Barack Obama's canidacy is becoming apparently more and more divisive. With terms like Racism and Sexism floating in the air it looks now like he cannot count on long time democratic support. Geraldine Ferraro the one time Democratic Nominee for Vice President of the United States has said in a New York Times that, “I think Obama was terribly sexist.” Compare that with the fact that NBC reported on the air tonight that 41% of the Clinton voters in the democratic primary in Kentucky would vote for McCain over Obama. It is hard to trace why such a division has taken place. The division seems to be happening on just gender lines but also the fact that moderate democrats find Obama to be too far left for their taste. The question now as Obama emerges as the presumtive nominee is can he moderate his message to pick up the rest of these votes and in doing so can he prevent from alienating his current supporters?
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The divisive Obama Cantidacy
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Monday, May 12, 2008
Who is Really Running the Show?
Robert Novack is quoting sources inside the Obama campaign as saying that he will not be able to pick Hillary Clinton as a Vice Presidential Cantidate because Michelle Obama has vetoed it.
That leads us to a bigger question about the Obama campaign, Who is really in charge? It seems like every Democratic Nominee is beholden to his spouse (Clinton, Kerry, and now Obama). So if that is the case why has been Obama been attacking the two for aspect of the Clinton Campaign when his house is no different.
For a Cantidate we already do not know enough about and has big questions in regards of Leadership, can he really afford this perception. We need a strong leader as President of the United States not First Lady.
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Monday, February 4, 2008
HillaryCare just gets scarier and scarier
Hillary Clinton went on the ABC program “This Week.” with George Stephanopoulos. George really pressed Hillary Clinton on exactly how her Universal Health care mandatory requirement would be enforced and wether it would include garnishment of wages. She responded by saying, “George, we will have an enforcement mechanism, whether it’s that or it’s some other mechanism through the tax system or automatic enrollments.”
HillaryCare is what is wrong with politics today. She thinks it is appropriate for the government to tell everyone what they should do. This is an outright assault on the freedoms we enjoy in this country. Her solution to a free market is to make it mandatory and her solutions are garnishing peoples wages, automatic enrollment, or raising your taxes. This is the kind of big government everyone should fear. What is next she will require me to join a gym and if I do not join they just take the enrollment out of my paycheck or raise my taxes.
This issue has moved beyond HealthCare. Healthcare needs to be reformed, but Hillary proves that she is not intrested in Freedoms and Liberties of the American People. She shows she is a Big Government liberal who is only intrested in expanding the Power and Reach of the Government. These unconstiutional grabs at power must be stooped regardless of what well intention reasoning is attached to them.
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Saturday, February 2, 2008
Hillary Clinton on Immigration during the debate, I hope she was kidding
I listened to the Demoratic Debate on Tuesday Night. As Hilary began to talk about Immigration as I was simply shocked. I felt that she must be kidding, but no laughs came. I guess Hillary is just that out of touch with the rest of America.
She started with her rant by saying those that harbored and aided Illegal Aliens were doing nothing wrong. She believes that those help these people as they commit their crime are just good samartians. Excuse me, If a poor person holds up a bank and I help hide them I sure am going to go to jail for aiding a criminal, what the difference.
Next she tells the crowd that it is our responsibility to help the illegals learn English. Actually it is not. If people want to come to America they can learn English all on their own. In all generations passed we expected Immigrants to learn English they were put in the same classrooms as any other kid and they picked up English and then they taught thier parents. We most certainly should not develop special programs to assist those that have willingly broken the law.
These statments just prove how out of touch Hillary Clinton and her Pro-Illegal Immigrant crowd is with mainstream of America.
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
Maybe Hillary is not so bad after all
ABC reports,
"In six years as a member of the Wal-Mart board of directors, between 1986 and 1992, Hillary Clinton remained silent as the world's largest retailer waged a major campaign against labor unions seeking to represent store workers."
She may have forgot now, but at one time it appears she realized that Unions are bad for buisness. They rob and steal from buisness and the actual employees so the union bosses can gain power and grow rich
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Saturday, January 12, 2008
Is it pandering or just poor policy
In an article by Las Vegas Revew Journal, Hillary is quoted as saying,
A man shouted through an opening in the wall that his wife was illegal.
"No woman is illegal," Clinton said, to cheers.
Is this just Hillary pandering or does she have no clue on the importance of immigration? It is getting real old hearing Hillary say anything people want to hear just so she can pick up a few extra votes. Electing a President should be a serious decision not people running around trying to make everyone happy.
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Monday, December 3, 2007
Hillary (pot) attacks Obama (Kettle); Does Hillary actually believe her own accusations.
Hillary today Attacked Obama for his ambition to be President. Does she really believe she did not do the same thing herself. There was never any question that Hillary was positioning herslef for a run from the day she got into the White House. Besides how does 4 additional years give you emense credibility when she had no public service before that and Mr. Obama had in fact served in the state legislature before running for the us senate. Here is the quote.
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"So you decide which makes more sense: Entrust our country to someone who
is ready on day one ... or to put America in the hands of someone with little
national or international experience, who started running for president the day
he arrived in the U.S. Senate."
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
To Show how much she really can not make a decision; Hillary polled Streisand endorsment
Hillary at times humors me too much. She actually polled an endorsement. She has never found any pandering that she would pass up. Hillary is truley a joke and if she did not have the media in her pocket America would see it too.
The New York Times' Caucus quoted a Streisand Source,
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Streisand associate said on Wednesday.
“We would’ve low-keyed it,” the
associate said. “But the campaign says it’s a net plus. They polled it. Among
Democratic primary voters, even in places like Iowa, they love Barbra. By the
way, she just sold out concert tours around the world. And she’s great for
fund-raising. In fact, a fund-raising letter signed by her went out this
morning.”
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CNN is really the Clinton News Network
CNN has now proved that they are totally beholden to the Clintons. First when Hillary was flaming out they stacked the audience and questions in Las Vegas to put her back on solid footing. If it was not enough that they threw a debate to help their favorite candidate, now they have allowed a general on the Hillary steering committee to ask a question at the Republican Youtube debate without even disclosing it. But, it did not stop there, after the candidates addressed his question he was in the audience and Anderson Cooper gave him several minutes to make a speech about gays in the military.
Joe Scarborough on Morning Joe this morning went off on CNN saying,
Before with James Carville sitting there giving his opinions despite the fact
that he's contributed to Hillary Clinton, obviously worked for Bill Clinton, he
sent out letters saying we really need to fight hard for Hillary Clinton. They
didn't even mention it. And again, the damndest thing.
And last night, not
only do they have this guy delivering a YouTube video, they also had him there
sitting in the audience, they had a shot with him It's Bill Bennett, it is
up to Bill Bennett to explain to CNN, and don't tell me that CNN didn't know,
that some people at CNN did not know, that he was part of the Clinton campaign.
Don't lie to me.Maybe Anderson Cooper didn't know, but somebody at CNN that put
this guy in the video knew that.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
The people of New York have spoke loud and clear to Spitzer on Immigration
Governor Spitzer has now pulled his plan to give Illegal Aliens drivers licenses. The plant got a lot of attention not only in New York, but was even raised as an issue in the Presidential Debate two weeks ago, tripping up Hillary Clinton. Now it seems that the people of New York have spoken on the issue. They have sent Governor Spitzer's poll numbers crashing down. It is time that politicians take notice that the American People do not want Illegal Immigrants to get a free pass and receive all the benefits that legal citizens of the United States receive.
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Monday, November 12, 2007
New McCain Ad in New Hampshire knock Hillary's Woodstock Funding
John McCain is running a new ad in New Hampshire that directly attacks Hillary Clinton's earmark for the Woodstock Museum. He also references the wasteful spending of the current Washington establishment. This is a good ad for John McCain as it identifies with an issue he has long been known for. John McCain has always been against the current earmark wasteful spending that is becoming the standard operation of the United States Congress. It also never hurts to take a Hilary shot especially over something as silly as one million dollars for a Woodstock Museum.
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Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Bill Clinton: Hillary "swiftboated"
Bill Clinton has made the claim that Hillary was swiftboated at the debate last week. Come on, this is the most outrageous claim to date. I mean who would have imagined that someone would expect a presidential cantidate to actually answer a question. The fact is as the Hillary camp has made its first stumble they are trying to spin it to be everyone elses fault. It is the fault of the Clinton Machine whose trademark is to not give a straight answer on anything and now that everyone has caught on they are being held accountable. The only swiftboating that was occuring was from Hillary who wanted to make it through the primary with out taking a position on pretty much anything, but she got caught perpetraiting this fraud and is being held accountable.
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Another Hillary Paper cover up
Hillary just does not want us to see the REAL Hillary. ABC News is now reporting that another set of papers that were going to be released are going to be held back until 2009. Its time Hillary came clean with the American People. What is that this woman has to hide?
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Monday, November 5, 2007
Mondale Endorses Hillary: The last tax increase cantidate meets a new one. Did it work our so well for you Walter?
Walter Mondale has now endorsed Hillary Clinton. It is great when two people who both are campaigning on raising taxes can get together. Walter Mondale the only American Presidential Cantidate to campaign on raising taxes lost to Reagan in 1984. The end of his campagin came when he committed to the American people that he would raise their taxes. Now, the current crop of Democratic Cantidates are doing the same thing. I doubt it will work out so well for them in the end too. Leave it to the current Democrats to snatch Defeat from the jaws of victory.
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Thursday, November 1, 2007
Will the Real Hillary Please stand up?
Hillary Clinton is an intresting figure. We have never had a woment President before and in the United States and our first real contender is the wife of a former President. That makes it even tougher to examine this women for her credentials and views because she is shrouded in the cloak of all things Clinton, even while trying to define herself. There is no question that Hillary was involved in her husbands White House. Her role on Health Care made this abudently clear. The real question that stems in the aftermath of that was what else was Hillary involved in during President Clintons terms in office.
We should be able to find that out because the White House keeps detailed records of everything that goes on inside and administration. That bring us to the point that none of that information is avaliable to us. In Fact President Clinton wrote a letter that asked that nothing relating to Hillary's role inside the White House be released until 2012. That is pretty convient she wants to run on a credential of being First Lady but wants none of the documents from that time released to the public. It begs a question though. What does Hillary have to hide?
The fact is that since Hillary was elected to the United States Senate she has been running for President. Her opinion on issues change from the moment she decides to run for the Senate. She has taken much different stands then she did when her husband was President. She has done this to make herself appear as a moderate to reach as many people as possible in a potential Presidential Election. She needed to since her dislike numbers are around 48% she would need every vote possible to win the Presidency. Now, she has defined herself that way with her position on the war and a number of other issues.
That brings us back to the Presidential Records. Why would she not want that information released to the public for them to go through. It is because those records show Hillary for who she really is. Not a moderate, but a liberal democrat. That is why she and with her husband behind the scenes will fight to prevent them from being released. They need her to appear a moderate just long enough to win the Presidency. It is time to call on both Clintons to show us the records. We need to have the real Hillary stand up and tell us who she really is. She is running for President now and this is the time to tell us what she believes in and what she really wants for america. It is not the time for veiled answers and locked records. We are the American People and we demand a full disclosure of the facts so we can form and educated opinion about Hillary.
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Tuesday, October 9, 2007
More Big Government for Hillary, 401Ks run by the Government and Tax Credits for all
Hillary has decided that government run healthcare is not enough; she now wants to have a government run 401k system. Today she laid out a plan for a government run 401K plan with what she calls "American Retirement Accounts." She also calls for a tax credit of $500 or $1000 to encourage people to save, and she will pay for it by freezing the estate tax. She will make these accounts voluntary. Hillary maybe has spent too many years out of the mainstream of America. Portable retirement funds are available everywhere, you can even sign up for one online in three minutes. We already have tax incentives to save in these accounts. What Hillary now wants to do is to take away the free market from Investments. She could propose to change the tax code without having a government takeover of retirement accounts. What is wrong with T Rowe Price or Vanguard. Hillary makes it clear with this proposal that she has never me a government bureaucracy that she does not like. Let’s take something the free market already offers and have the government run it. Either she does not understand the Constitution or finds it inconvenient. It is time that people stand up to Big Government advocates and make them respect the free market and the Constitution of the United States of America.
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Sunday, September 30, 2007
Hillary's Socialism gone bad, $5,000 for every baby?
Hillary Clinton has never met a government handout she does not like. She now wants to give $5,000 to every baby born in America. This is one of the most tax and spend socialist Ideas I have seen in awhile. She doesnt even say how she is going to pay for it, but I am sure it means we will need to raise taxes. This is not the role of the federal government and is Unconstiutional.
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