Brokered Convention Could Hurt Dems

It is evident the rules are archaic and need to be overhauled. Why are they so different between the parties? It should be decided what the game is and what the rules are and everyone play the same game in all states; both parties.

CLINTON WINS BIG ANOTHER UPSET FOR OBAMA AND MEDIA!
Barack Obama might have captured 3-more states on Super Tuesday, but Clinton leads the delegate count. Obama speech on super Tuesday appears to be addressing black voters only, guess Uncle teddy didn’t help? If you are still undecided today then here’s a thought: If you want REAL change and we all do, you have to have a change agent that knows the system and has the contacts to create that change. Democratic nominee will be attacked by the Republican Party and, more importantly slimy political world that surrounds the GOP. These ‘independent’ organizations have a sole purpose: to attack relentlessly, in the most vicious possible ways. Who is best equipped to handle the vicious, continuous attacks that the other side will launch? who could best stand up and fight? Hillary Clinton has, as she has said, taken this incoming fire for 15 years or more. She’s been unfairly attacked by mainstream media and men who fear a strong intelligent woman like Ted Kennedy. Shes been accused of everything thing the media and obama camp can think of and yet she’s still the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination. She’s proven after super Tuesday shes tougher than boot leather while having a human side. Those are assets that our candidate needs. Hillary Clinton has developed thick skin and the ability to remain calm in campaign combat. Yet, also knows how to listen to the American people. Qualifications? She’s a successful, liberal US Senator. won a Senate election that by fighting back and campaigning in the non-traditional places in NY. She went to conservative, Republican based northern rural areas and won them over with smart policies, substantive talk and the fact she simply listened! In that most unlikely of places, she won with 67% of the vote. 2006 she won re-election. We are convinced Hillary is strong where others, including Barack Obama, would be weak and inexperienced. She will fight the filth machine of the other side with vigor and calmness. She knows how to outmaneuver them. She’s a warrior. It’s a term seldom applied to women. Yet being a warrior is what she’s been from her Watergate committee staffing experience, through several terms as the First Lady of Arkansas, working on multiple corporate boards fighting for equal rights for minorities, middle class workers and women and during her years as First Lady of the US traveling the world. She learned first hand in those travels the foreign issues and realities. Hillary Clinton has made the personal contacts that are will be so valuable in the White House. She has consistently fought for the underdog and the American people. She was a warrior without anyone using the term.
Hillary Clinton knows how to form coalitions on Capitial Hill to get the job done! She has, that ‘bad’ word this election cycle, ‘experience’. JFK, perhaps one of the most inspirational speakers in his day, had 8 years US Senate experience and had taken a run at the Vice Presidency in 1956. He knew government from the inside. JFK was not an outsider condemning the system and all those in it as Obama camp would like you to believe. If you want change in government you first have to learn how to operate from the inside to get the laws and policies changed. We learned this time and time again from JFK to Bill Clinton.

The one economic upside to abrokered convention is that TEXTILES WILL UP due to the SKYROCKETING PURCHASE OF SHEETS BY THE NEOCONS,so watch the market.

Of course Hillary wants the delegates in Michigan to count. She was the only name on the ballot. This is absolutely a disgusting example of dirtbag politics. The Democratic National Commitee asked the candidateS to take their names off the ballots. Edwards and Obama agreed to do so. They kept their word. Clinton "missed" the deadline. So she did not KEEP HER WORD. Another example of the Clinton win at any cost. GO OBAMA.. I JUST MADE MY DONATION!

Could this be a trend with Hillary ..lying..no..NOT HILLARY...how about taking all that money from special interest groups. Obama has not taken a dime. Yet Hillary wants to "Take America Back." From what her "35" years of experience helped to create what America is today? With the special interest money the devil will have his due. Maybe Hillary's new slogan should be, "AMERICA FOR SALE" CALL 1-800-HILLARY.

And then there's this: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/brokered-democratic-convention-would-party/story.aspx?guid=%7BD72DDB4A%2D5C72%2D4DF3%2DB539%2D9D137582AA69%7D

Hillary Clinton is a cry baby and a fraud. With Hillary it's all about her. NOT WIN AT ANY COST..WIN AT ALL COSTS. If you think this race is over..think again..Hillary got her wake up call today and had to put a hold on the coronation ceremony. As of 6 months she was the self proclaimed winner of the Democractic Nomination. NOT SO FAST TOOTS..LOTS OF PEOPLE HATE THE WAY THE CLINTONS DO BUSINESS AND EVERY SLIMEBALL THING THEY REPRESENT. She still has a long road to go and now her campaign is whining because Obam has more money than she does..yet wasn't she fundraising for herself for the last 7 years she has been in the Senate. Do you want some cheese with that whine? Wonder if we will hear any more race baiting and lies from the Clinton campaign about Obama..that would be a YES.

I would never vote for someone that is an admitted cocaine user (Obama)! This proud Texan is voting for Hillary Clinton because I believe that she will get things done!

There will be a brokered convention and Ron Paul will finally have his chance to speak to America. If McCain wins, I'm out of here!!

Susan M get your head out of Obama's ass and start Thinking for yourselfAs the campaign treasuries of Mr. Obama and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton are rapidly draining heading into the nominating contests in more than 20 states on Tuesday, independent political groups — whether so-called 527 groups, political action committees, nonprofit organizations or trade unions — are stepping in to help fill the void. The efforts of these groups, particularly 527s, which are named for a section of the tax code under which they fall, worry campaign finance watchdogs because many can take unlimited contributions from donors and have limited oversight. -- Outside Groups Aid Obama, Their Vocal Critic - New York Times


Posted by Ed on January 30, 2008 10:16 AM | Permalink

hey Susan MShocker: Obama Accepts Campaign Money from Lobbyists, Special Interest Groups
Senator Squeaky Clean no longer. Obama, after bashing Hillary for taking lobbyists' money, has accepted ... (drum roll) lobbyists' money.


Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has been hard on his rivals for taking campaign money from lobbyists and special interest-laden political action committees, but the Illinois freshman's own finance reports aren't free of that form of donation.

Obama's U.S. Senate campaign committee so far has raised $128,000 from lobbyists and $1.3 million from PACs, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

SusanM yOU SHOULD DO YOUR HOMEWORK, DEAR AND GET OBAMA OUT OF YOUR DREAMS. WHERE DO YOU THINK DEAR PINKO TEDDY IS GOING TO GET MONEY? WITH THE COUTRY THE WAY IT IS, HOW DO YOU THINK HE GO 32 MILLION, FROM POOR PEOPLES WELLFARE CHECKS, GET REAL HES PLAYING DIRTY POLITICS TOO, SQUEEEKY CLEAN NO MORE

McCain and Obama both represent something new, exciting and almost wholesome in today's politics. Let's celebrate the beginning of an era when those charged with serving the public look for ways to work together and not trash everyone who disagrees with them. McCain could do the entire country some good be winning over the bleatings of Rush Limbaugh and his ilk. Go John Go!!!

SusanM....still up to posting the same old slanderous garbage? Obama is not immune from lying or to having character flaws, as addressed in my last post (under the blog entitled "Dem Primary Live Thread").

News flash--Obama took $$ from the 527 (type of special interest group) group called PowerPAC.org and it's splinter group CA's Vote Hope. Google it. Who knows if MoveOn.org, another 527, abided by the rules this time and didn't contribute exclusively to his campaign, as well (given their endorsement).

Give it up, you're STILL losing the debate. I have addressed EVERY charge you have lodged against Hillary & Bill Clinton and you know it but fail to acknowledge. Go back to the blog entitled "Hillary's 35 Years of Experience"--it has every counterargument, unless you can be original and come up with something new. It's an exercise in futility, but ever hear of a thing called ISSUES?!

GO HILLARY!

U.S.A POPULATION:(WHITE-80.1%)BLACK -12.8%)(HISPANIC OR LATINO:14.8%) (ASIAN AMERICA ONLY:4.46)
See the World Almanac and boock of facts pg 446)

HELLO MY FELLOWS.WHITES,AMERICANS.SPANISH,ASIAN ITALIAN ETC.ETC.

WHO IS RACIST IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY? BLACK OR WHITES???

DID YOU SEE THAT 88% OF BLACK PEOPLE VOTE A BLACK,ONLY 14% BLACK (MAYBE FROM OTHER COUNTRY) VOTE FOR A WHITE?.44%OF WHITE VOTED FOR A BLACK?
IF THE CRIMINAL O.J.SIMPSON BE THE CANDIDATE THE 88% OF BLACK PEOPLE WILL VOTE FOR HEM---REMEMBER O.J.SIMPSON TRIAL... NOT GUILTY??? BY 11 BLACK JURY???
WAKE UP PEOPLE WHO IS RACIST???WHEN WILL WHITE PEOPLE DO THE SAME AND STICK WITH THERE OWN RACE?
BE LOYALTY WITH YOUR RACE...LIKE BLACKS......VOTE WHITE .DO YOU SEE THE VOTERS ARE NOT STUPID,NO ONE BUY VOTES,NOT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA,NOT KENNEDYS,NOT OPRAH. ETC.ETC.ETC.VOTING YOU GAIN NOT BUY.CALIFORNIA IS A GOOD EXAMPLE.I'M PROUD TO BE ONE OF THE INTELIGENT PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR HILLARY.PLEASE VOTE WITH CONSCIENCE DONT THROW THIS COUNTRY AWAY,....GOD BLESS AMERICA AND SAVE US FROM MUSLIM

HILLARY IS LIKE THE SUPERBOWL.SHE THREW THE WINNING TOUCHDOWN PASS TO CALIFORNIA.

OPRAH IS THE NUMBER ONE RACIST IN THE U.S.A

LARRY KING ASKED HER '' WHY NOW " YOU SUPPORT A CANDIDATE, SHE ANSWERED ONLY NOW SHE FOUND THE RIGHT MAN TO BE A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT. WHAT HAPPEND TO YOU B---H!!! ANY PRESIDENT BEFORE WAS NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU? YOU MADE YOUR FORTUNE BECAUSE OF THE WHITES. DON'T FORGET THIS COUNTRY HAS 80.1% WHITES, 12.8% BLACKS, 14.8% SPANISH. IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT LOOK IN THE BOOK (WORLD ALMANAC AND BOOK OF FACTS 2008 PG 446) ALL THE MONEY FROM US YOU SPENT ON ONLY BLACK FAMILIES. REMEMBER KATRINA HOW MANY HOUSES DID YOU GIVE TO THE WHITES? AND WHAT ABOUT THE SCHOOL IN AFRICA HOW MANY POOR WHITE KIDS ARE AT THAT SCHOOL? DID YOU SEE HOW MANY MILLION OF WHITE AND OTHER RACE KIDS LIVE IN POVERTYIN THE U.S.A??? AND YOU NEVER DID ANYTHING FOR THEM. IT IS TIME FOR ALL THE WHITE PEOPLE THAT HELPED YOU MAKE YOUR FORTUNE TO BACK UP AND VOTE FOR HILARY CLINTON. SHE IS A WOMEN LIKE YOU! I THINK OPRAH YOUR REIGN IS GOING DOWN THE HILL-THANK YOU GOD AND GOD BLESS AMERICA

OPRAH IS THE NUMBER ONE RACIST IN THE U.S.A
LARRY KING ASKED HER '' WHY NOW " YOU SUPPORT A CANDIDATE, SHE ANSWERED ONLY NOW SHE FOUND THE RIGHT MAN TO BE A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT. WHAT HAPPEND TO YOU B---H!!! ANY PRESIDENT BEFORE WAS NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU? YOU MADE YOUR FORTUNE BECAUSE OF THE WHITES. DON'T FORGET THIS COUNTRY HAS 80.1% WHITES, 12.8% BLACKS, 14.8% SPANISH. IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT LOOK IN THE BOOK (WORLD ALMANAC AND BOOK OF FACTS 2008 PG 446) ALL THE MONEY FROM US YOU SPENT ON ONLY BLACK FAMILIES. REMEMBER KATRINA HOW MANY HOUSES DID YOU GIVE TO THE WHITES? AND WHAT ABOUT THE SCHOOL IN AFRICA HOW MANY POOR WHITE KIDS ARE AT THAT SCHOOL? DID YOU SEE HOW MANY MILLION OF WHITE AND OTHER RACE KIDS LIVE IN POVERTYIN THE U.S.A??? AND YOU NEVER DID ANYTHING FOR THEM. IT IS TIME FOR ALL THE WHITE PEOPLE THAT HELPED YOU MAKE YOUR FORTUNE TO BACK UP AND VOTE FOR HILARY CLINTON. SHE IS A WOMEN LIKE YOU! I THINK OPRAH YOUR REIGN IS GOING DOWN THE HILL-THANK YOU GOD AND GOD BLESS AMERICA

Here we go again. Ugh! This reposting is necessary because some people evidently didn't read it--dedicated to SusanM (& cohorts Stephanie and Carol).This is how I had responded to the previous blog entitled "The Greatness of Hillary Clinton":

Diana6:33PMFeb 5th 2008

Thank you, Tommy! It was refreshing to see a bit of good press for Hillary, with all the breathtakingly blatant and unapologetic media bias against her. All you have to do is read CNN's Political Ticker blog to sense the outrage we Hillary supporters feel against they and other cable networks, with MSNBC being the worst offender (yeah, you Chris Matthews! used to love ya). It's also interesting to note how all the international viewers see Americans foolishly and blindly following, being fueled by the media, this rock star named Barack Obama, given his inexperience and lack of substance/qualifications.

Have you noticed when reading through all the AOL blogs how the rabid Obama fans (not supporters, word carefully-chosen) cannot do anything but spew their venom against the evil Clintons by posting and reposting the same garbage r/t the alleged old sins of the evil duo under the guise of claiming that they lack character and judgment INSTEAD of discussing the REAL ISSUES of this campaign?! Some even stoop so low as to place the entire blame of 9/11 squarely on the shoulders of Bill Clinton. As someone who witnessed the black smoke plumes billowing above the Pentagon building from a 7th floor window at Walter Reed AMC and who lost a friend in the WTC that horrific fateful day, I find those comments not only abhorrent but repulsive and unworthy of even dignifying with a response! Once again, this serves my point --they dig up every tidbit & morsel of dirt on the Clintons with relish instead of meeting my repeated challenges to debate the ISSUES because they realize that the issues, along with his lack of experience and own impeachable character & judgment (slumlord Rezko, British financier Aucchio; FLIPPING on issues like gun control with Idaho voters,his VOICED position on the Iraq resolution vote when he stumped for Kerry at DNC, and on his prior campaign promise to bring all the troops home from Iraq within 16 months--he NOW states he's "open" to changing this timetable if conditions on the ground warrant), is their candidate Obama's Achilles heel.

Obama proposes FLAWED POLICIES on Iraq troop withdrawal, immigration and health care, to name a few. Obama proposes irresponsibly handing out driver's licenses to illegals notwithstanding the inherent national security and public safety risks AND his health care plan leaves out 15 million people from being insured. Hillary's is the only TRULY universal health care plan now that Edwards has dropped out of the race, as it mandates coverage for ALL and not just for children,as Obama's plan proposes. As a health care professional, I know all too well that our disastrous health care system needs complete revamping/overhauling and the only way to achieve this is through a UNIVERSAL health care system. Interesting to note that Dr Sanjay Gupta, the CNN correspondent and neurosurgeon who worked with Hillary on her health care plan in the 1990's, objectively concluded that the BOTTOM LINE is this....HILLARY'S plan will cost $124 billion and will cover EVERY American but that OBAMA's plan will cost $102 billion but cover only HALF the people!

All you had to do, if you took the time, is to watch Hillary's TOWN HALL MEETING last night (although it may have been a slight case of "preaching to the choir") when she outlined her well-thought out policies on a number of key issues in meticulous detail, such as those on HEALTH CARE, IMMIGRATION, TAXES and the ECONOMY, EDUCATION, ENERGY INDEPENDENCE/ENVIRONMENT, VETERANS RIGHTS, FOREIGN POLICY, OUTSOURCING of JOBS, repairing AMERICA'S STANDING in the WORLD, NO-BID CONTRACTS and REPAIRING our deteriorating INFRASTRUCTURE.

Hillary has substance, strength, class, chutzpah, gravitas, integrity and the proven ability to negotiate both across the aisle in the Congress and across the oceans with leaders of foreign countries (as unofficial ambassador to 82 countries as First Lady). Her substantial experience in championing the underprivileged, women and minorities (see my post under the blog entitled "35 Years of Experience") and children (SCHIP) takes her all the way from Arkansas to the White House and on to the US Senate where she is an excellent and effective Senator for us New Yorkers (and those of you who say she has not helped those of us Upstate have been living under a rock, as evidenced by her landslide victory in her re-election campaign).

Hillary will be a formidable candidate in the General Election, as she can stand toe-to-toe with John McCain on foreign policy issues (having served on Senate Foreign Relations Committee,etc.), unlike Obama. The Republican "swiftboaters" and their ilk would have a field day with Obama because of his ultra-liberal stances on the issues (with pacifist doves like MOVEON.ORG and Ted Kennedy whispering in his ear, because you know he won't be able to do anything on his own) and because there are too many unknowns. Who knows what skeletons the GOP will pull out of Obama's proverbial closet when Hillary has already been thoroughly vetted by the "vast right wing conspirators"! Obama's also too weak on national security for us more reasonable and moderate Democrats who care about this deeply. The thought of Obama being Commander-in-Chief when the terrorists reach our shores again is utterly petrifying to me. In fact, I feel so strongly about this that I WILL VOTE FOR McCAIN IF OBAMA GETS THE DEMOCRATIC NOD (as Hillary will not settle for VP, nor should she!).

Finally, I get the appeal of Obama--I was also swept away by the progressive (but more substantial) views of Sen.Gary Hart way back when, the first candidate I ever campaigned for when I was a pie-eyed idealistic liberal myself before I began to take more moderate views on issues like crime and national security and after accumulating additional life experiences and knowledge. However, the ability to EFFECT CHANGE and not just talk about it comes with all this experience. The ability to inspire the masses with hollow rhetoric and colorful but aimless oratories, with only a modicum of experience and substance, does not a President make! That's why HIllary is the most qualified candidate for the most powerful and influential office in the world!

OBAMA: sorry, but !NO, TU NO PODRAS! (Latinos support Hillary)

VOTE HILLARY CLINTON!!!

HILLARY IS OVER 100 DELEGATES AHEAD OF OBAMA because America knows we need a great leader not just a great speech-maker despite the rubber-stamping media who also gave us the Bush-Cheney disaster...

Senator Clinton's slapdown of OPRAH, TEDDY, and KERRY in California and Massachusettes shows that while many high profile fools are ready to jump on the back of Obama's tricycle no questions asked, sane Americans are not.

HILLARY '08
FOR AMERICA'S SAKE

Nana you must be the paranoid insecure weak ass person you know. Hiding behind a lack of pigment and melanin in your skin---what type of psychological makeup do you possess. Hopefully your parents did not raise you to be so narrow minded and foolish. Is everything to you based upon the race of someone. For the sake of decency keep your unproductive ramblings to yourself. Free speech is fine but just spouting out hateful untruths does not leaned itself to intelligent discussion. If you think every black person in America is a racist because they voted for Obama and every white person is not a racist because some voted for Obama you have a twisted view of life. Black people have for years voted for and supported candidates of every hue and when they decide to be pro for themselves they all of a sudden become racist? How come you are so disturbed about O.J. Simpson and never cite the hundreds of cases where it was a known fact that white juries refused to convict whites who had committed murder against minorities. Are you suggesting that the overwhelming number of African Americans incarcerated is simply because blacks commit all the crimes? Knowing you you probably do. Robert Blake was known to have a gun and was at the place where his wife was killed. He was acquitted of murder and yet you seem not to be concerned too much about that. What was the racial makeup of the jury? Phil Spector admitted to shooting the woman initially at his home and was acquitted by a jury. What was their racial makeup? Could it be a California issue and not a racial one you dipstick. Take a chill pill and learn how to reason before you continue to embarass yourself. I think the democratic party has two worthy candidates and both of them are patriots who want the best for this nation. Get a life and stop trying to live your life based the accomplishments of people who happen to share similar pigment. There is a reason Europe has so many tribal distinctions because believe it or not white became a commonailty purely for economic reasons.