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Give Bill credit in Texas?

Posted: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 12:10 AM by Domenico Montanaro

From NBC/NJ's Carrie Dann
AUSTIN, Texas -- Just a quick note on Texas as results roll in.

If Hillary Clinton wins the popular vote in Texas, and especially if she doesn't hemorrhage caucus delegates to the extent that many expected her to, her husband can fairly be credited with much of that victory.

By a quick rough count, the former president did at least 50 public events in Texas since Obama's sweep of the Potomac Primary states on Feb. 12th made the Lone Star State a must-win contest for the New York Senator.

Those events ranged from neighborhood pickup truck rallies that reached 100 voters to high school auditoriums packed with a thousand.

At every event, Bill Clinton explained the complex caucus/primary hybrid, encouraging supporters not to let "her opponent steal delegates in the nighttime that she won in the daytime."

Many of Clinton's recent stops have been in counties -- like Taylor, El Paso, Midland, and Maverick-- where she is currently leading in the count.

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Hillary won only because she smeared Obama in every dirty way she could the week before the primary.  I can't believe this country is willing to let the Clintons back in the White House.  Are we so forgetful of all the shameful things that went on in the past.  And where is Hillary's tax return?  If she is the nominee, my vote goes to John McCain...he's a far more honorable human being.
yes, Bill finally got it right in Texas.  Someone finally invented an invisible muzzle.
When It’s 2008 not 1958, When Southern Democrats routinely use race to garner votes. It is not the time nor is it the place for white to openly say that the voted purely based on race. Yes Blacks are perceived and maybe rightly so, too have voted for Barrack Obama because of his race. But They had other reasons too, For once they became proud as Michelle Obama put it, that it seemed that America would vote for a man of color, base of his vision for America, and not because judge him solely by the color of his skin.

But here in 2008, 61 % of white voters asked in the Ohio were race a factor in determining how they voted and they replied YES. If that was not shocking enough, you have a candidate and her surrogate pandering for that vote. When all else failed and losing the nomination was clearly at stake , Race, Religion, Name, sowing political division, and reviving the  politics of the 1950’s was put into play.

But this is not 1950 and a person running for President using race and slander as a political expedient way to get the nomination, Shall Not, Will Not, and most of all Must Not, be elected as President if they received the nomination. People who only want this nation to move forward, far from the hate, fear, and racial division of the past must show anyone and surely someone running to Govern all the people, that raising  the  politics of past will not be a safe passage into the White House. The people of Color and those who see this as undoing everything a progressive people have fought for, reject it.

I see what can and may happen in the fall, a candidate that put there political ambitions above all else falls to the Republicans. A party split along racial and moral lines, a wasted opportunity to set this nation on a track that the world would admire. But maybe this is a lesson we as a nation must learn, and those who use the tactics such as employed by the Clinton camp, need to learn that this is not the path to the highest office in the land.

Last night I was livid after reading that of the people asked 61%, stated they voted for Hillary because Obama is black. And then I realized that I had been doing what Barack Obama say he stood for. I was hoping for a better America, Looking for a new way of dealing with problems without the divisive Politics of the past.  Making this a nation that is inclusive and not exclusive, a nation that is going forward, leaving bigotry, fear, and hate in the past. Not that I was shock that he had lost in Ohio, the record there speaks for itself, this is the state the put Bush into office in 2004. But for a populace to openly state that its biggest factor for voting against Barack Obama was RACE!  If they had said that they fell innocently and ignorantly for the political spin of Hillary Clinton, I could say that is the U.S., where we can say anything and get a lot of people to believe it.  But that was not the case, they voted purely as racist. And I blame the Clinton Campaign for starting and fostering this. I lay it squarely in they lap and say that People of color and people of conscious must answer this in a way that will once and for all stop anyone now and in the future from using these tactics. Do not vote for Hillary Clinton for president if she is nominated, Vote if you wish for the Democratic Candidate who are running for congress if they have not and will not support Hillary for President. We will survive with a Democratic congress and a Republican President. Not voting for Hillary is unfortunately our only recourse to show those American who feel it’s still the 1950’s and they is not a reason to respect what a Black populace will do in the face of pure and brazen racism. And if the democratic leadership of the party usurps Obama in favor of Clinton we lose nothing by voting Republican in mass and in full. For I rather go with a party I know is my adversary, than be in a party that pees on my back and tells me it’s raining.  
where's the clinton's tax return? being doctored? where's the archives from her days as first lady? the white house stated they haven't heard from the clinton camp about them.. hillary said on the debate she directed the bush white house to release them. wonder what they contain???? Why did the clinton's pose with rezko in that picture??? are they friends with him?? how much did he contribute to bill's campaign??? only big donators get to have their picture taken with the president and wife in formal attire. as a woman and mother i am offended that hillary played the fear card, just like the republicans. her husband played the race card.the clintons are so divisive. maybe Obama should stop being such a gentleman, hillary's obviously no lady!!!


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