Jerked Around By Huffington--Again

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Saturday April 19, 2008 · 1:32 AM PDT

2008/04/19 · 01:32

Over at The Huffington Post (hereafter, just plain Huff) and on the home page, you will find a story about Hillary; and the headline makes it seem as if the thing just happened. In fact it happened over two months ago, just after Super Tuesday. The piece by Celeste Fremon says as much, in the first sentence, but Huff's headline screams...click this http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

In case Huff's home page changes and you click a link to something else, the headline---in letters the size of skyscrapers---is "HILLARY SLAMS DEMOCRATIC ACTIVISTS".

Here is the main thrust of Fremon's article http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

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Friday April 04, 2008 · 2:45 AM PDT

2008/04/04 · 02:45

It's only one vote, but we've been working on Granny Peterson for six months. She is 79, sharp, kind, formidable in her opinions, and she was raised by parents who did not like blacks. They had a kind of blanket prejudice against all things and people black, and with the reasons kept to themselves, and this was ingrained in her. I suppose she has come to symbolize, for our family, the voter who has something against a certain race, because of rearing alone, and is therefore a possibility for reform. As strong as Granny Peterson's views on blacks are, we insist she is not a racist. And we are right, for she isn't. She is not a racist any more than someone raised in the Roman Catholic church and who clings throughout his life to Roman Catholic doctrine, is a religious fanatic.

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Thursday April 03, 2008 · 7:01 AM PDT

2008/04/03 · 07:01

I don't put much faith in Drudge, but I do sometimes visit the place; he has been known to hit on a truth now and then. Today's headline on the Drudge Report http://www.drudgereport.com/ wears out the meaning of 'silly', or else it's pure satire on ABC's blog article about Hillary's phone conversation with Bill Richardson, or else it's a plot.* I will explain what I mean. First, here is part of the piece, it's from ABC's Political Radar: http://blogs.abcnews.com/...

April 02, 2008 7:39 PM

ABC News' George Stephanopoulos Reports: Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and former President Bill Clinton are making very direct arguments to Democratic superdelegates, starkly insisting Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., cannot win a general election against presumptive Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

Sources with direct knowledge of the conversation between Sen. Clinton and Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M., prior to the Governor's endorsement of Obama say she told him flatly, "He cannot win, Bill. He cannot win."

Richardson, who served in President Clinton's cabinet, disagreed.

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Wednesday April 02, 2008 · 9:23 AM PDT

2008/04/02 · 09:23

This will be the shortest diary I've ever done. Just click this link http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
look at the photo and then just read the article, if you will, originally from the San Francisco Chronicle, by Matier and Ross.* Won't take long, I'll wait.

Finished?

In my view, and you may differ, that is the face of a bully. Of someone caught in the act of intimidating, something Bill is known for. For a long time I've believed that the party leaders and/or superdelegates are being intimidated, by Bill and Hillary. And that this is a disgrace. I've suggested as much in a couple of my diaries. Here, in this shortest of the lot, I want to say that someone needs to do something about this couple, and straight away.
Someone---Dean, Pelosi, Brazile, Biden, et al---needs to tell Bill and Hillary, in words that cannot possibly be misunderstood, that they are not in charge.

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Tuesday April 01, 2008 · 3:13 AM PDT

2008/04/01 · 03:13

After months of huffing and puffing to blow down the House of Obama and without inflicting the damage she intended, Hillary has at last achieved something. The House of Obama is still standing, but some of the shutters are down and more will fall, if we fall for any more tricks.

There has been a shift over the weekend, you see it in hundreds of comments and in blogs, on political sites, in articles by journalists and editors published on Real Clear Politics. All of a sudden, Hillary should stay in the race. It's only democracy, the democratic way, that she does. We have been unfair. She has every right. Obama doesn't have the 2024 he needs to win, any more than she does. Howard Dean himself was dumbfounded when Leahy asked her to get out. This thing must run its course, all the way to Denver if necessary. Every vote counts, that's what America is about. What's the matter with everyone, we are democrats!

emme

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Saturday March 29, 2008 · 1:27 AM PDT

2008/03/29 · 01:27

Dear Nancy Pelosi:

I am a young democrat, and on that, it might seem cheeky of me to write this letter. I have no choice. Everything is at stake.

For a long time now I have watched Bill and Hillary Clinton tour the country like a pair of outlaws. Perhaps I should say: like a couple of outdems---meaning, of course, that they seem to operate outside the party, indeed, outside democracy itself. In a kind of vacuum. Politically, they seem to live in their own small western town, population of two, one they took over after shooting the place up and scaring everyone else away. Judging from things I've seen as they campaign, they are political loners. These are my impressions.

I am writing you about them because I believe that you can do something about this dangerous couple. I believe they are after a co-presidency. Or at least Bill is. I feel that his words and actions on the campaign trail, bear this out. They are in a contest for the nomination; they plan to run for president; they will be president. In my view, they are one entity, and it is that which makes them dangerous. Their indivisibility.

emme

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Friday March 28, 2008 · 10:14 AM PDT

2008/03/28 · 10:14

During the Samantha Power controversy* and when watching or reading the news, I had a hard time keeping my temper. I was furious with Hillary for making an issue out of it, and furious with Obama for allowing Hillary to decide what should be done about it. Hillary, I thought, was either genuinely upset or she wasn't. If she wasn't genuinely upset, she was being opportunistic. Leaping on a mistake by someone in the opposing camp. If she was, she was being a baby. Children run to someone and whine, "Why, he called me a bad name!", grownups do not.

As for Obama, I was disappointed when he accepted Power's resignation. Here was a case of Obama letting Hillary decide what he ought to do with one of his staff. Whether that last is fair, I don't know; he may have wanted, or accepted, her resignation had Hillary never complained. I suspect not but we will never know. An apology---perhaps a phone call from Power to Hillary---should have sufficed.

emme

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Thursday March 27, 2008 · 1:19 AM PDT

2008/03/27 · 01:19

Lately I've been hearing things about a possible dream ticket. Three out of four democratic voters in a USA Today/Gallup poll support either Obama/Clinton '08 or Clinton/Obama '08.* I've heard it touted as a compromise, the answer to everything, and a necessary evil. Am I imagining things or is the chatter getting louder? I might be the odd man out here, but I don't like it. Here I will say why I believe it's a mistake. Say why a Clinton/Obama ticket ought never to happen, even if it does, and why an Obama/Clinton ticket will never happen, even if it should. I've been over on Real Clear Politics and found something on this topic by Susan Page of USA today.** Page lays out the case for a dream ticket and raises some objections in order to put them to bed. I am not quite satisfied; in my view, more needs to be said, hence this diary. Page starts out with this:

Growing alarm among some Democrats that the rancor could squander what had seemed like a near-certain win in November makes them yearn for a ticket with both Obama and Clinton, in either order. A nomination contest that continues to the August convention could split the party in two just as the general election begins in earnest.

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Tuesday March 25, 2008 · 2:25 AM PDT

2008/03/25 · 02:25

Over the weekend, a respite. From what? From all the math stuff. From all the bloggers and editors and journalists crying, "It's the math, the math, Hillary can't beat the math!" From all the worst-case scenarios and best-case scenarios based on the math, numbers flipped every which way, numbers, numbers and more numbers. And then the invalid conclusion. "It is over!" Sometimes followed by "Who is going to tell Hillary?" I've never understood it. Understood how anyone could think that the math is the Last Word, the Voice of God, the Great Decider for the superdelegates on who gets the nomination, Obama or Hillary. (See my note to the reader, right about now, it's below.) What Hillary has to do, to win, is show the superdelegates that Obama isn't electable. Parties want winners, it's that simple, and now---blessed relief!--- this opinion of mine seems to be shared by a few others and maybe there are more out there. That's the respite (it's hard being told that you are mad as a hatter!). I came across some opinion by these others, on different sites. Here I will cite only three for the sake of brevity.

emme

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Friday March 21, 2008 · 9:43 PM PDT

2008/03/21 · 21:43

About an hour ago I logged in at Huffington and found something that amazed me. It was by Sam Stein, a short piece based on an MSNBC report, and Stein includes the video.* Apparently, Bill Clinton was in Charlotte, North Carolina today, thumping for Hillary, and made the following statement to some reporters there:

"I think it would be a great thing if we had an election between two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interests of the country and people could actually ask themselves who is right on the issues, instead of all this other stuff that always seems to intrude itself on our politics."

emme

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Friday March 21, 2008 · 4:18 AM PDT

2008/03/21 · 04:18

About time.

Before hearing the news that Bill Richardson has endorsed Obama, I by chance was doing something I've been doing too much of lately: wondering where Richardson and Edwards had got to. Where was political courage? Why, exactly, had they not endorsed yet? Was it that they wanted big powerful jobs in a the new administration and felt it was too risky to move until the nomination is decided? Imagine if, say, Edwards endorsed Obama and then Hillary got the nomination. Or imagine if Richardson endorsed Hillary, a long-time friend, and then Obama got the nomination. People say that when that kind of thing happens, the injured party forgives and forgets, all in the name of party unity. But is it true? Imagine Edwards endorsing Obama and Hillary winning the presidency. Then Edwards asks Hillary in person if the office of Attorney General is still vacant. Think of the carnage!

And that isn't all. More than once I muttered to myself, "If these two men are waiting until the last minute to endorse a nominee, but an endorsement from them would get us a nominee now, it's hopeless. Hopeless and circular---indeed, it's the circularity that kills all hope!"

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Wednesday March 19, 2008 · 11:01 PM PDT

2008/03/19 · 23:01

I am sick of phrases like 'playing the race card' and 'playing the victim card'. Everyone and his dog uses them with a frequency that makes me want to throw dishes. I will use them here, though, for want of some new ones; mercifully, I can use them this one last time and then never again!

For months, Obama has been accused of playing the race card. I cringe every time he so much as uses the word 'black', knowing what's coming. If the poor man used that word to describe the clouds overhead, somebody's cat, or the ink in a fountain pen, he'd be charged. Either by the Hillary campaign and for purely selfish purposes, or by those who see the race card being played all the time and everywhere.

Hillary's been charged with playing the victim card, with equal frequency. (The sexism card, too, but never mind that now.) Each time she cries or even almost cries, each time she chides the press for its' bias against her, you hear things like, "There she goes again, poor, poor me, I'm a victim!" Over the top, some of it; Hillary is human and even if she does play cards now and again, it isn't shocking, given that she's going for the presidency.

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