Hillary & International Women’s Day

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Saturday March 08, 2008 · 7:24 PM PST

2008/03/08 · 19:24

Today is International Women’s Day and I can’t think of a better way to celebrate it than by recognizing one of the most well known and respected women of our time, Senator Hillary Clinton. I was just going to post Hillary’s statement regarding this important day, but as I started looking at all she’s done on behalf of women over the years I realized that simply posting her statement wouldn’t do justice to her lifetime of dedicated work on many of the issues that I’m passionate about and have worked to promote in my own life.

Now this video was put up by the campaign this time last year in honor of Women’s History Month, but (sadly) much of what she talks about is still true today and we still have a lot of work to do. Take a look...

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Friday March 07, 2008 · 8:15 PM PST

2008/03/07 · 20:15

NAFTA-Gate first broke about a week ago and since that time we’ve seen flat out denials from Hillary’s team regarding allegations that they discussed NAFTA with Canadian officials. Today, the Canadian Press ran a story which confirms those denials...

OTTAWA — Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton never gave Canada any secret assurances about the future of NAFTA such as those allegedly offered by Barack Obama's campaign, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office said Friday.

With the NAFTA affair swirling over the U.S. election and Canadian officials skittish about saying anything else that might influence the race, it took the PMO two days to deliver the information.

After being asked whether Canadian officials asked for - or received - any briefings from a Clinton campaign representative outlining her plans on NAFTA, a spokeswoman for the prime minister offered a response Friday.

<bold>"The answer is no, they did not," </bold> said Harper spokeswoman Sandra Buckler.

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Thursday March 06, 2008 · 7:20 PM PST

2008/03/06 · 19:20

Right – it looks like the calf-skin gloves have come off at camp Obama. You guys can’t ever accuse me or anyone from Hillary’s camp of going negative or trashing Obama beyond repair for the general after this latest horrid, despicable and desperate attack by one of Obama’s inner circle of advisors.

Samantha Power – one of Obama’s top advisors has been quoted by the Scotsman newspaper of calling Hillary Clinton – a United States Senator and our first viable woman candidate for the highest office of the land – of all things, a MONSTER.

I’m used to hearing that kind of garbage on discussion boards and the blogs, (I’ve developed a thick skin over the past year and have learned to shrug it off as the inane ranting of immature jerks). But this woman – this top advisor to Barack Obama has crossed a serious line here.

This woman needs to get her ass fired over this. BO needs to offer up an apology to Hillary. And he needs to do it now.

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Wednesday March 05, 2008 · 8:48 PM PST

2008/03/05 · 20:48

...according to his senior foreign policy advisor, Susan Rice, when she appeared earlier today on MSNBC.

Sen. Obama’s top foreign policy advisor came right out and said that he’s not ready to take that call – take a look...

Transcript:

RICE: "Clinton hasn't had to answer the phone at three o'clock in the morning and yet she attacked Barack Obama for not being ready. They're both not ready to have that 3AM phone call.

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Tuesday March 04, 2008 · 8:42 PM PST

2008/03/04 · 20:42

Ok I’m going to keep this one short & sweet because I’ve just spent 12 hours on the phone banks at campaign headquarters and I’m zonked. I went through both batteries on my Treo by 5pm and haven’t checked my email so I haven’t a clue as to what’s happening with the results. I hope all those phone calls paid off – I’ll have to wait until Wednesday morning to find out.

I just wanted to fire up a brief post tonight to talk a little bit about the phone bank today, and the unsung heroes of any campaign – the folks staffing the phone banks.

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Monday March 03, 2008 · 7:23 PM PST

2008/03/03 · 19:23

As many of you know, Tony Rezko’s trial got under way today and I wanted to toss something out there that may indeed be possible if he’s our party’s nominee. From what I’ve heard, this friend of Sen. Obama’s for the past 17 years may well call him as a witness in this trial.

This video is just the start of what this trial will set in motion guys...

Here’s what was said in that video...

MORAN: If Tony Rezko called you as a witness in the trial would you testify for him?

OBAMA: Well, I don't know what my legal obligations would be. And so yeah, I would leave that up to lawyers.

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Sunday March 02, 2008 · 7:21 PM PST

2008/03/02 · 19:21

I was on a conference call today with some of Hillary’s supporters – all flag officers and high-ranking generals who’re backing her in her run for the White House. What impressed me the most in listening to these men and women, is how confident they are that Hillary will look after them and won’t deploy them needlessly. I’d imagine that’s of main concern to two of the men on today’s call – one has a son currently serving in Iraq, and the other has a son in Afghanistan. Many have served under many presidents (one said he’s served under 8) and to a person – they’ve said that Hillary is the most qualified and the most ready to lead our nation, and do right by our troops – both active and veterans.

Take a look at what Hillary had to say on Friday, on a stage with a lot of these top generals and flag officers in Texas regarding her readiness to lead.

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Friday February 29, 2008 · 9:00 PM PST

2008/02/29 · 21:00

I know I know, there’ve been a lot of -Gates over the years but it appears that this story may still have some legs under it. Now some of you may have heard about reports on a Canadian news network (CTV) in which they discuss a phone call from one of Sen. Obama’s top advisors to the office of the Canadian Ambassador, Michael Wilson.

There’ve been well-parsed denials thrown about by a Canadian Consulate and by BO’s camp saying there was never any such phone call. The thing is – CTV is a reputable news source in Canada (unlike many here in the States), there was contact made, CTV’s updated their reports with a new video, they are standing by their earlier story and they are even naming names.

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Thursday February 28, 2008 · 6:35 PM PST

2008/02/28 · 18:35

An article in the current issue of The Nation discusses comments from a senior foreign policy advisor to Sen. Obama, in which they make clear BO’s refusal to rule out continued use of private security forces such as Blackwater.

I think we all know that "private security forces" actually means mercenaries – hired guns – private armies - folks who do the exact same job as our troops, get paid a shitload more money and operate outside the laws of Iraq and those here at home.

In other words – they can literally get away with murder (and they have) and BO is keeping open his options when it comes to using them on the ground in Iraq. Maybe that’s why he says he’ll bring our combat troops home but he refuses to declare he will end the occupation entirely.

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Wednesday February 27, 2008 · 6:51 PM PST

2008/02/27 · 18:51

Sen. Obama's got a history of skipping votes and blaming others. Or excusing his absence or a "present" vote by saying the vote didn't matter. Take the MoveOn vote - Hillary refused to slam MoveOn over their ad re Gen. Petraeus (sp?). BO said the vote didn't matter - his campaigning was more important.

Then there's his failure to show up for the vote on Kyl/Lieberman resolution. BO loves to slam Hillary with her vote, failing to mention she played a key role in declawing that resolution, or that he skipped that vote - choosing instead to campaign in New Hampshire that morning. When anyone challenges him on this, he claims he never knew about the vote and lays the blame squarely at the feet of Sen. Reid.

Now in last night's debate, when he was asked why he never held a substantive meeting or hearing of his Sen. subcommittee, he said he'd only been chair since this campaign began - meaning he was too busy running for his next job to do the job he's currently getting paid to do. And I have to wonder how he'll pin this one on someone else - his target or scapegoat most likely being Hillary.

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Tuesday February 26, 2008 · 8:45 PM PST

2008/02/26 · 20:45

Before we get to the fun stuff re tonight's debate, I thought we'd clear a few things up...

First of all, let’s clear one thing up right now... these claims of Sen. Obama’s regarding Hillary’s supposed support of NAFTA are nothing more than a campaign’s attack tactics – spreading lies and distortions (even after he’s been set straight) in the hopes of cutting in to her support in a blue collar, rust belt state that’s been screwed over by this crap economy.

Check out this video clip of David Gergen, a man who worked in the White House when NAFTA was being hammered out should set the record straight once and for all...

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Monday February 25, 2008 · 8:16 PM PST

2008/02/25 · 20:16

Somebody’s dodging the issues...

There’s been a lot of talk on the net and in the MSM about some picture that Matt Drudge posted on his site today of Sen. Obama in traditional Somali clothing during a visit to northern Kenya two years ago. Now I don’t know about you but I’m starting to notice a pattern over at Camp Obama on things like this.

First he goes after Hillary over an unconfirmed report from Robert Novak about something Hillary’s campaign may or may not say about him, and now he’s having a hissy-fit over something dug up by Drudge.

Unless BO’s got proof I think it’s safe to say these two facts are in evidence...

There's no proof that such an email even exists.
There’s no proof that such an email came from Hillary's camp.

If they want to keep whining about this then they’d better put up or shut up. In other words...

Show me the email!

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