Barack captured the Democratic presidential nomination last night and claimed victory in St. Paul,and will become the first African-American candidate to head a major-party ticket.
Barack, a forty-six year old first-term US Senator from Illinois, began his career as a community organizer in Chicago after graduating from Harvard Law School. He outpaced other contenders for the Democratic nomination with an emphasis on changing the political status quo in Washington and is well on his way at doing just that. Barack put the finishing touches on the race last night with his win in Montana which put him well over the top in delegates to secure the nomination.
Hillary Clinton on the other hand, who won the South Dakota primary --speaking to her supporters in New York City, there was no concession ....and no indication that her quest for the nomination is over stating that she wasn't making any decisions yet, not even congratulating Barack on his Historic win. "Only stating he ran a good race" "She's also still telling her supporters that she is the stronger candidate. To me that doesn't sound like she wants to bring the party together. It sounds like she 's poisoning the well to me" Her supporters are now actively pushing to Blackmail Senator Obama into putting Hillary Clinton on his ticket as Vice President.
I for one thought that it was the nominee's choice to make who their Vice President will be "NOT" supporters from the other side signing petitions that don't mean a damn thing trying to force Barack into a box. I knew when the media first reported this that she was interested in being V.P. that she was trying steal Barack's historic moment as well as putting Barack in a no win situation, if he says yes then he'll go against the change message and look like a liar, if he says no then he's a bad guy for not picking her when she received so many votes.
Everything the Clinton's have done in this race has been underhanded, and last night proved just that. Here are the photograph's from the historic rally in St. Paul last night i hope everyone enjoys them.
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As Barack edge's closer to capturing the Democratic presidential nomination in his historic White House bid today amid speculation that Hillary Clinton will soon drop out the media outlets have all but made it clear that Barack's candidacy is not historic at all focusing all of their attention on why Hillary Clinton should stay in the race to convince super delegates that she is the stronger candidate.The Clinton campaign denied a report that the New York senator would say tonight -- after final voting in this primary season has come to a close -- that Obama has the delegates to secure the Democratic nomination, and they still reserve the right to take this to the convention "said Harold Ickes" Clinton campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe told CNN Hillary will "absolutely not" conceding the campaign and said The Associated Press report was completely incorrect. The nomination fight goes on until somebody gets the magic number and that isn't there today and that is not at all what Senator Clinton is going to talk about tonight," McAuliffe said.Citing two unidentified senior campaign officials, the AP said Clinton, who is trailing Barack in the five-month state-by-state nominating contest, would stop short of suspending or ending her bid to face Republican John McCain in the November general election.I find it not surprising that the biased news media is now trying to make the case for Hillary to be on Barack's ticket by stating those same tired arguments about those"HARD WORKING -WHITE- BLUE COLLAR VOTERS"as they say-- that Bill Clinton didn't even carry in 1992, but all of the media outlets and Hillary Clinton's people are stating Barack has to carry them in the general election in order to but successful in the fall election.The Clinton's are not about party unity and never have been, it's always been about her, never America. They have damaged Barack somewhat with their inflammatory race and gender baiting language trying to poison the well as they say. I have lost all respect for the Clinton's and Senator Obama will lose allot of respect if he chooses Hillary Clinton as a running mate.Expectations Clinton is near conceding have been building as Democrats in the final two states -- Montana and South Dakota -- went to the polls. Voting ends in South Dakota at 7 p.m. MDT/9 p.m. EDT (0100 GMT), and in Montana an hour later, with results expected shortly after, but Clinton refuses to see the writing on the wall, this sense of entitlement that they seem to have that the Presidency was owed to them is mind-boggling---> Video 1 Video 2With 31 delegates to the Democrats' August convention at stake, the two states are the last to vote. The party's battle has pitted Barack Obama who would be only the second unifying U.S. Chief Executive against a woman who would be the country's first female president. But as it stands now that time has now passed as Barack will be the Democratic party's nominee and will go on to become President of this great nation, the only question on everyones mind is who will you choose as your Vice President.
I JUST HOPE IT'S NOT HILLARY.
Montana & South Dakota--are Often paid scant attention too in U.S. presidential elections, Native Americans are taking an unusually high profile in the final stretch of the Democratic primary campaign.
One Montana tribe, the Crow Nation, has ceremoniously adopted Obama, giving him a name which means "one who helps people throughout this land."
"Never before have we had such hope for a candidate, except maybe a Kennedy," said Crow Chairman Carl Venne, who said Obama was the first U.S. presidential candidate ever to visit his tribe in southeastern Montana.
In previous elections, the party's candidate has been decided long before primary voting in Montana and South Dakota. Barack is looking to put the finishing touches on these two final contests June 3.
Just above 1 percent of the U.S. population is Native American, but the numbers rise to more than 6 percent in Montana on the Canadian border. Depending on turnout, they could represent as many as 15 percent of Montana's Democratic voters, numbers that could tip the state's outcome although Barack appears poised overall to win both national contest.
Extreme Poverty is widespread among many tribes especially in remote areas of the Western states and many Native Americans see Democrats as more sympathetic to issues important on the reservations including more jobs and better health care and education. As many Native Americans see the effects still linger today of being given booze and being tricked and forced off their lands, as well as the hardships they have gone through in times past and they look to Obama for change they can believe in again.
Many Native Americans state they don't trust disgraced Republican John McCain as they stated he doesn't share their values, he only represents George Bush and big money interest. "You know" i happen to agree with the Native Americans on this one John McCain is not fit to be the leader of the free world. "And that's the gospel truth"
Barack also made stops in South Dakota at the now famous Corn Palace, I for one didn't think such a place existed till i witnessed it first hand. Much hard work is being done in Montana and South Dakota right now as i speak to you and people are still FIRED UP" and READY TO GO........are you?
For those who missed the Rally at the Corn Palace here is the Video Link
LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Bill Richardson stated Yesterday Democrats will eventually unite once the hard-fought presidential nomination battle between Barack and Hillary Rodham Clinton is resolved but that process may take time.
“There’s going to be a need for healing,” Richardson, a former White House hopeful who is backing Obama.
Bill Richardson, who had served as energy secretary and ambassador to the United Nations in former disgraced President Bill Clinton’s administration, remained on the fence for several weeks before deciding to support Barack two months ago.
After announcing his decision, he talked of a tense phone call with Hillary Rodham Clinton when he broke the news to her. James Carville, a longtime adviser to Bill Clinton, called Richardson a “Judas.” for supporting Barack.
Barack, who now holds leads in every category Popular Vote- Super Delegates-Pledged Delegates- and States won over Hillary Rodham Clinton that are insurmountable, was on the campaign trail with Richardson on Monday. The governor Richardson introduced the Illinois senator at a Memorial Day veterans forum in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Richardson, who is of Latino descent, provides more of a boost to Obama’s efforts to court Hispanic voters that aren't familiar with him.
Campaigning in Puerto Rico last weekend, Obama spoke some Spanish phrases into his speech. Richardson said the senator’s Spanish is “passable” but the effort is appreciated by these voters.
Although Latinos gravitated toward Clinton in many of the primary races because they were familiar with Hillary Clinton, Richardson said Obama can boost his support by increasing his visibility with the community.
Listing some of the messages that will help Barack, Richardson said, “He talks about respect. He’s a minority himself” and comes from a family of modest means.
Today disgraced Republican John McCain took aim at our presidential nominee Barack Obama and what he calls Barack's lack of military service. Drawing a rebuke from our Democratic front-runner for his "endless diatribes and schoolyard taunts."
McCain's opposition to Senate legislation that would expand educational benefits for military veterans ignited a heated cross-fire between the two White House contenders as they gear up for November's presidential election campaign.
McCain, a former Navy pilot and prisoner of war in Vietnam, and War hero, "That depends on who you ask though" As his own people have swiftboated him. He reacted childishly after Barack criticized him for opposing the legislation. The disgraced Arizona senator did not even return to the Senate to vote on the measure, which passed easily.
"I take a backseat to no one in my affection, respect and devotion to veterans," McCain said. "And I will not accept from Senator Obama, who did not feel it was his responsibility to serve our country in uniform, any lectures on my regard for those who did."
Barack, a Harvard graduate who did not serve in the military, but has served this nation for many years on the ground in grassroots work drew McCain's ire by saying on the Senate floor: "I can't understand why he (McCain) would line up behind the president in opposition to this GI bill. I can't believe why he believes it is too generous to our veterans."
After McCain's childish attacks on Barack for what he called an attack, the Illinois senator responded by saying he was disappointed by it.
"These endless diatribes and schoolyard taunts from the McCain campaign do nothing to advance the debate about what matters to the American people," Barack said.
At a subsequent news conference in Stockton, California, John McCain stated he opposed the legislation because he wanted to make sure the Defense Department retains some people for a career in the military.
"That doesn't jive with me as those veterans have earned every penny that legislation has to offer and John McCain better get on board and quit playing these damn word games."
Tampa Florida -Our Democratic presidental candidate and presumtive nominee Barack Obama has opened an 8-point national lead on disgraced and flip flopping Republican John McCain as the U.S. presidential rivals turn their focus to a general election race, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released today.
Barack, who was tied with McCain in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup last month that i find hard to believe, moved to a 48 percent to 40 percent lead over the disgraced Arizona senator in May as he took command of his Democratic presidential duel with disgraced rival Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The Illinois senator has not yet secured the Democratic presidential nomination to run against McCain in November, but it's coming soon as Barack has wrapped up the majority of pledged delegates last night.
The poll also found Barack expanded his lead over Hillary in the Democratic race to 26 percentage points, doubling his advantage from mid-April as Democrats begin to coalesce around Barack and prepare for the general election battle with John McCain.
"Barack has been very resilient, bouncing back from rough periods and doing very well with independent voters," pollster John Zogby said. "The race with McCain is going to be very competitive." I for one find that very hard to believe, as this man can barely get 300 people to a rally and his fundrising is in the water.
The poll was taken last Thursday through Sunday during a period when Barack came under attack from disgraced President George W. Bush and McCain for his promise to talk to hostile foreign leaders without preconditions.
Barack's gains followed a month in which he was plagued with a series of campaign controversies that the media created and blew out of proportion and suffered two losses to Clinton in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
The news media FOX, MSNBC, CNN, etc. have been trying to manufacture another FAKE controversy regarding Barack having a problem with carrying the WHITE HARD WORKING BLUE COLLAR VOTERS in Kentucky and in West Virginia when exit polls showed that those folks voted for Hillary because of skin color.
So Senator Obama doesn't have the problem "THEY HAVE THE PROBLEM" Barack has won in states around the country that hardly have any black people. So it's high time the media start focusing on the truth and stop trying to derail Senator Obama's presidential run.
Yesterday Barack greeted a record-breaking crowd of 75,000 in Portland, Ore. ahead of that state’s primary this Tuesday. Even if things “go as we hope,” he said, our campaign won’t declare victory in the Democratic primary that night, even though Oregon could tip the majority of pledged delegates my way.
While “that does not mean we declare victory,” Barack added, it puts me close and makes it easier for undecided and undeclared superdelegates to endorse me.
It’s a reflection of our campaign’s supreme confidence in the delegate math at this juncture—the campaign now appears secure enough in its commanding position that it no longer feels compelled to declare victory in an attempt to marginalize Clinton.
In the general election, however, Oregon is not a sure thing for the Democrats. “Some Republicans believe disgraced Senator John McCain’s so-called maverick image will play well in a state with a history of affection for contrarian Republicans.
Bill and Chelsea Clinton also were in Oregon on Sunday, campaigning on behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton in Salem holding ridiculous low turnout Town Hall meetings. By my count maybe 200 people were there. “Don’t you let anyone tell you she can’t win,” Bill Clinton said staying on those same tired arguments. “She can still win this thing, the superdelegates just have to overturn this thing.”
I for one don't think that's going to happen" Superdelegates aren't going to overturn anything.
“In wrapping up the case for his wife, Bill Clinton did not criticize Barack, who is heavily favored to win in Oregon on Tuesday,” writes The Oregonian. “Instead, he directed his sharpest comments at the news media, citing what he said were recent studies that concluded that the Democratic primary campaign had been the subject of ‘the most biased, one-sided media coverage in the history of American politics." All of which seem to favor her opponent.
Senator Obama plans to return to Iowa where it all began, where Iowians gave Barack his first caucus victory, he also will make his first foray into Florida at the end of this week trying to feel things out before the general election.
Meanwhile Barack and the rest the the family made several stops including an ice cream shop...sound and looks good Ice Cream anyone............
Our presumitive Democratic nominee Barack Obama stated today that Republican critics should stop distorting his wife Michelle's words.
"These folks need to lay off my wife," Obama said in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America."
Obama was referring to a four-minute edited video posted on YouTube by the disgracful Tennessee Republican Party last week during a visit by Michelle Obama that portrayed a remark she made in February in an distorted and unflattering manner.
Michelle Obama's remark that "for first time in my adult lifetime I'm proud of my country" stirred a controversy at the time. Critics said it sounded unpatriotic and suggested she had not been proud of her country before her husband's candidacy. But those comments were taken out of context, as she meant she was proud that hope was finally making a come back.
In the ABC interview, Barack, an Illinois senator and Democratic front-runner to contest the November election against disgraced Republican John McCain, called the video "low class" and said "most of the American people would think that as well."
The Republican video repeatedly showed Michelle Obama making the proud remark interspersed with comments by Tennesseans about their own patriotism.
"Whoever is in charge of the Tennessee GOP needs to think long and hard about the kind of campaign that they want to run," Obama said.
Michelle Obama joined her husband in the ABC interview and said she believed voters were more focused on the issues.
"We are trusting that the American voters are ready to talk about the issues and not talking about things that have nothing to do with making people's lives better," she said.
I have to agree with Michelle and Barack on this one, as the American people will not be fooled by the old style sleaze ball tactics of the Republican party.
WATERTOWN, South Dakota -Our Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama said today President George W. Bush's "failed policies" had strengthened U.S. enemies like Iran and Hamas.
Responding to Bush's ridiculous comment on Thursday that those who want to talk to Iran were like Nazi appeasers before the Second World War, Obama accused Bush of "exactly the kind of appalling attack that's divided the country and that alienates us from the world."
Barack also challenged Bush and disgraced Republican presidential rival John McCain to a debate on foreign policy issues, a day after Bush caused outrage among Democrats with his despicable remarks on appeasement before the Israeli parliament.
McCain, who has clinched his party's presidential nomination, did not repeat the word "appeasement" on Thursday. But he did criticize Obama's pledge to speak directly to U.S. foes, particularly Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He said Obama needs to explain why he would talk to him.
"If George Bush and John McCain want to have a debate about protecting the United States of America, that is a debate that I'm happy to have any time, any place, and that is a debate that I will win because George Bush and John McCain have a lot to answer for," Obama said in his campaign speech in South Dakotajust a few hours ago.
"They've got to answer for the fact that Iran is the greatest strategic beneficiary of our invasion of Iraq. It made Iran stronger, George Bush & John McCain's policies," he said.
"They're going to have to explain why Hamas now controls Gaza, Hamas that was strengthened because the United States insisted that we should have democratic elections in the Palestinian Authority."
"That's the Bush-McCain record on protecting this country," he added. "Those are the failed policies that John McCain wants to double down on.
" I agree with Barack and JFK on this one "We should never negotiate out of fear, but never fear to negotiate" Strong countries and strong presidents negotiate without resort to WAR.
Democrat Barack Obama's campaign chief predicted on Sunday his long primary battle against former and disgraced first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton for the party's presidential nomination would soon be over, saying "we're coming to the end of the process." Interviewed on "Fox News Sunday," David said undecided superdelegates to the party convention who will decide the nomination were opting for Barack.
The Junior senator from Illinois would be only the second unifying U.S. president in history behind JFK if elected in November. "You're going to see people (superdelegates) making decisions at a rapid pace from this point on," he said. "We've been announcing several each day for the last few days. We're going to continue to unfurl these endorsements on a regular basis."
And as usual Hillary Clinton's senior adviser Howard Wolfson, appearing on the same program, offered plenty of spin and P.R., rejected the idea that the campaign was over and predicted victory in the next state primary in West Virginia on Tuesday. "If Barack Obama wants Hillary Clinton out of this race, beat her. Beat her in West Virginia, beat her in Puerto Rico, beat her in Kentucky," he said, referring to three of the final six contests for the nomination, all of which favor Clinton.
"Of course Mr. Wolfson would say beat her in those states as Hillary Clinton is heavily favored in those states due to the voting demographic of the elderly, white blue collar Regan democrats as they say,and the uneducated voter that seems to be propping up Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential ambitions.
He also stated if Obama, won the nomination, the New York senator would throw all her support and resources behind him against Republican nominee John McCain, that remains to be seen as all i have seen so far in this primary election process is race & gender baiting games being played by the Clinton's to taint the electorate to make Senator Obama unelectable in the general so that she may run again in 2012.
Hillary Clinton,meanwhile spent Mother's Day playing the gender card in West Virginia, calling for more progress toward full equality for women. "Because they are being kept down by us men. "Hard work and resiliency are encoded in our genes," she said, picking up on two qualities she herself has won praise for during the exhausting presidential campaign.
The latter talking point may be accurate, hard work and being resilient may be encoded in the genes but as a 34 year old male I'm offended that Hillary Clinton keeps injecting race and gender into all of her talking points like this country is still back in the 50's and 60's and all males are out to keep all females down and in their places.
It's like Caucasian Americans thinking every black person is a thug or a criminal when you see them, or all African Americans thinking all whites are out to get them and trying to keep them down, it's just not true."THESE ARE STEREOTYPES THAT ARE MEANT TO DIVIDE US" We have made much progress in this country but the work is not finished.
If i were Hillary Clinton i would take a chapter out of Abraham Lincoln's book and realize that "A HOUSE DIVIDED CAN NOT STAND" "STOP DIVIDING THE HOUSE HILLARY" Meanwhile Barack is looking forward toward the general election and battling John McCain making several stops and looking more Presidential by the day.
This is an update on a previous post, as I felt the need to update the list to include more of the best and worst on television. Many of you in my friends network and in the community have given me much insight on this so i have revised the list......
Many of the news networks are very hard at work trying to kill Senator Obama's candidacy by running and mentioning the Rev. Wright fiasco in every political update. The major news networks have mentioned Rev.Wright 237 times between the three networks "and that's just what i caught" and it's not even 3:00pm yet. So you can see that they are trying to desperately kill his candidacy. Barack has been under attack from all three fronts ever since the Potomac Primaries when he reeled off 11 straight wins.
As a lifelong member of the Democratic party I have never witnessed a candidate be blatantly sabotaged by the media on guilt by association in an effort to kill that persons candidacy. It's saddens me to think that we don't truly live in a free country it's all controlled and manipulated by very powerful people. What the Government and Media are doing over here in this country is no different then what they have been doing right now in China or the former Soviet Union. We need Senator Obama in the White House more then ever to change the trajectory where this country is headed.
Now here is the Best & Worst in the media. Enjoy everyone.......
These are the best on Television:
Kieth Olbermann on Countdown, Eugene Robinson on MSNBC, Jack Cafferty on CNN, Larry King on Larry King Live, Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, and Roland Martin on CNN
On the line that border negative, but I'm not ready to put them on the scumbags list:
Chris Matthews on Hardball, Dan Abrams on Verdict, Mika Brzezinski on Morning joe
These are the Worst of the Worst on Television:
Joe Scarborough on Morning Joe, Tucker Carlson his show was canceled, Anderson Cooper on 360, Amy Robach on MSNBC, Bill O'Reilly on FOX, Candy Crowley on CNN, Contessa Brewer MSNBC Anchor, Race for the White House with David Gregory on MSNBC a poor show i hope gets canceled, Brit Hume on FOX, Jessica Yellin on CNN, Sean Hannity on FOX, Pat Buchanan on MSNBC ,Gloria Borger on CNN, John King on CNN, Monica Novotny on MSNBC,Rick Sanchez on CNN, Wolf Blitzer on CNN, Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC, Nora O'Donnell on MSNBC, Lou Dobbs on CNN..
First list of scumbags:
Second list of scumbags:
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Hillary Rodham Clinton and conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly must agree on many things as Hillary Clinton has accepted over $250,000 in contributions from FOX news according to F.E.C. Filings, FOX is owned by Rupert Murdoch a right-wing staunchly conservative member of the Republican party.
Hillary Rodham Clinton's appearance was her first visit to "The O'Reilly Factor," and she agreed last week to go head-to-head with the liberal-baiting host on his Fox News Channel show. It was anything but that as the questions were very low ball, softball style and very calculated questions and all centered around Rev. Wright. Not a bad time for Hillary Clinton to end her years-long standoffishness with the O'Reilly program -- sort of the television equivalent of her fake shot-and-a-beer moment in Pennsylvania , where the primary is just days away and everything Ms. Clinton seems to do is very calculated and used to scare up votes,when she was caught in her now proven repeated lies upon lies about Bosnia she used Rev. Wright to defuse the situation now that Barack has fully denounced Rev. Wright and his comments Ms. Clinton wants to go on FOX news a well known network that condones On-Air racism to keep the controversy alive. And not a bad place to reach out to some of those all-important white blue-collar voters, those so-called Reagan Democrats and independents she needs to win some of whom undoubtedly are O'Reilly fans since he himself has racist views and has shared them with his audience on many occasions so Hillary Clinton coming on his show is no surprise to me. The blunt-spoken O'Reilly, who reminded viewers he grew up in Levittown, left no doubt where he stands on Rev. Wright, saying he does really like Obama but actually felt sorry for him that "some loony guy" is derailing his campaign and he won't become President. Hillary Clinton at first was coy on Rev. Wright and Obama, but after being prompted three times by O'Reilly, lit into the fiery Chicago minister and Obama with some of her harshest language yet. She noted Obama had "finally" tried to put some distance between himself and his pastor of 20 years on Tuesday -- though polls suggest the controversy is eroding Obama's standing in the eyes of some voters. "Well, I think Barack has made his views clear, "FINALLY", that he disagreed. Hillary Clinton is taking some hits for appearing on Fox from liberal bloggers -- and from Moveon.org said the interview "does nothing more than legitimize a network that will then use that credibility to smear Democrats and progressive ideas in 2008."
Nothing good could possibly come out of her interview on FOX news"Or maybe I'm wrong, maybe people will finally wake up and realize that they are being played by the Clinton's with Lies and Pandering tactics and finally get on the "CHANGE TRAIN" we'll see.......
If you were planning to vote yesterday in the Pennsylvania primary you had another thing coming as reports of voting machine problems in all of Obama's stronghold precincts. Several machines were malfunctioning in the city, leading one local community leader to allege "dirty tricks" were the cause.
A local elections official interviewed on MSNBC acknowledged some problems early Tuesday morning, but he said those had been resolved before midday. He denied reports that only one or two voting machines were functional in some predominantly African American neighborhoods.
"We had a few problems early on. We always do," Fred Voight, a deputy commissioner in Philadelphia told MSNBC.He called reports of machines damaged and broke down "flat out untrue" and said "everything is working smoothly in the city as we speak." The interview aired around 11:15 a.m. Tuesday.
The Justice Department announced Monday that it would have monitors in Philadelphia to ensure compliance with voting laws. "Well if i say so myself they haven't done to good a job to let this tragedy occur.
Our campaign apparently passed along reports of voting machine problems early Tuesday morning. But nothing seem to be reported in the news, as usual their bias shows through once again in their negative coverage on Senator Obama,and their ambushes masked as debates with Clinton.
In ten Pittsburgh neighborhoods, many reports of voting problems were reported to the Tribune Review:
Our campaign said there were problems with machines in Lincoln Place and the Hill District, but county officials that endorsed Hillary Clinton stated they couldn't confirm anything.
Because of the expected large turnout, election judges' difficulty getting machines started at a polling place in North Braddock and another in the city's Banksville section prompted some concern. At these two sites, election judges, clerks and inspectors, all nominally paid volunteers, initially were unable to print out verification that the voting machines had been set at zero. A technician was dispatched to each location and helped to properly set up the machines,upon further inspection machines had been manipulated and set with 500 to 1500 votes calibrated to Clinton.Only 30 people in Banksville and several more in North Braddock could use emergency paper ballots to cast their votes, "30 ballots for an entire district" If that's not fraud, i don't know what is. Heavily black districts didn't have any ballots at all just broken or defective machines that didn't work.
If this is what it takes to beat Senator Obama, voter fraud, suppression, intimidation, and manipulation by Republicans switching party's to help Hillary Clinton win primary's then John McCain doesn't have a chance in hell in November. WE REALLY KNOW WHO WON IN PENNSYLVANIA, and it wasn't Hillary Clinton. She was declared the winner, the reason i say declared is because she didn't win there straight up and we all know it.
Hillary Clinton is trying to go after the popular vote so that she can have another argument to make to the super delegates that she has more votes then Barack so she should be the nominee, anyone who lies to the American peoples faces then expects something different once she gets in the White House is sadly mistaken. Barack has and will stay true from start to finish.
POLLING STATIONS FOR HILLARY CLINTON HAD NOT ONE PROBLEM
Bill Clinton can’t help himself. He just has to keep lying. I thought his lie about Hillary’s Bosnia lie would make this guy just shut up for awhile. But he is at it again. He starts bragging that his office is in Harlem. That was not voluntary.
Clinton originally chose a plush office on Central Park South in the heart of midtown Manhattan, Clinton’s original office plan would have kept him as far from Harlem or the African-American population as possible.
It was only after a firestorm of criticism of Bill Clinton’s plans for the taxpayers to subsidize him like he is a king that he decided to put his office in Harlem. It was not voluntary. The guy just has a sociopathic need to reinvent his personal history. "He is really scary."
Bill Clinton knows he’s playing in the big leagues, and knows what the rules are. Clinton has made a career out of playing the race card, and in fact plays it again here. He wants to go back to the silly token of being the nation’s “first black president” by accusing the man who might actually become that of relying on identity politics to smear him. That’s a joke coming from the same campaign that has tried to use gender politics since 1992. Or perhaps no one remembers “soccer moms”?
The bigger question is what Clinton hopes to gain. This won’t go viral enough to hurt in Pennsylvania, but North Carolina is right around the corner. Crying about Obama’s identity politics will only make the divide more bitter and lose Hillary ground. If it picks up ground in upcoming Rust Belt states, it will also remind super delegates that they can expect to lose the African-American vote if they support Hillary over Obama in Denver.
Bill’s FCC violation at the end of this clip shows what most have suspected for months. He has become a loose cannon whose actions hurt more than help. His leash obviously needs more shortening." This man is a disgrace. Bill and Hillary Clinton were beloved in the black community, I for one can attest to that as i supported Bill Clinton in his run in 1992 but since the Clinton's have injected race and gender into this primary election season, I can no longer support the Clinton's in anything that they are involved in, even if I'm a lifelong member of the Democratic party.
If you keep injecting race into the primary season then state you were taken out of context, well you can do that only so many times before i have to call you what you are and that being a RACIST. That's just facts. Here is the clip of the radio interview.
It seems that Barack Obama's efforts to woo white voters in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary is working and he is making inroads in small towns all across the state.
Local people called the Illinois senator passionate, patriotic and pro-Christian even after his remarks that residents of small towns in Pennsylvania and elsewhere are bitter because of job losses, and so have turned to traditions like guns, religion and anti-immigrant sentiment.
"He is saying people are strong, traditional and engaged, and they are seeking religion as a way of getting through," said Carter Whitmoyer, 51, a white truck driver, at the gas station in this town of about 200 people 170 miles northwest of Philadelphia. "I think he helped himself I wasn't offended at all." Senator Obama was expressing the views of everyone across America, myself included.
While most minority voters in Pennsylvania are backing Obama in Tuesday's crucial presidential primary, about 42 percent of whites have said they will vote for him, compared with the 53 percent of whites who say they will back Hillary Clinton, according to a Newsmax/Zogby poll published today. That 42 percent of white voters supporting Barack is his average number that has held steady nationally.
Meanwhile i can't forget to tell everyone this" Disgraced democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign began April awash in red ink and trailing Barack Obama in the scramble for cash ahead of Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary, campaign records show.
Documents filed late Sunday with the Federal Election Commission show Clinton raised $20.9 million in March, less than half the $46.8 million raised by Barack.
Clinton's campaign said it had a ridiculous $5 million available for the state-by-state battle for the Democratic nomination, while Obama's campaign reported an record breaking $51 million in the bank.
Clinton's campaign also reported $17.3 million in debt. This is almost laughable the Clinton campaign is a disgrace, It's being kept together by duck tape, media spin and P.R.
Disgraced Arizona Sen. John McCain, who has clinched the Republican nomination, raised a paltry $11.4 million for the months of February and March and ended the month with $6.6 million in the bank. This is ridiculous, this is the man they say has the support of his base. "I don't think so" This man can barely get 400 people to a rally so how can this man win in November.....Exactly" He can't, and won't.
Barack is in Pennsylvania today trying to put this thing to bed, while Hillary Clinton's campaign is as always trying to put spin on everything and has launched a new negative ad against Barack and as usual Barack is staying above the fray.
Mafioso tactics being employed in Pennsylvania by street leaders of volunteers, Fourteen months into a campaign that has the feel of a movement, our candidate Barack Obama has collided with the gritty political traditions of Pennsylvania, where ward bosses love their candidates, but also expect them to pony up the cash. The dispute centers on the dispensing of "street money," a long-standing Pennsylvania ritual in which candidates deliver cash to the city's Democratic operatives in return for getting out the vote.
Flush with payments from well-funded campaigns, the ward leaders and Democratic Party bosses typically spread out the cash in the days before the election, handing $20, $50 and $100 bills to the foot soldiers and loyalists who make up the party's workforce.They state it's all legal -- but Barack's people are telling the local ward bosses he's not paying. This sounds eerily familiar like i have seen this movie before ...Got It.."It was the Godfather with Don Corleone extorting individuals who opposed him. This sets up a culture clash, pitting Barack who promises to transform American politics against the realities of a local political system important to his presidential hopes. Pennsylvania holds its primary April 22.Ward bosses warned Barack that if the senator from Illinois withholds money that gubernatorial, mayoral and presidential candidates have willingly paid out for decades, there could be defections to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. And the Clinton campaign, in contrast, will oblige in forking over the money, these ward leaders predict.Barack's organization is a voluntary organization in it's entirety and that ward bosses should not expect to see any cash from the Obama campaign other than ads on TV and the support that volunteers are giving us," said Greg Paulmier, a ward leader in the northwest part of the city. Carol Ann Campbell, a ward leader and Democratic superdelegate who supports Obama, estimated that the amount of street money Obama would need to lay out for election day is $900,000 to $1,500,000. This thing stinks, it sounds like a modern day Mafia extortion tactics. "This is a machine city, and ward leaders have to pay their committee people," Campbell said. "Barack Obama's campaign doesn't pay workers, and I guarantee you if they don't put up some money for those street workers, those leaders will most likely take Clinton money. It won't stop him from winning Philadelphia, but he won't come out with the numbers that he needs" to win the state. Hardscrabble neighborhoods across the state have come to depend on street money as a welcome payday for knocking on doors, handing out leaflets and speaking to voters as they arrive at polling places. Peter Wilson, a ward leader said: "Most of the ward leaders, we live in a very poor area, and people look forward to election days. . . . People are astute. They know the Obama campaign has raised millions of dollars and those ward bosses want a piece of the action.
" I find it disgraceful that the media is not covering this story.
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Colin Powell was President George W. Bush’s first secretary of state, but that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s supporting the presidential bid of fellow Republican John McCain.
“I’m looking at all three candidates, I know them all very, very well, I consider myself a friend of each and every one of them, and I have not decided who I will vote for yet,” Powell said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
Powell, like McCain, is a military veteran who publicly supported the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and he served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the first Gulf War in 1991.
But while McCain wants a continued U.S. military presence there, Powell said the armed forces will simply be unable to maintain 140,000 troops in Iraq beyond next year.
Whoever is president next year, “they will face a military force, a United States military force, that cannot sustain, continue to sustain, 140,000 people deployed in Iraq,” Powell said. “They will have to continue to draw down at some pace.”
Powell said he was very impressed with Barack Obama, despite the Democratic Illinois senator’s relative lack of experience. As their have been many great presidents that lacked experience, it's judgement that counts.
“Sen. Obama, he didn’t have a lot of experience in running a presidential campaign, did he, but he seems to know how to organize a task and he seems to know how to apply resources to a problem at hand,” Powell said.
Barack is gaining ground on disgraced rival Hillary Rodham Clinton in Pennsylvania, moving within range of an April 22 upset that could end the hard-fought Democratic presidential race months earlier than expected.
Less than two weeks before their next showdown, some opinion polls show Obama cutting Clinton's once 30 point lead in Pennsylvania to single digits and making gains among some voting blocs that have been her most reliable backers.
A Barack win would be a shocking twist in a Democratic race, effectively scuttling Hillary's hopes of overtaking him in the fight for the right to face disgraced Republican John McCain in November's presidential election.
"If Barack wins Pennsylvania, the race is over," said Cal Jillson, a political analyst at Southern Methodist University in Texas.
"That would be a signal to the Democratic Party to move decisively to end this nominating race now and to start looking to the general election," he said.
A loss in Pennsylvania would destroy Hillary's central and ever fading argument in the race against Obama -- that she is the strongest Democratic candidate in the big states the party needs to win in the election battle with McCain.
Pennsylvania had been considered a lock for Clinton because of its high concentration of the older, white, Catholic and blue-collar uneducated voters that form the backbone of the New York senator's entire coalition.But a heavy barrage of television advertising by Barack, who has been tripling Hillary's spending in Pennsylvania,also a highly successful six-day bus tour of the state with Bob Casey helped close the gap.
With many bad weeks for Hillary Clinton because of the lies and fish stories shes been telling have helped tighten the race and people are now starting to see the real Hillary Clinton, maybe folks are waking up.....we'll see.
Meanwhile on the trail........
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WASHINGTON - The top U.S. commander in Iraq told Congress today that Iraqi security gains after a year-old troop increase or the failed surge as they call it" were fragile and said in a report to deeply divided lawmakers he would stop troop withdrawals in July.
An increase in violence -- including the deaths of 20 American personnel in the past 48 hours -- has thrust Iraq back to the forefront of campaigns for the November presidential election.
This obviously blinded Gen. David Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee that despite the meager improvements in security in parts of Iraq "the situation in certain areas is still unsatisfactory and innumerable challenges remain." "Oh yea think"
"Moreover, as events in the past two weeks have reminded us, and as I have repeatedly cautioned, the little progress made since last spring is fragile and reversible," he said. Wow I wonder when these guys will wake up and realize that this war should have never been authorized or waged.
He recommended a 45-day halt in July to a series of troop withdrawals in order to judge developments on the ground and a subsequent assessment period to determine whether security is sufficient to bring a few troops home. "That's a joke right" another 45 days when 5 years and change hasn't worked.
Petraeus' plan to slow troop withdrawals drew a rebuke from the committee chairman, Michigan Democratic Sen. Carl Levin. He called it "an open-ended pause" that would represent "the next page in a war plan with no exit strategy."A clear strategy crafted by the Bush Administration"
Questioning U.S. policy, Levin said even the small political steps taken by the Iraqi government were in jeopardy because of the "incompetence and the excessively sectarian leadership" of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
The United States has 2,120,000 personnel all over the world securing Americas interests around the world, some good some bad. These gentleman have used the words securing Americas interests in Iraq 39 times up till this posting, my question to these gentleman is as follows.
What American interests are you securing over there in Iraq since we shouldn't have been over there in the first place the real fight was in Afghanistan to get Bin Laden and his men that killed 3000 Americans. So I can imagine what those interests are. Could it be OIL Gentleman? The American people didn't sign on for this war in Iraq, George Bush, Hillary Clinton, & John McCain signed on the dotted line for this and Barack will bring this thing to an end in 2009 make no mistake about it.
