Political Punch

Hillary said yesterday that she felt like she was the Senator from Puerto Rico...

I guess after getting Bill to pardon all those Puerto Rican FLAN terrorists in 1999-2000, she just has this affinity for them!

You go girl, promise everyone everything!

Yep, "Big Surprise" another pander to another audience she happens to be standing in front of...

I am still waiting for my $10,000 credit for buying a new hybrid car Hillary!

If Puerto Rico wants to be a state, all it has to do it vote for statehood, pass a state Constitution, and petition Congress. A majority vote of Congress would do the trick. But Puerto Rico hasn't come to agreement that it wants to be a state. Why would Puerto Rico want to have the right to vote for President without other rights granted to states?

The 600,000 citizens of the District of Columbia (distinct from those who come here to work in Congress and the White House, etc., long-term visitors...) have been disenfranchised for over 200 years. THey have appealed for full citizenship by asking for the passage of a Constitutional amendment and statehood - but political elites are not interested. Political elites and the states approved an amendment in 1961 giving DC the right to vote for President--a little bread crumb to quite them. But DC leans too far to the Democratic side for Congressional comfort, not to mention it is "too" poor and "too" black. (But we're not supposed to mention those things these days.) When Bill Clinton was President, Democrats controlled the White House and Congress--but they did not give DC equal rights. I don't expect more from Hillary, either for the District or other territories/colonies. It's not a priority. And I don't expect anything from Obama either. None of the political establishment - and few Americans - give a damn that the U.S. is the only constitutional democracy which openly disenfranchises its capital citizen residents. I've had other Americans say, "You can move." Very sad.

Clinton will say anything, as has been seen, to keep from losing the Puerto Rico primary. She is already far behind in S. Dakota, and Montana. Puerto Rico is trending towards Obamas.

It is interesting to watch an old democratic coalition fade away as a new one is born.

Here a pander there a pander everywhere she goes a pander, pander........

Hell, Hillary wants convicted felons
to vote, illegals to vote......ANY
group that she knows will benefit
her and the Democrats. Too bad none
of this will help HER this cycle. She'll
still be the junior senator from N.Y.
after the convention in August.

How can anyone believe anything Hillary says? Her campaign is so full of lies,
distortions and pandering, she is not a credible candidate for anything. And don't be so naive to believe she did not intend insinutions about the assisination remark. She calculates everything she says and does.
When she and Bill initiated the anything to win tactics, lost all respect for them both.
By the way, has she ever made excuses for Obama's slip of the tongue. No she jumped on everything with both barrels.
What a gal!!

Voting rights to people who do not want to become a state but want all the benifits of the American Goverment.

One more reason we should not vote for a Democrat.

Obama supports welfare for the whole world paid for by America

Panderer in Chief!

Hillary Clinton!

ps...GO AWAY!!

correction: LBJ = JFK

Hillary is not pandering, she's being an trailblazer on this issue. She is the only voting member in congress bring ing up this issue, candidate or not!

So I guess LBJ was pandering to African-Americans when he was assured by Martin Luther King that they will come out to help him get elected?

Reality check, people.... I thought the Obama campaign was about Hope and Change... not cynicism and name-calling.

It's terrible that my fellow americans are politicizing this issue. You obviously do not know what it's like feeling like second-class citizens.

The fact is that Hillary Rodham Clinton is the only person, candidate or not, who has brought up this issue.

Wow... Senator Clinton does not have teh power to 'amend the constitution' and even as president she would not have such power....
I hope she goes back to the senate and tries to fight for the things she 'says' are so important to her now... I've watched the senate and she has never done anything that impressed me and there are senators that do...
She is completely comfortable with manipulating people.

Shut up about Hillary pandering. Obama sticks his foot in his mouth every time he does-pander that is. Today's Gallop Poll shows Hillary ahead of McCain and McCain ahead of Obama in the fall election. Whatever happened to the recount in Guam? Obama supporters-your candidate is slipping...slipping...slipping...

Hillary will say anything and i mean antthing to win this nomination.In as much as i want my daughters to achieve great things in life,she is definately not the kind of example i want because i want them to be fighters but most importantly truthful.

S writes: "Why shouldn't US territories and possessions have a say in the government that controls them? What in the world is wrong with that?"

You, and the others who have made similar comments, are missing the point of the article.

The points are these:

1) Clinton has never voiced an interest in this issue until it became politically expedient for her to make false promises to the voters of Puerto Rico and Guam. This is called Pandering - something that Clinton excels at.

2) The President of the USA does not have the authority to grant such a thing - it requires a Constitutional Amendment.

Maybe when Clinton finally retires her losing campaign for the presidency, she can take up this issue as one of her causes though.

let no gaffe go unblogged...

meanwhile, how many dead in iragmire?

Clinton redefines the word "pander"

Not once has it ever been important to her to have Puerto Rico or Guam have full voting rights, until now, when she is trying to buy their votes with empty promises.

Clinton makes me ill. I am a 53 year old woman who falls within her "demographic" and I can promise you I will never vote for her. I am embarrassed by her behaviour and outright lies. She has done noting to further the cause for women in this country with her outlandish statments and lies while campaigning for the presidency of the USA.

She has shown that she will say and do anything in order to get elected. I wonder when and where she lost her soul.

The way we know that she is pandering, beside the fact that her lips are moving, is that she has spent 8 years in the Senate and NOT once has she brought this issue up. Why? Because she is a panderer and a liar!

Puerto Rico can have full voting rights. They just have to approve statehood and they get members of 6 members of Congress, 2 Senators and 8 EVs. No need to amend the Constitution, just become a state!

PR has rejected that multiple times, so why give them a say in the White House? Territories have never had a say, so why offer it to them. Do you think that 3/4 of the states will approve such a ridiculous measure?

The President also has no role in Constitutional Amendments. A Senator can institute such an amendment. Why hasn't she done so in the past 8 years?

The obvious answer is that she is just pandering. She wants to build up her bogus "popular vote" argument with a primary that doesn't even want to become a state. Her cynicism is astounding, but the gullibility of her supporters is even more so.