Okay, everythings all better now that Hillary went to a MLK event. Her penance is now over. Everybody, lets just move along now. Nothing to see here.

sycophant

I can't beleive they invited Hillary to speak.  According to the Obama people, she is the biggest racist out there and that she has nothing but bad things to say about MLK.  Hmm.  That's interesting.  

Since when did this become an issue for her? her husbands head of the NLRB, who all indications will be *HER* head of the NLRB is against the Employee Free Choice Act. infact he tried to kill it!

Is it just me or does anyone else notice that everything she does is scripted? rehearsed? contrived? I don't feel her as a candidate.  I don't feel her spirit. Why is she suddenly interested in MLK, she wasn't talking about MLK before. Obama was. Now she's on the bandwagon.  I hate that.  it makes her seem untrustworthy;  and this isn't the first time.  that's what the problem is.  and fake tears or misting doesn't make it any more real. I know. I'm a woman. It's the oldest trick in the book. Howcome no one can see that?
Riki

Interesting that Ben Smith's take on the same event is different.  He recaps Clinton received a lukewarm reception and booing.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/

Hillary Clinton has spoken often and eloquently of her respect and admiration for Dr. King for years.  There is absolutely nothing in Hillary Clinton’s background that would lead any sane person to believe she was racially intolerant.

In fact, she has worked on behalf of civil rights for years and many in her inner circle are African American – including her White House Chief of Staff, Maggie Williams.  Let’s also not forget that her first job out of college was with the Children’s Defense Fund where she worked under Marion Wright Edelman to improve the lives of poor children, who are disproportionately minority.  I could go on and on but her public record more than speaks for itself.

I’m sure Hillary and her African American supporters are insulted and offended that anyone would make such baseless charges.

Whoever is fanning the flames of this ugly storyline should be ashamed of themselves – although, as we know, political pundits (i.e. Chris Matthews) have no shame.

I thought that Hillary said that Martin Luther King didn't accomplish anything

I thouhgt Haillary said that it takes white politicians (like her) to get things done...

What has Hillary accomplished for civil rights during her Senate career ?

Anything ?
Anything at all ?

Does she plan to race bait Obama ?
Or will she let Bill Clinton race bait Obama ?


Hillary Clinton, cold, calculating, dishonest, unethical, divisive

Obama and his campaign said nothing about Hillary's comment on her MLK/Johnson comment.  The coverage on this has been very misleading.   This is a problem for the Clintons that does not involve Obama.  

Hillary Rodham Clinton Flip-Flops on Iraq
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dFmTAPmrbo

Hillary Clinton flip flops at Democratic debate 8 John Edwards
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT1EWKFjkPI

John Edwards and Hillary Clinton did not read the NIE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLJFujflVmY

Hillary Clinton EXPOSED AS A RACIST!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDHbHcOV1N4&feature=related

Obama SmackDown Series: Smacks down Edwards on Iraq.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4x_KnWEDjs

Another take on this event www.politico.com

Hillary's speech to a labor rally on behalf of largely black security guards in Manhattan this afternoon offered a clear sense of the challenge she faces wooing black voters -- even in her adoptive home of New York.

Clinton's introduction was met with applause, but also with a few boos, and her speech was received largely in silence, with occasional, polite applause, one round of which came when she hailed "the day when a woman and an African-American are running for the presidency of the United States of America." A man near me called out "Obama" at a couple points in her talk.

This wasn't meant to be a campaign rally, (she's in New York for fundraising stops). She had been added late to the program for the event held by the SEIU local 32BJ, and in part honoring Martin Luther King -- perhaps one reason she sought the venue. And she spoke close to the end of an event that had already run over time. And most of the people I spoke to, many Obama supporters, seemed pleased she'd come out on behalf of the security guards seeking better wages and benefits, but not enthused by her speech.

Her speech "doesn't make me wan tto go out there and do anything," said Orville Froome, a computer consultant in Brooklyn who had come to see his pastor, Johnny Ray Youngblood, as had many in the audience, and who was wearing an Obama button. "I'm sick and tired of the same old same old."

A recent Daily News poll had her splitting the black vote here with Obama, giving him a slight edge. And New York, like other states, will be awarding some delegates by congressional district; there are four largely African-American districts.

One thing worth watching: Will New York's big unions, which are on her side, conduct aggressive election-day pull operations in the black parts of the city?

Seems to me this whole issue of race should be removed from this campaign process.  All of the candidates should repudiate and comdemn any and all comments from their supporters that appear to be racist and insist in the strongest terms that anyone supporting their candidacy refrain from making such statements. This needs to stop.  Period.

Now she wants to play nice!!! Give me a break.  Here is a person who was caught starting the fire now trying to douse it with words that seem hollow at best.  It amazes me that the media allows politicians to get away with this stuff just by making an appearance at a political event and making self-serving comments such as these by Hillary Clinton.  We all know what she meant with her original comments about MLK and LBJ.  It is too late to take it back now.  The damage has already been done.

Hillary is NOT a racist...Go Hillary!!!

pander pander pander

Strange Athena didn't mention the sprinkled boos and rather lackluster response by the audience that have been reported by other blogs this afternoon.  

That's a pretty newsworthy reaction to a presidential candidate, especially given the racial tone that's emerged in the last week.

Singing a different tune today I see. I hope she can resist the urge to deliver her foot to her mouth for the rest of the year...and Bill too.

Hillary and Bill know they are in big trouble with Black America, lets see what happens in SC Tim Russert did an outstanding job on MTP interviewing Hillary

Go Edwards! He is the only cadidate who can unite the party and get cross over votes. There's no way Republicans will cross over and vote for Obama or Clinton. They will cross over if Edwards is the nominee not just because he's the best man for the job but because the Republicans don't even like their own candidates.
Wendy
PA

Hillary Clinton was a 'Goldwater Girl' at the time the Civil Rights bill was passed

She OPPOSED CIVIL RIGHTS !!

You go, girl...... GO AWAY !!

Bloomberg / Obama - the perfect ticket to beat Clinton

Senator Hilary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton are no racists. Hilary Clinton had the privilege to personally meet the Dr. Martin Luther King as a teenager. Her words and Bill Clinton's words have been taken out of context and made to appear racist. When will Barack Obama, the self anointed great "uniter" speak up for the integrity of the Clintons on the issue of race, or is he playing the divisive "race card" by his silence?

LBJ has as much to do with the current Democrats as GWB has to do with Abe Lincoln. Its time that Black America got a seat at the table and instead of eating the scraps the Clinton's toss them. If "leaders" such as Jackson or Sharpton rallied around Obama instead of the lunch line the Clinton's have set up for them they might actually accomplish something for Black America.

Republicans will win in November if Hillary is nominated. Frankly, most of us want to show the neo-con movement in our party the door, and the best way to do that is to hand over the white house to the Democrats; however, we will not allow this country to be under the rule of yet another Clinton welfare state.

Just my two cents, here is hoping Sen Obama takes it Feb 5th and I have a choice to make come November.

Bloomberg / Obama (Independent Ticket) - We need a Third Party. The perfect ticket to beat the Clintons.

How does she do it all with a straight face?

"Both Sen. Obama and I know that we are where we are today because of leaders like Dr. King...."

So, now she's going to invoke Senator Obama's name to try to help dig herself out of the hole she & Bill have put themselves in?? It's past disappointing ... it's laughable.  

Call that racist! Every man, Every woman who has ever faced the calculated redicule of racism, be it color of your skin or the cut of your garmet, knows what racism is.  And this my friends is a Candidate, running for the highest office in the land, paying homage to those who fought.  Making sure that we all understand, that it was not our feet that marched the streets of Selma, but the feet of those who feared death.  It was not our feet who stood toe to toe with the women who said "no more will I be treated as a second class citizen" but the feet of women who feared losing their jobs and family.  I want everyone to remember, it was not us, but those who did the job for us.  Stop acting as though you are the race police.  Thank God we now know the difference and stop crying wolf, before the wolf that does take those rights that were won on our behalf, away from us forever.  So many cry over this, but not understanding that never again will there be time when you, or your daughter or your grandson will know what it is to have privacy.  Now, let me hear you cry Racism again.  Only this time.  Say it to yourself.

It seems to me that the 'black-card'is being played by supporters of B. Obama, including prominent black figures (J.Jackson Jr.)---for me, the Clintons would be the last 'white people' I would suggest were insensitive to 'black america'--if fact, if you watch Oprah's show with any frequecy, as I do, you would notice that on those shows wherein Africans (assorted countries)are in need of aid, it is so often 'white america', and usually from the southern states, that respond to the call--I think most of america should be offended that such a ploy (black card) would be employed by any supporters of B. Obama---I was, and am now voting for H. Clinton...

You guys are  full of crap! I used to respect MSNBC But I can see that your no different than anyone else.

Your NOT reporting the truth and you know it! Fact is, it was the Clintons, that made the remarks! and the Obama camp has NOT responded to them!
So Why Don’t you REPORT IT!

Why don’t you give the man credit for this! Instead you make it sound like they ( The Obama Camp) are arguing, when in fact it is the Clintons that are trying to inject the Obama team into this by suggesting they stirred this up!

But the TRUTH IS YOU ARE ALL WHITE AND YOU WILL NEVER GIVE A BLACK MAN THE CREDIT HE IS DUE!
YOU HELP CONVOLUTE THE TRUTH BECUASE THIS IS WHITE AMERICA!

African Americans all over the country are looking at this and they see what’s going on. And though most will not say anything the talk in the neighbor is, “ and so it begans” the first viable candidate and the media will work with the whites to convolute the issue and make it seem as though Obama has instigated this.

And as such you  White Wash of her statements, and confuse the public by insisting in your reporting that Obama is engaged in this.

He is NOT! You have tape after tape of Hillary’s statement on MLK and LBJ, but what do you really have from Obama that would suggest he is instigating this as you keep reporting? NOTHING!!!!

TRUTH IS NO BLACKS ARE ALLOWED IN THE PRESIDENCY NO MATTER HOW GOOD AND CAPABLE HE MAY SEEM! SO YOU KEEP PERPETUATING THIS LIE TO COVER YOUR SORRY RACIST TRACKS!!!!! BRAVO AMERICA, BRAVO!

WHY DONT YOU TRY REPORTTING THE FACTS!

Now it looks like Hillary is playing the race card along with her gender card.  She's pandering again.

DAMAGE CONTROL!!

oh my godd there were some boos-----Were the boos louder than the claps?Please get Matthews on the hotline.we have a right to know.Mccain was heckled out loud--louder than the claps.Matthews needs to get on this hotline too.

A Swing in African American Vote

African-American voters are moving to Obama. Clinton led among blacks by 23 percentage points in late 2007, 56%-33%, but Obama now leads by 25 points, 57%-32%. Former South Carolina Democratic chairman Dick Harpootlian, who supports the Illinois senator, credits Obama's victory in Iowa with persuading black voters elsewhere he is a viable candidate.

Now that Barack Obama is deemed electable, are African Americans voting along Race?

http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=1534

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HRC has made NY more competitive.
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Pool report on Obama’s visit to Pentecostal Temple Church of God in Christ in Las Vegas early this afternoon from Michael Martinez of Chicago Tribune:

In a brief Q & A before Obama entered the church:

Question: Respond to Clinton’s charge that he is distorting her statement on Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King:

“I am baffled by that statement by the senator. She made an ill advised statement about Dr. King suggesting that Lyndon Johnson had more to do with the Civil Right Acts. I did not make the statement. I haven’t commented on the statement. For them to suggest that we’re injecting race as a consequence of a statement she made that we haven’t commented on is pretty hard to figure out. Maybe you can tell me and explain to me how we distorted her statement.”

Question: Clinton campaign saying in a conference call earlier today that there is no difference in their record on war in Iraq because both voted for war funding:

“Sen. Clinton started off trying to make history and now she’s trying to rewrite it. She’s trying to rewrite it about my record and hers.”

“In 2002, I made a clear and unequivocal statement before 3,000 people that this war was a bad idea.” He said he was against the war in 2003 and 2004 also.

“Now she chose to vote for the war and she can decide whether it’s a mistake or not. Apparently she has not said anything about it. For her to suggest somehow that half of a sentence that I uttered in 2004 in a setting in which I was trying not to throw the Democratic nominee and vice presidential nominee under the bus, after Tim Russert specifically asked me since you were so opposed to the war, what do you think about the fact that they weren’t, to take that out of context and try to suggest my position and hers is the same is ludicrous. There is not objective observer of this who thinks at all that this argument is credible. And what’s stunning is not only are they trying to distort my record, this is coming from Bill Clinton who is trying to suggest that he opposed the war from the start, something that everybody again who has looked at this objectively is puzzled by.”

Q: then why did he vote for war funding

A: “Once we had our troops two years into a war, it was important that we try to do the best possible job on it. So is Sen. Clinton’s argument is that the only people who were principled about this were people who voted against funding all the time, if that’s the case, she should talk to Ted Kennedy and Barbara Boxer (war critics who also voted for the funding). Apparently they weren’t against the war the entire time.”

Q: Dick Durbin equating the Clinton attacks to swiftboating you. Is Clinton swiftboating you?

“I think they have decided to run a relentlessly negative campaign and I don’t think anybody who’s watching would deny that. I gather that she’s determined that instead of tyring to sell herself on why she would be the best president, she’s trying to convince folks that I wouldn’t be a good one.” “I don’t think that’s what the American people are looking for.”

Obama was greeted by about 420 congregants and a 50-member choir at the Pentecostal Temple, a Church of God in Christ church, an African-American church in a Las Vegas neighborhood populated by black and Latino families, who largely live in poverty, according to residents. There were 20 empty seats in the sanctuary, unlike Obama’s last visit to Las Vegas on Friday night, where more than 1,000 people were turned away from the jammed pack gymnasium of Del Sol High School.

http://thepage.time.com/full-comments-from-obamas-vegas-media-availability/
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Here is Obamas' reponse to Mr. Johnsons' comments:

Asked about Mr. Johnson’s statement, Mr. Obama said, “What’s there to respond to?”

“I’m not going to spend all my time running down the other candidates, which seems to be what Senator Clinton has been obsessed with for the last month,” he said.
NYT

Clinton was a Barry Goldwater Republican. Goldwater voted against the Civil Rights Act. And, while it "took a president" to enact such reform, Hillary was clearly for the other guy.

She will say anything / do anything to win, even dividing her own party along racial lines.

It's time to put an end to The Bush/Clinton Era.

Dear Friends:
The mobsters are back in Cicero and LaSalle and they
have guns, drugs, bugs, and they have money honey!!
Why would Canadians want to move to the United States when you have your country vote, citizenship, and you have respect and you do not have the millions of invasive illegals as the USA has.   Your government helps you.  As a matter of fact why would any other countryman or woman want to move here unless they had a way to steel.  After all steelers and raiders are in while the bears eat you alive.
Today I went to get medical assistance from the Mercy medical and hospital systems.  Well I have the wrong color of skin.  Trina of workers comp in Folsom after I had been directed there from the place of injury, from the Mercy emergency care and from the the emergency care and doctors office also of Mercy in Folsom.   Well I am living on the street because I was told by rancho cordova assistance housing that I should not bother to apply and also Sacramento.  No shelters for someone who has two maltese.  I slipped and fell in a shower yesterday,  the place I was at had a young man rockin and rollin with his ears plugged in and did not hear my request for assistance, I went back today again used the shower and went and asked that they clean the blood off the shower curtain from me and the owner of Savvy got upset and made me feel guilty.  Then he said I had to get his form filled out he was afraid and insultant that I might sue him.  Well I have sprain to back, neck, shoulders, knee where it hit the ground, sprained and swelled foot and injury to back hip and shoulders, neck and elbow.  But where do I go from here no insurance!!!!  
Values are dropping, foreign nationals are taking over and invading that are illegal, who get free assistance and well well well and values of homes are down and the market is down down down and the employement unless you are illegals is gone.  Oh and for most unemployment is run out, workers comp does not pay you and you cannot claim and collect both at the same time it is illegal.   But illegals are doing and going seasonally to work in their nation.  
Why come to America and buy and invest you have it all in Canada.     Take it from me I used to volunteer for Mercy.

Merry maids times are bad   they can rob you blind with out you knowing little messages and me me me.
Oh and the cat keep the dog and cat door closed.
Oh and you are realy in this time in America.
Who is honest and who is attacking at night.
The president knows and the government. Waste in medicine and workers comp and who is stealing?

God help US and the coming home veterans and Seniors?

Nice speech Hillary... And I mean it! Can u promise me something (and many other millions of people)? Can U stick too the issues? The kind of attacks as Ur recent attack on Obama is NOT welcome in this presidential race! This is the kind of change we try to implement! Contrasting Ur opponent is just fine, as long as U stick to the facts. And contrasting means revealing what Ur opponent has done, that U haven't!

Let's constrast a little;

-U were FOR the war, Obama opposed it!
-U voted for war funding (understandable, U gotta protect the troops), and so did Obama.
-U opposed the ethics reform passed by Obama, to later undermine the effects of it. U obviously did not get; The host of the debate in NH was JOKING! How can U have a dinner while standing?
-U have a mandate on Ur health proposal, Obama doesn't!
-U placed the comment about MLK, Obama didn't!

Ur slogan: "Ready for change", looking forward to Ur next one...
Obama's: "Change we can believe in", and this has been his slogan since the beginning of his campaign. And even since 2003.

Martin Luther King had the ideas and the "dream."  But Lyndon Baines Johnson knew where the congressional bodies were buried and was able to follow up on those dreams.  I would rather have an honest political leader, such as John Edwards.  I once was middle class but thanks to president shrub I am now upper lower class.  Sounds bad to me, too.

Dear Friends:
The mobsters are back in Cicero and LaSalle and they
have guns, drugs, bugs, and they have money honey!!
Why would Canadians want to move to the United States when you have your country vote, citizenship, and you have respect and you do not have the millions of invasive illegals as the USA has.   Your government helps you.  As a matter of fact why would any other countryman or woman want to move here unless they had a way to steel.  After all steelers and raiders are in while the bears eat you alive.
Today I went to get medical assistance from the Mercy medical and hospital systems.  Well I have the wrong color of skin.  Trina of workers comp in Folsom after I had been directed there from the place of injury, from the Mercy emergency care and from the the emergency care and doctors office also of Mercy in Folsom.   Well I am living on the street because I was told by rancho cordova assistance housing that I should not bother to apply and also Sacramento.  No shelters for someone who has two maltese.  I slipped and fell in a shower yesterday,  the place I was at had a young man rockin and rollin with his ears plugged in and did not hear my request for assistance, I went back today again used the shower and went and asked that they clean the blood off the shower curtain from me and the owner of Savvy got upset and made me feel guilty.  Then he said I had to get his form filled out he was afraid and insultant that I might sue him.  Well I have sprain to back, neck, shoulders, knee where it hit the ground, sprained and swelled foot and injury to back hip and shoulders, neck and elbow.  But where do I go from here no insurance!!!!  
Values are dropping, foreign nationals are taking over and invading that are illegal, who get free assistance and well well well and values of homes are down and the market is down down down and the employement unless you are illegals is gone.  Oh and for most unemployment is run out, workers comp does not pay you and you cannot claim and collect both at the same time it is illegal.   But illegals are doing and going seasonally to work in their nation.  
Why come to America and buy and invest you have it all in Canada.     Take it from me I used to volunteer for Mercy.

Merry maids times are bad   they can rob you blind with out you knowing little messages and me me me.
Oh and the cat keep the dog and cat door closed.
Oh and you are realy in this time in America.
Who is honest and who is attacking at night.
The president knows and the government. Waste in medicine and workers comp and who is stealing?

God help US and the coming home veterans and Seniors?

Dear Friends:
Place a rose on the United States of America
death health care, the death of workers comp,
you.

Well, this is one of the few times you have reported objectively. Well this must have been one hell of a speech and well received by the audience. You did forget to mention that this was a SEIU audience and the same union that Obama spoke to in Las Vegas and ffor your information, I understand that it is much larger. Be nice if you you give event a little more coverage.

Oh so now she is trying to clean up her MLK comments...seriously, do the Clintons have no shame at all?  They need to realize that their words are on film and so trying to pretend that they never said something just won't work.

Hillary needs to go away so this country can get a fresh start.  We don't need a tired, dirty politician holding back progress for her own ambition.  Let us move forward - Obama '08

In my opinion, Hilary Clinton is as much a civil rights believer and activist as anyone running on any ticket! It is a VERY IMPORTANT part of who she is!!

All together, kids - how do we spell "damage control"?  "M...L...K..."

Obama states all along that he didnt vote for the war. Well how could he? when actually he couldnt because he wasnt a u.s. senator????
Therefor why even state something misleading to the people. And they in turn really dont know the truth why he didnt vote for the war.

PLAIN AND SIMPLE......... you dont mislead people into thinking that you didnt vote for the war when actually you couldnt vote.   DUH!!!   Get It ???

Obama's lead in SC is shrinking according to the latest poll

Mrs. Clinton should not have been invited to speak. Her recent actions, and those of her campaign, have shown her to be completely unprincipled.  Her thinly coded racial commentaries are disgusting and destructive. I decided to vote for Senator Obama months ago and for many reasons, but now I am certain that under no circumstances will I vote for Clinton - neither in a primary nor in a general election. I cannot reward behavior that I feel is absolutely and undeniably dishonest.

I understand that people respect her experience and her intelligence. But I cannot fathom why there are those that so vocally justify or condone her dishonesty.

I don't think she could have picked a worse event with a worse topic at a worse time.  The Clintons messed up pretty badly on this one.  It's going to take more than a weak "Happy Birthday Dr. King!" speech to make people forget just how desperate and disgusting '90s politics can be...

Why is Hillary Race=baiting ?

From ABC News:

'...POLL: Transformed by Iowa and N.H., '08 Kicks Off as a Free-for-All
http://abcnews.go.com/images/PollingUnit/1057a1The08Race.pdf

McCain and Obama Mix Things Up

ANALYSIS by GARY LANGER
Jan. 13, 2008

Iowa and New Hampshire have transformed the 2008
presidential race into a free-for-all, vaulting John
McCain past longtime frontrunner Rudy Giuliani in the
Republican contest and fueling a strong challenge to
Hillary Clinton by Barack Obama among Democrats....'

'...Obama likewise is reaping benefits from winning
the Iowa caucuses and coming within two points of
Clinton in New Hampshire. He now challenges her as the
most electable candidate. He's severely eroded her
reputation as its strongest leader and sharply
improved his trust to handle key issues. And in
overall preference Clinton and Obama now are all but
tied, 42-37 percent among likely voters, a dramatic
tightening.

An important question is how well both McCain and
Obama's newfound popularity translates in the
state-by-state slog of primaries. McCain's gained more
ground among independents and moderates than among the
conservatives and mainline Republicans at the party's
core -- the bridge he failed to cross in 2000. And his
age is a potential problem; three in 10 Americans say
it dampens their enthusiasm for him.

Like McCain, Obama's gains have come more among
independents than among his party's regulars, and he
remains notably vulnerable on experience. But he's
also soared in a key Democratic group --
African-Americans, who've switched from favoring
Clinton by 52-39 percent a month ago to an even larger
preference for Obama, 60-32 percent, today.

While Obama also has drawn much closer among whites,
preferences of blacks are highly significant in some
upcoming races; in the past blacks have accounted for
47 percent of Democratic voters in South Carolina
(Jan. 26) and Georgia (Feb. 5), 46 percent in
Louisiana (Feb. 9) and more than a third in Virginia
and Maryland (Feb. 12).

VOTE PREFERENCE -- The changes in overall preferences
in both races are remarkable. Among Democratic likely
voters, Obama's gained 14 points and Clinton's lost 11
since the last ABC/Post poll, completed Dec. 9. John
Edwards is flat, at 11 percent support.

Story
POLL: Clinton Fends Off Obama in N.H. With More
Committed SupportGiven sample sizes, Clinton's 5-point
advantage over Obama is not statistically significant
at the customary 95 percent confidence level; it's 75
percent likely to be a real lead. She still leads
among women, but now by 11 points, vs. a vast 39
points last month. And Obama now leads nationally
among men, 9 points ahead of Clinton....'


'...FAVORABLES -- Some of these changes extend beyond
the candidates' own parties. Among all Americans,
McCain's personal favorability rating -- the most
basic measure of a public figure's popularity -- has
jumped by 16 points since fall. Obama, similarly, has
gained 12 points among all Americans in personal
favorability.

Favorable ratings for Clinton and Edwards both also
have advanced, each up 8 points; and the biggest bolt,
21 points, is for Huckabee, who was catapulted onto
the national scene with his victory in the Iowa
caucuses. Still, though, nearly as many Americans see
Huckabee unfavorably (38 percent) as favorably (42
percent).....'

POLL:....

While the three main Democratic contenders and McCain
are the only figures with majority popularity, McCain
has a cross-party advantage: He's viewed favorably by
50 percent of leaned Democrats. Among leaned
Republicans, just 23 percent see Clinton favorably;
Obama and Edwards do better in the GOP camp, around 40
percent favorable.

ATTRIBUTES -- The pros and cons of the candidates'
personal attributes add to the picture, in a way that
raises a potential challenge for McCain: his age.


The notion of Obama as the first African-American or
Clinton as being the first woman president both are
rated as modest net positives by Americans overall.
The notion of Huckabee being the first Baptist
minister to serve as president is a modest net
negative. (There's been a previous minister, James
Garfield in 1881, not a Baptist.) Much bigger
negatives are being a Mormon (Romney), and first
taking office at age 72, as would be the case with
McCain.

This poll measured these by asking respondents if each
attribute made them more or less enthusiastic about
that person's candidacy. In each case most said it
wouldn't make a difference; politics nonetheless is a
game of margins.

Obama as first black president gets a net 40-point
positive rating among blacks, vs. just +4 among
whites; Clinton as first woman, +19 among women vs. a
wash among men. Among evangelical white Protestants,
Romney's religion is a 39-point negative while
Huckabee's being a minister is a 22-point positive;
among their non-evangelical counterparts, it's Romney
-15, Huckabee -8. McCain's age has a 26-point negative
impact among seniors, about the same as among other
ages.

Looking at these within parties, Obama's race is a net
positive solely among Democrats and Democratic-leaning
independents, +22 points, while essentially neutral
(-2) among leaned Republicans. There's also a big gap
on Clinton as the first woman president (positive for
Democrats, negative for Republicans) and to some
extent, in the opposite direction, on Huckabee. But
Romney's religion and McCain's age cross party lines
as net negatives. Negatives aren't fatal in and of
themselves, but rather concerns the candidates need to
address -- as Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy
successfully addressed their age and religion,
respectively. But addressing them does matter:
Currently, among leaned Republicans who are less
enthusiastic about McCain because of his age, Giuliani
leads him in vote preference by 14 points, 27-13
percent....'


'...DEM GROUPS -- As noted, Obama's made a big move
among African-Americans since December -- up 21 points
-- and now leads Clinton by 60-32 percent in this
group, his biggest lead among blacks of the campaign
and his largest margin in any group in this poll. He's
also up by 21 points among independents, leading
Clinton by 44 to 31 percent; she leads by 8 points
among mainline Democrats.

The mantra of change continues to resonate with
Democrats; 54 percent are looking for "a new direction
and new ideas" over "strength and experience," and
Obama beats Clinton among "new direction" voters by
53-27 percent, his second-largest margin in any group.
Clinton answers by leading Obama by 59-21 percent
among "strength and experience" voters.

Obama did particularly well with younger voters in
Iowa and New Hampshire; nationally, he's improved by
26 points among leaned Democrats under age 40, leading
Clinton by 52 to 35 percent in this group. Clinton
pushes back strongly among seniors, her best group,
leading Obama by 59 percent to 20 percent.

Obama leads among men by about as many points as
Clinton leads among women. But Obama has made a big
move among unmarried women, now running evenly with
Clinton in this group, 43-40 percent -- a 25-point
gain for Obama. That mainly reflects the change among
blacks; a quarter of unmarried women are
African-Americans.

Clinton continues to hold a large lead among married
women, 53 to 30 percent, but Obama's moved closer here
too. And he's chipped away at another of Clinton's
best groups, those with lower levels of education, up
19 points since last month....'

       Nov  Dec  Jan
Clinton 51 - 43 - 42
Obama   24 - 23 - 37
Edwards 13 - 10 - 11

The trends are clear
Hillary is slowly fading
Losses in Nevada and South Carolina will complete her
loss of support
That's why she's started race-baiting

Favorable  Unfav  Diff   Repub Fav
Obama   63   30   +33     42
McCain  59   30   +29     77
Clinton 58   40   +18     23
Edwards 57   34   +23     40

Eat your heart out, Hillary
That's why you're race-baiting Obama
You HAVE to take down his FAVORABLES

She did, did she? I'm referring to the caption of this article.

Did anyone see Bob Johnson --- he of that TV station that lots of us felt obliged to censor very, very heavily for dignity's sake --- giving his "performance" in support of the unattractive Hillary Clinton campaign?

Did anyone also see Sheila Jackson Lee telling us that we did not see what we saw, that is, Johnson doing Clinton's dirty work?

The Clintons, particularly the ex-POTUS, opened the Pandora box, NOT Barack.


In deference to being succinct, after two things:

(i) the absolutely unattractive Clinton campaign after HER coronation ("it WILL be me," she said to Katie Couric, LONG BEFORE Iowa) was threatened, and

(ii) Bill Clinton's performance, particularly post-Iowa, pre-New Hampshire,

black people should eschew ANY semblance of owing the Clintons ANYTHING, it's just as simple as that.

Race?  B.S.!!!!! It's the CLINTONS, and more specifically, BILL (yes, Mr. ex-POTUS, no less!!), who opened the Pandora's box with his distortions and insinuations.  Race?  Give ME a break, this time. If Iowa did not do what it did the coronation, HER coronation, would have already taken place.

It is PRECISELY BECAUSE, it's absurd to refer to the Clintons as "racist", why their performance, especially, slick Willie's, is so invidious.  It's simply that ALL other dreams, including MLK's, can wait, if they get in the "Hillary-for-potus" way. Thus ALL, yes, ALL!!, stops must be pulled, to fulfill their self-absorbed wish.

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