Obama is Gaining Momentum
Feb 12, 2008 Political
Hillary Clinton has all but conceded the primaries up until Texas and Ohio where she hopes to do well with the large population of Latinos in Texas and the blue collar workers in Ohio. If the exit polling from Virginia is any indication, her Texas plan might just backfire. Exit polls show Obama with a 10 point lead among Latinos, a demographic that Clinton was winning handily and one she will have to win handily in Texas if she is going to compete in the process.
It is hard to tell why the turn around. Perhaps people are getting weary of her and perhaps she has looked like a loser this past week and it turned people off. It is also possible that when she fired her campaign manager, a Latino, that she ticked off the Latino community. Several prominent Latinos (here and here) have already expressed their disgust with the move and once that shock wave starts traveling it will be hard to stop it.
Obama is already the projected winner in Virginia where exits show him winning by a 2:1 margin. He should win DC and Maryland though we will have to wait 90 minutes longer for the Maryland results. A judge ordered the polling places to remain open until 2130 because of an ice storm that caused traffic tie ups all across the state.
I wonder if Hillary is throwing ashtrays and nik naks around the place about now. She has waited all her life for this moment, it is her turn and she is the rightful heir to the thrown and this upstart newbie is ruining it for her. She might still pull out the nomination but with a sweep tonight and a win in the two primaries before 4 March, Obama will have peeled off 10 wins in a row. Sure some of them were small states but the momentum has definitely moved to his camp and Hillary is gasping for breath trying to keep up. Obama looks like a winner while Hillary looks like a confused fighter wondering where the next punch will come from. She is not even in the area any longer having departed for El Paso.
Maybe she is trying to shore up the Latino/Hispanic vote before it is too late.
Chelsea, The Pimped Out Spoiled Brat
Feb 11, 2008 Political
There are those who believe that Chelsea Clinton is somehow off limits because she is not running for office. I do not happen to be one of them. I believe that if you put your self in front of a crowd and you talk about your feelings or ideas then you are fair game. She is no different than a celebrity who endorses a candidate and campaigns for that person. The celebrity status, in this case the celebrity of being the former first daughter, is supposed to lend some sort of credibility to a campaign which means that what is said or done is open to scrutiny.
This past weekend Hillary Clinton effectively pimped put her daughter over remarks about her daughter being pimped out. Hillary took the opportunity of David Shuster’s pimped out remark to take attention away from the clean sweep Barack Obama made in the four states that held a primary or caucus. It was a classic Clinton move of media manipulation and it allowed the airwaves to be filled with talk of the remark and Hillary’s “ire” rather than the talk of yet more overwhelmingly convincing wins by the Senator from Illinois.
Chelsea Clinton has been sheltered from the limelight as mommy and Bill worked to keep her from being part of American politics, which can be quite ugly. However, the Clintons want it both ways in that they want Chelsea left alone and they want her out in front giving credibility to her mother’s ambitions. Chelsea, who is not being pimped out, had breakfast with a 21 year old college student, who for some strange reason, is a Super Delegate. Chelsea had breakfast with this guy much as a salesperson does in order to gain confidence and create a sale. Much like the salesperson, Chelsea is being pimped out in order to close the deal. One has to wonder how the mommy can get so angry at a pimped out remark and then have her daughter go out with a young college man in order to buy the vote. This guy gets to brag to his friends that he had breakfast with Chelsea Clinton (a big deal to a hormonally challenged young man) and to me that is no different than the young lady who shows attention to a guy in a bar in order to get free drinks.
Today though, we found out that Chelsea is nothing more than a spoiled brat who does not realize just how good she has it. She graduated college and got a $100,000 a year job as a consultant at McKinsey & Company. One of her jobs was to research health care. There is no doubt that the company provides great benefits and that she has health care coverage that is more than adequate. Even if she did not, her parents have an estimated wealth of 25-50 million dollars so, if she could not afford it on her salary, they certainly could. She works for a hedge fund company now and the benefits are certainly just as good and the other benefits seem to be great as well. How many of us could take off from work in order to campaign for one of our parents? Her boss gave her the time off. The fact that her boss is a big Clinton backer (the source of the job) certainly helped her and how did she repay the company?
Today Chelsea said that she was not satisfied with her health care benefits.
“If you have health care and you’re not happy with it — like me who has employer provided health care, but I’m not happy with it — and if you are one of the 100 million who are uninsured at some point throughout the year… you’ll be able to buy into a Congressional health plan.” The Politico
Another source indicates that she actually said; “… you’ll be FORCED UNDER PENALTY OF THE LAW to buy into a Congressional health plan.” [emphasis in original]
Here is a 27 year old woman who attended some of the most prestigious schools and who went to work out of college making six figures. She has always been protected and her parents have enough money to buy her anything she wants. This girl might not have been born with the silver spoon in her mouth but she had one to eat her first solid foods and yet she is not satisfied. She has health care coverage and she does not like it. Aww, poor little rich kid. I am sure there are plenty of people who would just like to have health care coverage. While I disagree with the 47 million as the number of uninsured, I know there are people who would just love to have the benefit package little miss rich kid has, and she is not satisfied.
I also want to know what she means by saying; “If you have health care and you’re not happy with it.” I thought her mother’s plan would leave people who already have health care coverage alone. According to Chelsea, people who are unhappy can ditch their coverage and have the taxpayers foot the bill. Is Chelsea telling us something that is in the works?
Regardless, it is a crying shame that nothing satisfies this spoiled kid. She cannot be happy with what she has and, true to liberal form, she will look to the government to provide the happiness. Now I know there will be the usual band of Clinton apologists who say I am being too rough on the kid and that she is only helping out her mother’s campaign. There might even be a belief that she is happy with what she has but is trying to make a point about her mother’s plan. Some might call that campaigning.
I call it pimping one’s self out.
Those Clintons will stop at nothing. Chelsea insults her employer about the great plan she has. Bill tells us he has always dreamed of being able to vote for a black and a woman for president, and Hillary says that it is good for the party that they have a black and a woman running and that she is happy about it. Anyone who believes any of this should not be allowed to vote.
Sadly though, there are people out there who lack a sufficient quantity of brain matter to see through this and realize what the Clintons really are.
With any luck, these people will lose and slither back under a rock in Arkansas and we will never hear from them again.
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Tags: chelsea, Clinton, health care coverage, pimped out, spoiled
How Hillary Will Leave Our Country
Feb 8, 2008 Political
Hillary Clinton claims that she has the most experience is the best qualified person for the job. If John McCain wins the Republican nomination then that is out the door because he has been there a lot longer and has more qualifications. Make no mistake, I am no McCain fan but I felt a comparison, based on Hillary’s claims, was warranted. In any event, she claims that she will lead us to prosperity and that she will give everyone everything (mostly by coercion) by taxing rich people to pay the poor. A genuine Robbing Hood, she is.
I believe that a Hillary Clinton presidency will leave this country weaker and in economic ruin. Sure, she will lob a few missiles around to show she is tough but eventually she will be cutting the defense budget to increase social programs. She learned from the best though he lobbed missiles to keep the focus away from his various transgressions.
If you want to know how Hillary will leave this country you only need to look at how her campaign left a rented office in New Hampshire. The office was rented for $100 a day for five days. The place had a warehouse and office space as well as a full kitchen and shower. Keep in mind, it was only rented for five days.
The man who rented it out to the campaign stated that he has not been paid the rent for the use of the property (I guess Hillary’s staffers are not the only ones not getting paid). Dr. Terry Bennett rented the property out but the campaign did not pay the money due when they turned the keys into the rental agent. In addition, the place was left a filthy mess. The place was trashed and there were campaign signs all over. Trashed is how the Clintons left the White House. The Clintons and their supporters believe that cleaning up is best left to the minions (or the ILLEGALS) because they are far too important to clean up after themselves.
This building represents a microcosm of a Hillary Clinton presidency. She will leave us trashed and unpaid for. To think, Hillary said it would take a Clinton to clean up after a Bush (at least there will not be stains on the rug). How interesting that the Clinton folks can’t clean up after themselves.
First they don’t leave a tip and now they don’t pay the rent.
She couldn’t keep her own house in order and she can’t keep her campaign in order. How in the name of God is she going to keep the country in order?
Source:
Seacoastline.com
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Tags: broke, Clinton, no rent payment, trashed
Pimp My Daughter
Feb 8, 2008 Political
Bill and Hillary Clinton are upset at a remark made by MSNBC’s David Shuster who said that the Clintons had “pimped out their daughter” by having her call the Super Delegates on her mother’s behalf. Shuster has been suspended from his on-air duties at the network and the Clinton campaign said it does not see how it can have any debates on the network. A debate is scheduled for 26 February.
I know the Clintons have tried to keep their daughter out of the limelight through the years but now they are using her to campaign for Hillary. There is nothing wrong with that and it is only natural for family to help out in campaigns. However, if they are going to put her out there then she is going to be mentioned. I find no problem with what Shuster said because it is accurate. They are pimping their daughter out (I won’t be suspended for that).
Chelsea Clinton has been an untouchable for years and she has gotten much better treatment from the media than the Bush twins have. If she wanted to remain private then she should not be out campaigning for her mother. If you are campaigning for someone you will be open game. Oprah Winfrey has been the object of scorn by women who think she abandoned the feminists by not supporting Hillary. It is going to happen unless they do not put her before the public. It is important to realize that Chelsea would hardly be mentioned if she were not out trying to snag the young vote from the Obama camp.
I just don’t think the “pimping out” remark was a big deal. Certainly we have heard much worse said about people in this campaign and we have most assuredly heard a lot of bad things about the Bush girls.
I also find it disingenuous that the Clintons would get upset over someone saying something in reference to their daughter especially when one stops to consider what Bill Clinton did to another man’s daughter, who by the way, was younger than Chelsea at the time.
Sources:
Breitbart
Daily News
TVNewser
Stop the ACLU
Tags: chelsea, Clinton, pimped out daughter, rapist
Hillary Health Care Plan Must Really Work
Feb 6, 2008 Satire
Yesterday morning Hillary Clinton was to do an interview on KTVU-TV in San Francisco. She was asked a question about her husband’s role in her campaign and she suddenly started coughing and the coughing continued so that she was unable to complete the interview. I know she has been around screeching all over the place and she was probably screaming quite a bit during the Super Bowl (she has always been a Giants fan) so i am sure she had some throat issues. Still, I could not help wondering if the coughs were forced to avoid tough questions about her hubby.
I realize this is cynical but the Clintons will do anything to avoid tough issues and to win so it is not beyond belief that she would have a coughing fit so that she could skip the interview and move on. However, since she had similar problems leading George Stephanopoulos to tell her to get some tea and honey for a similar coughing fit. Why the skepticism then?
I watched the election results last night and listened to Hillary give her “victory” speech and I noticed that she did not cough during it. She was able to screech and yell and point to people and praise them without a coughing fit that would force her to stop. Drudge billed the KTVU episode as a “Hillary Health Scare” (he has a flair for the dramatic) and it was serious enough to delay taping 48 hours earlier and stop an interview. How did she heal so rapidly that she did not have a coughing spell during her speech which required much more talking than the prior interviews?
I guess her health care plan really does work…
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