Why Hillary Should be President (WHSBP) - Untold Stories
On September, 23, 2003, Senator Hillary Clinton was interviewed for the great PBS program Wide Angle on the topic of human trafficking (2003, folks, that was 5 years ago, ok... and yes, that was the year of the beginning of the war in Iraq but that was not the only thing going on in the world. I, for one, am glad somebody was paying attention to these other crucial issues even though I disagree with her - heck, ANYONE's vote for the war). Let me excerpt a few chosen quote (full transcript at the link above, so YES, I'm picking and choosing).
"Hillary Clinton: Well. Jamie, the fact that this is a modern-day form of slavery was shocking to me. When I realized, because of my travels and exposure as First Lady, how prevalent it was, I determined that we should do something about it. I went to Beijing to the UN Conference on Women in September of 1995, and spoke out against a long series of abuses that were human rights violations of women's rights and among those, of course, was trafficking. And then, in the time after the conference, when it did become an item that was of higher interest on the national and international agenda, we followed up. In 1996, I went with my husband to Thailand for a state visit. I went to the north where I met with NGOs [nongovernmental organizations], trying to help young girls who had been sold by their families into prostitution, trafficked into the brothels, mostly in Bangkok.
Poverty: It's not just a black thing
Forty years down the road from The Kerner Report's Recommendations for Action, we haven't accomplished squat in the fight to overcome poverty in the inner cities, or in the rural areas of the US where seasonal jobs in industrial agriculture create conditions favorable to a modern slavery as old as time and as new as tomorrow's nightly newscast.
Greed.
Stupidity.
Cruelty.
Fear.
Imprisonment.
Let's come together over this, people.
If caucuses were democratic, you'd expect caucus results to track popular votes, right?
Sen. Barack Obama has won the overall delegate race in Texas thanks to a strong showing in Democratic county conventions this past weekend.
Obama picked up seven of nine outstanding delegates, giving him a total of 99 Texas delegates to the party's national convention this summer. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won the other two, giving her a total of 94 Texas delegates, according to an analysis of returns by The Associated Press.
Texas Democrats held both a presidential primary and caucus. Clinton narrowly won the popular vote in the state's primary March 4, earning her 65 national convention delegates to Obama's 61.
Pesky secret ballots! Clinton keeps winning elections that use them!
Gullible Democrats: How the GOP Rigged MI & FL
For a depressing treatise on how to lose a general election with a 48-state strategy designed by the opposing party, go read Wayne Barrett.
More and better democrats leading the democratic party, please.
NYRB: CDS edition
Elizabeth Drew is a sad testament to the fact that even the NYRB has succumbed to the Clinton Rules (check out the image of HRC devilishly laughing on their front page). The article is a mixture of projection, lies, and just plain asshatery. I could only shake my head as I read the following:
"Why won't that stupid bitch quit?" watch
Another dose from the Politico. I'm sure this one will go viral as fast as the last one did. Great headline, though:
"Why won't that stupid bitch quit?" watch
Apparently Big Media Matt didn't get the memo:
One thing to note about Hillary Clinton's Florida and Michigan strategy is the utter selfishness of it. Her best shot at getting her way on this issue is to keep observing, in a meta kind of way, that if the DNC disses Florida and Michigan by not seating their delegates, that this could hurt Democratic fortunes in Florida and Michigan in November.
Yeah, real "meta." Haw. Like that would even happen. Why would any voter, let alone a Floridian, be sensitive about having their vote counted?
There are, however, any number of solutions to this problem. One, if Clinton dropped out and endorsed Obama, the delegates could be seated [with] no problem. Two, 50-50 delegations could be seated without controversy, again removing the concern about MI and FL lacking representation. Three, leaders of the Democratic Party from all factions could reiterate that everybody knew the rules going in and the voters of Michigan and Florida have nobody to blame but their own state party leaders for creating this situation.
Pesky voters! They don't want to give in to bitterness and divisiveness and "blame their own state party leaders."* They want their votes to count! Why don't they smarten up and listen to The Boiz?
Ratfucking Part II - Ratfucking with Lee Atwater
In Part I we saw where the term "ratfucking" originated and met two of the most infamous ratfuckers. In this part we will see how ratfucking went from being a small part of GOP political campaigns during the Nixon era to being the centerpiece of campaigns under Bush I.
Harvey Leroy "Lee" Atwater (February 26, 1951 – March 29, 1991) was an advisor of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. As shown in Part I, He got his start as a ratfucker thanks to Karl Rove. Rove, then the National Chairman of the College Republicans, introduced Atwater to George H.W. Bush who was then the RNC Chairman.
"Where did you go?" "Out." "What did you do?" "Nothing."
[Repeating an earlier post eaten by Vista.]
Well, I did win a pony at the EschaCon08 auction, which Atrios autographed ("Wheee!"), so when Lord Eschaton becomes chair of the Fed, I can sell it on E-Bay, in its original packaging, as a collectible! Finally, a retirement plan!
Despite the patchouli, I did go to a massive dinner for thirty organized by Susie at a Vietnamese restaurant in Chinatown, with doodlebean and teresa. Read more…
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