The Clintons: A Friend of Rev. Wright?

1. I was looking for something new and exciting; this is O-L-D news!!

TeYoJe at 7:15PM on Mar 31st 2008

2. I have noted a number of myths amongst the comments here as to why Hillary should stay in the race. Here are ten enduring, kudzu-like myths, with the debunking they sorely need.



Myth: This race is tied.



No, actually, it's not. Obama has the lead in number of states won, in pledged delegates and in overall delegates. Nothing will happen in the remaining primaries to substantially change that. As to the one thing Hillary does lead in, superdelegates, her quickly shrinking margin is among DNC personnel only. When you look at the elected superdelegates, Congressman, Senators and Governors (i.e. people who actually work with both Obama and Clinton) Obama leads there, too.



Myth: Okay, the popular vote is tied.



There are people who claim that because of the 3% separation, that Obama's lead in the popular vote is a "statistical tie." This is a myth because, when you can actually count things, there's no need of statistics and no such thing as a margin of error. The popular vote is not an estimate based on a sampling, like a poll. Like the general election, there are winners and losers and, so far, Obama is the winner.



Myth: Fine, but what if we count electoral votes? NOW Hillary is ahead!



Not so much. The proportions of electoral votes to population versus delegates to population are pretty comparable. So if you allocated electors proportionally in the same manner that you allocate delegates, Obama is still ahead. If you allocate them on a winner-take-all basis, then that would be the same as allocating the delegates on a winner-take-all basis, so why bring electors into it?



Myth: But if we did do it like the Electoral College, that proves Hillary is more electable than Obama, because of states like California.



This is perhaps the saddest little myth of all. It's ridiculous to suggest that Obama will lose New York and California to McCain because Clinton won them in the primaries. No, come November, those states will join with Obama's Illinois to provide 40% of the electors necessary for him to win.



Myth: Very well, then, Mr. Smarty-Math. But if we counted Michigan and Florida, THEN Hillary would be winning!



Nooo, she wouldn't. The margin would depend on how you allocate the delegates, but Obama would still be ahead. And he'd still be about 100,000 ahead in the popular vote, too, despite not even being on the ballot in Michigan. However, it would enhance Hillary's chances of catching up in the remaining races.



Myth: Ah HA! So Dean is keeping them out just to help Obama! And Obama is keeping them out.



That's two myths, but I'll treat it like one. The only people who can come up with a solution to this problem are the states themselves, to be presented to the Rules and Regulations Committee of the DNC for ratification. It was Rules and Regs, not Howard Dean, who ruled that Florida and Michigan were breaking the rules when they presented their original primary plans. If the two states cannot come up with a plan to reselect delegates, they can try to seat whatever delegates were chosen in the discounted primaries by appealing to the Democratic Convention's Credentialing Committee, which includes many members from Rules and Bylaws.



Myth: If they don't get seated until the convention but a nominee is selected before these poor people get counted then these states are disenfranchised.



There are two ways to debunk this myth: semantically and practically. The first is based on the word "disenfranchised:" these people have not been deprived of their right to vote. Through the actions of their states, their votes don't impact the outcome. Now, you may say that that is specious semantics (Myth: I do say that!) but practically speaking, this is the usual effect of the nominating process, anyway. All of the Republican primaries since McCain clinched the nomination have been meaningless, but those voters are not disenfranchised.



Florida and Michigan tried to become more relevant in the process by breaking the rules. They risked becoming irrelevant instead.



Myth: Well, I say they are disenfranchised, and Hillary Clinton is their champion.



Only when it suits her. Last fall, when the decision was first made to flush 100% of Michigan and Florida delegates, Clinton firmly ratified it. That was because the typical punishment of only 50% representation also kept the candidates from raising money in those states. Figuring that she would wrap up the nomination handily anyway, the clear front-runner agreed with all the other candidates - including Obama - to completely "disenfranchise" those two states.



Myth: Well, never mind 2007. She's doing more now to bring them in.



Not really. Recent stories in the St. Petersburg Times political blog said that 1) the Obama camp has reached out to the Florida Democratic party about a compromise and that 2) the Clinton camp will discuss nothing else but re-votes, which are legally, practically and politically dead.



Myth: Whatever! Hillary can still win! I know she can! She and her 37% positive rating will sweep through the remaining primaries and Michigan and Florida, winning 70% of everything and superdelegates will flock to her banner and Barack Obama will personally nominate her at the Convention and John McCain will give up and George Bush will even quit early so she can take over and... and... and... can I have a glass of water?



Yes, and you should lie down, too.

Martha Davidson at 7:15PM on Mar 31st 2008

3. This Wright guy is like the P Diddy of ministry. He's such an opportunist it ain't even funny.

Charden at 7:44PM on Mar 31st 2008

4. Obama will be our PRESIDENT!!!
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Natalia at 8:16PM on Mar 31st 2008

5. This comment is for Charden #3.
You said;

"This Wright guy is like the P Diddy of ministry. He's such an opportunist it ain't even funny".

Hey Mr. WRONG GUY", why don't you show "RESPECT"! The name is Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.! You are so IGNORANT and not FUNNY! Don't be mad because the TRUTH is right THERE IN FRONT YOUR @@! I'm sure there will be more things coming out of "CLINTON'S ClOSET"!

This is a good time, to share with the media and put the CLINTONS in their place! It's a shame, we don't hear too much about the so-called war "Hillary" was supposed to have been in? That is probably why, Hillary didn't want to make that comment about Rev Wright when the question was first asked to her at the beginning? She probably thought, "Hell, I am loosing and by me making a comment people will forget this whole "Bosnia Mistake"? NOT! You can't fool us "Hillary" and "Bill"!

Hillary, "DO US ALL A FAVOR AND STEP DOWN"!

It just goes to show you what the CLINTONS are MADE of! A BUNCH OF LIES!

"OBAMA 2008"

Ms. Unique at 9:21PM on Mar 31st 2008

6. The same thing happened when she put Barack on blast about his association with the Slum Lord Antoin "Tony'' Rezko. First she put him down for doing business with him and then a picture surfaces of the two of them having dinner.
http://www.blacknews4us.com/

Jarobie Anderson at 9:50PM on Mar 31st 2008

7. The Clinton's are liers and they know it!

Pay attention at 12:56AM on Apr 1st 2008

8. Rev King died for change. Our world has fallen apart because we will not unite. You alwaya hear if you don't vote don't complain, so when we do vote it still doesn't count if our president can be chosen by stuffed collars and elected officials. The trend has been Bush/Bush/Clinton/Bush, and look where we are, so why do we want more of the same. Hillary and Obama are both good candidates and I am proud to be apart of this process, but let's be fair, if we don't be fair then the Republicians will win again. So when we vote let our vote count!

Barbara at 7:54AM on Apr 1st 2008

9. Subject: A Black Columnist on Barak Obama
> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:33:51 -0700
>
> A point of view by one man.You decide!!
> >>
> >> This one can't be proven false or true as it is one man's
> >> opinion and the man is Ken Blackwell, a columnist for the New York Sun.
> >> He
> >> is also black which doesn't really shouldn't make a difference...
> >>
> >> It's an amazing time to be alive in America. We're in a
> >> year of firsts in this presidential election: the first viable woman
> >> candidate; the first viable African-American candidate; and, a candidate
> >> who
> >> is the first frontrunning freedom fighter over 70. The next president of
> >> America will be a first.
> >> We won't truly be in an election of firsts, however, until
> >> we judge every candidate by where they stand. We won't arrive where we
> >> should be until we no longer talk about skin color or gender. Now that
> >> Barack Obama steps to the front of the Democratic field, we need to stop
> >> talking about his race, and start talking about his policies and his
> >> politics.
> >> The reality is this: Though the Democrats will not have a
> >> nomin ee until August, unless Hillary Clinton drops out, Mr. Obama is
> >> now
> >> the frontrunner, and its time America takes a closer and deeper look at
> >> him.
> >> Some pundits are calling him the next John F. Kennedy.
> >> He's
> >> not. He's the next George McGovern. And it's time people learned the
> >> facts.
> >> Because the truth is, Mr. Obama is the single most liberal
> >> senator in the entire U.S. Senate. He is more liberal than Ted Kennedy,
> >> Bernie Sanders, or Mrs. Clinton. Never in my life have I seen a
> >> presidential frontrunner whose rhetoric is so far removed from his
> >> record.
> >> Walter Mondale promised to raise our taxes, and he lost. George McGovern
> >> promised military weakness, and he lost. Michael Dukakis promised a
> >> liberal
> >> domestic agenda, and he lost.
> >> Yet Mr. Obama is promising all those things, and he's not
> >> behind in the polls. Why? Because the press has dealt with him as if he
> >> were in a beauty pageant. Mr. Obama talks about getting past party,
> >> getting past red and blue, to lead the United States of America. But
> >> let's
> >> look at the more defined strokes of who he is underneath this
> >> superficial
> >> 'beauty.'
> >> Start with national security, since the president's most
> >> important duties are as commander-in-chief. Over the summer, Mr. Obama
> >> talked about invading Pakistan, a nation armed with nuclear weapons;
> >> meeting
> >> without preconditions with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who vows to destroy
> >> Israel
> >> and create another Holocaust; and Kim Jong II, who is murdering and
> >> starving
> >> his people, but emphasized that the nuclear option was off the table
> >> against
> >> terrorists - something no president has ever taken off the table since we
> >> created nuclear weapons in the 1940s.
> >> Even Democrats who have worked in national security
> >> condemned all of those remarks. Mr. Obama is a foreign-policy novice who
> >> would put our national security at risk.
> >> Next, consider economic policy. For all its faults, our
> >> health care system is the strongest in the world. And free trade
> >> agreements, created by Bill Clinton as well as President Bush, have made
> >> more goods more affordable so that even people of modest means can live
> >> a
> >> life that no one imagined a generation ago. Yet Mr. Obama promises to
> >> raise
> >> taxes on 'the rich.' How to fix Social Security? Raise taxes. How to fix
> >> Medicare? Raise taxe s. Prescription drugs? Raise taxes. Free college?
> >> Raise taxes. Socialize medicine? Raise taxes. His solution to everything
> >> is
> >> to have government take it over. Big Brother on steroids, funded by your
> >> paycheck.
> >> Finally, look at the social issues. Mr. Obama had the
> >> audacity to open a stadium rally by saying, 'All praise and glory to
> >> God!'
> >> but says that Christian leaders speaking for life and marriage have
> >> 'hijacked' - hijacked - Christianity. He is pro-partial birth abortion,
> >> and
> >> promises to appoint Supreme Court justices who will rule any restriction
> >> on
> >> it unconstitutional. He espouses the abortion vie ws of Margaret Sanger,
> >> one
> >> of the early advocates of racial cleansing. His spiritual leaders
> >> endorse
> >> homosexual marriage, and he is moving in that direction. In Illinois, he
> >> refused to vote against a statewide ban - ban - on all handguns in the
> >> state. These are radical left, Hollywood, and San
> >> Francisco values, not Middle America values.
> >> The real Mr. Obama is an easy target for the general
> >> election. Mrs. Clinton is a far tougher opponent. But Mr. Obama could win
> >> if
> >> people don't start looking behind his veneer and flowery speeches. His
> >> vision of 'bringing America together' means saying that those who
> >> disagree
> >> with his agenda for America are hijackers or warmongers. Uniting the
> >> country
> >> means adopting his liberal agenda and abandoning any conflicting
> >> beliefs.
> >> < /P>
> >> But right now everyone is talking about how eloquent of a
> >> speaker he is and - yes - they're talking about his race. Those should
> >> never
> >> be the factors on which we base our choice for president. Mr. Obama's
> >> radical agenda sets him far outside the American mainstream, to the left
> >> of
> >> Mrs. Clinton.
> >> It's time to talk about the real Barack Obama. In an
> >> election of firsts, let's first make sure we elect the person who is
> >> qualified to be our president in a nuclear age during a global
> >> civilizational war.
> >> According to The Book of Revelations the anti-christ is:
> >> The anti-christ will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM descent,
> >> who will deceive the nations with persuasive language, and have a MASSIVE
> >> Christ-like appeal....the prophecy says that people will flock to him and
> >> he
> >> will promise false hope and world peace, and when he is in power, will
> >> destroy everything. Is it OBAMA??
> >> I STRONGLY URGE each one of you to repost this as many
> >> times
> >> as you can! Each opportunity that you have to send it to a friend or
> >> media
> >> outlet ... do it!
> >> If you think I am crazy. I'm sorry but I refuse to take a
> >> chance on the 'unknown' candidate.
> >>
> >>
>
>
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ROSE MARY at 9:51AM on Apr 1st 2008

10. rose mary you are the biggest fool. go to God and repent and ask forgiveness.

may at 6:11PM on Apr 1st 2008

11. ROSMARY, YA BETTER CUT THE CRAP OUT NOW! AIN'T NOBODY FEELIN YOUR STUPID FALS FACTS ON HERE!!

YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS, "OBAMA TIME"!!!
YOU BETTER RECOGNIZE!!!!!!!!

"OBAMA 2008"

YOU BETTER RECOGNIZE! at 7:50PM on Apr 1st 2008

12. This is to #9Barbara: You should stop speaking out of both sides of your mouth like Hillary and Bill Clinton. I will take the Unknown over the Known Clinton liars anyday!


THE CLINTON HEALTH PLAN FIASCO

TONY SNOW, 1999: In 1994, [HRC] set out to redesign the American health-care system and convened a panel that drafted its plan secretly -- in violation of federal law . . . The plan prescribed some eye- popping maximum fines: $5,000 for refusing to join the government- mandated health plan; $5,000 for failing to pay premiums on time; 15 years to doctors who received "anything of value" in exchange for helping patients short-circuit the bureaucracy; $10,000 a day for faulty physician paperwork; $50,000 for unauthorized patient treatment; and $100,000 a day for drug companies that messed up federal filings . . . When told the plan could bankrupt small businesses, Mrs. Clinton sighed, "I can't be responsible for every undercapitalized small business in America." When a woman complained that she didn't want to get shoved into a plan not of her choosing, the first lady lectured, "It's time to put the common good, the national interest, ahead of individuals." As for privacy, forget it: Her plan would have required people to carry national identification cards that embedded confidential patient information on computer chips.

SAM SMITH, SHADOWS OF HOPE, 1994 - During the first months of the Clinton administration, one of the biggest national policy changes of the past fifty years was being forged by a secret committee led by Mrs. Clinton under procedures that periodically defied the courts and the Government Accounting Office and whose public manifestations consisted of highly contrived media opportunities, carefully staged "town meetings," and similar artifices.

Despite the contrary evidence of public opinion polls, the concept of Canadian-style single-payer insurance was dismissed early. Tom Hamburger and Ted Marmor in the Washington Monthly tell of a single-payer proponent being invited to the White House in February 1993. It was, he said, a "pseudo-consultation;" the doctor was quickly informed that "single payer is not politically feasible." When Dr. David Himmelstein of the Harvard Medical School pressed Mrs. Clinton on single payer, she replied, "Tell me something interesting, David."

In other words, write Hamburger and Marmor: "Fewer than six weeks into the Clinton presidency, the White House had made its key policy decision: Before the Health Care Task Force wrote a single page of its 22-volume report to the President, the single payer idea was written off, and 'managed competition' was in."

If there was any popular, grassroots demand for "managed competition" it never appeared. Managed competition had not been tested anywhere. Nonetheless, reported Thomas Bodenehimer in Nation:

"Around Hillary Rodham Clinton's health reform table sit the managed-competition winners: big business, hospitals, large (but not small) commercial insurers, the Blues, budget-worried government leaders and the 'Jackson Hole Group,' the chief intellectual honchos of the managed competition movement. . . Adherence to the mantra of managed competition appears to be the price of a ticket of admission to this gathering. "

What was finally proposed involved a massive transfer of the American health industry -- by some accounts now larger than the military-industrial complex -- to a small number of the largest insurance companies and other major corporations. These were companies that had the assets to play the game being offered -- a medical oligopoly that would dispense health-care under the rules of the Fortune 500 rather than according to those of Hipprocrates.

Clinton's position on health care had bounced around in the early months of the campaign, finally settling on a policy that would leave the big health insurers largely unscathed. It was not particularly surprising. Max Brantley, columnist for the Arkansas Times, noted that "Blue Cross owns Arkansas, and [Clinton] never did much to fight them."

The stakes would eventually become so high that a number of the biggest insurers -- including CIGNA, Aetna and Metropolitan Life -- would leave the industry-wide Health Insurance Association of America. Five of the largest insurance companies formed something called the Alliance for Managed Competition. In this new game one of the first targets of 'managed competition' was the smaller insurance companies that now account for nearly half of the health underwriting business. Said managed competition advocate Lynn Etheridge, "Ninety-nine percent of the insurance companies are going to be wiped out because they're only prepared to be insurance companies." Mrs. Clinton, sounding like a 1980s takeover lawyer, said, "It's going to be a Darwinian struggle. Only the best and fittest of them will survive." Similarly, when asked how small businesses were meant to cope with the added costs of her plan, Mrs. Clinton replied, "I can't go out and save every undercapitalized entrepreneur in America."

Her interest lay with the largest companies, i.e. the ones with the ability to purchase or create the health maintenance organizations that would become de rigeur under the Clinton scheme. The new HMOs would be major profit-centers for companies, simultaneously subsidized by federal payments for the ailments of the poor, elderly and those without conventional insurance.

THE WATERGATE INVESTIGATION

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW 1999 - Jerry Zeifman was the Democrats' general counsel chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate investigation. In an article for the Wall Street Journal he reviews HRC's performance as a staff member:

-- She violated House and committee rules by disclosing confidential information to unauthorized persons.

-- A number of the legal procedures she recommended were ethically flawed

-- In one written legal memorandum, she advocated denying President Nixon representation by counsel.

-- She proposed that the committee should neither 1) hold any hearings with or take the depositions of any live witnesses, nor 2) conduct any original investigation of Watergate, bribery, tax evasion, or any other possible impeachable offense of President Nixon. Instead, the committee should rely on prior investigations conducted by other committees and agencies.

-- She advocated that the official rules of the House be amended to deny members of the committee the right to question witnesses.

-- Zeifman decided that he could not recommend her for any position of public or private trust.




THE PHOTOS




There's been a lot of talk about photos of Jack Abramoff and George Bush, but Hillary Clinton has her own photo problems. For example, there's the photo of Bill and her standing next to illegal fundraiser Johnny Chung signed by HRC, "To Johnny Chung with best wishes and appreciation." Chung reportedly funneled several hundred thousand dollas from Chinese military intelligence to Bill Clinton's 1996 campaign. As Chung put it once, "I see the White House is like a subway -- you have to put in coins to open the gates." He was talking about the $50,000 he gave Hillary Clinton's top aide while seeking VIP treatment at the White House



And then there's Jorge Cabrera - the drug dealer who gave enough to the Democrats to have his picture taken with both Hillary Clinton and Al Gore. In a 1997 story, Don Van Natta Jr. of the NY Times reported, "Jorge Cabrera, a drug smuggler who has emerged as one of the most notorious supporters of President Clinton's re-election campaign, was asked for a campaign contribution in the unlikely locale of a hotel in Havana by a prominent Democratic fund-raiser, congressional investigators have learned. . . On his return to the United States several days after that meeting, in November 1995, Cabrera wrote a check for $20,000 to the Democratic National Committee from an account that included the proceeds from smuggling cocaine from Colombia to the United States, said the investigators, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

"Within two weeks of the contribution, Cabrera met Gore at the dinner in Miami. Ten days later, Cabrera attended a Christmas reception at the White House hosted by Hillary Rodham Clinton. At the events, Gore and Mrs. Clinton posed for photographs with Cabrera, who has two felony convictions dating from the 1980s and is now in a prison here on a drug-smuggling conviction. . .

"A Cuban-born American, Cabrera was arrested two times on serious drug charges in the 1980s. Both times he pleaded guilty to nondrug felony charges. In 1983, he pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for conspiring to bribe a grand jury witness and served 42 months in prison. In 1988, he pleaded guilty to filing a false income-tax return and served one year in prison. After his brief brush with presidential politics, Cabrera was arrested in January 1996 inside a cigar warehouse near here in Dade County, where more than 500 pounds of cocaine had been hidden. He and several accomplices were charged with having smuggled 3,000 pounds of cocaine into the United States through the Keys. . . In January, Cabrera received an invitation to Clinton's inauguration.

THE BILLING RECORDS

1996 - Hillary Clinton's Rose law firm billing records, sought for two years by congressional investigators and the special prosecutor are found in the back room of the personal residence at the White House. Clinton say she has no idea how they got there.

THE JOHN HUANG CONNECTION

In 1994 John Huang quits the Lippo Group -- with a golden parachute of around $800,000 -- and goes to work for the Commerce Department. Some believe the move is instigated by his friend, Hillary Clinton. The Indonesia-based Lippo Group was headed by Mochtar Riady, a central character in the Clinton scandals.

Commerce Secretary Ron Brown ordered a top secret clearance for Huang. While at Commerce, Huang visits the White House about 70 times, is briefed 37 times by the CIA, views about 500 intelligence reports, and makes 281 calls to Lippo banks. In 1999 Huang was sentenced for campaign finance violations.

Also in 1994, Webster Hubbell is convicted of tax evasion and mail fraud involving the theft of nearly a half million dollars from his partners at the Rose firm and failing to pay nearly $150,000 in taxes. After quitting the Justice Department and before going to jail, Hubbell is a busy man. He meets with Hillary Clinton, and follows up by getting together with major scandal figures John Huang, James Riady, and Ng Lapseng. Riady and Huang go to the White House every day from June 21 to June 25, 1994 according to White House records. Hubbell had breakfast and lunch with Riady on June 23. Four days later -- and one week after Hubbell's meeting with Hillary -- the Hong Kong Chinese Bank, jointly owed by Lippo and the Chinese intelligence services, sends $100,000 to Hubbell.

BETTYEJ at 11:46PM on Apr 1st 2008

13. FIRST FIRST LADY to come under criminal investigation

FIRST FIRST LADY to almost be indicted acccording to one of the special prosecutors

NUMBER of Hillary Clinton fundraisers convicted of, or pleading no contest to, crime: 5

NUMBER OF TIMES that Hillary Clinton, providing testimony to Congress, said that she didn't remember, didn't know, or something similar: 250

NUMBER OF CLOSE BUSINESS partners of Hillary Clinton who ended up in prison: 3. The Clintons' two partners in Whitewater wereconvicted of 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy. Hillary Clinton's partner and mentor at the Rose law firm, Webster Hubbell, pleaded guilty to federal mail fraud and tax evasion charges, including defrauding former clients and former partners out of more than $480,000. Hillary Clinton was mentioned 35 times in the indictment.

IN THE 1980s, Hillary Clinton made a $44,000 profit on a $2,000 investment in a cellular phone franchise deal took advantage of the FCC's preference for locals, minorities and women. The franchise was almost immediately flipped to the cellular giant, McCaw.

HILLARY CLINTON AND HER HUSBAND set up a resort land scam known as Whitewater in which the unwitting bought third rate property 50 miles from the nearest grocery store and, thanks to the sleazy financing, about half the purchasers, many of them seniors, lost their property.

IN 1993 HILLARY CLINTON and David Watkins moved to oust the White House travel office in favor of World Wide Travel, Clinton's source of $1 million in fly-now-pay-later campaign trips that essentially financed the last stages of the campaign without the bother of reporting a de facto contribution. The White House fired seven long-term employees for alleged mismanagement and kickbacks. The director, Billy Dale, charged with embezzlement, was acquitted in less than two hours by the jury.

HRC'S 1994 HEALTH CARE PLAN, according to one account, included fines of up to $5,000 for refusing to join the government-mandated health plan, $5,000 for failing to pay premiums on time, 15 years to doctors who received "anything of value" in exchange for helping patients short-circuit the bureaucracy, $10,000 a day for faulty physician paperwork, $50,000 for unauthorized patient treatment, and $100,000 a day for drug companies that messed up federal filings.

TWO MONTHS after commencing the Whitewater scheme, Hillary Clinton invested $1,000 in cattle futures. Within a few days she had a $5,000 profit. Before bailing out she earns nearly $100,000 on her investment. Many years later, several economists will calculate that the chances of earning such returns legally were one in 250 million.

IN 1996, Hillary Clinton's Rose law firm billing records, sought for two years by congressional investigators and the special prosecutor were found in the back room of the personal residence at the White House. Clinton said she had no idea how they got there.

DRUG DEALER Jorge Cabrera gave enough to the Democrats to have his picture taken with both Hillary Clinton and Al Gore. . . Cabrera was arrested in January 1996 inside a cigar warehouse near here in Dade County, where more than 500 pounds of cocaine had been hidden. He and several accomplices were charged with having smuggled 3,000 pounds of cocaine into the United States through the Keys

In 2000, Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign returned $22,000 in soft money to a businesswoman linked to a Democratic campaign contribution from a drug smuggler in Havana.

IN AUGUST 2000, Hillary Clinton held a huge Hollywood fundraiser for her Senate campaign. It was very successful. The only problem was that, by a long shot, she didn't report all the money contributed: $800K by the US government's ultimate count in a settlement and $2 million according to the key contributor and convicted con Peter Paul. This is, in election law, the moral equivalent of not reporting a similar amount on your income tax. It is a form of fraud. Hillary Clinton's defense is that she didn't know about it

HILLARY CLINTON'S participation in a Whitewater related land deal became suspicious enough to trigger an investigation by the Arkansas Supreme Court.

IN 2007, A Pakistani immigrant who hosted fundraisers for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton became a target of the FBI allegations that he funneled illegal contributions to Clinton's political action committee and to Sen. Barbara Boxer's 2004 re-election campaign. Authorities say Northridge, Calif., businessman Abdul Rehman Jinnah, 56, fled the country shortly after being indicted on charges of engineering more than $50,000 in illegal donations to the Democratic committees.

HILLARY CLINTON SUPPORTED the appointment of Rudy Giuliani's buddy, Bernie Kerick, to be Secretary of Homeland Security,. Kerick subsecquently withdrew and not long after was indicted.

AP - Democrat John Edwards said the top strategist for presidential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton [Mark Penn] has ties to the controversial Blackwater security firm, and warned against installing "a group of corporate Democrats" to replace the Bush White House. Edwards suggested similarities between Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, and the Republican president. Penn, Clinton's pollster and senior strategist, is the worldwide president of Burson-Marsteller, a public relations firm. A subsidiary, BKSH, helped prepare Blackwater founder Erik Prince for a contentious congressional hearing this week, but Burson-Marsteller says the relationship has ended. Clinton's spokesman, Howard Wolfson, said Penn had done no work on the Blackwater account.

KATHRYN JOYCE AND JEFF SHARLET, MOTHER JONES - Through all of her years in Washington, Clinton has been an active participant in conservative Bible study and prayer circles that are part of a secretive Capitol Hill group known as the Fellowship. Her collaborations with right-wingers such as Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and former Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) grow in part from that connection. . . Clinton's prayer group was part of the Fellowship (or "the Family"), a network of sex-segregated cells of political, business, and military leaders dedicated to "spiritual war" on behalf of Christ. . . [the leader's] friends include former Attorney General John Ashcroft, Reaganite Edwin Meese III, and ultraconservative Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.). The Fellowship's God-led men have also included General Suharto of Indonesia; Honduran general and death squad organizer Gustavo Alvarez Martinez; a Deutsche Bank official disgraced by financial ties to Hitler; and dictator Siad Barre of Somalia, plus a list of other generals and dictators. Clinton, says Schenck, has become a regular visitor to Coe's Arlington, Virginia, headquarters, a former convent where Coe provides members of Congress with sex-segregated housing and spiritual guidance.

JOSHUA GREEN, THE ATLANTIC, 2006 - Clinton's proficiency in this innermost sanctum has unnerved some of the capital's most exalted religious conservatives. "You're not talking about some tree-hugging, Jesus-is-my-Buddha sort of stuff," says David Kuo, a former Bush official in the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, who worked with Clinton to promote joint legislation and who, like Brownback, has apologized to her for past misdeeds. "These are powerful evangelicals she's meeting with."

MICKEY KAUS - On page 93 of the new Gerth-Van Natta Hillary Clinton book, a sentence describes how, during the '92 campaign, Hillary herself "listened to a secretly recorded audiotape of a phone conversation of Clinton critics plotting their next attack. The tape contained discussions of another woman who might surface with allegations about an affair with Bill. Bill's supporters monitored frequencies used by cell phones, and the tape was made during one of those monitoring sessions."

SUN SENTINEL, FL - U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, of Weston, and Alcee Hastings, of Miramar, were appointed national campaign co-chairs on Thursday for U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's Democratic presidential effort. "We need a leader with a clear vision and sound judgment, who can work with a Democratic Congress to renew the promise of America. Hillary is that leader," Wasserman Schultz said in a statement. . . WIKIPEDIA - In 1981 Judge Hastings was charged with accepting a $150,000 bribe in exchange for a lenient sentence and a return of seized assets for 21 counts of racketeering by Frank and Thomas Romano, and of perjury in his testimony about the case. He was acquitted by a jury after his alleged co-conspirator, William Borders, refused to testify in court (resulting in a jail sentence for Borders).

CNS - A videotape shows New York Sen. Hillary Clinton. . . should be admitted as new evidence in a California civil case, a forthcoming legal brief to be filed by argues. The tape shows Clinton speaking in 2000 with Peter Paul, a Hollywood mogul, and comic book icon Stan Lee about a massive fundraising event for her 2000 Senate race. Paul spent about $2 million of his own money to produce the event. The legal contribution limit to a candidate then was $2,000. . . A portion of the videotape captures the closing words of a lengthy conversation in which Paul was present. The voice of Hillary Clinton is heard telling Lee that Paul and her chief campaign aide "talk all the time, so she'll be the person to convey whatever I need." She is then heard adding, "I wanted to call and personally thank all of you ... [and] tell you how much this means to me. It's going to mean a lot to the president, too." Clinton and her supporters have maintained that she had no direct knowledge that the event violated campaign finance rules. In a written declaration for the California court filed on April 7, 2006, the senator said only that she didn't remember discussions with Paul about the fundraiser.

DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN, NEWSMAX - Since he left office in 2001, former president Bill Clinton has been paid by $3.3 million by Info USA, an Omaha, Nebraska company that has been identified as a key provider of specially designed databases that have been sold to criminals who use the detailed information to defraud the unsuspecting elderly. . . According to the New York Times, Info USA compiled and sold lists that disclosed the names of elderly men and women who would be likely to respond to unscrupulous scams. The lists left no doubt about the vulnerability of the elderly targets. The Times reported, for example, that Info USA advertised lists of "Elderly Opportunity Seekers," 3.3 million older people "looking for ways to make money," and "Suffering Seniors," 4.7 million people with cancer or Alzheimer's disease. "Oldies but Goodies" contained 500,000 gamblers over 55 years old, for 8.5 cents

MIKE McINTIRE, NY TIMES - When former President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton took a family vacation in January 2002 to Acapulco, Mexico, one of their longtime supporters, Vinod Gupta, provided his company's private jet to fly them there. The company, Info USA, one of the nation's largest brokers of information on consumers, paid $146,866 to ferry the Clintons, Mr. Gupta and others to Acapulco and back, court records show. During the next four years, Info USA paid Mr. Clinton more than $2 million for consulting services, and spent almost $900,000 to fly him around the world for his presidential foundation work and to fly Mrs. Clinton to campaign events. Those expenses are cited in a lawsuit filed late last year in a Delaware court by angry shareholders of Info USA, who assert that Mr. Gupta wasted the company's money trying "to ingratiate himself" with his high-profile guests"t

SAM SMITH, 'SHADOWS OF HOPE,' 1994 - During the first months of the Clinton administration, one of the biggest national policy changes of the past fifty years was being forged by a secret committee led by Mrs. Clinton under procedures that periodically defied the courts and the Government Accounting Office . . , Despite the contrary evidence of public opinion polls, the concept of Canadian-style single-payer insurance was dismissed early. Tom Hamburger and Ted Marmor in the Washington Monthly tell of a single-payer proponent being invited to the White House in February 1993. It was, he said, a "pseudo-consultation;" the doctor was quickly informed that "single payer is not politically feasible." When Dr. David Himmelstein of the Harvard Medical School pressed Mrs. Clinton on single payer, she replied, "Tell me something interesting, David." In other words, write Hamburger and Marmor: "Fewer than six weeks into the Clinton presidency, the White House had made its key policy decision: Before the Health Care Task Force wrote a single page of its 22-volume report to the President, the single payer idea was written off, and "managed competition" was in.". . . Reported Thomas Bodenehimer in Nation: "Around Hillary Rodham Clinton's health reform table sit the managed-competition winners: big business, hospitals, large (but not small) commercial insurers, the Blues, budget-worried government leaders and the 'Jackson Hole Group,' the chief intellectual honchos of the managed competition movement. . . Adherence to the mantra of managed competition appears to be the price of a ticket of admission to this gathering. "

BETTYEJ at 11:50PM on Apr 1st 2008

14. From: Blacks 4 Barack

WOW ! Hillary's Religion
'THE FAMILY' Very Scary !
Steven G. Brant

Say Hillary, What About The Religious "Family"
You Have Chosen To Be Part Of ?

"You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend." said Hillary Clinton, to reporters and editors of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on Tuesday the 25th.
This is an interesting choice of words, since -- while we mostly hear about her Methodist upbringing -- Hillary Clinton has chosen to associate herself with The Family (also known as the Fellowship), a very conservative, fundamentalist organization started by Abraham Vereide...
"...an immigrant preacher who in 1935 organized a small group of businessmen sympathetic to European fascism, fusing the Far Right with his own polite but authoritarian faith. From that core, Vereide built an international network of fundamentalists who spoke the language of establishment power, a "family" that thrives to this day. In public, they host prayer breakfasts; in private they preach a gospel of "biblical capitalism," military might, and American empire. Citing Hitler, Lenin, and Mao, Doug Coe, the Family's current leader, declares, "We work with power where we can, build new power where we can't."

This quote is taken from the book on The Family by the same name which will be published in May... a book which claims to
"...dramatically challenge conventional wisdom about American fundamentalism, revealing its crucial role in the unraveling of the New Deal, the waging of the Cold War, and the no-holds-barred economics of globalization. The question Sharlet believes we must ask is not "What do fundamentalists want?" but "What have they already done?"
A long article was written about Hillary Clinton's participation in this organization last September in Mother Jones, and The Family, itself, was the subject of an extensive article in Harper's in March of 2003. And on March 21st, The Nation published an article on Hillary and The Family by Barbara Ehrenreich that was published on The Huffington Post and CBS News' web site.



The Family avoids the word Christian but worships Jesus, though not the Jesus who promised the earth to the "meek." They believe that, in mass societies, it's only the elites who matter, the political leaders who can build God's "dominion" on earth. Insofar as The Family has a consistent philosophy, it's all about power - cultivating it, building it and networking it together into ever-stronger units, or "cells."...wrote Ms.Ehrenreich.



Is it possible that Hillary's participation in this fundamentalist group -- which apparently preaches the "gospel of military might" -- would help explain her vote in favor of authorizing President Bush to attack Iraq? Is it possible her pro-NAFTA stance during her husband's administration comes from its embrace of "the no-holds-barred economics of globalization"? Is it possible that the sense some get that Hillary feels entitled to be president comes in part from this group's belief that "it's only the elites who matter"?



I encourage any reporter covering Hillary's campaign to ask her about all this.
At a time when so many people are wondering what sort of effect the Rev. Wright's sermons may have had on Barack Obama, I think it's only fair to ask what sort of effect The Family's fundamentalist mission has had - and continues to have - on Hillary Clinton. We know that
George Bush engages in truly fundamentalist thinking. There is no person or new information capable of challenging his belief that what he already knows is right. Is Hillary Clinton like this in some way? I am not sure.

But the opinion I have formed from this is that - while Hillary Clinton may be considered a Liberal by many - on the inside she is a deeply Conservative person... possibly as close to being a Republican today as she was when she was a young woman supporting Senator Goldwater. This helps explain, to me, why she and John McCain are such good friends. They are both drawn to the use of military power and free market capitalism... and to taking money from lobbyists. The other opinion I have formed is that those who say there are no policy differences between Hillary and Barack haven't taken into account how their religious differences might impact the policies they would actually seek to implement as president. WHY ISN'T THE MEDIA EXPOSING HILLARY'S 'RELIGION' ?


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Greg Jones at 9:00AM on Apr 2nd 2008

15.
"I voted for it, but I hoped it didn’t pass".

"I did NOT have sexual relations with that woman".

"I smoked it but I did NOT inhale".

"He's winning because he is Black".

“ I REMEMBER running from the plane under Sniper Fire.”

“ I NEVER received money from Peter Paul”.

Search YouTube for: “The Shocking Video That Hillary Doesn’t Want You To See”.

Also:
Judge to Hillary’s Ex-Pastor….”You Lied”
http://www.uticaod.com/homepage/x1637676857
Indicted for child molestation.

!!!!!!!!!! WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH OLD POLITICS IN THE WHITE HOUSE !!!!!!!!!

Obama wins Texas at 9:54AM on Apr 2nd 2008