Mea Culpa

I like Hillary's fluid and detailed explanations of good Democratic policy we need to take this country back for all of us who are not making out like its the Gilded Age again.

Because you work with Charlie Gibson, you will not mind communicating to him the disgust we feel toward a "journalist" who becomes a political operative for his side of the controversy, all the while claiming honorable intentions. The man is not worth the time of his broadcast.

In his defence, the whole profession has moved to a game of gossip for ratings, at the expense of the duty of reporting the truth of each story.

As a nation we are in bad shape, my friend. In no small part due to the news media's derilection of duty. Otherwise, how could we have come to a place where a President can disreguard the separation of powers, conspire to destry the Treasury of the United States and suspend habeas corpus.

If you, in turn disreguard this email by excusing yourself and your network, then you some day will come to face your responsibility. May it not be too late.

If Barack wanted to go after all the dirty hands that the Clintons have touched a two hour debate wouldn't be long enough. Last night was an poor use of our first amendment and a damaging night for the ABC News Team. Having seen as many debates as I have, it was an obvious setup. The pundents want this race to go on for the ratings. The outcome is already set, get used to the idea, it will be Barack Obama as the nominee. He has played by the rules, which a Clinton has no idea of such things.

My hat is off to Charles Gibson for injecting some reality into these faux debates and demonstrating Obama's blase ignorance of tax policy in the real world.

Most of the political class in the US would line up with Obama in their inability to learn from experience in Eastern Europe and the Bush tax cuts.

They are too wedded to their divisive mantras about the rich and to Marxist dogma. You would think they might have noticed Marxist politics and economics fail every time to deliver what they say. A country with people at the top who are unable to learn new tricks or deliver what they say they will is a country going the wrong way.

Don’t forget the comments Obama made on April 6th at a private fundraiser in San Francisco. There, the freshman Illinois senator, opining about people in small towns where the jobs have fled, said: “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
“This is elitist behavior by Senator Obama,” says Schmidt (reporter). “The condescension Obama shows toward the values of people who are the backbone of America is very clear.”
Those few words, transcribed from a more than 45-minute recording of Obama, buried in the midst of a very ruminative, rather personally-oriented piece Mayhill Fowler, an activist blogger who supports Obama and contributed the maximum allowable $2,300 to his presidential campaign, kicked off a media firestorm.

“We recognized it was a politically volatile story and thought it would create news,” says Marc Cooper, editorial coordinator of Huffington Post’s “Off The Bus” project for “citizen journalists” such as Fowler. “We had no idea that the controversy would reach this magnitude.”

I GUESS THEY HAD NO IDEA SMALL-TOWN AMERICANS REALLY CARE ABOUT OUR BELIEFS, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR RIGHTS AS AMERICAN CITIZENS!

NO OBAMA --- GO HILLARY!

aka dad....the Chicago papers have not "investigated and cleared" Obama of any wrongdoing. There is an ongoing trial on Rezco's political corruption. As far as I know they have not charged any major politicians but the whole case could bring down the Governor of IL. And testimony put Obama and his wife at the scene of an Iraqi milliionare's gathering with Rezko where some highly questionable under the table dealings were taking place....Both Obama and his wife are claiming amnesia about the 2004 event....kind of like Obama does not remember his real estate transaction with Rezko in 2005 ...

This is just beginning not over by a long shot. Obama was definitely enriched by his association with Rezko. Even though Obama is claiming all his IL Senate records have disappeared.....no one really believes it and it's not over.

Rezko-Wright-Obama 2008

I think Obama would have had to stop spinning and i would have liked him more. I can't stand the hyprocisy of him insisting his campaign is uplifting when I know it is based on a formidible attack and PR machine.

His inability to really express a knowledge of the issues and his obvious resentment and anger and lame attacks against Hillary make him less appealing than ever.

When ever he is "offscript" he continues raise questions about his ability to be "commander and cheif".

The similarities to Bush in personality and arrogance astound me.

Obama book “Dreams of my father” …. OMG ……… BARACK OBAMA HID HIS FATHER'S SOCIALIST AND ANTI-WESTERN CONVICTIONS FROM HIS READERS. Google it as read in capital above, and you will find out this fits in with the statement Obama made about people in small town clinging to religion. That was nothing more than a restatement of Karl Marx's view that religion is the "opiate of the masses." The mask is coming off Obama and it's about time!

Of course Nellie, bring up statements made 13 years ago. If that is the case I am sure we could find some from Obama. Wait, he was a nobody until last year. Why can't you people admit he was wrong?

Barack Obama often boasts he is “the only candidate who isn’t taking a dime from Washington lobbyists,” yet his fundraising team includes 38 members of law firms that were paid $138 million last year to lobby the federal government, records show.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-04-15-obama_N.htm

The Chicago newspapers have investigated and exonerated Obama in any wrongdoing with Rezko.

The Canadian Government apologized to Obama for getting the NAFTA story wrong.

You people need to keep up.

Hillary should be asked tonight to explain her "Screw them" 1995 comments. It would fair in light of the latest "bitter" controversy.

"It should be about uniting all the various segments in American rather than divide them in Carl Rove fashion. It's about beating John McCain."

You CAN'T "unite" everything out of existence. There are REAL problems to be solved, which can only be done by choosing ONE way over the OTHER.

Obama's "one America" blabla was mostly a put-down to the "two Americas" John Edwards was talking about. There very certainly ARE two Americas, and Barack Obama's never strayed from the one that rules the other.

And it's NOT "about beating John McCain", who may well not BE the final Republican nominee. It's about taking the Democratic Party back from the "post-partisan" error, and out of the hands of the present "leadership", which would rather KEEP losing elections than disturb the plutocrats-only makeup of its platform and practice.

There are, for example, at least a MILLION people living in the streets NOW -- not just the "veterans" the candidates bleat about, but women and CHILDREN. How many will be there when next winter comes? You can't "unite" that, you've got to DO something about it -- or NOT do something about it, and get ready for the full-tilt revolution the U.S. barely avoided in the 1930s.

There's nothing about Obama (OR Clinton, for that matter) that suggests either of them has the stuff to deal with the real conditions outside the upper-middle-class media version of the U.S.

The best thing is to give BOTH these guys the hook, and nominate John Edwards. If he hadn't been outspent 10-to-1, and sabotaged by the (corporate) media, Edwards already would BE the nominee.

OBAMA AND THE FLAG(s)

Does anyone recall, after all the posts about Obama's lack of patriotism in not wearing a pin and not placing his hand over his heart, when Obama made his speech about how Wright was not Wrong?

He stood on that podium immersed in about eight swirling flags; I thought they were going to swallow him.
I thought too, that that was a cheap 'shot'.

As for his campaigning in Florida when none of the other candidates did, it was was unfair and impolitic. And I was was reminded of the ways Barry had levelled the playing field in his last two elections in Illinois..

You can read about them in back issues of the Chicago Tribune, among other papers.

What Hillary doesn't get is this isn't about black, white, elite, redneck etc. It should be about uniting all the various segments in American rather than divide them in Carl Rove fashion. It's about beating John McCain. Yet her latest Rove style strategy has her campaign insinuating that the Montana Yellowstone County Commissioner “picked Clinton only after he heard Barack Obama’s now famous “bitter” comments. But Kennedy told FOX News on Tuesday that he decided on Clinton long before that. “I had been leaning toward Hillary for months,” Kennedy said. “I actually decided to endorse her two weeks ago.”

Think about it. If someone created a website which allowed us to vote on one simple question, 'are we bitter about how things have been going here in the United States', do you think the happy campers would 'win' or do you think the Americans who are fed up, been pushed down, passed over and trickled on would outnumber those who prefer to wear blinders or blindly put a politician above the interests of their party or the interests of our country.

For Hillary to try to twist Obama's words in this regard is beyond her normal campaign games, it's an act of desperation. When more google for information on her pastor and spritual advisor, Doug Coe, they may come to realize it is all a game to her. When they google through all the campaign lies alone, whether it's bullets flying, joining the Marines or simply her stands on issues, they will realize we'll be the losers in these games.

If we want to discuss someone out of touch or elitist, think about the string of unpaid bills Clinton has left in every state she's been in, bills owed to small vendors. Consider why one would fork out $26,000 for an orchestra for a fundraiser yet not pay her workers' health insurance premiums for two months. Is that not elitist?

Bill is now trying to help Hillary again but he needs to clean up his own front porch first. His charities not only support Alibaba, Inc., accused of collaborating with the government in its crackdown on Tibetan activists, his scholarships finance schools in Dubai who won't even accept Israeli students. These stories hit the news about the same time as Bill's Columbian deal. Maybe this bittergate is simply wmd - weapon of mass distraction.

Was Bill's taking advantage of a young girl in his employ not elitist? Was his putting himself above her interests, the interests of his family, the Democratic Party and our country somehow not elitist?

Perhaps Bill needs to do twenty years of community service in the south side of Chicago to get a grip on what constitutes an elitist.

Hillary needs to figure out which political party she works for. I have yet to hear her rally her people to vote Democrat no matter who wins the nomination. Not one word. I thought the whole idea was to beat McCain, not hand him on a silver platter 28% of the Democratic vote.

And btw, we were fooled by a beer drinking party guy trying to act like the common man before, look where it got us. If using that campaign game is not elitist, I'll eat my hat.

my comment must have hit a nerve, I made the comment that the media wanted Obama because he would give them more stories, much like Bush has give them lots to write about.

"If he has to win like that, then the Constitution is meaningless, like all the people who gave their lives to protect it."

The Constitution IS meaningless, at the moment.

Especially because Bush has converted the presidency to an imperial office, and because there's a depression growing, committing the Democratic Party to a character with a made-up biography who wants to substitute his own self, and a few borrowed slogans, for the Constitution as an organizing principle would be VERY dangerous: he consorts with mobsters, and has risen to his present office by questionable means. And there are several guys from the same shop -- Deval Patrick, Governor Acevedo -- who've flamed out in office.

We need a leader -- preferably John Edwards. We DON'T need some full-of-himself figurehead who's a puppet for the socially-clueless corporadoes who've constructed the Obama candidacy.

How complicated IS this?

Uh . . . Kevin, neiher Hillary, nor the DNC decides whether votes count - you're just making things up now. Those votes have been certified by the secretaries of state of FL and MI and are part of the national popular vote. Obama had opportunities to campaign and do over the elections - he nixed them all - HIS FAULT. The DNC screwed this up in the first place - the DNC's fault. NONE of this is Clinton's fault or the citizens of this country, who are the ones being SCREWED out of a fair election.

Besides, how the heck do you think Obama's going to win if he wins like this? Disregarding the votes of two key states? Do you care if we wins the white house? Or is it just beating Clinton that matters most? THIS IS NOT A GAME!

Jesus, this is some silly nonsense. Every time I hear this "rules is rules" BS I think I'm listening to 3rd graders on a playgroud. If he has to win like that, then the Constitution is meaningless, like all the people who gave their lives to protect it. What's wrong with you people?!? Are you too politically young and naive to even remember the 2000 election?

Harald,
If you believed all the polls Obama would have won New Hampshire. Wright is an issue to Americans, maybe not the media who are in love with Obama.
I have had the hardest time understanding why press and other politicians support him and my husband had an interesting point...that when Clinton is elected she will have a very strong hand in selecting the people around her and the issues she wants to tackle and she won't be easily swayed. With Obama, he is a newbie, with the ability to repay favors and be easily influenced.

"True patriots do not need to wear flag pins, because their actions speak for them."
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Yeah actions like attending a church for 20 years that GD's America, Amazon Michelle finally being proud of her country...yeah that speaks volumes. At least they other two candidates there is NO question as to them being patriotic an loving this country.