Political Punch

Bush+Clinton+Bush+Clinton= Same old crap.
Bush+Clinton+Bush+Obama= CHANGE.
Can I please have a president who has poise and character enough NOT to engage in the muckraking and mudslinging we expect from the Republicans? I'm to the point where even the sound of her voice is irritating. When was the last time she said anything positive about anything? People talk about her experience and how it's good for us, completely ignoring the "experience" within the Bush cabinet and how good THAT'S been for this country.

Let's see. We have two "leftist" Democrats duking it out to the end. Which one can cover up their mistakes the best?

Both trying to push the hardest for what they lack the most? Experience and judgment!

She has little experience, he chooses poor relationships. Which of these two is more serious when it comes to the "big picture?"

Ed Rendell will be in Hillary's cabinet, right? along with many of the same people Bill had in his. Since their platforms are almost the same, it doesn't matter who gets in, right? But, I believe Obama would choose a broader range of people to help him make world-wide decisions-young people with new ideas.

The media has a prohibition telling anything positive about Hillary Clinton and anything negative about Barak Obama! They are telling her to drop but he himself can’t even get the needed delegates number to lock up the nomination! The media has made a political Humpty Dumpty out of Sen. Obama. For Sen. Obama, Richardson endorsement must have been like taking an Aspirin for a string of migraines he's been having lately; since his buddies Rozko and Rev. Wright started self-destructing, and dragging Sen. Obama down with them. But his headaches are not going to go away anytime soon. Rev. Wright’s rhetoric might have done irretrievable and extensive harm for Sen. Obama. While undoing of Obama campaign is happening in the background, but as usual, predictably, the Washington media made the Richardson endorsement it into an big event, I don’t think Sen. Obama’s speech or Richardson endorsement going to distract the voters from Rev. Wright graphic slandering of America. If you ask an average voter on the street, they will tell you that have not seen Sen. Obama’s race speech or the Richardson endorsement, but have seen Rev Wright’s tantrums. The media establishment put Mr. Obama on a pedestal—often undeservingly, getting carried away─ like Maureen Dowd of New York Times called him "the golden boy"..."the blessed child!" William Kristol, George Will, and others who cheered us all along into the quagmire of Iraq in a big way and apologized for all the Republican incompetency and corruption all through the decades now have declared their advance praise for Sen. Barak Obama. Mr. Obama had told us that he was going to change everything in Washington, change the status quo, change the ways in which we have our political divisions. So that in those Oprah moments people went crazy with euphoria, with the idea that their true savior of America has arrived, that they have been waiting for all these years! Their madness was an over-reaction to the enormous destruction of the Bush years, and but few people realized that most of it was just hype and marketing; all that was nothing but Oprah style made up hyperbolae, made up by his campaign managers, David Axelrod and David Plouffe. But it was the media who placed Mr. Obama on a very high branch who made him into a political Humpty Dumpty. The truth of the matter was that Mr. Obama is no Mr. Clean as he claims and comes from a very corrupt system of Chicago politics. Washington media establishment, the same people who brought us Iraq war, wants Sen. Obama to be the Democratic nominee; they have been dictating that to the whole country from the beginning and I know it would be a big mistake! I am sure the Republicans are going to make Rev. Wright his running-mate in the fall. They will tie Rev. Wright around Sen. Obama’s neck like an albatross! Having failed to win even one major state during the primaries and having manipulated the caucuses with small groups of zealots, but now not in play for the presidential election, Sen. Obama is going to find himself stuck in doldrums! After the Rezko and Wright scandals Sen. Obama is quickly losing support among independents and men. The coming primaries are going to demonstrate that fact. Remember, old Ralph is in the game too. If Sen. Obama is the Democratic Party nominee, that will be end of story for Democrats. The best chance of winning the White House for the Democrats is still with Sen. Hillary Clinton. There's no hard and fast rule you can find that in the Democratic National Committee’s Nomination Rule Book that Superdelegates are supposed to ratify the delegate leader; isn't that why Superdelegates are there in the first place? Democratic Party Superdelegates can save America from having George Bush's third term from voting for Sen. Hillary Clinton. As for Sen. Obama I can't believe he can save anybody from anything "wright now" and we still have to see how he saves himself?
P.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton has widened her lead in Pennsylvania up to 17 points in the latest polls! And there’s more to come…

For do not ask for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee, Sen Obama!

Barak Obama is all jive! How can he hold a candle to charitable work Bill Clinton has done around the world? David Brooks points out in his Tuesday's (3-25-08) column in The New York Times “Obama lawyers successfully prevented re-votes in Florida and Michigan.” This disfranchising millions of Democratic voters in those states, reminds me of The Supreme Court Handing over Florida vote to George Bush. Is this the new era of politics that Sen. Obama is talking about, or is it politics as usual, circa Florida 2000? More and more Obama campaign reminds me of those infamous Republican dirty tricks that brought us eight years of George Bush, Iraq war and other disasters, and all of that of course with the help of Washington media establishment. The more Sen. Obama strains to speak of his new era of politics in America, less and less of it seemed real. Sen. Obama should practice what he preaches! Obviously, Sen. Obama is a liar and a hypocrite, and that’s a no jive, man...

Nice work Jake, this is a perfect example of why 28% of Hillary supporters won't vote for Obama in the general election!

Having Landed under fire several times in South east Asia it's not a thing you forget - My thought is it's another attempt to rewite history.

Hillary also had comments about Senator Obama's minister, Let's also address Senator Obama not backing away from it He is just following her lead.

When the Clinton's were in the White House, the President made a comment about "How He Loaths the Military" I nerver heard Hillary back away from that comment. I feel That is she is a true "Commander In Chief" the Clinton's need to apologize the the Men and Woman that make up the US Military. This is called Leadership Hillary

da da da da da...i'm lovin' it!

Lots of sleep deprivation, apparently. She's been repeating this story all over the place.

Here, from CBS (sorry jpt):
"In a March 17 speech in Washington, Clinton said of the Bosnia trip: "I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."

That account was still posted on her campaign Website Tuesday."

Still, we can't deny how she defended SCHIP and FMLA from those Balkan snipers. Oh, wait...

Ugh, I am reminded just how much I detest Hemingway's writing style. Thanks for taking me back to high school English!

In re: snipers or no snipers - it's true that the average person cannot remember everything. However, if someone shot at me, I think that would stick. My father in law still ducks a bit when he watches war movies.

This is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen!

Oops, it wasn't a 3 am call. It was the wrong alarm clock I set for baking cookies.

"So what how many trips do you think she took as first lady this is all bs she is smart well traveled and her husband was the only two term President since FDR ." -Bishop

Obviously, Bishop knows absolutely nothing about US history or current affairs. Our current president, George W. Bush, is a two-term president. Ronald Reagan was a two-term president. Richard Nixon was a two-term president. Dwight Eisenhower was a two-term president. That's at least FOUR Presidents since FDR besides Bill Clinton that have served two-terms. Your lying, ignorant posting is absolutely disgusting. But considering who you support, I'm not surprised.

The Clinton's have lied all their lives, they are compulsive liars. On the witness stand, and they have been called there OFTEN, they say.."I don't recall" or something like that. When has Obama been called to the witness stand? ummm. When has his crazy, over the top pastor? ummmm. Gee. But you folks prefer the lying, cheating, stealing, murderous, scandalous, cut throat, secretive, polarizing, candidate, whose former president husband has ALREADY been IMPEACHED & DISBARRED... GIVE ME A BREAK. WHAT ARE YOU THINK? The world, not only America, needs a change.

US Veteran just thought you should know:
Hillary's speech on the economy to help the housing crisis is similar to the memo sent from Senator Obama to the Federal Reserve Chairman and the Treasury Secretary. Senator Obama sent his memo on March 22,2007, how ironic that Hillary announces her plan a year later. Why would you vote for someone who lies and takes credit for others ideas...?

Roger Miller:

"...the mind can play tricks on your memories and reinforce or mute certain memories..."

Why don't you file a Friend of the Court brief with this logic and see if you can get Scooter Libby's conviction reversed and expunged?

Mona
Everyone should care. Hillary is running for President, yet she cannot remember whether she ran from sniper fire upon arriving in Bosnia with her daughter, and when she is caught in this misrepresentation, she blames it on sleep deprivation. Help us all if she is sleep deprived when she recieves that 3am call.

Hey Toby, Keep drinking the Clinton Koolade, she didn't just mis-speak once. She has told this blatant Lie four times since last December. She just got caught with her trousers down. Kinda reminds me of Bill.

Hey Sean
1 lone senator voted for the war. WOW

Clinton is so brave, so courageous, so stoic in such a dangerous situation with snipers waiting. I can only infer from this that she is ready to lead and answer the 3am phone.

Keith Obamamann went into a rage about this stuff last night ranting (nearly screaming)that Clinton should be 100% right on these things if she's running on her experience.

OK - so is Obama 100% proven in the areas that he's running on??

Judgement:like having a friend like Rezko for 17 years and engaging in boneheaded real estate deal with him?

Change - like the kind of change he did not try to bring about in his segregationist church?

And oh so much more..

Brilliant, Jake. Please make it available everywhere fine blogs are shown....

I love this. And Hemingway would too.

Hillary should have promised Sinbad the Secretary of State job before she started pushing her Bosnian Adventure Tale.

Where is the Digg button??? This deserves to be seen by everyone! Best blog entry of the campaign season...

People supporting Hillary and then in the same paragraph talking about Bush's war ought to remember that Hillary voted for the war when she considered it politically expedient to do so. Blame her too for the war then.

Holy Crapola, that is funny!! Excellent work Jake.

or the moral of the story is that if Hillary answers the phone we should make sure Sinbad is in the room...I think he is available to make sure she doesn't misspeak... or "her mind (and McCains)doesn't play tricks on her."
...or us.

restore the beacon that America was and is...President Obama in the fall.

Oh man is this funny stuff. Clinton writes with such passion. Crow is clutching her guitar as if it were a child. Wow! Hillary should become a writer.

So the moral is the story is that Sinbad should be the one who answers the Red Phone at 3am.

we will stop trying to make her into Laura Bush if you and she stop trying to make her into Winston Churchill...ar at the least you try making her in to Bill Clinton...

she was not involved in the actual negotiating and her spousal involvement may be the same level as Nancy Reagan in the later years or Barabra Bush for that matter...

this is not a woman like Condie rice...or Madeline Albright

this is not a woman like Nancy Pelosi or Ann Richards...

her roll tried to be involved with policy, once and failed...and even that they kept it all hidden so we have no idea why she failed.

Her role was as First Lady. That is someone with access to the president... I wouldn't have voted for someone who was his attache either.

On experience ...she loses to mcCain... on judgement and her own accomplishments she loses to Sen Obama.

As we are paying for now with both the war and Michigan anfd florida becoming a hornets nest (if she was so for the people and has such good judgement why did she not fight for them when it counted...and only when it counted for her...sounds like her judgement is based on getting to be President)

"...the mind can play tricks on your memories...." Posted by: Roger Miller Mar 25, 2008 12:20:31 PM--

LOL!, Roger. Her mind isn't playing tricks on her memories: Her mind is playing tricks on OUR MEMORIES!

Toby...you are right, it wasn't all tea and coffee. There was a lot of lying, cheating, and stealing...you know, the Clinton way!

If Hillary has lied about something that is so obviously simple to discredit, how many more lies are in waiting. The Clinton tax returns and Clinton library donor records would be nice. It is hard to believe that they went from broke to a net worth of between 10 & 50 million dollars with no liabilities. The Bush adminstration has been very good to them or it is more likely that the ex-prez took advantage of his connections to coin money like no other ex-prez before him.

Everyone trying to make like everything Hillary did as First lady was teas & coffee meeting. This was a misstatement after 12 years. She had a office in the West Wing of the White House with the decision makers. She was no Laura Bush so stop trying to make her into Laura Bush.

This is what happened to Al Gore. They made a big deal of exaggerations and helped elect George W. Bush.

Now, what do we have? Iraq war. 4000+ soldiers died. 500+ Billions spent. why? Because journalists' ignored their duty to the country.

Now, they are making a big deal of what Hillary spoke. Does Jake Tapper and others know that the mind can play tricks on your memories and reinforce or mute certain memories.

Why don't they talk to leading experts in that field.

My feeling is that most of these journalists are not very smart and try to think of themselves as super intelligent.

We should hold our leaders accountable. We see what lying got us into in Iraq.

So what how many trips do you think she took as first lady this is all bs she is smart well traveled and her husband was the only two term President since FDR . And you can't tell me that as first lady she didn't know what was going on BO has no where near the experience she has he needs to run now so he doesn't have a record to bad they don't get along cause it could be sixteen years of smart Dem's in office and thas what it is going to take to get us out of this depression we are headed for go read Only Yesterday and maybe you will understand the trouble we are facing.

Who cares? This is from 12 years ago? Do you remember what you did 12 years ago in specific details? Obama lied(just last week) about not hearing hateful anti-American, anti-white comments from his former pastor the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.He sat silent in a pew for 20 years listening to Wright's racial rants. Yes, lets give Obama an even bigger platform to spew this hatred to our country. Obama is a liar and a hypocrite, but has the audacity to divert the public's attention by orating the historical relevance of racism?
The issue isn't race. The issue is his lack of honesty.We have had a "liar and denier" president for the last eight years. The only "change" Sen. Obama offers is that the lying and denying will be done in an extremely silver-tongued, eloquent manner.

Vote Obama..." LIES YOU CAN BELIEVE IN"

You should add this line:

"This Tuzla thing is as bad as a gang fight between the Bloods and Crips, said Sinbad, the comedian who's last television gig was during Bill Clinton's first term."

Roger Miller

Just because you are lsot in this blind faith of these two self-empowering political figures... doesn't mean that when a reporter reports something that is negative against the Clintons...that is true...

and he has said things in the opposite direction to...

but it just so happens this is so small considering the lists of problems that the press does not cover with the Clintons...

Can you not see this is a candidate with a long list of ethical questions and unfortunately we have been blinded by our own arguments with the Republican party that we do not see that negative stories toward the Clintons may be more true than not true.

But out of our own arguments we have placed them on a pedestal that they are far from deserving. This is a couple that is rocked over and over by lies and scandal. The republican party disd not have enough time , or people or connections to create all the scandals and situations involving the Clintons...

and neither does Sen. Obama...but the Clintons have shown over and over they will trash anyone that tries to come up against their own political power.

For your kids and grandkids...you have to wake up.

Brilliant. Really. Kudos.

Hm, we all know 'failure is the mother of success'.

You reporters report this kind of news, make me more believe that Hillary is more mature than before, more mature than Obama.

Obama is a freshman, he will make lots of mistakes. I will NOT elect a risky man.

PERIOD.

Big deal! How many trips has she taken? Even if she lied, it does not compare to the disgusting relationship that Obama has with the racist anti-Amecan Rev. Wright!

What is the big deal about Clinton lying? Everybody in Washington lies. George Bush lied and now more than 4,000 brave Americans have lost their lives! I knew many of them myself.

These soldiers have mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, children, etc. We are talking about tens of thousands of people whose lives have been shattered.

The most important issue is to get the MI and FL delagates resolved. When this occurs, maybe the math is not going to be aproblem. By now even Superdelagates
realize that the FL and MI voters cannot be disenfranchised.

Of course, Obama does not want that! He want to discount these voters. Nor does he want to mention the lunetic racist relationship he has had for 20 years!

Shame on you Obama! You are no friend of "intelligent" Americans!

The Evil senator from Illinois started clapping and high-fiving after Rev. Wright started yelling profanities in front of little children.

Rev. Wright started moving hips hinting a vulgar action while talking about Bill Clinton riding the African American community. Obama and his wife were clapping and their eyes tearing. They were so happy that their little daughters could experience the ultimate truth of life.

Jake Tapper put the book down and made a note to take his daughters to that great church on the South side of Chicago.

Jake Tapper, you are anything but a journalist.

Wow, Let's see who will cast first first stone. LOL.

I've just about had it. My mind is made up. I'd rather have Rev. Wright's sermons (the totality of them, rather than the snippets which are misleading) than anything to do with the Clintons, either of them, and their disgusting campaign. If Hillary somehow manages to insinuate herself into the nomination I will stay home in November.

Jake, that's pretty hilarious.

geevll - I've been to the Virgin Islands, and believe it or not they have churches there too! Unbelieveable, I know, but I did see it with my own eyes.

Reading that are irrelevant to the topic should be deleted anyway. Hillary lied. It is true she lied. Let us move on!!

Love it just one of her many liessssssssssssssssss>>>>>>