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Hillary Clinton- archives, comments, and opposition research
various FR links and stories and posters | 12-07-03 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

Posted on 12/07/2003 3:44:56 PM PST by backhoe

The purpose of this post is to begin providing links, tools, and tactics which we can all use to educate the public, fellow citizens, and neighbors about Hillary Clinton.

It is a work in progress- I have provided a starting point, but want others to chime in with more links, stories, and information.

It is the product of conversations with a number of other members, from which several salient tactical points emerged:

1- keep it as contemporary as possible- the old Whitewater and similar items are stale and dead to the public.
2- keep it civil, please- within the board guidelines, or better. We are trying to convert the mushy middle, and stridency puts them off. Badly.
3- source or reference everything. Authenticity is critical to such an effort.

Here's where it started:


Links from this post:
Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 7 Dec 2003
Various big media television networks ^ | 7 Dec 2003 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces
Follows:
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3923fdd07554.htm
Hillary's delegates spit on and taunt Police Honor Guard at her Convention
Politics/Elections News Keywords: HILLARY'S RADICAL SUPPORTERS
Source: Albany Times Union Posted on 05/18/2000 07:27:28 PDT by 1Old Pro

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1032083/posts
Bagram G.I.: Troops Waited While Hillary Chowed Down
NewsMax.com ^ | 12/02/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1022571/posts
..HILLARY & TERRORISM's plan to regain the White House..
J.R. NYQUIST Website ^ | 11/09/2003 | RICHARD ROBERTS

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1003138/posts
PETER PAUL SUES BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON FOR FRAUD, CONSPIRACY, UNJUST ENRICHMENT
Judicial Watch ^ | Oct 16, 2003 | Press Office

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1008003/posts
Hillary Stonewalls AP's Questions on Peter Paul Lawsuit
NewsMax.com ^ | 10/25/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/962304/posts
Hillary Clinton's Biggest Cover-ups

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/926091/posts
Hilary – great cartoons

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/940060/posts
Hillary history
487 posted on 12/07/2003 12:06:47 PM EST by mathluv
 
HAL9000 has a great source; he works continually to keep it updated--
http://www.freerepublic.com/~hal9000/
 
 
THE DOWNSIDE LEGACY ARCHIVES
http://www.alamo-girl.com/
 
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1003911/posts
Hillary Clinton 10-16-03 Senate Speech
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.html ^ | 10-16-03 | HILLARY CLINTON

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/834207/posts
HLLLARY RODHAM, U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee = Future Disasters
Posted on 02/01/2003 8:13 PM PST by ALOHA RONNIE
 
Paul takes the fall?
Insight on the News, Oct 1, 2002, by Paul M. Rodriguez
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:TWF-4MeGNM0J:www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1571/37_18/92589574/p1/article.jhtml+Tonken,+clinton&hl=en&ie=UTF-8



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Down, down, down
inna burnin' Ring O fahr...
Dixville Notch: McCain, Obama win first vote. Hillary Clinton shut out.
I fell in to a burning ring of fire
I went down, down, down
and the flames went higher.
And it burns, burns, burns
the ring of fire
the ring of fire.
LIVE THREAD - Dixville Notch NH Vote
 
 
Washington Post's Video: many people got bored and left at a Hillary's rally--Hillary is like a boxer with the glass jaw. Her mangled response to that licenses for illegals question was the beginning of the end, wasn't it...? It's been straight downhill from there.
 
'SEXIST' PROTESTERS DISRUPT HILLARY (UPDATE - protester admits to being a Republican)--Hillary is now planting hecklers in her audience?
"Update: Adolfo apparently has a MySpace page that says he is a Republican..."...and a La Raza supporter. Why didn't they mention the La Raza part?
 
Golly Gee Whiz! Sock puppets, plants, and Now!

Big Bad  Men...

With even More! sexist piggotry thrown in!

Wow, the Hollywood writers aren't on strike-- they are scripting Hillary!

What's next in Hillarrheah's bag of tricks to rally The True Believers?
( Remember, she has no friends- merely Acolytes )

Kabuki Theatre at its finest...

The "narrative" continues, of "The Comeback Kidlette, v2.0..."

SEXIST OUTBURST AT CLINTON EVENT (Clinton Plants?)--Interesting that the sign is facing the cameras and not Hillary.

Clinton Braces for Second Loss; Union, Senators May Back Obama

Katherine Prudhomme-O’Brien: Hillary Is a Traitor to the Ideals of Feminism

Ruh-Roh! Hillarrheah! "F's" up, bigtime, and criticizes The Magic Negro...Hillary to Obama: You're No JFK (or MLK)--"She fell asleep with her hole-digger on autopilot."

"She’s in self destruct mode... She’s incapable of shutting her mouth... she'll be polling below Richardson at this rate..."

Bill: Hillary's Tougher than Mandela and Rabin

 
Dick Morris: "Hillary Past Her Prime"--the Hillary campaign has gotten into a time warp, obsessing with the 90s while a new political generation demands a focus on tomorrow.
 
Will Clinton's "Cry" be the new Dean "Scream?"
 
Oof! Hillary Has Real Problems Now
 
Meanwhile, in the Real World, a Real Woman does what Hillarrheah! never could...
Super mum catches robbers, gives birth
 
Believe it only when you see the witch's toes curl up under the house...
End of an Era (the Clinton years)--to watch the Clintons’ rage and desperation grow in the last days of this campaign will not be pretty.
 
A Barack Star In The Making--Obama called an "icon of change." But is it a change from victory in Iraq to defeat, from low taxes to high and from prosperity to dependency?
 
Barack Obama’s Hateful Connections-Part I, II, III

Barak Obama's Racist Church

Confirmed: Barack Obama Practiced Islam

Here is a good site, organized by issue area:

http://www.issues2000.org/Senate/Barack_Obama.htm

http://www.obamanation.com/1.html

 
McGovern's Murder Charge--desperation brings out the ugly in liberal Democrats.
 
The Woman Who Elicited Clinton's Emotion
 
 
 
Jimmy Carter’s Campaign photographer in Washington, DC...  This blogger is on it..

http://theendzone.blogspot.com/


1,081 posted on 01/08/2008 4:58:55 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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Steinem: Vote For Hillary Or You're Sexist--But I have to vote for Obama because I don't want to be a racist! I'm confused... It almost seems like the whole Hillary-collective is having a  breakdown.
 
Cheap shot from a desperate Clinton (Put a fork in Old Crusty - she's done)--Hillary is more of a Democratic Richard Nixon, but it's "her turn" so it's way too early to declare her dead.
 
Obama's Alinsky Jujitsu ... (is just too slick for her and ole Bill)
 
HILL'S NATIONAL SLUMP (women tell Rudy--Hillary to "get lost")
 
’Citizen journalists’ alter political landscape (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)
 

1,082 posted on 01/08/2008 6:52:13 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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Is The Left Throwing Hillary Under The Bus?
 
Princess Obama--The effect is electric, but short-lived. That is because Dianafication is essentially empty, amoral, untruthful and manipulative...
 
Caption this weepy Obama worshipper--My new phrase  'Dianafication.'
 
Obama Gets Involved in Kenya Crisis--There is more to this. Here is some background information regarding why Obama is involved and what Odinga is all about.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/01/obama-islam-and.html

Clinton Cracks, But Is It The Real Deal?


1,083 posted on 01/08/2008 7:45:04 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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Is this why Sandy Berger needed to destroy those documents? [Marc Grossman & Nuclear Espionage]
 
Says it all...
Only 2 people attend Clinton support meeting
 
VIDEO Edwards supporters dis Hillary to her face. (its lonely at the top)
 
VIDEO: BILL FURY AT OBAMA: 'THIS WHOLE THING IS THE BIGGEST FAIRY TALE I HAVE EVER SEEN'...
 

Bill Clinton in 1992--the fresh young reformer

Bill Clinton in 2007--the aging has-been

Barack Obama--the changing of the guard.

 
Hillary Clinton struggles to reinvent herself
 
Image and video hosting by TinyPic
 
Clinton Fires Back: Obama, Edwards Given 'Free Ride'
 
Hillary's White House hopes unravel
 
A Big Turnout In New Hampshire?
 
They're BA-AAAACK! (Carville and Begala)...This is exactly what the public DOES NOT want to see. Big mistake if they go forward with this.
 
 

1,084 posted on 01/08/2008 1:48:56 PM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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BILL BRADLEY HAS ALREADY STARTED to cover New Hampshire. And here are some thoughts on what to expect from exit polls, courtesy of Mark Blumenthal. Don't worry -- this time around there will be no early leaks!

Clinton Allies May Dump Millions Into Anti-Obama Group(Shadow Party Won't Go Down With A Civil War)

The Runaway O Train

Back to the Future: Carville & Begala to join Clinton campaign

Carville just denied this.

o did Begala, according to CNN:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/08/carville-and-begala-deny-clinton-campaign-return/

Somebody’s confused.

YUVAL LEVIN: "One of the most interesting elements of the Clinton implosion in the past week has been the way Bill Clinton has chosen anger and resentment as his mode of persuasion. . . . I just wonder: Does he actually think this could be effective in getting voters to support Hillary?"

Meanwhile, Bill Bradley pointed out evidence of something I predicted -- Clinton can't go negative against Obama without losing key black supporters: I told you so. Even if some people weren't bright enough to get the point, at least until Tom Maguire patiently explained it.

What Barack Obama owes Jeri Ryan

January 7, 2008 06:53 PM by Michelle Malkin64 Comments | 4 Trackbacks

Fate.

It's A Pity Party, And We're All Invited!

Yesterday it was Hillary's turn to get emotional, and today Bill gave it a try. He got angry with the press for what he called "sanitizing coverage", providing the rest of the nation a window into the frustration setting into the Clinton campaign as it faces a second big loss in as many tries:

The former president briefly acknowledged that his wife's senior campaign advisor, Mark Penn, was mistaken to claim that Obama had no bounce out of Iowa after winning the state's caucuses because the poll numbers on the day after were relatively unchanged.

Then he abruptly changed the subject — suggesting that Obama's campaign had employed underhanded tactics.

"What did you think about the Obama thing calling Hillary the senator from Punjab? Did you like that? Or what about the Obama handout that was covered up, the press never reported on, implying that I was a crook. Scouring me — scathing criticism over my financial reports. Ken Starr spent $70 million and indicted innocent people to find out that I wouldn't take a nickel to see the cow jump over the moon.

"So you can take a shot at Mark Penn if you want. It wasn't his best day. He was hurt. He felt badly we didn't do better in Iowa," said Clinton. "But the idea that one of these campaigns is positive and the other is negative when I know the reverse is true — and I have seen it and I have been blistered by it for months — is a little tough to take. Just because of the sanitizing coverage that's in the media doesn't mean the facts aren't out there."

Well, how many people do we need to pity here, exactly? Yesterday, Hillary let us know how hard it is to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune on a campaign trail. She has to eat fast food, she doesn't get her exercise, and we should all care about how much she's sacrificing for all of us! Today, we should pity Mark Penn because he had a bad day, which of course is because of all of us and the media.

Hey, didn't these people sign up for this voluntarily? Don't they get to lead the Free World if they win? Will the White House host regular pity parties, or only occasionally?

Bill seems to be the party coordinator. He's complaining about underhanded tactics from Barack Obama? Perhaps Bill might want to review which campaign dug up kindergarten essays for a basis of criticism, and whose campaign second talked about how much more black Bill was from Barack. The only people to blame for the negative coverage that has centered on Hillary is the candidate herself and the team that has stumbled constantly since the beginning of November.

If the Clintons want to talk about Obama's voting record and lack of experience, then do so. Quit digging through his elementary school record and lack of appropriate ancestry, and you may have more credibility when you call for the waaaaambulance.

Bonus article:

Gimli raises axe for Western civilization

Perhaps the most passionate observations came from John Rhys-Davies, who plays the dwarf Gimli and voices Treebeard the Ent. Focusing on the necessity of defending civilization in times of crisis, Rhys-Davies took the media to task for failing to appreciate the preciousness of Western civilization, and warned of the potential consequences of rising Muslim extremism and the increasingly Islamic face of Europe.

“I think that Tolkien says that some generations will be challenged,” said Rhys-Davies, “and if they do not rise to meet that challenge, they will lose their civilization. That does have a real resonance with me.”

Pointing a finger at the media, Rhys-Davies went on, “What is unconscionable is that too many of your fellow journalists do not understand how precarious Western civilization is, and what a jewel it is… The abolition of slavery comes from Western democracy. True democracy comes from our Greco-Judeo-Christian Western experience. If we lose these things, then this is a catastrophe for the world.”

Rhys-Davies revealed that as far back as 1955 his father had predicted that “the next World War will be between Islam and the West.” The actor recalled his response: “I said to him, ’Dad, you’re nuts! The Crusades have been over for hundreds of years!’ And he said, ’Well, I know, but militant Islam is on the rise again. And you will see it in your lifetime.’ He’s been dead some years now. But there’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think of him and think, ’God, I wish you were here, just so I could tell you that you were right.’”

Looking at the lone female journalist at the table, Rhys-Davies said pointedly, “You should not be in this room [according to Muslim custom]. Because your husband or your father or your husband is not here to guide you. You could only be here in this room with these strange men for immoral purposes.”

Rhys-Davies went on to contemplate the significance of demographic shifts among Western Europeans and Muslims in Europe. “There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren’t bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially. And rightly we should be. But there is a cultural thing as well… By 2020, fifty percent of the children in Holland under the age of 18 will be of Muslim descent…

“And don’t forget, coupled with this there is this collapse of numbers. Western Europeans are not having any babies. The population of Germany at the end of the century is going to be 56% of what it is now. The populations of France, 52% of what it is now. The population of Italy is going to be down 7 million people.

“There is a change happening in the very complexion of Western civilization in Europe that we should think about at least and argue about. If it just means the replacement of one genetic stock with another genetic stock, that doesn’t matter too much. But if it involves the replacement of Western civilization with a different civilization with different cultural values, then it is something we really ought to discuss — because, [hang it all], I am for dead-white-male culture!”

His fellow filmmakers might not all agree, but Tolkien would have applauded.


1,085 posted on 01/08/2008 4:14:38 PM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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REALCLEAR POLITICS How Clinton Won-(Popular Among The Old, The Poor, And the Uneducated)-- She brought in a lot of voters , but from where?

New Hampshire verdict: Hillary exults; Update: The many voices of Hillary Rodham Clinton

By Michelle Malkin  •  January 8, 2008 11:07 PM

Update 12:00am. Blecchhh. Here’s the video clip of her self-congratulatory, voice-discovering moment.

Which gives me a good opportunity to remind you of the many voices of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Like her fake Selma voice. And her Al Sharpton’s best friend voice. And her Bug Off, Code Pink! voice. And her chumming it up with Peter Paul voice. And her hearty, cackling voice. Oh, and her botched, open-borders voice.

She’s her own self-generating cacophony.

Unlike her Iowa stage, tonight Hillary is surrounded by young people, not old fogies.

No Che shirt sightings yet.

Tell us another fairy tale, Hill.

***
Previous New Hampshire verdict liveblogging.

 
HEH: "The exit polls have shown, the Democratic primary is turning into a battle between the people that pay for Social Security and those that collect it."
 

No one can pretend that this wasn't a huge victory for Hillary Clinton. All of the pollsters had her tanking in the days between Iowa and tonight, and I mean all of them. She not only got to be an underdog, she got to write a comeback script for a media that loves them....One last thought: this is the second state where the independents broke towards the Democrats. Republicans need to consider that and its implications for the entire ticket in November.

Shocker: Crying Works, Hillary Wins In NH

January 8th, 2008

Of course we knew it was all a dream. (Or, to be more precise, a phony construction to allow Mrs. Clinton to claim to have overcome such tremendous odds.)

6 Comments »
 
HERE'S A BIG NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY ROUNDUP. And Bill Bradley continues to update his coverage.
 
BRENDAN LOY: "Did New Hampshire's independents outsmart themselves, believing that McCain needed them more than Obama did, and thus deciding to vote Republican in greater-than-expected numbers... producing a McCain landslide and a Clinton-Obama squeaker?"
 
Ever Get the Feeling You've Been Cheated? (Obama and the Nut Roots Meet the Clinton Machine)

1,086 posted on 01/09/2008 2:22:24 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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 Death of Hitlery and elite power rather exagerrated
 
The Clintons in Crisis
 
Obama and the Childish Left--If you despaired about the media's endless love affair with Bill Clinton, the Master of Slick, because he Cares About You, you'll get to revisit those feelings now. Walt Disney could not have composed a better morality fable.

1,087 posted on 01/09/2008 5:48:23 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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Yep, yep...
Are you tired of RACE and SEX being a qualifier for OFFICE. Especially for President?
 
Rigged USA Elections Exposed (FL)
 
 
Diebold Favors Hillary, Hand Count For Obama-(STOLEN ELECTION!!-The Nutroots Ain't HAPPY!)
 
GreyState; New Hampshire Rang in The Old and Wrung Out The New.
 
Questioner who brought Hillary to tears was contacted ahead of time by campaign. A setup?
 
The Real Winner: The Voter
 
Hillary Clinton Talks To MTV News After 'Stunning' New Hampshire Victory--Media played right along with their 'comeback kid' line this morning. They had the story written long ago. I am convinced that this was the Hillary plan all along.
 
Can Hillary Cry Her Way Back to the White House? ... (NY Slimes: MAUREEN DOWD) --The Oprah-ization of America is complete.The biggest bitch-on-wheels since Evita! cries a few crocodile tears on TV and women come out of the woodwork to vote for her.

1,088 posted on 01/09/2008 12:43:56 PM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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TOM MAGUIRE on The Impending Obama Media Backlash.
 
HERE'S MORE ON CLAIMS THAT Diebold stole New Hampshire for Hllary:
 

The "Mondale Model"

How Clinton won.

Update: Or did she?. After all - the left's never lost an election that wasn't stolen.

Posted by Kate at 10:22 AM | Comments (25)
 

1,089 posted on 01/09/2008 3:49:31 PM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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Schedule: US Elections
 
Why Hillary Won (Op-Ed by Karl Rove)
 
How to hack a Diebold voting machine [image]--According to this site (http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/how-to-steal-an-election-with-a-diebold-machine-200693.php), this “hack” will allow a user to load their own software into the machine. My guess is that the switch tells the MB to load software from whatever’s in the USB port.
 
 Clinton fights 'Iron My Shirt' mentality --this is exactly the news Clinton was hoping for, the press bought the non-story with total gullibility.
 
So that's the "narrative" that they have settled on.

Well, it will be interesting- Hillary claimed, way back around 1992, that "the American people want to be told a story..."
( Yes, the implication was that we are simple-minded idiots, easily led about by the properly designed "story." )

We shall see...
 
Maybe off-topic somewhat but perhaps the DoD is looking forward to a Obama/Muslim POTUS? Please follow this summary:

SUMMARY OF OBAMA/ODINGA/KENYA LINKS. CLICK-LINK HERE.

OBAMA’S ‘CLOSE FRIEND’ A BLOODTHIRSTY MUSLIM EXTREMIST. LINK.

Raila Odinga has, in his own words, a “close personal friendship” with Barrack Hussein Obama Junior. When Obama went to Kenya in August of 2006, he was hosted by Raila and spoke in praise of him at rallies in Nairobi… Obama’s bias for his fellow Luo was so blatant that a Kenya government spokesman denounced Obama during his visit as Raila’s “stooge.”

Kenya's Odinga Declares Obama His Cousin as PeaceTalks Called Off.LINK.

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN HON. RAILA AMOLO ODINGA REPRESENTING HE ORANGE DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT (ODM) AND NATIONAL MUSLIM LEADERS FORUM (NAMLEF)DOCUMENT.LINK.

FREEPER BECKWITH OBAMA BIO. LINK.

15 posted on 01/09/2008 7:23:27 PM EST by Fred Nerks
 

Hillary’s Preparation For Her Crying Game

January 9th, 2008

From those seekers of truth at Access Hollywood:

Click for video.

"Does anyone think she has a clue as to how disingenuous this makes her look?  She is really getting crazier by the day. Crazier for power, for money and wanting so much for the unwashed masses to love her. At some point you have to wonder if all this self adulation, self importance, self love and macabre need of acceptance won’t really drive her to a Britney moment."

 
The Turning Point

The Nose on Your Face has somehow come into possession of a tape of Senator Clinton’s emotional press conference of two days ago. Potfry explains:

[W]e’ve long suspected that Senator Hillary Clinton is a synthetic life form whose every move is controlled by extraterrestrials bent on world domination. Well, now we have proof to back it up....What’s special about our tape...is that it was made in the mother ship that was hovering several miles above New Hampshire on that very day.
History must be told. Thanks to Potfry for this revealing insider's view of the New Hampshire Democratic primary's turning point.

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1,090 posted on 01/10/2008 5:38:55 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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FEAR OF CRYING UNFAIR (a treasure trove of false premises and nonsequiters)
 
Carville's Canine Analogy: Obama Like Hit 'Dog'
 
The Latest Version of Hillary Clinton
 

 
The Kenya Connection
 
Obama’s Ascendancy and the Myth of "Racist" America
 
John Kerry and his Anti-Hillary Agenda
 
After New Hampshire: A Look at Hillary's Missteps
 
The woman who made Clinton cry (ended up voting for Obama!)
 
Hillary without tears (Camille Paglia on why Hillary won't become President)

1,091 posted on 01/10/2008 1:22:49 PM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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Hillary Rodham Gore
 
Edmund Hillary, first atop Everest, dies
 
400,000 people 'still waiting more than a year for NHS treatment'
 
State figures dispel anti-gun predictions (MI)

1,092 posted on 01/10/2008 4:04:08 PM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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Diebold Voter Fraud Rumors in New Hampshire Primaries
 
Tear-Jerking America's Chain ... (How does a woman tell a black it's not his turn?)
 
Obama's Church: More about African than God?

The People Who Predicted Clinton's Loss In New Hampshire

Now bring us the reasons she won.



It would all be quite funny, if it weren't so utterly pathetic.

Posted by Kate at 10:41 AM | Comments (19)
 

Old news, but shows Huma has been around a long time.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1951845/posts

“They will be joined by their personal assistants Huma Abedin and Doug Band.”


1,093 posted on 01/11/2008 4:24:35 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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Examining Rush Limbaugh: Conservatism Works, "Every Time It’s Tried"

Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Loving Obama
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1949514/replies?c=15

Racial tensions roil Democratic race--The party that spent 2 generations pandering to blacks is being hoist by its own petard. If they had just treated blacks like everybody else, instead of trying to convince them that they were too stupid to take care of themselves, they wouldn’t be screwed now.

Is America Ready For a Failed Obama Candidacy?

Clinton gaffe over Martin Luther King may cost votes in South Carolina


1,094 posted on 01/11/2008 1:37:18 PM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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All About Fred

At the Corner tonight.

We'll know soon--in my judgment, Thompson need only sustain this performance for a couple of days before votes, and money, start moving in his direction. But tonight the one consistent and authentic conservative in this race made himself the man to watch. When Fred roars, he roars.

I missed the debates. Too bad, because he's getting rave reviews.
Winner: Thompson. This performance was so commanding, I wanted his last answer to echo back to the lights in the back of the auditorium, blow out all the lamps and spotlights, for the theme to “the Natural” to play, and for him to trot around the stage in slow motion while sparks showered down in the background.

Also weighing in Brendon Loy, and this from the New York Times blog;
Mr. Thompson rocks tonight. Asked about the recent confrontation between United States warships and Iranian speedboats, he suggests casually that if Iran’s Revolutionary Guard becomes more hostile, the Iranians will see those virgins they’ve been looking for.

Clips at Hotair.
Posted by Kate at 1:45 AM | Comments (59)  Mark Steyn references Kate McMillan and SDA in conversation with Hugh Hewitt:
 
OBAMA AND HILLARY, IN BLACK AND WHITE: "I don't think the Hillary puzzle has to be explained by covert racism on the part of New Hampshire Democrats and Independents; covert stodginess and a reluctance to admit that they are voting like their grandmother and not their kids may be the real cause."
 

Hillary Lies About Idolizing MLK, Jr - Again

January 11th, 2008

From her fans at ABC News:

Hillary and Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and other Democrat hacks and race baiters “march” in Selma, March 4, 2007.

SNEAK PEEK: ‘Shuck & Jive’

Clinton Explains Himself to Sharpton

By TEDDY DAVIS, TALAL AL-KHATIB and MIKE ELMORE

January 11, 2008—The Clintons defended themselves Friday against charges of racial insensitivity towards Democratic rival Barack Obama.

“Well, I think its regrettable because both of these accusations are baseless and divisive and any fair reading of what both of us said would be clear and I think it’s regrettable that these are being in a way used to try to divide people in our country during this election and I’m not going to have any part of it,” Clinton told ABC News. “I personally find it offensive.”

“You know,” she continued, “I was inspired by Dr. King when I was a young girl. I considered him one of my heroes, a global symbol, an icon of everything that is the best about America and he worked his entire life to make the changes that we enjoy today so I hope that this kind of unfortunate political activity really just ceases because I don’t think this is what we want this election to be about.”

Clinton made her comments to ABC’s Eloise Harper while campaigning in East Los Angeles, Calif. She was asked if comments she made about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and remarks her husband made about Obama receiving “fairy-tale” treatment from the press might hurt her standing with African Americans.

While the former first lady was defending herself in California, her husband was explaining himself to the Rev. Al Sharpton.

“It’s not a fairy tale; he might win,” said Clinton. “I think he’s a very impressive man, and he’s run a great campaign.”

Clinton is under fire for using the words “fairy tale” in connection with Obama. South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn told Friday’s New York Times that he saw the remark as a slap at the image of a black candidate running on a theme of unity and optimism. Clyburn is now reconsidering his neutral stance in South Carolina’s Jan. 26 Democratic primary.

The former president explained to Sharpton that his comment was not a swipe at Obama reaching for the White House but rather a reference to the fawning press treatment Obama has received

What liars these Clintons be.

But as usual, Bill’s lies are so blatant that they hardly need to be explained. All anyone has to do is read the context of his “fairy tale” remarks. He was griping about Barack Obama’s “judgment.”

However, Hillary is just as mendacious, perhaps even more so at least in this instance:

“You know,” she continued, “I was inspired by Dr. King when I was a young girl. I considered him one of my heroes, a global symbol, an icon of everything that is the best about America and he worked his entire life to make the changes that we enjoy today so I hope that this kind of unfortunate political activity really just ceases because I don’t think this is what we want this election to be about.”

Indeed, she trots out variations on this theme at every opportunity:

“As a young girl, I had the great privilege of hearing Dr. King speak in Chicago. The year was 1963. My youth minister from our church took a few of us down on a cold January night to hear someone that we had read about, we had watched on television, we had seen with our own eyes from a distance, this phenomenon known as Dr. King. He titled the sermon he gave that night “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution.” — Hillary Clinton, March 4, 2007, on the 42nd anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma.

This amazing brush with history has been featured prominently in Hillary’s ghostwritten autobiography and all of the other hagiographies written about her, where it is uniformly presented as a watershed moment in her young life.

However, despite her various recollections of the event, the young Diane Rodham (as she called herself then) went to hear Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 15, 1962.

And much more importantly, it would appear that Mr. King didn’t seem to make much of an impression on herself at all. Since after having had that supposedly life-changing moment, young Diane went on to become a “Goldwater Girl” and to campaign door to door for her candidate throughout the fall of 1964.

For unfortunately for the Hillary mythos, as I have mentioned elsewhere, her hero Mr. Goldwater was adamantly opposed to the passage of the Civil Right Act of 1964, which of course was Mr. King’s primary cause at the time.

Indeed, Mr. Goldwater was one of the few Republicans who opposed the measure. And his opposition to it was one of the foremost issues of the campaign. 

So it is quite appalling to hear Mrs. Clinton now pretend, as she so often does, to have been so deeply and forever moved by the experience of having heard Mr. King speak.

That’s the real fairy tale here. But no one will bother to report it.

After all, what’s another lie from the Clintons?

 

Obama's Pal uses "Rape as a Weapon"

More brutal and gory details of the man Obama unequivocally supports. Obama is so busted. This is more than bad judgment,  this is scary. A Jacksonian who has done yeoman's work in substantiating Odinga's  nefarious Arab ties and his hand in the ongoing violence that has all of Kenya in its barbaric clutches. Inconceivable horror. Gang raping little girls and boys as many as ten times. That's just the tip of the iceberg.

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Obama has backed Odinga unequivocally going so far as telling big media (out of TIME Magazine's Joe Klein here),

"Obama has had near-daily conversations with the U.S. Ambassador in Kenya or with opposition leader Raila Odinga. As of late this afternoon, before his rally in Rochester, N.H., Obama was trying to reach Kenyan President Kibaki."

And he still hasn't reached him I bet. More on Odinga and Obama's phone conversations here.

This is beyond bad judgment. This is just bad and this story is not going to go away no matter how desperately in love Obamedia is with the Christ child. Big media does not control information anymore. And Obama is culpable. Here I am -- an individual blogger getting all this terrible information on Odinga and the man running for POTUS is in the dark? Think about it.

Obama's bias for his fellow Luo was so blatant that a Kenya government spokesman denounced Obama during his visit as Raila's "stooge."

A Jacksonian sent me this stunning comment (with links)  on his post The other source of change in Kenyan politics made by one of his readers, mobysnny:

It's not getting reported in the media that the looting and burning of businesses in Kisumu was targeted to both Kikuyus and Kenyan Indians. The economy of Kenya is controlled by these two groups because they are Entrepreneurial. But Kenyan Indians rarely get involved in Kenyan politics, they do not vote by choice, yet the Luos in Kisumu do not like them, that's why their stores were getting burnt too.

Obama's boy.

I mentioned in my other comment about Luo supporters of Odinga abroad were telling each other to contact TV stations and spread about the violence in Kenya. Here is one sent by a Luo to Jerusalem Post.

I was shocked by the lies this man decided to tell the post. That is the reason we are seeing all this stories making Odinga and his supporters look like angels even as they kill people.

Can you believe these Luos abroad were telling their supporters in Kenya that William Ruto and Raila Odinga had been arrested immediately after the election results. Which was total lies. It was meant to incite ODM supporters in Kenya mainly Luos and Kalenjin (Ruto is a Kalenjin). That's another reason we were seeing the violence getting worse.

Another false rumour they were spreading was that the Police Commissioner had resigned in protest to the election results. The government had to contact Kenyans by cell phones (Text Messages) and tell them that the rumours were false and that anybody found inciting people with force rumours will be prosecuted.

Bishop Cornelius Korir of Eldoret confirms the killings were organized and planned. It is believed Odinga and his ODM Pentagon members had planned it all, long before elections, and especially William Ruto the MP for Eldoret North (the burning of women and children in a church).

Leftwing media spin:

Obama phones Kenya's opposition leader AP

Novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o Professor UC Irvine comments on the violence

But here is what is happening:

Another shocker that now his supporters are using rape as a weapon.

 

This is a complete disaster. Luo Nyanza leads the country with HIV/AIDS . Two main reasons, one is, they have this tradition called Wife Inheritance, whereby if your brother dies, the tradition requires that you marry his widow. The other reason is that their men do not circumcise. It's another tradition they wouldn't give up. Recent studies have shown that the spread of HIV is higher in groups that don't circumcise.

Rape, the Mob's Latest Weapon in Kenya Telgraph

By Adrian Blomfield in Kisumu

Hundreds of women and children, including boys as young as five, have been gang-raped in a wave of sexual violence that has swept Kenya in the aftermath of last week's disputed presidential election.

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As ethnic hatred mounts in a country teetering on the brink of catastrophe, disturbing reports are emerging that angry mobs are adding rape to their arsenal of revenge.

At a hospital for women in the Nairobi suburb of Hurlingham, doctors said that they had treated 24 women and 13 girls over the past four days.

Three boys were also admitted after being repeatedly sodomized. "Most of them have been gang-raped, one of them by 10 men," said Rahab Ngugi, the hospital's matron.

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"We believe we only know about a fraction of cases because most people have no transport to get to hospitals or are still trapped because of the security situation."

The vast majority of the victims had been assaulted in their own homes and all had been targeted because of their tribe, the doctors said.

Most were members of President Mwai Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe, attacked in Nairobi's slums by other ethnic groups who support Raila Odinga, his Luo challenger.

The mobs had smashed their way into their homes, the women told doctors. Attacking everyone they found inside with machetes and clubs, the youths raped them in front of their husbands, some of whom were later killed.

Aid workers said they had received reports of similar attacks across the country, although no statistics are available

There's more. Read the whole thing.

It seems they are using rape as another way of killing.

A village with no men: a community crippled by HIV/Aids

Africa: Aids forces change on Kenya's Luo people 

Out of Africa Comes Change But Not Without Controversy

Kenyan Bishop Calls on Widows to take Stand Against Wife Inheritance
 

And talking about Luo traditions. When you marry one you marry the clan. They have a habit of creating havoc when a Luo man dies, and especially a wealthy one, the wife is no longer the one in charge of where her husband gets buried.

Two cases: Wambui Otieno case (Kenya) here and here.

While Otieno's body lay in cold storage last week in a Nairobi mortuary, the legal battle raged over whether the lawyer should receive a traditional Luo tribal burial at his ancestral homeland near Lake Victoria or a Christian interment outside Nairobi. His widow Wambui Otieno initially feared she would be made to shave her head and marry Otieno's younger brother if the burial were held according to Luo custom. While her qualms now appear unfounded, she continues to insist that Luo tribal laws are "out of step with civilization."

( By the way, Wangari Maathai is 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner. Became First African woman to win Nobel Prize. She is Kikuyu)

Second case:

A Swedish White Lady married to a Luo in Sweden, the Luos gave her hell and they wanted to make it appear like it was a Kenyan thing, which it was not:

(Kenya Stockholm is a Luo web site)

One of the Quotes from the site's commentaries:

"Maggero's wife understands the Luo culture "like the back of her hands" and the lightning appearing on her back yard on the funeral arrangements could be hiding evidence that she is well aware about the major downpour that may be on the way"

Jacksonian, I can get more on this case if you want me to paste.

An interesting Journal article you can get online. It has more information. It's on pdf format and I don't know how to paste it here. If you google it, you'll get it. It's interesting:

"The nature of decline: distinguishing myth from reality in the case of the Luo of Kenya"

Last but not least, have any of you read the book by Amy Chua "World On Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability" ?

It talks about the background behind the hatred of Indians and Kikuyus in Kenya.

Interested? Go here and here and here.

Previous: Kenya's killing fields

Now I ask you people, which horse would you back?


1,095 posted on 01/12/2008 2:36:01 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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Obama on Hillarycare for housing: Me, too! Me, too!

By Michelle Malkin  •  January 12, 2008 07:01 AM

When it rains, it pours:

Barack Obama, his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination bolstered by endorsements, told a cheering union hall on Friday that he would provide relief for homeowners struggling to make mortgage payments and deliver tax cuts to the middle-class.

“We’re going to put money in the pockets of hardworking Americans who deserve it. That’s what I’m fighting for,” Obama told hotel and restaurant workers packed into the steamy union hall of the Culinary Workers Union, Local 226. The Illinois senator said he identified with their economic hardships.

How about identifying with responsible homeowners and responsible taxpayers who’ll be paying for all this election-year largesse–much of it not to Americans “who deserve it,” but to people who shouldn’t have been taking out home loans they couldn’t pay for and mortgage companies that shouldn’t have taken them on as customers?

How about them?

***

More on the candidates’ various flavors of Hillarycare from the WSJ:

The top three Democratic candidates have called for various measures that move beyond the current administration’s effort to get lenders to voluntarily modify troubled loans. The Democratic plans share elements, including the creation of a federal fund to help homeowners refinance onerous mortgages, legal protections for lenders to free them to alter individual mortgage terms, and tighter regulation of lenders to prevent future crises.

But the plans from Democrats contain some differences, which could become accentuated in Nevada, and later, in big states such as California. Both Mrs. Clinton and John Edwards have said that if the mortgage industry doesn’t voluntarily agree to enlarge and lengthen the terms of a plan backed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and agree to a foreclosure moratorium, they would force the lenders to do so through legislation.

Barack Obama opposes making laws to force such moves. An Obama adviser says that a mandatory moratorium and rate freeze — which could force lenders to hold loan interest rates below market levels — could deter them from re-entering the market and would delay the return of liquidity.

There could also be legal issues, the adviser says. “There would certainly be some serious constitutional issues to consider from the government trying to directly change the terms of millions of mortgage contracts after the fact,” the adviser says. Mr. Obama thinks the industry should make these changes voluntarily.

What about the GOP?

Republicans for the most part support President Bush’s approach on the issue, to get lenders and mortgage-bond investors to agree voluntarily to modify some troubled loans. They haven’t unveiled separate plans like the Democrats, but two candidates, Mitt Romney and John McCain, have indicated that more might need to be done should the situation worsen, a view echoed by Mr. Paulson earlier this week…

…Republicans for the most part support President Bush’s approach on the issue, to get lenders and mortgage-bond investors to agree voluntarily to modify some troubled loans. They haven’t unveiled separate plans like the Democrats, but two candidates, Mitt Romney and John McCain, have indicated that more might need to be done should the situation worsen, a view echoed by Mr. Paulson earlier this week.

“There’s clearly an additional need to consider other measures,” Mr. McCain said Wednesday. “I will know within a very short period of time whether these policies are succeeding or not,” he said of Mr. Paulson’s plan to persuade lenders voluntarily to modify some troubled mortgages. Mr. Romney has called for the creation of a business cooperative that would pool the bad loans in one entity that would then be able to handle individual solutions with homeowners. Romney’s aides also say he favors increased funding for a government chartered housing-services agency called NeighborWorks America.

Mr. Huckabee mentions the housing market in his new ad. But he hasn’t proposed government intervention. He said in Iowa that he fully supports the administration’s voluntary plan.

Messrs. Obama and Edwards support a bill currently in the Senate to amend bankruptcy law to allow judges to alter the terms of a mortgage.


1,096 posted on 01/13/2008 4:32:09 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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One Man's Fairy Tale

Is another man's racial slur. The Obama campaign plays the language cognition card.

Update: "One of the stranger things of an increasingly strange campaign season is to hear that a former President of the United States obsequiously called into the Al Sharpton radio show to sort of apologize?—or at least to gain a reprieve from Sharpton for Bill Clinton's supposedly intemperate caricatures of Sen. Obama."

Posted by Kate at 11:36 AM | Comments (23)--That's a really offensive tactic on the part of the Obama set - to imply racism in a remark.

I'm against both Clinton and Obama, but in defense of Clinton, what she was clearly saying in her remark about Martin Luther King and President Johnson was to differentiate between words and actions. King's words about equality rights had to be put into action and it was Johnson who did that.

The point Clinton was making was that Obama is all 'talk and no action'. He's endlessly talking about 'change' and 'hope' and 'the future' but has no practical plan of action on anything that would result in such feelings of 'change, hope in the future'. None.

Obama is a pure propagandist, working on people's emotions to bond them to him. There's no practical plan for any policies; he's attracting them by pure emotion. That's what Clinton was focusing on...and how did the Obama camp deal with this criticism? By diverting attention from the criticism that 'you are all words and no actions' to yet another emotional tactic. Racism.

Claiming that to criticize Martin Luther King is 'an act of racism'. Heh...we are coming to the point where to criticize Barak Hussein Obama is going to be defined as 'an act of racism'.

The Democratic race has two utopians, two sides of the same utopian coin, pitted against each other. Obama is the Talk Guy, pure rhetoric, pure emotion. Clinton is the Authoritarian Social Engineer. Both of them are Big Govt Solves Everything types; both of them reject the individual, both reject critical reasoning and focus only on swaying the peasants by Emotion.

Obama's emotional values are Adoration, Hope, Change and ..now..Pity, ie, racism. Clinton's emotional values are Fear, Authority and Intimidation. She'll sway the peasants to obey out of fear of govt retribution.

Both of them are utopians; both of them set up a system that is forever focused, not on Now and Current Realities...but..on the future. Since your agenda always takes place in the future, you are always unaccountable. Always. If criticized, you will always claim that the situation was meant to be finalized In the Future, and the reason why it isn't final now, is because, you twit, Now is Not The Future.

[Notice the comparison to Stephane Dion, another utopian, who also rejects criticism of his actions of the past and present, claiming that any failures are due to the fact that Now is Not The Future..and IF he had been allowed to govern until The Future...all would be well..eg..his claims about Kyotoism etc).

Posted by: ET at January 12, 2008 12:36 PM
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1,097 posted on 01/13/2008 8:36:31 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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1,098 posted on 01/13/2008 3:26:23 PM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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Women trivialize politics by rushing to Clinton in the tracks of her tears--They were the reason I left the democratic party and became a Republican. They ruled by emotion, and turned groups of people against each other daily...smokers vs. anti-smokers, black vs. white, young vs. old, gun owners vs. anti-gunners, gay vs, straight,male vs. female, on and on...if you keep everyone divided, you can get away with murder-and the party, in obsession with them, since they saw they (Clintons) never lost, remade itself in their image and became the party of emotion. Reid and Bela Pelosi are literally carbon copies of Bill and Hill.

1,099 posted on 01/14/2008 4:59:33 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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1,100 posted on 01/14/2008 12:48:30 PM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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