Hillary’s Voice

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No More Drudgico! (by Big Tent Democrat at TalkLeft)
Mostly what Atrios said: “I’ve thought a lot about what Boehlert had to say about concerns about liberal bloggers channeling Drudgico type horsesh[*]t about Hillary Clinton. I think his basic point is important and correct, but he’s wrong to make it an Obama/Clinton thing. One can certainly find pro-Clinton bloggers and commenters who do similar…” What Atrios glosses over is NBC. Because MSNBC has been the cable network that has been most fair to Dems generally for the past few years, Left blogs have given it a pass on its blatant sexist and misogynistic anti-Hillary bias. Most will not tell the truth about Keith Olbermann especially - he has become a bad joke. Most will not say that. And that is what Boehlert is talking about.
One can “certainly find”, Atrios?  Then why didn’t you bother to find some?  I’ve seen pro-Hillary bloggers use some conservative sources, but only when the facts are correct, and never when it’s nothing but hateful rant, which I see hate-Hillary bloggers post.

Beginning tomorrow, I will boycott Air America Radio (by vastleft at Corrente)
I bought an XM radio the week that Al Franken’s late, lamented show premiered on “America Left,” which was XM’s initial venue for most of Air America’s programming. Whenever I was in the car, I was glued to that station. Now, it’s hard for me to remember why I rooted for them to survive Chapter 11. At this point, it is all Hillary Hate, all the time. I’m a fucking Democrat, goddamn it, and I have been my whole life. Like just about half of the Democrats voting in the primaries, my preferred candidate is Hillary Clinton. And when I turn on the Randi fucking Rhodes show, and she’s playing “Witchy Woman” and cackling, yes cackling, about how “Witchy” is one letter off from what she really means, I am fucking done with your piece of shit network.

Sydney Morning Herald: “’We were outside the Wa-Wa [a local convenience store] this week and we got quite a few Republicans,’ [an Obama volunteer in Pennsylvania] said. ‘We give them two forms - one to change their registration now for the primary and one so they can switch back later,’ she said.”
This adds evidence to the piece I posted yesterday, “Primary Follies”.

Obama Girl’s hard-times hometown has soft spot for Clinton (McClatchy)
HAZLETON, Pa. — This bleak former coal town in northeastern Pennsylvania occupies a unique perch in this year’s presidential contest. It’s the hometown of “Obama Girl,” the New York City model of YouTube fame whose racy videos proclaiming her crush on Barack Obama are definitely not campaign-sanctioned. Her parents still live here, and her unlikely career break has gotten older, working-class whites talking more than they otherwise might have about the young black politician from Chicago. This is Clinton country, however. It’s close to Scranton, home to Hillary Clinton’s father, grandparents and great-grandparents, and it’s full of white ethnic working-class voters, who’ve sustained her campaign so far, especially in the Rust Belt.
Hillary Clinton has never forgotten where she came from.  Maybe that’s why the Washington elite hates her so.  Too bad the Obama girl has turned her back on her roots.

Gaza’s Obama Campaign (Media Channel)
While US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama leads rival Hillary Clinton in the polls, Palestinians in Gaza are launching their own attempt to boost his campaign.
Please try to imagine the furor if this were an effort for Clinton.  Click through to watch the video.

Another Shift in the Wind for Clinton and Murdoch (New York Times)
Rupert Murdoch organized a fund-raiser for Hillary Rodham Clinton two years ago; now his daughter is holding one for Barack Obama.
You can be certain that the so-called progressive media will be ecstatic over the Obama fundraiser, and will frown and wag their fingers over the Clinton one.

Howard Dean: Only 2 Ways Fl and MI Will Be Seated (by Jeralyn at TalkLeft)
Howard Dean on CNN [Tuesday]: There are only 2 ways Michigan and Florida delegates will be seated. One is if Hillary and Obama agree on a plan. The other is after the nominee is chosen when she or he will control the credentials committee. In other words, Florida and Michigan are not getting seated in time to have a say in the nominee. If I were a voter in Florida or MIchigan, I’d be livid. The one thing neither Dean nor the DNC can control is whether the superdelegates consider the votes in Florida and Michigan. They can factor the votes into their own calculations of the popular vote. They can factor them into their decision as to which candidate is more electable in November. Florida and Michigan voters who want their vote counted ought to let the superdelegates from the other 48 states know.
Click through for links to lists of superdelegates you can contact.

Since FDR was first nominated only on the fourth ballot… (by lambert at Corrente)
… this campaign should be decided on July 1 why? Because Howard Dean says so? Howard, Howard….Show some leadership on disenfranchising FL and MI. Then we can talk. About 470 superdelegates are publicly supporting either Obama or Clinton. Dean said he wants those who haven’t declared to “make their wishes known well before the convention” is held Aug. 25-28. That way the party can focus on the general-election campaign against Republican John McCain, he said. So, we’re having a convention why, then? Wouldn’t it make a whole lot more sense to make sure there were 527s attacking McCain relentlessly, right now? Surely, we don’t need a nominee to attack McCain; that’s just specious.

Clinton’s Bosnia Gaffe Makes Her Top Newsmaker (Project for Excellence in Journalism)
Democrats are finding out that being in the news isn’t necessarily good news. A week after Barack Obama was besieged by the Rev. Wright furor, Hillary Clinton’s memory and veracity came under fire. Does all this make John McCain the big winner?

Obama to Get Endorsement of Lee Hamilton
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Former Indiana Rep. Lee Hamilton is backing Sen. Barack Obama in an endorsement that could boost the presidential hopeful’s national security standing, The Associated Press has learned. Hamilton, who during a three-decade House career rose to be chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Intelligence committees, also was vice chairman of the Sept. 11 commission. He planned to announce his endorsement of Obama on Wednesday.
The headline should read, “CO-CHAIR OF WHITEWASH 9/11 COMMISSION ENDORSES OBAMA”.  Yeah, Clinton was vying for that one.

Barack Obama’s Latest Pastor Problem: Anti-Gay Rev. James T. Meeks (Gay Wired)
Just as the dust surrounding Sen. Barack Obama’s long-term association with controversial minister Rev. Jeremiah Wright has begun to settle comes new reports of the democratic presidential hopeful’s connection to another racially divisive public figure—the stridently homophobic Rev. James T. Meeks, an Illinois state senator who also serves as the pastor of Chicago’s 22,000 member strong Salem Baptist Church… The problem for Obama is that Rev. James Meeks, like Rev. Jeremiah Wright, preaches a message that appears to be directly at odds with the promise of hope, unity and bridging social, racial and political divisions upon which his campaign is built.  Over the years, Rev. Meeks has garnered significant media attention as a result of a number of racially charged remarks he’s made from both behind and out in front of the pulpit.

Who’s Scrubbing the Trinity United Church of Christ Website? (by Jake Tapper at Political Punch, ABC News)
The website for Sen. Barack Obama’s church — Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago — not long ago described the “Black Value System” in the “About Us” section of its website. And it used to provide a link to the Trumpet Magazine that once gave an award to Louis Farrakhan — a magazine published by Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s daughter. No longer. You can see the old webpage, including both the Black Value System and a link to Trumpet HERE. Interestingly, Trumpet used to have a web presence and now it doesn’t seem to.
Click through for more links to information now scrubbed.

Freedom Rider: Twenty Questions (by Margaret Kimberley at the Black Agenda Report)
[H]ow many times can Barack Obama insult an old friend before it appears they never were friends, after all – or that Obama has problems defining friendship? Dive into Margaret Kimberley’s spring ruling class madness quiz. Confirm whether or not insanity is verbally contagious.

Four More Years of Black Irrelevance (by Glen Ford at the Black Agenda Report)
It is easy to spend hours on the insanity that falls under the general heading of Obamamania – the imagined positions taken by the candidate, the things never promised that Black folks swear to have personally heard and seen. But the great tragedy of the current campaign season is the total failure of what passes for Black leadership to have any influence on the growing Obama phenomenon, a corporate manifestation that has never promised anything to Blacks, yet claims to be the center of a “movement.”

Lots more really good stuff at MakeThemAccountable.com.

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com