Posted on 07/11/2006 9:04:01 AM PDT by Sam Hill
From the Columbus Dispatch:
Clinton hits popular themes at conference
By Alan Johnson
Tuesday, July 11, 2006 12:09 AM
Sen. Hillary Clinton embraces the crowd yesterday at the national ACORN convention. Clinton, considered a 2008 presidential frontrunner, stumped for a higher minimum wage and blasted Ohio vote-counting practices.
When Nov. 7 rolls around, Ohioans should "watch this election like a hawk," Sen. Hillary Clinton said at a Columbus conference yesterday.
"Don't let them pull anything over your eyes again," Clinton said, apparently referring to voting and vote-counting disputes that erupted in Ohio in the 2004 presidential election.
Clinton, a Democratic senator from New York, wife of the former president and a potential presidential candidate herself in 2008, wowed a standing-room-only crowd at the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now convention in Ohio State University's Mershon Auditorium.
Time after time, Clinton's remarks were drowned out by applause and cheers from the 2,700 members of the national organization representing low- and moderate-income families on social-justice issues.
At the end of her 17-minute speech, Clinton was besieged by autograph-seekers who thrust ACORN cap visors and programs at her to sign.
Clinton hit on a variety of hot-button issues: education, immigration and the Bush administration's initially sluggish response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster along the Gulf Coast.
"Our poor people were left to die, left to wade through water, left on rooftops waiting to be rescued." ...
Notice that Ms. Rodham chose to make this despicable (and disproved) charge in front of ACORN, probably the most rancidly corrupt scammers in the United States.
You can read about them courtesy of Discover The Networks here.
But it was stolen fair and square.
I see Hillary is starting to court the moonbats.
(Hillary Ingatus Lopez Obrador)
I have an idea. How about requiring picture identification to vote? Oh that's right, it's only required to buy beer and cigarettes.
It should be noted (as the link to DTN does) that ACORN is notorious for not paying its own employees minimum wage.
Imagine all those Democrat poll workers in all those Democrat districts stealing votes from all those Democrats.
You'll want this for your files.
Hil is as nutty as Dean , Kos, Moore and the rest of the loons. It is time for the MSM to show here flips, flops and radicalized statements. That they will not will make it endemic for all of us to write letters to the MSM and get it out in print.
Oh I bet the DUmmies are lovin' this
Any mention of her husband's non response to the Chicago heat wave that killed more than Katrina?
LOL. Go figure :)
Thanks.
How Voter Fraud in Philadelphia Affect Us All
By 2banana
According to CNN, Bush lost Pennsylvania to Kerry by 144,248 votes (out of more than 5.7 million cast - a razor thin margin that was even closer than the "too close to call" Ohio vote).
Also according to CNN, Kerry received about 542,000 votes and Bush received about 130,000 votes in Philadelphia (or a ratio of 4.16 for Kerry).
Now, for the really interesting numbers. According to the recent US Census, the Population of Philadelphia that is of voting age is 1,105,066. This number includes people who by law can not vote (non-American citizens, felons, out of state college students, etc.). In 2004, there were 1,035,395 registered voters in Philadelphia, up 34,000 from 2001.
So, what does this mean?
First, even as Philadelphia looses population, the number of registered voters continues to increase, year after year. Today, in Philadelphia, nearly 100% of every person of voting age must registered to vote (as compared to a national average of 60% by the Census Bureau). Consider, since 1995, Philadelphia's voter rolls have jumped 24 percent while at the same time that the city's population has declined by 13 percent.
Second, the total lopsidedness of the 4.16 ratio is an absolutely astounding number - even heavily democratic Broward Country, FL (one of the only places Gore wanted recounted in 2000) only went for Kerry 2:1 and Cook County, IL (Chicago - THE definition of the democrat voting machine) only went for Kerry 2.5:1.
Either Philadelphia has the most engaged and civic population in the history of the World, or there is massive voter fraud.
And the amount of fraud easily exceeds the margin of loss of President Bush. For instance, if the registration was above average and if Philadelphia was just your "average-democrat-rustbelt-city-union-stronghold with a 50 year democrat political machine," the vote for Kerry in Philadelphia would have been just over 350,000. The voter fraud in Philadelphia is worth about 150,000 votes - a deficit that any Republican running for statewide office must overcome with real votes.
But is this "real" fraud or is it one of the easily predicted "unintended consequences" of the Clinton Motor-Voter Law? A few nights before the 2004 presidential election, Chris Matthews, Howard Fineman, Andrea Mitchell and the Mayor of Philadelphia (John Street) were on Hardball. They were all laughing away about how the election was great for the economy of Philadelphia, and suggesting that there would plenty of "street money" around to "get out the vote." And these are the same people who are going to stop or report any kind of voter fraud?
I find it ironic that a country like Afghanistan (where I had combat tour of duty), with no history of democracy, has a country wide and nearly fraud free election under the oversight of us - Americans. But we instituted a few rules like - you had to prove you are an Afghan, you had to get a voter ID, show the voter ID when you voted, your name had to match the voter roll, and you had to get your thumb stamped by permanent ink so you couldn't vote twice.
Maybe, one day, in Philadelphia, we will have free and fair elections with a minimum of fraud on the level of the recent vote in Afghanistan.
So if Hillairy is looking for election fixing, why is she not in Wisconsin where democraRat office holder offspring were convicted of intefering with the the 2004 election.
Thanks for the ping, and the diet aid... now I can skip lunch, after seeing her picture.
Doesn't that gray print frill around her neck make her look amazingly like someone who wants to appear to seem feminine??? lol
Pinz
She's going to have to have some work done on that jaw line or she'll look like John Kerry soon!
This is pure pandering. I doubt that even Hillary believes this; she's just taken flak from the moonbat left and is trying to get back into their good graces.
Oh, my, is that ever a scary demonic photo. The camera caught her as she really is.
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