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POPSIsraeli Foreign Minister advocates wiping countries off the face of the map. In May 2006, Lieberman called for the killing of Arab members of Knesset Whereas Ahmadinejad was humiliated by Columbia University president Lee Bollinger on his visit to that university, which provoked public protests, Lieberman's acceptance into the Israeli government has been greeted mildly and he was allowed to come to the Brookings Institution and meet with Bill and Hillary Clinton. Lieberman is a Central/Eastern European ultra-nationalist in the mold of Slobodan Milosevic and Jorg Haider, and it is shameful that he was allowed into the government and more shameful that this travesty has passed without a peep in the civilized world.
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POPSThe VP Choice that Lost the Presidency for McCain It's also a slap in the face of Democratic women voters. They don't get Hillary but they get Sarah as the first potential woman President? In fact, I can just hear Biden saying, "Sarah Palin, you are NO Hillary Clinton!"
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POPSJimmy Carter - "Hillary supporters must accept outcome of pledged delegates" More: Mr Carter emphasised that he and many other super-delegates would not countenance this. “It would be undemocratic if the super-delegates blatantly went against the decision of Democratic voters across the nation. "And I think that many super-delegates who have not yet declared their preference have the same feeling that I do, including the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. She’s said over and over that whoever gets the most delegates by June 3rd ought to be the nominee.” It would be “too bad” and damaging to the party if the battle went to the nomination, he said. The role of super-delegates, he argued, was to swing behind the winner chosen by the voters and not to usurp them.
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POPSCivilization's First Attack Ads - The Attack Poem Here's a poem he directed at a rival (all translations are from Brooks Haxton's book Dances for Flute and Thunder from Viking Press): Swept overboard, unconscious in the breakers, strangled with seaweed, may you wake up in a gelid surf, your teeth, already cracked into the shingle, now set rattling by the wind, while facedown, helpless as a poisoned cur, on all fours you puke brine reeking of dead fish. May those you meet, barbarians as ugly as their souls are hateful, treat you to the moldy wooden bread of slaves. And may you, with your split teeth sunk in that, smile, then, the way you did when speaking as my friend.
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POPSIs Hillary Clinton Push Polling? More: The questions started out normal enough, but got progressively more ridiculous. Early in the conversation Ed asked my preference among the Democratic candidates and I told him I was an Obama supporter. Then the questions turned to long Hillary-praising and Barack bashing policy statements with the response options being "Do you consider that a very strong, strong or weak or very weak reason to support her candidacy for president?" which is kind of an unanswerable question, and clearly not the point. At the end of the conversation they asked "Now based on everything we've discussed, who would you vote for?" The questions were often based on statements that I wouldn't agree with in the first place. It's classic push polling as I've read about it, though never experienced it before. The questions are of the "Are you still beating your wife?" variety. No way to answer with any sense of veracity and integrity
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POPSHillary slipping amongst white women in Pennsylvania
The most familiar echo among many Pennsylvania women when they discuss Clinton is disappointment. Ask them when they became disillusioned and they can cite the exact moment. For Clare Howard, from Southhampton, it was the night when Bill Clinton suggested that Obama did well in the South Carolina primary because of his race. That went too far, said Howard. "It was like they would do anything to win," Joan Schmidt, in Levittown, grew tired of hearing Clinton exaggerate her experience. Jane Dovel, 68, turned away from Clinton after the New York senator's reaction to Obama's comments that Reagan had been a "transformative political figure." Clinton fired that Republicans hadn't had better ideas. "I don't think it's a better idea to privatize Social Security," she said. "I don't think it's a better idea to eliminate the minimum wage." That's not what Obama had said, recalled Dovel. "What Clinton said was a blatant lie," "From that moment on she was not to be trusted."
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POPSWho said? Economically Insecure White People...Are Scared to Death! Continued from above: They know if they can keep us looking at each other across a racial divide, if I can look at Bobby Rush and think, Bobby wants my job, my promotion, then neither of us can look at George Bush and say, 'What happened to everybody's job? What happened to everybody's income? What ... have ... you ... done ... to ... our ... country?'" Jason Linkins notes a statement from Harvard political scientist Theda Skocpol to Talking Points Memo, which reads in part: I have been in meetings with the Clintons and their advisors where very clinical things were said in a very-detached tone about unwillingness of working class voters to trust government -- and Bill Clinton -- and about their unfortunate (from a Clinton perspective) proclivity to vote on life-style rather than economic issues. To see Hillary going absolutely over the top to smash Obama for making clearly more humanly sympathetic observations in this vein, is just amazing.
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POPSObama leading Hillary by 1 to 2 million votes. Therefore, in Kansas, Barack Obama gained 543,440 votes to Hillary Clinton's 189,240 votes. This is a far wider margin of victory than Clinton supporters would like to admit, but decidedly more accurate. Let's just say, for arguments sake, that we're overestimating how many people a county delegate represents. Let's call it 10 rather than 20. Then the tally becomes 271,720 votes for Obama, and 94,620 for Clinton. A substantial victory. And that is the absolute bottom lowest average estimate 13 caucus states so far in the Primary and Clinton has only won one of them. Obama defeated her in Iowa, Alaska, Idaho, Kansas, Minnesota, Colorado, North Dakota, Nebraska, Washington, Maine, Hawaii and Wyoming. The tally of county delegates for these states, has Obama at 366,764 and Clinton at 156,563. Multiply these numbers by 10, it puts Obama at 3,667,640 and Clinton at 1,565,630, a margin of 2 million votes. Applied to the final tally, it puts Obama ahead of Clinton by 2,300,000 vo
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POPSHillary campaign fails to pay bills. More: She owed Iowa’s Sioux City Art Center Board of Trustees $3,500 for catering and venue costs, New Hampshire’s Winnacunnet Cooperative School District $4,400 in event costs, Qwest $24,000 for phone service, various branches of the Iowa-based supermarket chain Hy-Vee $15,000 for food, beverages and catering, and $7,700 to Ohio and Massachusetts branches of the theatrical stage employees’ union, for equipment costs. In fact, about a third of the nearly 700 individual debts Clinton reported at the end of February were for various types of “event expenses,” including $319,000 for catering and venue costs, $420,000 for equipment, $11,000 for photography and $9,000 for security And word is getting around that Clinton’s campaign does not promptly pay those who labor to make her events look good, “I feel insulted by the way that the campaign treated this company and treated us personally,” said the employee It's 3 AM and the bill collectors are calling....
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POPSJohn McCain's Money Troubles Continue More: Virtually every campaign observer agrees that the Arizona senator, who alluded to his lackluster and unenthusiastic fundraising efforts last spring, is going to have to at least double his $11 million monthly take to hopefully stay competitive. Me: Looks like tepid support in the republican base for McCain. A devout republican cousin of mine called my Dad to discuss Obama as my cousin thinks he is going to vote for Obama. Cousin says he doesn't believe another 100 years of war in Iraq is in our country's best interest. So people are answering poll questions but they aren't reaching into their pockets to pony up the cash.
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POPSPhotos & Video - Hillary never in danger in Bosnia - Sinbad vindicated (LOL) Hillary has been regaling supporters on the campaign trail with hair-raising tales of a trip she made to Bosnia in March 1996. In her retelling, she was sent to places that her husband, Bill, could not go because they were "too dangerous." When her account was challenged by one of her traveling companions, the comedian Sinbad, she upped the ante and injected even more drama into the story. In a speech earlier this week, she talked about "landing under sniper fire" and running for safety with "our heads down." Numerous problems with Clinton's version of events. As a reporter who visited Bosnia soon December 1995, I can attest that the physical risks were minimal during this period, at a heavily fortified U.S. Air Force base, such as Tuzla. Contrary to the claims of Hillary Clinton, Bosnia was not "too dangerous" a place for President Clinton to visit in 1996. In fact, the first Clinton to visit the Tuzla Air Force base was not Hillary, but Bill, on January 13, 1996.
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POPSHillary campaign insider - only 10% chance of beating Obama In other words: The notion of the Democratic contest being a dramatic cliffhanger is a game of make-believe. The real question is why so many people are playing. The answer has more to do with media psychology than with practical politics. Journalists have become partners with the Clinton campaign in pretending that the contest is closer than it really is. Most coverage breathlessly portrays the race as a down-to-the-wire sprint between two well-matched candidates, one only slightly better situated than the other to win in August at the national convention in Denver. Avoiding predictions based on polls even before voters cast their ballots is wise policy. But that's not the same as drawing sober and well-grounded conclusions about the current state of a race after millions of voters have registered their preferences. The antidote to last winter's flawed predictions is not to promote a misleading narrative based on the desired but unlikely story line of one candidate.
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POPSGovernor Bill Richardson endorses Barack Obama for President More: when it came time to decide, Richardson said Obama "will be a historic and great president, who can bring us the change we so desperately need by bringing us together as a nation here at home and with our allies abroad." The Obama campaign provided a copy of prepared remarks Richardson is scheduled to deliver in Oregon. While Richardson called Hillary Clinton "a distinguished leader with vast experience," he said it is "now time for a new generation of leadership." He said Obama possesses "the judgment and courage we need in a commander-in-chief when our nation's security is on the line." Obama returned the praise and said he was "deeply honored" to have Richardson's support.
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POPSHillary's weakest personal dimension - seen as less honest and trustworthy More: In both surveys, Obama is described by more traits than is Clinton. Once again, his strengths are on empathy, but he also exceeds Clinton on "would work with both parties to get things done." "honest and trustworthy," is Clinton's weakest dimension on the USA Today/Gallup poll (it wasn't asked in the CNN/OR poll). In fact, Gallup has tracking that shows Clinton to be the weakest she's ever been on this measure since 1994.
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POPSObama gains +5-9 Delegates in Iowa - Edwards delegates break for Obama More: More than half the 14 delegates allocated to John Edwards on the basis of caucus night projections switched Saturday to Obama. Iowa Democratic Party officials said that with all of the delegates picked, Obama claimed 52 percent of the delegates elected at county conventions on Saturday, compared with 32 percent for Clinton. Some of the delegates picked at Saturday's conventions were sticking with Edwards, even though he's dropped from the race since Iowa held its caucuses in January. Democratic Party projections said the results mean Obama increased by nine the number of delegates he collects from the state, getting a total of 25 compared with 14 for Clinton and six for Edwards. Counting Saturday's new figures from Iowa and California, an Associated Press delegate tally showed Obama with 1,617 delegates and Clinton with 1,498. "It means the Obama people are very organized," said Iowa Chairman Scott Brennan. "They have been working very hard for these conventions."
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POPSPelosi's Delegate Stance Boosts Obama More: "But what if one candidate has won the popular vote and the other candidate has won the delegates?" asked Stephanopoulos. "But it's a delegate race," Pelosi replied. "The way the system works is that the delegates choose the nominee."
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POPSWill Hillary Campaign dismiss Staffer over Racially Charged Remarks? More: Obama campaign manager David Axelrod added the comment was "part of an insidious pattern that needs to be addressed" within the Clinton campaign, pointing to Clinton's remark to 60 Minutes that rumors Obama is a Muslim aren't true, "as far as I know," she said. "When you wink and nod at offensive statements, you're really sending a signal to your supporters that anything goes," Axelrod said, arguing Clinton is seen as a "divisive and polarizing force." Obama chided Clinton for Ferraro's comment to a local Pennsylvania newspaper. "I don't think Geraldine Ferraro's comments have any place in our politics or in the Democratic Party," Obama told Pennsylvania's Allentown Morning Call newspaper. "They are divisive. I think anybody who understands the history of this country knows they are patently absurd. And I would expect that the same way those comments don't have a place in my campaign they shouldn't have a place in Senator Clinton's either."
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POPSFeminist's Take On Hillary Clinton More: "I just don't think it's true. When she had a big job in government, she blew it," said the British-based Greer, referring to Hillary Clinton's work on health issues during her husband's administration Greer, who has made headlines with provocative attacks on the likes of Diana, Princess of Wales and the late Australian "crocodile hunter" Steve Irwin, said she knew the Clintons personally. She attacked the former first couple's marital style, saying the pair enjoyed a "confederacy" or business partnership, rather than an emotional relationship. "They give me the creeps, from that point of view," Greer said. But Greer said that while she did not like Hillary, who is battling fellow Democrat Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination for the presidency, she was a fan of the US president who was in power from 1993-2001. "Everybody loves Bill. Bill is adorable and Bill is always flattering me and inviting me to stuff in Britain and we're buddy-buddy, and I like him," s
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POPSElection Update: Obama nets +8 delegates as California finally certifies election Tha'ts a huge swing in a close contest. Any claim by Hillary of successes on March 4th are bogus. On top of that once the caucuses are finished in Texas, Obama will have won that state (after all the contest is about acquiring delegates and Obama will end up with 3 more than Hillary). No major media coverage of this huge development. Don't you get tired of the favorable media coverage Hillary gets?
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POPSSenator Bill Bradley - Strong Words about Hillary Clinton More: Clinton was the star guest at the Democratic party’s annual dinner in Canton, Mississippi, but the hall was barely half-full. Clinton went on to pledge in a contrived southern drawl that no matter who won Mississippi, “I’ll be there for you”. Obama said he was not going to be “drawn into a knife fight” and used humour to defuse the impact of the “red phone” ad. “What do people think I’m going to do? I’m going to answer the phone,” Obama said to laughter. “I’m going to find out what’s going on.” But he also charged that Clinton’s style of leadership was “to beat the other side into submission”.
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POPSObama trounces Hillary in Wyoming - where's her momentum? More: Vernice Sack, 80, and her husband, Paul Sack, 83, counted themselves among the first-time caucusgoers. They both supported Mr. Obama, they said. “He’s got the right ideas,” Mr. Sack said. In a typical display of arrogance: The campaign now moves to Mississippi, which holds its primary Tuesday. Mr. Clinton campaigned there Saturday, striking a theme his wife has been repeating on the campaign trail: that Mr. Obama would make a good running mate (but as second fiddle.) Pretty brassy for someone behind in the delegate count and nearly mathematically impossible of overtaking Obama in delegates.
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POPSGirl in Hillary's "Red Phone" Ad - Fierce Obama Supporter More: "I've been campaigning for Barack Obama for a few months now," she said. "I was actually a precinct captain at the caucuses a few months ago. I attended his rally a few months ago and I'm a very, very avid supporter." "I think it would be really wonderful if me and Barack Obama could get together and make a nice counter ad," she laughed. It's 3 AM, the phone's ringing, the girl in your ad is calling you to tell you she trusts Obama and that you can't win.
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POPSTom Brokaw announces, "50 superdelegates to endorse Obama" The math is very much against a Hillary nomination. A brokered convention that overturns the leader in delegates entering the convention will be devastating for the Democratic Party. This has happened before in 1968 and it was a disaster. Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it.
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POPSHillary praises Republicans to denegrate Democrats More: Hillary keeps referring to her “thirty-five years of experience” although it isn’t clear what was so remarkable about those years, even the eight years when husband Bill was in The White House. Just being in the vicinity when important decisions are being made isn’t exactly a resume headline. Actually, she’s over ten years older than Obama so perhaps simply having birthdays helps one acquire gravitas. And then there are those pesky little votes - - first the one authorizing President Bush to use force in Iraq. It doesn’t help that Hillary admits to not having read the intelligence report regarding the possible existence of WMD in Iraq or the need for actually invading that country. But okay, people make mistakes. Your phone's ringing, it's 3 AM. Yeah right.
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POPSObama beats McCain in Pennsylvania and Oregon, Hillary loses both Clinton is viewed favorably by 48% of voters in Oregon, unfavorably by 50%. Those figures are little changed since August. McCain is now viewed favorably by 56% and unfavorably by 42%. That’s an improvement since August when just 46% had a favorable opinion of the Arizona Senator. Obama is the most popular of all three candidates at this time—66% favorable, 31% unfavorable.
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