Echolalia is the repetition of vocalizations made by another person. A 1983 report indicated that up to 75% of verbal people with autism have some form of echolalia,[1] but it may also be present in Tourette syndrome, developmental disability, schizophrenia and, occasionally, other forms of psychopathology. When done involuntarily, it is considered a tic."

Joe Trippi is the best! I wasn't sure at first if he could do all the great stuff he did to get Howard Dean elected for John Edwards, but now you can see the Trippi magic working it's wonders for my guy.

Fundraisers are EVIL! Now Hillary is a poster child for raising money, which has no place in politics, especially if you can't raise enough!
I say listen to Trippi, keep the lobyists in the LOBBY! Don't let them have seats, no matter what they pay or they will SIT AND TALK, and that is wrong and violates free speech, without which we wouldn't have such great candidates.
We should leave the fundraising to the republicans because they have to have something to do before they attack the democrats and you know that they will need money for that, so let them! We don't need to be poster children, we can be better them them by collecting Change.
So, send all of your change to John Edwards and we can put our own children on posters and then maybe we will find them and the republicans will be stuck in the lobby, with so many chairs that no one will want to sit and talk, even if the is coffee and cake.

You know the end of the fundraising quarter can't be far away when the Edwards team starts pulling the "woe is me" gimmicks.  Raise money like a real man, Johnny, don't expect us to feel sorry for you because big bad Hillary, or big bad Ann Coulter, are picking on you.  Boo Hoo.

The Edwards' camp whines too much.

In other words just shut the hell up John and stop attacking us. We are the President!! And can do what we want and the Media will protect us.

Joe Trippi,is in fact,trippin. The Center for Responsive Politics,Taxpayers for Common Sense,PORKBUSTERS,COMMON CAUSE,and other political and lobbying monies watchdogs all observe that ''Republican corporate insiders''are being replaced by Democrat corporate insiders among whom serve as Hillarys top handlers.
           Trippi insults our intelligence by his phony assertions that ''homeland security''insiders are somehow differant than ''corporate''insiders. We find,through the good offices of the non-partisan ROLL CALL for this day,that the PMA Group, who would stand to vastly enrich themselves in the area of homeland security,donated over 1.3 million in the last election cycle to Democrats,and who have now been repaid with over 100 million in taxpayers monies for ''research''that has not a damned thing to do with either the safety of our soldiers in Iraq,or the safety of American citizens here at home.
                All of the dough went to Democrats,with,as we may have expected,Jack Murtha [D-Pa]leading the pack. It was he who steered the hundred mil to PMA along with his pal Jim Moran [D-Va]. Pass to Hillary,and todays Washington Post comes up with a scathing article by liberal journalist and Bush critic Richard Cohen,who blasts Hillary for her cowardice in the MOVEON/''Betrayus'' imbroglio.
              We thus find that Hillary and a few of her fellows including Obama and Edwards now find themselves in as much in thrall to a radical ''values'' lobby as did the Republicans in the days of the ''Moral Majority''. Say what one will regarding the GOP,they have been distancing themselves from such an alliance,with more pro-abortion and secular themes emerging from the top candidates[ none of whom showed up at a conferance that was put on by these ''values''coalition members including conservative Christians]. They are willing to take a chance of incurring their wrath.
             Not so the Democrats,outside of the lone Biden. They have knuckled under to the threats of the MOVEONers [witness the McCarthyite garbage dealt out to Edwards wife by one leftwinger],that they toe the party line..or else. MOVEON  thus becomes a new ''values''goon squad whereby the nation is to be run by those who share a like ideology that is not universally embraced by Americans[many,including liberals and even leftwingers who are otherwise antiwar/administration critics,are nonetheless disturbed at the strident authoritarian tone now being taken up by MOVEON,ANSWER,KOS, and other leftwinged organizations[HUFFINGTON POST blog replies for more on this,as well as Brian Williams blog on this network]. A person running for president who is too cowardly to confront the worst excesses of these groups ''Betrayus'',''Nazis'',''fascists''etc.has no business running this nation,and elevated to this position,will not bring forth the national ''healing''or international ''respect''that their backers would boldly claim. Only more disunion and discord is in the offing.

By John Solomon and Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, September 16, 2007; Page A01:

Hsu Cast Wide Net For Clinton Donors
List Included Strangers, His Own Investors

'To raise $850,000 for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign in just eight months, Norman Hsu tapped an eclectic group of donors that included wealthy investors in his apparel ventures, hotel shopkeepers, a 96-year-old in a Florida retirement home and an auto-body worker who mistakenly thought he would get a tax break for his political generosity.

The Clinton campaign has not yet released any information about the 260 donors whose contributions it is now refunding because they were credited to the prodigious fundraising of the former fugitive, but a detailed analysis of donors Hsu brought to Clinton shows that he tapped many Asian American donors in California and New York, including complete strangers as well as his relatives. He also raised political funds from people who had already invested large sums in his private business ventures.'

Why would Norman Hsu give $850,000 to Hillary Clinton ?
What's in it for him ?
What did he expect in return ?
This is a crooked donor giving to a crooked candidate

Bill Clinton's record:
RECORDS SET

- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- First president accused of rape.
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- First president to be held in contempt of court
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
- First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court

Hillary has had some real 'experience' !!

www.expressdefense.com

We should leave the fundraising to the republicans because they have to have something to do before they attack the democrats and you know that they will need money for that, so let them! We don't need to be poster children, we can be better them them by collecting Change. www.expressdefense.com 75% of verbal people with autism have some form of echolalia,[1] but it may also be present in Tourette syndrome, developmental disability, schizophrenia and, occasionally, other forms of psychopathology. When done involuntarily, it is considered a tic."

It appears the Clinton campaign has staffers working fulltime on msnbc blogs and using the same Rovian techniques of shooting down the messenger.....rather than addresseing the issue of 'access for sale'.

Last I heard, the Washinton Post is a right wing rag.

George - The Richardson post was very funny at first, but repeating it over and over again with different candidates substituted in and pasting it on thread after thread is getting pretty old.  Is the first paragraph  in your post trying to blame Tourette's syndrome for your endless repetition, because I don't think that applies to typing.

sounds like sierra has finally gone over the edge. Wow! The Clintons ARE THAT powerful!!!!

Edwards will be suffering from the same problem the Republicans have. He's against too many things while not making a louder case for what he stands for. He's not only anti-Hillary...he's anti-Bush and I think that's just too much to focus on. One reason Obama has overtaken him. I like Edwards but I get the feeling he's hanging on by a thread..and he just doesn't seem as impressive to me as Obama. His ultra-populist message just seems slightly dated. Hillary is still the percieved front runner b/c of her last name, general competency, and her mastery of triangulation.

John Edwards is just getting mean spirited and desperate- shame and his team- they will do anything to win- anything-

Lee about the Republicans I don't think distancing themselves from the social conservative base will work. They have become an integral part of the party...but I don't think that is bad b/c they are a segment that is focused on social services and welfare issues. In fact northern(country club) Republicans are viewed as an enigma now..so social conservatives are probably the majority. The GOP's mistake was in pandering exculsively to the extreme elements (anti abortion nuts/theocrats) while making false claims of overturning Roe v Wade and amending discrimination into the constitution. Generally legislating for votes. If/when they lose this presidential run they will return to their base and revise their message and strategy...most likely revoking their pledges to Bush politics.

I guess we know who Hillary is working for...

No lobbyists?

raf / "The Edwards' camp whines too much."

I didn't hear the edwards camp whining, I heard them pointing out the fact that hillary is doing the same thing the republicans do, prostitute herself for the lobbyists money, she is the business as usual democratic candidate, truth be known she should be running on the republican ticket since it is the party of the wealthy elite. she intends to force everyone to purchase insurance without reducing costs thus making the rich insurance companies even richer and more powerful, a pitiful excuse for a human being whose corrupt lust for power and money has no equal

tori: If it is,remind Cohen,Milbank,Priest and others who have been blasting this war and the Bush administration since their beginnings,that they are doing a lousy job keeping up the appearences of being ''rightwing''footsoldiers for Bush. [as it is,the FEC observes that the campaign contributions by print-media journalists go 9-1 for Democrats]. So  much for your ''right wing rag''

www.fec.gov

Sierra – Who did you get that ridiculous list from – Ken Starr?

You left out:

Bill:
Created 22 million jobs
Survived a 73 million dollar witch hunt and left office with the highest approval rating of any president in 50 years
First two term president whose party won seats in an off year election (1998)
Created a budget surplus
Stopped ethnic cleansing in Bosnia
Wrote the best selling political biography in history

Hillary:
First First Lady to be elected to public office
First woman elected to state wide office in the history of New York
Received more votes than any NY Senate candidate since Bobby Kennedy
Won re-election to US Senate seat with almost 70% of the Vote
Wrote the second best selling political biography in history
The first serious female contender for a political party nomination for President
And don’t forget:
Voted Best Dressed Woman in NY - 2006

I don't think Edwards is "whining" he's calling Hillary out.  

Hillary Clinton is a cyncial, scheming woman.

"Repeated negative attacks against other Democrats is not going to end the war in Iraq, deliver universal health care"

niether is hillary clinton

hillarycare is not universal healthcare, it's forced insurance with the insurance companies setting the rates

hillary already has made it clear shes not pulling out of iraq

hillary has sold out to corporate america as this post clearly points out, I hope they all choke on they're $1000 meals

How are these lobbyists any different than the labor unions or the trial lawyers that Edwards caters to?  This is how candidates raise money.  If you don't like it, then push Congress to enact meaningful campaign finance reform that all candidates must abide by.  Until that day comes (and don't hold your breath), Edwards should either cowboy up and shut up or avoid being a hypocrite and stop taking money from the unions and the trial lawyers association.

Er, George?  In case you didn't notice, Howard Dean didn't get elected.  He didn't even get nominated.  He didn't even win Iowa.  

differant day same crap..

If the american public was simple enough to vote george jr in TWICE. Why are we suprised about H.R. Clinton?

It's sort of like the military promotions... only the incompetant get promoted and relish in being stupid.

Of course once in a while some one with real leadership skills comes along and sets things right but not in politics or religion.

My vote is for John at least he is a good lawyer or is that professional lier, which is who runs this country.

Hillary would probably be marginally better than a Republican, but I doubt if the difference would be perceptible to the untrained nose. I think if Hillary wins over Obama or Edwards, the Bush loving morons will be able to dry their eyes and wipe the snot from their faces. They are a slight majority, so that really would be democratic, in a half-ass sort of way. I notice that this thread has attracted a few of them.

Shadow, Hamden, CT

All your stuff sounds like self-parody and endless repetition to me. The echolalia thing had nothing to do with my post, it was because the copy at the top of the page was repeated.
I don't post for you and don't care what you think. Save your editorial comments and ignore me. I don't see you chastising Sierra and the dozens of others here who do nothing but repeat the same stuff every day in every post, and until I do, or see that you've been appointed the, "boss of me", I'll enjoy myself as I please, and I promise to  ignore you, even though your posts are so informative, and varied in their content.

Edward is just made that is not his campaing making all that money.

CJ :Ah,but while we await a Republican ''refounding''based upon its original core principles,our nation will be run into the ground by the Democrats who have completely abrogated their own FDR/JFK traditions becoming a party of graft,corruption,pay-to-play,social engineeering, racebaiting and moral cowardice. As we can see,through the helpful offices of FR,GOP legislators are leaving in droves,thus cleansing an already tainted party. Yet whole squadrons of Dem hacks and out-and-out grifters and crooks remain in office. Get unemployment up around 7%,a shrinking DOW,toss in a few amnesty programs-for-votes as Dick Durbin has just done,a few more pay-to-play schemes, gas at five bucks a gallon, unions crawling with mafioso, and increased taxes on the middle class and small business person,and the Dems will end up looking like their usual Pendergast,Daley machine, and Tammany selves. A resurgent GOP will await their reentry after a nation,tired of screeching Marxists,will again turn towards ''change'',to a party that must have the sand in their wilderness period,to learn from their old mistakes in a way that the Democrats have not. We still await ''the most ethical Congress in history''[Remarks,Nancy Pelosi[D-Ca,Oct.2006].

Er, George?  In case you didn't notice, Howard Dean didn't get elected.  He didn't even get nominated.  He didn't even win Iowa.  

Carrie, Eastern Iowa (Sent Tuesday, September 18, 2007 4:56 PM)
Er Carrie,

What are you failing to notice about the post?
It's the same thing you failed to notice the last time you commented. Can you guess what that is?
Dean LOST???? Holy crap!

CLINTON ON ISRAEL. Clinton's policy paper on Israel seems substantially worse than her policy paper on health reform. It says that Clinton "believes that Israel’s right to exist in safety as a Jewish state, with defensible borders and an undivided Jerusalem as its capital, secure from violence and terrorism, must never be questioned."

Seems anodyne, but that bit on an undivided Jerusalem is actually quite radical. Even the Bush administration is pushing Ohlmert to continue talks with Abbas on a solution that would include some measure of shared sovereignty over Jerusalem, which neither side has ever been willing to give up. For Clinton to preemptively take that off the table -- assuming it's not just a disingenuous pander to AIPAC -- is to end any hope that American could help push towards a solution in the region.

Pander Pander  pander...she will say anything to whoever she is speakin to

I guess selling yourself to the wealthy is legal while selling yourself on the street is not.  I guess my grandpa was right when she said the only difference between a woman of the night and a poltician is that when the woman of the night got done with you, you had a smile on your face.

Ya wake up Carrie.  That is not what George posted!
What kind of a hall monitor are you?

John Edwards is so full of it- this is nothing different than what he does to raise money. Where’s all that cash he took from the lawyers who contributed to him? He’s a big whiny brat-rolling in cash from his investments in sub-prime lenders, a total fake and phony crying about two America’s while he builds his new house. His b.s. story about poverty is a sideshow and campaign line….  John shut the F--- up!  

I guess being personally successful disqualifies one from being concerned about poverty. Now, I've officially heard it all. Please.

George - Perhaps if you were a little more successful at sarcasm, your meaning would not be lost.  Just a thought.  :)

Man!  he's bold and courageous! - and has a heck of a lot more MORALS and CHARACTER than the Clintons!

Hellloooo!  he's speaking up for what's right - and the media disses and dismisses him because THEY are part of the system of corporatists and lobbyists - funding Hillary's campaign.

Consequently, the media gives Edwards very little face time on TV.  And yet - the dummies here wonder why he's in 3rd place.

John Edwards is telling the truth, and it's fascinating to watch who gets mad about it and why.

Edwards 08!

James - looks like the corporate media owns you - cause you've bought all their BS.

John Edwards is telling it like it is! - and will be a President for the people - not the lobbyists.

I thought maybe you guys in punditworld would care to see this proof of hillary's inevitability:

Dean Soars into Huge Lead in New Hampshire

Now Leads Kerry 40-17 Among Likely Voters; Clark and Edwards in Distant 3rd --New Zogby Poll

Former Vermont Governor Dr. Howard Dean has opened a large lead over his closest challenger in New Hampshire according to the newest poll by Zogby International.

Dean earned 40%, compared to Massachusetts Senator John Kerry’s 17%. None of the other candidates have exceeded single digits in the polling. Retired General Wesley Clark and North Carolina Senator John Edwards are tied for third with 6% each.

<...> Pollster John Zogby: "This is stunning. Dean leads 43-20 among Democrats and 35 to 11 among Independents. He hits 40 among all age groups, union and non-union voters. His lead is 57-17 among self-described progressives, 50-20 among liberals, and 34-14 among moderates. Married voters give him a 38-13 edge and singles a 45-21 point lead. He holds huge leads among all education groups, among investors and non-investors, men and women. This qualifies as juggernaut status. Can he be stopped?"

http://www.valuejudgment.org/archives/000239.html

Thank you James of Los Angeles!! You read my mind exactly!!  John Edwards may have lived in poverty, but he doesn't now!  His ridiculous populist theories enrage me. He says to tax the rich because they are greedy, when he is one of them!!  I am as well, and there are obvious loops in the American tax system that let us (the wealthy) circumvent paying like normal, middle-class Americans.  Before you can hike the taxes on the rich Edwards, you've got to reform the system.  He needs to stop pretending like he doesn't belong to the top income bracket in the United States, and insist on truly helping Americans, rather than whining and making the poor think that he'll give them a chance.

Republicans would LUV for Hillary to be the nominee!
They've got the Bill and Monica tapes ready to go - and planning to smear the Dem Party!!
And the Dems won't have a leg to stand on.
The Decider will be out - and adultery will be in!
What an embarrassment!

James - grow up!  get some maturity and realize the media promotes candidates who get in bed with the corporatists who keep the working poor poor and the middle class stuggling. And mock candidates speaking out about poverty!!

Candidates who don't care about "the least of us" - don't care about ALL of us.

Read the invitation. Nothing there about lobbyists. I see desperation written all over both the Edwards and Obama campaigns.

This whole this is just a mess and the way they run the goverment each and everyday they are just fooling avg ppl out there for no good couse.
Aslam
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sierra must be a ditto head.....
Hey, at least Hillary's fundraiser is being held here in the U.S., and not in "Jolly Old England."
Apparently Joe Trippi thinks it's okay to fundraise outside the U.S. because he didn't say anything about Gigolo Rudy G's little soiree in London.

By the way sierra. Not a single bit of what you posted is true. Not one bit of it.
Youre a liar, a political hack, and a moron because you employ the worst spelling and grammer of any poster on this board. Sometimes I wonder if you're not a junior high schooler.
Your hatred of Hillary and the vitriol you spew about her is exactly what's going to get her elected.
Every time you post one of your odious dietribes, Hillary get stronger. I hope you know that.
Obama isn't going anywhere. He doesn't have the gravitas to win.
Furthermore, attacking Hillary isn't going to stop her from getting the nomination.
So get used to her sierra. Because nothing you can do or say is going to stop her.
Perhaps when the election is all over, you and jerry from corpus christie, tx can go away and spend some quality time together.
Just think, you could exchange "we hate hillary" buttons, hold hands and sing along to one of jerry's Hank Williams albums, while admiring the souvenir beer can jerry drank from as he was sitting on his ass watching 911 on TV.
Have a nice day sierra. Here's wishing you luck on your 4th period geography test today.

Merle:

What has Hillary Clinton done in the US Senate?
Everything you gave me has never seen the light of day on the senate floor?

And by the way Merle:  The Clinton's are going to London for a fundraiser later this year...Caught ya on that one son!

I read that invite to the Clinton fundraiser...
Her money person is Indian????????

Going to raise the stakes a little more in the investigations

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