You can watch Hillary being spoon-fed questions about this by her scribe in Time Magazine, Mark Halperin, here, as they share cackles that Jim Demers (of Concord, NH) is a lobbyist.

But here's the picture you want to see:  



(Data and graph are from OpenSecrets.org).

As Hillary's "inevitability" is shown to be a paper-thin facade and she tanks in the polls, she and her political operatives* -- a small camp of nasty, manipulative, gutter, attack-style henchmen -- have lashed into Senator Obama because a few of his honorary (volunteer) co-chairs at the state-level are lobbyists.  *yawn*

Bring. It. On.  Let's have this comparison.  

Let's compare how much Hillary Clinton is in the pocket of venal corporate interests, versus Barack Obama, shall we?  Read on...

USA Today/Gallup Poll. Dec. 14-16, 2007. N=1,011 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.
(Obama's lead has been consistent all year, and widened in the past 3 weeks.)

"Next, I'd like to get your overall opinion of some people in the news. As I read each name, please say if you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of these people -- or if you have never heard of them. How about Barack Obama?"  

"[ditto...] How about Hillary Clinton?"

The short answer:  Obama has an 18% lead over Clinton, with FAR fewer people having an "Unfavorable" view of him!  And he has a 6% lead over her in "Favorable", with 57%.  

This puts together two recent news threads, in hopes someone else will be inspired to write more on this.

(1) In 1933-34, Prescott Bush allegedly had a minor role in a conspiracy to install a "secretary of general welfare" who would in effect be more powerful than the US President.  Wealthy financiers backed by the DuPonts, JP Morgan, Remington Arms, Bush's Hamburg-America Line, etc. approached General Smedley Butler to lead 500,000 troops in this explicitly pro-fascist de facto coup.  BBC recently had a story on this (click on audio link), Wikisource has General Butler's original Congressional testimony, and of course Wikipedians work on this "business plot" story. Most readers have at least heard of it, though the details are fuzzy as to how serious and how far along it went.  

(2) Today, former VP Walter Mondale has a scathing critique of Cheney in the Washington Post: "Answering to No One"

By popular vote (below), it seems that individuals will be going to Lafayette Park today from noon-1pm, wearing "Enough" or "Impeach" clothing or signs.

Wes Clark, Jr. has begun a one-person-at-a-time campaign to let the world know that we American citizens have had enough, and want impeachment.  Bless his soul, he's leading by example.  He and a friend showed in Los Angeles wearing t-shirts emblazened with "Enough".  That's leading by example, for local, grass-roots street protests to impeach the US President and Vice President.  Clark was joined by others in L.A. holding "IMPEACH (Cheney first)" signs.  Across the country, small, spontaneous individuals followed suit, in ME, GA, MD, IL, OH, CO, WA, AR, CA, WI, TN, PA, NM, WI, TN, PA, VT, NC, etc.  This next weekly mini-protest is for Sunday, July 15th, for just one hour!

This is for TODAY, Sunday July 15th, noon to 1pm!!  Please come hang out for just one hour.  Or, just show up anywhere you like! :-)

Tom and Christie just sent out a spam email endorsing Hillary's candidacy.

Sorry, Tom and Christie (I can drop the "Gov." given their email's informality), but Hillary's Presidential bid must be stopped. No more DLC manipulation.

No matter which Democrat among the top 8 wins the Primary, they will go on to win the General Election in 2008. (Gore, Richardson, Edwards, Clark, Dodd, Biden, Obama, Hillary.)  So "electibility" is not an issue this time around. Not that it was in 2004, either, as proven by John "Flip-Flop" Kerry. Besides which, Bill Clinton won in 1992 because Ross Perot took 19% of the vote (and 7% in 1996), dividing Bush Sr's vote and derailing Bush's campaign as he fended off another Texan businessman competitor. Not because Bill compromised Democratic values to appease corporate-America. Bill never won a majority of the national vote, he was always under 50%.

Tom Vilsack was the DLC Chair.  

So, Hillary = Vilsack = DLC = Koch Industries. No, thanks.