Posted on 05/12/2008 9:13:37 PM PDT by george76
Harlem was once the only place in the nation where Hillary Rodham Clinton could count on black support.
Now it's hard to find any Clinton backers there, even in the shadow of her husband's 125th Street office.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
and perhaps for the grand scheme down the road of getting her majesty her deserved crown?
No surprise about any of this. Blacks are going to support a black candidate over any white candidate.
Obviously.
***No surprise about any of this. Blacks are going to support a black candidate over any white candidate.
Obviously.***
Way back then, it meant nothing. In fact, most people back then, including blacks, wouldn't have recognized B. Hussein Obama if they held their noses while they used the curb to scrape him off their shoe. The second he became a serious contender and blacks began to recognize his face, that was that. He was their man.
Policies and promises are irrelevant - - he is black and is the likely rat candidate, so therefore the overwhelming majority of blacks will support him.
Bill not Black?
I misread the headline as 'HAREM FLIPS ON CLINTON' and thought that it was about Bill's, uh, friends...
Damned RACISTS
In Texas, it is actually required that any state office holder seeking election to another state office or to federal office must resign the currently held state office.
This really came in handy in my county (Nueces). In 2006 the incumbent DemocRAT Sheriff decided he wanted to run for the vacant (due to retirement) office of County Judge (it's actually an executive position not judicial), so he resigned his position as sheriff less than halfway through a term that would have lasted till January 2009. Then in the summer of 2006 the US Department of Justice announced it would remove all federal prisoners housed in the Nueces County Jail due to awful conditions inside the jail. This hurt former Sheriff Larry Olivares, because it was a direct attack on his executive competence in running the jail, and it hurt the appointed incumbent sheriff who was running for election for the remainder of the 4 year term. It also hurt the county, because we lost millions of dollars in fees for holding federal prisoners and had to spend millions more to fix the problems. On election night in 2006 while Republicans nationwide were getting slaughtered, we actually elected a Republican County Judge and a Republican sheriff for the first time in history. Not only did Republicans take over control of the county, but we ousted the Robstown mafia from its control over the county. The new Republican sheriff has reformed the operation of the jail, and federal prisoners are again held there.
On a side note. The election of a Republican sheriff had the benefit of snaring a local crook named Maurico Celis who has been indicted for impersonating a law enforcement officer, practicing law without a license, and money laundering. Celis was arrested in September 2007 after he, wearing a bath robe, chased a naked woman into a convenience store near his house in Corpus Christi. He tried to get custody of the woman flashing a Duval County Deputy ID card to the clerk at the convenience store. The clerk refused and called the police. The police arrested Celis. Sheriff Kaelin called up the Duval County Sheriff and found out that Celis' Deputy credentials expired over 4 years previously in 2003. If Celis' old buddy Larry Olivares had been County Judge and a DemocRAT Sherrif elected in 2006, Celis' law enforcement credentials would never have been investigated. Celis would still be making a living referring lawsuits to a cartel of trial lawyers in Corpus Christi and still be one the top 100 contributors to candidates for state office in Texas. Interestingly, Larry Olivares is currently employed by Maurcio Celis.
Further investigations were made in October into Celis' credentials as a lawyer when a local trial lawyer in Corpus Christi started airing ads saying that Celis did not have licence to practice law in Texas looking for other plaintiffs for a class action suit against Celis. Celis then claimed to be a lawyer in Mexico, but no one has ever been able to show that he ever graduated from a law school in Mexico or ever licensed to practice in Mexico. The other partners in his law practice had to set up a new law practice without Celis.
Celis was making a living referring cases to a cartel of trial lawyers including Mikal Watts. Of course now that Celis' credentials as a lawyer are in dispute and will be proven to be fraudulent in court, the referrals are illegal, because in Texas only licensed lawyers are allowed to receive compensation for referrals of clients. As a result, of this metastasizing scandal, Mikal Watts had to abandon his candidacy, after spending $8 million of his own money, for the DemocRAT nomination for the US Senate seat held by John Cornyn. Also two local freshmen state representatives )one of whom is the son of of the US Congressman representing the 27th Congressional District) have been asked by county Republican officials to give back all the money donated by Celis to their campaigns. State Representative Juan Garcia gave back "unspent" campaign funds but did not give back $17,000 in donations from Celis plus thousands more from Mikal Watt's PAC to which Celis donated. BTW, Juan Garcia is an old Harvard Law School friend of Barak Obama and campaigned for him much of this primary season. Representative Solomon Ortiz, Jr. the son of Congressman Solomon Ortiz gote $25,000 from Celis in 2006. A third state representative, Abel Herrera has gotten $50,000 from Celis since 2004. Celis also donated $2,300 to Hillary Clinton in 2007.
As you can see the Texas law requiring state office holders to resign from office when running for another office can really shake things up by creating a domino effect. I can just imagine how corrupt things must be in New Jersey with politicians who can hold multiple offices simutaneously.
Depends upon whether Andrew Cuomo wants to be Governor or Senator.
True as long as the requisite D is behind his name. Not as much pork when there is an R.
If I can make a confession, at this point I feel sorry for two people who I believe are evil. Both Bill and Hillary are sociopaths. I believe Bill raped Juanita Broaddrick and has molested numberless women. I believe Hillary was willing to send people in the White House travel office to jail just so she could staff those positions with her own friends. They have both sold and abused their positions to become fabulously wealthy. But right now they are human beings and I feel sorry for them.
Let me explain by telling you about a brief conversation I had with a colleague today. His name is Jim. He is a Liberal (with a capital L) has a PhD and considers himself enlightened. During the years Bill Clinton was in office, he stood by him. He was on their side. He was not obnoxious … just sure that Bill and Hillary were on the side of the angels. Lying to a grand jury, lying to the American people, blow jobs in the oval office, Whitewater, travel office, cattle futures, last minute pardons: it was all good.
Today when I ran into him Hillary was a “bitch” who botched the health care issue and was evil incarnate standing in the way of all that was good. He was especially scornful of Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos” referring to Rush as a drug addict with a 7000 pill a month habit. He was not happy and not nice. In fact, if he had seen himself as a Conservative he would have labeled himself as hateful.
Rarely have I had the chance to see the Left/Liberal in action. The transformation reminded me of what I read about the way the Communists followed the Party line during the Stalin years. One day they were in solidarity with the people of Germany and opposed to the warmongers and war profiteers. The next they were demanding a second front against the Fascist foe, denouncing the pacifists in the United States. The change in direction would have destroyed the steering on any car.
that title made me laugh
HAHAHAHA! Very good!
Harlem may be mad at the “Understated” Obama vote.
Unofficial Tallies in City Understated Obama Vote
Some districts reported that no one had voted for him.
Correction Appended
Black voters are heavily represented in the 94th Election District in Harlem’s 70th Assembly District. Yet according to the unofficial results from the New York Democratic primary last week, not a single vote in the district was cast for Senator Barack Obama.
Counting the Results That anomaly was not unique. In fact, a review by The New York Times of the unofficial results reported on primary night found about 80 election districts among the city’s 6,106 where Mr. Obama supposedly did not receive even one vote, including cases where he ran a respectable race in a nearby district.
City election officials this week said that their formal review of the results, which will not be completed for weeks, had confirmed some major discrepancies between the vote totals reported publicly — and unofficially — on primary night and the actual tally on hundreds of voting machines across the city.
In the Harlem district, for instance, where the primary night returns suggested a 141 to 0 sweep by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the vote now stands at 261 to 136. In an even more heavily black district in Brooklyn — where the vote on primary night was recorded as 118 to 0 for Mrs. Clinton — she now barely leads, 118 to 116.
The history of New York elections has been punctuated by episodes of confusion, incompetence and even occasional corruption. And election officials and lawyers for both Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton agree that it is not uncommon for mistakes to be made by weary inspectors rushing on election night to transcribe columns of numbers that are delivered first to the police and then to the news media.
That said, in a presidential campaign in which every vote at the Democratic National Convention may count, a swing of even a couple of hundred votes in New York might help Mr. Obama gain a few additional delegates.
The democratic masses sell themselves out to the highest bidder.
For the majority that statement is correct. Obama might blabber on all he wants about racial equality, but he has done nothing positive about it. He is, in actuality, glad about all the negativity because it rallies more to his side out of "sympathy," who are not considering his record or abilities. He is simply counting on the black, African/American voting for him specifically because he is one-half black.
However, I have several well-educated, discerning, black friends who are quite upset about Obama, and his connection to Wright, and the book he wrote that contain statements Wright has made, and what they feel has put them all in a bad light and re-ignited issues that were no longer so "hot." They feel this will hurt them in the long run and show that the black race is more prejudicial than they claim the whites are. They are not voting for him, they do not trust him in either his word or experience. They don't like Hillary, and are not happy with crossing over for McCain. I suspect, like so many of us, there are a lot of people who feel there is not one worthy candidate in this election. The only ones who will vote will do so based on emotion or race.
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