Wiki to track the Clintons' racism

Thanks to whoever did this -

clintonattacksobama | Incident Tracker

Somebody need to track the Clintons' overt & covert racism - I appreciate their effort!

Now if we could get somebody to track their lying!

More on Bill's efforts this AM

Guess I am just furious -

I grew up in Alabama and know racism when I see it.

What Bill Clinton did today is racist and he knows it.

From Jack Tapper's blog -

January 26, 2008 8:18 PM

Said Bill Clinton today in Columbia, SC: "Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in '84 and '88. Jackson ran a good campaign. And Obama ran a good campaign here."

This was in response to a question about Obama saying it "took two people to beat him." Jackson had not been mentioned.

Boy, I can't understand why anyone would think the Clintons are running a race-baiting campaign to paint Obama as "the black candidate."

-- jpt

You can see Bill at work here.

When I wrote this how could I know the first racist attack would come from within the Democratic Party. I certainly owe the Republicans an apology.

Clintons' racist intent

From AP via TPM

Clinton campaign strategists denied any intentional effort to stir the racial debate. But they said they believe the fallout has had the effect of branding Obama as "the black candidate," a tag that could hurt him outside the South.

Finally BillHill lays it out for all to see. Guess they're proud of it. Bill and Hillary have been working hard to inject racism into the primary - looks like they have succeeded.

Obama's latest radio ad

You need to hear this radio ad -

Personally its pretty mild - somebody needs to call them the liars that they are.

Bill Clinton's racist strategy

If you have any doubt Bill Clinton will use racism to get back into power take a look at this:

To demean Obama's win Bill links him to Jessie Jackson and suggests Obama only won because he is black.

Obama's advertisement is right - Hillary and Bill will say anything, do anything to win. They have no ethics, no honor, no decency. They only care about power. They are filthy liars that must be stopped.

Democrats - abandon all hope - The HillBill Show is on the air!

For all those into Hillary worship I suggest a tiny taste of what's coming this fall came last night from Mitt Romney's response when he quipped "Bill Clinton back in the White House with nothing to do is something I just can't imagine. I can't imagine the American People can imagine it"

You can expect Republican talking point to begin to "raise" Bill's zipper in oh so many ways. They were just holding off till they felt Hillary had things locked up. Perhaps Mitt jumped the gun a bit, guess he just couldn't resist - it was a great line.

I can see the string of comments and jokes headed our way about what's happening in the West Wing and how Hillary has locked up the Interns because Bill is on the prowl (slurp-slurp, gurgle-gurgle). I have zero doubt that Bill's zipper will play a role in the election - the Publicans are just too smart to miss the opportunity. Their job will be to induce Clinton fatigue well before the election and ridicule and disgust is one of their most powerful tools in that process. The Clinton Camp's Swiftboating of Obama is only a prelude to the real race to come. They like to talk about how the Repubs will tear Obama apart - soon we will see what the real paid, professional experts of the Republican Party can do. It ain't gonna be pretty - the Clinton's have given them so much to work with.

Personally I am disgusted by the Clintons and can't imagine voting for 4 more years of the BillAry show. While moving a moron out of the White House we don't need to move White Trash in. My only hope is that the Publicans will get a clue and nominate John McCain so all the HillBill haters in the DemParty like me will have somebody to vote for.

HillBill - Swiftboaters extrodinare!

The HillBill Show is perfecting the Swiftboater's techniques on Obama, the guy who had the nerve to run against them in the Primary. In Wed's NY Times Maureen Dowd gives us a
taste of the disgusting dynamic duo in operation.

My sympathies to Obama - who precisely is he running against? Hillary or Bill

My brain is exploding!

David Brooks via The Daily Dish:

David Brooks says that "the people in the Bush White House think Hillary Clinton is better qualified to be President" and "I think its genuine, they like Hillary Clinton, the people in the Bush White House think Hillary Clinton is serious on the war she's serious on foreign policy they would entrust (they would trust) their legacy to Hillary Clinton more than to Obama and more frankly than a lot of the Republican Candidates"

Its almost impossible to know where to begin on this - does David Brooks actually believe this to be true? That a highly partisan White House would prefer a Dem than a Republican to take over? That they trust Hillary Clinton more than John McCain to deal with the war? Is David Brooks that gullible?

Certainly its spin - but for what purpose? Somehow I think Karl Rove is sitting somewhere laughing his ass off knowing that the Dems are on the verge of being saddled with Hillary while she's receiving praise from the Bushies. Enough to cause a bunch of good Dems to slash their wrists.

The speech I hope Edwards makes -

When Edwards looses the South Carolina Primary next saturday here's what I hope he says/does.

Friends we have run the race but its just not gonna work. We need to look at the greater good and have to admit that our number one priority today is to make sure that a Democrat wins the election in November and changes America.

It is clear to me and to many of you that Hillary Clinton can't win the general election. We don't need to visit the history right now but must acknowledge a simple fact that Americans elect people to the Presidency who actually believe in something - who actually have strongly held core beliefs. Unfortunately Hillary Clinton isn't that person. Senator Clinton believes what is convenient to believe. Here beliefs are determined by her pollster. This, in no small part, is the reason she is despised by most Independents and many Democrats. She cannot unite the Democratic Party, she cannot attract Independent voters, she cannot win.

There are other issues that must be addressed - the people want change and America needs change. How can Hillary Clinton, the Corporate Candidate, change anything? Folks are not fools. They know Corporations and their lobbyists don't support her out of the goodness of their hearts. She is owned by then - lock, stock, an barrel. Make no mistake about it - once in office she would surround herself with the same lobbyists and Corporate interests that have financed her Campaign. They will determine her solutions and there won't be change.

It is time for us to admit that I will not be the nominee. We must look to the future and do the greater good. Today the greater good is for me to endorse Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States. He is a man who has the core set of beliefs that the voters demand, he is a candidate that has shown his ability to attract Independents, he understands the need for change and isn't encumbered by those who surround him. Barack Obama should be the next President of the United States.

Sunday morning disgust

The 100% Corporate owned candidate, Hillary, won Nevada. The shinning example of a Democrat that doesn't believe in anything except what the pollsters tell her is headed to the nomination. Unless she is stopped soon its all over.

The only good news in this whole mess is that if she gets the nomination when she looses, she will loose - I know of no Independent that will vote for her and we need Independents to win, we will be done with the Clintons forever. Right now I'm just hoping that McCain gets the Publican nomination - he's the least disgusting of the pack.

Wolf just had the ultimate example of the DLC on, Senator Evan Bayh, and mentioned the rumor that he was a possible VP choice. Now that's a ticket that won't get the base excited - Hillary and a DINO (Dem in Name Only) Senator. Think I'm gonna be sick.

Futility of NM's Feb. 5th Caucus

For any of us caught up in the preparations for the Feb. 5th Dem Caucus the post at The Huffington Post is likely to be depressing. In it while analyzing some exit polling at the Michigan the following statement was made:

Looking toward the future, the Michigan exit poll demonstrates the viability of the Clinton campaign strategy of winning solid majorities in states that, unlike Michigan and South Carolina, do not allow participation of either Republicans or independents in their "closed" primaries, like the February 5 contests in New York, Connecticut, Colorado and Arizona. Many very large February 5 states, however, including California, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia, have open primaries that will give Obama a chance to pull in independent voters.

They don't even mention New Mexico in the list of states that have "closed" primary states.

Let's hope this is the last one.

The calm before the racist storm

Over at The Daily Dish Andrew has published a post from a Publican about how they really, really respect Obama.

Fine - I'm sure that many of them do but that's not the issue. Just wait till Obama wins the primaries and gets chosen as the Democratic candidate for President. That's when the boys that run the Republican Party will get their Swift Boaters going. Its gonna be fascinating to watch how quickly the Publicans attacks morph into plain old racism. The Publican power structure will have a real job keeping hold of their racist component - they will need to let them out to try and do a bit of damage to Obama but once out of the box its gonna be impossible to keep 'em from going wild.

Things will get nasty and anybody who thinks this race is gonna be about "the issues" is nuts.

Obamavasion hits NM

Received yesterday (Sunday) from the New Mexico for Obama mailing list:

Four Obama staffers are arriving tomorrow night (two for Albuquerque, one each for Santa Fe and Las Cruces).

Don't know if Dick Sniffing will be at Albuquerque International to cover the event but the Feb 5th invasion has begun.

Kristol - useless as usual

HuffPo covers Bill Kristol's arrival at the NYT in their own style - the title: If We Ignore Him, Maybe He'll Go Away and content - a single link to Kristol's first NYT article explains their view of the event.

However, a reader's comment is even better!

"That's it? This is what we got from that great intellectual giant? This is what everybody and their grandmother grabbed pitchforks and fire over? Any average reader of the current political scene could have written that column. The real story here is how full of shit Kristol is. The GOP is terrified of a Huckabee nomination."

The sad fact is that's also true for about 99.5% of today's press corps. Their job seems to rehash the obvious and explore the mundane.

Intel just can't play nice.

Essentially Intel's sales force just can't play nice.

After joining the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization last year Intel has decide to get out, see my earlier post.

From a NY Times article it seems that their sales force just can't live up to the OLPC membership agreement they signed hence its time to split.

Lets see what Intel and Micro$oft does now -

AWWMNUUBM - Unity08

From Chris over at OpenLeft we get another take on Unity08 along with a great acronym - AWWMNUUBM or Aging Wealthy White Men for National Unity Under Billionaire Media Moguls along with a good question - what do they actually want to do?

Another posting over at The Washington Monthly points out a little fact that seems to have escaped this group while they make their call for bipartisanship:

I suppose that's fine, but one wonders if the group realizes that Barack Obama, John Edwards, and Bill Richardson have already said publicly that they would have Republicans serving in their cabinet -- a claim no Republican presidential candidate has made.

I'm left to wonder if its bipartisanship for the sake of bipartisanship or a call for bipartisanship because they fear the Dems might actually get control of the place.

Unity08 - Republocrat - Demopublican come out of the closet to meet in Oklahoma

A brief segment from CNN's Wolf Show this AM lead me to a story about Unity08. Turns out that this group of Establishment Politico's are so concerned that the US is so partisan these days that its necessary for some wise, no doubt straight, white & Protestant, men to get together in Oklahoma and "fix" things for all of us.

Don't know about you but I'm gonna sleep sounder because of their efforts -

My only question is where were those folks a couple of years ago during the Republican dictatorship of Congress, you know those lazy dazy partisan days of Delay and Hastert running the House?

I've got a feeling this has more to do with the Corporate Establishment's fears that they may loose control than some grand desire for unity so we can face our mutual problems.

Consider two distinct possibilities the Establishment faces:

1) the Publicans become a religious party, after all that's what its base really wants

2) the Democrats move back to their base and become a populist party

If 1 & 2 happen where oh where will the Corporations, a.k.a the Establishment, go???

Hmmmmm, if both 1 & 2 happen and the Publicans actually read the Bible and start caring about the poor, sick, and justice imagine what could be done on Health Care, the Environment, and tax policy?

If that's not enough to get the old line Establishment Republicans and DLC folks, the Dem's corporate wing, out of their joint closet and to the table I don't know what is -

Update - Digby does a real job on this gathering of gasbags here. The hypocrisy of this group of irrelevant Elders is simply staggering.

Sorry Andrew but.......

I tend to read Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish daily and sometimes I agree, sometimes I disagree, and sometimes, as I did today, I find total nonsense.

Since he tends to read his email I sent him this:

Andrew:

Sorry but your Republican correspondent simply doesn't understand today's Democratic Party. For some reason the Republicans are fixated on the concept that GW hatred is the main motivator of the Democratic base. They simply don't understand that most of us know a fool when we see 'em and see the damage that GW is doing on a daily basis to the long term future of the US and the rest of the world. While we can't stand the sight of him and hate listening to the moron speak we just want him gone as soon as possible. Since the Republican base sees him as a good guy and thinks he has done a good job they are left to equate the motivations of our response to GW as similar to their response to Bill Clinton. They hated Bill Clinton because: 1) he couldn't keep his zipper closed and had the bad sense to lie about it; and 2) he was a fairly successful President. We're sick of GW because he is a delusional fool. Those are very different things. Personally, I don't hate GW - I just know he is a disaster of biblical proportions and dread the years of effort it will take to clean up the mess he and his minions have created.

Speaking as somebody who has been deeply involved in party politics for years, Hillary's support is totally based on the fact that she was married to Bill Clinton (name recognition) and that she appears to be a smart lady who keeps her cool under pressure. While she does have the establishment on her side the base ain't excited about her at all. Since she is widely seen as the establishment candidate and a supporter of the war its a bit illogical to assume that those Dems who's whole life is focused on GW hatred would flock to her to get back at GW. The anti-Hillary votes in the party are way larger than the pro-Hillary ones. If Edwards or Obama drops out before Hillary "wins" it all over for her because those two factions will quickly merge and be the majority.

Please let your Republican correspondent know that we DEFINITELY understand that GW can't run again and we will be finally shed of him in a bit over a year. We also know we won't be running against him next year. Who gets chosen as the Democratic nominee won't have anything to do with GW hatred - its just plain old politics as usual in the Democratic Party. Everyone I know counts the hours till GW moves back to Texas and hopefully disappears from public view forever.

Re: the Hillary vs. Obama vs. Edwards race - my vote/effort will be for Obama or Edwards. We need change after Bush not a return to the past.

Why the Repubs hate Huckabee

I've been wondering for some time why Huckabee wasn't the beloved child of the Republican Party. You may have noticed that the entire community of mainline Republican pundits have been dumping on the Southern Baptist preacher from Hope lately. It seemed odd to me - from my uninformed position he seems perfect - he's a fundie - he's a creationist - he's a preacher - he even believes - what more do they want?

Certainly they have been dressing up their contempt for Huckabee in some fairly high minded prose. Take for example this fascinating post from Right Wing Nut House where the author agrees with an attack on Huckabee from the rolling gas bag Charles Krauthammer:

I’m not talking about criticizing the idea that faith animates a candidate’s position on the issues. Nor am I calling for a moratorium on talking about religion in a political context. Neither is Krauthammer. What Krauthammer is saying – and what I am agreeing with – is that a line has been crossed, most notably on the Republican side, that seeks to give religion a privileged position in policy debates – absolute moral authority with a vengeance based not on the efficacy of one’s position on the issues but rather on the strength or nature of their religious beliefs:

Problem is - when you strip all the rhetoric away its pretty simple - Huckabee believes all the fundamentalist nonsense and that turns out to be one big problemo for the Republican establishment! They have been using the fundamentalist for years to gain political power and the little people have always known their place. Sure the elites of the Publican Party would throw 'em a bone every once and while when they needed their votes but they never meant for the fundies to have much say besides a bit of gay bashing every now and then. Now they face a fundamentalist candidate who actually believes what he says and has a chance to get elected. No wonder they are taking a collective dump.

Just imagine - religious wacko's in the Republican Party - whoever let them in? Well you did Mr & Mrs Republican Establishment and now they are eating the brie, measuring the windows for new drapes, and getting ready to take control of the Republican Party.

There was a young lady of Niger
Who smiled as she rode on a Tiger;
   They came back from the ride
   With the lady inside,
And the smile on the face of the Tiger.

Michelle does it again -

Michelle Lujan Grisham came to tonights DFNM (Democracy for New Mexico) meeting and once again did well for herself. Since this group contained lots of early and big Martin H. supporters I was curious how they would react. Watching this very, very liberal crowd all I can say is that Martin should be worried. She walked onto his truff, had her say, and came out with a few new supporters. If the left wing of the Democratic Party starts to move to her way Martin's campaign is over.