Attacks from Clinton supporter, James ("Serpent Head" as his wife affectionately calls him) Carville on Bill Richardson are to be expected.
Carville not-so-eloquently called him "Judas" when Richardson endorsed Obama.
Carville is not one to apologize and everything is done with a purpose. He later added:
When asked on Good Friday about Richardson’s rejection of the Clintons, the metaphor was too good to pass by. I compared Richardson to Judas Iscariot. (And Matthew Dowd is right: Had it been the Fourth of July, I probably would have called him Benedict Arnold.)
Richardson did release this statement in the Washington Post, but it is not enough. Bill Clinton apparently erupted over Richardson, and now sources are reporting that Hillary told Richardson that Obama cannot win, when he informed her of his plans to endorse Obama. Now it is being floated that Richardson was the one who said to Hillary that Obama can't win.
Why would Richardson say this and then endorse Obama?
In the statement Richardson made he said: It was a difficult and heated discussion, the details of which I will not share here.
Bill, now is the time to share.
The American people and voters have a right to know.
Step forward now forward now and clear up this mess before it further harms the Democratic Party you claim to love.
Tell us is this recent activity another case of deceit and lies from the Clinton campaign in an effort to sway Super Delegates and discredit you? Or is there more to it?
Recalling a famous scene on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Clinton said :
"Let me tell you something, when it comes to finishing a fight, Rocky and I have a lot in common. I never quit. I never give up.
How is Hillary like or not like Rocky?
#1 In the original Rocky movie, Rocky Balboa is the underdog, a unknown fighter who comes works his way up when given a chance to fight the champion (Apollo Creed). As his popularity grows he inspires everyone who starts to believe and back him. He gives hope, pride, and belief to people that anyone can rise up, succeed and make a difference. Yet Apollo Creed, like Hillary, self proclaimed himself the best and unbeatable as his public persona. He figured he could just "play" with Rocky and win easily. Even when he realizedhe was up against a true challenger he played his role right to the final bell. Hillary seems to forget just a few short months ago she was the (still uncrowned) favorite and champion. She acted like it then, but now has taken on the role of the underdog. Hillary is still Apollo Creed trying to wear a Rocky disguise. It's apparent if there is a Rocky in this race, it certainly is not Hillary Clinton.
#2 The Rocky statue was ultimately removed from the top of the stairs of the art museum, when it was deemed not be be "art". It was moved and finally restored back by the museum at the bottom of the stairs.
All of Hillary's negative campaigning, lies, and outright attempts to steal the nomination should backlash against her. It's time for the voters to realize she too is not "art" and relegate her back to the bottom of the steps back in the Senate). Hillary can try to enact being Presidential with all "35 years of experience", but she like the statue she really is only a "prop".
#3 In the movie Rocky when Rocky runs up the steps, he realizes "yes, he can" and knows he is ready to take on the champion against all odds. This is not Hillary. He then loses on points in the championship match. Hillary should be careful what she claims. She just might run all the way to the convention; where she too will lose on points (delegates).
#4 Unlike Rocky, Hillary punches below the belt! She won't quit, will use any tactic to win, and doesn't care what the aftermath is. Her corner men (and women) are even worse. Rocky was just the opposite!
#5 In the movie, both Rocky and Apollo Creed (the champion) batter each other for 15 rounds only to have the decision made by the "judges". As seen in subsequent Rocky sequels this beating up of each other allowed many other challengers with less talent step up and seize the stage. Will this happen with Hillary taking Obama for 15 rounds when she should of quit?
#6 And finally, look who is endorsing John McCain!
Yet, perhaps he still hasn't the true challenger, rising up with a message of hope, belief and change.
No matter what, we know one thing to be true:
Hillary we know Rocky, and you are no Rocky!
Perhaps Hillary should look at some of Stallone's other movies, like Rambo when he was fighting in Afghanistan. With all her sniper experience in Bosnia, that seems like a natural!
Bill Clinton met privately with superdelages in California and was a nothing like the gracious elder statesman who recently urged fellow Democrats to "chill out". Clinton had one of his increasingly common meltdowns Sunday. At one point he blasted Bill Richardson for having endorsed Obama.
"Five times to my face (Richardson) said that he would never do that," a red-faced, finger-pointing Clinton erupted.
Richardson and Clinton watching the Super Bowl in February
News of Bill Clinton's tirade got back to the Richardson people, and spokesman Pahl Shipley reiterated Tuesday that his boss had never "promised or guaranteed" Bill and Hillary his endorsement.
Hillary’s List of Lies By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann Thursday, March 27, 2008
The USA Today/Gallup survey clearly explains why Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) is losing. Asked whether the candidates were “honest and trustworthy,” Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) won with 67 percent, with Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) right behind him at 63. Hillary scored only 44 percent, the lowest rating for any candidate for any attribute in the poll. Hillary simply cannot tell the truth. Here’s her scorecard:
Admitted Lies
• Chelsea was jogging around the Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (She was in bed watching it on TV.)
• Hillary was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. (She admitted she was wrong. He climbed Mt. Everest five years after her birth.)
• She was under sniper fire in Bosnia. (A girl presented her with flowers at the foot of the ramp.)
• She learned in The Wall Street Journal how to make a killing in the futures market. (It didn’t cover the market back then.)
Whoppers She Won’t Confess To • She didn’t know about the FALN pardons.
• She didn’t know that her brothers were being paid to get pardons that Clinton granted.
• Taking the White House gifts was a clerical error.
• She didn’t know that her staff would fire the travel office staff after she told them to do so.
• She didn’t know that the Peter Paul fundraiser in Hollywood in 2000 cost $700,000 more than she reported it had.
• She opposed NAFTA at the time.
• She was instrumental in the Irish peace process.
• She urged Bill to intervene in Rwanda.
• She played a role in the ’90s economic recovery.
• The billing records showed up on their own.
• She thought Bill was innocent when the Monica scandal broke.
• She was always a Yankees fan.
• She had nothing to do with the New Square Hasidic pardons (after they voted for her 1,400-12 and she attended a meeting at the White House about the pardons).
• She negotiated for the release of refugees in Macedonia (who were released the day before she got there).
Friday was not kind to Hillary Clinton. Based on Deathwatch's top-secret morbidity formula, Hillary tanked on four metrics today, reducing her chances of winning the nomination by 1.7 points to 10.3 percent.
Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey plans to endorse Sen. Barack Obama for president today in Pittsburgh. This will help send a message both to the state's primary voters and to undecided superdelegates who might decide the close race for the Democratic presidential nomination. The endorsement comes as something of a surprise. Casey, a deliberative and cautious politician, had been adamant about remaining neutral until after the April 22 primary. He had said he wanted to help unify the party after the intensifying fight between Obama and Clinton.
Will a long, nasty, battle as we are seeing beetween Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination hurt the Party's chances of winning the November election?
Obama supporter, Senator Patrick Leahy, thinks Hillary Clinton should drop out of the race for the Democratic Party nomination for President in 2008.
"There is no way that Senator Clinton is going to win enough delegates to get the nomination. She ought to withdraw and she ought to be backing Senator Obama.
When do you think Hillary will see the writing on the wall and quit? Post your guess at HillaryNotNow.Com
- There were no evasive maneuvers. - No one said to wear or use bullet-proof vests. - There were no snipers or sniper fire. - No one had to duck and run for cover - Other high level officials came in before Hillary. - There was a normal arrival ceremony.
It's very evident that Hillary Clinton has engaged in a deliberate pattern of false statements about her trip to Tuzla, Bosnia -- and now there's additional video evidence.
"I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base." --Hillary Clinton, from a speech given at George Washington University, March 17, 2008.
Hillary Clinton has been telling tales of a trip she made to Bosnia in March 1996. In her version she claims seh was sent to places that her husband, President Clinton, could not go because they were "too dangerous."
When her account was challenged by one of her traveling companions, the comedian Sinbad, she upped the ante and injected even more drama into the story. In a speech earlier this week, she talked about "landing under sniper fire" and running for safety with "our heads down." According to Sinbad, who provided entertainment on the trip along with the singer Sheryl Crow, the "scariest" part was deciding where to eat. As he told Mary Ann Akers of The Post, "I think the only 'red-phone' moment was: 'Do we eat here or at the next place.'"
AS shown in the Associated Press photograph of the greeting ceremony, they were not running to an airport building with their heads down. In fact Hillary Clinton and her party were greeted on the tarmac by smiling U.S. and Bosnian officials and even an eight-year-old Moslem girl, Emina Bicakcic, who then read them all a poem in English.
You can see the actual footage of Hillary walking out (certainly not under sniper fire) here:
More evidence she will lie about anything. Here is a video contrasting Hillary's story about her trip to Bosnia with the truth. Keep in mind this is one of her "foreign policy" experience claims.
Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign is trying to clarify comments by former President Clinton that seemed to question Barack Obama's patriotism - comments an Obama aide likened to Joseph McCarthy. Read More
"I think it would be a great thing if we had an election year where you had two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interest of this country," said Clinton, who was speaking to a group of veterans Friday in Charlotte, N.C. "And people could actually ask themselves who is right on these issues, instead of all this other stuff that always seems to intrude itself on our politics." - Bill Clinton
This from an elder statesman, and former President.
This is not the first time Bill Clinton has made inappropriate remarks as an attack dog for Hillary. Though she has reined him in recently, in the earlier primary races the former president attracted much other criticism. Following South Carolina's primary in January, he was accused of fanning racial tensions for appearing to cast Obama as little more than a black candidate popular in state with a heavily black electorate. He also criticized the news media for making a race story out of his comments.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said Sunday aides to U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., use "gutter" politics to get their way.
After James Carville compared Bill Richardson to Judas this week following his endorsement of Barack Obama, Richardson said:
"I'm not going to get in the gutter like that, and you know, that's typical of many of the people around Senator Clinton. They think they have a sense of entitlement to the presidency."
Richardson has been critical of the ongoing fight for the Democratic nomination, but his scorn of such tactics has primarily been aimed at Clinton's camp.
"The campaign has gotten too negative," he said of the electoral battle.
"I just feel the time has come to come together behind a candidate."
The reaction of some of Mr. Clinton’s allies to Bill Richardson's endoresement of Obama are more of the same from the Clinton camp:
An act of betrayal! -James Carville, an adviser to Mrs. Clinton and a friend of Mr. Clinton.
“Mr. Richardson’s endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the timing is appropriate, if ironic,” Mr. Carville said, referring to Easter and the Holy Week.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, the nation's only Hispanic governor, is endorsing Barack Obama for president.
At one point Mr. Richardson had been circulated as potential running mates for Hillary Clinton.
Richardson is calling Obama a "once-in-a-lifetime leader" who can unite the nation and restore America's international leadership.
Despite his ties to both Hillary and Bill Clinton and her husband, the former president. He served as ambassador to the U.N. and as secretary of the Energy Department during the Clinton administration. Last month, Richardson and former President Clinton watched the Super Bowl together at the governor's residence in Santa Fe.
Richardson aid Obama "will be a historic and great president, who can bring us the change we so desperately need by bringing us together as a nation here at home and with our allies abroad."
During one of the most difficult periods in the presidency of Bill Clinton, he addressed a group of clerics at an annual prayer breakfast in September 1998 just as the Starr report outlining his involvement with Monica Lewinsky was about to be published. Among those in attendance, was the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., who is seen shaking hands with Mr. Clinton in a photograph provided today by the Obama campaign. Mr. Wright’s relationship with Senator Barack Obama, as his longtime pastor, has been the subject of considerable controversy in recent days because of incendiary excerpts of sermons Mr. Wright gave at their church, Trinity United Church of Christ, in Chicago. And according to the newly released schedules of Mrs. Clinton by the National Archives of her years as first lady, she was in attendance, too.
"I helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland," Hillary told CNN on Wednesday.
Negotiators from the parties that helped broker the peace agreement in 1998 told The Daily Telegraph that her role was peripheral. They claimed she played no part in the political talks over the years -- or in the solution.
Hillary Clinton had no direct role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland and is a "wee bit silly" for exaggerating the part she played, according to Lord Trimble of Lisnagarvey, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former First Minister of the province.
In the face of her unwillingness to release her tax returns, Hillary Clinton has made the false case in this campaign that she is more electable because she has been fully vetted.
Senator Clinton has also claimed that she is too “busy” to release her tax returns.
Why won't Hillary Clinton release her tax returns "until the is the nominee"?
Hillary claims she has been "fully vetted". Hillary claims there will be no more surprises.
Yet Hillary Clinton has thus far refused to release her tax returns. She says she will do when she is the Democratic nominee for President.
What does she have to hide by releasing them now?
Obama released his returns last April, 2007.
What is Hillary afraid will be found in her returns? Something that will help her lose the nomination?
Previous Democratic campaigners released their returns before they were the nominee.
According to the Washington Post, John Kerry released his returns in December 2003, which was well before winning the nomination. Al Gore's returns, were already public when he ran. Other potential nominees like Dean, Clark, Kucinich, Gephardt, and Lieberman all released their returns early.
In 1992, Bill Clinton made his tax returns public before he was the nominee. Sort of.
BUT-- He didn't release his 1978-79 returns.
These were a bit of a smoking gun because they showed Hillary had made a 10,000% cattle-futures profit.
So, now why is it that Hillary isn't releasing her returns?
Hillary's returns could have something that could be negative to her campaign in them. If she releases her returns now, it would give Democratic voters the chance to judge her on what's in her returns, and vote accordingly. But if she waits until after she becomes the nominee, she figures she will still get the Democratic vote even if there are negatives. As a Democrat calling for change, people may not vote Hillary if they see the same old issues popping up in her tax returns again. Democratic primary voters and the Super Delegates might not like what they find, and vote Obama. If she has nothing to hide, what is she hiding?
Obama began Tuesday with 11 straight wins and a lead in the delegates. According to the AP, 1,386 to 1,276. His margin was even larger 1,187 to 1,035 among pledged delegates chosen in primaries and caucuses.
Clinton has a very slim hope of closing the gap because Democrat primaries and caucuses allocate most of their delegates proportionally, meaning the loser of a close contest earns nearly as many delegates as the winner.
Even as she declared victory in the three states, Clinton knew that Tuesday's results were unlikely to close the delegate math.
On Tuesday, the former first lady won Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island, losing only Vermont. Enough to stay in the race, she said, and go "all the way."
That's not what many party leaders wanted to hear.
Now the question is will the powers of the Democratic party let Hillary try to tear down or will they call for her to quit and pull the party together? Either way the Republicans are happy she is still in the race. The longer the negatives fly Democrat on Democrat the better it is for them.
Just a couple days before the big voting in Ohio and Texas, pressure has been raised on Clinton to bow out. Top supporters of Senator Barack Obama, joined by at least one prominent but uncommitted Democrat, raised the pressure Sunday on Senator Hillary Clinton to bow out of the presidential nominating race if she fails to score clear victories in two big-state primary contests Tuesday.
"I just think that D-Day is Tuesday," said Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico, a former Democratic presidential hopeful who has yet to throw his weight behind either leading candidate. He said the increasingly negative campaign advertisements aired by both Democrats made it more urgent that the party unite quickly behind a nominee.
Richardson, said on CNN that "whoever has the most delegates after Tuesday, a clear lead, should be, in my judgment, the nominee."
CBS News reported (AP) that Barack Obama has accused rival Hillary Clinton on Friday of trying to "play on people's fears to scare up votes" by airing a new TV ad showing sleeping children and asking who would be more qualified to answer a national security emergency call at 3 a.m. "The question is not about picking up the phone. The question is: What kind of judgment will you make when you answer?" Obama said. "We've had a red phone moment. It was the decision to invade Iraq. And Senator Clinton gave the wrong answer. George Bush gave the wrong answer. John McCain gave the wrong answer," Obama said.
Angry tribal elders in Kenya are calling on Hillary Clinton to "clear her name" over any involvement in publication of photos of Barack Obama wearing a turban and African garb on a trip to his ancestral homeland.
The photo appeared nationwide after they were published on the Drudge Report Web site with a report that they had been circulated by Clinton campaign staffers.
The Drudge Report said the photos had been forwarded by a Clinton staffer with an e-mail that said, "Wouldn't we be seeing this on the cover of every magazine if it were HRC [Hillary Rodham Clinton]?"
The pictures show Obama wearing traditional Somalian garb on a 2006 visit to the Wajir region of Kenya, where his late father was born. "The US government must apologize to us as a clan and the old man," Mohamed Ibrahim told Reuters, referring to a highly respected tribal elder who is also shown in the photos.
"We have been offended, and we cannot afford to just watch and stay silent."
During an interview on February 28 with Cynthia McFadden (ABC News) Hillary Clinton, says it's much harder for her to run for president as a woman than it is for her male opponent.
Asked why she thinks so many women may be feeling sorry for her, Clinton said,
"Every so often I just wish that it were a little more of an even playing field,but, you know, I play on whatever field is out there."
So, how easy is it for Obama, an African-American to run for president?
It's obvious that Hillary Clinton thinks, based on her comment, that a "level playing field" is easier to achieve for an African-American, than for a woman.
Makes one think-- Why does Hillary feel she has the right to the presidency without scrutiny -- and -- Is she that desperate that she has to now play the gender card?
Reuters Picture. US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) smiles during a campaign rally in St. Clairsville, Ohio February 27, 2008. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA) Link:
A superdelegate who gets a vote at this summer's Democratic national convention switches and drops Hillary.
Civil rights leader John Lewis dropped his support for Hillary Clinton's presidential bid Wednesday in favor of Barack Obama. Lewis, a Democratic congressman from Atlanta, is the most prominent black leader to defect from Clinton's campaign in the face of near-unanimous black support for Obama in recent voting.
Lewis said Obama's campaign "represents the beginning of a new movement in American political history" and that he wants "to be on the side of the people."
"After taking some time for serious reflection on this issue, I have decided that when I cast my vote as a superdelegate at the Democratic convention, it is my duty ... to express the will of the people"
February 26, 2008 CBS) A new CBS News/New York Times poll finds Barack Obama with a 16-point lead over rival Hillary Clinton among Democratic primary voters nationwide.
In a radio interview with WAOI in San Antonio, Sen. Barack Obama commented about the photo on the website Drudge Report showing him dressed in traditional Somali attire.
"Everybody knows that whether it's me or Senator Clinton, or Bill Clinton, that when you travel to other countries they ask you to try on traditional garb that you have been given as a gift," he told WAOI, "The notion that the Clinton campaign would be trying to circulate this as a negative on the same day that Senator Clinton was giving a speech about how we repair our relationships around the world is sad. We are going to try to stay focused on what will make a difference in our foreign policy, including bringing the war in Iraq to an honorable end."
He noted that he believes Americans are saddened when they see "these kind of politics."
"The notion that they would try to use this to imply in some way that I'm foreign, I think is, you know, unfortunate," said Obama.
"These are the kinds of political tricks and silliness you start seeing at the end of campaigns."
Clinton on the photo's of Obama that her staff leaked and used as a smear:
"Why is anybody concerned about this?"
ABC News' Teddy Davis and Jacqueline Klingebiel Report: During a Monday interview with ABC's Dallas affiliate, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., did not flatly deny the DrudgeReport's charge that her campaign leaked a photo of rival Barack Obama in traditional African dress.
She then turned the tables on her Democratic rival and accused him of using the controversy surrounding the alleged leaking of the photo to distract the public's attention from deficiencies in his platform and experience.
"I know nothing about it," Clinton told ABC affiliate WFAA."
Clinton said that she found questions about whether her campaign leaked the photo to be "really laughable."
Yet here are photo's of Bill, Hillary and even George W. dressed similar. Hillary staffers are still trying to use the photo's as a campaign tactic. How low will they continue to stoop?
LORAIN, Ohio — barack Obama said today Hillary Clinton presents herself as if she was "co-president" from 1993 to 2000.
Mr. Obama, holding a town hall forum at a wall board manufacturing plant here, said his criticism of her position on the North American Free Trade Agreement is fair because she includes her time as first lady for eight years as part of her claim to "35 years of experience."
"She has essentially presented herself as co-president during the Clinton years," the Illinois senator charged during a press conference after the town hall concluded. "Every good thing that happened she says she was a part of, and so the notion that you can selectively pick what you take credit for and then run away from what isn't politically convenient, that doesn't make sense."
Hollywood icon George Clooney has already said Obama is his choice over Hillary.
Now he has written off his chances of winning the best actor prize at Sunday's Academy Awards, by calling himself the: "Hillary Clinton of the Oscars."
Clooney, who is nominated for his performance in "Michael Clayton", told Time magazine that he expects the statuette to go to Ireland's Daniel Day-Lewis.
"For me, it's like being Hillary Clinton," Clooney told Time in its latest edition due out on Friday. "If it weren't for Barack Obama, it would have been a very good year."
"The notion that I had plagiarized from one of my national co-chairs who gave me the line and suggested that I use it is silly," he replied. "This is where we start to get into silly season in politics and I think people start getting discouraged about it."
