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Hillary's Dream Date: A Republican?
April 30, 2008 4:58 PM
ABC News' Rick Klein Reports: Conspiracy theorists delight: Asked who she'd go out with on a date -- with any celebrity, living or dead -- and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton chose . . . a Republican.
Her fantasy date would be with President Abraham Lincoln, Clinton said in an interview being published in the People magazine hitting newsstands Friday.
The question: "If your husband gave you a pass for one night and you could go on a date with any celeb, alive or dead, who would it be?"
Clinton's answer: "That's such a dangerous question! How about Abraham Lincoln?"
Another surprising tidbit: Despite the 19-hour days she puts in on the trail, she's apparently never heard of the energy drink Red Bull. Asked if she's ever had one, she replied, "No. What is it?"
Clinton, D-N.Y., also equivocates on a few either-or questions: She refused to choose between comedians Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, said she likes both wine and beer, and wouldn't select either "American Idol" or "Dancing With the Stars"; she said her mother -- who lives with the Clintons -- keeps her up to speed on both programs.
She did, however, choose Weight Watchers over the South Beach Diet -- but didn't elaborate on her own eating habits.
She also said she's never had cosmetic surgery: "People have to decide what's right for them. It's never been anything I thought was right for me."
Clinton weighs in on the Texas polygamy sect, expressing some sympathy for the women who entered into polygamous marriages.
"Many of these women were raised in the sect, isolated from the outside world from birth," Clinton told People. "It takes an enormous amount of independent thinking to lift yourself out of the circumstance you've been born and raised in to say, 'Wait a minute, this isn't right.' "
She also credits her husband with making the clinching argument in convincing her to run for president.
Said Clinton, "He finally said, 'Well, you have to decide whether you could do what your country needs -- and whether you'd be willing to subject yourself to the process.' Then he said, 'If we end up with another Republican president and you didn't even try . . .' And that kind of clinched it for me."
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Hill the Bosnian General was living her whole adult life in a polygamous relationship, she means she did not know that Bill was having affairs everyday. She has to Ken Sarr who has helped her and Bill to stop it officially anyway. Thanks Lord.
Posted by: BKMC | Apr 30, 2008 5:04:38 PM
adnet is at idiot. she, like her husband, is a moderate democrat--that is why the liberal democratic establishment hates her like they did bill.
Posted by: ron | Apr 30, 2008 5:11:11 PM
PS McCain worst!!
Posted by: GHM | Apr 30, 2008 5:18:31 PM
What an absolutely ridiculous title for this even more inane article. Asking Clinton whom she would date is nonsensical. The fact that she choose Lincoln has less to do with the fact that he was a republican, than it does with the fact that he was an extraordinary person. Furthermore, the republican's were extremely different in the nineteenth century than they are today. Lincoln, if alive today, would be a moderate democrat.
Posted by: Emily | Apr 30, 2008 5:21:33 PM
Abraham Lincoln is considered one of our country's greatest presidents. Leave it to a frightened Obama supporter to read race into that pretty easy answer.
Posted by: sherr | Apr 30, 2008 5:23:53 PM
how old is john mccain?
Posted by: zdnet isa mcracker | Apr 30, 2008 5:27:11 PM
Could we get more fluff please? I mean it isn't like she decried a business deal that her husband was involved in. oh wait.
Posted by: Louis | Apr 30, 2008 5:29:16 PM
The more I think about this, the better.
Mc Cain needs to just copy all the good parts of Obama's rhetoric about the war and the economy.
Obama has earmark problems, and certainly credibility problems as a radical leftist.
Mc Cain just has to sever ties to the bush administration, and claim a NEW republican party.
What does Obama have left? They will AGREE on the issues. Obama will have pro choice vs pro life, which is always going to have conservatives vote for Mc Cain, and liberals for Obama.
The only chance Obama has of winning the general election is if Mc Cain insists that winning the war in Iraq FOREVER .
He needs to rebuild his platform on the war and economy, and healthcare. He needs to simply adopt much of what Clinton -then Obama - has already said.
Posted by: tomdavie | Apr 30, 2008 5:31:27 PM
Hillary Clinton want be going on a date with John McCain come November.
Obama all the way!
Posted by: Lookup | Apr 30, 2008 5:35:25 PM
Anyone that thinks that universal health coverage automatically implies government run medicine is a complete moron.
Posted by: Nathan | Apr 30, 2008 5:35:47 PM
I am sorry that Mr. Obama is putting
America through this charade....
Posted by: eve | Apr 30, 2008 5:52:42 PM
Mr. Obama aint no president...
Posted by: ebony | Apr 30, 2008 5:55:37 PM
"That is if you believe that America should become a third world country subservient to communist China".....posted earlier by an idiot.
That seems to be the aim of the republicans. They've been striving for that goal for at least 7 years now.
Oh, and Lincoln was a republican before the democrats and republicans switched ideologies .
Posted by: JR | Apr 30, 2008 6:00:00 PM
The hypocrisy and lieing Mr. Obama
has shown is almost inconceivable.
Posted by: re | Apr 30, 2008 6:06:52 PM
Brilliant WOMAN !
Posted by: catherine in nm | Apr 30, 2008 6:18:59 PM
Abraham Lincoln was the "First" republican president and the "last" good republican president. Obama 2008!
Posted by: pt | Apr 30, 2008 6:32:34 PM
Go Hillary!! Don't pay attention to these sleeze bags. They're stupid dogs. You're the best. Keep on fighting and when you win -- send BO back to his sickening church where he belongs. Go Hillary!!!
Posted by: Sherry | Apr 30, 2008 6:42:41 PM
HRC is now blatantly running on her husband's coattails. She is not the Bill Clinton of the 90's people. There is no third term.
Posted by: Louis | Apr 30, 2008 6:46:17 PM
I'm shocked, Hillary can't make up her mind on so many important choices. If she actually chose one side, then the other side might not like her, and that can't happen in her world. So she takes every side of every issue and looks like your normal two-faced politician. It's pathetic.
Posted by: Dave | Apr 30, 2008 6:48:50 PM
Clearly, the Clintons know they have already lost the 2008 nomination and are doing their best to elect John McCain, so Hillary can run again in 2012. Her slogan: "See, I told you Obama was unelectable." Yes, witch, because you trashed him so much.
A wonderful future Hillary wishes on us: President McCain, bread lines, soup kitchens, massive unemployment and poverty, a new war: Iran. Thanks, Bill and Hill. It's all about you, as usual.
Posted by: Henriette Wayne | Apr 30, 2008 6:48:58 PM
Never heard of Red Bull ? This woman is an elitist and out of touch with reality.
Posted by: southamco | Apr 30, 2008 6:50:37 PM
republicans are praying for Clinton.... that's because her indictments have iron clad evidence that she has committed illegal acts and that as a citizen she should not be above the law... she'll never make the presidency... as much of a monster as she is, she can't bully her way past the evidence waiting to destroy her... thus, republicans are praying she's the competition. They don't want to face Obama! he's the real thing, a talent and vision we desperately need and has the ability to draw millions... Even the power machine behind the Clintons came crashing... what'dya think'll happen to the republicans very weak, flip flopping neoconservative (at the moment) McCain?
Posted by: origood | Apr 30, 2008 6:53:13 PM
A "fantasy date"
Leave it to a clinton to NOT choose his/her spouse.
Posted by: bee | Apr 30, 2008 6:54:50 PM
She's never heard of Red Bull? Who is really out of touch!
Posted by: J | Apr 30, 2008 6:55:57 PM
catherine in nm, that is an insult to American women to think that Hill the Bosnian General is a brilliant woman. God save America. God bless Obama. OBAMA08.
Posted by: BKMC | Apr 30, 2008 6:56:20 PM
If you can run Government Health care on "one server" why in the devil did the census bureau waste millions of dollars on computers and has now reverted back to paper, because they could not make the computer system work.
Posted by: Dan, St. Louis | Apr 30, 2008 7:00:06 PM
She's never heard of Red Bull?? She's obviously not shopped at a grocery or convenience store in the last decade. Talk about elitist!
Posted by: Erik | Apr 30, 2008 7:00:11 PM
You have to laugh at the people who think the Rev. Wright thing makes Obama a worse judge of people than Hillary! Who could be a worse judge of people than Hillary? She married Bill!!!
Posted by: Joel | Apr 30, 2008 7:01:28 PM
I love Hillay!
She is who this country needs.
Posted by: Joel | Apr 30, 2008 7:07:12 PM
Oops I meant I love Hillary!
Posted by: Joel | Apr 30, 2008 7:08:41 PM
abe lincoln !!
what a liar,,
what she really wants is a date
with rosie odonnell
Posted by: leah murphy | Apr 30, 2008 7:08:56 PM
This fake fight(of words) between Obama and Rev. Wright is so ridiculously calculated by their campaign. It's scary how the mindless masses believe what ever the media reports. Obama and Wright are still thick as thieves, along with Sharpton and Farharchan( not sure of spelling).
Posted by: Tracy | Apr 30, 2008 7:09:21 PM
Another Clinton family moment. Hubby Bill convinced her it was her duty to run eh. Sigh.
I guess I've more in common with her than I thought, I've been taken under sniper fire and I listen to my spouse. Sigh.
Posted by: dablueshound | Apr 30, 2008 7:12:31 PM
Hilliary Clinton, new leader of the Lieberman Party.
Posted by: Karen | Apr 30, 2008 7:16:48 PM
She has never had a face lift???? This is why no one should vote for Hillary-she is such a LIAR that she refuses to admit the obvious. Look at a picture from when Bill was governor. She obviously thinks American women are completely stupid.
Posted by: car | Apr 30, 2008 7:16:57 PM
What part of maditory do you not understand??? - states zdnet
I don't understand the maditory thing at all. Is this a political buzz word, another language, or just an indication of the care you put into your work?
Posted by: dablueshound | Apr 30, 2008 7:18:49 PM
Question: Hillary, If you could date any man dead or alive for one night, who would it be?
Answer: Well, uh (stutter) I, a (another pause) Does it have to be a Man?
Posted by: Sam | Apr 30, 2008 7:27:18 PM
Hillary lied about Bosania, pure and simple. What else is she lying about?
Anyone but HRC
Posted by: AndyK | Apr 30, 2008 7:40:14 PM
liberal establisment zombies like carter, kerry, kennedy et al don't like hillary because they know, that like her husband-the only democrat to be elected to two terms since FDR, that she is from the democrat leadership conference mode--a moderate who will steer that way for the general election.
they hate that.
and will instead bet on obama--another carter, dukakis, kerry
and mccain will win
and we will all suffer,
period.
Posted by: ron | Apr 30, 2008 7:43:43 PM
I hate to burst your bubble, "another hillary supporter for mcainintheass," but of course Hillary says she would have left Wright's church. What else could she say? The truth of the matter is that most women would have left the cheating, lying, corrupt Bill Clinton years ago, but Hillary didn't. She's no saint, honey.
Posted by: Dee | Apr 30, 2008 7:49:18 PM
"hat is Red Bull?"
It's drink made from bull hooves and strawberries. Causes hallucinations.
Posted by: Jim | Apr 30, 2008 7:50:49 PM
TaylorMarsh, God help all of us if Gore makes a comeback. What a complete idiot.
http://www.xanga.com/braintease
Posted by: Braintease | Apr 30, 2008 7:51:31 PM
I am so, so tired of "hard working blue collar workers" acting like they have some inherent right to make decisions for the rest of us. What about those of us "hard workers" whose collars aren't blue? Why is it that the "blue collars" think of themselves as the only "True Americans" whose approval should be the litmus test for a presidential candidate? Talk about elitism. There's nothing dishonorable about being a blue collar worker (my dad was one his entire working life), and I'm sure there are plenty of these types who are well-informed and politically astute; but there's nothing dishonorable about being a college-educated professional, either. We all have a vested interest in the economy, affordability of health care, peace and security, educational opportunities for our children, etc. Stop trying to foist this sense of entitlement on the rest of us. We're all Americans -- regardless of the color of our skin OR our collars. You go on and cling to your god and your guns... I'll cling to my latte and liberal causes. We still have much in common and all this fingerpointing and chest-beating is awfully stupid and counterproductive.
Posted by: stsw531 | Apr 30, 2008 7:56:34 PM
Hillary did not disown Rev. Wright when he was invited to the Whitehouse to provide spiritual counsel to the Clinton's during Monicagate. Let's get real, the Clinton's also very much have some sort of unholy alliance with this man. His timing is impeccable if he was seeking to hurt Obama and help Hillary. "There's something happening here..what is ain't exactly clear..hey stop what's the sound..everybody look what's going round." We are in the last throws of the death of old politics. Hillary reminds one of Linda Blair in the exorcist, the American public is trying to exorcize this demon from the body politic but it keeps popping up with its head spinning around. Saying "Rev Wright is a bad man..Obama is black...look at my dyed blonde hair, fake blue eyes courtesy of contacts and white skin." I am the last standing white candidate, vote for me, I wil protect you. Hillary's is fool's gold to the working glass. They will be the first to feel the knife going in if they put this godforsaken fraud anywhere near the Whitehouse.
Posted by: Christopher London | Apr 30, 2008 7:59:01 PM
The Republicans in Lincoln's day were the progressive party. I can certainly understand why Hillary would chose Lincoln...many Democrats would pick him without batting an eye.
Posted by: Two-cats | Apr 30, 2008 8:00:38 PM
Hillary is a LIAR!! (Like we didn't already know). SHE HAS ABSOLUTELY HAD COSMETIC SURGERY. SHE HAS HAD AT LEAST A FACE LIFT AND AN EYE JOB. Maybe she rationalized her lie by saying to herself "it was plastic, not cosmetic surgery". And her daughter has had a nose job and a chin inplant (and still looks horrible). I can't believe her gall!!
Posted by: kerry zaputz | Apr 30, 2008 8:03:23 PM
It sure shows how out of touch she is with her own state and constituency. The Major League Soccer team from New York is called the New York Red Bull. Owned by Red Bull. 99% of the Hispanics in her state would know that for crying out loud.
Posted by: Joe | Apr 30, 2008 8:05:35 PM
Leave it to a Liberal to ask such a question, and another Liberal to answer it. Marriage is sacred, Married people don't date anyone else. Spouses don't
give passes. Liberals are slowly destroying every moral this country ever had. They are a cancer on society. God at one time blessed this country cause we revered him as a nation. That is how we grew to such a mighty nation in only
bit over 200 years. +/- With Liberals degrading everything they can pertaining to God. And with allowing them to do it. How can God be pleased?
They Mock God, they make every effort to suppress God. Every effort to mock him, or anyone foolish enough to believe in God. What an ignorant bunch Liberals are.
Posted by: Scott K | Apr 30, 2008 8:07:32 PM
INGREDIENTS OF SHAPE SHFITING FRAUD: Botox, Face Lift, Blue Contacts and Hair Dye.
Hillary to white people who do not know any better: "Look at me, I am one of you." Vote for the last white person standing in the Democratic race in 2008! By the way Obama is a black man and has that crazy minister, who is a friend of mine by the way too, wink wink.
Posted by: Christopher London | Apr 30, 2008 8:11:09 PM
"With Liberals degrading everything they can pertaining to God. And with allowing them to do it. How can God be pleased? They Mock God, they make every effort to suppress God. Every effort to mock him, or anyone foolish enough to believe in God. What an ignorant bunch Liberals are."
You said it -- foolish enough to believe in God. Since you recognize that your belief is "foolish" I hope you'll do us all a favor and keep your ignorance at home on election day.
Posted by: stsw531 | Apr 30, 2008 8:11:27 PM
"Liberals are slowly destroying every moral this country ever had."
I didn't realize pageboy Foley, prostitute Vitter, wide stance Craig, youthful indiscretion Hyde, two time adulterer Gingrich etc. were all "liberals".
Posted by: SFnomad | Apr 30, 2008 8:18:30 PM
No surgery, huh! Maybe gallons of botox!
Posted by: judy | Apr 30, 2008 8:20:17 PM
Two words for all of ya'll liberals and conservatives: RON PAUL
Posted by: Jonathan | Apr 30, 2008 8:20:31 PM
Everything she says is a lie. First of all there's no way Bill was the one convincing her to run for President as I am quite sure he doesn't want to go through what he's going through now. Her stories ring falser then my grandmother teeth. And come on whose never heard of redbull...how very cutesy. www.madnessletters.com
Posted by: Bradyn | Apr 30, 2008 8:20:38 PM
So what.. are you envious? Grow up!
Posted by: Alfredo | Apr 30, 2008 8:24:18 PM
white folks....
Who is worst
Rev. Wright or
Your parents and grand Parents - whom treated an entire race of people like 2nd class citzens. hung black men becasue they looked at white woman.
give me a break - you just bombed an entire innocenet country.
Posted by: rlp-politcal | Apr 30, 2008 8:25:29 PM
white folks....
Who is worst
Rev. Wright or
Your parents and grand Parents - whom treated an entire race of people like 2nd class citzens. hung black men becasue they looked at white woman.
give me a break - you just bombed an entire innocenet country.
Posted by: rlp-politcal | Apr 30, 2008 8:25:37 PM
Hillbillies in APpalachy for CLinton!!
SHe help to ejucate me!!
YEEHA
Swing yur partner round and round!!
CLinton 08!!
Posted by: Joe-Bob | Apr 30, 2008 8:28:09 PM
To all the pro clinton folks. Are you insane? They said they'd throw the kitchen sink at Obama, when it was obvious he'd win the nomination, and then they did it. Obama took the high ground and continues to, only having to stoop to her level when he has to defend himself. If the public support for the war was 56% she'd be for it. Her judgement was awful when they voted for the war and Obama took a strong stand against it. He was right about how it went. No way he could have run if the war turned out to be a good idea. Hillary triangulates everything so that whatever happens, she can at least have an "out" in the argument.
Obama is going to win the nomination, and there is no reason Hillary supporters shouldn't support him. He didn't lower the dialogue, she did. If you can't see that, please try to disconnect your emotion from this and look again.
Btw, who did the Clinton's call on to help with their marriage after the Monica ordeal?
Reverend Wright.
Posted by: Derek | Apr 30, 2008 8:30:07 PM
JR, you are a colossal imbecile. While the Republicans have kowtowed to the liberal spineless ways, you very libs ARE trying to push your communist/fascist mandated healthcare and socialism on freedom-loving Americans. And that is something that I am SURE President Lincoln would have had a big problem with. You speak his name in vain. Go to hell you sorry-ass afterbirth!
Posted by: e.f. | Apr 30, 2008 8:36:25 PM
when Obama takes the "high" ground is it pot or blow? Young fools pay over $1 for an over-caffienated corn syrup laden soda like Red Bull. Aren't you all so hip and wise.
Posted by: geevill | Apr 30, 2008 8:39:50 PM
E.F.
We already have nationalized health care. It's called the ER and it's very inefficient for what non insured use it for. Why do you think most doctors think we need national health care?
Think of it like firefighters or police force.
People aren't widgets, and that's what the republican argument appears to be. Yes, capitalism is good, but how far do you take it? As I said, people shouldn't just be considered like an item, and that is what the current system does. Somethign has to be done to the health care system, it is highly inefficient.
Posted by: E.f. | Apr 30, 2008 8:42:06 PM
America is one big media controled joke! Heard around the world! Look, Hillary can't run a simple coffee maker,how can anyone expect her to run the White House! For the backward Neo-Cons McCain is toast. TOAST! Obama will landslide this clown! WOW!
Posted by: Sisto | Apr 30, 2008 8:46:47 PM
Wow, she can't even say which comedian or tv show she prefers. I guess she needed focus groups and polling information before she could make a call. Pathetic!
Posted by: bud | Apr 30, 2008 8:47:12 PM
So HillDill has never had plastic surgery?Well that depends on what the definition of that is!I guess the transformation from wrinkle-faced cabbage patch face before the Penn primary to balloon face on Weds is an optical illusion.Look at the pics.Ever hear of Restalen or Botox HillDill?Still the pervaricator like Mr Billy .Sex?What sex?-That didn't count!!!
Posted by: A Silverstein | Apr 30, 2008 8:50:18 PM
Wait, she's the everyday, common, working class candidate and she's never heard of Red Bull?!?!
Quit playing the public for fools!
Posted by: dpc | Apr 30, 2008 8:52:04 PM
I thought Hillary was a bull-dyke?
Who knew?
Posted by: Bob Dole | Apr 30, 2008 8:55:53 PM
Thank God that getting to the bottom of the Rev Wright saga is more important than: the troops stuck in Iraq, the rising cost of food, the skyrocketing cost of gas, the lack of affordable health care, the economy in the dumps, the 10 trillion dollar debt, the national mortgage fiasco, the country's infrastructure falling apart, the continuing racial divide, the growing economic divide. God bless america, no God help america.
Posted by: fool me once | Apr 30, 2008 8:56:35 PM
Let's face it, Hillary is a moderate Democrat!
I'd rather her than a commie lefdt far wing semi-Muslim Obama!
Posted by: Sandy, IN | Apr 30, 2008 8:57:50 PM
Hillary definitely likes to eat a box lunch, after she munches on some carpet.
What a See You Next Tuesday.
Posted by: Thomas T. | Apr 30, 2008 8:59:16 PM
Lots of females have husbands that cheated. Does this make them Presidential Material as well? Maybe Selda Spitzer will run for Senate in NY now.
Posted by: Dennis D | Apr 30, 2008 9:00:35 PM
JERUSALEM – Barack Obama's military adviser and national campaign co-chairman has implied U.S. politicians are afraid of Jewish voters in Miami and New York City and a strong Democratic State the symbol of the Kennedy's MA. They may go RED in November! He stated that American Jews are the "problem" impeding a solution to the Israeli-PLO/Hamas Arab Muslim Nazi conflict.
Merrill A. McPeak, a former Air Force chief of staff, also compared the Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist organizations to what he described as religious radicals in Oregon and claimed "born-again [Christians]" supported the war in Iraq to help Israel.
Discussing Middle East politics during a 2003 interview with the Oregonian newspaper McPeak stated, "We don't have a playbook for the Middle East. You know, for instance, obviously, a part of that long-term strategy would be getting the Israelis and the PLO/Hamas Arab Muslim Nazis together at . . .something other than a peace process. Process is not a substitute for achievement or settlement. And even so the process has gone off the tracks, but the process isn't enough."
The Oregonian interviewer asked McPeak whether the problem in solving the Israeli-PLO/Hamas Arab Muslim Nazi conflict originated with the White House or the State Department.
"So where's the problem?" the interviewer asked.
McPeak replied, "New York City. Miami. We have a large vote – vote, here in favor of Israel. And no politician wants to run against it."
McPeak went on to insist that to solve the conflict, Israelis must "stop settling the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and maybe even withdraw some of the settlements that've already been put there. And nobody wants to take on that problem. It's just too tough politically."
McPeak did not point to PLO/Hamas Arab Muslim Nazi terrorism or the recent election of Hamas to power as problems impeding an Israeli-PLO/Hamas Arab Muslim Nazi peace deal.
As a follow-up question, the Oregonian interviewer asked McPeak whether "there's an element within Hamas, Hezbollah, that doesn't want Israel to exist at all and always will be there?"
McPeak responded by comparing the two terror groups to "radical" Oregonians.
"There's an element in Oregon, you know, that's always going to be radical in some pernicious way, and likely to clothe it in religious garments, so it makes it harder to attack. So there's craziness all over the place."
McPeak said there was "some" good will toward peace on the Israeli side, but qualified, "that's maybe the more cosmopolitan, liberal version of the Israeli population – I think there's enough good will there.
"I don't know if there is still on the PLO/Hamas Arab Muslim Nazi side, because they've been radicalized pretty well," McPeak said.
The McPeak interview circulated on several large blogs yesterday, including the popular Powerline blog, after it was first pointed out in the American Spectator online magazine by Robert Goldberg, a writer and vice president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest.
Interpreting the identity of voters in Miami and NYC McPeak had referred to, Goldberg stated: "Translation (as if it's needed): Jews – who put Israel over every American interest – control America's policy on the Middle East."
Goldberg also pointed out McPeak once claimed Christian Zionists were driving America's policy in Iraq to benefit Israel.
Stated McPeak while discussing the Iraq war: "Let's say that one of your abiding concerns is the security of Israel as opposed to a purely American self-interest, then it would make sense to build a dozen or so bases in Iraq. Let's say you are a born-again Christian and you think that Armageddon and the rapture are about to happen any minute and what you want to do is retrace steps you think are laid out in Revelations, then it makes sense . So there are a number of scenarios here that could lead you in this direction. This is radical...."
McPeak is the latest Obama adviser to be highlighted for controversial views regarding Israel.
WND recently quoted Israeli security officials who expressed "concern" about Robert Malley, an adviser to Obama who has advocated negotiations with Hamas and providing international assistance to the terrorist group
Also Samantha Power, who was described as Obama's closest adviser until she resigned earlier this month after making strong remarks against Sen. Hillary Clinton, advocated in an interview investing "billions of dollars, not in servicing Israel's military, but actually investing in the state of Eretz Yisrael."
Stated Goldberg: "Obama has a Jewish problem and McPeak's bigoted views are emblematic of what they are. Obama can issue all the boilerplate statements supporting Israel's right to defend itself he wants. But until he accepts responsibility for allowing people like McPeak so close to his quest for the presidency, Obama's sincerity and judgment will remain open questions."
Posted by: Sandy, IN | Apr 30, 2008 9:03:06 PM
Does America really want someone prone to hallucinations in the WH? Reviewing Hillary's methodical playing of the "Race card", and "The Perpetual Victim" against Obama; her inability to control her own campaign finances; and, her recent commentary on: Iraq; Pakistan; Energy Policy; her stated intention to confiscate the profits of American energy companies; the need for her to control the 14 Trillion $ American Economy from her White House Politburo, since she has declared the free-market to be a failure (this from a woman who hasn't managed so much as a corner vegetable stand, or for that matter her own marriage; but, of course you could count Whitewater, and her tenure as "Madam" and Bimbo Containment Chief for Bill's White House Brothel); her Marxist statement in San Francisco: "We're going to have to take more from you, and give it to others for the common good."; Illegal Immigration; Taxes; Infanticide; Massive new Government spending; Multi million $ Senate earmarks for supporters of Hillary's Presidential campaign; Garnishing of your wages to fund her coveted Socialized medicine program; a fanatical advocate of confiscating all civilian handguns; and, the Clinton's history of emasculating the military, verifies that this grievously flawed woman would be the female version of the Jimmy Carter debacle that gave us the Ayatollah Khomeini who ushered in rampant Islamic radicalism; block-long lines at our gasoline stations; a severely hollow military; and, a record Misery Index. Only much worse. Considering all of Hillary's recent gaffes, e.g. "I voted FOR IT (referring to the Bankruptcy Bill); but, I was glad to see that it didn't pass."; her hallucinations over "Landing under intense sniper fire in Bosnia."; misrepresentations on NAFTA; or, her fantasized role in the Irish Peace Process; and, her increasingly frequent crying jags, one has to wonder if excessive use of Botox has affected her mental stability. It's no wonder that her campaign staff is shielding her from reporter and audience unscripted questions. The prospect of Madam Hillary as President; in a word: TERRIFYING. Greg Neubeck
Posted by: Greg Neubeck | Apr 30, 2008 9:05:48 PM
I find it distasteful when people post the word "hate." Stop it.
Anyhow, RISE,HILLARY, RISE.
INDIANA FOR HRC.
Posted by: mj | Apr 30, 2008 9:08:38 PM
I find it distasteful when people post the word "hate." Stop it.
Anyhow, RISE,HILLARY, RISE.
INDIANA FOR HRC.
Posted by: mj | Apr 30, 2008 9:08:44 PM
anyone who thinks that government MANDATED universal health care means ANYTHING BUT government run and degraded health care IS a moron; simply live for a while in Canada or the UK
Posted by: former CA resident | Apr 30, 2008 9:10:04 PM
Awesome list of Obama's lies!
Obama’s Mistruths
1.) Selma Got Me Born - LIAR, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965. Source: hotair.com
2.) Father Was A Goat Herder - LIAR, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government. Source: http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message504435/pg1
3.) Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter - LIAR, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had Source:http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/01/obamas-oginga-o.html
4.) My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - LIAR, your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It is the first widespread violence in decades. Source:http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/01/obamas-oginga-o.html
5.) My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian - LIAR, she does her daily Salat prayers at 5am according to her own interviews. Not to mention, Christianity wouldn’t allow her to have been one of 14 wives to 1 man. Source: According to NYTimes story of April of last year, Sarah Hussein Obama told the New York Times she is a devout Muslim.
6.) My Name is African Swahili - LIAR, your name is Arabic and ‘Baraka’ (from which Barack came) means ‘blessed’ in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama.
7.) I Never Practiced Islam - LIAR, you practiced it daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31 years,until your wife made you change, so you could run for office.
8.) My School In Indonesia Was Christian - LIAR, you were registered as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making faces (check your own book).
9.) I Was Fluent In Indonesian - LIAR, not one teacher says you could speak the language.
10.) Because I Lived In Indonesia, I Have More Foreign Experience - LIAR, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn’t even speak the language. What did you learn, how to study the Koran and watch cartoons.
11.) I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs - LIAR, except for Africa (surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never been anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with our closest allies.
12.) I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion - LIAR, you were quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify - your classmates said you were just fine.
13.)An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office - LIAR, Ebony has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never did, exist.
14.) A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life - LIAR, Life has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never did, exist.
15.) I Won’t Run On A National Ticket In ‘08 - LIAR, here you are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough experience by then, and you are all about having experience first.
16.) Present Votes Are Common In Illinois - LIAR, they are common for YOU, but not many others have 130 NO VOTES.
17.) Oops, I Misvoted - LIAR, only when caught by church groups and democrats, did you beg to change your misvote.
18.) I Was A Professor Of Law - LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
19.) I Was A Constitutional Lawyer - LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
20.) Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill - LIAR, you didn’t write it,introduce it, change it, or create it.
21.) The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass - LIAR, it took just 14 days from start to finish.
22.) I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill - LIAR, your bill was rejected by your own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation - mainly because of your Nuclear Donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came.
23.) I Have Released My State Records - LIAR, as of March, 2008, state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released, exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.
24.) I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess - LIAR, you were part of a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens. You failed to mention anyone else but yourself, in your books.
25.) My Economics Bill Will Help America - LIAR, your 111 economic policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and even YOU voted against your own bill.
26.) I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois - LIAR, even your own supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your part.
27.) I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year - LIAR, they were not YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.
28.) No One Contacted Canada About NAFTA - LIAR, the Candian Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation your campaign had with them.
29.) I Am Tough On Terrorism - LIAR, you missed the Iran Resolution vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the destruction of Israel.
30.) I Am Not Acting As President Yet - LIAR, after the NAFTA Memo, a dead terrorist in the FARC, in Colombia, was found with a letter stating how you and he were working together on getting FARC recognized officially.
31.) I Didn’t Run Ads In Florida - LIAR, you allowed national ads to run 8-12 times per day for two weeks - and you still lost.
32.) I Won Michigan - LIAR, no you didn’t.
33.) I won Nevada - LIAR, no you did not.
34.) I Want All Votes To Count - LIAR, you said let the delegates decide.
35.) I Want Americans To Decide - LIAR, you prefer caucuses that limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only operate during small windows of time.
36.) I passed 900 Bills in the State Senate - LIAR, you passed 26, most of which you didn’t write yourself.
37.) My Campaign Was Extorted By A Friend - LIAR, that friend is threatening to sue if you do not stop saying this. Obama has stopped saying this.
38.) I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics - LIAR, you used tactics to eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you.
39.) I Don’t Take PAC Money - LIAR, you take loads of it.
40.) I don’t Have Lobbysists - LIAR, you have over 47 lobbyists, and counting.
41.) My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad - LIAR, your own campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.
42.) My Campaign Never Took Over MySpace - LIAR, Tom, who started MySpace issued a warning about this advertising to MySpace clients.
43.) I Inspire People With My Words - LIAR, you inspire people with other people’s words.
44.) I Have Passed Bills In The U.S. Senate - LIAR, you have passed A BILL in the U.S. Senate - for Africa, which shows YOUR priorities.
45.) I Have Always Been Against Iraq - LIAR, you weren’t in office to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time, unlike Kucinich, who seems to be out gutting you Obama. You also seem to be stepping back from your departure date - AGAIN.
46.) I Have Always Supported Universal Health Care - LIAR, your plan leaves us all to pay the 15,000,000 who don’t have to buy it.
47.) I Only Found Out About My Investment Conflicts Via Mail - LIAR, both companies you site as having sent you letters about this conflict have no record of any such letter ever being created or sent.
48.) I Am As Patriotic As Anyone - LIAR, you won’t wear a flag pin and you don’t put your hand over your heart during the Anthem.
49.) My Wife Didn’t Mean What She Said About Pride In Country - LIAR, your wife’s words follow lock-step in the vein of Wright and Farrahkan, in relation to their contempt and hatred of America.
50.) Wal-Mart Is A Company I Wouldn’t Support - LIAR, your wife has received nearly a quater of a million dollars through Treehouse, which is connected to Wal-Mart.
51.) Treehouse Is A Small Company - LIAR, the CEO of Treehouse last year, made more than the CEO of Wal-Mart, according to public records.
52.) University Of Chicago Hospital Pay Is Fair - LIAR, your wife’s pay raise was nearly 150% her already bloated rate and the hospital is a Non-Profit Hospital, which made $100,000,000 in the last 3 years. They overcharge blacks VS whites for services, and overcharge everyone in general by 538%!
53.)I Barely Know Rezko - Only 5 Billed Hours - LIAR, you have known him for 17 years, and decided to do a real estate deal with him during a time when he was proven to be under investigation. Despite this, you divided your property and had them take off $300K before the mortgage problems started. Then Rezko’s wife buys the lot beside it that you can’t afford, saving you $625,000.
54.) My Donations Have Been Checked Thoroughly - LIAR, you only gave back Hsu ($72K) and Rezko (first $66K, then when caught lying $86K, then when caught lying again $150K and now caught lying YET AGAIN OBAMA, it’s $250k) their money when publically called on their involvement in your campaigns.
55.) My Church Is Like Any Other Christian Church - LIAR, your church is so extreme, the pastor who married you, Rev. Wright, just got done blaming the US for 9/11 and named Louis Farrahkan their person of the year.
56.) I Disagree With My Church All The Time - LIAR, you still have yet to repudiate Wright, who married you and your wife, and you still donate large sums of money to assist the church in furthering its message - hatred and revenge. You donated in 2006 alone, $22,500 to the church that you so terribly disagree with. That is nearly $500 PER WEEK - that sure is disagreement, Senator Obama.
57.) I Have Clean Connections Despite Rezko - LIAR, you are not only connected to Exelon and Rezko, you are also connected to Hillary PAC supporter Mr. Hsu, AND an Iraqi Billionaire of ill repute, Nadhmi Auchi, who ripped off people in the Food For Oil, Iraqi deal. Seems Mr. Auchi may have helped Obama buy his million dollar property long before Obama had millions of dollars. Wonder what favors Mr. Auchi expects, when Obama leaves Iraq free to be taken over by special interests such as him.
58.) I never heard sermons like Rev. Wright’s, that have been in videos all day, You Tube - LIAR! 3 days later during your Mea Culpa BS speech you said “Did I hear controversial statements while I sat in that church? Yes I did.”
59.) The Passport Invasion is a conspiracy to find dirt on me! - LIAR. Your own Campaign Foreign Policy Advisor is the CEO of the company that looked into your records. PS - You had them look into yours to hide the fact you looked into Clinton’s and McCain’s more than a year before!
60.) Rev. Meeks has nothing to do with my campaigning - LIAR. Rev. Meeks appeared in ads for your Senate Campaign, donated to you, and helped raise money, then AND NOW. PS - He also seems to despise America.
61.) My wife didn’t mean America is ignorant, she was just using a phrase - LIAR. Again, MicHELLe’s comments perfectly sync with Wright’s, Meeks’, and Farrakhans, both in language, anger, and direction.
62.) I am very Anti-Terror - LIAR. [03/30/2008] One of your good pals is long time radical and terrorist William Ayers, wit



