Showing posts with label Hillary Clinton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hillary Clinton. Show all posts
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Some People Say Jake Tapper Fucks Sheep
Listening to the ABC news radio on the way home is fraught with peril. Several motorists were this close from being rammed due to road rage. Today, ABC revealed that "some people" are questioning donations Hillary Clinton received from people who were granted a pardon in January 2001 by her husband. Then it was time for the big bombshell from ABC News' Jake Tapper to explode. Was there a quid pro quo? Is there a cabal of illegal donors fueling her money numbers?
Three recipients of controversial 11th-hour pardons issued by former President Bill Clinton in January 2001 have donated thousands of dollars to the presidential campaign of his wife, Democratic front-runner Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., according to campaign finance records examined by ABC News, in what some good government groups said created an appearance of impropriety.
Here is the real story. Of 177 people pardoned by Bill Clinton in 2001, 3 have donated a combined amount of $5,300 to Hillary's run. Perhaps Ken Starr can take a leave from Pepperdine to investigate this criminal activity that appears to be the Teapot Dome, Watergate, and Who shot JR all rolled up into one gigantic cesspool of muck that could shake the nation to it's very core. Clinton's team, after cowering under their desks for days, did respond to Jake "Morley Safer" Tapper from an undisclosed location.
"We have raised over $65 million from over 200,000 people," said Clinton campaign manager Howard Wolfson, adding sarcastically, "I appreciate your bringing the instance of this $5,300 and these three people to our attention."
Damn right he was sarcastic. This is pure bullshit. My question is why those ungrateful criminals aren't more appreciative. That's the scandal. 1 in 57 pardonees ponied up cash to Hillary. Unless that $5,300 bought Hillary a new pantsuit with super powers, Jake Tapper looks like a real asshole.
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Hillary Clinton Tries Even Harder To Annoy Democrats
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, unveiled his comprehensive plans to deal with terrorism this week, he became his Democratic presidential rivals’ collective punching bag.
In an interview with the Associated Press on Thursday, Obama was asked if he would use nuclear weapons to defeat terrorism and Osama bin Laden. “I think it would be a profound mistake for us to use nuclear weapons in any circumstance, involving civilians,” Obama said to the Associate Press. “Let me scratch that. There’s been no discussion of nuclear weapons. That’s not on the table.”
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton criticized his comments at a press conference. “I don’t believe any president should make any blanket statements in respect to the use or non-use of nuclear weapons,” she said. She and Obama had an ongoing fight last week over how to handle diplomacy with rogue countries like North Korea, Iran and Venezuela.
Yes, Hillary. You are super macho. We get it. You also won't promise to talk to our enemies, and you want to ban flag burning, and violent video games. I for one and sick and tired of your triangulation crap.You have not won the primary yet, but you are running as if you are in the general election trying to peel away people in the middle. Taking the election for granted this early by doing your damnest to piss off the base might be swell if you end up winning this thing, but people like myself will end up voting for you holding our noses.
Who exactly are you impressing with your talk of not leaving nuclear weapons off the table? The only people left excited about using tactical nuclear weapons are watching Pat Robertson, listening to Rush Limbaugh, and are not going to vote for you anyways.
Do you really believe that independents want us to go around nuking people? Well, this ain't the 60's sister. You have really made it past that glass ceiling. You are turning into a real dick.
Friday, July 27, 2007
The Clinton/Obama Thing
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton sharply dismissed Thursday a recent suggestion from chief rival Barack Obama that she is “Bush-Cheney light,” telling CNN the comparison is “silly.”
“You know, I have been called a lot of things in my life, but I have never been called George Bush or Dick Cheney certainly,” Clinton told CNN’s John King.
“You know you have to ask whatever has happened to the politics of hope,” Clinton added, in reference to the Illinois Democrat’s familiar campaign theme.
I have to agree with Obama here. Hillary took a cheap shot at Obama, and he retaliated. She knew damn well that he was referring to being open to the idea of facing our enemies, you know like we did with the Soviets. She used it as an opportunity to score some cheap points basically stating she would continue the retarded Bush policy of only talking with our friends.
It sounds Bush/Cheney light to me. You started it Senator Clinton. Is this shot any cheaper than the one you took?
Monday, June 25, 2007
President John Wayne Inspires Mathews
This past Friday, Chris Matthews went on an anti Hillary Clinton rant. It's shocking, but true. He argues his position strongly with facts. This should finally make that broad know that she ain't got a shot in the big leagues. This is hardball, and I am Chris Matthews.
MATTHEWS: No, the idea that it -- well, let me just get historic. We've never had a woman commander in chief.
PARKER: No, you start picking on her. As soon as men start picking on her --
MATTHEWS: But isn't that a challenge, because when it comes down to that final decision to vote for president, a woman president, a woman commander in chief, will be an historic decision for people. Not just men, but women as well. Elisabeth, you're always thinking about these things.
BUMILLER: It's Golda Meir, it's Margaret Thatcher. I mean, we all remember these women. I, you know, I think we can get there.
MATTHEWS: But we've got Patton and John Wayne on our side.
My first fond memory of the John Wayne presidency was when it was revealed that his real name was Marion Morrison. Oh, how the people chuckled. He rallied though with home spun wisdom, and he gave the speech addressing this issue wearing chaps. People like chaps.
The Patton administration fared no better. He was constantly harassed by the soldier he slapped while in the service at official functions. His lawsuit finally was settled out of court, and they became friends and lovers.
Like Chris Matthews, I keep this poster of President Wayne on the bedroom ceiling. He looks so virile, yet so loving and compassionate. The kind of President who smells like English leather, yet will give you a hug when you need one right after he bombs a country whose name you can't remember. But you trust him like your daddy. Hillary can't do that. She has icky parts.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
The Washington Post editorializes against Senator Clinton for opposing a free trade agreement with South Korea. I am no economist, but incredibly wary of any "free trade" deal negotiated by the Bush administration. We always get these pie in the sky pronouncements about how this time the agreement doesn't suck. This time they are going to actually be serious about retraining workers who lost their jobs. This time environmental and labor concerns will be addressed. This time there will not be loopholes that you could drive a semi truck through.
Enough already. These free trade agreements aren't promoted for the benefit of workers but corporations. It's a trickle down philosophy. Workers may incidentally benefit in some fields from the deal, but that is not why it's being promoted. Some business interests want to exploit the market in a certain way, so the middle class American worker is being taken along for the ride with vague promises that have been empty in the past.
If there ever is a free trade agreement that workers in both countries really like, but the fortune 500 companies are squeamish about, we can talk. Opening up trade has too long been a code for making workers compete with each other for scraps in wages. Those who want support of "free trade" agreements have the onus on them by now to prove it's otherwise.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Tucker Carlson, heiress to the Swanson Frozen dinner line, was a Hillary bashing tonight on his show. He brought out a poll that showed that uneducated non college graduate women loved Hillary, while those who had their degrees were Obama fans.
I am not supporting Hillary in the primary (IANSHITP), but this is just bogus. College educated women at this point don't have any magic. The implication throughout this program was that people who were intelligent, who got more information would learn to hate Senator Clinton.
Or.... people who are educated tend to watch shows like Tucker Carlson's and Chris Matthews on Hardball, where the hatred of Clinton is pathological and has already crossed the line of being misogynistic years ago. If enough people flip in watching Obama given soft coverage and Hillary being crucified, of course these people are going to start peeling away from her. She is not the politician like her husband.
Matthews could scream until he was blue in the face about Bill Clinton's blow jobs. Tucker Carlson could ask for his removal from office. Bill Clinton talked over them, stomping them like little flecks of fly crap.
Any guesses as to what men and women, educated or not, actually know what the candidates positions are on taxes? On health care? On manufacturing? Is there a difference between Clinton and Obama on choice, or gay rights?
People don't know because pissants like Chris Matthews and Tucker Carlson want to hire the CSI crew to examine Hillary Clinton's vagina to see if there is evidence that Clinton gave her herpes. The "uneducated" women aren't listening to this carnival show.
Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
One of the letters written in defense of Scooter Libby was written by Mary Matalin and signed by her husband James Carville, who is working as an adviser to the Hillary Clinton campaign.
The he said/she said act is starting to run a bit too thin at the moment. Mary Matalin was on the White House Iraq Study Group along with Libby cooking up bogus justifications for us to go to war. Love happens. I can accept that. Scooter Libby though is a partisan hack who helped lie us into war, and outed a CIA agent because her husband criticized a Republican administration. He then lied about it on the stand.
James Carville might have thought this letter was going to be kept secret. Ooops. It shows how much of what goes on in D.C. amongst the chattering class is a big game to them.
What Scooter Libby did was serious. He committed perjury about outing a CIA agent, an act that could have gotten her overseas contacts killed. Somebody may have died for all we know. The fact that it was done for partisan politics and Carville is defending the man shows that his time should be over in democratic partisan politics.
Are you listening Senator Clinton?
Monday, June 04, 2007
The Hedgehog And The $200,00 A Year Typical Young Couple
Cocaine addicted conservative columnist Larry Kudlow has a bone to pick with Hillary Clinton.
Hillary last night promised to do the “hard work” of increasing taxes. But what her so-called “fairness” plan is really about is income redistribution and class envy.
The class war has been won by your team Larry, be a bit gracious. Clinton is not suggesting that your Patek Phillippe be redistributed to a temp office worker in Topeka, Kansas. She is just suggesting that all those who enjoyed the massive tax breaks of the past few years need to quit being such greedy fucking hogs. You will blow the money on cocaine anyways. Think of this as an intervention.
It would damage investors, large and small businesses, and successful earners climbing the ladder of prosperity.
You keep saying this, but where is your data? Clinton raised taxes on the wealthy in the 1990's and we did quite well thank you very much.
Why penalize them with a tall-tax toll barrier that would be constructed in front of the $200,000 dollar husband and wife earnings that so many young couples aspire to? That’s her platform after all.
It's all part of the twisted liberal agenda. Nobody now is going to want to make $200,000 if they are going to be taxed higher at that point. I predict a wave of people refusing to ask for raises once they earn $199,999.99. It would be pointless after that. Considering the fact that only 2.67% of American households take in $200,000 a year, they can keep on dreaming right Larry? This is not a Horatio Alger novel, (He was a pedophile by the way), this is reality. How long can you fool people into thinking they will be the lucky duckies in that top 2.67% anyways?
Why damage stocks? Why attack investors in the ownership class? Why damage economic growth or the roaring bull market?
I was joking before, but are you really back on the white powder? "Roaring Bull Market"? I mean really. Stocks are up, but come on. This is not the 1990's, when stocks were really doing well. I guess when the Dow actually doesn't lose money in a year that Bush is in office the market is unstoppable. When the democratic President swears into office in January 2009 and outperforms Bush's stock market you will call that growth anemic, because you are not just a hedgehog, but a dick too.
Note:That really isn't a picture of Larry Kudlow. He calls himself the hedgehog, I guess as a pun about hedge funds (ha ha ha). This was the first hedgehog I could find that would piss him off.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton says the pain and turmoil of her White House years don't discourage her in the least as she wages a campaign she hopes will bring her back to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
The ambitious health care reform plan Clinton oversaw in 1993-'94 drew much fire. In the interview, she declined to say whether she'll offer a plan for universal coverage in her campaign.
That in a nutshell is my problem with Hillary Clinton. I liked her first before I liked the Big Dog. She was articulate, brilliant, bold, and unapologetic. Then health care happened and she has not been the same ever since.
Running on issues such as flag burning and violent video games I doubt is seriously what she had in mind when bright eyed, and fresh faced, she exited college and decided to take a bite out of the world and engage in politics and advocacy.
If Hillary Clinton said today that I was right in 1994. It is right to offer Universal Health Care, and I am going to get it done, I have a sneaky feeling that it would help, not hurt her even in the general election. If she wins by timidity, she will have to govern the same way.
Be not afraid Senator Clinton. Toss your pollsters to the side. Those issues you fought for in the past, and discarded in the present were instances of you being visionary. Your tolerance for homosexuals, your fight for women in the workplace, your fight for health coverage is much more popular now than when you first struggled to have them enacted.
Being timid when the vagaries of public opinion have shifted in your direction is not just immoral but stupid politics. You aren't a stupid person. Do the right thing.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Hillary Clinton Unwilling To Make Moral Judgement On Homosexuality
Political Punch via Kos:
"General Pace has clarified his remarks, but let's not lose sight of the fact that 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell' is not working," she said. "We are being deprived of thousands of patriotic men and women who want to serve their country who are bringing skills into the armed services that we desparately need, like translation skills. And one can argue whether it was a good idea when it was first implemented, but we know have evidence as to the fact that we are in a time of war -- when we really need as many people as we can to recruit and retain in an all-volunteer army -- we are turning people away or discharging them not because of what they've done but because of who they are."
But is it immoral?
"Well I'm going to leave that to others to conclude," she said. "I'm very proud of the gays and lesbians I know who perform work that is essential to our country, who want to serve their country and I want make sure they can."
I have held my tongue actually about Hillary Clinton for almost a good month now. This is absolute crap. It is a character flaw of many politicians to be weaslesque, but Hillary Clinton apparently wants to be the master/mistress of triangulation.
I have less of a problem if she says that she personally finds homosexuality icky than refusing to actually say anything which might offend a key demographic. Her refusal to back down on her war vote was a good example of this as well.
Then there is the whole flag burning, violent video game crap she has been involved with as an obvious clumsy attempt to appeal to the NASCAR voter crowd. It's time to give it a rest. Just say what you believe and let the chips fall where they may. If the American people don't like your views, they won't vote for you. Or, they may vote for you anyways if they like the other candidates less. Trying to trick the voters into not knowing your opinions, or refusing to state them is not the best way to achieve the highest office in the land.
Monday, February 26, 2007
Read this piece at firedoglake. Apparently, David Geffen wasn't really comfortable about talking about the Clinton's but that was Dowd's agenda, so she kept fishing until she got enough negative quotes to run with for her column, and her reason for writing it.
She hates the Clintons. Ever since Monica Lewinsky especially, she has been on a crusade against the both of them. Fine enough. But she should be honest about what she is attempting here.
Friday, February 23, 2007
Many of Bill Clinton's six-figure speeches have been made to companies whose employees and political action committees have been among Hillary Clinton's top backers in her Senate campaigns. The New York investment giant Goldman Sachs paid him $650,000 for four speeches in recent years. Its employees and PAC have given her $270,000 since 2000 -- putting it second on the list of her most generous political patrons.
The banking firm Citigroup, whose employees and PAC have been Hillary Clinton's top source of campaign donations, with more than $320,000, paid her husband $250,000 for a speech in France in 2004. Last year, it committed $5.5 million for Clinton's Global Initiative to help encourage entrepreneurship and financial education among the poor.
Asked about the companies and their relationship to the Clintons, Jay Carson, a spokesman for the former president, said, "It certainly makes sense that reputable New York companies who support the policies and works of President Clinton and his foundation would also be supportive of their senator."
We should be looking towards real reforms of these industries once Hillary Clinton takes office right? I mean, they are giving her all this money because they feel upset that their big bonus checks are being taxed at a lower rate, forcing deficits, program cuts and the like. That is why they are passing out the money like it grows on trees. They want an intervention, and Hillary Clinton is there to give it.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
“Not since the Vietnam War has there been this level of disappointment in the behavior of America throughout the world, and I don’t think that another incredibly polarizing figure, no matter how smart she is and no matter how ambitious she is — and God knows, is there anybody more ambitious than Hillary Clinton? — can bring the country together.
“Obama is inspirational, and he’s not from the Bush royal family or the Clinton royal family. Americans are dying every day in Iraq. And I’m tired of hearing James Carville on television.”...
“It’s not a very big thing to say, ‘I made a mistake’ on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can’t,” Mr. Geffen says. “She’s so advised by so many smart advisers who are covering every base. I think that America was better served when the candidates were chosen in smoke-filled rooms.”...
Hillary's folks are demanding that Obama fire Geffen as his finance chair because of his "vicious" remarks. Wow, is there anything that Geffen said here that hasn't been said before? The media narrative of everybody especially Hollywood loves Hillary is exposed for being just a brain dead shortcut meme with no semblance to actual reality. I am starting to really like Geffen alot. This is not a coronation. Other people can raise money and not just let us start our 29th year with a Clinton or Bush in the administration just because it is their regal right to lead.
Update:Obama's camp strikes back.
We aren’t going to get in the middle of a disagreement between the Clintons and someone who was once one of their biggest supporters. It is ironic that the Clintons had no problem with David Geffen when was raising them $18 million and sleeping at their invitation in the Lincoln bedroom. It is also ironic that Senator Clinton lavished praise on Monday and is fully willing to accept today the support of South Carolina State Sen. Robert Ford, who said if Barack Obama were to win the nomination, he would drag down the rest of the Democratic Party because he's black.’"
Monday, February 19, 2007
ORANGEBURG, S.C. -- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that South Carolina should remove the Confederate flag from its Statehouse grounds, in part because the nation should unite under one banner while at war.
"I think about how many South Carolinians have served in our military and who are serving today under our flag and I believe that we should have one flag that we all pay honor to, as I know that most people in South Carolina do every single day," Clinton told The Associated Press in an interview.
Oh, that is the bestest reason of all oh triangulator maximus. Could it be that you could be honest and say that the confederate flag is considered by many african-americans and other people who aren't racist as a symbol of oppression? No, not that, it might offend the key knuckle dragging constituency. You also couldn't mention the fact that the South was in criminal succession, and they lost the damned war, and the flag is a symbol of a group of people who tried to break this country apart and over 600,000 people died in the process.
Nah, it's all about unity in the time of George W. Bush's great war on terror. This is what pisses people off about Hillary. Me, in particular. Would Hillary Clinton of 1972 have produced such mealy mouthed bullshit? Anybody who thinks so probably ingested way too much of substances being commonly ingested that year.
Hillary Clinton, because it's a dire situation traumatizing our nation, has offered a bill to ban burning the U.S. flag. This was what she was fighting for in the 60's. She just hoped one day her generation could get in power to do such important things that 'the man' was surpressing. Perhaps we can get her opinion on burning the South Carolina flag. Wow, she might have to re-hire Dick Morris, and let byegones be byegones to figure out the most mealy mouthed approach to that.
Saturday, February 17, 2007
She discusses this in a video released on her website tonight. The cynic in me believes that Obama must have done really well in her last batch of internal polls. The hopeful part believes that Hillary Clinton has seen the light, has decided to lead, saying enough is enough.
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