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[Harold] Ickes is Clinton's not-so-secret weapon
LA Times ^
| March 31, 2008
| Peter Nicholas
Posted on 04/01/2008 6:47:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Harold M. Ickes never forgets a favor, especially if he's the one who did the favor. So the veteran political operative made sure that, when the time was right, he alone would call Garry Shay, former chairman of the Los Angeles County Democratic Party... And once Ickes started calling, he didn't stop until Shay said the words Ickes wanted to hear -- that he would support Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York at the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August... the man in charge of Clinton's feverish effort to lock up superdelegates is Ickes, whose enthusiasm for no-holds-barred politics sometimes rattles friends and foes alike. Ickes once got so carried away that he bit another political operative on the leg... Aggressive, profane, openly scornful of rivals, Ickes rules Clinton's superdelegate operation with an intimidating style and a mythic persona... He is the son and namesake of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's famously irascible Interior secretary... He worked in Sen. Eugene McCarthy's 1968 campaign to unseat President Lyndon B. Johnson. He joined Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) in trying to deny President Carter renomination in 1980. He worked for Jesse Jackson's presidential bids in 1984 and 1988. Unhappy about the way Jackson was being treated at the '88 convention, Ickes hatched plans that included a threat to hand out 1,700 plastic whistles to Jackson supporters so they could disrupt the proceedings. Some of his ideas unnerved even Jackson; Ickes remembers him saying, "Ickes, you want to get me run out of white man's America." |
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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: Michigan; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 1980; 2008; 2008dncconvention; agitators; carter; clinton; clintonistas; edwardkennedy; eugenemccarthy; fdr; hillary; horoldickes; ickes; jackson; jessejackson; jimmycarter; lbj; lyndonjohnson; mccarthy; obama; plasticwhistles; superdelegates; whistles
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To: SunkenCiv
A little background on the old Hillary kool-aid drinking Harold Ickes according to David Horowitz and Richard Poe,
THE SHADOW PARTY published 2006, page 158, as folllows: "...In 1965, Ickes traveled to the Dominican Republic, where he lent assistance to a
junta of leftist colonels seeking to oust the sitting government. Some of the rebels displayed a worrisome degree of sympathy for Castro's revolution. The plot was foiled when President Johnson landed 20,000 Marines on the island."
His next move was to organize Viet Nam Anti-War protests, and through this he met Bill Clinton.
Since Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News are filling their programs with Obama's now distanced "crazy uncle" Pastor Wright, I felt it would be good to examine one of Hillary and Bills "crazy friends" and associates.
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posted on
04/01/2008 7:26:22 PM PDT
by
harpo11
(Rush, had better have a back-up strategy just in case the third term grabbing Clintons win the WH.)
To: harpo11; Anti-Bubba182
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posted on
04/01/2008 7:29:38 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_____________________Profile updated Saturday, March 29, 2008)
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posted on
04/01/2008 7:38:45 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_____________________Profile updated Saturday, March 29, 2008)
To: harpo11
Hill& Bill and friends are far more dangerous than Obama. These people need to be defeated before they can get the nomination. If with the help of the idiot Limbaugh and Fox news she wrangles it away from Obama I know she'll win.
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posted on
04/01/2008 8:11:19 PM PDT
by
mimaw
To: WorkingClassFilth
True. Why don’t the Opps Research people dig into his life. Can’t believe there are no festering skeletons there.
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posted on
04/01/2008 8:26:20 PM PDT
by
pankot
To: mimaw
That's the truth, and he calls himself
The Truth Detector. He's sleeping with the devils, Bill and Hillary. I feel like he has betrayed the good women in his loyal and vast listening audience because he is supporting that harridan hag twit, who has no more right to say Obama should distance himself from Pastor Wright, than Obama would in telling her to distance herself from her represhensible husband who is a serial sexual predator.
I think it is time for Rush Limbaugh to untie the other half of his brain and start planning for an Operation Chaos exit plan, because the Clinton Family will win it by exploiting the rules, and what are rules to these two lawless scumbags.
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posted on
04/01/2008 8:34:47 PM PDT
by
harpo11
(Rush, had better have a back-up strategy just in case the third term grabbing Clintons win the WH.)
To: SunkenCiv
Youre too late, Thugkes. Nothing can save the Witch now.
To: mimaw
I have not heard Hannity mention his “Stop Hillary Express” for weeks now. Weeks. Nothing but Obama bashing. Meanwhile.....as I’ve tried to tell every talk radio bot on this site-the latest poll in my state (Oheilo) has Obama at 44%-McCain at 60%-and The Clintons at 54%. I’ll tell you all again. Psssttt. Obama CAN NOT win OheilO. But The Clintons could.
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posted on
04/01/2008 8:55:19 PM PDT
by
The Ghost of Rudy McRomney
("Rush has unsealed the mummy's tomb-he has unleashed the undead."-Hugh Hewitt)
To: SunkenCiv; All
I am one of those who refuses to count out The Clintons. They just might pull it out in Denver.
Someone else give me your opinion.
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posted on
04/01/2008 9:09:08 PM PDT
by
no dems
(Barack Obama's Pastor is nuttier than a squirrel turd.)
To: SunkenCiv
...Ickes said, describing the campaign's methods. "And before you know it, you can pick up useful information. None of this is insidious information; it's information about what makes a person tick politically." Yeah, right. I'm sure it's all about what they like to eat for breakfast~!
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posted on
04/02/2008 4:25:18 AM PDT
by
Timeout
To: sanjacjake
He's a lot worse than "Carvile"
All Carville has going for him is a big mouth.
Ickes is a labor attorney with a plethora of very sinister connections which he does not stint to use to achieve his goals.
He is Richelieu to Hillary's Louis XV.
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posted on
04/02/2008 4:44:09 AM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: Timeout
...or what plane they’ll be taking in Yugoslavia, or what park they’ll be visiting at lunchtime...
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posted on
04/02/2008 5:42:18 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_____________________Profile updated Saturday, March 29, 2008)
To: no dems
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995261/posts?page=11#11
There’s a drive on to keep the nomination from Hillary and award it to Obama. Hillary is not havin’ that happen. Realistically, neither of them can clinch the nomination with the remaining delegates still to be chosen in primaries etc, so the superdelegates are everything. Hillary’s campaign is made up of old cutthroats, and perhaps they’ll wind up neck and neck, give or take the FL and MI delegations. Hillary plans to force the party to either seat those delegations, or have to publicly refuse to do it in front of the whole world.
Check out Richard Poe:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1978774/posts
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posted on
04/02/2008 5:56:32 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_____________________Profile updated Saturday, March 29, 2008)
To: Jimmy Valentine
I concur....but he is a sneaky SOB..and uses his
loyal(?)friends to keep his political profile
as Clintonian as possible....in summation, he is
overrated by his half/a$$ peers. JK
To: SunkenCiv
Still, the story reads like they are in admiration of a guy that is a total, scummy prick. One can play hard ball without being a complete slimy rectum.
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posted on
04/02/2008 4:16:51 PM PDT
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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posted on
05/08/2008 11:17:20 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Profile updated Monday, April 28, 2008)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/31/2008 11:09:24 PM PDT
by
College Repub
(http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/)
To: College Repub
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posted on
05/31/2008 11:17:19 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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