Despite firestorm, newspapers back Obama
The controversy over Barack Obama's comments about bitter small town voters clinging to guns and God made front page news in papers across Pennsylvania on Sunday -- not exactly the publicity he wants leading up to the pivotal April 22 primary.
But two of those newspapers endorsed him anyway on Sunday, including the one where Hillary Clinton's father was born and is buried.
"In a nomination campaign that has defied convention, Mr. Obama has energized an entire generation of voters that, for the most part, otherwise had checked out of political participation. That, at least, portends a new approach to governance that can help to dissipate the political miasma that has engulfed Washington at least since the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton," the Scranton Times Tribune said in its endorsement editorial.
"Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is an extremely talented politician who already has secured a unique place in U.S. political history. She repeatedly has proved her political death notices to be premature. She also has demonstrated that she is a master of public policy. And — this is not and should not be taken lightly in an area that prides itself on family and a tradition of supporting its own — the Rodham family has deep Scranton roots," the editorial continued. "But Mrs. Clinton also is a political lightning rod. There is little doubt that a second Clinton presidency would further the deep divisiveness that characterizes American politics — a divisiveness that dug itself deep during the Clinton presidency, and even deeper during the Bush-Cheney years."
The Morning Call in Allentown gave three reasons for its support for Obama: "The first is the quality of his campaign. It has surprised the experts by moving him close to the finish line against bigger, more established political machines and it has communicated his basic ideas well. The second is his message of hope and change. It conveys a vision of the nation's future that is in tune with the tenor and consensus of most Americans. And third, and most important for the Democratic Party at this moment in history, there is Sen. Obama's ability to inspire."



Not despite of.....because of. Because Senator Obama is the only person running who is will to speak the truth about the anger and bitterness not only in PA, but across this great country.
All other things aside, I will not vote for Obama or Clinton because they both will move this country closer to a Socialistic regime. How has that worked out for other countries? Do we really want to go down that path or are we smart enough to learn from others' mistakes? We need reform not to conform. Obama is not the one.
The problem with America is that when anyone holds a mirror up to its face that person becomes an enemy, not a true patriot etc etc. We call names instead of dealing intelligently with what is wrong with us. Our self righteousness as a nation prevents from making real and wide ranging progress as a society.
I go to church because of my faith! Obma has no business in analyzing and generalyzing any folks.
I would like for him to have mapped out some straetegies in dealing with GLOBAL TERRORISM iwth his little experirnce in this feild. I grow to dierecpect him more and more as he speaks.
MEDIA BIAS IS STILL ALIVE AND WELL
In my opinion:
1. Quality of his campaign: He has whined all the way and used influence to twist arms.
2. Hope & change: I'm not really clear on what change he proposes. Change is not always good.
3. Inspire: He has inspired me to vote for Senator Clinton.
The remarks by his wife and pastor, about our beloved America, is too much for me. Newspapers - why don't you keep writing about that?
Clara
Old female
Small town, Indiana
I hope America does not let our chance for real change slip through our hands, based on a misconstrued comment. If Hillary Clinton really cared about the Americans in the small towns and caucus states, she wouldn't be losing the race. She has demonstrated time after time that she is only "vetted" in mudslinging and a sense of entitlement. Her and McCain's comments have insulted me and my intelligence, as a middle-class mid-western resident. We know the difference between being angry at the "same ole politics" and someone speaking the truth of what's on the minds of Americans.
Obama '08
Obama has stated repeatedly what change he is for. He is for hope and change in race relations, after all equal Opportunity and brown v Board of Education did not go far enough.
This scares me.
I'm voting for Clinton, Barring that McCain. I'd rather have another Bush than Obama.
John...
why does EQUALITY "scare" you?
Here is what Elitists do for Money ;
Huge Kazakh deal follows financier's trip with Clinton, precedes donation .
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31donor.html?ex=1359435600&en=33a4d96a239655bf&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
What a Story! Candidate Personally Receives Hundreds of Thousands From Foreign Sources, Private Interests
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/what-a-story-candidate-pe_b_96052.html
It is purely Pro-Clinton Media that are trying to keep the Barack Obama story from over a week ago going, Why? to try and cover the Penn her leading strategist Gaff quiet working for Columbia while she was saying something different, also the most serious Gaff from Hillary about the death of the 36 year Old Woman and her unborn baby, all to push her health care plans and not ONE FACT! was TRUE! and all a Clinton spokesman could say was "we tried to check out the facts" what hurt this must have caused the bereaved Family!
Hillary has nothing to say, her desperate campaign is based solely now on personal attacks on Obama - all she is interested in is Vanity and her own selfish interests, she is not concerned at all the damage she is doing to the Democratic Party.
Don't let Hillary FOOL you as she is doing with some of the media.
Anyone who heard Barack Obama speaking to Union Member is PA heard him explain the Truth, at last he came out Fighting against Hillary, but unlike Hillary he remained Dignified! while Hillary, Bill and Chelsea have turned this nomination race more like a Side Show! - Shame on you Hillary!
OBAMA WAS THE VERY FIRST CANIDATE TALKING ABOUT CHANGE WHICH HAS INSPIRED SO MANY BLACK, WHITE, AND ALL RACE
Americans are not stupid people. Voting for the Bush regime twice does not put us in the retard category. We could see right through the clintons and their tactics. The people in PA are not stupid of blind, we may be bitter, thats the truth. But all those lies and pointing of fingers from the clintonites. She is a very shameless woman. The lies and crap she has been ranting and raving about, then she has the nerve to point her finger at him. Fighting a fellow democrat like that. All she has to do is drop out of the race, let Sen. Obama work on promoting his campaign for President.
GO OBAMA 08
I love it that the people who insult Obama are always the least intelligent, the racists, those who are lead by fear instead of guts. Like idiot number 4. He can't even spell field or experience to criticize Obama's experience in the field. Yet he has an opinion. Or idiot number 7 who insults equality for all and refuses to acknowledge the race divide in this country. He is scared and clearly white. Well opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one and they are full of shit.
Fowler who was also at the S.F. fundraiser, had more to say about those "Bitter" remarks.
Last Sunday evening I attended the San Francisco fundraiser that has been the center of recent political jousting. The next day, when asked about the talk Obama delivered, I too commented about his answer to a question he was asked about Pennsylvania. Over the past week, though, I have had a Rashomon-like experience concerning those remarks.
Clinton, McCain, and media pundits have parsed a blogger's bootlegged tape of Obama's remarks and criticized a sentence or two characterizing some parts of Pennsylvania and the attitudes of some Pennsylvanians. In context and in person, Senator Obama's remarks about Pennsylvania voters left an impression diametrically opposed to that being trumpeted by his competitor's campaigns.
At the end of Obama's remarks standing between two rooms of guests -- the fourth appearance in California after traveling earlier in the day from Montana -- a questioner asked, "some of us are going to Pennsylvania to campaign for you. What should we be telling the voters we encounter?"
Obama's response to the questioner was that there are many, many different sections in Pennsylvania comprised of a range of racial, geographic, class, and economic groupings from Appalachia to Philadelphia. So there was not one thing to say to such diverse constituencies in Pennsylvania. But having said that, Obama went on say that his campaign staff in Pennsylvania could provide the questioner (an imminent Pennsylvania volunteer) with all the talking points he needed. But Obama cautioned that such talking points were really not what should be stressed with Pennsylvania voters.
Instead he urged the volunteer to tell Pennsylvania voters he encountered that Obama's campaign is about something more than programs and talking points. It was at this point that Obama began to talk about addressing the bitter feelings that many in some rural communities in Pennsylvania have about being brushed aside in the wake of the global economy. Senator Obama appeared to theorize, perhaps improvidently given the coverage this week, that some of the people in those communities take refuge in political concerns about guns, religion and immigration. But what has not so far been reported is that those statements preceded and were joined with additional observations that black youth in urban areas are told they are no longer "relevant" in the global economy and, feeling marginalized, they engage in destructive behavior. Unlike the week's commentators who have seized upon the remarks about "bitter feelings" in some depressed communities in Pennsylvania, I gleaned a different meaning from the entire answer.
First, I noted immediately how dismissive his answer had been about "talking points" and ten point programs and how he used the question to urge the future volunteer to put forward a larger message central to his campaign. That pivot, I thought, was remarkable and unique. Rather than his seizing the opportunity to recite stump-worn talking points at that time to the audience -- as I believe Senator Clinton, Senator McCain and most other more conventional (or more disciplined) politicians at such an appearance might do -- Senator Obama took a different political course in that moment, one that symbolizes important differences about his candidacy.
The response that followed sounded unscripted, in the moment, as if he were really trying to answer a question with intelligent conversation that explained more about what was going on in the Pennsylvania communities than what was germane to his political agenda. I had never heard him or any politician ever give such insightful, analytical responses. The statements were neither didactic nor contrived to convince. They were simply hypotheses (not unlike the kind made by de Tocqueville three centuries ago ) offered by an observer familiar with American communities. And that kind of thoughtfulness was quite unexpected in the middle of a political event. In my view, the way he answered the question was more important than the sociological accuracy or the cause and effect hypotheses contained in the answer. It was a moment of authenticity demonstrating informed intelligence, and the speaker's desire to have the audience join him in a deeper understanding of American politics.
There has been little or no reaction to the part of the answer that was addressed to the hopelessness of inner city youth who have been rendered "irrelevant" to the global economy. No one has seized upon those words as "talking down" to the inner city youth whose plight he was addressing. If extracted from the surreptitious taping by HuffPost Blogger Fowler, those remarks could (and may yet) be taken out of context as "Obama excuses alienation and violence by urban youth." But in context, Senator Obama's response sounded like empathetic conclusions and opinions of a keen observer: more like Margaret Mead than Machiavelli.
As the week's firestorm evolved over these remarks at which I was an accidental observer, I have reflected upon the regrettable irony that has emerged from Senator Obama's response to a friendly question: no good effort at intelligent analysis, candor -- and what I heard as an attempt to convey a profound understanding of both what people feel and why they feel it - goes unpunished. Such insights by a political candidate might otherwise be valued. In a national campaign subject to opposition research on bootlegged tapes, his analytical musing has instead created an immense amount of political flak.
Now and "in this time," to invoke one of the candidate's favorite riffs, such observations and remarks shared among supporters are just a push of a record button on hidden tape recorder away from being spread across the internet to be dissected by political nabobs. What struck me immediately after the fundraiser as so refreshing turned out to be a moment Senator Obama is forced to regret. Today we marvel at de Tocqueville insights about American communities. Apparently, such commentary is valued as long as it is three centuries old and doesn't come from the mouth of a contemporary observer who might be elected president.
So much for the political ironies. But there is one more personal observation that was missed by the secretly taping blogger.
I happened to be on the balcony when Senator Obama's vehicles arrived and he emerged from the Secret Service SUV. Obama shouted the friendly greeting "How are you guys up there doing?" to the group of us looking down from the balcony and then said, "You have to excuse me, I need to call my kids in Chicago now." All of us stood and watched the leading candidate for the Democratic party nomination for president have a short conversation with his kids before he entered a fundraiser to make his remarks.
No tape of that conversation has emerged as yet. Who knows how casual remarks of a father to his children or his wife on a cell phone could be spun to support the argument that as a father speaking to his kids two time zones away before they go to bed, his comments sounded as if he "looked down" upon them. Given his relative height and the age of his kids, he probably does. But that would be precisely as relevant to his capacity to unite and lead this country as were the remarks at the fundraiser that have been so deconstructed over this past week
Woodham wrote:
"I will not vote for Obama or Clinton because they both will move this country closer to a Socialistic regime. How has that worked out for other countries?"
Works (and works) great for us Canadians before our own far right Bush-like extremist took to the helm.
For Clara and other patriots:
I, too, am an old female from a small town and I, too, love my country. But I love it with tough love, which means loving it enough to see its faults and trying to find solutions for tough problems. I don't wave flags, but I've never missed an election in 50 years. Before voting, I consider ALL the facts (not just a couple sensationalist news clips) and study all the platforms. And I'm voting for Obama, who -- God willing -- will be the next president of our country.
"Mr. Obama has energized an entire generation of voters" . Yes, 90% of African Americans because he appears to be one. African Americans never folcked to a candidate as they have to Mr. Obama. He is raising millions of dollars a month because all the funds from African Americans are coming to him and him only. No one succeeded in dividing Americans in the history of the United States of America on racial lines as Mr Obama did. He was, is and always will be representing African Americans. It is not wrong but he has to have guts to admit it.
"Ability to Inspire". "his message of hope and change." - Easy to give messages for a person with gifted oratory. The contest is not for the Preacher of the United States of America but for the President of the United States of America. Giving speaches, even inspirational speaches, are not enough to tackle the problems we face at this juncture in the history of our country. It takes EXPERIENCE, EXPERIENCE AND EXPERIENCE. We don't need another inexperienced person in the White House. Don't forget what we got with another inexperienced guy in the White House at present who also came with slogans such as "Uniter" not "Divider', ect.
What HIllary supporters need to understand is that most Obama supporters vote for him not only for his policies, but for his POLITICS.
Obama represents a fundamental shift in the dialog of politics. For my adult life politics have been so brutal, divisive, angry without apology or humility. Obama is a breath of fresh air, not because he's perfect, but because he is NOT, and is willing to admit it and grow, while inspiring millions and working to solve problems without talking to us like we're children. (which, ironically, is how many of these politicians act: like snotty children yelling "they started it!")
Some Hillary supporters claim she is more capable of winning in the general election because she is vetted and experienced in the ways of Washington. That may be true. The only problem is, she is experienced in all the ways of politicking that so many of us despise.
I'd rather see Obama make to the GE and lose, than have two divisive Washington insiders to choose from.
Woodham wrote:
"I will not vote for Obama or Clinton because they both will move this country closer to a Socialistic regime. How has that worked out for other countries?"
Works (and works) great for us Canadians before our own far right Bush-like extremist took to the helm.
I live in a small town in Mississippi, I may not be bitter but I am mad as hell. The democrats and the republicans come around during election times and make all kinds of promises, but they never keep them. Not because they dont want to, but because Washington is so busy catering to a few, that the majority is forgotten. I support Obama because I want a change in the white house. The Clintons had an opportunity and Bill did a pretty good job, except NAFTA. McCain is showing to many signs of old age for me. Clinton says that people in a small town should just work hard and pull themselves up, well that may be true, but you cant just work hard when you cant find a job or when the job you have pays poorly. Its easy to say these things when you and your family have made over 100 million dollars in eight years. How may years will it take Chelsea to pay off her student loans, oh wait she probably does not have any-which is a blessing for her. Americans basically want to work for a living, but we should also be compensated for our jobs with a decent wage that will allow us an opportunity to take care of our children.
hillary is divisive, desperate, dishonest and dejected. i dont like her.
I am so tired of Hillary Clinton tactics on trying to win this Campaign she will do or say anything that Barack Obama says to get elected. Please People of Pennsivania and other parts of the Country wake up and realize this is a chance for their to be a President that is for the people and not for self gradlification or just to win. Barack Obama does care about yours and my anger, hurt ,bitterness and frustrations in our lives and as Americans. Please people do not make the same mistake and Vote for wrong person like we all did with President Bush.
The moral decay in america is evidenced by the people who will vote for Hillary who has out right lied to the public.No amount of information or truth will change their minds to what she is doing. this so sad.
I wonder if we as a nation are self distructing.
There are so many issues that need attention that no one person can solve them all. but at least Obama is willing to have faith that he can make an attempt to change some things for the better.
Hillary says she feels God's presence,but what God is she refering to? I have never come across a scripture that says God loves lying or approves of it.
Hillary must have sold her soul to the devil because her lying goes back ,way back.
No good can come to a nation led by a lyer or a man who wants to keep a war on going for a 100 years.
Obama's positions are not socialism, nor are they solely about improved race relations. Read his positions on his website! The comments that he made about people turning to their faith or hunting (i.e., "guns") in times of frustration does not say those choices do not have value in good times as well. I love my husband and daughter. If I turn to them--or even "cling" to them even more--in bad times, does not say I don't value them in good times! How is this "demeaning" or "condescending"?! People may become anti-immigrant or anti-trade in hard economic times, if the competition immigrants (particularly "illegal" immigrants) and trade deals without appropriate protections/safety nets for workers bring to a community lowers wages or takes away better paying jobs. How is that
statement of reality demeaning or condescending--let alone "elitist"?
What a cynical political game both Clinton and McCain are playing! It's more of the same "divide and conquer" strategy. Divide those white blue collar workers from those elitist, latte-drinking liberals--especially if they're from San Francisco. Divide North from South. Divide the coastal states from the heartland. Divide red states and blue states. Divide blacks from whites. Divide men from women. Divide older voters from younger voters. Why? Those alleged "elitists" like Al Gore, John
Kerry, AND Bill Clinton have policies to HELP blue collar workers. So does Barack Obama. If Hillary could stop being such a divisive, mean-spirited campaigner, I
would be happy to say that she falls into this camp as well. I just find her tactics
unbearable. Which then leads me to question her judgment over and over.
I don't agree with McCain's economic stances. Also, I fear the ramifications to our country if he is President and gets to nominate the next Supreme Court justice or
two, given his desire to have more justices like Scalia, Roberts and Alito on the
Supreme Court bench. These justices (and those appointed by Clinton, too) are
not friendly towards blue collar workers. They are pro-business to the point of
serious concern for the little guy. ( But then maybe it takes those San Francisco
liberal elites to take note of such things, since most blue collar workers do not
have the time (or interest?) in watching what's happening in the high court.)
Mostly, I think McCain is off base in his foreign policy stance regarding how to
proceed in Iraq, Iran, and Israel/Palestine. Is he planning on reinstating the draft?
How is he planning to pay for this military mission without end? For an alleged
fiscal conservative, whose main focus is on the less that one percent of the
budget that comprises earmarks, how does he justify making the tax cuts to the
rich permanent when we are "paying" for the war in Iraq with supplementals that
are "off budget", i.e. with money we are borrowing from China, Japan, Mexico,
South Korea, etc. and just adding to the astronomical national debt?
Obama is an elite in the sense that he has a superior intellect. But then so does Hillary Clinton. She should announce that she is an elite, unless she thinks her
intellect is inferior. McCain is a fairly candid guy--but not an intellectual elite.
Obama is NOT a social elite--unless running for President and having been a one
term U.S. Senator and two-term Illinois state senator makes you a social elite.
Hillary and Bill are clearly social elites, as is John McCain. Bill and Hillary hobnob with the wealthy, the celebrities, and powerful all over the world (her experience?) McCain's wife is absolutely a social elite. His connection with
Keating was in part because of his socially elite ties. Obama is bearly an
economic elite, as a result of his success in selling his two books. His wealth is, however, about 1/100th of the Clinton's. Since McCain's wife is an heiress, I
assume McCain is an economic elite of the magnitude of the Clintons--or at least
closer to them.
Obama '08!
It is time for a change in the WHITE HOUSE. no more BUSH administration. No more rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. WHENEVER GOD IS FOR YOU WHO CAN BE AGAINST YOU!!!!. I PRAY EVERY DAY FOR OBAMA that he will keep the FAITH and have NO FEAR-God is with him.
The internets: a sounding board for crazies everywhere.
This is incredible. Under Bush 1, Clinton, and Bush 2, the average working class american, has gotten poorer, less educated, and has had their access to healthcare reduced significantly, and yet all you people argue about is whether someone is an elitist? All this while the rich and truly elite enact laws and sign trade treaties designed to make themselves richer at your expense. When my parents were choosing where to immigrate, they had to decide between Toronto, Canada, and Florida. After watching this primary election cycle I thank god on a daily basis that they chose Canada. You people truly deserve the government that you have received.
I would like to express my opinion about the democratic party's presidential candidates and the wide spread corruption thats going on within the Democratic Party.
Both candidates: Hillary Clinton & Barach Oboma have been and are continuing to provide payoffs to the super delagates.The payoffs total over several hundreds of thousands of dollars.The imediate question is where did they get all that money from and is it legal?
Now both of them are actvely campaining
and spending money as if they had a never ending supply. The stupidest part of this is that they do.
Including with the campaign funds supplied by the Federal Govt.both have received unreported/undisclosed sums from George Soras who may be the master mind of this wierd scheme.
So what is George getting for his money and free advice? Who knows, will Hillary, Obomma or even Bill admit to this alliance with George or will we have to stay tuned to find out the result of in the next episode of "the dirtiest and slime filled politicial corruption that could possibly be imagined".
George Wasington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln and other great presidents are probaly rolling over in their graves right now, all wondering what happened to their country and how we allowed it to.
Obama – Black is Wright
Obama attracts thugs and bullies to his campaign and personal life and does so with impunity.
If Obama where Caucasian, he would have been bulldozed by the media long ago.
Look at Obama’s affiliations:
- Senator Meeks who openly hates whites and gays and is listed prominently on Obama’s campaign website as a major Obama supporter and backer and is one of Obama;s super-delegate. Mr. Meeks has been integral in Obama success in politics.
- Mr. Ayers of the Weather Underground, a group that killed police and tried to bomb the US Capitol, served with Obama on the board of the leftist foundation called the Woods Fund.
- Robert Malley a close senior adviser to Obama who advocates negotiations with Hamas and providing international assistance to the terrorist group.
- Larry Sinclair alleges in 1999 Senator Obama’s arranged to meet him in a limousine, sold Senator Obama cocaine and then gave Senator Obama oral sex. Larry then claims that he and Obama went to a hotel and preformed oral sex again. Mr. Sinclair is testifying in court under oath that these allegations are true.
- Mr. Auchi is an Iraqi billionaire and major financial sponsor and closely connected to Obama’s rise to power.
While working with Saddam Hussein, Auchi made his fortune through the selling of arms in Iraq and the funneling off of money from the Oil for Food program.
- Mr. Rezko an Iraqi citizen and Obama’s and Auchi’s long time friend of 17 years and a major mob figure. Rezko is NOT known for his civic sense of duty and does not do favors without asking something in return. Coincidently the Chicago Times reported yesterday that Rezko was negotiating to purchase rehab buildings in Obama’s district.
- Mr. Wright a racist who hates America and whites (and Italians?). Mr. Wright has been Mr. Obama’s spiritual mentor for over 20 years. Before the media exposed Mr. Wright, he was Obama's chief religious advisor on Obama’s campaign staff. Mr. Wright and Mr. Meeks are ideologically closer to Karl Marx and Black Nationalism, than to Christianity.
- Rashid Khalidi a fundraiser for Obama and is one of Obama’s close friends. Khalidis claim Israel as a "catastrophe", and supports Palestinian terrorist groups.
- Mr. McPeaks is Obama’s military adviser and national campaign co-chairman who publicly states that American Jews are the "problem." and “Christian Zionists were driving America's policy in Iraq to benefit Israel.”
- Abongo “Roy” Obama is the older half brother to Senator Obama. Roy Obama is a militant Muslim activist in Kenya who according to a report from the Investor’s Business Daily has repeatedly urged his brother Senator Obama to embrace African heritage and supports implementation of Sharia law.
- Michelle Obama trumpets Obama as “the second coming of the messiah,” and also states that she “has NEVER been proud to be an American in her adult life".
The list goes on…
How can Obama’s bad judgment to choose to affiliate with criminals and fanatics be justified? And with so many red flags in Obama’s past, present rhetoric, and future intentions how could we possibly justify electing him into the most powerful position of this country?
Are we so in love with the color black that we forget to see the man?
This is Hillary's goal. Distraction. If she gets the electorate arguing over this word "bitter" then they will not vote their intelligence. They will vote their emotions. I hope everyone will take a step back on see this game for what it really is. This is our last chance for a long time.
Hillary and Bill Clinton are political animals that will stop at nothing to get elected. They lack any morality or conviction. Their attack against Obama fans the flames of racism and bigotry that will prevent any black man from being elected as president. This is from Bill Clinton who supposedly was for establishing a dialog that could mitigate racial bigotry. This also is the same person that said the media was making too much of Hillary's lies about her trip to Bosnia in 1996. She lied three times about her encounters on the tarmac. I have only to think that she's senile or, more likely, a person who twists the truth without any moral convictions.
Let us not forget that Bill Clinton lied to his wife and friends and to the country about having sex in the white house with an underage intern. Hillary did not leave him because she is of the same cloth. She will say and do ANYTHING to get elected. She has been described as being a congenital liar and is far worst than anything we have seen since her husband was in office. Because I supported Clinton in the past I feel duped and am now angered by these political animals. They represent the worst of the worst and might turn me, a life-long democrat, into a republican. I never would have thought this possible.
Obama is a backroom man. Most of his votes in the state senate were decided after hours playing poker with his pals. He makes pretty speeches for the regular folks. Then behind closed doors he says what he really means.
Jessica,
Please don't dis people for stating their opinion.
I guess the Clinton's just can't help themselves.
Hillary gets caught in another lie, this time on NAFTA
At her recent campaign stop in Pennsylvannia, Hillary insisted that, "I did speak out and oppose NAFTA". I raised a big yellow flag and said, "I don't think this will work."
According to documents released by the National Archives, Hillary in 1993 attended at least 5 meetings that were used to win approval of NAFTA by Congress and these documents detailed her role in promoting NAFTA while she was first lady.
Teamsters union President James P. Hoffa told The Associated Press recently that, "No one who was around in the time of NAFTA remembers her" opposing the agreement.
Apparently we forget that the people wanted President Clinton impeached for bending the truth to suit his justification of having his affair. We see Senator Clinton altering situations or perspectives for votes.... they both think it's appropriate to just embellish in order to get their way.
As far as I can see, Senator Obama asks detailed and observant points/questions before ruling on a bill or taking a stance. I respect that and for that point alone I would vote for him. Add to that his willingness to get a conversation with people not allianced with us is so important. It's very easy to talk to people who think like you do, but to speak with those outside your security blanket, when the intent is to show mutual pursuit of peace and cooperation... EXCELLENT OBJECTIVE!
Then with the war, both democrats know that we can't just pull out of the war and both state that we have to responsibly decrease our occupation. Very sensible and responsible. Anyone who thinks that means we'd be out in a month is not hearing what's being said. We have to be responsible for the mess that we have made of another country's infrastructure because our President made it his #1 priority to get that country for it's oil.
The people have to make the commitment to take back our Congress and Presidency by voting in reasonable, logical and educated congressmen that will work to firm up the United States infrastructure!
Who is Charles Talaros (is it Bill?)? Why has he put the same inaccurate information in 10 different newspaper blogs? Sir, do you work for the Clinton (Rove) machine?
The Clintons have more thugs and bullies in their campaign than anyone can count.
Obama '08 or McCain "08
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