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From NBC's Domenico MontanaroThe Edwards campaign released a statement criticizing Clinton for her "questionable contributions" from poor residents in New York City's Chinatown that "are raising eyebrows again," as reported in the Los Angeles Times.</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)</generator><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421051</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:39:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421051</guid><dc:creator>Tess, CA. </dc:creator><description>LETS KICK CLINTON TO THE CURB, SHE WILL TAKE MONEY FROM ANYONE OR ANYTHING... AND YES, I DO BELIEVE THIS STORY IS ACCURATE.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421078</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:47:33 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421078</guid><dc:creator>Lee Holmes</dc:creator><description>It's Chinatown Jake. The Anointed One comes with a Made In China label. Who will be the next Charlie Trie,Johnny Chung,Maria Hseh or Dr. Wu [who sounds like a Bond villian],to creep out from under the chow mein,I wonder?</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421094</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:50:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421094</guid><dc:creator>RAH</dc:creator><description>What's this about the ability to campaign in 50 states? &amp;nbsp;I'm not a Clinton supporter, but this business that only Edwards can go to all 50 states is ridiculus. &amp;nbsp;Such racist statement by the Edwards campaign to appeal to voters that won't vote for a woman, a black or Hispanic is despicable. &amp;nbsp;He needs to stop thinking that the racists will vote for him, but not the non-traditional candidates. So much for the two America he talks about. &amp;nbsp;Sounds like he'll be happy to keep it that way as long as it benefits him.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421138</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:02:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421138</guid><dc:creator>vanreuter, NY NY</dc:creator><description>I understand John's campaign needs something to stay in the news and the media has kind of been leaving him out lately, so this is understandable. The way the media tends to cover the horse race over the issues and the leading players to the detriment of the rest of the field, you have to practically set your hair on fire to get any coverage. His campaign knows that sadly, they will get more column space for attacking Clinton than for the many worthwhile programs and policies that he has put forth in the campaign.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We are going to send the republicans back to the stone-age, where they feel more comfortable!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Van&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Van </description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421152</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:05:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421152</guid><dc:creator>Stu, Saginaw, MI</dc:creator><description>I think it's time for the &amp;quot;also rans&amp;quot; in both parties to do 2 things: &amp;nbsp;1) discuss why we should vote &amp;quot;FOR&amp;quot; them rather than for them to try to convince us why we should vote &amp;quot;AGAINST&amp;quot; others, and 2) if they can't do that, get the hell out of the way!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;BTW, of all the bloggers and commentators I've read over a long time on this network, VAN is the only one who insists on &amp;quot;facts&amp;quot; and Jerry, Corpus Christy is the most male chauvinist and stupidly emotional--he needs to either get a life or some reality check counselling--what an idiot!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This bunch of &amp;quot;ticky-tack&amp;quot; attacks over miniscule political differences is really getting boresome. &amp;nbsp;If the best you can do is to be snide and/or snarky, I suggest keeping it in your closet. &amp;nbsp;On the other hand, I really appreciate hearing from all sides--it helps me to see the entire prespectives (I just wish people like Jerry, who are simple-minded and are unable to be either pragmatic, objective, or mentally balanced, would just bow out of the conversations).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421159</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:08:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421159</guid><dc:creator>Freeman, Dallas, TX</dc:creator><description>THIS ARTICLE IS MISLEADING!!!!!! &amp;nbsp;AGAIN &amp;nbsp;and AGAIN&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;CLINTON'S NEGATIVE NEWS IS BURIED INSIDE A DIFFERENT HEADLINE!!!!!!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Why is first read so afraid of printing a NEGATIVE headline title for HILLARY????&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;SHE MUST HAVE SOME GOOD STUFF ON THEM....LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO .......</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421172</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:10:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421172</guid><dc:creator>Crystal (Time for change)</dc:creator><description>&lt;br&gt;Clinton Dealt a Bummer on Woodstock Museum &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Busted!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her Senate colleague Chuck Schumer thought they had safely placed a $1 million earmark for an upstate New York Woodstock Museum in a health and education appropriations bill-- but then the GOP pork patrol caught wind of it, and now the party's over.&lt;br&gt;Democrats today failed on a 42-52 vote to stop an amendment by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) to cut the funding. Coburn's effort is now almost certain to succeed. Three of the six senators who missed the vote: Clinton's Senate Democratic rivals, Barack Obama (Ill.), Joe Biden (Del.) and Chris Dodd (Conn.).&lt;br&gt;Almost as a taunt to Clinton, who is heavily courting female voters, Coburn proposed shifting the money to&amp;quot;additional care for pregnant women, mothers, and infants.&amp;quot; The Democrat is spotlighting women's issues on the campaign trail this week, including proposing new legislation to establish a paid family leave program.&lt;br&gt;Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), an avid pork foe, calledthe Woodstock earmark &amp;quot;a shining example of what's wrong with Washington on pork-barrel, out-of-control spending.&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;The museum, located in Bethel, New York on the site of the 1969 music festival, is the brainchild of billionaire Alan Gerry, a Republican who has donated heavily to both Clinton and to Senate Democratic coffers, which Schumer oversees.&lt;br&gt;In a press release in June, after the Senate Appropriations Committee approved the bill, Clinton said the funding would help the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, as the museum is officially known, to &amp;quot;continue to promote education, the arts, culture and tourism in the region.&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;The Clinton release never referred to &amp;quot;Woodstock,&amp;quot; but described the facility's focus as &amp;quot;the post-WWII period and cultural, political, social, and significant historic events during this period including, in particular, the period of the 1960's and its continuing legacy.&amp;quot; &lt;br&gt;-- Shailagh Murray</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421178</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:12:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421178</guid><dc:creator>Freeman,Dallas, TX</dc:creator><description>Continuing my post...&lt;br&gt;SHE MUST HAVE SOME GOOD STUFF ON THEM....LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO Domencio as well as Mark and Chuck.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;They are like the the three famous monkeys.&lt;br&gt;See no Evil(about Clinton)&lt;br&gt;Hear no Evil(about Clinton)&lt;br&gt;Say no Evil(about Clinton)&lt;br&gt;Keep My Job(Murrary, Domencio, Todd, First Read)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Too funny!!!!! &amp;nbsp;Where is Clark Kent, Lois Lane,Woodward/Bernstein we need some stand up journalists who will give you the whole truth!!!</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421189</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:14:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421189</guid><dc:creator>Sierra, SF</dc:creator><description>'...is something that should be easy to police as YOU can see the email address attached to the offender's post. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Why don't you do your job? &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;...'&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Don't worry, First Read......&lt;br&gt;I still like you....&lt;br&gt;(even if you are biased for Clinton)&lt;br&gt;;-)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421228</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:23:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421228</guid><dc:creator>Sierra, SF</dc:creator><description>'...Bonior also questions Clinton's electability and her ability to fix a &amp;quot;broken&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;corrupt&amp;quot; system.&amp;quot;...'&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Is David Bonior talking about the Clinton campaign machinery or the Clinton 'Army of Darkness' ?&lt;br&gt;The way the Clinton campaign brain washes bloggers is scary !!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Brain washing should be outlawed !!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Character counts&lt;br&gt;Honesty counts&lt;br&gt;How will we campaign against the Republicans with a corrupt, crooked and scandal plagued candidate ?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;How will we campaign against Republicans with Clinton when her Iraq and Iran policies are identical to those same Republicans ?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hillary sure isn't going to win any likeability contest.&lt;br&gt;And she keeps getting caught in campaign funding scandals.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;DON'T NOMINATE AN INCOMPETENT CROOK !&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hillary Clinton, 15 years of dishonesty, scandal and divisiveness&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;PS thanks for the 'insight', Stu, Saginaw, MI !&lt;br&gt;Have you ever considered a career in 'philosophy' ?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;(Stu is probably van praising himself) &amp;nbsp;;-0</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421240</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:25:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421240</guid><dc:creator>pat huntington ny</dc:creator><description>I agree with Van and especially Stu, Saginaw, MI. &amp;nbsp;That said, Edwards is grasping at straws if he thinks riding on the Hillary bashing band wagon is going to score him votes. &amp;nbsp;If there's one thing the Republicans got right when Reagan was running for office, was the invocation of the 11th Commandment - Thou Shall Not Attack a Fellow [fill in your own political party]. Hillary is heeding that rule by filling in the blank with democrat...albeit, not 100% of the time, and her attacks are not really attacks in the sense of the word that Edwards is doing. </description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421324</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:47:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421324</guid><dc:creator>Bee </dc:creator><description>Thank you Siera for making a valid point. MSNBC is another house of clinton machine. Guess what? If they failed to do their Job, I'll personally send the news to Fox News channel. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The blog's world has been infiltrated by the clinton's machine. The journalist are scared to report facts and some of the clinton's blogger want us to keep quiet on critical issue of character. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Before the election of George Bush, some people kept quiet but we all know what shape this country is today. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I can't stand another Clinton's dishonesty. &amp;nbsp;</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421325</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:48:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421325</guid><dc:creator>BionicWoman</dc:creator><description>Notice that Hillary discusses issues - while Obama and Edwards discuss Hillary? &amp;nbsp;That says it all.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The more these two guys do this, the more irrelevant they become. &amp;nbsp;It is not a tactic that works for anyone. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The only way they will get attention is by coming up with some good solutions. </description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421345</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:53:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421345</guid><dc:creator>vanreuter, NY NY</dc:creator><description> '...is something that should be easy to police as YOU can see the email address attached to the offender's post.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Why don't you do your job?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;...'&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Don't worry, First Read......&lt;br&gt;I still like you....&lt;br&gt;(even if you are biased for Clinton)&lt;br&gt;;-)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sierra, SF (Sent Friday, October 19, 2007 3:14 PM)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hypocrite.&lt;br&gt;When it happened to you, I defended you. You screamed bloody murder and blamed the, &amp;quot;Klinton Kabal&amp;quot;, if memory serves.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Van </description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421349</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:55:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421349</guid><dc:creator>John, Chicago, IL</dc:creator><description>Hillary's fundraising says a lot about her - and it's not good. However, the Edwards flight of fancy in trying to run for President crashed and burned with his $400 haircuts.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421350</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:56:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421350</guid><dc:creator>Joe, DC</dc:creator><description>Consider the source: &amp;nbsp;John Edwards, Phony in Chief. &amp;nbsp;Enough said.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421363</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:59:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421363</guid><dc:creator>Anthony Johnstone</dc:creator><description>Well - whether this story is true or not, there have been many, many examples of how Hillary will do anything to get elected. &amp;nbsp;She's completely insincere, and I really don't see how fellow Democrats can be falling for her act in such droves. &amp;nbsp;People, she was Bush's left hand in supporting the war! &amp;nbsp;Wake up! &amp;nbsp;She's the other side of the Bush coin - an ambitious amoral political opportunist who doesn't care a whit about the truth or what's good for America. &amp;nbsp;Yes, she's smarter than him, but so is my Chia-Pet, and you don't see him polling at 51%. &amp;nbsp;Plus, if she's elected, the next four years will just be more no-holds-barred political infighting with nothing getting done.&lt;br&gt;I loved Bill, but it's just not the same. &amp;nbsp;Gimme Edwards, or even Obama.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421367</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:02:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421367</guid><dc:creator>Mike Brooks, Eugene, Oregon</dc:creator><description>This is a transparent attempt to clean up/cover up Clinton's illicit campaign activities. Those &amp;quot;donors&amp;quot; in Chinatown were dishwasher. Most aren't even U.S. citizens! The money, an average of $2300 from each of these minimum wage earning people, was laundered through them, was simply a blatent attempt by Chinese companies and the Chinese government to **BUY** influence and reward Clinton. She has already taken millions from Indian companies in a similar scheme. In fact, three-quarters of her donations are max contributions, filtered in precisely the same manner. Get it right! Hillary CLinton is a crook. She's a radical feminist, a man hater, anti-labor, pro-outsourcing and pro-guest worker, crook. She and Bill actually own part of a firm that provides outsourcing services and H1-B guest workers and she is directly responsible for the loss of tens of thousands of American jobs. At a time when 30% of our own programmers and engineers are out of work, she wants to INCREASE the number of H1-B visas, displacing at least 1,000,000 more Amercian workers. The &amp;quot;Senator From India&amp;quot;, as she was called by an Indian government official during a recent visit there, is a lousy choice for U.S. Senator and utterly insane as a Presidential candiate. I have never voted Republican, but I will this time and not just for President! I want the DNC and Democratic candidates to understand well ahead of the primaries, that I and every blue-dog Democrat is flat out furious that you would inflict this turkey on us and we WILL make you pay for it!</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421399</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:16:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421399</guid><dc:creator>Arshad, Newburgh, NY</dc:creator><description>Mr Todd/Murray/Montanaro,&lt;br&gt;How come Clinton's fund raising mess as revealed by LA Times suggesting people without job/address, drunk people, very low income people are donating thousands of dollars to her? Now this is only from China Town. Who knows how many similar stories are out there? Can you move your back from the chair and instead of spinning &amp;quot;How flaw less campaign she ran&amp;quot; even with all kinds of fund raising scandal, do some investigation to uncover Clinton's crooked games and save the nation from another disaster for next 4/8 yeas. Isn't it what your job anyway, educate people, warn people, help people to make informed decision.&lt;br&gt;Seems like things turned around now. News readers now a days have to remind you every day what your job is.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421407</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:17:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421407</guid><dc:creator>No truth in media</dc:creator><description>NBC and MSnbc is running as fast as they can from the Clinton thug machine,and this story, they will not say anything that might get them in trouble with the annointed one&lt;br&gt;INVESTIGATE NOW &amp;nbsp;Special grand jury and prosecuter and put this thug away</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421424</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:22:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421424</guid><dc:creator>Floyd, Las Vegas, Nev.</dc:creator><description>As Edwards/Obama cracnk up their phony attacks on Clinton, her poll numbers go up. The more they attack, the more she conveys the real honesty and change that people want by sticking to the relevant issues. Anyone notice the correlation? &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Edwards/Obama are becoming more and more desperate. Their artificial rhetoric for &amp;quot;hope&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;change&amp;quot; is drowned out in their hypocrisy. They will find any discrepency and exagerate it to question her ethics. </description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421433</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:28:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421433</guid><dc:creator>Floyd, Las Vegas, Nev.</dc:creator><description>As Edwards/Obama cracnk up their phony attacks on Clinton, her poll numbers go up. The more they attack, the more she conveys the real honesty and change that people want by sticking to the relevant issues. Anyone notice the correlation? &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Edwards/Obama are becoming more and more desperate. Their artificial rhetoric for &amp;quot;hope&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;change&amp;quot; is drowned out in their hypocrisy. They will find any discrepency and exagerate it to question her ethics. </description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421434</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:28:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421434</guid><dc:creator>ralph greco,Warwick,R.I.</dc:creator><description>what happened to the $750.000 from sho that she was going to donate to charity?</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421436</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:28:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421436</guid><dc:creator>anna omaha ne</dc:creator><description>I would very much like for the first women president to be hillary clinton. she is the best &amp;nbsp;and smartest person in the race. If we can just get all those macho men to relax, face the truth. Hillary can make our country great again.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421437</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:28:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421437</guid><dc:creator>Sierra, SF</dc:creator><description>'...Thou Shall Not Attack a Fellow [fill in your own political party]. Hillary is heeding that rule by filling in the blank with democrat...'&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;What was the month-long campaign about Obama being 'naive' &amp;nbsp;? &lt;br&gt;Hillary sent out Bill and her mouthpiece Wolfson to &amp;nbsp;attack Obama.&lt;br&gt;Then she flip flopped and adopted Obama's position.&lt;br&gt;What about Hillary's attack on 'irrespoonsible' to take nukes 'off the table'.&lt;br&gt;It turned out Hillary had said the same thing, herself.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hillary has been gutter fighting the whole campaign.&lt;br&gt;There's talk that she was behind the Edwards haircut dust up.&lt;br&gt;There was talk that Hillary's campaign was trying to intimidate unions to prevent them from endorsing Edwards and Obama.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Other than that, she hasn't attacked ANYBODY !!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;'...albeit, not 100% of the time, and her attacks are not really attacks in the sense of the word that Edwards is doing...'&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So, it's OK when Hillary attacks (even though she doesn't attack).........&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thanks, pat, glad we got that straightened up</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421453</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:31:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421453</guid><dc:creator>Stu, Saginaw, MI</dc:creator><description>Sierra, SF:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Strange that you should mention philosophy because, ove the years, I have read almost all of the works of philosophy from Lao Tzu, Confuscious, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustin, St. Francis, Locke, Hobbes, Voltaire, and even the &amp;quot;Longshoreman Philosopher&amp;quot;, Eric Hoffer, et al.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;My degrees are in Political Science and History with a near minor in Finance and was voted by the faculty to be the Outstanding Political Science Graduate Award from my college. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At 30 years old, I entered college in May, 1972 and was graduated in April, 1974 and was sworn in as an attorney in December, 1976--in other words, I busted my butt to go through college and law school in about 4 1/2 years, all with 3 children.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I have been a trial attorney ever since, that's why I totally agree with Van that &amp;quot;facts&amp;quot; are the most important things in any situation--&amp;quot;truth&amp;quot; means little because it's &amp;quot;subjective&amp;quot;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The poet Merritt Malloy said, paraphrasing, that &amp;quot;facts&amp;quot; are things that actually happened, but 'truth' is how you feel about the &amp;quot;facts&amp;quot;'. &amp;nbsp;The same is true about &amp;quot;morals&amp;quot;--they're totally &amp;quot;subjective&amp;quot;. &amp;nbsp;Your &amp;quot;values&amp;quot; may differ from mine, yet they are &amp;quot;subjectively&amp;quot; our own. &amp;nbsp;E.g., abortion may be immoral to some, yet be moral to others--to each his/her own. &amp;nbsp;Just who the hell are any of us to judge the &amp;quot;morality&amp;quot; or the &amp;quot;truth&amp;quot; of others&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don't often enter this blog, but mostly because of Jerry, Van and Sierra, I felt the need.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421454</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:31:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421454</guid><dc:creator>Sharon H., Bellingham, WA</dc:creator><description>Hillary keeps talking about the issues because she keeps changing her stance and has to bring the latest one to the table.&lt;br&gt;The only thing she's good at is parroting back to the public what she thinks she wants you to hear.&lt;br&gt;Must have come from marriage therapy classes.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421475</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:39:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421475</guid><dc:creator>Sierra, SF</dc:creator><description>'..Hypocrite. &lt;br&gt;When it happened to you, I defended you. You screamed bloody murder and blamed the, &amp;quot;Klinton Kabal&amp;quot;, if memory serves. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Van &lt;br&gt;vanreuter, NY NY...'&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;thanks, van&lt;br&gt;I wasn't aware that you defended me.&lt;br&gt;It's irritating, but after the second time, I took it to mean that I was getting to someone.&lt;br&gt;Almost flattery.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Don;t take yourself too seriously....&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It's the secret of my success&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;;-0&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421478</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:41:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421478</guid><dc:creator>Jessica, Wisconsin</dc:creator><description>Barack Obama addresses crowd of 6,000 at ASU&lt;br&gt;Paul Giblin, Tribune&lt;br&gt;Presidential candidate Barack Obama told nearly 6,000 people at Arizona State University Friday that the country needs a change of leadership.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;“We don’t need somebody who knows how to work the system. We need somebody to change the system,” he said. “I’m not running to uphold conventional wisdom. I’m running to change the conventional wisdom.”&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Obama spoke on a range of topics.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;He called for withdrawing U.S. troops from the Iraq war, and said that if elected his first course of business will be to call for a meeting of the joint chiefs of staff to order them to remove Americans from the Middle East. He also promised to provide health care to every single person in the United States that is as good as health care U.S. senators receive.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;He pledged to close what he termed the “achievement gap” in education by recruiting an entire army of new teachers. He also vowed to make college more affordable, which prompted rousing applause from the largely college crowd.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Obama said he would mandate increased fuel efficiency in cars in order to decrease U.S. dependence on foreign oil.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On immigration, he advocated securing the U.S. borders and providing a pathway to citizenship for foreign nationals already living and working in the United States.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;“We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants — and those things are not contradictory,” he said. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/99983"&gt;http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/99983&lt;/a&gt;</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421483</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:43:20 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421483</guid><dc:creator>Anne, York, PA</dc:creator><description>It is not an &amp;quot;attack&amp;quot; to criticize a candidate's positions, propensity to take questionable donations, methods of dealing with controversy, etc. As long as what is being criticized can be verified (and from what I have read, the story about the Chinatown donations is accurate). An &amp;quot;attack,&amp;quot; on the other hand, is the Swift Boad ads, the smear against Max Cleland, and/or personal attacks on a candidate's &amp;quot;personhood.&amp;quot; This would be something like flat out calling Hillary a liar or an ugly bitch, or calling Obama a jungle bunny or worse, and so on.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Can't people &amp;quot;get&amp;quot; the difference between a legitimate questioning of or criticism of a candidate's political stances or practices and an &amp;quot;attack&amp;quot;? Seems like anytime anybody says anything negative about George Bush or Hillary Clinton, it's an &amp;quot;attack.&amp;quot; Sheesh! That's ludicrous.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421494</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:48:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421494</guid><dc:creator>Sierra, SF</dc:creator><description>Stu, Saginaw, MI: '...Strange that you should mention philosophy because, ove the years, I have read almost all of the works of philosophy from Lao Tzu, Confuscious, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustin, St. Francis, Locke, Hobbes, Voltaire, and even the &amp;quot;Longshoreman Philosopher&amp;quot;, Eric Hoffer, et al....'&lt;br&gt;Another abrasive 'know it all'....&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I'm impressed&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Your friend, Sierra</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421507</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:51:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421507</guid><dc:creator>Nadia, Seattle, Washington</dc:creator><description>Isn't this money laundering with campaign donations?</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421515</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:53:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421515</guid><dc:creator>Stu, Saginaw, MI</dc:creator><description>Re my last:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I mentionrd Eric Hoffer, but failed to mention the title of his book, THE TRUE BELIEVER. &amp;nbsp;If you've ever read it, you'll readily recognize Jerry.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421527</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:56:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421527</guid><dc:creator>vanreuter, NY NY</dc:creator><description>Kudos to Jessica for trying to show that you CAN support your candidate without trashing the opposition.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sierra-&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It's just annoying. I have no difficulty getting into trouble MYSELF, without anyone's help.&lt;br&gt;While I agree about taking oneself too seriously, what exactly do you consider, &amp;quot;success&amp;quot;?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Keep up the good fight, albeit against my guy...:)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Van</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421537</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:00:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421537</guid><dc:creator>Jessica, Wisconsin</dc:creator><description>Camille Paglia: Hillary Clinton can't win - and shouldn't.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070915.wcamille15/BNStory/specialComment/?query="&gt;http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070915.wcamille15/BNStory/specialComment/?query=&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Camille Paglia: Hillary Clinton can't win - and shouldn't.&lt;br&gt;MARGARET WENTE &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Globe and Mail Update&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;E-mail Margaret Wente | Read Bio | Latest Columns &lt;br&gt;October 18, 2007 at 12:46 PM EDT&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Camille Paglia, writer and firebrand, is in a category of her own. She first made waves in the early 1990s with her book Sexual Personae and her denunciations of &amp;quot;political correctness,&amp;quot; but in a unique way: As a feminist who hates affirmative action; an atheist who respects religion; a Democrat who thinks her party doesn't get it. She believes global jihadism is a threat to the West and also believes the invasion of Iraq was a reckless mistake. She is a bisexual who celebrates military ideals, heroic culture and manly men. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Named one of the world's &amp;quot;Top 100 Public Intellectuals&amp;quot; by the journals Foreign Policy and The Prospect in 2005, Ms. Paglia is speaking this week in the Grano lecture series in Toronto about American politics and Hillary Clinton's run for the presidency. Margaret Wente spoke with Ms. Paglia by phone at her office at Philadelphia's University of the Arts, where she teaches a full course load.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Let's start with Hillary. She's the first serious female candidate for president. She has proved she can play in the big league of U.S. electoral politics. She's very smart. Feminists should be rejoicing. But you once said, &amp;quot;That woman should not be anywhere near our government.&amp;quot; Why?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hillary is having trouble with educated women of her generation. We seem to be the hardest sell for her right now because we've observed her, admired her, embraced her - and then become disillusioned. There's a sense that she doesn't possess core values. One feels she's uncentred in some odd way. And the chaos of her domestic life is not reassuring.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Internet Links&lt;br&gt;The Grano Speakers Series &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt; On the campaign trail, she doesn't make an emotional connection with her audience because she's always parsing language. She's a rhetorician. You get these parsings of the Iraq war - &amp;quot;Well, if I knew then what I know now, I wouldn't have voted that way.&amp;quot; What does she mean? That she wouldn't have voted that way if she'd known it would cost her politically?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;There's an over-clever, over-conceptualized political personality there who has trouble being an ordinary person.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For someone with so much international exposure, she's not great on the stage. She's well prepared with her sound bites. But when she has to play outside her sphere of preparation, she seems taken by surprise. When someone asked her, &amp;quot;Do you think homosexuality is immoral?&amp;quot; she just shunted it off. She said, &amp;quot;I'll leave that for others to decide.&amp;quot; She's essentially a policy wonk. She has no vision.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Then there's the sense of her espousing feminist ideals on the one hand, but also tolerating gross exploitation and insult from her womanizing husband. For me, the worst was her campaign of defamation against the working-class and lower-middle-class women her husband solicited. She has tremendous powers of denial to block out what is going around her in her own family life. But she's also able to perceive herself as an ethical, God-fearing, Bible-reading Methodist who is quasi-saintly for her commitment to ethical causes. She will not admit a mistake. She has no power of self-analysis. She thinks all her problems are due to her enemies.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And we don't want a situation when Bill Clinton is acting as proxy president in the White House.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421542</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:01:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421542</guid><dc:creator>pat huntington ny</dc:creator><description>Sierra SF - normally I don't respond to your comments because they are usually totally out there...your's today are not different. &amp;nbsp;BUT I stand by my prior posting. &amp;nbsp;Hillary did not attack fellow democrats with the politics of destruction, i.e. character assassination...that's what I'm talking about. &amp;nbsp;Edwards borders on that here.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421548</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:03:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421548</guid><dc:creator>Tom, Peoria, IL</dc:creator><description>Another campaign fund scandal? &amp;nbsp;I'm not surprised. &amp;nbsp;Does anyone care that Bill was fundraising for Hillary in the UK? &amp;nbsp;Shouldn't that be a scandal, like it was for previous Democratic candidates when it was revealed that China was funnelling money into their coffers? &amp;nbsp;Foreign money promotes foreign interests! &amp;nbsp;A presidential candidate for the United States of America should not be beholden to any foreign interests, only the people of the United States!</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421553</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:06:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421553</guid><dc:creator>Nest king</dc:creator><description>Hillary obviously is smarter, well informed, calculative, knows the terrain better than the others. They may be crying foul. They know that for sure. Let them focus on message rather than attacking hillary. After the election, they will still need to come together as a political team. Edward! take it easy. it is not do or die!</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421557</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:06:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421557</guid><dc:creator>Tibwa</dc:creator><description>WOW! to get elected, Hillary will take money from anybody. The Clintons have done that before and the get away with it because the MSMs are scare to not invite to any write house party. So there is no news here.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421571</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:12:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421571</guid><dc:creator>Jessica, Wisconsin</dc:creator><description>Tom,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;While I am not a Hillary supporter, it is perfectly fine for Bill to do fundraising in the UK from American's living abroad. &amp;nbsp;Michelle Obama was there not too long ago doing the same thing for Obama.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421578</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:14:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421578</guid><dc:creator>MK,MO</dc:creator><description>BionicWoman in all her ignorancy proclaims / 'Notice that Hillary discusses issues - while Obama and Edwards discuss Hillary? &amp;nbsp;That says it all.' &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; john edwards released his plans for everything from iraq to healthcare months ago where as hillary to this day has not made a firm commitmat on anything, you may think that hillary deserves a pass for her criminal activities because of her vaginal status, but most people think that strong arming poor chinese imigrants into coughing up money </description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421593</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:21:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421593</guid><dc:creator>csh, IL</dc:creator><description>Obama and Edwards are desperate and have to resort to groundless attacks. &amp;nbsp;They are as pathetic as their poll numbers. &amp;nbsp;In fact, they are almost as pathetic as Jerry and Sierra!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hillary in 08!&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421627</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:43:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421627</guid><dc:creator>Ben in Iowa</dc:creator><description>John Edwards is a fool. &amp;nbsp;He doesn't know how to run his own campaign, let alone the country. &amp;nbsp;Keep attacking her John. &amp;nbsp;Her poll numbers just keep rising while yours go down the toilet.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421630</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:45:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421630</guid><dc:creator>Michelle Knorr</dc:creator><description>I used to support John Edwards. &amp;nbsp;Now I don't have a favorite candidate. &amp;nbsp;John Edwards turned me off completely when he sent his wife out to attack Hillary Clinton.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I'm through with him. &amp;nbsp;</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421632</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:46:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421632</guid><dc:creator>Dow    mesquite tx</dc:creator><description>Hillary Clinton she just another good lessoner and learner from 8years in the white house, other than that she not qualified for this job. &amp;nbsp;If she become a president of the United State Of America, I get we going DOWN way DOWN.... &amp;nbsp;ps. &amp;nbsp;God Bless America. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;DOW &amp;nbsp;Mesquite TX &amp;nbsp;10/19/2007 nothing personnel</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421646</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:54:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421646</guid><dc:creator>Sierra, SF</dc:creator><description>vanreuter, NY NY'...While I agree about taking oneself too seriously, what exactly do you consider, &amp;quot;success&amp;quot;?...'&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I'm being ironic, Van&lt;br&gt;Nothing that any of us do or say here will change anything.&lt;br&gt;It's more amusement than anything.&lt;br&gt;But, I do hope a reformer will get the Democratic nomination.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421698</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:11:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421698</guid><dc:creator>Sierra, SF</dc:creator><description>'...BUT I stand by my prior posting. &amp;nbsp;Hillary did not attack fellow democrats with the politics of destruction, i.e. character assassination...that's what I'm talking about...'&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;She called Obama 'naive' and 'irresponsible' for taking positions that she had either already adopted or later adopted.&lt;br&gt;She had her whole campaign, including her husban and Wolfson attacking Obama for stands she later adopted.&lt;br&gt;That's attacking character.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;'...Edwards borders on that here...' taking dirty money, repeatedly (from Peter Paul, Norman Hsu and now impoverished residents of Chinatown) shows a lack of ethics and character.&lt;br&gt;Character does count.&lt;br&gt;You're tyring to have it both ways.....&lt;br&gt;It's OK for Hillary to smear someone, but don't let anyone attack Hillary.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sorry, this isn't a tea party.&lt;br&gt;Scandals always bubble up around the Clintons.&lt;br&gt;There's are reason, pat.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Character counts</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421766</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:06:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421766</guid><dc:creator>Jim Cieslak, Franklin, WI</dc:creator><description> &amp;nbsp; Reading this blog was about as informative and interesting as watching Fox News. Stop beating each other up for this nonsense. I'll support any current Democrat over any current Republican, and if the last 6 years hasn't convinced you to do the same, I don't know what will.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421783</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:18:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421783</guid><dc:creator>scott,  tennessee</dc:creator><description>Am i the only one who remembers all the scandals from the last clinton presidency? Now it seems to be starting all over again. &amp;nbsp;I for one am not suprised. &amp;nbsp;But what is shocking is that she still gets all the support that she does. &amp;nbsp;she has only gotten this far by living off her husbands name and accomplishments, not because of anything she has done. &amp;nbsp;How will she improve this country when her ideas are the same ones that have been thrown around by others? &amp;nbsp;how does she unite this severely divided country when he negative ratings are off the charts? &amp;nbsp;I'm not sure which candidate at this point would be the best, but one that just less then half the country thinks is evil is certainly not the right choice. &amp;nbsp;I hope that democrats offer up someone who can help heal this country, not one who will only make things`worse.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421784</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:19:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421784</guid><dc:creator>Fred, Seattle,WA</dc:creator><description>Please HillaryHaters--Kepp It Comin! You haven't figured it out? The more they talk, the more money she raises! She's gonan take this lickin and keep on tickin. This Woman CANNOT BE STOPPED!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hillary08</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421798</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:35:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421798</guid><dc:creator>Matt Sutton</dc:creator><description>&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-donors19oct19,0,4231217.story?coll=la-home-center"&gt;http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-donors19oct19,0,4231217.story?coll=la-home-center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;How did all of those poor people give $1,000 donations to Hillary? &amp;nbsp;</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421837</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:05:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421837</guid><dc:creator>Audrey from Oregon</dc:creator><description>Why when Hillary makes a complaint its just a comment when others make a remark it called being negative well she cant have it both ways when she attacks Edwards or Obama she can expect them to answer heras you can see Hillary is not the one to bring change &amp;nbsp;a good xample she s still getting questionable it seems to be a pattern &amp;nbsp;donation just like bill did when they get caught they act like it a surprise. we had enought of the same old politics of 20 yrs of Bush Clinton.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421855</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:20:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421855</guid><dc:creator>Dot, Illinois</dc:creator><description>Stu, Saginaw&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;quot;think it's time for the &amp;quot;also rans&amp;quot; in both parties to do 2 things: &amp;nbsp;1) discuss why we should vote &amp;quot;FOR&amp;quot; them rather than for them to try to convince us why we should vote &amp;quot;AGAINST&amp;quot; others, and 2) if they can't do that, get the hell out of the way!&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I said almost the same thing on a post yesterday. &amp;nbsp;Spending time trying to counter every statement made by an opposing candidate seems a waste of time to me. &amp;nbsp;Stick to the issues, tell me your solutions to the problems our country faces, and stop trying to find an untruth in everthing said by the other candidates or trying to &amp;quot;one up&amp;quot; your competitiors with your poll numbers and the amount of money your campaign has raised. &amp;nbsp;Spend time on the things that matter more to voters,the weakened opinion of the US in world countries, the economy, health care, education, etc.&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421865</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:28:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421865</guid><dc:creator>Dot, Illinois</dc:creator><description>Bionic Woman&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Notice that Hillary discusses issues - while Obama and Edwards discuss Hillary? &amp;nbsp;That says it all. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The more these two guys do this, the more irrelevant they become. &amp;nbsp;It is not a tactic that works for anyone. &amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The only way they will get attention is by coming up with some good solutions.&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Very Good Post. &amp;nbsp;You have it exactly right! </description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421873</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:34:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421873</guid><dc:creator>sonya, atlanta, ga</dc:creator><description>Hillary never learns from her mistakes. &amp;nbsp;Didn't Bill have the same Chinese donation problems in the 90's? Isn't Hsu in jail? It is easy for her campaign to set up a computer program to scan donations base on occupations, level of donation and economic census data. People would be going ballistic if Barrack was receiving $2,300 donations from blacks living in the Fourth Ward of New Orleans. &amp;nbsp;One things that Hillary has demonstrated is she doesn't learn from her mistakes. &amp;nbsp;Case in point:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1. &amp;nbsp;Campaign donations&lt;br&gt;2. &amp;nbsp;Healthcare reform (making it mandated)&lt;br&gt;3. &amp;nbsp;Earmarks (trys to squeak thru another for the &lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Woodstock Muesum)&lt;br&gt;4. &amp;nbsp;Authorizing the Iraqi War/and now voting for the&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Iran amendment.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At this rate, Hillary is going to do herself in with her greediness and bad judgement. &amp;nbsp;She must be counting on people's love for Bill and that she is a woman will sheild her from her bad judgements and lies. &lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421881</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:39:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421881</guid><dc:creator>Chuck, Wheatland, Wyoming</dc:creator><description>I think it time for all of you people to put this Dem. Rep. argument on the back burner. It seems to me that what we should really be looking at is who will do what the American people(all of them) want. It is also time to consider what is right for this country and not just what is right for our economy.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421926</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:14:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421926</guid><dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator><description>These are the kind of things that should be reported in a campaign, then we know who is really honest and can make our choice for President knowing exactly w hat kind of person you are electing. This news is not exactly surprising, the campaign doesn't seem to care where the money or endorsements come from so long as there is more money, more money and more money so Hillary can spend the money on pantsuits and new dye jobs. Lately you can't believe anything she says, flip flopping on the issues and spinning her decisions on her votes in the Senate. &amp;nbsp;Is this really the kind of President we want running the country? As for Edwards, he trails Billary because she gets all the media attention because she happens to be the former First Lady and Bill Clinton's wife, no other reason. Not to mention she's in bed with the lobbyist.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421935</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:28:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421935</guid><dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator><description>MK, MO, who cares whether Hillary is a women or not, fact is she is not a leader but a follower and obviously dishonest, hence accepting funds from non citizens. She will not do anything for these poor people so why is she accepting their donations. &amp;nbsp;Give it back Hillary. &amp;nbsp;You are misinformed about Edwards by the way, if you want real change Edwards is the guy, if you want the status quo vote for Bill Clinton. &amp;nbsp;Read the op-ed from Camille Pagagia, she has said a mouth full.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#421947</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:37:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:421947</guid><dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator><description>To all the Edwards haters on this page, you probably have attacked Edwards in the past in some way without knowing a thing about the man. &lt;br&gt;The reports about Hillary Clinton are not attacks but reports, after all she can't have all positive reports. So stop attacking John Edwards.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#422020</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:34:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:422020</guid><dc:creator>gregory boone harrisburg,pa</dc:creator><description>No! i donot believe that Hillary is guilty of this. I believe that Edwards will do anything to get the lead. I believe he is a lier and is making statments that will cost him any gains that he will try to make. I donot trust or respect Edwards anymore. This is an act of a man who knows that he is losing and will lose.. greg</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#422069</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:00:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:422069</guid><dc:creator>back2u</dc:creator><description>Yes Sonya, it's a page out of Slicks book. Same old games of the Washington elite. Bush-Clinton, Clinton-Bush. It wasn't an attack, it was stating the truth of what has been going on. Looks like $800,000 being recycled.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#422089</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:30:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:422089</guid><dc:creator>Jack Baum </dc:creator><description>When will the American Sheep, called citizens wake up and stop being lead around each election by this political gimmick called Democrat vs Republican. &lt;br&gt;All politicians are lawyers and all have a stake in oil or big business. The propoganda they both spew out has and always will be designed to keep voters in a constant back and forth mode while they get fat and rich off the backs of the enslaved population. Thats right!! enslaved. The 16th Amendment to The Constitution ended any real true Freedom and Democracy of our great Republic the minute Congress illegally announced it to be so. Even without the proper 3/4 ratification (NOT 2/3 as some believe) but rather the 3/4 of the states ratifying it. The Federal Government in the middle of the night took it upon itself to dispense with participatory government and simply amend The Constitution of The United States thus making economic slaves of us all. This then required that they use the two party system to keep us voting back and forth, left to right and so on and so forth. How do we end this tyranny and ecomonomic terrorism inflicted by these government thugs? It is very simple, put a referendum on the November 2008 ballet calling for the repeal of The 16th Amendment and see how fast our tax and spend (blow your money recklessly) government shrinks to a managable size and then is required to live within it's means. &lt;br&gt;These career politicians would be in massive financial and power hungry withdrawls and suffer from political D.T's &lt;br&gt;Then let us elect, not Dumbacrats or Reflublicans to government positions, but real independent centrist Americans like the guy next door to run our country and live like the real free people our founding fathers envisioned for us. Face the truth American SHEEP!! We no longer have a government of the people, by the people or for the people. We have a GOVERNMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT, BY THE GOVERNMENT AND FOR THE GOVERNMENT. &lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#422104</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 06:15:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:422104</guid><dc:creator>Felix ,Littleton CO</dc:creator><description>Every one of the financial scandals that the right used to attack Bill Clinton had their origins with Hillary's wheeling and dealing. &amp;nbsp;She was smart enough and sly enough that the right never could get anything to stick to the Clintons in a court of law &amp;nbsp;but there was always plenty that didn't pass the smell test. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Dems hate to admit that just like they hate to admit the damage Bill Clinton did with his reckless behavior, right wing conspiracies notwithstanding. &amp;nbsp;He didn't have to make it so easy for them. &amp;nbsp;Gore would have won by far too much to lose in a bloodless coup if not for the Clinton impeachment. Period. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for Hillary Clinton, she has always given the impression of a person whose only standard is what she judges she can get away with rather than what's honest and ethical. &amp;nbsp;I'm deeply saddened that she seems bound to become my party's nominee for the Presidency and deeply annoyed by those who insist any opposition to Hillary must be because she is a woman or that she is being held to a different standard because she is a woman. &amp;nbsp;I simply consider her to be without any ethical sense whatsoever, regardless of body parts. &amp;nbsp;She's a typical business as usual pol whose character doesn't bear too close an examination.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#422119</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:14:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:422119</guid><dc:creator>bob in Iraq</dc:creator><description>An old saying that rigs true with the Clinton/s...where there is smoke there is fire. &amp;nbsp;The Clinton/s; and that is what you'll get if you elect Ms. Rodamn-Clinton [remember those days] to our White House is another 4 years of smoke and the American people will have to inhale it. Makes me sick thinking about it. An for the record; I've not yet decided on a candidate. Well ok I have, No to the Cliton/s. </description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#422165</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:56:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:422165</guid><dc:creator>Aslam, Corona, California</dc:creator><description>&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.infocusnews.net/content/view/16906/389/"&gt;http://www.infocusnews.net/content/view/16906/389/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Videos spur resignation of Virginia appointee &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;By InFocus News Staff and Associated Press &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;WASHINGTON, D.C. – Dr. Esam Omeish, a member of Virginia’s Commission of Immigration resigned on Sept. 27, several hours after Gov. Timothy M. Kaine was told about videos showing the physician making comments that caused controversy. &lt;br&gt;Omeish, chief of the division of general surgery at INOVA Alexandria Hospital, was among 10 individuals Kaine appointed on Aug. 2 to a 20-member commission formed to study the effects of immigration and federal immigration policies on Virginia.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Dr. Omeish is a respected physician and community leader, yet I have been made aware of certain statements he has made which concern me,&amp;quot; Kaine said in a news release.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In the videos, Omeish accuses Israel of genocide and massacres against Palestinians, and says the &amp;quot;Israeli agenda&amp;quot; controls Congress.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Omeish, who is the national leader of the Muslim American Society, also denounced an invasion of Lebanon by the &amp;quot;Israeli war machine&amp;quot; during an Aug. 12, 2006, rally in Washington.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) extended support to Omeish, saying he stepped down from his post after he was subjected to a &amp;quot;smear campaign&amp;quot; by anti-Islam bloggers who distorted his comments.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;At the same time that we see a respected community leader and physician forced to resign an appointed post, we see national politicians claiming there are too many mosques in America, demanding that the Qur’an not be used to swear in the first Muslim congressman and suggesting that Islamic holy sites be bombed,&amp;quot; CAIR said. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;None of these individuals has been forced to step down.&amp;quot; &lt;br&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.allurmeds.com"&gt;http://www.allurmeds.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.medicalsupplycorner.com"&gt;http://www.medicalsupplycorner.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.diabeticcorner.com"&gt;http://www.diabeticcorner.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#422201</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:30:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:422201</guid><dc:creator>Larry ward</dc:creator><description>how about a limit on comment length!! IT GETS BOARING!! I too have given up on Edwards and wife.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#422227</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:36:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:422227</guid><dc:creator>Jim Whittaker</dc:creator><description>If you think things are bad under Bush and the Repubs,&lt;br&gt;just wait'll you get Billary and the Dems!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I can't wait to just sit back and watch them take this&lt;br&gt;country right into the toilet.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#422233</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:42:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:422233</guid><dc:creator>Mitchell Feldman, Vestal, NY</dc:creator><description>These questionable contributions from poor residents of Chinatown suggest the use of sham donors used as proxies for wealthy donors who have exeeded their limits. &amp;nbsp;That's the investigation that should be forthcoming. &amp;nbsp;It's important to know if the Democrats are indeed being hoodwinked by a candidate who could rival the present administration in depths of dishonesty. &amp;nbsp;These telltail signs should be regarded with acute inspection. &amp;nbsp;We don't want to suffer from buyer's remorse. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Far from being surprised, if this were found to be the case, I would think that this would be par for the course for her campaign.&lt;br&gt;Obama '08</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#422252</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:15:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:422252</guid><dc:creator>Rich, Lafayette, In</dc:creator><description>Anyone working as hard as she is to buy a vote can not be trusted to run this contry. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When will people learn?</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#422270</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:49:20 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:422270</guid><dc:creator>Valjeanne</dc:creator><description>If you really believe Hillary has not flung dirt you are sorely mistaken. The Clinton M.O. is attack by proxy, so they will not be seen as directly wallowing in the mud. Clinton is tight with most of the corporate media head honchos so has complete media support. Even major right winger Rupert Murdoch throws her fundraisers...She is also know to have many paid pollsters, wow what a surprise, manipulation be thy name. It is from the old play book, be seen as above reproach, never come out with a firm stand, have your minions do all your dirty work, put a network in place that supports your inevitablilty, say it often enough and it becomes fact. Wily politicians who support the business as usual politics in DC are not what this country needs right now. We need an advocate for us &amp;quot;we the people&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;not an advocate for Corporate America.&lt;br&gt;A vote for John Edwards is a vote for yourself! &lt;br&gt;Edwards 08' speaking truth to power and wanna be powerfuls...</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#422302</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:23:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:422302</guid><dc:creator>BJC, Kansas City</dc:creator><description>&lt;br&gt;Republicans back to the stone age where they are more comfortable? &lt;br&gt; I would feel comfortable in the stone age. &amp;nbsp;In the stone age people probably relied on themselves for their own health care, &amp;nbsp;their own food and shelter. &amp;nbsp;They probably didn't go hut to hut or cave to cave asking their neighbors to pay for what they were unable to provide for themselves. &amp;nbsp;I bet in the stone age respectable cave men actually helped those who were really in need of assistance, and didn't help those who were able but lazy. &amp;nbsp;There is a saftey net for those who need it and it is our moral responsibility to help them, and them alone. &amp;nbsp;I do not want to be taxed to tears helping the lazy. &amp;nbsp;Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness....and &amp;quot;free&amp;quot; health care? &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Where do the entitlements end with the Democrat Party?&lt;br&gt;When everyone has the same amount of disposable income? &amp;nbsp;</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#422324</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:50:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:422324</guid><dc:creator>Don, Sammamish, WA</dc:creator><description>Let's try a little syllogistic reasoning. That's something that's been sorely lacking the past few years, and I think it would be good to brush up on this technique as we near the critical phase of these primaries. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You know how syllogistic reasoning works. You have: &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;a major premise (all humans are mortal), &lt;br&gt;a minor premise (Socrates is a human), &lt;br&gt;and a conclusion (therefore, Socrates is mortal). &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The major and minor premises must be generally accepted, and all must agree that the conclusion can be reasonably inferred by the premises.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Let's try one!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Major premise: Politicians have been corrupted by corporate money and special interest groups.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Minor premise: Hillary Clinton is the only major Democratic candidate to accept money from corporate-sponsored PAC groups, which even Bill refused to do in 1992 and 1996.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Conclusion: Hillary Clinton will end corruption in government.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Is that a reasonable conclusion to draw from those premises?&lt;br&gt; </description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#422399</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:50:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:422399</guid><dc:creator>Cynthia Liu  Mountain View,CA </dc:creator><description>It is very interesting to read all the different perspectives here. My take on this situation is that John Edwards is the MOST authentic,real, passionate candidate running for the presidency. He is the one who truly cares about what happens to all the people and has concrete plans for America as well as cleaning up Bush's mess. &lt;br&gt;I don't think pointing out &amp;quot;questionable&amp;quot; fundraising&lt;br&gt;issues is attacking Hillary. The truth needs to be told and the media has clearly been bought.&lt;br&gt;The bottom line for the 2008 election absolutely has to be which candidate can win. We must not think about any thing else. It is too critical.&lt;br&gt;All the polls show John Edwards leads both Hillary and Obama by wide margins against all the Republicans in the general election.&lt;br&gt;He is not only the best candidate he is the only one who can win.&lt;br&gt;Why do you suppose the Republicans are so anxious for Hillary to be the nominee?</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#422404</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:56:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:422404</guid><dc:creator>Cynthia Liu  Mountain View,CA </dc:creator><description>It is very interesting to read all the different perspectives here. My take on this situation is that John Edwards is the MOST authentic,real, passionate candidate running for the presidency. He is the one who truly cares about what happens to all the people and has concrete plans for America as well as cleaning up Bush's mess. &lt;br&gt;I don't think pointing out &amp;quot;questionable&amp;quot; fundraising&lt;br&gt;issues is attacking Hillary. The truth needs to be told and the media has clearly been bought.&lt;br&gt;The bottom line for the 2008 election absolutely has to be which candidate can win. We must not think about any thing else. It is too critical.&lt;br&gt;All the polls show John Edwards leads both Hillary and Obama by wide margins against all the Republicans in the general election.&lt;br&gt;He is not only the best candidate he is the only one who can win.&lt;br&gt;Why do you suppose the Republicans are so anxious for Hillary to be the nominee?</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#422413</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:07:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:422413</guid><dc:creator>jds,slc</dc:creator><description>THAT was Clinton's response????&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;THAT was Clinton's response????&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;THAT was Clinton's response????&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;THAT was Clinton's response????&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA!!!!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;They are BEYOND ridiculous! No answers? No accountability? &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;No explanation of the fraudulent donations?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;They are losing it, and it's hilarious. </description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#422440</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:48:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:422440</guid><dc:creator>cheryl mesa, az</dc:creator><description>Do you people honestly think that all the candidates personally see who donates to their campaigns. I am quite sure that if we looked at Edwards,Obama or any of the republicans they all have gotten questionable donations. So far Hillary has been returning the questionable donations if you read articles in media. Are the rest of them doing the same. Mr. Edwards and Obama need to get off this attach mode on anything in the news and focus on their own campaign. They are just giving republicans ammo for general election for the democrat nominee.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#422467</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:58:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:422467</guid><dc:creator>Elliott</dc:creator><description>I just love it when Hillary Clinton plays this &amp;quot;he said-she said&amp;quot; crap. Let me tell Hillary how it is. LOOK LADY, IF YOU CAN DISH OUT CRAP TO OTHER PEOPLE AND SAY NEGATIVE THINGS ABOUT THEM, THEN KEEP YOUR DAMN MOUTH SHUT WHEN THEY STRIKE BACK. YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ARE CRIMINALS, PERIOD. </description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#422482</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:43:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:422482</guid><dc:creator>lance SF CA</dc:creator><description>CONSERVATIVE music CD, where Hillary, Edwards, Gore and the Ward Churchills of the world get their due--to music! Isn't the shoe in Hollywood usually on the other ear? Check OUR music @&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;www.conservativemusiconline.com</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#422509</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:38:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:422509</guid><dc:creator>dawn, Gaithersburg, MD.:</dc:creator><description>Sen. Clinton's campaign identified problems with some of the Chinatown donors on its own after conducting a standard review of the donor list. &amp;nbsp;The campaign compared the donors' professions with available contribution amounts; if the latter seemed unrealistic in light of the former, the campaign sent out letters asking that donors affirm in writing that the donations were their own. &amp;nbsp;When some donors didn't respond to requests, their donations were returned. &amp;nbsp;I don't see what more the campaign could reasonably have been expected to do. &amp;nbsp;Knock on the door of each donor and interrogate him/her? &amp;nbsp;Campaigns cannot spend all their time and resources checking out the bona fides of their donors. &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The idea that Sen. Clinton will take money from anybody rests on the assumption that she knows which of her tens of thousands of donors are unlawfully donating to her campaign: &amp;nbsp;this is very unlikely. &amp;nbsp;I've donated lots of money to her campaign and I've never met, spoken to, or had any personal contact with her or her campaign that would reveal anything beyond the most superficial details of my financial affairs. &amp;nbsp;To those of you who have donated to Senators Edwards, or Obama, or anybody else, have you ever received a phone call inquiring into your financial situation? &amp;nbsp;Would you expect to? &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The campaign generally knows some sketchy details of the donor's situation, e.g., profession, and it's reasonable to check them against donation amounts, when these are also available, to see if they jibe on a surface level. &amp;nbsp;This was done at the Chinatown event. (However, such checking won't always yield results. &amp;nbsp;For example, it may be impossible to locate the source of contributions made by a home-maker who retains her original name, or whose husband does not also contribute to Sen. Clinton's campaign. &amp;nbsp;Some people save up. &amp;nbsp;Yet others receive birthday gifts from relatives, NOT for the purpose of donations, and donate these gifts, which have become the donors' own money, etc.) &amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I have a hard time believing that Sen. Clinton's campaign is the only one with these problems. &amp;nbsp;As noted above, John Edwards has his own campaign finance problems. &amp;nbsp;I have no idea what precautions Sen. Edwards or any of the OTHER candidates have taken to prevent fraudulent donations. &amp;nbsp;But, once the election is over and it no longer matters, I'm sure the MSM will spend some time looking into the finances of the other campaigns. &amp;nbsp;</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#422545</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:20:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:422545</guid><dc:creator>Chris, Savannah</dc:creator><description>As a lifelong democrat I gotta say that if Hillary is the nominee I will actually take a look at the republican nominee. &amp;nbsp;As it stands now I'd vote for Huckabee or Ron Paul over her. &amp;nbsp;It's time to nominate a democrat that we can be proud of.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#422638</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:56:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:422638</guid><dc:creator>andrew</dc:creator><description> &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;I think that Senator Edwards is being led down the wrong campaign path by David Bonoir.mostly phone banking &amp;amp; very little post card ,or letter writting or visibilities being done.I can't even get lawn signs or campaign buttons.I don't think the Senator is aware of this.Mr.Bonior get back to basics of a real traditional campaign</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#425637</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:25:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:425637</guid><dc:creator>Joe ,Ohio</dc:creator><description>I don't hate Her. I just wish our party would come up with a qualified canidate (not edwards and not OBama)</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#426516</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:18:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:426516</guid><dc:creator>Valjeanne S.F. CA</dc:creator><description>Cheryl from Mesa Arizona,&lt;br&gt;You are missing a huge point, you say Edwards is going negative on Clinton and just giving fodder to the GOP. The truth is the GOP can't wait to have Hillary as their opposition. Haven't you been paying attention?&lt;br&gt;A Clinton running for president will galvinize the Republican base, like Bush activates the Dems. The GOP knows they have to have the easiest candidate to beat to stand a chance. All Edwards is doing is pointing out that fact! And if the Dems don't wake up and realize this soon, there is a very strong chance we could end up with a Republican back in office. Even in this anti GOP climate it CAN happen. Look to the motivation behind the GOP claiming Hillary's inevitability, or the corporate owned media's fawning. If she happens to win the nomination, just wait and see what a Karl Rove backed Republican attack machine will start shooting, and with a Clinton they wont even have to make stuff up, they have so much ammo already.&lt;br&gt;Take it to the bank, but don't shoot Edwards or Obama for perhaps inartfully bringing that certain truth up!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;John Edwards 2008' &amp;quot;The Peoples President&amp;quot; returning our government back to &amp;quot;We the People&amp;quot;.</description></item><item><title>Edwards hits Clinton campaign funds</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/19/421035.aspx#465528</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:48:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:465528</guid><dc:creator>Jane  Cotton, Sarasota, Fl</dc:creator><description>I do not believe in Hillary Clinton. &amp;nbsp;I am a &amp;quot;yellow dog&amp;quot; democrat, but am disgusted with her transparent hypocrisy. She may not be able to be stopped, as is suggested above. &amp;nbsp;But if she is not stopped I will have no guilt on board. &amp;nbsp;I will not vote for her. &amp;nbsp; </description></item></channel></rss>