas rules have been reported for months.

Firefighter: To set the record straight, it is Clinton who has taken more money from lobbyists than any other candidate (dem or republican). Obama takes money from the employees of corporations, but he doesn't actually take money from the special interest groups or lobbyists. If that is what your basing your decision on, you had better switch sides. I've heard a number of people saying this about special interest groups and I think it just goes to show how emotionally people vote and will see everything through the lens of that emotion. As an Obama person I can't understand how people can think his speeches have no policy proposals in them. Hers are a lists of facts - not that useful when it actually comes time to implement a plan - situations are always different than they seem on paper. Evident from her campaign.

Obama did take money from lobyist--even Obama himself admitted it. The only difference is he took less than Hillary. But the fact that who took a little more or who took a little less is not a big issue. They are both same. So it looks funny and rediculous that Obama and his team criticized Hillary for taking money from lobyist. Same as it looks funny and ridiculous that Obama criticized that Hillary's campaign is not honest. Politics is dirty, no one is clean--including Obama.

These words were clicking in my mind "Madam President" when the race started. But the way we goby and after reading this article, I can see not from far away that the wind is blowing off "THE CROWN" from her. What a pity!