Hillary Clinton

Remember Tucker Carlson of the fabled bow-tie who kept his legs together everytime Hillary was mentioned?  Now he has come out with "proof" that the msm conspired to deprive Hillary of the nomination by suppressing stories of Reverend Wright.

Well he was one of the boyz who turned his back on our cries for help to expose Wright/Obama connection.  By our, I mean the many blogs that kept up a barrage of information to media folk like Tucker and were ignored.  Always seemed strange to me that the media boyz and girlz could read Koz and Huff Puff but could never seem to find Riverdaughter or Alegra or Partizane.

Now Tucker professes to be on the side of the angels in an appearance on FOX this morning as he said Obama stole the Primary from Hillary.  Here's a bit from his rag that he referenced.

The crisis reached a howling pitch in mid-April, 2008, at an ABC News debate moderated by Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. Gibson asked Obama why it had taken him so long – nearly a year since Wright’s remarks became public – to dissociate himself from them. Stephanopoulos asked, “Do you think Reverend Wright loves America as much as you do?”

 

After Barack Obama was elected US Senator from Illinois, one of his first political acts on the world stage was to get on a plane to Kenya and campaign for his cousin Raila Odinga in that country’s 2007 presidential election. (The photo on the left shows the POTUS with Odinga.)

Obama mounted political platforms with Odinga throughout Kenya and spoke on his cousin’s behalf. For his part, Raila Odinga promised to implement strict Islamic Sharia law within a new Constitution, if he received the Muslim vote in the predominantly Christian country. Despite Obama’s efforts, Raila Odinga did not win that election.

As a result of that loss, Odinga’s supporters followed Alinsky methods, and violent unrest broke out in the country. They shocked the civilized world when they locked Christians in a church, torched it, and allowed their victims (mostly women and children) to burn to death. The marauders killed hundreds and many Kenyans left their homes to escape the violence. Kenyan women and children as young as two were raped by gangs of thugs that hoped their savage acts would disgrace their victims' families.

There was evidence that the New Black Panther Party intimidated voters on Election Day in November, 2008. Many Americans can still remember the video of the two NBPP members, dressed in military style para uniforms outside a polling place near downtown Philadelphia.

Former civil rights lawyer Bartle Bull, who is publisher of the Village Voice, calls the NBBP intimidation in Philly "the most blatant form of voter intimidation I've ever seen." Mr. Bull happened to be there that day, along with others who witnessed the two Black Panthers intimidate voters. One of them, they say, brandished a nightstick at the entrance and pointed it at voters. They say both men made racial threats. Bull says he heard one yell: "You are about to be ruled by the black man, Cracker!" 

 During his 17 months in office, Barack Obama has morphed from an upbeat candidate into a POTUS who delivers little of value, at the expense of both our fiscal solvency and our American way of life. Even more disconcerting, Obama has become a President, who treats foreign nationals and their interests with more respect than he treats American citizens and issues directly related to the future viability of this country. We cannot forget his bow in front of the Saudi King and his embrace of Hugo Chavez.

We compare it to his offensive lack of attention to Governor Bobby Jindal’s requests for Louisiana during the current environmental disaster. His stance on illegal immigration in Arizona and his treatment of Janet Brewer is just more of the same. When he disses them, he disses those who voted for them, and by extension all the rest of us living in this democracy. The man, who touted his early Indonesian education, doesn’t seem to have an iota of respect for representative government and by extension the citizens he leads. 

Three months ago, President Obama and his White House staff treated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pretty shabbily. The once key ally was left to his own devices, while the President withdrew to have dinner in private. Obama wouldn’t even allow himself to be photographed with the Israeli Prime Minister. It was an intentional slight by the President, since we know he goes out of his way to bow to the Saudi King and embraces Hugo Chavez.

Netanyahu's treatment should have been a wake-up call to Americans that Obama would not stand with Israel as he promised in the primaries; that he would instead reach out to Islamic forces that seek to destroy the only true democracy in the Middle East. It didn't take long for it to actually haappen. Yesterday, U.S. President Barack Obama hosted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the White House to ensure him that the fallout over the Gaza flotilla would not derail peace efforts.

Who can forget candidate Barack Obama pledging during the primary debates that he would negotiate with Iran? He was ridiculed by McCain for his point of view, but when history proved Obama the victor he set out to keep his promise. Obama was supported by those he selected as his foreign policy advisors, including Zbigniew Brzezinski, Susan Rice, and Richard Danzig.

Unfortunately, Hillary Clinton bought into Obama’s “I won” mentality, kicked her own doubts to the curb, and worked to make Obama’s world view a reality. On Monday, we saw the results. The world was treated to a photo op (Left) in which Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad raised his arms with the leaders of Turkey and Brazil to celebrate a new atomic pact that made irrelevant 16 months of President Obama's "diplomacy."  The pact is nothing short of a political coup for Tehran and possibly puts an end to the West's half-hearted, mealy mouthed efforts to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb. 

Last Sunday, the Iranian government hung five political prisoners, using politically-motivated executions to intimidate and terrorize its opposition. We knew before that lashings are required for women judged as "immodest" in Iran and that death by stoning is almost a national pastime there. Now we learn that the Iranian government arrests innocent people; makes them stand trial in a kangaroo court; keeps prisoners confused about the state of their incarceration; and then hangs them in secret.

Since some people may not have seen the video of Neda bleeding to death on a Tehran street or may be somewhat confused by the UN’s decision to allow Iran a seat on its influential human rights body known as the Commission on the Status of Women, let’s put it in print. Human rights are nonexistent in Iran, because a totalitarian, misogynist, theocratic government reigns supreme there without checks or balance. The executions only underscore that point; the Iranian government is nothing but supremely malevolent.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Yesterday, we learned that the United Nations elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, which is "dedicated exclusively to gender equality and advancement of women,” thereby handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a misogynist theocratic state, where lashings are required for women judged as "immodest" and where death by stoning is almost a national pastime. According to a story by Joseph Abrahms on Iran’s election to the commission:

“Buried 2,000 words deep in a U.N. press release distributed Wednesday on the filling of vacancies in subsidiary bodies, was the stark announcement: Iran, along with representatives from 10 other nations, was elected by acclamation, meaning that no open vote was requested or required by any member states.

 

The U.S. currently holds one of the 45 seats on the body, a position set to expire in 2012. The U.S. Mission to the U.N. did not return requests for comment on whether it actively opposed elevating Iran to the women's commission.”

The UN is now officially a joke. The countries that allowed Iran to participate in the Commission on the Status of Women have shown themselves sadly lacking in both integrity and moral fiber. By their actions/ inactions, they have proven that women's rights is on the back burner of the UN agenda.

During a NBC’s Today show segment yesterday on Supreme Court Justice John Paul Steven’s retirement, Senator Orrin Hatch(R-Utah) said he's heard Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's name mentioned as a possible replacement. Hatch appeared on the show with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy when he made his remark. The Utah Republican simply said: "I heard Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's name today and that would be an interesting person in the mix."

Matt Lauer asked, “In your opinion, would she be qualified?” Hatch responded, “I have a high respect for her and think a great deal of her, but I’m not going to pre-judge that.” Hatch didn’t say he’d support a Clinton nomination, but he did say "I like Hillary Rodham Clinton." He also added that he believes she’s done a good job for Democrats.

Hillary Clinton, a Supreme Court Justice? For a short time yesterday, blogs embraced the idea. Then, Vanity Fair’s Juli Weiner had an article posted before noon about the Internet reaction. She wrote:

... [T]he Web punditry has already begun issuing pronouncements on Supreme Court Justice Clinton. Even before today’s Today rumor mongering, Slate’s Emily Bazelon wrote that “Clinton has all the makings of a full-throated, strong-minded liberal stalwart on the bench.”  The Daily Beast’s Mark McKinnon agrees: “Stripping away the drama, the politics and psychobabble, she’d be a great choice for Obama and the Democrats. She’s as smart and as qualified as any prospect her party could nominate.”  Seventy-one percent of NPR.com readers also say they would welcome a Clinton nomination.

 

On the other hand, Mediaite’s Glynnis MacNicol suggests embracing the politics and psychobabble, and is positively giddy about the potential procedural spectacle: “I’m not sure a Supreme Court confirmation hearing can ever be considered must-see TV, but a Clinton nomination might make it so.” True! It is just too bad for C-SPAN that Stevens is not retiring in time for May sweeps.

 

It has been written that Obama doesn’t like Britain, because his father and grandfather were jailed by the Brits during the 1950’s in Kenya’s Struggle for Independence. Obama shared that his grandfather was jailed for "more than six months" in his Dreams from My Father, but he provided no details about the event. Other accounts relate that his Kenyan grandfather was also tortured. Obama’s Granny Sarah (Mrs. Sarah Onyango) says her husband recounted his torture to her. She even gave details of the ordeal to reporters during Obama’s run for the presidency. Although Obama has wisely never discussed his feelings, there have been indications that Britain is not on his Favs List.

When Obama took over the Oval Office and officially called it his own, he quickly had a bust of Winston Churchill, photo right, removed. The MOFO website says it was because Churchill had a history of saying things like: “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery.”  A case can be made that It might have something to do with philosophical differences, but I think it is more likely that Churchill  has less happy memories for Obama than for Americans who celebrate his wartime leadership. It was during Churchill's second term of office that Britain suppressed Kenya's Mau Mau rebellion and allegedly tortured Hussein Onyango Obama, the President's grandfather.

 Even if Obama wins a second term, Hillary Clinton will be moving on in 2012, according to an article in this week’s Telegraph. Clinton sees herself "going back to private life...."    

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"By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled;
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard 'round the world."
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Today is the one-year anniversary of President Barack Obama’s Inauguration. Yesterday, Blue Massachusetts turned its state election into a referendum on both Democratic Party tactics and the Obama agenda.  The voters shook up the Washington establishment and sent the message loud and clear that their Senate seat belongs to the people and they can bestow it on whom they please.  
 

With all the hoopla over Mark Halperin's book Game Change in the major media, I went to read Peter Daou's account of what he saw from Hillary Clinton during the 2008 Presidential Campaign (Pacific John has an excellent article up now; go here http://alegrescorner.soapblox.... if you haven't already seen it).  Daou was a senior campaign staffer, and he's the first one to come out and say flat out that this book is wrong.  (Mind, I've seen many other denials since -- Howard Wolfson comes to mind -- from Hillary campaign staffers.  But Mr. Daou's was the first.)

But not all members of the major media have forgotten their recent history, and some of them have been quite articulate in their defense of Hillary Clinton.  The person who comes to mind, though, as having given the best defense of HRC's character to date, though, is former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough --MSNBC's "Morning Joe" himself.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Scarborough is displeased, as he says here in an article picked up by the Huffington Post:

cited for increase in female ambassadors to and from U.S. (from Washington Post):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/10/AR2010011002731.html?hpid=topnews
 

quick quote:  

"More than half of new recruits for the U.S. Foreign Service and 30 percent of the chiefs of mission are now women, according to the State Department. That is a seismic shift............"

                Did you see the excerpt of John Heilemann & Mark Halperin's Game Change?  

Here is something fun for those of you with a Twitter account. The US Department of State has announced a Twitter contest where you tweet what democracy means to you in 140 characters or less. The winner with the most retweets gets a Flip Video HD Camcorder!

More info on the Department of State's website.

The contest begins today and ends January 21st. Good luck!

Most of you have seen Matt Taibbi's Rolling Stone article by now (see it here: http://www.rollingstone.com/po... ).  But the first few paragraphs are what is endemic about the current mess, with this quote being one to which I take immediate exception:

What's taken place in the year since Obama won the presidency has turned out to be one of the most dramatic political about-faces in our history.

No. It's. Not.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fell and fractured her elbow last evening.  She will require surgery.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/18/clinton.arm/index.html

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fractured her right elbow Wednesday during a fall, State Department officials said.

Clinton fell Wednesday afternoon on her way to the White House and was taken to George Washington University Hospital. She was treated and released, and will have surgery to repair her elbow in coming weeks.

"Secretary Clinton appreciates the professionalism and kindness she received from the medical team who treated her this evening and looks forward to resuming her full schedule soon," said Cheryl Mills, a State Department spokeswoman.

See if you can spot the ObamaNation talking points scattered throughout the propaganda piece. (Don't worry, I'll help you out.)

Bill Clinton loves to shop. On a March day in an elegant crafts store in Lima, the Peruvian capital, he hunted for presents for his wife and the women on his staff back home. He had given a speech at a university earlier and just came from a ceremony kicking off a program to help impoverished Peruvians. Now he was eyeing a necklace with a green stone amulet.

Standing all by himself, the former president of the United States moved his eyes methodically across shelves of wooden carvings, jewelry and sculptures as he searched for something distinctive to bring his wife. “She used to look forward to me coming home from wherever I’ve been,” he mused with a laugh. “Now I’m afraid I’ll be second fiddle to whatever world leader she’s just met.”

Talking Point: Bill's a girl! He likes to shop! He's totally emasculated by Hillary's appointment as Secretary of State. Obama Roolz, Clinton Droolz!

The advent of a new Democratic administration, with his wife in the top cabinet slot, has opened a new chapter in the eventful life of the nation’s 42nd president. No longer in exile, yet not exactly in the inner circle, Clinton is trying to define his role and find his place in the Age of Obama. He agreed to some limits on his activities to satisfy the good-government advocates around Obama, but he is still traveling the globe, pushing his favorite philanthropic programs, collecting six-figure checks for speeches, dining with foreign leaders and in his own way speaking for America again. A couple of weeks ago, he agreed to serve as the United Nations special envoy to Haiti.

Talking Point: See? Obama has only been in office five months and already he's got an Age. An Age, I tell you! He is the most historical-est, bestest Preznit EVAH! And did Bill have a clothing line and his own TeeVee station? I don't THINK so! Obama Roolz, Bill Clinton Droolz!

SCENE ONE: The President of the United States, BARACK OBAMA, is sitting in the back of his plushly-appointed limousine. A TV screen showing constantly looping DVD's of OBAMA'S greatest speeches is strategically placed in front of his eyes. It has a calming effect on him in these days of stress and strain. OBAMA is smoking a cigarette to further relax him in preparation for the meeting he is about to attend.

LIMO DRIVER: Where to, Mr. President? We've been driving in circles for 15 minutes now.

OBAMA: Is anyone following us, Frank?

LD: Just the usual photographers and Secret Service, Mr. President.

OBAMA: Ditch the photogs, Frank. The Secret Service knows where we're going.

LD (with slowly dawning realization): Ohhhhhh. We're going THERE. (impressed and determined) Hang on, sir. I'll get you there  in no time.

From the Economist, March 26th issue

Barack Obama may at last be getting a grip. But he still needs to show more leadership, at home and abroad

HILLARY CLINTON’S most effective quip, in her long struggle with Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination last year, was that the Oval Office is no place for on-the-job training. It went to the heart of the nagging worry about the silver-tongued young senator from Illinois: that he lacked even the slightest executive experience, and that in his brief career he had never really stood up to powerful interests, whether in his home city of Chicago or in the wider world. Might Mrs Clinton have been right about her foe?

Ooh.  Jab, noogie, wedgie!  That first paragraph is only the beginning.  They give him some props for foreign policy (could that be due to Mrs. Clinton?) then go on to rake him over the coals about the economy.  This was before his victory lap through Europe.

In a post entitled "But Hillary Voted for the Warrrrrrrrr!", I detailed the absurdity of the default Obot position that Barack Obama was somehow "superior" to Hillary Clinton regarding Iraq, simply because he had given a speech in 2002 stating that he was against the invasion.

Did any of the Obots even know Hillary Clinton's plan to end the war in Iraq? Or did her scary ladyparts get in the way?

Here is the portion, found at the above link, that makes me especially sad today.

SUMMARY OF HILLARY CLINTON'S PLAN TO END THE IRAQ WAR

(Source: Hillary for President website)

It's happening - the promised awakening that resulted from the misogyny directed at both Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin during the election of 2008. Women are realizing that they are a force to be reckoned with, and that their power lies in standing strong to support other women.

Just look at Barack Obama's executive order, signed on March 11, which created a White House Council on Women and Girls. Many Presidents have had similar councils, including Presidents Clinton, Kennedy and Roosevelt. This council was not part of the President's original plans; but womens' groups have been lobbying him to make this happen for several months. And lo and behold, it did!

Today a 300lb bomb was found in a village here. I have to write about this, so forgive me please.

CBS News says New York Governor David Paterson has given Hillary Clinton's Senate seat to Kirsten Gillibrand.  This is news to celebrate!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/23/politics/main4748665.shtml?tag...

CBS also quotes a NYTimes story claiming Caroline Kennedy withdrew from consideration for Clinton's seat "because of problems involving taxes and a housekeeper that emerged during the vetting process."

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/01/22/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry...

Kennedy sources deny this, claiming her withdrawal was for more personal reasons. 

How 'bout that, folks?  There was a "vetting" process for Caroline Kennedy.  I must have missed it when I blinked.