This is a great 3 minute clip. Needs as much circulation as possible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c
Ed
We've GOT to have some folks on here who speak fluent Spanish.
Spanish Phone banking contact Traci Johnson at San Juan HQ at traci.jeanette@gmail.com
Please send this to all media outlets.
The Women's Voices Women's Vote has been making robo-calls to most of the primary states. They have been targeting the African-American Community.In these calls they use the name "Lamont Williams." The voice is male. The call says they are sending a voter registration packet that must be signed. This gives the illusion that the voter is not properly registered. The call comes when it is too late to register. In effect, this will keep people home. The media has picked up part of the story. But, the real story follows: The research can be find: www. southernstudies.orgWVWV is a DC non-profit. The head of it is Page Gardner. She donates to Hillary ClintonMimi Mager also donates to ClintonJohn Podesta is a big time Clinton supporter. But, the real link is Maggie Williams. Hillary's campaign manager. She's been on the board of the group.
I split up the hour this evening with the first 1/2 hour going to IN and the second going to NC. This is a good order because if you start to get down with the "undecideds" in IN you will be lifted by the great support in NC. At least that was my experience tonight.
A couple suggestions it is probably way too late to address: We really should have more info on the IN voters than first name. I find asking a guy if I can speak with Sherri a little uncomfortable. Tomorrow I will identify myself first. Second, the NC phone tool (longhorn_03) does not permit recording info for everyone listed at that address. You can pick one but when you have four family members who are strong Obama we should be able to record that.
I hope you guys had a good get together this morning. See ya next time.
If anyone hasn't checked out the HQ blog it is always a good read. HQ puts out a new thread every few hours and each draws hundreds of posters from across the country. Great way to keep up with the campaign.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/hqblog
Picture this clip running on TV in the Fall and tell me who is unelectable? Wait for the great ending!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exsmFDYyK4U
Also, is any of the MSM picking up the "Screw 'em" Clinton story?
Since Clinton keeps saying Obama is unelectable, just picture this clip running in the Fall. Now who is "unelectable"?
This is new and needs to get a lot of views. Wait for the end. It is priceless. Now who in unelectable?
Keith commenting on the "debate" now
Hillary Clinton On Southern Working Class Whites In 1995: "Screw 'Em"
Sam Stein
The Huffington Post
April 16, 2008 02:21 PM
During the past week, Sen. Hillary Clinton has presented herself as a working class populist, the politician in touch with small town sentiments, compared to the elitism of her opponent, Sen.Barack Obama.
But a telling anecdote from her husband's administration shows Hillary Clinton's attitudes about the "lunch-bucket Democrats" are not exactly pristine.
In January 1995, as the Clintons were licking their wounds from the 1994 congressional elections, a debate emerged at a retreat at Camp David. Should the administration make overtures to working class white southerners who had all but forsaken the Democratic Party? The then-first lady took a less than inclusive approach.
"Screw 'em," she told her husband. "You don't owe them a thing, Bill. They're doing nothing for you; you don't have to do anything for them."
The statement -- which author Benjamin Barber witnessed and wrote about in his book, "The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House" -- was prompted by another speaker raising the difficulties of reaching "Reagan Democrats." It stands in stark contrast to the attitude the New York Democrat has recently taken on the campaign trail, in which she has presented herself as the one candidate who understands the working-class needs.
"I don't think [Obama] really gets it that people are looking for a president who stands up for you and not looks down on you," she said this week.
But those who were at the event say the 1995 episode fits into her larger political viewpoint. As Harry Boyte, the director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Democracy and Citizenshipwho was at the retreat, told The Huffington Post: "[Hillary Clinton] sees herself as the champion of the oppressed, but there is always a kind of good guy versus bad guy mentality. The comment before that was that 'the Reagan Democrats are our enemies and they weren't on our side,' and she was agreeing with that comment. She said we should write them off: screw them."
Perhaps even more telling than Hillary Clinton's "screw 'em" proclamation, however, were the words from her husband that followed. As reported by Barber, Clinton "stepped in, calm and judicious, not irritated, as if rehearsing an old but honorable debate he had been having with his wife for decades."
I know how you feel. I understand Hillary's sense of outrage. It makes me mad too. Sure, we lost our base in the South; our boys voted for Gingrich. But let me tell you something. I know these boys. I grew up with them. Hardworking, poor, white boys, who feel left out, feel that our reforms always come at their expense. Think about it, every progressive advance our country has made since the Civil War has been on their backs. They're the ones asked to pay the price of progress. Now, we are the party of progress, but let me tell you, until we find a way to include t hese boys in our programs, until we stop making them pay the whole price of liberty for others, we are never going to unite our party, never really going to have change that sticks.
If the tone and tenor of the above sounds familiar, it's because the message, Boyte says, is remarkably similar to what Obama was trying to convey in his now controversial remarks about small town America.
"Well, yeah, absolutely," said Boyte, when asked if Obama and Bill Clinton we re expressing the same political viewpoint (Boyte said he and his organization are neutral in the presidential race). "I think Obama's better-or-worse versions of this have always been that people are complicated. It comes from an organizing perceptive. You don't write off people, everyone is complicated. It just depends on the issue. And that's what Bill Clinton was saying. He was a sentimental populist."
Not to be lost in all this, as Boyte notes, is that Hillary Clinton has consistently been a "champion for the people who were helpless and powerless." But there is a political component to the mindset.
"Hillary Clinton has a very strong customer view: the citizen is the customer and the government the vender," said Boyte. "You can see it in Mark Penn's frame. In fact, last Christmas she had an ad of herself writing checks to different groups."
The Clinton campaign did not immediately return a request for comment.
Sam Stein is a Political Reporter at the Huffington Post, based in Washington, D.C. Previously he has worked for Newsweek magazine, the New York Daily News and the investigative journalism group Center for Public Integrity. He has a masters from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is a graduate of Dartmouth College. Sam can be reached at stein@huffingtonpost.com.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/16/hillary-clinton-on-workin_n_97017.html?view=print
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Is it just me or does the Clinton campaign have a strange knack for producing Onion-like headlines of hilarious irony? Didn't we all see this coming? Hillary's latest ad in which (to quote from Sargent's post on TPM Election Central) "ordinary Pennsylvania residents express their displeasure about Obama's comments" includes - you guessed it - a guy from New Jersey.So here's a question - is the Clinton campaign putting us on, or are they really this dense?
Another from the Philly Daily News:
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/john_baer/20080414_John_Baer__Decades_of_working-class_neglect_-_now_that_s_insulting.html
"How Hillary Lost My Vote"
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/opinion/17414309.html
How Hillary lost my vote...
