Hillary Is 44

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Democratic Culture Of Corruption

Lift the rock, find the snakes.

Now we know why Florida Congressman Robert Wexler did not care that Florida votes did not count during this primary cycle.

Now we know why Florida Congressman Robert Wexler did not care that Florida voters were disenfranchised.

Now we know why Robert Wexler defended Obama and abandoned his constitutents at the Democratic? Rules and By-laws Committee.

Now we know why Congressman Robert Wexler supports Barack Obama.

Answer: Birds of a feather… um… roost together. The Democratic Culture of Corruption is back.

Florida Congressman Robert Wexler did not care that Florida votes did not count during the primaries because he has abandoned Florida for Maryland.

The Florida Congressman who represents Obama, not Florida:

You see, the longtime Democratic rep says he lives in Delray Beach and he’s required to maintain a residence in his district. But he really lives in Potomac MD. The house in Delray that he calls his “offical residence” is owned by Lawrence and Roslyn Cohen, the parents of Wexler’s wife, Laurie. And it’s in a restricted over-55 community, which makes it impossible for Wexler and and his three children to reside there. [snip]

You might think this seems a small matter and you might not like the vigor with which O’Reilly goes after Wexler (fresh liberal meat, you know). But it’s about more than partisan politics or even the fact that Wexler hasn’t lived in his district for ten years and lists a sham residence in official papers. Put bluntly, this is a sleazy and unethical move by Wexler and O’Reilly and the Wall Street Journal’s John Fund touch on the reasons why. For one, he gets a housing deduction from Congress to help him maintain two residences. Unless, he’s paying Mrs. Cohen rent when he sleeps on the pull-out, he’s just pocketing that little federal benefit.

Another thing is that he might be using the sham Delray house for tax purposes — as in, to not pay them. Florida doesn’t have a state income tax, Maryland does. That means his little deceit might be bringing him more than a little coin. It’s not proven, but his cars are, weirdly, registered in Florida and it deserves to be looked into.

Basically, this could be tantamount to fraud and it could actually have some legs, though I seriously doubt we’ll see any criminal charges and I’m quite certain his loyal voters will quickly forgive him. He’s good ol’ Bobby Wexler, after all.

That’s why we wrote:

Fight against Robert Wexler who brags about how much he helped and is helping Obama. Wexler is now whining about what a tough race he faces in very Democratic and very Pro-Hillary Broward County against a self-funded candidate. Wexler helped disenfranchise Florida Democratic voters. Now he wants Democratic voters to help him. “Just Say NO”. NOvember.

We also wrote:

Also, do NOT vote for those who enabled the race-baiting, gay-bashing, women-hating Obama campaign. Fight against John Kerry. Force Kerry to spend his Summer in Massachusetts fighting for his job - which is supposed to be representing the will of the people of Massachusetts. [snip]

Fight against the John Kerry who thinks Obama should be elected “because he is African-American”. John Kerry must still think Governor Patrick was a good choice because of the color of his skin too.

Kerry, still using the term “tar baby” - when will Kerry be called a “racist” or is he exempt from the charge because he supports Obama?

Massachusetts voters have a choice in the Democratic primary:

The Plymouth Democratic Town Committee recently announced that Ed O’Reilly, currently in the running for U.S. Senate, will be the guest speaker at its annual fundraising golf tournament dinner at 5:30 p.m. Friday, July 25, at the Squirrel Run Golf and Country Club.

This will be O’Reilly’s first public appearance in Plymouth.

O’Reilly received an unpredicted 23 percent of the vote for the U.S. Senate nomination at the Massachusetts Democratic Convention in Lowell last month. He is running against U.S. Senator John Kerry, who has run unchallenged since he took office 23 years ago.

O’Reilly, 55, has been a criminal defense trial attorney for 25 years. He worked his way through law school as a firefighter and fisherman. Raised in Watertown, he lives in Gloucester.

O’Reilly strongly supports the orderly and complete withdrawal of our troops from Iraq; the end of special interest manipulation in Washington, D.C.; universal health care; progress of the green and renewable energy industries; and the halt of global warming.

Then there is Obama enabler John Edwards. We defended Edwards when allegations about his personal life emerged last year. We lightly mocked Edwards about his sprawling house purchase and his $400 haircut charged to the contributors to his campaign. We thought at the time that Edwards’ haircut/house problems were mostly irrelevant but also foolish, self-inflicted, and displayed tone-deafness for a candidate who sold himself as a tribune of the poor.

Edwards enabled Obama not only with an endorsement of unqualified Obama but also repeatedly called Hillary Clinton’s character into question.

Edwards, when not attacking Hillary on a personal and character basis utilized his wife’s cancer to prop up his dead on arrival campaign.

Now this, ignored by Big Media which ceaselessly speculated about Bill Clinton on the front pages of the nation’s most prestigious newspapers:

Vice Presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards was caught visiting his mistress and secret love child at 2:40 this morning in a Los Angeles hotel by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER.

The married ex-senator from North Carolina - whose wife Elizabeth continues to battle cancer — met with his mistress, blonde divorcée Rielle Hunter, at the Beverly Hilton on Monday night, July 21 - and the NATIONAL ENQUIRER was there! He didn’t leave until early the next morning. [snip]

At 9:45 p.m. (PST) Monday, Edwards appeared at the hotel, and was dropped off at a side entrance. NATIONAL ENQUIRER reporter Alan Butterfield witnessed the ex-senator get out of a BMW driven by a male companion and stroll into the hotel.

Said Butterfield: “Edwards was not carrying anything. He walked in alone. He was wearing a blue dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up. He was looking around nervously before he entered the hotel.

“Once inside, he interestingly bypassed the lobby and ducked down a side stairs to go to the bottom floor to catch the elevator up - rather than taking the elevator in the main lobby. He went out of his way not to be seen.” [snip]

Meanwhile, Rielle had reserved rooms 246 and 252 under the name of the friend who had accompanied her from Santa Barbara, Bob McGovern. Rielle was in one room and McGovern was in another with her baby. This allowed her and Edwards to spend time alone, a source revealed.

Edwards went out of the hotel briefly with Rielle, they were observed by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER and then went back to her room, where he stayed until attempting to sneak out of the hotel unseen at 2:40 a.m. (PST). But when he emerged alone from an elevator into the hotel basement he was greeted by several reporters from the NATIONAL ENQUIRER.

Senior NATIONAL ENQUIRER Reporter Alexander Hitchen asked Edwards why he was visiting Rielle and whether he was ready to confirm that he was the father of her baby.

Shocked to see a reporter, and without saying anything, Edwards ran up the stairs leading from the hotel basement to the lobby. But, spotting a photographer, he doubled back into the basement. As he emerged from the stairwell, reporter Butterfield questioned him about his hookup with Rielle.

Edwards did not answer and then ran into a nearby restroom. He stayed inside for about 15 minutes, refusing to answer questions from the NATIONAL ENQUIRER about what he was doing in the hotel. A group of hotel security men eventually escorted him from the men’s room, while preventing the NATIONAL ENQUIRER reporters from following him out of the hotel.

John Edwards, tribune of the poor, today issued a not very convincing denial: “I don’t talk about these tabloids. They’re tabloid trash and just full of lies.” Ask Gary Hart about Monkey Business.

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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

McCain Vs. Big Media Party

The death of Tim Russert was not in any way the death of the Big Media Party. Candidates for political office must take sides - either the Big Media Party or the American voter.

The rule “never pick a fight with a man who buys ink by the barrel” is now a rule to be breeched because Big Media does not merely want to observe and report. Big Media wants to run the show. John McCain, who benefited for years from Big Media love, is now waking up to the threat Big Media poses to his campaign.

Democrats and Republicans who care about Democracy must unite against Big Media Party control of our politics.

The Big Media Party demands that what remains of the rational Democratic Party and the few lucid voices at the Republican Party obey the Big Media Party. In this election Barack Obama is the Big Media Party tool. McCain/Hillary had better fight back or lose. It appears McCain might decide to fight back.

The disappointing Dee Dee Myers wrote, in question form, what Big Media observers know: Is the Media trying to Elect Obama?

So far, the answer is clear: Obama is The One. In the first quarter of the general election, he has simply gotten more and better coverage than McCain. For those who need more evidence than the enormous press entourage that is treating Obama’s current trip not like the campaign swing of a presidential candidate, but like the international debut of the New American President, there are several new studies which help quantify the disparity.

The Project for Excellence in Journalism, which evaluates more than 300 newspaper, magazine, and television stories each week, found that from June 9 (after Obama had wrapped up the Democratic nomination) until July 13, Obama was more prominently covered every single week. During one particular week, July 7–13, McCain was a significant presence in 48 percent of the stories—but Obama met that mark in 77 percent of the pieces. Similarly, the Tyndall Report, a media monitoring group, found that Obama received substantially more media attention.

I can only imagine what the gap must be like this week, as Obama continues to meet with world leaders and adoring crowds, while the mere presence of media’s biggest and brightest stars stamps each and every event as important!

Given all that, it’s not surprising that voters, particularly those of the Republican persuasion, think the media is more or less in Obama’s pocket. A recent survey by Rasmussen found that 49 percent of the likely voters they talked to believed that reporters would favor Obama in their coverage, while just 14 percent said the same about McCain. Seventy-eight percent of Republicans thought the press would try and help Obama win, while only 21 percent of Democrats thought journalists were in bed with McCain. Complaints about bias are only exacerbated when the New York Times (the bête noire of the right) rejects an opinion piece written by McCain comparing his position on Iraq to Obama’s—just days after the Times ran a similar piece by Obama.

Suspicions of pro-Obama bias began in the primaries. A Pew survey in late May and early June found that 37 percent of Americans believed that Obama received preferential coverage; only eight percent said the same about his principal opponent, Hillary Clinton.

Even the mindless Howard Fineman knows the Big Media Party is force-feeding its tool - Barack Obama - to the American people.

Last, and perhaps most importantly, the American people may be repelled at the sight of a man touring the planet in presidential style who has yet to even be nominated by his own party. There is something a little off about Obamapalooza, even if it is not entirely the candidate’s fault. The self-conscious mimicking of J.F.K. can be cloying or even worse. Kennedy went to Berlin in the midst of a Cold War crisis. To stand at the Brandenburg Gate and declare “Ich bin ein Berliner” took enormous guts. Obama has yet to match that fortitude — and he hasn’t been chosen president. However quaint it may seem, voters may want a say in that decision.

McCain had better realize quickly that the Big Media Party is the enemy. Barack Obama is merely a tool. The Democratic leaders have surrendered and decided to collaborate with the Big Media Party.

We wrote in April:

The protests by us and many other Hillary supporters was not whining. This election season several “correspondents” have had to publically apologize for their open misogyny and abusive comments against Hillary. The abuse has been staggering. At one point we even referred to the attacks as a form of “rape”. T-shirts stating “The Bro before the Ho” have been sold along with “nutcrackers” in the shape of Hillary. Big Media has not had anything to say about the sale of these items other than to grin. If racist items were sold Big Media would get on its high horse and blame Hillary immediately and continuously. Hillary has been portrayed as “cackling” and with her “claws” out in Big Media outlets. Big Media has examined her clothes and her breasts. The abuse has been staggering.

John McCain and Hillary Clinton need to side with the American voter against the Big Media Party.

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Monday, July 21st, 2008

Nut & Honey

The past few days have reminded us of an old Nut & Honey commercial.

First the nuts. There was a gathering of Nutroot Notions (they now call themselves Netroots Nation, formerly YearlyKooks of DailyKooks) in Austin, Texas which had as its chief aim the protection and non-criticism of FISA Pelosi and Barack Obama. It was a sad spectacle.

Barack Obama did not want to be seen anywhere near the Nutroot Notions seance so Obama escaped to Iraq. The escape was necessary not only to avoid Nutroot Notions but Obama is desperately seeking gravitas. Obama needs to find gravitas somewhere. The callow, unqualified Obama figured he might find gravitas in the sands of the Middle East because he has not found gravitas in the United States.

Meanwhile FISA Pelosi (formerly Nancy Pelosi) continued her charm offensive to woo Hillary Clinton supporters:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged disaffected backers of Hillary Clinton to support Barack Obama’s choice for vice president, even if he picks a female candidate not named Clinton.

“I don’t think we should be making an issue after the primary is over about who should be vice president.” [snip] “The only one thing important right now is party unity.” [snip]

Speaking shortly after Al Gore addressed a surprised crowd at Netroots Nation, Pelosi used the appearance of the former vice president to highlight the broad importance of the general election. “I think about [what could have been] all the time,” she said. “I like to say this first seven and a half or eight years of this century are ones we just might have to have a fresh start from. Let’s start the century over.”

FISA Pelosi, even as she pushes her choice (Chet Edwards) for Vice President seems to forget that Vice Presidential choices are matters fit for discussion. Think Lyndon Johnson or even John Edwards - Only when Hillary Clinton is the subject does FISA Pelosi and her ilk denounce the very concept of discussion. For the record, many Hillary supporters do not want Hillary Clinton to have anything at all to do with Barack Obama.

But the nut contest of the past few days was clearly won by Don Flowler and Alice Germond. They wrote a letter.

Dear Democratic Friends:

2008 is a Democratic year-at all levels in all the states. The opportunity is ours. We just have to seize it. [snip]

It is time for all Democrats, supporters of Senator Clinton and all other contenders for the nomination, to stand with him to secure his election and the election of Democrats at all levels of competition.

I must confess a bit of fatigue and irritation with people who continue to carp, complain, and criticize the results of the primary and lay down conditions for their support. The Los Angeles Lakers didn’t establish conditions to recognize the Boston Celtics as NBA Champions; Roger Federer did not demand concessions before recognizing that Rafael Nadal defeated him at Wimbledon.

It is time to act in a mature and resourceful fashion. It’s time to put the primaries behind us. It’s time to support Barack Obama without conditions or demands.

It’s time to WIN for Barack Obama, the Democratic Party, America, and our future. We have an unparalleled opportunity. I hope we will all do everything we can to seize the moment.

We note how Fowler/Germond end the letter - Barack first, America last. Shouldn’t the order be (first) America, (then) the Democratic Party, (ending with) pompous Barack?

There is a lot to disagree with in the letter. The insulting tone and demand that Hillary supporters “act in a mature and resourceful fashion” is only a small matter.

What escapes Fowler/Germond is that many very mature, very resourceful, very intelligent Real Democrats will contine to carp, complain and criticize” the results of the 2000 stolen election. And we sure as blazes will continue to carp, complain and criticize” what has happened this election cycle.

The ones that continue to “carp, complain and criticize” are people like Fowler/Germond who are insistent that Real Democrats do as they are told. It’s not going to happen so Fowler/Germond should refrain from the carping, complaining and criticizing.

Why the carping and complaining and criticizing from the Obama/Dean/Brazile/Pelosi/FISA Democratic? Party? Here is the Honey answer:

When comparing Obama’s full FEC filing for June with a list of 311 “Hillraisers” — or supporters who bundled more than $100,000 in contributions for Sen. Clinton — the Huffington Post found only eight names in common between the two lists. Not all of those donors maxed out, either, making for a relatively paltry figure of $19,250 in direct, hard-money contributions from Hillraisers for the month. [snip]

But still, the fact that fewer than three percent of Clinton’s donors have donated any money directly to Obama in his first month as presumptive nominee is likely to raise the eyebrows of some leaders in the Democratic Party who are hoping to see signs of unity. Clinton suspended her campaign in early June, and officially endorsed Barack Obama in a speech on June 7.

In addition, only a scattered few Hillraisers donated to the Democratic National Committee or its Victory Fund in June — perhaps a more worrying development for the party as it tries to keep pace with its Republican counterpart. (Such checks to the party, however, can go as high as $28,500.) [snip]

And, it must be noted, the ultimate usefulness of some of these figures is not how much they donate personally, but whether they perform the hard work of organizing others to open their wallets. Still, individual contributions can be a sign of intent or enthusiasm.

Judging by the latest figures, there isn’t much of either among Hillraisers at the moment.

The bitter, foot stomping demands that Real Democrats cling to the Democratic Party leaders and their selection of unqualified Obama is due to a growing nervousness, among these leaders, that Obama is a loser.

Barack Obama should be ahead right now. Way ahead. Not even close is how it should look, even though I wouldn’t for a minute tell you that if it were that would seal the deal. But the fact that my old candidate Mike Dukakis was running better 20 years ago against George Bush than Obama is today against John McCain makes me nervous. It should be a sign to some of the whiners on my side, still worried about whether Obama is liberal enough or whether he’s doing enough to help Hillary, that it’s time to stop whining and start working. Otherwise, it will be hello President McCain.

It’s not that McCain is doing so well. He isn’t. [snip]

So why worry?

First, because the experience of the primaries, not to mention that of other African-American candidates, suggests that polls tend to overstate, not understate, support for black candidates. With the exception of Indiana, every pre-primary poll in a major state showed the race between Obama and Clinton to be closer than it turned out to be. [snip]

Second, because this should be a Democratic year. A landslide Democratic year. The best Democratic year imaginable. Twenty years ago, when Michael Dukakis was leading around now, the incumbent Republican, Ronald Reagan, was actually popular. A majority of Americans thought the country was on the right track. Gas cost $1.08 a gallon. Jihadists were “freedom fighters.” The Republicans were the party of peace and prosperity; their “brand,” as marketers call it, was worth something.

To say Republicans have fallen on hard times doesn’t begin to describe it. George Bush’s approval ratings are down to the immediate family; even die-hard Republicans are wringing their hands. Party identification has plummeted. The wrong-trackers outnumber the right-trackers by more than two -to-one. The generic Democrat beats the generic Republican in the generic House contest (if only such things existed) by fifteen points. Even in the real (not generic) world, where the Congress that is controlled by actual Democrats is almost as unpopular as the White House that is controlled by actual Republicans, the numbers crunchers on both sides expect Democrats to increase their majorities in both Houses. Significantly. In the special elections to date, the Democrats are up 3-0, winning seats in places Democrats don’t win.

Third, John McCain is hardly the dream candidate for a tough Republican year. He’s old. He’s had cancer twice. He has a temper. His sense of humor on occasion takes him to the edge, or over it. The circumstances surrounding the break-up of his first marriage were such that the Ronald Reagans basically dropped him from their list (and hired his ex-wife). The circumstances surrounding his second marriage have led to published gossip about his relationship with a blonde lobbyist. He’s a Washington insider at a time when Washington insiders are much reviled.

To say that he is not a favorite of the conservative base of his own party is an understatement of major proportion, and while Republicans may understand the need to be “good soldiers” in political battles better than some of my liberal friends do, the fact that McCain has to spend considerable time and energy appealing to and reassuring his conservative base gets in the way of his efforts to assure swing voters who tend to decide elections that he really is the independent maverick who lost to George Bush in 2000 and not his twin separated at birth.

And then there’s the matter of his campaign, which has not exactly been the model of a well-oiled machine. Senator McCain has had months to put together a general election effort and to fine tune his message, while we Democrats were still playing out the Hillary v. Obama saga. But until last week, when Mike Murphy announced that he would be spending the campaign on MSNBC’s payroll and not McCain’s, the wires were burning about whether McCain would turn to his old friend Murphy for help and advice (he was calling), and whether Murphy would take the job (only if he was the sole chief and not the co-captain) and whether McCain would throw current chief strategist (and former mega-lobbyist) Charlie Black overboard to get Murphy on board.

Not to mention the tepid McCain campaign advertisements which are not helping him draw a contrast with unqualified Obama.

Democratic leaders are nervous about their selected candidate:

So how can Newsweek have the race at a dead heat? How come, even in the polls where Obama is leading, his lead is in single digits? Is it that people still don’t know enough about him? No candidate in my lifetime has ever gotten better press coverage, more adoration from the media. Being attacked by Jesse Jackson is a gift of major proportions. Maybe it just hasn’t showed up yet in the numbers. Maybe race is a bigger factor than people want to admit. Maybe people just need to be convinced on the experience front. But whatever it is, Democrats should take note. It should be a Democratic year, but that is no guarantee that it will be one.

What can Democratic leaders do to sell unqualified Obama? Nuttin’ honey.

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Saturday, July 19th, 2008

Only The Beginning

Will Obama/Dean/Brazile/Pelosi ignore Women’s Equality Day on August 26, which is the second day of the Democratic convention?

Obama/Dean/Brazile/Pelosi want women’s votes but continue to ignore and insult women. No recognition from Obama/Dean/Brazile/Pelosi of the historic 160th Anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention.

Hillary Clinton:

Dear Friends,

I am pleased to send greetings to each of you attending the 160th Anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention. I am especially honored to be part of this special recognition of Women’s Rights. I thank the Seneca Falls Project, The National Women’s Hall of Fame and Seneca 160 for their support and recognition of this historic year for women along with our issues, struggles and triumphs.

This year has been significant for all of us as women. After traveling and meeting people from across America, I am more confident than ever about the future of our place and role in society. As someone who has had the privilege to benefit from many freedoms that are rooted here at Seneca Falls 160 years ago, I am encouraged and thankful for the continued effort and commitment to women’s causes that is evident here today. As women continue to distinguish themselves in aspects of society across America, we must renew our efforts to empower all women with the rights and opportunities promised by our founders and fought for by the heroic women and men who left an indelible mark in Seneca Falls 160 years ago.

I wish all the best for this special occasion and thank you once again for your continued support. I am proud of how far we have come and what we have accomplished. As I said last month, although we were not able to shatter that highest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it has got about 18 million cracks in it.

Is it any wonder that older women, who lived though the great struggles for the Equal Rights Amendment, the “liberation” struggles, and the day-to-day struggles for simple respect and dignity before the law, embrace Hillary and reject Obama?

Obama is falling short with some segments of the women vote. In particular, he currently polls considerably worse than his predecessors among all women age 65 or older. About one-third (35%) in this group support Obama, while 42% support McCain. In June 2000, Gore enjoyed a 53%-to-36% lead among women over 65, while in June 2004, Kerry held a more modest 48%-to-43% lead. Currently, nearly one-quarter of women 65 and older (23%) remain undecided about whom to support or say they will vote for another candidate, more than double the share that said that was the case at this point in 2004 (9%) and 2000 (11%).

Even among older women voters who identify themselves as Democrats, significant numbers have yet to declare their support for their party’s presumptive nominee. While Obama has a solid 69%-to-12% advantage over McCain among Democratic women over 50, nearly one-in-five (19%) remain undecided or would vote for another candidate. By comparison, just 4% of older Democratic men are undecided.

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Ricki Leiberman of Electability Watch echoes a theme from our Voting For Barack Obama (right hand column) series:

A local public official called to commiserate and express his concern about having to work with the BO gang - that if my mild dissent occasioned such an outpouring of venom and wrath, what would it be like to have them govern? Certainly something to be asking the SDs as they consider their awesome responsibility to select the electable candidate at the convention in Denver.

Ricki also comments about Arriana Huff n’ Puff still pretending to be fair and balanced. Big Pink is a partisan site but we are honest about it - we proudly wave a Big Pink Hillary flag. Arriana Huff n’ Puff and Talking Pimps Memo, and DailyKooks pretend to be fair and balanced.

Interesting to hear reports from many of you that your comments were rejected in response to the Huff Post article. The ‘gatekeepers’ had no problem publishing my home address and phone number, and yet rejected many of your well-reasoned thoughtful comments. Nonetheless, Jay Kallio reports that nearly half of the posts were favorable, in spite of the problems. Think what the balance would have been had they let all of you speak!

I am so proud that so many of you and others took the time to try and post comments, to push back. And one result of all this tumult is so many more people are DOING THE EW! The very best revenge!

Ricki’s grasp of history (herstory?) allows her to label the incense burners with an accurate tag: locusts!

All in all, the last few days have been quite a look into the MO of the Obama gang and supporters. At this point, ‘they’ have disappeared as fast as they descended - like a plague of locusts!

Heed Ricki’s advice which echoes our advice:

Finally, the emails and mail boxes are full of BO and DNC solicitations. Please remember to return them with a message to COUNT EVERY VOTE; please give NO money to BO or the DNC…

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As to the Howard Dean tour:

As he stepped off the bus he was greeted immediately by Guila Jackson, who loudly demanded that the party put Hillary Clinton’s name into nomination at this summer’s national party convention.

“We want a nominee who’s elected, not selected,” she said, gripping his hand tightly as he stood, a smile frozen on his face.

In 2000 real Democrats and Americans wanted a president who was elected, not selected.

In 2008, the same struggle - real Democrats want a nominee who is elected, not selected.

Thank you Guila Jackson for making Howard Dean’s tour so memorable.

The fight for the soul of the Democratic Party has begun.

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Thursday, July 17th, 2008

From Seneca To Denver, From FDR To Hillary Clinton

One of the now discarded Obama talking points was the idea of politics without conflict. Obama promised, and his incense burning acolytes on the internet believed, that Democrats merely needed to “reach across the aisle’ to Republicans and all political conflict would end in harmony.

We were always offended by Obama’s “reach across the aisle” arguments because it placed the blame for conflict on Democrats, or at the very least, equally on Democrats and Republicans.

We were also offended by that argument because it represented surrender or at the very least appeasement. Congressman Barney Frank had a more lucid world view.

Frank said Obama’s repeated talk of bringing the two parties together shows a naivete about how fierce Republican opposition can be. [snip]

“If you try to be too conciliatory with that faction, you’re going to be in big trouble.” [snip]

“I don’t understand how we don’t re-fight the battles of the ‘90s,” Frank said. “We re-fight them or we give up to a very entrenched [Republican faction].”

Barney Frank understands that sometimes whether you like it or not you have to stand your ground. Sometimes, you have to fight no matter what the outcome is. Sometimes you just have to fight for principles.

And the fight does not end just because you want it to end. Many times even after a victory you still have to fight the same fight over and over again. For instance, who would have thought that within the Democratic Party, after the 2000 stolen election, that Democratic Party leaders would disenfranchise Florida voters?

The fight continues. We Democrats fought the fight in Seneca Falls. We fought for FDR in 1932. We fight for Hillary in 2008.

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Clinton Supporters Count Too continues the fight in Seneca Falls.

The organizers of the pro-Hillary events in Seneca Falls ask that those attending RSVP. Please make sure you RSVP to us, so we can get a clear head count of how many people will be attending the breakfast and mixer on July 19 and you can do so at www.seneca160.us Also, those willing and able to voluteer to help out (meet at 7:15 at Abigail’s Restaurant) please contact the organizers and let them know you will help.

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From Seneca to Crawford.

Howard Dean will meet Democrats who don’t like the Obama/Dean/Brazile/Pelosi/FISA party. Dean is taking a bus tour and Hillary supporters will denounce the disenfranchiser:

Dean’s Bus Tour schedule: area. Texas is first:Go to this web site for more information.

Kickoff Event in Crawford, TX
Crawford Community Center
999 East 4th Street
Crawford, Texas
Thursday, July 17, 2008
8:45AM — 9:45AM

Rally in Austin, TX
Brush Square
401 Trinity Street
Austin, Texas
Thursday, July 17, 2008
12:00PM — 1:30PM

New Orleans Campaign for Change Kickoff
Louisiana Victory 2008 Headquarters
3604 Canal Street
New Orleans, Louisiana
Friday, July 18, 2008
11:25AM — 12:40PM

Hattiesburg, MS Voter Registration Drive Kickoff
TBA
Friday July 18, 2008
2:40PM — 4:00PM

Registration Event in Jackson, MS
Tougaloo College, Woodworth Chapel
500 West County Line Road
Jackson, Mississippi
Friday, July 18, 2008
6:10PM — 7:30PM

Shreveport Campaign for Change Canvass Kickoff
Galilee Baptist Church Parking Lot
1500 Pierre Avenue
Shreveport, Louisiana
Saturday, July 19, 2008
8:30AM — 9:45AM

Baton Rouge Campaign for Change Canvass Kickoff
New Hope Baptist Church Parking Lot
5856 Greenwell Springs Road
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Saturday, July 19, 2008
2:00PM — 3:15PM

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From FDR to Hillary Clinton:

Would Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi have kept his name off the ballot?

Franklin Roosevelt went into the 1932 Democratic Convention 90 delegates short of the 2/3 majority needed to win the nomination. He finally won on the 4th ballot in a contentious convention. The Democratic Party survived.

Senator Obama and Senator Clinton both go to the convention without the necessary majority needed to secure the nomination. Yet there is talk that Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi and some elements of the DNC want to subvert the democratic process by keeping Senator Clinton’s name from being placed in nomination.

Senator Clinton is still a candidate. She is the popular vote winner who won more votes than any Democratic primary candidate in history. Democratic processes demand that Senator Clinton’s name be officially placed in nomination. There must be an open convention with an honest roll call vote so super delegates who will decide this nomination can vote according to their judgment and conscience for either candidate as Democratic party rules provide.

The struggle for justice does not end. Civil Rights legend Rosa Parks once said My feets is tired, but my soul is rested.

The struggle continues from Seneca to Denver, from FDR to Hillary Clinton.

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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Barack Obama Vs. Hillary Clinton Supporters - The Obama Insults To Women Continue

Before we begin today’s article: Congratulations to Ricki Lieberman. Ricki’s Hillraising Electability Watch newsletter is a must read delight. [We wrote about Ricki Leiberman HERE, HERE, and HERE - To get Ricki Leiberman’s newsletter email Ricki at rrlieberma@gmail.com ]

Taylor Marsh’s website headlines an article which states Clinton Distances Herself From Anti-Obama Hillraiser. Presumably that Hillraiser is Hillraising Ricki Leiberman. The Taylor Marsh link is to an article on Arriana Huff n’ Puff which also breathlessly proclaims Clinton Distances Herself From Anti-Obama Hillraiser. So when/how did Hillary throw Ricki Leiberman under the bus?

Ricki was thrown under the bus by Obama/Dean/Brazile/Pelosi - NOT by Hillary Clinton. All the evidence for the entire breathless article at Arriana Huff n’ Puff consists of this flacid reed: A spokesperson for Sen. Clinton implicitly distanced the candidate from Lieberman’s effort. . . A spokesperson… implicitly - yeah, a real smackdown.

Ricki Leiberman is being attacked by internet Hopium dens because Ricki is effective. Congratulations Ricki! Email Ricki Leiberman (rrlieberma@gmail.com) and thank her and congratulate her for her effectiveness. GO! GO! GO! Ricki!

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Now back to Obama’s latest insult.

One of our commentors wrote this regarding a town hall hosted by Greta Van Susteren which Obama is NOT attending:

Good News and Bad News!!

As you might imagine, the “women vote” is going to be very important this November…especially since many had aligned themselves with Senator Clinton and now she is out of the race for President. Where are Senator Clinton’s women backers going? to Senator Obama? Senator McCain? and what issues are particularly important to women that the questions should be put to the candidates?

Because of the importance of the “women vote,” and because I don’t think we can really judge candidates from slick ads or attack ads but rather as we see them both get hard questions side by side at the same forum, we (ON THE RECORD) invited both candidates to a special Audience Show ON THE RECORD focusing on issues that might be particularly or uniquely important to women. I also hoped to have mostly women in the audience….and let them put the questions to the two candidates. Frankly I want to minimize role and let the audience / the voters speak to the candidates.

The good news? Senator McCain’s campaign said Senator McCain will do this.

The bad news? Senator Obama’s campaign declined.

Of course I would like to see both Senators do this Special Audience show with us at ON THE RECORD…but the truth is that if Senator Obama will not with us, I would like to see him do it with Senator McCain with someone! It is hugely important that we - the American voters - see these two candidates together answering questions so that we can compare and contrast their different ideas for the future of our country.

As an aside, I wish Senator Obama would re-consider. He would have the same opportunities during the show that Senator McCain will have. Likewise, both men would be treated with respect.

So now what? I am planning to move forward with an audience show - meaning audience questions - addressing issues that women think important to them with only Senator McCain. Now we just need to figure out scheduling….

Check out the past debate schedule this election cycle. Notice anything?

Not one, not one forum or debate to discuss issues of specific importance to women.

The schedule approved by Howard Dean had plenty of opportunities for African-American males to ask question of importance to them. There were many fora/debates in primarily African-American venues and some in Obama’s Chicago hometown. Not one debate however in New York or a Hillary friendly venue or audience. Certainly there were no fora/debates for women (no matter what the color of the woman - white, black, yellow, red, green).

The BOYcott of women’s issues continues with Obama’s latest refusal to discuss issues of importance to women. McCain has agreed to such a discussion. Where’s “Waffles” Obama?

This is a continuing Obama/Dean/Brazile/Pelosi insult. This latest Obama/Dean/Brazile/Pelosi insult to the intelligence of voters and particulary Hillary Clinton supporters reminds us of: Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic Party, who says he was slow to pick up on charges of sexism because he is not a regular viewer of cable television….

Nancy Pelosi is also an insult to our intelligence. I can’t document what happened in the presidential campaign as I am too busy being Speaker of the House Nancy, was and is too busy to worry about sexism. Little wonder she is doing such a miserable job in the FISA supporting Democratic? congress.

The Guardian, across the wide expanse which is the Atlantic Ocena, was not too busy to catalog the misogeny and sexism of this election cycle.

We here at Big Pink were not too busy to document the misogeny and sexism of this election cycle. Marie Cocco was not too busy either. We quoted Marie Cocco in Voting for Barack Obama Part II:

I won’t miss reading another treatise by a man or woman, of the left or right, who says that sexism has had not even a teeny-weeny bit of influence on the course of the Democratic campaign. To hint that sexism might possibly have had a minimal role is to play that risible “gender card.”

Most of all, I will not miss the silence.

I will not miss the deafening, depressing silence of Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean or other leading Democrats, who to my knowledge (with the exception of Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland) haven’t publicly uttered a word of outrage at the unrelenting, sex-based hate that has been hurled at a former first lady and two-term senator from New York. Among those holding their tongues are hundreds of Democrats for whom Clinton has campaigned and raised millions of dollars. Don Imus endured more public ire from the political class when he insulted the Rutgers University women’s basketball team.

Would the silence prevail if Obama’s likeness were put on a tap-dancing doll that was sold at airports? Would the media figures who dole out precious face time to these politicians be such pals if they’d compared Obama with a character in a blaxploitation film? And how would crude references to Obama’s sex organs play?

We also wrote:

Women are the workers in the Democratic Party. Women are the ones who volunteer and make calls and answer mail and send out mail and organize the vans and do the work that keeps the Democratic? Party running. Yet not one debate was considered in forethought or afterthought to ask women what they thought and to ask women what they needed.

The vile Ralph Nader used to denigrate gay and women issues as “gonadal politics”. It appears the Democratic? Party has become a gonadal party - women only needed in the back of the bus, in the kitchen - working - but no place at the table.

Obama has been a lead gang-banger in the misogyny parade:

Meanwhile, Obama had to apologize for his “sweetie” crack. But this was not an isolated incident. Remember, this was the candidate who used phrases like “when the claws come out” and “when she’s feeling down periodically she launches attacks” in reference to his opponent. When language like this is part of the vocabulary of a candidate (one who is so exquisitely articulate), it is worth asking if there is something going on here.

The silence Marie Cocco spoke of surrounds us still.

The Obama insults to Women continue.

NObama.

NOvember.

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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Surge, Slump, And Slide

Obama’s betrayals are plotted and calculated.

Obama simply cannot be trusted. Obama cannot be trusted on any issue. Obama cannot be trusted by his friends. Obama cannot be trusted by his enemies. Obama cannot be trusted.

Obama is plotting and calculating the next stage of his flip-flop-flim-flammery:

Barack Obama’s campaign scrubbed his presidential Web site over the weekend to remove criticism of the U.S. troop “surge” in Iraq, the Daily News has learned.

The presumed Democratic nominee replaced his Iraq issue Web page, which had described the surge as a “problem” that had barely reduced violence.

“The surge is not working,” Obama’s old plan stated, citing a lack of Iraqi political cooperation but crediting Sunni sheiks - not U.S. military muscle - for quelling violence in Anbar Province.

The News reported Sunday that insurgent attacks have fallen to the fewest since March 2004.

Obama’s campaign posted a new Iraq plan Sunday night, which cites an “improved security situation” paid for with the blood of U.S. troops since the surge began in February 2007.

It praises G.I.s’ “hard work, improved counterinsurgency tactics and enormous sacrifice.”

Campaign aide Wendy Morigi said Obama is “not softening his criticism of the surge. We regularly update the Web site to reflect changes in current events.”

GOP rival John McCain zinged Obama as a flip-flopper. “The major point here is that Sen. Obama refuses to acknowledge that he was wrong,” said McCain, adding that Obama “refuses to acknowledge that it [the surge] is succeeding.”

FISA supporting, surge praising - the internet Hopium dens are about to be betrayed and slapped in the face yet again. The internet Hopium dens will respond with praise for the flip-flop-flim-flam man.

Obama simply cannot be trusted. Obama cannot be trusted on any issue. Obama cannot be trusted by his friends. Obama cannot be trusted by his enemies. Obama cannot be trusted.

As Obama flims and flams then flips and flops, Hillary supporters are refusing to flip thereby making Obama fundraising - a flop:

What Happened to Obama’s $100 Million June?

“June fund-raising for Sen. Obama appears to be falling below the expectations of some supporters. *The campaign hasn’t released its June numbers, but people close to the fund-raising operation say the total will likely be just over $30 million. While this isn’t a poor showing,it is an underwhelming haul for a campaign that has ballooned inrecent months, has promised a true, 50-state electioneering effort and has told its biggest fund-raisers that it wants to collect $300million in general-election cash by mid-October.”For some perspective, we should note that the campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., raised $22 million in June.

The Washington Post reported:

Several of Obama’s top fundraisers said yesterday that they don’t think trend lines showing three straight months of declining donations to the candidate are cause for concern. But they said the campaign has recognized it will need to expand efforts to raise money from high-dollar donors in order to meet budget projections.

“It’s one of the reasons why the Clinton people are so important,” said Kirk Wagar, Obama’s Florida finance chairman. “Most of us have beaten our Rolodexes pretty badly.”

Hillary supporters are not flipping to Obama thereby Obama’s fundraising is a great big flop. $100 million is what was expected by Obama a month ago, on June 9, 2008:

Leading Democratic fundraisers predict that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) will raise hundreds of millions of dollars over the next few months if he opts out of public financing and begins raising money for the general election.

Specifically, they say Obama could raise $100 million in June and could attract 2.5 million to 3 million new donors to his campaign.

These fundraisers say Obama could increase his fundraising dramatically because of three factors: a boost of enthusiasm among Obama donors following his clinching of the nomination; the migration of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) donors to his camp; and the mobilization of big Democratic donors who have given little so far this year. [snip]

“One hundred million dollars this June — it’s definitely within reach,” said Wade Randlett, who has raised more than $200,000 for Obama.“ [snip]

Randlett said there are three reservoirs of Democratic money available.

“First, there are the people who have not maxed out to Obama,” he said, citing donors who may have given a total of $500 in small chunks. “Then there are the Hillary folks — that’s a second very large bucket. The third large bucket are the people who thought, ‘I’m not sure who’s going to win’ and put small bets on either candidate.

“There were a significant number of people keeping their powder dry because they were unsure who was going to win,” he said. [snip]

If those new donors give amounts similar to what Obama supporters have given so far this election cycle, Obama could raise another $630 million for his campaign. He raised $272 million through the end of April from about 1.5 million donors.

Obama is no where near $100 million. Obama better extract more money from his Hopium dens. Many Superdelegates thought Obama would get them loads of cash. Cashless superdelegates could easily become unhappy. Some could slide away.

A lot of Democrats could slide away before convention time.

After a brief bout of Obamamania, some Capitol Hill Democrats have begun to complain privately that Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is insular, uncooperative and inattentive to their hopes for a broad Democratic victory in November.

“They think they know what’s right and everyone else is wrong on everything,” groused one senior Senate Democratic aide. “They are kind of insufferable at this point.” [snip]

One Democratic aide, speaking on the condition of anonymity, compared the Obama campaign unfavorably to President Bush’s administration.

“At least Bush waited until he was in the White House before they started ignoring everybody,” the aide said.

Hillary Clinton supporters and most Americans know Obama is not qualified to be president.

Obama simply cannot be trusted. Obama cannot be trusted on any issue. Obama cannot be trusted by his friends. Obama cannot be trusted by his enemies. Obama cannot be trusted.

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Monday, July 14th, 2008

Enfants De La Patrie

Bastille Day. Time to overthrow the Democratic? Party leadership.

The Democratic grassroots allied with long-time Democratic high dollar donors will overthrow the Obama/Dean/Brazile/Pelosi/FISA party.

On the ramparts we stand, shoulder-to-shoulder.

The alliance is natural. The Democratic grassroots provided Hillary Clinton with the most votes this election cycle. Democratic high dollar donors provide the Democratic Party with the financing it requires. Hillary donors are especially necessary for the Democratic Party and for the unqualified Barack Obama. The Washington Post:

Several of Obama’s top fundraisers said yesterday that they don’t think trend lines showing three straight months of declining donations to the candidate are cause for concern. But they said the campaign has recognized it will need to expand efforts to raise money from high-dollar donors in order to meet budget projections.

“It’s one of the reasons why the Clinton people are so important,” said Kirk Wagar, Obama’s Florida finance chairman. “Most of us have beaten our Rolodexes pretty badly.”

As we wrote before and will write again:

For a long time we have urged a fundraisers strike against the Democratic? National Committee. We now additionally urge a fundraisers strike against the Democratic? National Convention and B.O.

Democratic big money donors are usually team players. Democratic big money donors do not like to oppose the Democratic Party. Democratic big money donors do not like to be “off the reservation” in any way. However we are seeing very encouraging signs and privately hearing from Democratic big money donors that many are joining the resistance.

The strike is beginning to take shape.

One courageous and mighty high dollar donor in particular is leading the way. Lady Lynn De Rothschild in a must see video that pulls no punches. Aux Barricades!

The exhausted Obama fundraisers absolutely need high dollar donors and our grassroots/donor alliance can deny Obama/Dean/Brazile/Pelosi the financing for the hostile takeover of the Democratic Party of FDR.

Certainly, the Obama campaign seems to have rediscovered an appreciation for traditional bundlers in recent days, illustrated by high-dollar fund-raising events held in New York this week, and by the gaudy expansion of a previously hidden bundler database at the instigation of The Times.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign had the largest stable of bundlers, and after some tortured negotiations, they are now raising big money for Obama.

Many Democratic low and high dollar donors will not accept the force feeding of Obama. NObama. NOvember.

“Frankly, we don’t like him.”

Lady De Rothschild is the founder of the website Together4US.com which according to her means “To-get-her-for-US“.

As the rebel alliance takes form and shape to restore the Democratic Party to greatness low and high dollar donors and grassroots Democrats agree:

Obama simply cannot be trusted. Obama cannot be trusted on any issue. Obama cannot be trusted by his friends. Obama cannot be trusted by his enemies. Obama cannot be trusted.

The Rebel Alliance grows.

Aux armes, citoyens!
Formez vos bataillons!
Marchons, marchons !

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Sunday, July 13th, 2008

Obama Bin Lyin’

The Obama/Dean/Brazile/Pelosi/FISA Democratic? Party is trying to force feed an unqualifed, race-baiting, gay-bashing, woman-hating Chicago, friend to slumlord, flip-flop-flim-flam man, on the Democratic grassroots and later on the American people.

What the Obama/Dean/Brazile/Pelosi/FISA Democrats refuse to admit is that Americans still don’t know anything about Chicago Obama and the little we do know disgusts us. This is why the cover of the current New Yorker magazine resonates. The cover does not include references to Rezko or bitter clingy small town Americans but the image (particulary “earings” Michelle) will once again remind us that:

Obama simply cannot be trusted. Obama cannot be trusted on any issue. Obama cannot be trusted by his friends. Obama cannot be trusted by his enemies. Obama cannot be trusted.

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The main reason American don’t know anything about the real Barack Obama is that (as the satirizing New Yorker might phrase it) Obama bin lyin’. When Obama is not lying Obama bin hiding.

The National Review last week echoed what we have been writing about for more than 15 months but Big Media has refused to discuss: Why Is Getting Obama To Disclose His Legal Clients Like Pulling Teeth?

The simple answer to the National Review question is that Obama has plenty to hide. Obama does not want to disclose his law firm client list nor his state senate records because it could be revealed that Obama received and ignored plenty of constituent complaints from angry, Rezko oppressed tenants (we’ll discuss this aspect below).

National Review:

Barack Obama has made some strange decisions regarding secrecy and records. His state legislative records are missing and may have been thrown out, there are questions about his answers to his application to the state bar (keep in mind the DSCC demanded George Allen release his in 2006), and he released a one-page letter from his doctor summarizing his medical history (contrasted with McCain allowing reporters to examine nearly 1,200 pages of health records). He and his former law firm say Obama only did a few hours of work for nonprofit firms connected to convicted donor Tony Rezko, but no records have been released to confirm that. (A Huffington Post blogger claims those records were released, but the link she cites doesn’t work.)

Like George W. Bush Obama will hide what needs hiding. Obama wll attempt to exhaust Americans looking for honest answers and only then release the most innocuous crumbs of information while still hiding what needs hiding. The goal is to exhaust those who want answers.

And The New York Times noted,

The campaign on Monday barred cameras from a large gathering of African-American civic leaders Mr. Obama attended. It recently refused to provide names of religious figures with whom Mr. Obama met in Chicago and directed some of them to avoid reporters by using a special exit.

But among the strangest is Obama’s refusal to specify who he worked for during his time in private practice with the firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill and Gallard (now known by only the last three names). In all of his statements of economic interests filed with the Illinois State government during his years as a state legislator, Obama listed every client of the firm. The result was a “disclosure” of hundreds of clients each year – from 247 in his 1997 filing to 448 in his 2002 filing – when he was only working for a handful of those.

Obama’s old boss, Judson Miner, said there were 30 cases to which Obama contributed in some way during his time there, full time for three years and seven years “of counsel.” How many clients could he have represented in those 30 cases over 10 years?

When the Chicago Sun-Times asked for a specific list of his clients in 2007, Robert Gibbs, communications director for the senator’s presidential campaign, responded, “The rules of professional responsibility binding on the firm precludes its public dissemination of client-confidential information, including the fact of representation. If there are specific questions about specific representations, we will attempt to answer them with the assistance of the firm.”

Hide, hide, hide. Run, run, run.

That sounds very authoritative, but it’s also wrong. Attorney-client privilege covers the fact of representation only in extremely rare cases.

Beyond numerous citations of this, in 1996, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois*, which has jurisdiction over Chicago, ruled in Stopka vs. Alliance of American Insurers:

Fox & Grove’s general assertion that the billing statements and time records should not be disclosed because they are privileged is unpersuasive. Cohen and Pincus attest the billing statements and attorney time sheets maintained by the law firm “would reveal the Alliance’s motivation for seeking legal counsel and would reveal the nature of services provided by Fox and Grove to the Alliance in both this case and other matters.” Cohen Aff. ¶ 3; Pincus Aff. ¶ 3. “A client’s motive for seeking legal advice is undeniably a confidential communication.” Matter of Grand Jury Proceeding, Cherney, 898 F.2d 565, 568 (7th Cir. 1990); In re Grand Jury Witness, 695 F.2d at 362. Accordingly, the substance of those meetings is privileged. However, billing statements and time records are not privileged insofar as they state when, where and for how long Fox & Grove attorneys met with Stopka or other Alliance officials.”

Obama is hiding the most basic fact about his life. In 2007 we demanded that Obama’s billing records be released:

Obama worked for a politically connected law firm in Chicago. Obama, while at the law firm (and later) helped pump tens of millions of dollars - government dollars - to his friend and benefactor Rezko via Rezko’s company Rezmar. The tens of millions of dollars in government subsidies were for housing projects Rezko (via Rezmar) was involved in. Neither Rezko, nor his partners in the housing venture had any prior experience to in the housing field - but Rezko/Rezmar still got tens of millions in government money.

Some of the money in government subsidies went to buy tenements in Obama’s state senate district. Rezko treated the mostly African-American tenants with contempt. No heat, no hot water in at least one particulary cold winter. Rezko claimed he did not have money to provide the heat and hot water - but Rezko did have enough money to donate to Obama.

and

What value did Obama’s “community organizer” ties have if Obama did not know tenants in his state senate district were freezing in the Chicago winter?

If Obama did not know what was going on in his own senate district why didn’t he know?

Obama himself says the question is should he have known? Obama has never answered that question. Should state senator Barack Obama have known about his freezing constituents?

If Obama did not know what was going on in his small state senate district, in tenements his benefactor and slumlord friend Rezko owned, why is Obama ready to lead an entire, much larger country?

Did Obama know about his freezing constituents? Did Obama turn a blind eye, ignoring the freezing constituents and protecting his slumlord friend and fundraiser? Who was Obama really representing? [snip]

Has anyone in Big Media/Big Blogs interviewed the freezing tenants to discover if they did in fact complain to state senator Obama? [snip]

Did the former Obama law firm (also investors in Rezko schemes) ever turn over to the Chicago newspapers the (gasp!) billing records they promised (then reneged on)? These (gasp!) billing records would help clear up exactly what work Obama performed for Rezko/Rezmar. Are these (gasp!) billing records those Obama cannot seem to locate anywhere in his files?

Is Obama’s former law firm, hiding from the truth? Some of the partners in the law firm were also investors in Rezko schemes? Did Obama invest in Rezko schemes?

More National Review:

It’s hard to argue that the fact of representation is covered by attorney-client privilege, but the billing records aren’t. And fact of representation is exactly what the Sun-Times and other media organizations are asking for, not any legally sensitive material of any of Obama’s discussions with them.

And indeed, the Obama campaign is willing to confirm Obama’s participation in a case when the media brings the client to their attention — suing on behalf of ACORN, a 1994 lawsuit against Citibank, a trader who reported his bosses for fraud, a psychologist fired by Cook County, etc. But they’ve turned the simple question of “who did Obama work for?” into a guessing game - they’ll only confirm or deny representation for that list of hundreds of firm clients.

Why?

National Review later updated on what Obama’s bin hiding:

UPDATE: A reader who is an Illinois lawyer asks if the Obama campaign is citing the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct. But while the rules prohibit disclosing “a confidence or secret of the client,” I don’t see anything that would cover the fact of representation. Note that the client’s hiring of the firm is already disclosed in his statements of economic interests Obama files because he served in the state legislature; the question is, which clients did Obama actually do work for?

Are we to believe that every client of Obama’s asked that he keep his work for them secret?

ANOTHER UPDATE: Another Northern District of Illinois case dealing with disclosing billing records, from a few years earlier:

“In their opposition brief, plaintiffs list six categories of documents they claim to be privileged. Category I consists of billing statements for legal services rendered on behalf of KRS by various attorneys, including a description of the type of service provided, the cost of such services, and the checks paying for such services. Such communications do not relate to confidential matters and are clearly unprivileged.” Schachar v. American Academy of Ophthalmology, 106 F.R.D. 187 at 192 (N.D. Ill. 1986)Recall Gibbs’ statement, “The rules of professional responsibility binding on the firm precludes its public dissemination of client-confidential information, including the fact of representation.” Too bad this ruling indicates that the billing statements are not confidential or privileged, much less the fact of representation.

Big constitution flim-flam man Obama needs a refresher course on basic ethics and case law. But we have been saying that for a long time. We said it in Obama Fights the Facts . We also said it in The Case of the Missing State Senator

What relationships did Obama build during his “community organizer” days that proved useless when he became state senator, and failed to keep him in touch with the community?

What was Obama doing in his plush state senator office that kept him too busy to know that these “struggling families” were without heat “For more than five weeks during the brutal winter of 1997″?

If Obama with all his “community organizer” experience did not know what was happening in his small district office in Chicago, how in blazes does anyone think he will respond to the needs of an American electorate that numbers in the hundreds of millions?

What was Obama doing in his state senate office while his constituents suffered due to now indicted slumlord Antoin “Tony” Rezko, Obama’s friend of 17 years? Well, Obama was busy writing letters to get even more government money for his friends, including Rezko.

Who did Obama take care of and who was he busy working for - his constituents or his now indicted friend Rezko who helped Obama buy a magnificent heated house?

We wrote about it in Obama - Turning Pages, Part II

Obama at the time was a State Senator representing the mostly African-Americans who lived in the Rezko owned tenements. These residents of the Rezko owned tenements presumably contacted elected officials when they found themselves living in substandard housing and freezing in the winter. Where was Obama with consitutent services? Obama should have known and it strains credulity to think he did not know. Obama had helped Rezko obtain government subsidies for these tenements and we presume some type of due diligence was performed by Obama in which he would uncover the nature of the Rezko housing.

Does anyone doubt that Obama bin flip-flopping?

Does anyone doubt that Obama bin flim-flamming?

Does anyone doubt why (as the New Yorker might satirically state) Obama bin lying and Obama bin hiding?

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Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Good Riddance, Good Bye

The talented and valued Robert Redford wants Obama to win the general election. Redford is wrong on that point.

Robert Redford also has this to say:

I hope he’ll win. I think he will. If he doesn’t, you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye.

Good Riddance, Good Bye.

The Party of Obama/Dean/Brazile/Pelosi/FISA deserves a shocking death. A loss is the only way to shock Democrats into sanity if the selected candidate of Dean/Brazile/Pelosi is gifted the nomination by Party leaders out of touch with the grassroots of the real Democratic Party.

The great Democratic Party of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, which we loved and continue to love, will rise once again from the ashes of the grotesqueness it has become.

NO to Obama’s new Democratic? Party in NOvember. We won’t shed a tear.

Donna Brazile: A new Democratic coalition is younger. It is more urban, as well as suburban, and we don’t have to just rely on white blue-collar voters and Hispanics.

David Axelrod: The white working class has gone to the Republican nominee for many elections, going back even to the Clinton years. This is not new that Democratic candidates don’t rely solely on those votes.

The Democratic Party of Obama/Dean/Brazile/Pelosi/FISA has forsaken the Big Tent philosophy of FDR for the small mindedness of the FISA lovers running the Party.

We won’t shed a tear.

We’ll just say “Good riddance” to the Democratic? Party in NOvember, if necessary. NObama, NOvember. Our Nominee was and is Hillary.

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There are many meetups taking place in support of Hillary Clinton. We along with many other Democrats know Hillary is our nominee. There are many activities in the planning stages for Women’s Equality Day on August 26 (the second day of the Democratic? National Convention). There is a nationwide effort underway to get Hillary Clinton supporters to Denver for the convention.

There is also this which we received via email:

Hey Everyone on Hillary is 44:

I’m part of a grassroots effort which includes a number of lawyers who volunteered for Clinton’s campaign, and one who worked in Bill Clinton administration, to Celebrate Hillary during the 160th Anniversary of the Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, NY. Our events are taking place on July 19th, but the Convention goes on starting that weekend for the entire week. We’ve asked Hillary to come, but still waiting on her response, and even if she can’t make it, we will have a speaker and pay tribute to her historic campaign.

Please join us in Seneca Falls, NY, and email this to every Hillary fan you know, especially in the NY, NJ area.

JULY 19th, CELEBRATE HILLARY IN SENECA FALLS, NY

Reminder to go to Seneca Falls, NY to celebrate with us the 160th Anniversary of the Women’s Rights Convention at some pro-Hillary events.

If you’ve got extra frequent flyer miles, some time and $$:

Here’s what we’re planning.

http://www.seneca160.us/join.html

and also, some great women-centric events that are all free to attend in Seneca Falls:

http://www.conventiondays.com/schedule.html

Take part in the town’s festivities honoring the 160th Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Women’s Rights in Seneca Falls, New York. Bring and wear your Hillary Clinton gear to show your support! Sign a petition honoring Women’s Rights in the place where Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other courageous women and men gathered 160 years ago to lay out the first coordinated statement of women’s rights in the Declaration of Sentiments.

Say Hello to other Hillary Supporters in Seneca Falls, New York on July 19.

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By sheer coincidence - as part of the preparations for Women’s Equality Day (not the Seneca Falls celebration) we had earlier also received, via email, a brief history tied to the Declaration of Women’s Rights in Seneca Falls.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of those who suffer from it to refuse allegiance to it, and to insist upon the institution of a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. – from the “Declaration of Sentiments,” Seneca Falls Convention, July 19-20, 1848

In the 1970s, African-American New York Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm claimed that she “had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.” Testifying for the ERA, she declared that it “provides a legal basis for attack on the most subtle, most pervasive, and most institutionalized form of prejudice that exists” and “is so widespread that it seems to many persons normal, natural and right.”

The ERA failed! Over thirty years later, women are still subjected to the institutionalized misogyny that handicaps women by treating them as second class citizens.

This is particularly apparent today in both political parties. While women do the hard work for them, they are expected to constantly compromise their dignity, abilities, and rights to achieve acceptance by the males, and in the interest of more important issues. It is time for no more compromise. Women and non-misogynistic men must stand together again, like the 68 women and 32 men at the Seneca Falls Convention, and demand full citizenship for over half the population.

Women will no longer tolerate political parties which treat them with disdain and then demand that everyone unite and work to continue the unacceptable discriminatory behavior- by condoning non-stop sexist attacks on women candidates; by failing, for examples, to establish adequate health care, equal pay for women, protection from violence; by threatening their reproductive rights; and debating about everything except other vital issues such as family and medical leave programs, adequate child care, etc.

For those who believe in the sanctity of the vote, unity is impossible. Sen. Clinton won 18 million votes, the largest primary vote in history. She won big states, swing states – 308 electoral votes for victory. Sen. Obama won only 224 – many from undemocratic caucuses. For president, 270 electoral votes are needed.

Unity is impossible when (1) valid elections have been ruled invalid; (2) voters have been given only half votes; (3) votes for the female candidate have been given to the male candidate; and (4) the female candidate has been arbitrarily forced to suspend her winning candidacy, is expected to unify a fractured party, and work for the election of an unacceptable, already rejected male candidate. He was selected – not elected.

The Spirit of Seneca Falls lives on today. The Democratic? Party of Obama/Dean/Brazile/Pelosi/FISA does not remember, nor respect the Spirit of Seneca Falls.

Good Riddance, Good Bye to all that.

NObama, NOvember.

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