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'Most secretive politician in America'?

Posted: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 6:34 PM by Domenico Montanaro

From NBC/NJ's Aswini Anburajan and Domenico Montanaro
The Obama campaign is stepping up the rhetoric. Campaign Manager David Plouffe went so far as to call Hillary Clinton the "most secretive politician in America today."

The tough talk underscored not only the negative shift in tone of the Obama campaign in the past 24 hours, but just how contentious this fight for the nomination is becoming.

Part of what the Obama campaign would like the focus to be on is ethics -- something adviser David Axelrod said they would be glad to have a debate over. But the Obama campaign may be a victim of time, since an argument on ethics could be tough to steer with the ongoing Rezko trial.

"I think that you know Sen. Clinton has talked a lot about disclosure in the last few days,” Plouffe told reporters. “Sen. Clinton is the most secretive politician in America today. This has been a pattern throughout her career of the lack of disclosure.”

Echoing Axelrod, Plouffe said the campaign would be more than willing to tangle with the Clintons, appearing to suggest that if needed they would raise issues like Whitewater that plagued the Clintons in the 90s.

"As it relates to ethics and transparency,” Plouffe said, “we're surprised that they would want to have an extended conversation about contributors and land deals and ethics issues. I don't think that's a lengthy conversation that's probably going to work out very well for them.

"So we are obviously not going to allow these attacks to go unanswered, and we think things like who has the strongest ethics, who has the chance to really bring about reform, who's going to be the most open with the American people that that's a real distinction," he said.

He added that because the Clinton campaign couldn't win on pledged delegates, it would try to devise "alternative nomination strategies." He added that the Obama campaign would fight back and "raise questions on things like disclosure, like ethics, like foreign policy."
 
He added that Clinton "exaggerated her experience and can't name anything she's done."

"The only thing she talks about, by the way, is a speech she gave in China,” Plouffe said. “She criticizes us for giving a speech. There's an exaggeration there. Her experience, they believe, is just conferred on her; we have to prove ours somehow. She is not a candidate with deep experience on these matters.”

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Somebody really needs to investigate the allegations of how many Rush Limbaugh/Radical Right followers took his advice and voted for Hillary in the primaries on March 4. Some of the exit poll responses seem off, such as importance of race. Also, couldn't that explain Hillary's weakness in the Texas caucuses, if the spoilers voted in the primary but didn't want to show themselves in public? The irony is that Obama supporters might have enabled this voting bloc by making sure everyone got to vote, especially the party crossovers. There's some real dirt hiding in these numbers. It sounds crazy, but crazier things have happened in US politics. All we need is one voter who identifies himself in public as taking Rush's advice.
I don't care about her tax returns. I care about mine. I care about experience and back bone that she has. I almost wish the GOP could get a chance at him, NOT, we need a change and it's Hillary.
Why is Hillary still race-baiting?  75% of the people who voted yesterday who said that race was important in their decision voted for Clinton.  Follow the link and you'll see why.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/5/131156/5021/187/469677

Further posts help to explain the implausibility of it being accidental.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/5/14345/50395/126/469746
Ugh...and this will be why Obama will lose big in Pennsylvania.  "can't name anything she's done" - he's confused his own candidate (Obama) with Clinton.
Obama should give a fact-finding press conference on Rezko to clear the air. It will add more credence to this line of attack and add volumes to his ability to maintain transparency.
Bring it on Obama.

HILLARY, 'MOST SECRETIVE POLITICIAN IN AMERICA'?

That is funny. The clintons are the most investigated politicians around. Lets talk about the present Mr. Obama isn't that what you preach.

Is Obama going to build a bridge back to the 90's?

I hate that Obama has to go there, but lets face it, Hillary took him them. He needs to fight her to win. She would sell her soul to be the next president, and he needs to reveal that to the public. It appears many of the Clinton supporters, just started paying attention to political news. She has embarrassed this country enough!
I hate that Obama has to go there, but lets face it, Hillary took him there. He needs to fight her to win. She would sell her soul to be the next president, and he needs to reveal that to the public. It appears many of the Clinton supporters, just started paying attention to political news. She has embarrassed this country enough!
I am so glad that they are pointing out the fact that all Hillary has done is give speeches, and vague uninspriational speeches at that.  She has not given specifics on anything that she has promised. The following is to funny: He added that Clinton "exaggerated her experience and can't name anything she's done."
"The only thing she talks about, by the way, is a speech she gave in China,” Plouffe said. “She criticizes us for giving a speech. There's an exaggeration there.
 
Oh!  I thought the GOlden Boy was ABOVE the silliness of petty politics.  Obama is just another politician.......willing to do anything to get elected.  The difference between him and Hillary is that Hillary has also proven she's willing to work for the people.  I live in Illinois and the only work Obama has done has been on his campaign.
Go get them!!!  The Clinton camp has a lot to worry about if they ever get around to full financial disclosure and a comparison of ethics.  

I think she should not continue to put herself out there as a candidate until she has released her financial documents like everyone else.  
It is ON!!!  Go Obama!!!
More effective attacks for Obama against Clinton would be:

* Hillary's judgment to use rumors instead of evidence and facts in her attacks on Obama's credibility from the Canada NAFTA smear campaign.   Both Canada and the CBC have reported that the whole story was false.  Is this the kind of judgment we want in a leader?  The kind that makes decisions based on rumors and innuendo instead of facts?  Isn't this the kind of judgment that got us into the Iraq war?  Canada: CBC exonerates Obama. Apologizes.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/5/112926/0842/300/469572

* Hillary's negative campaigning using false statements, misleading advertising, and hints of racial and religious undertones to attack Obama

* Media bias? Was anyone really surprised that the winner of 11 contests in a row had more positive media coverage than the one that had lost 11 in a row?  Doesn't the New York media cover the Yankees team that wins 11 in a row a LOT differently than when it loses 11 in a row?

* Hillary's so-called experience in foreign policy and national defense.  How many 3am calls occurred during the 8 years that Clinton was in the White House?  Uhhhh..... zero?
wow! Hillary was voted most likely to do anything to get elected i am witnessing it i did not think she would stoop that low i am changing my vote to obama! dems for life we will be united
"As it relates to ethics and transparency,” Plouffe said, “we're surprised that they would want to have an extended conversation about contributors and land deals and ethics issues. I don't think that's a lengthy conversation that's probably going to work out very well for them."
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You are correct, sir.  Zing!  You nailed it.  If she dishes it out, she better get ready to take it.  Play with fire and you're gonna get burned.  I wish everyone would visit www.pbs.org and click on the archives of "Frontline," to read the transcripts from a a piece they did called "Once Upon a Time in Arkansas."  It reveals some of the shadiest and most alarming political behavior since Nixon.  Brought to you courtesy of the most secretive people in politics themselves, the Clintons.

GOBama Go!!!!!!! w00t!
Ooooo...Whitewater.  Please please please use Whitewater.  Guess what?  The Republicans already wasted millions of taxpayer dollars investigating the Clintons over Whitewater.  The only thing they came up with was President Clinton lying about where his slick willy ended up.  

While you're beating the dead horse the Clinton campaign can talk about Obama's false pose on his campaign financing, his backing away from the public financing pledge, his lying about the Canada meeting, his helping fund an organization founded and run by an employee of the PLO while Obama was on the Board of the Woods Fund, his buying property from the Rezcos, helping them liquidate assets (akin to money laundering) while they tried to hide money from their creditors...should I go on?  

Whitewater...you people are a joke.  Hillary Clinton has been under the microscope for 15 years.  The most secretive politician?  She hasn't been allowed any secrets since 1992.  What else have you got?

Oh yes, the tax returns.  What exactly are you planning on finding there?  We all know the Clintons are wealthy.  Last time I checked that wasn't a crime.  If they had a source of illegal income on their returns they'd already have  been busted by the IRS.  

The down side for you is that the hope and change show no longer works.  The Junior Super Tuesday campaign spotlight has left America knowing that Obama is just another lying politician.  Hope you've got something besides Hope and Change.  Some positions other than, "I agree with Senator Clinton," might help.

But the bottom line is, if you're so confident that your delegate lead will hold, which has been your spin all day today, why bother going negative?  You've got the whole thing sewn up, don' t you?  

I guess not.
Its 3 AM and Hillary Clinton is awake at the White House not worrying about the nations affairs but in a stew because Bill has been caught in one again and the newspapers are full of it . That is how I forsee the future if Clinton is elected . My husband had an affir and the anger and thoughts of revenge filled my every waking hour for days on end . Now imagine you are President . Can we afford to have someone in the White house who has the baggage of the Clintons . Think American women , remember when it happened to you . Where was your mind at the time . Reason not to allow Bill and Hillary anywhere near the place again . I want my Grandchildren safe . No war started as a cover to negate the negative publicity of affairs inside the Whitehouse . No imagined crisis to cover yet again another Clinton Scandal
I want my President sleeping at 3 AM not fabricating press to keep her own scandals at bay.
I wondered when Senator Clinton's projection of her own flaws and deficiencies onto Senator Obama would begin to rebound.  I have found it absurd that Senator Clinton would point fingers at anyone when she sits atop a pile of non-disclosure.  Not only has she not disclosed anything to back up her experience claim (White House records), her tax returns, her earmarks, or the donors to former President Bill Clinton's library, there is also a long history of secrecy.  Senator Clinton's closed door health care program failed miserably.  Senator Clinton's decision to fight the Republican controlled Congress over their request for her law firm records from the Rose Law Firm was finally rejected by the Courts.  

Instead of projecting her own deficiencies groundlessly onto Senator Obama, Senator Clinton should tell us why she is qualified to be President.  So far, her speeches lack substance, her ability to inspire or bring in new voters is non-existent and her claims of experience ring hollow since she does not have one significant piece of legislation (or even a significant fight to get legislation passed) to her name as a U.S. Senator.

I believe Senator Clinton should tell us why we should elect her, rather than resorting to the same old politics of lies, inneundo and smear against Senator Obama.  I send out a call to her supporters on this post-- instead of bashing Senator Obama do tell us why Senator Clinton is in any way qualified to be President.  Please don't tell me it is simply because she is a woman.  Don't ramble on about her experience as First Lady -- no-one is arguing that Laura Bush should be President.  Don't tell me about her 6 month stint at the Children's Defense Fund or her so-called 35 years of experience.  Give details please.  While your at it, why don't you explain what a "time out" on trade means, how she plans to "mandate" health care and what she plans to do to make social security and medicare fiscally sound.

From what I have learned so far, me thinks the lady is an empty pantsuit.

Senator Obama on the other hand, has spelled out what he thinks is wrong with NAFTA.  There aren't any enforceable labor or environmental standards.  None of the hub-bub last week changed this belief especially since Senator Obama has been consistent on this point for years.  Senator Obama has spelled out his plan to make social security and medicare fiscally sound while Senator Clinton claims the issue is "hypothetical."  Senator Obama has also explained that the existing programs for children's health care will take care of the mandate for every family that is hurting.  Can we have the same substantive disclosure from Senator Clinton, please?

Will the media demand it?  Or are they too busy being Clinton-spun and too involved in the "horse race" aspect to think of it?
I hate that Obama has to go there, but lets face it, Hillary took him there. He needs to fight her to win. She would sell her soul to be the next president, and he needs to reveal that to the public. It appears many of the Clinton supporters, just started paying attention to political news. She has embarrassed this country enough, with her multiple investigation to her illegal activities.
HELLO!!! Is the kettle finally calling the pot on THEIR less then pristine ethics, experience, etc.

And before anyone gets on her screaming I'm a bitter Obamabot...I'm not. My candidate is still in the lead no matter how you want to spin. But if the Wolf & Pen opening act for Sen. Clinton can drop Rezko at the drop of the dime and flaunt that as some measure of Sen. Obama's ethics then I'm ready to pull up a chair and hear all about Peter Paul? Mr. Hsu? I'll get my popcorn and be right back.
I am thinking of her as the most _______ politician but secretive was not the word I was thinking of...

Try not to go too wild with the imagination!

Obama 08
O-BA-MA O-BA-MA

We are the Ones.

O-BA-MA O-BA-MA

We can change the world.

Obama / Sebelius 08
Clintstones. Meet the Clintstones.
They're the modern scheming family.
From the town of Li'l Rock,
Relive the hell of recent history.

Let's look at the intern in the car.
Through the courtesy of Bill's cigar.

When you're with the Clintstones
you'll have a throw the kitchen sink time.
A drive the wedge time.
You'll have a slick old time.
I have a question I keep hearing about sen. clintons expierence, but I have sent e-mails to every one i can think of and still have found no relivent things she has done. When this was said about sen. Obama expierence this is all I hear about in the media. She has won 3 of the last 16 states and she claimes this should make her the nomanee automatically. I am also tired of hearing that if she didnt win a state, that state is an unmportant state well i live in one of these so called unimportant I do not fell good about a canidate that thinks my state is not relivant.
Dear Mr. Plouffe:
"Me thinks you do protest too much"
                      Wm. Shakespeare
Here's the link to the CBC broadcast documenting the Canadian government's lies about the NAFTA-gate and Hillary and McBush chiming in.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgxxWhzdhv0

Once again, Hillary does not have good judgement when it comes to foreign affairs.  First it is the lie of the Bush administration on the Iraq invasion and now she believed the Canadian lie.  What lie won't she believe?  It seems she will believe any old lie she hears.
Mathematically she can't catch up in pledged delegates..... go do the math... I did and it doesn't work.  If she were to win the nomination by somehow getting the supers on her side, then we would have chaos and massive voter disenfranchisement, and McCain would easily defeat her because a whole lot of the Obama supporters would either vote for McCain or just not show up.  Obama will likely end up with more delegates in Texas due to the caucus... so who really won that state?
I'm genuinely not understanding why Hillary is a change...never got that, that message has not gotten through this thick head of mine.  To me so far all I see is business as usual.

Obama 08 (hey, when your opponent comes out swinging, ya gotta fight back)
Hillary may have awoken a sleeping giant, opened Pandora's box, and defecated where she sleeps.  Obama WAS above the nasty politics-as-usual until he realized that people still don't vote for a candidate, but rather they vote against the one that appears to be 'weaker'.  Well, open the floodgates Obama, and take her down......take her DOWN.
Good move for Barack to focus on Hillary's ethics.  Don't ever forget Hillary is married to Bill.  Has everyone just conveniently forgotten Billary's scandalous years not just in the White House but as governor of Arkansas?  Please take the time to recall Billary's "successes" in office.  prorev.com/wwindex.htm  
If this website is not sufficient to scare the crap out of you for a 2nd Billary White House, then just google "Clinton scandals" and research on your own.  The clear answer to escape 8 maddening years of "W" and 8 years of Bill "I did not have sex with that woman" Clinton is to vote for Barack Obama, a man with true integrity and vision.  It's a chance for America to lose the identity of being the most hated country in the world.  We are not a bunch of Toby Keith-listening ignorants.  Some of us dream of the day a man like Barack Obama is President of the United States.  It's only a matter of time...  
To Amy, who says, "I live in Illinois and the only work Obama has done has been on his campaign."...

Well I live in Arkansas, and the only work Hillary Rodham Clinton ever did here was for the Rose Law Firm, concealing incriminating billing records.

As an educator myself, I can also assure you that all the claims she makes regarding her work with "early childhood education" are bogus as well.  She is an expert at taking credit for other people's work and dedication. And the only moral or ethical principles that guide her are which way the wind blows.  
The world is watching America...your innocent children are dieing in Iraq in the name of democracy...and yet democracy in America is all about
lies and false accusations.

It took me less than 0.29 seconds to google and get all the lies she (Hilary) has said and crimes/court cases she is involved in (both past and present)...yet, the so called media think the so called house Obama bought is a big deal.

When the blind lead the blind...they will both fall into the pit.



Why would Obama bring up Clinton's negatives with the Rezko-Canada-NAFTAgate situation so close at hand?  Clinton has portrayed her self has a fighter.  Obama attacking will just make him look like politics as usual.  I think this will only hurt him.  People have heard the sleazy Clinton stuff for 16 years and it never seems to matter. Obama needs to stay positive in order to win,
Hilary's win is just for a moment! Obama has won 12 of the last 15 states since Super Tuesday. He is leading in the total number of states won, delegates, and popular vote. Also, coming out of the elctions yesterday, he has more net delegates. Today, when the clinton capm thought they had support, wto superdelegates endorsed obama! they know he is the dem nominee.
All I can say is this:

Hillary will bring the Democratic party down with her this election.

I think John Ellis says it best:

http://www.nationalscold.com/2008/03/its-about-january-too.html
Re Hillary's secrets -  link Paul v Clinton et al .

The Case Management Conference hearing in Paul v Clinton et al on February 21, in Los Angeles Superior Court will finally set a trial date in the long delayed civil fraud case and it will set a schedule for discovery that will include the sworn depositions of the entire Clinton family and the Clinton hierarchy of the Democratic Party.


A trial was set for March 2007, but it was delayed due to an appeal of a lower-court's decision to dismiss Sen. Clinton as a defendant. The California Supreme Court upheld the decision, but Sen. Clinton, nevertheless, will be required to testify under oath along with her husband as  material witnesses.
Seven years ago Peter Paul began whistleblowing to the government and alerting the media of numerous illegalities committed by Hillary and Bill Clinton in order to win Hillary’s first election to public office.
The multi-million dollar donor to Hillary’s Senate campaign that caused Hillary’s finance director to be indicted and tried in May, 2005, for hiding his contributions, and whose complaint to the FEC resulted in a finding that Hillary’s campaign broke the law resulting in the only FEC fine imposed against Hillary’s campaign, will begin the discovery process leading to a trial in Los Angeles later this year of the Clintons and others for destroying Paul’s public company.


The lawsuit claims that Peter Paul was fraundulenty induced to make a 1.2 million in-kind contribution to Senator Hillary Clinton's 2000 senate campaign in exchange for former President Bill Clinton to be a rainmaker for this company once he left the White House.  Paul claims that former President Clinton backed out of the $17 million deal, and his company collapsed.


Paul contends Clinton has filed four false FEC reports, in an attempt to distance herself from him after a Washington Post story days after the August 2000 fundraiser reported his past felony convictions. Clinton then returned a check for $2,000, insisting it was the only money she had taken from Paul. Clinton, Paul asserts, continues to hide from the public false statements about his contributions and her relationship with him, made to the Post through her spokesman Howard Wolfson. Clinton vowed publicly she would not take any more money from Paul, but one month later, she demanded another $100,000, to be hidden in a state committee using untraceable securities.


Paul’s allegations that his $1.2 million in donations were hidden by Hillary’s campaign have been corroborated by the Justice Department, FBI and FEC General Counsel- while the lying has been done by the Clinton appointed Judge in the Rosen trial, Hillary’s lawyer David Kendall has maintained Hillary’s campaign filed accurate reports until the campaign admitted hiding more than $720,000, and her lawyer Lyn Utrecht in false statements made to the FEC General Counsel denying Paul’s contribution of $1.
In May 2005, Sen. Clinton's former finance director, David Rosen, was acquitted for filing false campaign reports that later were charged by the FEC to treasurer Andrew Grossman, who accepted responsibility in the conciliation agreement. Paul points out the Rosen trial established his contention that he personally gave more than $1.2 million to Clinton's campaign for the fundraiser that his contributions intentionally were hidden from the public and the FEC.


Witnesses to be deposed include former President Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, Gov. Ed Rendell, Kelly Craighead, Howard Wolfson, Terry McAuliffe, and a host of A list Hollywood celebrities including, Barbra Streisand, John Travolta, Olivia Newton John, Brad Pitt, and Cher.
The case is the subject of a video documentary largely comprised of intimate "home movies" of Hillary Clinton and her Hollywood supporters captured by Paul during the period.


The cover-up of the largest campaign finance fraud in U.S. history will soon be exposed.
The complete corrobation of the records can be viewed at Hillcap.org
The simple fact is this: The White House has been the biggest scandal for the last 16 years. Bush/Clinton have had their share. I think it is a valid point that Sen. Obama needs to explore because it could only help his situation. The fact that she has always been slow to expose her own dealings (with reference to everything) is just one more example...I think that not disclosing her tax return will further fuel the dis-trust many have with the Clinton's.
Before I got my current job...they did a credit check on me...if I had said no, then no job for me...and the American constitution gives my employer the right to demand a credit check.

Now imagine someone that claims she is applying for the greatest job in the world; yet when asked by her potential employer (the American people) for a credit check (tax return)...she tells them go to HELL, wait till the elections are over (that is wiat till my 1st day on te job for her to do a credit check)

Haha, the late evil Saddam will be laughing where ever he is at this moment.
A stroll down HillBilly Lane:

• Put together the mighty Caribbean Coalition to attack Haiti, which became much worse after HillBilly’s invasion because they put a sadistic maniac in charge of the country.
• Bombed an aspirin factory in the Sudan the day Monica Lewinsky started testifying in front of a Federal Grand Jury.
• Did absolutely NOTHING when the Twin Towers were attacked the first time; ditto after the bombings of the SS Cole, Khobar towers, American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and a myriad of other attacks, which totally emboldened terrorists to attack us on our own soil.
• Had more tanks in Waco than in Somalia, where our troops were slaughtered. His “cut and run policy” after Somalia is immortalized in Bin Laden’s terrorist training books on how to beat the Americans.
• Gave away nuclear technology to North Korea in exchange for being our friend. This put us in the position with N. Korea that we’re in today (who can forget that lovely image of Madeleine Albright on the presidential balcony with Kim Jong Il as the North Korean army goose stepped below them?)
• HillBilly’s National Security Advisor, Sandy Berger, stuffed classified HillBilly records from the National Archives into his pants and destroyed them, so the damage of the HillBilly era may never be completely known.
• Fired the entire White House travel office, which had served a multitude of administrations from both parties, and got the FBI to go after Billy Dale, the ex-head of the travel agency because Dale shouted fowl over HillBillies anointing their special friends to run the travel office (Harry Thomason, a friend of both Clintons, and his business partner, Darnell Martens, were looking to get their air charter company, TRM, the White House business in place of Airline of the Americas). The jury dropped the case against Billy Dale in less than 4 minutes and in 2000, Independent Counsel Robert Ray issued his final report on TravelGate, stating that Hillary Clinton had made factually false statements about the case.
• Took over 900 FBI files, and all of the files were on their political enemies (remember when ONE FBI file was taken during Watergate and that soul ended up in prison for it?).

Some of great records set by the HillBillies:
- 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.

And this list doesn’t even touch some of the more well known scandals – pardongate, Whitewater, Monica-gate, and others.  ANYBODY BUT HILLARY ’08!!!
RUSH LIMBAUGH FOR PRES
hillary is sooo smart why didnt she read the NSA report. i guess she isnt so good at reading is she. but she is a good liar
Dear Senator Obama:

We are heart sick with the loss of Ohio and Texas, yet we continue to believe that this Country has changed, and will continue to change because of your endeavors, alone.  We are going to win this nomination, and national election, and seat you as the next President of the United States.  We must stand firm in this commitment, and not waiver over the dirty antics that will be pulled on you over the next several months.  Please, just continue being your self-assured, passionate, honest self.  I know defeat is hard, and difficult to bounce back from, however, you can, and will do it for the Country.  Continue to hold your head high--you and Michelle.  We truly need you to continue on, in the spirit of sainthood, to reclaim this Country for the ordinary, decent, caring American people.

The Vann Family
H I L L A R Y C L I N T O N . C O M , come check our secreats out. We welcome your visit.
A look at www.factcheck.org and a thomas.loc.gov does appear to confirm that she is indeed the most secretive politician. The tax issue also demonstrates her secretiveness.
She will probably be like Bush when she becoems president.
Why not just say that Hillary has a proven track record of being asleep in the White House while major "decisions" are being made at 3 am.
The dirty tricks part of the Campaign, which Ms. Clinton has all to loudly declared "Her Favorite Part" of politics, has gotten to the point that anybody that has not already given their soul to the Hillary Campaign can see it for what it really is, a Cheap and Distorted race run by a Woman that should have had better sense than to run a dirty campaign, but, then considering the Candidate, who has no actual Substance, so cheap and dirty smear tactics is all that she has to fall back on, WE ALL SEE IT!!
 WE ALL SAW THE DECEPTIONS PLAYED IN OHIO..THE HUGE OVERSTATEMENTS BY THE CLINTON CROWD, AND THE TIMING OF IT WAS SUCH THAT NO ONE COULD REPORT TO THE (OPPOSITE AND TRUE) FACT THAT THIS WAS A FALSE REPORT....DIRTY POLITICS IS ALL SHE HAS, EVEN IF SHE WINS!!! DOES AMERICA REALLY WANT THAT...AGAIN??  She is a Bush Light, all lies and no Substance, ya want substance, look at Obama's Record...He has been in OFFICE longer than Hillary has, she has always just been a hangar on, remember??  Her ENTIRE time in Congress has been just for one reason...to try to take back the presidency for the Clintons....NOT to make real gains for the People...but real gains for HER.....That is the Last kind of Presidential Contender we need, Hillary, Go and Hide Your Face in Shame at your Scandals, You are UNFIT to be OUR President!!


















I believe that Obama needs more scrutiny.  After all, he is running for the most powerful position in the world.  
No one has asked how he intends to pay for all the programs he wants.  Oh, getting out of Iraq?  Even he has been back tracking on that a little.  So, if that takes a few years, and then Bin Laden sends more into Iraq, they will go back?  How many American lives will be lost trying to retake territories we now control?  How many Iraqi lives will be lost?  

Today, one of his top foreign policy advisors suggested that Iran is anti-U.S. because of Bush.  Woa!  Are all his advisors kids?  Haven't they heard of the Iranian hostage crisis?  

Frankly, Obama being the commander in chief is quite a frightening thought to me.  
This is ridiculous by the BO camp.  She and Bill are the most investigated politicians in recent history.

MS - don't pretend you were ever voting for her.  Dishonesty is not the way to win.

Hillary has already been treated badly by the BO (stinky) team and apparently, he is NOT about the politics of change.  
HRC's 35 years of experience:

1. Worked for a corporate law firm.
2. Served on WalMart board and had no issues with the labor policies there.
3. Formulated a disastrous health care plan that postponed universal coverage for years.
4. Had tea with foreign leaders.
5. Voted for the war
6. Scandal after scandal. Why oh why?
7. Within a couple of years managed to lose both the house and the senate due to vindictive and divisive politics

Experience we can count on?


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