Hillary’s Voice

Protest Against Media Bias & Voter Suppression NYC: Friday, April 11, 2008 (by Fleaflicker at No Quarter)
Attention Hillary Supporters!!
Protest Against Media Bias & Voter Suppression
NYC: Friday, April 11, 2008
(8am at: W48th St & Rockefeller Plaza)
Sick of the biased media? Disgusted with sexism against Hillary? Tired of the absurd calls for Hillary to stop competing and “to quit”? Frustrated that votes in Michigan & Florida are not being counted? It’s time we demand the media STOP trying to choose our president!

Clinton Told True Tale of Woe, Says Kin (by Anne E. Kornblut at The Trail, washingtonpost.com, thanks to No Quarter)
The aunt of a young pregnant woman who died after a hospital told her she needed to pay $100 up front for care said in an interview on Monday that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has been telling the story accurately on the campaign trail — following claims by a different Ohio hospital that it did not turn the patient away.
So where does Hillary Clinton go to get her reputation back?  I’d like to point out, by the way, that Anne Kornblut, who worked for the Boston Globe in 2001, was the only national reporter at the time not to have been taken in by the ridiculous White House vandalism story.

Hillary Says Bush Should Boycott Olympic Ceremony (by Jeralyn at TalkLeft)
Hillary Clinton today on the Olympics: “The violent clashes in Tibet and the failure of the Chinese government to use its full leverage with Sudan to stop the genocide in Darfur are opportunities for Presidential leadership. These events underscore why I believe the Bush administration has been wrong to downplay human rights in its policy towards China. At this time, and in light of recent events, I believe President Bush should not plan on attending the opening ceremonies in Beijing, absent major changes by the Chinese government…” What’s Obama’s position? He’s conflicted.

Clinton repeats opposition to trade deal with Colombia (On Politics, USA Today)
[Sunday], Hillary Rodham Clinton’s chief strategist left her campaign because he had been lobbying on behalf of a trade deal with Colombia that she opposes — lobbying that The New York Times reports did not sit well with several influential unions… “As I have said consistently for several months, I oppose signing any trade deal with Colombia while violence against trade unionists continues and the perpetrators are not brought to justice,” Clinton said in this statement issued by her campaign. Barack Obama, Clinton’s rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, also opposes the deal.
Many of the unions have refused to endorse Hillary Clinton, but she continues to stand by them anyway.

Clinton’s economic advisers served her husband
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton’s campaign slogan of “ready on day one” extends to her economic team. She’s surrounded herself with economic counselors who advised her husband during the booming 1990s.
Sounds like a good thing to me.  I’m so old that I remember the boom times of the 90s, when even teenagers were getting rich.

Clinton will fight for gay rights (video).  Obama is friends with anti-gay pastors and wouldn’t have his picture taken with the gay mayor of San Francisco.

Obama’s Gun Dance (by Robert Novak at Real Clear Politics)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Barack Obama, who informs campaign audiences that he taught constitutional law for 10 years, might be expected to weigh in on the historic Second Amendment case before the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices are pondering whether the 1976 District of Columbia law effectively prohibiting personal gun ownership in the nation’s capital is constitutional. But Sen. Obama has not stated his position.  Obama, disagreeing with the D.C. government and gun control advocates, declares the Second Amendment’s “right of the people to keep and bear arms” applies to individuals, not just the “well-regulated militia” cited in the amendment. In the next breath, he asserts this constitutional guarantee does not preclude local “common sense” restrictions on firearms. Does the Draconian prohibition for Washington, D.C., fit that description? My attempts to get an answer have proved unavailing. The front-running Democratic presidential candidate is doing the gun dance.
Yes, it’s Robert Novak, but it illustrates a point.  Obama is never straightforward about anything controversial.

Brief Credential Summary of the 2008 Democratic Presidential Candidate Nominees
It’s a real eye opener—a side by side comparison.

RUSSERT PLAYS ALTOONA: (by Bob Somerby at the Daily Howler)
[Tim Russert, on Meet the Press, Sunday:] “Governor Rendell, these were the headlines in the New York Daily News and across the country on Saturday. Here it is, the “109 Million-Dollar Couple: Bill and Hill make more than $15 million a year since leaving the White House.” Fifteen million dollars a year—$109 million in seven years. How is that going to play in Lancaster, Altoona, Erie, PA?” We suppose that question might make some sort of marginal sense—if Russert ever bothered to ask it about people like John McCain… McCain is married to an heiress whose worth may exceed $100 million. How would that play in Altoona? We don’t have the slightest idea, and frankly, we don’t really care. But it’s amazing to see the way people like Russert pimped the Clintons’ wealth this weekend—as with Kerry and Edwards before them—having spent so many years failing to mention McCain’s… (By the way: According to estimates by Howard Kurtz, … Russert [makes] more than $5 million each… [T]hat estimate appeared in 2004. By now, we’ll guess it’s low.)

Hillary Sexism Watch: Castrating Bitch Edition (by Melissa McEwan at Shakesville)
Part Seventy-Six in an Ongoing Series. (Previous parts linked at end of post.) Are you fucking kidding me, Josh Marshall? Because I quite honestly can’t believe that a person who identifies as a progressive and has two brain cells still knocking together doesn’t understand why it’s problematic, to put it charitably, to frame Hillary Clinton pushing her male chief strategist from power as “gelding” him. I find it difficult to believe that a man of your intelligence doesn’t know that “to geld” means to castrate, and I find it similarly difficult to believe that a man of your experience doesn’t know that powerful women are routinely cast as castrating bitches, and I further yet find it difficult to believe, in light of your constant reminders that you’ve spent a good part of your adult life defending the Clintons, that you are totally unaware of the existence of “hilarious” novelty items like the Hillary Clinton nutcracker. So where exactly is the disconnect, Josh, that allows you to use such disgusting language in reference to a sitting senator and presidential candidate? Or any woman, for that matter. With “allies” like these…

Remember how we’d always laugh when the Republicans gave Democrats advice on how to win? (by lambert at Corrente)
Now we’re doing it. Seriously, why would anybody take whoever kidnapped Josh Marshall seriously when he gives advice to Hillary? Kidz, I’m so old I remember when I thought Talking Points Memo was misnomer, and they were really into news gathering. I thought they wanted to be the next Times, when it turns out they want to be the next Weekly Standard. A shame, really.

Polls: Race helps Clinton with whites
WASHINGTON - Add this to the divisive debate over race in the presidential campaign: Whites who said race was important in picking their candidate have been about twice as likely to back Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as Sen. Barack Obama.
And, of course, the reason for this disparity HAS TO BE because of racism.  Thanks for helping to keep us all divided, Associated Press.

Barack Obama in suspended animation (by Walter Shapiro, Salon)
The front-runner is trapped in an unchanging race that will be hard for him to lose — but is proving impossible for him to end.

If the system made sense, Clinton would be far ahead (by Sean Wilentz, Salon)
Under a winner-take-all primary system, Hillary Clinton would have a wide lead over Barack Obama — and enough delegates to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination by June.

Lots more really good stuff at MakeThemAccountable.com.

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com