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Hillary to appear on Leno Thursday

Posted: Monday, March 31, 2008 5:26 PM by Mark Murray

From NBC's Mark Murray
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno has just announced that Clinton will appear on the show Thursday. Per the press release, it will be the third time she has been on Leno.

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I wonder if she'll show Jay the Bronze Star she won for bravery under sniper fire in Bosnia?
Who care? How is this News? Are you gonna tell us she wipes front to back next? I for one will make sure tht I am sleep b/c I don't care to watch her cackle and try to shcmooze the People. Sitting next to someone likeable is not the same as being likeable. Go away chica....go far away!!
If she can afford the airfare........
Ah. the miracle of free advertising.
More FREE PRESS to the campaign that is broke.

Go figure.


Obama 08
To Ron H. Allen:

First, how long did you live in New Orleans or Louisiana?


I don’t need to do a little “mroe” research.  The fact that it is my opinion as well as many other present and former New Orleanians and Louisianians that Bill Jefferson is a crook, has absolutely nothing to do with anyone else.

The article is about Bill Jefferson.  Bill Jefferson is the person to whom I was referring and no one else.  I really don’t care one bit that you are a student of history.  The fact that you’re a “Student” means that you don’t know everything and I doubt you know more than I, about politics in New Orleans and Louisiana.  Unless you’ve lived 43 years and have lived the majority of those 43 years in the city of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana and have followed the politics of that city and state on a daily basis as I have, you don’t know the first thing about William “Bill” Jefferson the way I or any local would.  

So you’re attempting to speak of something that you know little about.

Secondly, since I was referring to Bill Jefferson and only Bill Jefferson, you are inferring that I am unaware of the fact that a great many of our elected officials at the local, state and federal levels are inept, corrupt and do anything but, work hard for the very people they represent.  Notice I didn’t say the very people that got them elected.  Not everyone who votes, votes for people like Bill Jefferson.

Prior to leaving the City of New Orleans after my home was flooded as a result of hurricane Katrina, I did vote in the November 2004 election.  I did not however, vote for Bill Jefferson then and I never have.  In November of 2004 I voted for Louisiana State Representative Karen Carter who unfortunately was defeated by Bill Jefferson.




To Amy Anderson, Eden Prairie, MN:


Like Ron H. Allen, you are also missing my point.  Again, as a former resident of Bill Jefferson’s Congressional District, having followed the local and state politics of Louisiana for many, many years, and I doubt very seriously that you have, I am totally entitled to my opinion of Bill Jefferson that he is a liar and a crook based on what I, know of Bill Jefferson.  Again, I’m pretty sure that I would know just a tad bit more than you and Ron H. Allen.

How long did you live in New Orleans or Louisiana?

Secondly, just because I like many other present and past New Orleanians and Louisianians think that Bill Jefferson is a liar and a crook, doesn’t mean that I think it’s
Ok to violate the Constitutional rights of anyone, nor did I say any such thing.

First of all, not only did the FBI “get a valid warrant,” they got warrants to serve his office at the Capital, his home in D.C. and his home in New Orleans.  Originally at the request of the FBI, the House General Counsel's office had secured copies of the documents and computer files being sought in the bribery investigation from Jefferson's office.  But the House lawyers then refused to turn over the documents to the FBI.
The refusal by the House Counsel led the FBI to seek a search warrant from Judge Thomas Hogan to send agents into Jefferson's Rayburn Building office.  The judge signed the warrants because of a preponderance of evidence that the FBI had on Jefferson like Jefferson on video tape accepting a bribe from an FBI informant, just to give one example.
Bill Jefferson was caught on videotape accepting $100,000 in $100 bills from an FBI informant whose conversations with the lawmaker also were recorded.  The $90,000 found stuffed in his freezer, wrapped in $10,000 packs and concealed in food containers and aluminum foil, was $90,000 of the $100,000 he was videotaped accepting from the FBI informant.



Lastly, to jerry/corpus christi texas:

I will ask you the same question that I asked of Ron H. Allen and Amy Anderson of Eden Prairie.

How long did, you live in New Orleans or Louisiana?

My guess based on your “its the way down there” comment, that you have never lived in the state of Louisiana, or the City of New Orleans.

I find it very interesting that a bunch of people who have never lived a day in their lives in New Orleans or Louisiana can attempt to tell someone who has lived most of their 43 years there, what they are, or are not entitled to think about the very politicians that they have followed very closely for years and whom they voted against.

More over Jerry, I think it is also interesting that you, living in the ass backwards state of Texas that you live in that has a Caucus and a Primary on the same day that is referred to as the electoral “Two-Step,” of which the results are still not known 100% to this very day, nearly a month after the election, has very little room to speak of anyone from the state of Louisiana, past or present.  
Does she have a big announcement?  I heard she might announce she's resigning from the race...
More FREE PRESS to the campaign that is broke.

Go figure.


Obama 08

Jessica (Sent Monday, March 31, 2008 5:42 PM)
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I guess that is why Obama has been making the talk show rounds.
Just a Washington self serving paper hanger LMAO, Just how does Leno keep a straight face. Better yet, Let her be the pundit and lackey she really is!!!!! Leno should ask about Monica,, would just Love to see the expression on her face>>> LMAO!!!!
Good news for the energy crunch. I wonder if anyone will be measuring the savings when all those viewers shut their TV's off at the exact same moment.
I hope she has the money to pay for the private jet to get there.

http://www.politivine.com
I got better stuff to do at that time of night than watch that cackling banshee.
since she's broke I think she is doing stupid stuff to get free puplicity.  Like they say any is better than none.
HILLARY IS A LIAR.  To be "pimped out" and showcased on a night-time comedy review is typical of a LYING comic figure who would stop at nothing to be seen and heard LYING about her "experience from day one".
The ship has already hit the iceberg! Deal with it Sen Clinton. GO HOME to BILL.
So...
Now that Hillary Has joined the media mogul of and the rest of the "vast right wing conspiracy" she is a republican de facto.
http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/3/25/224531/594
Lexis-by Ron Fournier, AP, March 25, 1996
Protected by sharpshooters, Hillary Clinton swooped into a military zone by Black Hawk helicopter Monday to deliver a personal ‘thank you’ to US troops…Mrs. Clinton hosted a USO show with comedian Sinbad and singer Sheryl Crow…highlight of her trip were visits to two fortified posts outside the US base in Tuzla. Even President Clinton, restricted to base by bad weather in Jan., did not see as much of this war-wracked region as Mrs. Clinton…Riflemen rushed to brush line as the helicopter landed and surrounded her as she walked in the post. Located in a “separation zone,” the US outpost nestles between two tree lines…Security was tight-fighter jets accompanied her C-17 cargo plane to Tuzla…

Loans and Leadership by Paul Krugman March 28, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/opinion/28krugman.html?_r=l&oref=slogin
…policy proposals offer a window into a candidates’ political souls…their proposals arguably say a lot about the kind of president each would be…Hillary Clinton…the substance of her policy proposals on mortgages…like that of her health care plan suggests a strong progressive sensibility…Mrs. Clinton wants a modern version of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, the New Deal institution that acquired the mortgages of people whose homes were worth less than their debts, then reduced payments to a level the homeowners could afford.
Barack Obama’s followed the cautious pattern of his statements on economic issues…continues to make permanent tax cuts…his tax cut promises raise questions about how determined he really is to pursue a strongly progressive agenda…candidates’ positions on the mortgage crisis tell a tale at odds with the way they are often portrayed. Mrs. Clinton, we’re assured by sources right and left, tortures puppies and eats babies. But her policy proposals continue to be surprisingly bold and progressive.
…Mr. Obama, is widely portrayed as a transformational figure who will usher in a new era. But his actual policy proposals, though liberal, tend to be cautious and relatively orthodox.

Clinton Solutions for the American Economy-A New $2.5 Billion per Year Workforce Training Program
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=6785
…Make job retraining universally available to all dislocated workers, provide new Pell Grants to workers, and support on-the-job training opportunities. “And while we have been rightly focused on trying to help people who are out of work, there’s been too little thought and effort to help people gain new skills while they still have their existing jobs-so they can move up or move on to higher-wage positions.” …Restore manufacturing in US and create more US jobs…Financed by Corporate Subsidy Commission, will identify unnecessary and outdated corporate subsidies and present to Congress for up or down votes.

She should announce that she's running on a ticket with Fred Thompson.  

Both are entitled, classy winners!  Er...

When is MSNBC going to report on the Texas caucus results from Saturday?  This is news folks!  Senator Obama won Texas.

http://www.burntorangereport.com/

This is not the top story on the Burnt Orange Report anymore-- you have to scroll down on the page to find it.

Yes we can!  Thank you Texas!
I wonder if she'll ask Jay about all the 'sniper fire' jokes he's been telling for the last week.

Ahh, that Hillary!  

A real kidder, she.

Get ready to chortle.

Here is a link that will take you directly to the Texas caucus results where 93.57% of the delegates have been awarded and Senator Obama has won Texas by over 11%.

http://www.burntorangereport.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5484

Don't you think MSNBC should be reporting this?
Will look forward to it also the debates comeing up lets not forget that. Obama hopefully faceing questions with out his writers. He usually says something that hasnt been rated by his people and gives us a glimps of the real Obmama.Thats if it isnt a bring him a pillow one.
Does she have a big announcement?  I heard she might announce she's resigning from the race...
Ron, TX (Sent Monday, March 31, 2008 5:44 PM)


I HOPE not, Ron!! She beats Obama hands down in every category!!

Hillary Clinton, march on!!
What a shame, Hillary is stooping lower and lower. Hillary your already lower than wale sht whats next? When will you make a phone call and ask your dignity to come back home....... Pathetic
AWESOME!!!  Another show I don't watch.  
FREE MEDIA she's broke !!
Maybe she can release her tax returns to Jay Leno.  It should provide some comic relief.
Since she can't pay her bills then of course she will take any free airtime available.

Not much of a "get" for Leno, eh?
This will be the first and likely only time I will quote this person, but, in the words of Vice/President of The United States "Dick" "Dirty Harry" Cheney:
"SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The Senator from New York did not pay the Insurance Premiums for her Presidential Campaign staff for more than 2 months. If Obama pulled a stunt like that Joe "I love Hillary, she's tuff" Scarbrough would be yelling his guts out when his show hit the airways in the morning. Maybe he can go on Leno with her.
Again, regarding her nerve to show up on Leno, in the words of Vice/President of The United States "Dick" "Dirty Harry" Cheney:
"SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Can she afford the plane fare, or will she hitch-hike?
Do you think one of those vendors would pick her up?

Barack's bus is looking better everyday.

Pulling for Obama '08
I'm sure the free tv time is appreciated.
Too bad Jay is lending his air time to her. Maybe we will get to hear more Bosnia stories? Maybe we'll get to hear how she has always supported the MI and FL delegations being seated? Maybe we'll get to hear how John McCain is so qualified to be President? Maybe her husband will do a guest cameo and tell us to chill out?
I just wish she would go away. She will not be the nominee. She can just provide more ammo to the GOP.
We are getting a little too tired of it. It was saturday night live, now jay leno, she assaulted the press for not being against Obama, he did not complained and now her people are screaming fault. The Clintons are not going to force themselves down the throat of people.
Will she defend her action in Bosina at the show.  If she will, I want to watch it.  I want to see how she lies and how she make herself look like a hero.
I don't get this. Was it Leno's idea? In which case, it's a little like saying you want to watch a 10 car pile-up on the x-way at 95mph at rush hour - both sad and disturbing. But I guess knowing Leno, he'll be throwing bouquets to her all night long.  If it's her idea, I think Obama should get equal time....
We need Mrs. Clinton right now, before I lose my job, my house, my livelyhood. She can appear in Jay Leno all she wants. the more exposure she gets the more people know she is the only choice to fix the economy.  By the way, stop hating Mrs. Clinton you don't even know her, stop insulting her, she has dignity, intelligence, and the ability to give buying power to the people which creates good paying jobs, and strong businesses. My dream ticket Mrs.and Mr. Clinton.
Great, laughter is good therapy. Besides, I don’t want to see her cry again. Then again, one never knows what she’ll do b/c her mood swings are so unpredictable!




With her negatives in Bush territory, she is trying to once again seem nice.  

If she was wise, she would use the spotlight to attack McCain.  Her attacks on Obama shows her lack of judgement.  At this point she is the best thing that ever happened to the GOP.
Maybe Jay will have the guts to press her on the questions about her credibility that Chelsea has been programmed to avoid.
Why do you let Hillary set everyday's agenda? It's as though her every utterance is like a command from on high !  
Now it is that Obama is trying to prevent people from voting and PA. is not the winning state, but it is Indiana.  All the boys are ganging up on her again.

She is getting free press from all of you, and her husband and Chelesa.  In my estimation, that is the gang of three getting heard to Obama's one voice.

I am so damned tired of the Clintons and their deceit and the press hanging on every word and lie she and they put out there.

Good going...We will have Bush III in November...Hope you all like it.
Ugh. I suppose she'll cry and complain about how she's being mistreated by the media; that usually wins her a few votes.

Thanks for telling me in advance. I'll be sure NOT to watch.
We are going to hear again how very very so much she wants to fight for the people of Florida and Michigan.
LaughADay

I could be wrong, but I think Leno and Letterman pay for transportation and accomodations for their guests.  Good thing, because Hillary would have to skip the appearance if she had to pay out of her own pocket.  It amazes me that her supporters come on this board, and talk about Hillary as if she was an expert on fixing the American economy.  She cannot even manage the budget of her own campaign!

Hopefully she can tell Jay's audience about some of the other dangerous missions she had as First Lady.  I heard she tripped over some misplaced Rose Law Firm billing records in the White House once, while trying to find Bubba and his intern.

Obama in 2008.


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